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Malmö 1925. 28x22. VIII+188 pp. 20 tipped-in colour plates and ca 220 photos. Presentation copy inscribed by the author, handsomely bound in half grey calf (Leonard Gustafsson) with marbled boards, top edge gilt; in a matching flannel-lined slipcase with grey calf trimmings. A survey published to coincide with the Paris 1925 Art Deco Exhibition. Illustrations include furniture and light fixtures designed by Gunnar Asplund, Carl Hörvik, Uno Åhrén, Carl Bergsten, Osvald Almqvist, Axel Einar Hjort, Carl Malmsten and others, as well as glass, ceramic and metal ware, textiles, etc. designed by i.a. Simon Gate, Edward Hald, Wilhelm Kåge, Edgar Böckman, Carl Milles, Jacob Ängman, Anna Petrus, and Märta Måås-Fjetterström.

Paris, Mourlot, 1973. 27x21. 284 pp. Ca 60 reproductions and photos, all but a few full-page and 28 in colour. Publisher's cloth, mylar-protected dust jacket, very fine. Presentation copy with a signed inscription by Mourlot.

New York 1960. 28x22. 128 pp. including 60 pages with photos of ca 550 objects. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth-backed boards. Minor discolouring of rear cover, otherwise a fine copy. In his introduction C.T. Loo, the preeminent dealer of Chinese art and artifacts, identifies the present collection as "the best and largest that has ever been assembled".

Trondhjem 1982. 46x31. 44 s. inklusive omslag. Ca 90 foton och reproduktioner varav 28 i färg inklusive ett helt uppslag med 32 "Nixon Visions" (1971). Tryckta omslag med färgfoton. Dedikation från Slettemark i svart och röd skrift på främre omslagets insida: "To Melania with ART, KjARTan / To ART with love ... STOCKHOLMMMM" etc. En monografi med biografisk kronologi, utgiven i samband med en retrospektiv utställning som hölls i Trondhjems Kunstforening och Kunstnernes Hus i Oslo. Texten är på svenska.

Dresden 1962. 27x19. 356 pp. including a 210-page classified survey comprising 232 reproductions, several in colour, of photo collages, posters and book covers etc, all listed in a catalogue with notes (as are the ca 70 photos in the text). Publisher's decorated linen cloth. With a signed inscription by John Heartfield. Artist's presentation copy of the Heartfield-biography written by his brother.

Leningrad 1981. 29x23. 136 pp. + 8 colour photo plates. 82 full-page black and white photos. Publisher's decorated cloth. A survey of vases, bowles, and other fine objects in marble, jasper, porphyry, rhodonite, malachite, etc. Photo captions and descriptive lists of the objects are trilingual in Russian, English and French; and Efimovas introductory text is summarised in English and French.

Stockholm, Norstedt, 1921. 25x17. XVI+324 s. Ca 200 ritningar, planer och foton. Fint senare halvklotband med marmorerat pärmpapper, båda tryckta omslagen medbundna, Ett viktigt pionjärarbete som utgör en manifestation av trädgårdsstadsrörelsen i Sverige, författat av en kommitté bestående av arkitekterna Osvald Almqvist, Sigurd Westholm, Carl Bergsten, Cyrillus Johansson, m.fl. Talrika ritningar såväl som foton av uppförda radhus och enfamiljshus i stockholmsförstäder, Arboga, Linköping, etc. och en omfattande illustrerad studie av Osvald Almqvist som kodifierar de ideal han uttryckt i Bergslagsbyn vid Domarvet, "ett samhälle, som står i nivå med de bästa utländska trädgårdsstäderna" (Stavenow-Hidemark, Villabebyggelse i Sverige 1900-1925: 230).

Stockholm, Gebers, 1915. 25x17. VIII+280 s. + utvikbar karta + 16 s. annonser. 295 numrerade illustrationer (men summan av foton, ritningar och planer är betydligt högre eftersom åtskilliga av illustrationerna är kombinationer av sådana). . Samtida halvklotband med marmorerat pärmpapper, båda tryckta omslagen medbundna. Pärmarna aningen kantnötta, på främre försättsblad en samtida premiegåvoinskrift daterad 17.4.1916; inlagan i utmärkt fint skick. En oöverträffad redogörelse för de många egnahemsföreningar och egnahemsföretag som växte fram i Sverige efter att en statlig egnahemslånefond upprättats 1904, och en omfattande dokumentation av bostadshus och områden skapade inom ramen för egnahemstanken. Foton och ritningar av enfamiljshus, parhus och radhus i egnahemskolonier och trädgårdsförstäder över hela landet, med detaljerat register över orter och företag, och en bibliografi. Bland de identifierade arkitekterna till avbildade hus märks John Åkerlund, Lars Israel Wahlman, Isak Gustaf Clason, Victor Bodin, Erik Hahr, och arkitektfirman (Sigurd) Lewerentz & (Torsten) Stubelius.

