LIVRES D' ARTISTE LOTS 274-339

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Livres d' Artiste

Lots 274-339

274

ADAMS, Ansel (1902-1984). Images 1923-1974. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974.

Oblong folio. 115 extended range photolithographic reproductions. Original leather-backed grey cloth; publisher’s pictorial dust jacket; unopened in original shrink wrap; original silver-stamped folding case (slight fading to extremities).

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 196 of 1,000 copies of the “De Luxe Edition” SIGNED BY ADAMS.

[Laid into slipcase:] ORIGINAL GELATIN SILVER PRINT PHOTOGRAPH. Fern Spring, Dusk, Yosemite Valley, California, ca. 1961. LIMITED EDITION, number CXCVI of 500 copies numbered in Roman numerals of a total edition of 1,000. SIGNED BY ADAMS in pencil on mount, dry mounted on archival board.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$1,000-2,000

275

ADAMS, Ansel (1902-1984). -- AUSTIN, Mary (1968-1934). Taos Pueblo. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1977.

Folio. 12 reproductions of Adams’ photographs. Quarter tan morocco over orange cloth, matching orange cloth slipcase (very minor scuffs).

LIMITED EDITION, number 895 of 950 copies SIGNED BY ADAMS, a later facsimile edition of Adam’s first book originally published in 1930 by the Grabhorn Press in an edition of 108 copies.

$1,000-1,500

276 - no lot

277

ALBERS, Josef (1888-1976). Formulation: Articulation I & II. New York and New Haven: Harry N. Abrams and Ives-Sillman, 1972.

2 volumes, oblong folio (each 20 3/4 x 15 3/4 in). 127 color screenprints in colors, on 66 sheets of wove paper, each folded (as issued), each numbered in black ink. Loose as issued in original linen-covered grey portfolios and slipcases (some minor staining to slipcases, a few minor separations along edges).

LIMITED EDITION, number 224 of 1000 copies SIGNED BY ALBERS on half-title.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$10,000-15,000

278

ARP, Jean (1887-1966). Dreams and Projects. New York: Curt Valentin, 1951-1952.

4to. 28 woodcuts by Arp. (Minor offsetting as usual.) Loose as issued in original printed wrappers; publisher’s slipcase and chemise (slight toning, a few small stains, minor separations to edges of slipcase).

LIMITED EDITION, number 218 of 320 copies SIGNED BY ARP.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$800-1,200

279

AVEDON, Richard (1923-2004). Avedon. Photographs 1947-1977. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1978.

Folio. Numerous photographic illustrations. Original publisher’s photo-pictorial boards, original printed clear acetate dust jacket (small adhesive remnants and minor creasing to top edge).

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AVEDON.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$600-800

280

AVEDON, Richard (1923-2004). In the American West, 1979-1984. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1985.

Folio. Numerous photographic illustrations. Publisher’s black-stamped brown cloth with mounted photographic reproductions on the front and rear covers; original clear acetate jacket.

FIRST EDITION, reproducing Avedon’s striking portraits of western workers and drifters SIGNED BY AVEDON in the year of publication.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$500-700

281

[BAKST, Léon (1866-1924)]. LEVINSON, André (1887-1933). Bakst. The Story of the Artist’s Life. London: The Bayard Press, 1923.

Folio. Half-title, title-page printed in black and brown, 68 plates, most in color, tipped to mounts, lettered tissue guards, numerous in-text illustrations. (Occasional light spotting.) Original vellum lettered and decorated in brown, uncut (some spotting or soiling, lower joints starting). Provenance: Isseido (bookseller’s label).

LIMITED EDITION, number 79 of 315 copies. Levinson’s illustrated biography of Bakst reproduces numerous examples of his set-designs, costumes, portraits, drawings, and paintings.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$2,500-3,500

282

BASKIN, Leonard (1922-2000). TENNYSON, Alfred Lord (18091892). Tiresias. Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1970.

12mo. Etched frontispiece and 4 etchings SIGNED BY BASKIN in pencil lower margin. Gilt-lettered vellum, yapp edges. Vellum-backed cloth folding case lettered in gilt (minor soiling).

LIMITED EDITION, number 36 of 50 copies SIGNED BY BASKIN.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$500-700

283

BASKIN, Leonard (1922-2000). FRAZER, James, translator. Terminalia From Ovid’s Fasti. Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1972.

4to. 8 etchings, each SIGNED AND NUMBERED in pencil lower margin 26/35. Gilt-lettered brown morocco, edges uncut; quarter brown morocco folding case with gilt-lettered spine (fading to upper internal board).

LIMITED EDITION, number 26 of 35 copies SIGNED BY BASKIN. Original prospectus laid in.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$2,000-3,000

284

BEARD, Peter (1938-2020). Peter Beard. Cologne: Taschen, 2006.

