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Ink manuscript with original photographs, ca 1951. 25x18. 16 leaves on eight folded sheets, including one-page introduction listing exhibitions, publications, etc. and 16 tipped-in photographs with handwritten information on the works behind the photos. Paper covers, with pencil notes Bozzolini, c/o M. Kuleff, 9 Rue Fenoux, Paris - 15e ... 15 Iuglio al fino al 30 Settembre: Viale Garibaldi 1, Poggibonsi (Siena). Kept in original signed card covers with the artist's monogram. Enclosed are printed gallery invitations to five exhibitions 1949-1952 (one solo exhibition and four group exhibitions with Bozzolini). A compendium of fourteen paintings made 1948-1951, with dating, measures, etc. and two undated woodcuts, by Silvano Bozzolini (1911-1998). Most likely compiled by the artist himself, who has signed the covers with Bozzolini fotos and his monogram. Bozzolini studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. In 1945 he joined the group Arte d'Oggi and turned to abstract painting, and in 1947 he moved permanently to Paris.

Helsinki 1966. 27x23. 158 pp. + 9 yellow card thumb-index leaves. Ca 95 photos (including several full-page) and numerous measured line drawings. Printed wrappers (front wrapper red with white and black lettering), plastic spine. Exterior insignificantly worn and front wrapper neatly repaired; a 9x9 cms square clipped from one leaf with partial loss of a photo; otherwise a good copy of a scarce publication. Artek catalogue of furniture, the majority designed by Alvar Aalto (some in collaboration with Maija Heikionheimo), but including pieces designed by Aino Aalto, Antti Nurmesniemi, etc. The furniture is classified into: Bookshelves, Benches and Mirrors / Chests of Drawers and Cabinets / Garden Furniture / Armchairs / Sofas and Fauteuils / Chairs and Stools / Bedsteads / Tables / Round Tables and Special Tables. List of contents in Finnish and Swedish (a truncated version with English title and list of contents was published in the same year).

(Bruxelles 1949). 27x22. 24 pp. Ca 32 reproductions and photos. Pictorial wrappers - an original litograph by Pierre Alechinsky. The third issue of the Cobra review was published in liaison with, and on the occasion of, the International Festival of Experimental and Poetic Film held in Brussels. The Dutch and Danish Cobra members are absent from this issue, which marked the arrival of Pierre Alechinsky. Devoted to avant-garde film, it includes texts by Christian Dotremont, Fernand Leger, Richard Huelsenbeck, Joseph Noiret, Jean Cleinge, Jean Raine, Gilles Margaritis, and Henry Valensi, and a double-page manifesto on green paper, titled 'Cinemasurrealifeste' and signed by Le Groupe Surrealiste-Revolutionnaire, ses amis, ses voisins.

(Shanghai 1936). 27x19. II+246 pp. Ca 500 photos of pieces and inscriptions. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt cover design. Expertly rebacked with original backstrip neatly reattached. The volume on Porcelain of the four illustrated catalogues of Chinese Government exhibits at this landmark exhibition.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1970. 33x30. 324 pp. + 78 tipped-in colour plates. Ca 220 black and white photos and reproductions including 186 full-page. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, dust jacket. Sumptuous pictorial documentation with an introduction by John Russell.