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(Akarove) van Loo, Anne (editor) AKAROVE: SPECTACLE ET AVANT-GARDE 1920-1950 (ENTERTAINMENT AND THE AVANT-GARDE).
Brussels Archives d'Architecture Moderne 1988 4to cloth, dust jacket 550, (2) pages
Text in French and English. A study of Akarova, a 20th century Belgian dancer, and the role of the Avant-garde in theatrical entertainment. Foreword by Catherine Mierop and van Loo. Essays by Mierop, van Loo, Giovanni Lista, Fabrice van de Kerckhove, Bibliography, list of cited works, photographic credits, and indices of names, journals and institutions. Color plates; black and white illustrations.Dust jacket torn at top of spine.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 109047

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Benson, Timothy O. and Éva Forgács (editors) BETWEEN WORLDS: A SOURCEBOOK OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDES, 1910-1930.
Cambridge MIT Press (2002) 8vo quarter-cloth, paper-covered boards 735+(1) pages
Acknowledgements. Introduction by the editors. A collection of essays on the early 20th century Avant-garde, focusing on central Europe. Primary source documents focusing on style, social change, internationalism, constructivism, and ideology. Credits and biographical notes.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 109064

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(Black Sparrow Press) Wakoski, Diane GREED. PARTS 5-7.
Parts 5-7 Los Angeles Black Sparrow Press 1971 8vo. half bound in striped cloth with pink boards printed in red and black on front cover, false headband (vi), 23+(1) pages
Limited to an edition of 200 bound thus and signed by the author. Published 15 February 1971 at $15. (Morrow & Cooney, 101b)
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 91237

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(Black Sparrow Press) Wakoski, Diane GREED. PARTS 8, 9, 11
Parts 8,9,11 Los Angeles Black Sparrow Press 1973 8vo. half bound in blue cloth with light blue boards printed in red, grayish blue, and purple on the front cover. (vi), 23+(1) pages
Limited to an edition of 250 bound thus and signed by the author. Designed by Barbara Martin. Published 14 May 1973 at $15. (Morrow & Cooney, 245b)
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 91238

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(Black Sparrow Press) Wakoski, Diane THE PUMPKIN PIE, OR REASSURANCES ARE ALWAYS FALSE, THO WE LOVE THEM. ONLY PHYSICS COUNTS....
(Los Angeles Black Sparrow Press 1972) 12mo. orange paper-covered boards not paginated
Limited to an edition of 126, hand bound in boards by Earle Gray. These are numbered and signed by the author. Designed by Barbara Martin and printed in Dec 1972 by Noel Young. Variation A (Morrow and Cooney,132). Blue endpapers with colophon page printed on the recto of the back flyleaf. A Christmas greeting from the Press. Just a hint of shelf wear.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 91229

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(Black Sparrow Press) Wakoski, Diane SMUDGING
Los Angeles Black Sparrow Press 1972 8vo. half orange cloth with light brown boards printed in black, grayish blue, orange and red on the front cover, light brown label on the spine , false headband (viii), 153, (3) pages
Limited to an edition of 250 bound thus, signed and numbered by the author.(Morrow & Cooney, 120b).
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 91243

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(Black Sparrow Press) Wakoski, Diane WAITING FOR THE KING OF SPAIN
Santa Barbara Black Sparrow Press 1976 8vo. half orange cloth with cream boards printed in green, yellow, red and blue on front cover, paper label on spine (xii), 157, (5) pages
Of the 500 hardbound copies, this is one of 250 bound thus, signed and numbered by the author.(Morrow & Cooney, 251c).
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 91242

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Bojko, Szymon NEW GRAPHIC DESIGN IN REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA
New York Prager Publishers (1972) square 12mo. stiff paper wrappers 156 pages
Books, prints, posters and photomontage. Black-and-white illustrations. Minor cover soiling.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 105336

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(Bolliger, Hans) DOKUMENTATION-KUNST UND LITERATUR DES 19. + 20. JAHRHUNDERTS.
Zürich Hans Bolliger n.d. 8vo stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Text in German. Three catalogues of works on the art and literature of 19th and 20th century Europe. Main focus on 20th century avant-garde art. Black and white illustrations throughout. Over 2600 items in three volumes. Each volume indexed. Wrappers faded and bent near edges and spine.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 109071

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(Callias, Nina de) LA DAME AUX ÉVENTAILS: NINA DE CALLIAS, MODÈLE DE MANET.
Paris (Réunion des Musées Nationaux 2000) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 143 pages
Text in French. Catalogue of exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay, 2000. Frontispiece. Examines the role of Nina de Callias as Manet's model, and the role of her salon in the 19th century avant-garde movement in Paris. 21 color plates, black and white illustrations throughout. Bibliography and listing of works exhibited at her salon.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 107197

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(Crepuscular Press) Wakoski, Diane THE LAGUNA CONTRACT.
N.P. Crepuscular Press 1976 square 8vo. paper wraps which fold from the left and right sides to enclosed the leaves, hand sewn not paginated
Limited to an edition of 125 copies, signed by the author on the blank following the title page. The pages are of various sizes and textures with some cut or folded into shapes. Illustrations and form from the Press. An interesting and unusual format. Beautiful copy.
Price: $ 115.00 other currencies Order nr. 91257