Large folio. Numerous photographic reproductions of Beard’s collages. Original half maroon leather gilt, upper cover with central mounted photographic reproduction; maroon cloth gilt folding case; wooden stand.

LIMITED EDITION, number 1,799 of 2,250 copies of the “COLLECTED EDITION” SIGNED BY BEARD of a total edition of 2,500.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$1,500-2,500

285

CALDER, Alexander (1898-1976). LIPMAN, Jean and FOOTE, Nancy, editors. Calder’s Circus. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1972.

4to. Numerous illustrations. Publisher’s yellow pictorial boards; dust jacket (price-clipped); slipcase.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY CALDER.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$400-600

287

CHAGALL, Marc (1887-1985). Chagall Lithographs. Vol.I: Monte Carlo: André Sauret, 1960; Vol.II: Monte Carlo and Boston: André Sauret and Boston Book and Art Shop, Inc., 1963; Vol.III: Paris: André Sauret, 1969; Vols.IV, V and VI: New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1974, 1984, 1986.

4to, 6 volumes. Text in English, German or French corresponding with place of publication. 28 original lithographs (including dust jackets), numerous reproductions of Chagall’s lithographs. Original publisher’s cloth; original lithographed dust jackets (slight chipping with minor losses to extremities of a few volumes, some minor toning to extremities); original glassines (a few short tears with occasional old tape repairs); original board slipcases. Provenance: Vols.I-IV sold Sotheby’s Parke Bernet 1975 (lot stickers on board slipcases).

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of vols.II, IV-VI; FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN of vol.I; FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of vol.III.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$3,000-4,000 286 CHAGALL, Marc (1887-1985). -- ÉLUARD, Paul (1895-1952). Le Dur Désir de Durer. Stephen Spender and Frances Cornford, translators. Philadelphia and London: The Grey Falcon Press, The Trianon Press, 1950.

4to. Color frontispiece printed by Daniel Jacomet under Chagall’s supervision, 25 illustrations. Original printed wrappers with illustration by Chagall on upper cover, original glassine (light toning, slight chipping to spine).

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 732 of 750 copies printed for the Trianon Press, of a total edition of 1,500.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$400-600

288

CHAGALL, Marc (1887-1985). -- BACHELARD, Gaston (1884-1962). Drawings for the Bible. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960.

4to. 24 original color lithographs, 96 reproductions in black and white. Original lithographed boards by Chagall (very minor separation to joints).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Chagall’s biblically themed drawings of 1958-1959. His first set of biblical drawings was reproduced in Verve 33/34, and this second suite was first published in Verve 37/38.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$1,500-2,500

289

CHAGALL, Marc (1887-1985). Jerusalem Windows. New York: George Braziller, 1962.

4to. 2 original color lithographs by Chagall, numerous illustrations. Publisher’s red cloth; original printed dust jacket (very minor chipping to top edge, short tear with minor loss at head of spine); clear acetate jacket (a few tears or small losses, adhesive remnant to rear panel).

FIRST EDITION, illustrating Chagall’s designs for 12 stained glass windows for the synagogue at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$300-400

290 CHAGALL, Marc (1887-1985), illustrator. -- PRÉVERT, Jacques (1900-1977). Le Cirque D’izis. Monte Carlo: André Sauret, 1965.

Folio. 4 original lithographs, numerous black and white reproductions of photographs by Izis Bidermanas. Original publisher’s black-stamped red cloth; original printed dust jacket; original printed acetate wrapper; original board slipcase (slight separations along bottom edges).

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY CHAGALL on the second lithograph. The collaboration between Chagall, the poet Prévert, and the photographer Bidermanas documents French circus life in the 20th century.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$400-600

291

CUNNINGHAM, Imogen (1883-1976). Imogen! Imogen Cunningham Photographs 1910-1973. Seattle and London: Published for the Henry Art Gallery by the University of Washington Press, 1974.

4to. ORIGINAL SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH LAID IN; numerous black and white reproductions of Cunningham’s photographs. Original silver-stamped morocco-backed black cloth; slipcase (slight fading to extremities).

LIMITED EDITION, number 134 of 150 copies SIGNED BY CUNNINGHAM.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$600-800

292

DALI, Salvador (1904-1989). DESCHARNES, Robert (19262014). The World of Salvador Dali. New York: The Viking Press, 1968.

4to. Numerous color reproductions of Dali’s paintings and drawings. Publisher’s orange cloth gilt; pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped, slight chipping and tears to edges with old tape repairs verso).

Later edition, SIGNED BY DALI with a drawing in red ink, 1969.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$600-800

293 [DERRIÈRE LE MIROIR - CHAGALL]. A group of 4 Marc Chagall issues, comprising:

CHAGALL. No. 27/28. March/April 1950. -- CHAGALL. No. 225. October 1977. -- CHAGALL. No. 235. October 1979. -- CHAGALL. No. 246. May 1981.

