Search Results: Art from Henry Berry, books/ephemera

[IGOR STRAVINSKY PRINT, MUSIC BIENNALE ZAGREB 1963, RARE] IGOR STRAWINSKY dirigivo svoju "Simfoniju u tri stavka" Muziche Biennale u Zagrebu 12.V.1963 Malanus [artist signed in pencil:] Lt. 4/10 Malanus…last letters of the artist's name are unclear, Czechoslovakian title English translation: IGOR STRAVINSKY conducting his "Symphony in Three Movements" at the Music Biennale Zagreb 12.V.1963 [May 12, 1963] Malanus [?], print, black on white lighter paper of back view of Stravinsky conducting, 15" x 11-3/4" with image in the middle and title and signature underneath, general light rippling because of the lightness of the paper with some creases at the edges; RARE presuming pencil note with artist signature "Lt. 4/10" means number 4 of 10 copies as in English limited-edition identification; NOTES: the 1963 Music Biennale Zagreb was the second biennale, the first in 1961, besides Stravinsky, John Gage was another modern composer appearing at it; no information found on the artist presumed to be Croatian… Read More

[FRENCH-FLORIDA ARTIST MARGUERITE CASTAING, 2 SIGNED CARDS] MARGUERITE CASTAING, 1900-85, 2 ca. 5" x 3" cards from the French-Florida artist to a young woman/girl in New York City, (1) with envelope post marked New York City, Feb. 21, 1910, addressed to Hotel Shyuler, West 45th St., though anomalously with Hotel Brevoort, 5th Avenue, on card with the envelope, about 75 words handwritten in pen, in part, "My dearest little Vera [Fisher, from envelope address]…You were anxious about your pencil…on arrival home…I have found it…[return to you] on Wednesday…", with envelope; (2) Memorial Hospital, 106th Street and Central Park West address on card, ca. 65 words handwritten in ink, in part, "My dearest little girl…Tell mother I shall be operated on tomorrow…I was very sorry not to be able to see you…", RARE autographs, signed cards/ephemera from this little-known, yet recognized artist who studied under Pierre Bonnard /// POINTS OF INTEREST: "La Vie En Bleu: The Life & Art of Marguerite… Read More

[ENRICO CARUSO; OPERA STAR MEMORABILIA; CARICATURES] CARICATURES OF ENRICO CARUSO – Complete Collection Issued with the Approval of the Artist, 4th Edition, by Michael Sisca, Published by"La Follia Di New York", New York 1939, inscribed on title page "Al pregiato Musicista Antonio Marchesani, offro in segno di sinceca amicizia, Aida Favia-Artsay, Valhalla, NY, Aprile 22,1993", book 8-1/2" x 11", cover imitation dark blue pebbled leather with gilded autograph of Enrico Caruso, pages unnumbered/about 185 pages with caricatures on every page varying from full-page to up to 4 on a page except for the few beginning pages and 2 pages at the back which are copies of Caruso letters to Marziale Sisca; RARE, no editions recorded at WorldCat/OCLC (7/11/21), only two copies of the 4th edition found for sale online, no listings for any other edition (7/11/21); NOTES: Aida Favia-Artsay, discographer, author of "Caruso on Records"; Antonio Marchesani, musician, singer; Michael Sisca, son of Marziale Sisca, close… Read More

[1947 RARE CATALOG HISTORIC MEXICO CITY BUILDING; LIMITED EDITION] CATALOGO ORDAZ, COYOACAN, D. E. [part of Mexico City], foreword dated July 1947 by Antonio Romero Caballero and also inscribed by him "A. Romero" to H. E. Russell, Jr., of Texas, text in Spanish, red cloth cover with gilded lettering (no jacket as issued), 9" x 12", x + 240 pages, glossy pages, black-and-white photographs on nearly every page of varied antiquities of the historic building including paintings, furniture, silver, and statues, index, 523 articles cataloged with detailed descriptive annotations and occasional notable aspects of an article and its historical background, De Este Catlogo Se Imprimieron -70- [handwritten number], Numeros, Siendo Este el Numero -46- [handwritten number], limited edition #46 of 70 copies, inscribed at upper left corner of the title page "To our very old friend H. E. Russell, Coyoacan, D. E., Mexico, March 31st, 1948, A. Romero", signature made out by linking to the identified author of the… Read More

CERAMICHE ITALIANE MINORI DEL CASTELLO SFORZESCO by Costantino Baroni, Introduzione di Giorgio Nicodemi, published by Edizioni D'Arte Emilio Bestetti, 1934, dark green cloth cover with gilded lettering and decoration, 6-1/4" x 9-1/4", 239 pp., ills., index, RARE in US market /// CONDITION: hardcover in very good-plus condition, light normal wear, previous owner's name at top of title page.