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(Ex Libris) EX LIBRIS 11.
(New York) Ex Libris n.d. 8vo stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Ex Libris catalogue 11. A collection of literature relating to the 20th century Avant-garde. 380 entries with index. Black and white illustrations. Wrappers bent at edges, some fading.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 109087

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(Ex Libris) EX LIBRIS 15: DADA AND SURREALISM.
(New York) Ex Libris n.d. 8vo stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Ex Libris catalogue 15. Books, ephemera, pamphlets and other literature relating to Dada and Surrealism. 521 entries with index and selected bibliography. Black and white illustrations. Wrappers slightly bent at edges.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 109088

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(Holstein, Jürgen) DOKUMENTE, BÜCHER, OBJEKTE.
(Pöcking) Jürgen Holstein Antiquariat (1986) 8vo stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Text in German. Holstein catalogue 103, Books, prints, graphics mainly related to the Avant-garde. 174 items. Black and white illustrations throughout with captions in English.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 109074

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Huidobro, Vicente ; Guss, David M. (editor) THE SELECTED POETRY OF VICENTE HUIDOBRO.
(New York) New Directions (1981) 8vo. cloth, title and publisher gilt-stamped on spine, dust-jacket xxii, 234 pages
The first major collection of the great Chilean writer's work to appear in English. Text in English, Spanish, French. Acknowledgments. Introduction by David M. Guss. Black and white illustrations. Bibliography of Huidobro's works.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 114562

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(Kassák, Lajos) LAJOS KASSÁK Y LA VANGUARDIA HÚNGARA.
(Valencia) IVAM 1999 oblong 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards 227+(1) pages
Text in Spanish with English translation of essays. Exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Valencia, July-September 1999, of the work of Hungarian avant-garde artist, novelist, poet and theoretician Lajos Kassák (1887-1967). Connected with Bela Kun's Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919), he later distanced himself from Bolshevism but was later connected with the post World War II Communist regime, but was effectively silenced after the revolt of 1956. Introduction by Juan Manuel Bonet, director of IVAM. Four essays about Kassák and the avant-garde in Hungary. Color illustrations of the works of Kassák and other Hungarian artists. List of works arranged alphabetically by artist. Bibliography. Boards slightly bent at edges and lightly soiled.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 108990

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Lista, Giovanni LIVRE FUTURISTE DE LA LIBÉRATION DU MOT AU POÈME TACTILE.LE
N.P. Editionis Panini (1984) 4to stiff paper wrappers 158, (2) pages
Text in French and Italian. Essays, with color and black and white illustrations, about the Futurist movement and book design. Introduction. Biographical and bibliographical sketches of major Futurist authors.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 109037

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Margolin, Victor THE STRUGGLE FOR UTOPIA: RODCHENKO LISSITZKY MOHOLY-NAGY 1917-1946.
Chicago University of Chicago Press (1997) 8vo stiff paper wrappers xiii, 261+(1) pages
A study of the works of avant-garde artists and deisgners Alexander Rodchenko, El Lissitzky and László Moholy-Nagy. The author examines the changing relationship between their social ideals and the political realities of the times, especially in Weimar Germany and the USSR. Introduction by the author. List of illustrations, acknowledgments, index. Black and white illustrations throughout. Front wrapper bent at top corner.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 108987

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Roman, Gail Harrison and Virginia HAgelstein Marquardt (editors) THE AVANT-GARDE FRONTIER: RUSSIA MEETS THE WEST, 1910-1930.
Gainesville University Press of Florida (1992) 8vo cloth, dust jacket xvi, 291+(1) pages
A study of the artistic interaction between Russian and the West during the second and third decades of the 20th century. Two parts focus on contacts and affinities, respectively. Nine color plates. Black and white illustrations throughout. List of illustrations, contributors preface and introduction. Front free endpaper bent; top edge bent.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 109054

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(Tiege, Karel) Dluhosch, Eric and Rostislav Svachá KAREL TEIGE/1900-1951: L'ENFANT TERRIBLE OF THE CZECH MODERNIST AVANT-GARDE.
(Cambridge MIT Press 1999) 4to cloth, dust jacket xxvi, 420 pages
A study of the life of Karel Tiege (1900-1951), a leading figure of the European avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s and editor of influential Czech avant-garde journals. Tiege was silenced by the Communist take-over of Czechoslovakia in 1948. List of illustrations, foreword by Dluhosch, preface by Svachá, acknowledgements, biographical sketches of contributors, Includes essays on typography and architecture. Black and white illustrations. Chronological overview of Tiege's life, bibliography and index. Dust jacket lightly soiled.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 109021

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Watson, Steven GROUP PORTRAIT: THE FIRST AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE.
(Washington) The Natioinal Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution 1991 4to. self paper wrappers unpaginated
Introductory essay by Steven Watson, Guest Curator. Exhibition of works of the American Avant-Garde, including Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound. Black and white illustrations. Wrappers bent and scuffed.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 116051

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