All published Paris: Maeght Éditeur. Each with numerous lithographs and illustrations, loose as issued in original lithographed wrappers. First trade editions, condition generally fine.

$400-500

294 [DERRIÈRE LE MIROIR - MIRÓ]. A group of 6 Joan Miró issues, comprising:

MIRÓ. No. 87/88/89. June/July/August 1956. -- MIRÓ. No. 139/140. June/July 1963. -- MIRÓ. No. 193/194. October/November 1971. -- MIRÓ & UBAC. No. 155. December 1965.-- MIRÓ. No. 203. April 1973. -- MIRÓ. No. 231. November 1978.

All published Paris: Maeght Éditeur. Each with numerous lithographs and illustrations, loose as issued in original lithographed wrappers. First trade editions, condition generally fine.

$600-800

295 DUBUFFET, Jean (1901-1985). -- GUILLEVIC, Eugene (1907-1997). Élégies. Paris: Le Calligraphe, 1946.

8vo. Double-page color lithograph by Dubuffet. Original printed wrappers, uncut; original glassine (tear with loss to foot of spine).

LIMITED EDITION, number 54 of 296 copies of a total edition of 306.

$500-700

297

ELUARD, Paul. Un poeme dans chaque livre. Paris: Louis Broder, 1956.

Small square 4to (190 x 190 mm). 16 etchings, drypoints, lithographs and woodcuts. 20th-century black calf decorated across both covers with an irregular mosaic of horizontal polished calf bands in different colors, the bands continuing across the smooth spine except for a narrow border at joints, with author’s name incorporated in onlays of different colored calf, plain silver polished calf doublures and endpapers, edges gilt, STAMP-SIGNED BY P. L. MARTIN 1964 (a touch of slight rubbing to upper cover, otherwise fine); black calf-tipped fleece-lined chemise and slipcase.

LIMITED EDITION, one of 100 copies, SIGNED BY THE ARTISTS (except Laurens, Leger and Tanguy, as usual). With illustrations by Pablo Picasso (2), Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Max Ernst, André Beaudin, Marc Chagall, André Masson, Hans Arp, Oscar Dominguez, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti, Jacques Villon, Henri Laurens, Valentine Hugo and Yves Tanguy. Published as the fourth work in the Ecrits et gravures series, this work is a tribute to Paul Éluard, who died in 1952, including poems from Exemples (1921), Cours naturel (1938), Mourir de ne pas mourir (1924), and Capitale de la douleur (1926). IN A FINE BINDING BY PIERRE-LUCIEN MARTIN.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$20,000-30,000

297A

FOLON, Jean-Michel (1934-2005). Affiches de Folon. Geneva: Alice Editions, 1978.

Folio. Original color etching in aquatint SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY FOLON in pencil lower margin 156/200. 25 reproductions of posters by Folon, loose as issued in original portfolio. Original printed cardboard wrappers with cloth ties (some light fraying to ties).

LIMITED EDITION, number 156 of 200 copies.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$200-300

299

HOSOE, Eikoh (b. 1933). Man and Woman. Tokyo: CamerArt, 1961.

4to. Numerous reproductions of Hosoe’s photographs. Poems by Taro Yamamoto. Text by Ed van der Elsken and Tatsuo Fukushima. Stapled pamphlet containing the English translation of the Japanese text laid in. Original gray-stamped yellow boards; original dust jacket (price-clipped, chipping and sunning to spine); original printed card slipcase (slight soiling and wear to extremities). Laid-in: Stapled pamphlet containing the English translation of the Japanese text.

FIRST EDITION of Hosoe’s study of the human body, an “attempt to catch the human drama, its secret rites held in darkness.”

$600-800 300

298

HOCKNEY, David (b.1937). Hockney’s Alphabet. Stephen Spender, editor. London: Faber & Faber, 1991.

Folio. Each letter of the alphabet and “&” illustrated by Hockney and accompanied by a poem or short text by a contributor. Original quarter vellum, handmade Fabriano Roma paper sides; original slipcase.

LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies SIGNED HOCKNEY, SPENDER, AND 22 CONTRIBUTORS: Douglas Adams, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Patrick Leigh Fermor, William Golding, Seamus Heaney, David Hockney, Kazuo Ishiguro, Erica Jong, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Ian McEwan, Arthur Miller, Iris Murdoch, Nigel Nicolson, John Julius Norwich, Joyce Carol Oates, V.S. Pritchett, Craig Raine, Susan Sontag, Stephen Spender, and John Updike. Printed for the AIDS Crisis Trust, all proceeds from the book were donated to support its programs to help people suffering from the disease. A FINE COPY.