[ENGLISH ARTS & LITERATURE; 20th CENTURY] LEWIS HIND, 1862-1927, [Charles Lewis Hind] was a British journalist, writer, editor, art critic, and art historian, 2 short autograph letters dated 1889, 4-1/2" x 7", with The Art Journal dark brown oval logo in the upper left corner and address 294, City Road, London, E. C. to the right: (1) July 18, [18]89, 1 p. of 4 pages as folded/about 25 words, writing to unidentified "Dear Sir" that Hind will be "here between 10 and 11 am" on Friday and Saturday if the recipient wants to come by to see him; (2) Sep. 21, [18]89, 2 pp., front and back of single sheet, writing to unidentified "Gentlemen" [plural]…We are just going to press with that portion of our Paris Exhibition Supplement dealing with you exhibit. I enclose proof and rough pulls of illustrations" and asking that these be reviewed for correctness and returned; HISTORICAL NOTE: the "Supplement" and the exhibit referred to are related to the Exposition Universelle world's fair in Paris in 1889;… Read More

[PHILIP GLASS, ANDREW DE GROAT, SIGNED; EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH, EOS ENTERPRISES, RARE] EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH – AN OPERA IN FOUR ACTS by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass, with choreography by Andrew de Groat, edited by Vicky Alliata, inscribed by Philip Glass on title page ""Thanks for being there, Philip Glass" and Andrew de Groat "Best wishes and [?]", published by EOS Enterprises, Inc., New York, undated/but 1978 (WorldCat/OCLC reference], paperback, 6-1/2" high x 11" across, 44 pages, varied content including music scores, storyboard illustrations, choreography diagrams, text from performance, and essays in English, Italian, and French, RARE EDITION, less than 5 of this edition recorded at WorldCat/OCLC with a couple of these being the signed limited hardcover edition (8/17/21), only one (unsigned) found for sale online (8/17/21), no signed copies found for sale and apparently only one or two in library holdings, this edition was published following the opera's premier performance in France in 1976… Read More

[1931 ENRICO PRAMPOLINI COLOR COSTUME PRINTS / COCKTAIL PANTOMIME BY MARINETTI, PARIS 1927] ENRICO PRAMPOLINI 4 small color prints, partly pochoir, handcolored, 2 masks 2-1/2" x 3" and 2 costume 4" x 2-1/4" identfied and signed in the 2 costume iplates, plus in the middle 4-3/4" x 6" black-and-white photo Mouvement de Scene, Photo Nakarayama (presumably the Japanese photographer Iwata Nakayama who was in Paris 1926-27), plate #34, preserved page from a mostly deteriorated copy of the rare theater book TENDANCES NOUVELLES DU THEATRE – CHOIX DE DECORS, COSTUMES, etc. [rest of long subtitleomotted], by Leon Moussinac, published by Les Editions Albert Levy, Paris, 1931, limited edition 600 copies /// CONDITION: generally lightly age-toned somewhat more at edge, light crease at upper left cutting a little into one color mask.

FAR EASTERN CERAMIC BULLETIN, published by the Far Eastern Ceramic Group, Ann Arbor, MI, March 1949, stapled binding, typescript text on right-hand pages/recto only numbered 37-47, followed by 3 original b+w photographs tipped-in inside back cover, 2 articles (i) "So Gen No Toji" by Junsei Ozaki, translated by Robert T. Paine, Jr., (6 pp.), (ii) "Ku Yueh Hsuan [followed by three Chinese characters handwritten in blue ink]" by F. St.G. Spendlove (4 pp.), softcover, 8-1/2" x 11", early issue; CONDITION: well-preserved with minimal light normal age-wear including fading at edges of covers.

FAR EASTERN CERAMIC BULLETIN, published by the Far Eastern Ceramic Group, Ann Arbor, MI, January 1949, stapled binding, typescript text on right-hand pages/recto only numbered 28-36 followed by 2 original b+w photographs tipped-in inside back cover, two articles (i) Two Chinese Rectangular Pottery Blocks of the T'ang Dynasty, One with Silver Mounting, Representing miniature Chests Made for the Furnishings of a Tomb" by Robert Paul Dart (2 pp.), (ii) "An Analysis of Three Chun [Chinese character] Type Shards" by Walter Donald Ering (4 pp.), followed by letters, softcover, 8-1/2" x 11", early issue; CONDITION: well-preserved with minimal light normal age-wear including fading at edges of covers.