Berlin, Hessling, (ca 1896). Title leaf with illustration + one leaf with list of plates + 60 plates numbered 1-64 including four folding plates with double numbering. Loose as issued in a printed half cloth portfolio with tie-strings, exterior insignificantly worn, a very good copy. German edition of "Specimens of Gothic architecture ... selected from ancient buildings at Oxford &c."

Paris & Bruxelles 1930. 29x23. II+XII+160 pp. + 31 photogravure plates (numered 1-32 including one folding double-plate) with ca 50 reproductions mainly of Tessin's original designs and plans. Fine half cloth binding with marbled boards, printed wrappers bound in.

Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1992. 31x25. 352 pp. Ca 370 colour photos including 120 full-page, and 16 drawings. Publisher's boards, dust jacket, very fine. Text by Salma Samar Damluji, Mohamed Benaissa, Catherine Cambazard-Amahan, Ali Amahan, Mohammed Chadli, Nadia Erzini, and Keith Critchlow & Paul Marchant.

Paris, Bibliothèque des Arts, 1991. 34x26. 192 pp. Ca 160 colour photos (50 full-page) and 230 reproductions of drawings by Erté; plus 30 photos in introductory texts. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket.

Moskva 1939. 30x22. 240 pp. + portrait. 285 photos and reproductions. Publisher's printed cloth. Inscribed by the author. Russian monograph on the Scottish-born architect who made an illustrious career at the courts of Catherine II and Alexander I of Russia.

Knærreborg (early or mid 1950s). A mobile consisting of one large (10x28 cm) and three small fish made of coloured glass and thick brass wire, connected with nylon string. Very fine in the original cardboard box. Enclosed is a printed folder catalogue: DANSKA MOBILIER - DANSKT KONSTHANTVERK. Stockholm, Specialmöbler, (1950s). 16x8 (32x40 unfolded). Eight photos with descriptive text. A catalogue of six mobiles designed by Flensted including the fish mobile (and two small wooden animal sculpture groups by Christian Torup); enclosed leaf with price-list and order form. Pencil note by Lena Larsson and two pencil drawings by her.

Praha 1966. 29x21. IV+138 typed (duplicated) text leaves; + 21 tissue-guarded leaves with 41 pasted original photographs (40 of paintings, with typewritten titles, and one portrait photo of the artist). Bound in two printed linen cloth volumes. Former owner's bookplates. Numerous corrections and underlinings in the text as well as handwritten additions in Czech. One of originally 41 photos of paintings has been cut out, five other pictures have been crossed-out with ballpoint pen, one of them with extensive handwritten note in the margin. Enclosed slip with text on the photo copyright, signed by the photographer. (Diplomní práce). A thesis on the work of the Czech Cubist painter Emil Filly (1882-1953) during his stay in the Netherlands after the outbreak of the first World War.

Leningrad 1973. 30x24. 256 pp. 213 photos, 185 full-page including ca 100 in colour. Publisher's gilt-lettered decorated cloth, dust jacket, kept in the original pictorial slipcase. A fine copy, with minor wear to extremities of the slipcase. A pictorial survey of 18th and 19th century furniture in the Hermitage, with bilingual Russian / English introduction and a list of the illustrations in English.

Stockholm, Bokförlaget Errata, (1967). 30x25. 20 blad varav fyra blanka och 16 med titel och helsides bilder + en löst bifogad färglitografi signerad av Hillersberg och numrerad 72/300. Boken bär också nummer 72 av 300 ex. Originalklotryggsband med tryckt pärmtitelskylt, i fint skick.

Berlin, Cassirer, 1910. 23x19. 132 pp. + 49 tipped in plates including two in colour + two original etchings by Leistokow with guard-tissues. 12 vignettes in the text. A fine copy in publisher's gilt-lettered boards.

Göteborg 1947. 30x20. 320 s. + 4 färgplanscher. 239 reproduktioner i texten. Fint rödbrunt halvskinnband, övre guldsnitt, tryckta omslag (något mörknade) medbundna, ryggen aningen blekt. Dedikation från författaren till Erik Wettergren.

Paris, Dis Voir, 1996. 18x21. IV+126 pp. including 16 unpaginated pages with colour photos from the film (those appear between pages 12 and 31, thus omitting two numbers in the pagination). Pictorial wrappers. Signed by Peter Greenaway on first, blank page, otherwise as new. The original synopsis and script for the 1995 film by Greenaway, with introductory texts by him.