$1,200-1,800

Jerusalem: City of Mankind. New York: The International Fund for Concerned Photography, 1973.

Folio. 12 photographs by Leonard Freed, Ernst Haas, Cornell Capa, and Marc Riboud, and others, comprising: 7 dye-transfer prints and 5 silver prints, each mounted in a paper folder, each SIGNED AND NUMBERED in pencil 7/100. Loose as issued in gilt-lettered red cloth folding case with a mounted photograph (possibly lacking spine label); lucite slipcase.

LIMITED EDITION, one of 115 unnumbered copies of the commemorative portfolio produced by the International Fund for Concerned Photography for the Women’s Division of the American Friends of the Israel Museum, New York.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

301

KLEE, Paul (1879-1940), illustrator. -- VOLTAIRE, Francois Marie Arouet de (1694-1778). Kandide, oder Die beste Welt. Munich: Kurt Wolff, [1920].

Small 4to. 26 illustrations after Klee; title-page printed in green and black. Original cloth-backed green boards gilt; original board slipcase, printed label .

FIRST EDITION THUS, an important example of German expressionism, “one of the few examples of Klee’s book illustration as well as an important record of his early drawing style” (The Artist & The Book, 143). A FINE COPY, RARE WITH THE ORIGINAL SLIPCASE.

$300-400

302 LÉGER, FERNAND (1881-1955). -- RIMBAUD, Arthur (1854-1891). Les Illuminations. Lausanne: Grosclaude Éditions des Gaules, [1949].

Folio. 15 lithographs (13 with pochoir). (Minor offsetting of plates to text.) Loose as issued in original printed wrappers (tear with small loss to spine end); original chemise (minor soiling, some light wear to joints with minor losses); slipcase.

LIMITED EDITION, number 232 of 275 copies SIGNED BY LÉGER and the editor Louis Grosclaude on Papier Vélin Teinté of a total edition of 395. Saphire 24-38.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$2,000-3,000

303 [LÉGER, FERNAND (1881-1955)]. Fernand Léger: Sa vie, son oeuvre, son reve. Milan: Edizioni Apollinaire, 1971.

Folio. Numerous photographic reproductions, and letters, manuscripts, documents, and ephemera in facsimile. Original printed wrappers, uncut and unopened; original glassine (sunning to spine, a few tears with losses to spine ends); illustrated slipcase. Provenance: Wittenborn Art Books (bookseller’s label).

LIMITED EDITION, number 375 of 1,057 copies of the “Luxury Edition” of a total edition of 1150.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

*304

L’Estampe Moderne. Charles Masson and Henri Piazza, editors. Paris: L’Imprimerie Campenois, 1897-1899.

Nos. 1-24, Folio. 99 (of 100) color lithographic and collotype plates by Alphonse Mucha. Louis Rhead, Henri Boutet, Edward Burne-Jones, Theophile Steinlen, Marcel-Lenoir and others, publisher’s blind stamps in margins, with lettered tissue guards. Later half blue morocco gilt; one original wrapper bound into each volume.

FIRST EDITION, issued in 24 monthly parts between May 1897 and April 1899, with each part comprising four prints; an extra suite of lithographs (“planches de prime”) were offered by the publisher as an incentive to potential subscribers.

Property from the Collection of James Gutglass, Fox Point, Wisconsin

$2,000-3,000

305 - no lot

306

LEVINE, Jack (1915-2010), illustrator. -- MICHENER, James A. (1907-1997). Facing East. New York: Maecenas Press, Random House, 1970.

Large Folio. 4 original lithographs, original woodcut on Japan paper, ten original woodcuts in text by Levine. Loose as issued in silk portfolio with leather flap (slight soiling and minor scuffing), housed with the additional leather portfolio containing 54 reproductions of Levine’s watercolors and sketches.

LIMITED EDITION, number 290 of 2,500 copies, SIGNED BY LEVINE AND MICHENER.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$300-400

307

[MASEREEL, Frans (1889-1972)]. A group of 3 works by Masereel, comprising:

My Book of Hours. 167 Designs Engraved on Wood by Frans Masereel. N.p.: printed by the author, 1922. (Some separation to joints and minor chipping.) FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 387 of 600 copies SIGNED BY MASEREEL. -- Das Werk. 60 Holzchnitte von Frans Masereel. Munich: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1928. -- Landschaften Und Stimmungen. 60 Holzschnitte von Frans Masereel. Munich: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1929. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, 12mo or smaller, all FIRST EDITIONS, all in original printed boards, condition generally good except where indicated.

Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois

$300-400

308

MATISSE, Henri (1869-1954). Verve. Volume IV, no. 13, “De La Couleur.” Paris: Éditions de la Revue Verve, 1945.

4to. 2 lithographs by Matisse, including title-page. Lithographed wrappers by Matisse (a few short tears with occasional losses, slight toning).