[THERON J. DAMON GROUP OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF TURKISH ANTIQUITIES, SOME WITH HIS NOTES, 1929] GROUP OF 17 PHOTOGRAPHS OF TURKISH ANTIQUITIES SENT TO THERON J. DAMON by a Turkish / Constantinople antiquities dealer, some with Damon notations in reply to the dealer and/or dealer's notations for Damon, in 1929 Damon opened a Near Eastern antiquities shop in New York City after years of diverse activities in Turkey and the surrounding region including teaching at Robert College in Constantinople (see Notes below), the photographs are varying perspectives from full views to details of icons, metalwork, friezes, paintings, and calligraphy, black-and-white on heavier, stiff photographic paper and "agra-lupex" photo paper [a brand of German photo paper of the period] as identified with the logo on the backs of some, ranging in size from 10" x 7-1/2" and 2 oblong photographs with folds about 7" high x 14" across (one with the fold split about three-quarters of its length), 3 of the larger photos have the stamp of… Read More

[1937 MIKE DOLAS ILLUSTRATION ART SIGNED MAGAZINE COVER RARE] MIKE DOLAS, ILLUSTRATION ARTIST, INSCRIBED/SIGNED MAGAZINE COVER TO WOMAN MODEL, color front cover of Liberty, Nov. 20, 1937, with original blue ink bold inscription, "To Margaret who helped again, Mike", with "Michael Dolas" signature in typescript at the lower right corner of the illustration, WITH an original Identification Card from the Palm Beach Police Department stamped May or Nov. [month unclear from surface loss] 14, 1943, for the model Margaret with the address Surfside Hotel, Palm Beach [in 1943 she was a 23-year-old wife of a military pilot working in the Caribbean area] and for "Employed" filling in "housewife", on the reverse side of the ID are a small snapshot, a right thumb print, and her signature in blue ink, ID card paper-clipped to photocopy of the magazine cover…Mike Dolas front cover illustration is a husband carrying blankets and a triangular flag with an "S" (presumably for their favored football team) and wife… Read More

[1640ca LINSCHOTEN DOETECUM ORIGINAL ENGRAVING China Mandarin river boat] ORIGINAL ENGRAVING FROM AN EARLY EDITION of Linschoten's travel book on Asia by Baptiste van Doetecum (English spelling, but also Doetechum, Deutechum, and other various spellings), edition unidentified/ca. 1640 probably French edition, numbered "32 en 33", title/caption in Latin underneath the image "Lecture, et ratio, quibus Chine primarij, Mandorines vocant gestante, combeq, quibus ad oblectationem per fluvios vehuntur" with title also in Dutch to the right, scene of Chinese Mandarin with retainers to the right and at the left a boat on a river illustrating (as noted in the title/caption) a pastime enjoyed by the Mandarin class, overall size to the plate mark 10" high x 12-/12" across with surrounding margins from 3/4" or wider, midfold, in upper left corner in the engraving "NLinschoten" for the book's author, at bottom right edge inside the border "Bapt a Doct fec" for the engraver; engraving authenticated as described by… Read More

MADHUBANI by K. Prakash, published by Design Point, Bombay, 1994, first edition (stated), hardcover with jacket with no price as issued, 8-1/2" x 11", 56 pages, illustrated endpages, color/b+w photos and illustrations, rare book, only about 4 copies recorded at WorldCat/OCLC, no copies found for sale (11/10/20), 7-page author essay is followed by color and black-and-white art works, figures, and patterns representing Madhubani art; CONDITION: hardcover in near fine condition/very good-or better jacket, some short ripples to jacket surface coating along the spine and a small indentation.

MILFORD ZORNES by Gordon T. McClelland and Milford Zornes, published by Hillcrest Press, 1991, hardcover with jacket, 8-1/2" x 11", 69 pages, color ills., chronology; CONDITION: book fine condition / jacket fine, like new copy, unused.

