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Berlin & Stuttgart, W. Spemann, 1905. 17x11. VIII+760 pp. (not paginated). Ca 300 photos, more than 250 drawings and plans, and 180 architects' portrait photos. Publisher's decorated cloth. (Spemanns Hauskunde, 7). A comprehensive volume of illustrated articles on contemporary domestic architecture and furnishing with emphasis on Germany and Austria. Includes photos of houses and furnishing designed by Otto Wagner, Van de Velde, Olbrich, Behrens, Richard Riemerschmid, Josef Hoffmann, Bruno Paul, Fritz Schumacher, Gabriel and Emanuel von Seidl, and others. The last portion of the book is a useful biographical dictionary of 295 contemporary German architects.

Paris 1976. 29x20. XX pp. including introduction by Jacqueline Leiner + a total of 366 pages + XVI pp. indices and table of contents. Ca 85 illustrations including 34 full-page. Publisher's printed cloth, in slightly repaired dust jacket with sunned backstrip. A complete facsimile (including the front wrappers) of the six issues that appeared of this Surrealist magazine published 1930-1933 and regarded in retrospect by its editor André Breton as "of all Surrealist publications by far the richest in the sense we understand it and also the most alive". Intriguing, varied contents including photos and reproductions of work by Man Ray, Max Ernst, Dalí, Tanguy, Duchamp, Arp, Miró, Giacometti, Valentine Hugo, Breton, Eluard and others, and texts by Breton, Aragon, Bunuel, Char, Crevel, Dalí, Duchamp, Eluard, Giacometti, Péret, Tanguy, Tristan Tzara, etc. This edition is provided with indices of collaborators and illustrators, and of persons and printed works and magazines mentioned in the text.

Paris, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, 1918. 27x19. IV+60 pp. + 2 final, blank leaves. 40 reproductions including 20 full-page. Printed wrappers with title ESTAMPES PAR EDGAR DEGAS. Backstrip and wrapper margins slightly darkened and thumbed. Catalogue of the 1918 auction of etchings, aquatints and litographs by Degas from his own studio.

Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1964. 21x23. 88 pp. + 21 tipped-in colour plates + tipped-in portrait photo. 11 full-page monochrome reproductions included in pagination. Pictorial wrappers, some minor discolouring and slightly darkened backstrip. The catalogue published to accompany what became the last Fautrier exhibition held during his lifetime. Includes texts by René Héron de Villefosse, Jean Paulhan, and André Berne Joffroy, and a compilation of quotes on Fautrier from 1927-1964 by André Malraux, Waldemar George, Michel Tapié, Francis Ponge, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Pierre Restany, and others.