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$600-800

310

MOORE, Henry (1898-1986). Heads, Figures and Ideas. London and Greenwich, CT: George Rainbird, New York Graphic Society, 1958.

Folio. Original color lithograph, numerous illustrations. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards (corners very slightly bumped); original pictorial dust jacket (extremities with a few tiny chips or short tears).

FIRST EDITION of the trade edition preceded by a signed limited edition of 150 copies.

$200-300 311

309 MIRÓ, Joan (1893-1974). Joan Miró. Lithographs. Vol.I: Text by Michel Leiris and Fernand Mourlot. New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1972; Vol.II: Text by Raymond Queneau. New York: Léon Amiel Publisher, 1975; Vol.III: Text by Joan Teixidor. Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1977.

3 volumes (of 6), comprising vols.I-III, 4to. 27 original lithographs, numerous reproductions of Miró’s Lithographs. Original publisher’s cloth, original lithographic dust jackets (vol.I dust jacket has minor creasing to extremities and slight soiling); original wrap around bands to vol.II and vol.III; original glassines to vol.II and vol.III; later slipcase to vol.I. Provenance: vol.III, Barron’s (bookseller’s label).

LIMITED EDITION, each one of 5,000 copies of the “English-language Edition” (vol.I number 40, vol.II an unnumbered copy, vol.III number 713).

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$800-1,200

MOURLOT, Fernand (1895-1988). Souvenirs et portraits d’artistes. Paris: [Alain A. C. Mazo], 1972.

Folio. 25 original lithographs (19 in color) by Braque, Buffet, Chagall, Giacometti, Matisse, Miró, Picasso, and others. (Light offsetting from a few plates.) Loose as issued in printed paper wrappers portfolio (slight toning to wrapper); linen folding case.

LIMITED EDITION, number 616 of 800 copies.

$1,000-1,500

312

[ART REFERENCE & EXHIBITION CATALOGUES]. A group of 4 reference works and exhibition catalogues about French artists, comprising:

BERNARD, Emile. Lettres de Vincent Van Gogh A Emile Bernard. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1911. Original wrappers bound in. -- RIVIÈRE, Georges. Le Maître Paul Cézanne. Paris: H. Floury, Éditeur, 1923. Original wrappers bound in. -- MUSÉE DE L’ORANGERIE. Claude Monet. Exposition Rétrospective, 1931; Portraits et Figures de Femmes Pastels et Dessins, 1935; Cezanne, 1936, second edition; Degas, 1937; Exposition E. Vuillard, 1938; all published Paris: Musée National de l’Orangerie, 1931-1938. 5 exhibition catalogues bound in 2 volumes. Original wrappers bound in. Provenance: R.M.L. (signature); Edwin E. Hokin (signature); Grace and Edwin Hokin (bookplate). -- SEUPHOR, Michel. L’Art Abstrait. Ses origines, ses premiers maîtres. Paris: Maeght, 1950. Later edition. -- Together, 8 works in 5 volumes, 8vo, FIRST EDITIONS except where noted, all half morocco, condition generally fine.

$500-700

313

OKAMURA, Takashi (b. 1927). CHASTEL, André (1912-1990). The Vatican Frescoes of Michelangelo. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980.

4 volumes comprising: 2 volumes photographic reproductions, 1 volume text supplement, 1 volume additional suite of plates, large folio. 352 photographic reproductions by Okamura. Original maroon morocco-backed white morocco gilt, red and blue circular design to front covers. Text supplement volume in original cream limp gilt-lettered cloth with red and blue strapwork decoration. The 3 volumes housed together in a blue cloth folding case gilt, covers with white, red and gilt strapwork decoration. [With:] 18 photographic plates. Loose as issued in blue cloth gilt portfolio, cloth ties. All laid within original cardboard box.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 321 of 400 copies in English of a total edition of 600. Okamura’s photographs document Michelangelo’s Vatican frescoes before a 14-year restoration began in 1981.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$1,000-1,500

314

ORKIN, Ruth (1921-1985). A World Through My Window. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978.

4to. Numerous color reproductions of Orkin’s photographs. Original black cloth, original dust jacket (slight surface abrasion, price sticker on cover).

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ORKIN, whose panoramic photographs show the changing seasons and skyline in New York taken from her Central Park West apartment.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$700-900

315

PICASSO, Pablo (1881-1973). -- MOURLOT, Fernand (1895-1988). Picasso Lithographe. Monte Carlo: André Sauret, Éditions du Livre, 1949, 1950, 1956, 1964.

4 volumes, folio. 4 original lithograph frontispieces by Picasso, numerous reproductions. Original lithographed paper wrappers by Picasso (a few hinges starting, slight wear to spine ends); original glassines (light wear to extremities, some tearing with losses to vol.II and III).