[OLEG TSELKOV EXHIBITION POSTER Russia modern artist undated/est. 1980-2000] OLEG TSELKOV ART POSTER, 27" high x 18" across overall, narrow/about 1" white border on three sides, in bottom wide margin/about 6" about 1" high block capital letters OLEG TSELKOV, undated, unidentified but in all probability an art exhibition poster, in margin at upper right corner at edge of poster "S. A. N. – Torino" in small letters (no information found on this printer), poster generally dark green with a pair of distinctive, characteristic Tselkov faces in lighter shade about in the middle of the surrounding dark green; NOTES: OLEG NOKOLAYEVICH TSELKOV, 1934-2021, Russian nonconformist artist whose first solo exhibition in Moscow in 1966 was closed down after two days by the KGB for being "ideologically unacceptable"…known for his images of faces painted in bright color revealing inner psychological torment…in 1977 moved to France (wikipedia); CONDITION: well-preserved, about near fine, some light short creases… Read More

[1781 ROYAL COAT OF ARMS ORDER GARTER ENGRAVING G. TERRY] ORIGINAL ENGRAVING BRINGING TOGETHER THE BRITISH ROYAL COAT OF ARMS AND MOTTO OF THE ORDER OF THE GARTER, Published As the Acts Directs, October 5, 1781, by G. Terry, 54 Pater-noster Row [London], engraving (cut from larger sheet of old paper), 7-1/4" high x 8-1/2" across, British Royal Coat of Arms in the center with Order of the Garter motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" running around it, to the left lion with crown, to the right unicorn, underneath this image is "Dieu et Mon Droit" (motto of the British monarch), reverse blank, parts of edges uneven from clipping from larger sheet, small parts of left end of scroll the lion is standing on are missing with loss at lower left corner, 1781 engraving authenticated by seller with lifetime guarantee; CONDITION: old paper supple, not brittle, light normal age-toning. keywords: heraldry, British royalty, coat of arms, engraving, English crown.

[1931 PICASSO COSTUMES 6 PHOTOS Cocteau 1917 ballet Parade RARE] 1 page, Picasso costumes 6 black-and-white photographs limited edition 600 copies, 4-1/2" x 2-1/4" on heavier paper/light board, for the 1917 ballet PARADE, Ballet de Jean Cocteau, Decor et Costumes de Pablo Picasso, Musique d'Eric Satie…Theatre du Chatelet, Paris 1917, plate #1 is a preserved page from a mostly deteriorated copy of the rare theater book TENDANCES NOUVELLES DU THEATRE – CHOIX DE DECORS, COSTUMES, etc. [rest of long subtitle omitted], by Leon Moussinac, published by Les Editions Albert Levy, Paris, 1931, limited edition 600 copies /// CONDITION: generally lightly age-toned somewhat more at edge, small chip at top page edge, small dark spot in left margin.

[THEATER / ENTERTAINMENT, COMPLETE PRODUCTION BOOK FOR STURBRIDGE VILLAGE PERFORMANCE] PRODUCTION BOOK FOR 'THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER' produced at Old Sturbridge Village, Mass., July - August 1953, submitted by James Karr, stage manager; the publications and papers collected in a 8-1/2" x 11" black spring binder with "The Devil and Daniel Webster" in pen on a paste-on label on the spine, about 225 pages of production-related material including handwritten pages, typed pages, annotated pages of 2 copies of scarce 1943 Boosey & Hawkes printing of popular opera, and 2 detailed blueprints, different types of material are in sections identifying the type of material with a typescript front page, sections in order: cover page: [title page/cover sheet] PRODUCTION BOOK for THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER produced at OLD STURBRIDGE VILLAGE, MASS., July - August 1953, submitted by: James Karr, stage manager; THE PROGRAM: Old Sturbridge Festival, Sturbridge, Massachusetts, presents a music play / THE DEVIL AND… Read More

[1959 DALI INTERVIEW/ARTICLE WITH PHOTOCOPY INSCRIPTION TO GERALD KEAN, RARE] DALI INTERVIEW by Gerald Kean, 1959, photocopy as an article "The Persistence of Memory" by Gerald Kean, prefaced by photocopy of Dali inscription "Pour Gerald Kean, Homage de Dali" in a copy of the book "Dali on Modern Art: The Cuckolds of Antiquated Modern Art" published in English translation by Dial in 1957, the "P" of "Pour" and the 1959 date missing from the reduced-size photocopy at the front of the article (see Notes below), the article is in an interview/question-and-answer format, 8-1/2" x 11", 53 pages, front sides only (reverse sides blank), pages stapled together at upper left corner, Gerald Kean participated in and was influential in the transition from radio to television following WWII (see Notes below), Kean begins by bringing up Dali's book "The Secret Life of Salvador Dali" and commenting, "[the] book was very revealing, to which Dali replies, "Dali is one of the most exhibitionistic and narcissistic… Read More