FIRST EDITIONS. Vol.I, LIMITED ISSUE, number 1,154 of 2,500 copies.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$1,200-1,800

316

PICASSO, Pablo (1881-1973). -- RUSSOLI, Frano. Picasso Venti Pochoirs Originali. Milan: Silvana Editoriale D’Arte, 1955.

Folio. 20 pochoir plates after Picasso, numbered tissue guards. Publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial boards (slight wear and toning to spine ends and corners); original glassine wrappers (a few tears occasionally with losses).

LIMITED EDITION, number 108 of an unspecified limitation.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$2,000-3,000

317 PICASSO, Pablo (1881-1973). -- SABARTÉS, Jaime (18811968). Picasso: Toreros. Patrick Gregory, translator. London: A. Zwemmer Ltd; Monte Carlo: A. Sauret. 1961.

Oblong 4to. 4 lithographs, including one printed in color (“Le Picador”); numerous black and white or brown, black and white reproductions. Original publisher’s red cloth with designs after Picasso stamped in black (spine slightly sunned); original red printed slipcase (slight wear to extremities). Provenance: bookseller’s stamp, New Delhi.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Bloch 1014-1017; Cramer 113; Mourlot 346.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$1,000-2,000

318

[POLLOCK, Jackson (1912-1956)]. O’CONNOR, Francis Valentine; THAW, Eugene Victor, editors. Jackson Pollock. A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978.

4 volumes, 4to. Numerous black and white reproductions of Pollock’s works. Original publisher’s linen stamped in black and gilt (some minor loss of black pigment to spines, more pronounced vol.III); cloth slipcase with printed label (slight fading to extremities). FIRST EDITION of Pollock’s catalogue raisonné.

[With:]

Supplement Number One. Francis Valentine O’Connor, editor. New York: The Pollack-Krasner Foundation, Inc., 1995. Original publisher’s linen; cloth slipcase with printed label; original unopened shrink wrap. FIRST EDITION of the first supplement.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$800-1,200 319

320

RAY, Man (1890-1976). La Photographie N’Est Pas L’Art. [Paris]: GLM, 1937.

8vo. 12 halftones. Loose as issued in original blue printed wrappers (some very minor toning); black die-cut outer wrapper.

FIRST EDITION of Ray’s surrealist work accompanied by André Breton’s text. Parr & Badger I, 108-109.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$3,000-4,000 321

RAY, Man (1890-1976). Man Ray Photographs 1920-1934 Paris. Hartford, CT and New York: James Thrall Soby and Random House, 1934.

4to. 104 heliogravures (tiny damp stain to lower margins not affecting images). Spiral-bound photographic illustrated wrappers (slight creasing, chipping and soiling). Provenance: sold Sotheby’s Parke Bernet (lot sticker on upper cover)

FIRST EDITION, second issue with the publisher’s fictitious “second edition” claim on title-page. The publisher attempted to create more demand for the book by recalling a large portion of the first print run canceling the title-page, and replacing it with the present title-page falsely stating “second edition.” Auer 210; Roth 80.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$1,000-1,500

RODIN, Auguste (1840-1917). LAWTON, Frederick. The Life and Work of Auguste Rodin. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906.

8vo. Portrait frontispiece. (Damp-staining to margins not affecting image.) Numerous photographic illustrations (spotting throughout.) Later leather, top edge gilt (rebacked, rubbing to extremities).

FIRST EDITION of Lawton’s comprehensive biography of Rodin. Tipped-in: 2pp. Autograph note signed “Rodin” to Antonin Proust, 24 May 1888. Rodin suggests to Proust, the French Minister of Fine Art, the possibility of presenting the Medal of Honor to the sculptor Camille Lefèvre.

322

RUBIN, Gail (1938-1978). The Earth and the Fulness Thereof. New York: The Jewish Museum with Artchrome, Ltd., 1977.

Large folio. 10 color photographic prints in original mats as issued, each SIGNED AND NUMBERED in pencil lower margin 90/100. (Faces separating from backing boards with original glue remnants visible not affecting photographs.) Loose as issued in silver-lettered blue cloth folding case, hand-written paper label to spine (some minor separation to joints).

LIMITED EDITION, number 90 of 100 copies. Original prospectus laid in.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$200-300 323

324

[SCHIELE, Egon (1890-1918)]. MITSCH, Erwin. Egon Schiele: Watercolours and Drawings. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1969.

Large folio. 64 plates reproducing Schiele’s works. Original beige cloth gilt; original mylar dust jacket (some tears to extremities). Provenance: Ursus Books (bookseller’s label).

LIMITED EDITION, number A162 of A300 copies printed for Harry N. Abrams, Inc. of a total edition of 400 copies.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet 325

SAN LAZARRO, Gualtieri di (1904-1974). San Lazzaro et Ses Amis. Paris: XXe Siècle, 1975.

Folio. 9 original lithographs by Bill, Calder, Chagall, Ernst, Hartung, Miró, Moore, Sutherland, and Wou-Ki; 6 lithographs after Braque, Fontana, Magnelli, Magritte, Picasso, and Poliakoff. (Some slight off-setting of plates to text). Loose as issued in original printed wrappers; linen-backed folding case with photographic portrait of San Lazarro tipped to inner cover (small stain on spine, upper edge slightly bumped).

LIMITED EDITION, number 402 of 575 copies on vélin d’Arches.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$2,000-3,000

SCHLES, Ken (b.1960). Invisible City. Pasadena: Twelvetree Press, 1988.

4to. 62 black and white photographic plates. Original publisher’s cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in blind; original photoillustrated dust jacket.

FIRST EDITION, one of 2,000 copies. A FINE COPY. Auer, p. 676.

$200-300

326

STEICHEN, Edward (1879-1973). -- SANDBURG, Carl (18781967). Steichen The Photographer. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929.

4to. Full-page reproductions of photographs by Steichen. Original publisher’s black cloth gilt (a few scuffs, light wear to spine ends).

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 27 of 925 copies SIGNED BY SANDBURG AND STEICHEN.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$1,500-2,500

328

TANGUY, Yves (1900-1955); ROSEY, Guy (1896-1981). Drapeau nègre. tout un poème. Paris: Éditions Surréalistes, 1933.

8vo. Frontispiece after a drawing by Tanguy. Original printed wrappers, uncut; original glassine (tear with loss to foot of spine). Provenance: Grace and Edwin Hokin (bookplate).

LIMITED EDITION, number 11 of 15 copies on papier voiron, SIGNED BY TANGUY and ROSEY, of a total edition of 500. 329

TANGUY, Ives (1900-1955). -- BRETON, André (1896-1966). Yves Tanguy. New York: Pierre Matisse Editions, 1946.

4to. 2 color plates mounted, numerous black and white reproductions. Original printed boards (slight soiling, chipping to spine ends).

STAMPED “REVIEWER’S COPY” on limitation page, one of 1,200 copies designed by Marcel Duchamp containing text in French and English by Breton.

327

LE BROCQUY, Louis (1916-2012), illustrator. -- SYNGE, John Millington (1871-1909). -- SULTAN, Stanley (1928-2013), editor. The Playboy of the Western World. Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1970.

4to. 7 color illustrations including frontispiece after brush drawings by le Brocquy. Original yellow cloth with gilt design on front cover (after title-page illustration); original yellow board slipcase (minor soiling).

LIMITED EDITION, number 1669 of 1950 copies SIGNED BY LE BROCQUY, printed for members of the Imprint Society by the Dolmen Press in Dublin, Ireland.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$300-500

[TIBER PRESS - ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM]. ASHBERY, John. The Poems. Prints by Joan MITCHELL. -- KOCH, Kenneth. Permanently. Prints by Alfred LESLIE. [with:] O’HARA, Frank. Odes. Prints by Michael GOLDBERG. -- SCHUYLER, James. Salute. Prints by Grace HARTIGAN. New York: Tiber Press, [1960].

4 volumes, folio. Each volume with three full-page color silkscreen prints “hors texte”, and additional silkscreens on the title pages and upper covers. With prospectus. Original cloth-backed illustrated boards with publisher’s thick acetate dust-jackets; original cloth slipcase; original cardboard box.

LIMITED EDITION, number 87 of 200 COPIES, EACH SIGNED BY THE POET AND ARTIST on the limitation page on Hahnemüle paper.

Tiber Press was founded in New York in 1953 by master printer Floriano Vecchi and Richard Miller; they specialized in dynamic screenprints by the leading Abstract Expressionist artists of the time. This project was the press’s most ambitious: the text was hand set and printed in Walbaum-Antiqua type on handmade paper by Brüder Harmann in West Berlin; the flat sheets were brought back to Tiber Press where they were printed with the artists’ works, which were drawn or painted directly onto silk screens solely for this publication.

A significant collaboration between four of the most influential American poets of the second half of the 20th century and four important second-generation New York School artists. Each of the collaborators lived in New York City; the press “left the choice of partners in this project to the individuals themselves, and, in collaborating, the poet and painter were acknowledging an awareness of some real relationship between their work” (prospectus). A FINE COPY.

$4,000-6,000

331

TING, Walasse. One Cent Life. Bern: E. W. Kornfeld, 1964.

Folio. 68 lithographs including examples by Andy Warhol, Sam Francis, James Rosenquist, Robert Indiana, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Pierre Alechinsky, Claes Oldenberg, Jim Dine and others. Loose as issued in original cloth-covered boards, pictorial dust jacket designed by Machteld Appel (minor losses to spine ends); original cloth slipcase (some minor rubbing). Provenance: Alma and Sam (presentation inscriptions and letter, see below).

LIMITED EDITION, number 202 of 2,000 copies. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY TING in two acrostic poems to Sam and Alma: “to Splendor Ambassador & Man from Walasse Summer 1970”; “America Lovely Mermaid Alma.” Manet to Hockney 135; A Century of Artist Books pp. 208-9.

[Laid in:] Autograph letter signed (“Walasse”), to Alma and Sam. N.p., 20 July 1970. 1 page, 4to, on pink sheet. In full: “Dear Alma & Sam Thank so much for the most beautiful party in flint it is just like the Painting Raining Sunshine, I love your house, full of sunshine on hundred thousand flower garden maybe I should sending you 2 dozen lively butterflies let they fly in your house love. Enclosed a Book was published 6 years ago.”

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

332 TRÉMOIS, Pierre-Yves. Le Livre D’Eros. Paris: Club du Livre, 1970.

Oblong folio. 100 reproductions of gravures, monotypes and gouaches by Trémois. Original red gold-decorated leather, spine lettered in black; original quarter black leather gilt folding case.

LIMITED EDITION, number 4,429 of 5,700 copies on vélin chiffon of a total edition of 6,300 copies.

$300-400

334

[VERVE]. Verve; Vol 1 nos. 2-4. Paris: Tériade, 1938-1939.

Folio, 3 numbers bound in one volume (348 x 257 mm). Lithographed plates by Kandinsky, Masson, Chagall, Miró, Rattner, Klee, Matisse and Derain and numerous reproductions. Original publisher’s silver-lettered cloth; original wrappers bound in (slight rubbing to spine ends, minor soiling).

$300-400 333 VASARELY, Victor. Progressions 3. Neuchatel: Éditions du Griffon, 1974.

Folio. 8 heliogravures, loose as issued. Original printed wrappers (portion of acetate at corners and edges peeling).

FIRST EDITION of the third portfolio in Vasarely’s 3-part Progressions series.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$200-300

335 VILLON, Jacques (1875-1963), illustrator. -- HÉSIOD (fl. 700 B.C.). Les Travaux et les Jours. Paris: Tériade, 1962.

4to. 23 etchings (4 in color, 15 double-page). Loose as issued in original printed wrappers; original board chemise (joints starting, lacking slipcase).

LIMITED EDITION, number 55 of 180 copies on Vélin de Rives SIGNED BY VILLON.

*336

VLAMINCK, Maurice de, illustrator. -- VANDERPYL, Fritz. Voyages. Paris: Éditions de la Galerie Simon, 1920.

4to. 18 in-text woodcuts by Vlaminck. (Some minor offsetting of woodcuts to text.) Contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards (some minor soiling to spine); original wrappers with a woodcut by Vlaminck bound in. Provenance: Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks (bookplate, withdrawal stamp).

LIMITED EDITION, number 48 of 90 copies on Hollande van Gelder SIGNED BY VLAMINCK AND VANDERPYL of a total edition of 107.

Property from the Collection of Liza Strauss, San Francisco, California

$2,000-3,000

(part lot)

338

WARD, Lynd (1905-1985). Gods’ Man. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929.

8vo. Half-title. 144 leaves with woodcut illustrations. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards, printed paper spine label, top edge stained black, others uncut (minor toning to covers and spine label). FIRST TRADE EDITION of Ward’s wordless novel told through woodcut illustrations. God’s Man was the first of Ward’s six wordless novels, which have influenced the development of the graphic novel format in the United States.

[With:]

VASSOS, John (1898-1985). Phobia. New York: Covici Friede, 1931. 4to. Half-title, 24 plates in reproduction. Original publisher’s black cloth stamped in silver (slight wear to extremities, fading to spine, minor soiling). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 457 of 1,500 copies SIGNED BY VASSOS.

Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois 337

VUILLARD, Edouard (1868-1940). Dix-Neuf Lithographies en Couleurs. Boston: Book and Art Shop, [1964].

Folio. 19 color lithographs. Loose as issued in original publisher’s cloth folding case (top corners slightly bumped, very minor soiling to extremities).

LIMITED EDITION, number 154 of 180 copies.

Property from the Collection of Phillip and Ellen Lively

$400-600

339

WEBB, Peter. The Erotic Arts. London: Secker & Warburg, 1975.

8vo. 14-color screen print SIGNED BY ALLEN JONES in pencil lower margin, and numbered 100/100; copper plate engraving SIGNED BY DAVID HOCKNEY in pencil lower margin, and numbered 100/100; numerous reproductions. Modern green morocco gilt, edges gilt.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 100 of 126 copies.

Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay Melet

$2,000-3,000