Search Results: Titles starting with U from Sims Reed Rare Books

London.: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1934.. Original publisher's yellow cloth with title to upper cover, original grey dust-jacket with titles to front panel in red.. 4to. (254 x 190 mm).. Illustrated with 67 monochrome plates. The sole publication of the English artists and architects who formed Unit One.Unit One consisted of the sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, the painters John Armstrong, John Bigge, Edward Burra, Tristram Hillier, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson and Edward Wadsworth and the architects Wells Coates and Colin Lucas. Unit One opposed the English romantic tradition of working 'by the light of nature' and advocated a strong 'structural purpose' in both painting and architecture.'Unit One is the name of a new group of English artists - painters, sculptors and architects - which was formed early in the year 1933. It is not a group of new artists: most of the eleven constituent members already have established reputations. Nor does it stand for any new principle in art. It arose… Read More

Paris.: H. Fournier, Libraire-Editeur., 1844.. Original publisher's green morocco-backed green percaline, the front board with large central pictorial vignette reproducing the frontispiece beneath the pictorial title vignette, rear board with gilt vignette from 'Petites Misères de la Vie Humaine', banded green morocco spine with elaborate gilt tooling and titles in five compartments, marbled endpapers, green silk placemarker, t.e.g.. Large 8vo. (272 x 212 mm).. Half-title in red with pseudo-privilège verso (also in red), leaf with frontispiece verso, printed title in red and printed text illustrated with 36 hors-texte wood-engraved plates all with additional colouring by hand and 146 wood-engravings in the text, final two leaves with 'Table', 'Explication' and 'Errata' verso. [PROVENANCE: With the contemporary printed bookplate in red and black of 'L[ouis]. C[harles]. A[dolphe]. Chicora' (1806 - 1883) with the text 'Conseiller au conseil des mines' to front pastedown]. Grandville's finest book and… Read More

Antwerp / Cologne.: Wide White Space Gallery / Galerie Michael Werner., 1969.. Original publisher's white printed wrappers with titles in red and black to front cover within rules of black and red, printed 'exemplaire catalogue' to rear cover, original glassine dust-jacket as issued.. Folio. (326 x 250 mm).. Leaf with Broodthaers' title, leaf with 'Préface' signed by Stéphane Mallarmé (a transcription in toto of Mallarmé's original verse replacing Mallarmé's original prefatory text), blank leaf, leaf with title cancelled with black line and 10 leaves with Mallarmé's verse with each line cancelled in black, final verso with 'Imprimé en Belgique' and final leaf with justification and copyright recto. An excellent, crisp presentation copy of Marcel Broodthaers' important appropriation of Stéphane Mallarmé.From the edition limited to 400 copies, with this one of 300 marked 'exemplaire catalogue' on white wove paper without watermark, inscribed by Broodthaers in blue ink, signed with his… Read More

Paris.: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française., 1914.. Original publisher's japon wrappers with printed titles in red and black to front cover and publisher's vignette in black to rear. . Folio. (330 x 257 mm).. Blank leaf, printed title, leaf with Mallarmé's 'Préface' and note by the editor verso, blank leaf, leaf with title 'UN COUP DE DES' and Mallarmé's verse recto and verso in his preferred typographic layout on 10 leaves, final leaf with justification and achevé d'imprimer; leaves uncut retaining deckle edges throughout. A large paper copy, completely unsophisticated, of the first edition of Stéphane Mallarmé's revolutionary innovative typographic caprice.From the edition limited to 100 numbered large paper copies, with this one of 90 on vélin d'Arches; 10 hors commerce copies - also large paper - on papier pur chanvre des papeteries de Monval were also issued as well as an unnumbered edition of 900 copies in smaller format on vergé.In 1914, Stéphane Mallarmé’s ambitious… Read More

Brussels & London.: Sur les Presses de l'Imprimerie J. Paeshuys ... for Société des Expositions & Petersburg Press., 1974.. Original publisher's printed wrappers with cloth-tape spine as issued, titles in red and black and monochrome illustrations to front and rear covers, original white card folder with title to front cover and achevé d'imprimer to rear.. Square 8vo. (200 x 200 mm).. Leaf with introduction / collophon in French by Gevaert and initialled by Broodthaers in red recto, verso and following leaves with reproduction of various font samples, two central leaves with colour lithographs recto and verso, following leaves with reproduction of various font samples, final leaf verso with colophon / introduction in English by Gevaert and initialled and numbered by Broodthaers in red ink; copyright to foot of inner front wrapper, pagination throughout in red. A good copy of Broodthaers' artist book 'Un Jardin d'Hiver' with the original portfolio.From the edition limited to 120 copies, each… Read More

Paris.: OTUA (L'Office Technique pour l'Utilisation de l'Acier)., 1935.. Original leather-backed boards with cover design by Cassandre. Spine scuffed, otherwise v.g. Large folio.. Numerous illustrations throughout. This book is the record of the competition sponsored by OTUA for a new Exhibition Centre complete with its own airport. The judges included Auguste Perret and Tony Garnier. The grand prize-winner was the firm of Tournon & Chappey. Additional prizes went to Alex & Pierre Fournier, Molinie, Nicod & Boulanger, Umbdenstock, R. Expert, and Charles & Daniel Letrosne. The exhibition centre was never constructed. The book itself is a fine example of 1930's modernist design with the covers designed by Cassandre.

Bochum.: Galerie m., 1973.. Single sheet. . 4to. (298 x 210 mm).. Invitation to the opening of the Ludwig Wilding exhibition Unikate at Galerie m Bochum on the 7th of September 1973, the exhibition ran to the 16th of November. With brief biography and exhibition history. The sheet has been folded.

Paris. : Au Sans Pareil., 1920.. Original publisher's thick yellow printed paper wrappers with titles to front cover and spine in black.. 8vo. (208 x 152 mm).. Blank leaf, leaf with half-title, printed title, leaf with Picabia's 'Portrait de l'Auteur par Lui-Même', leaf with Picabia's dedication ' ... A mon meilleur ami', two leaves with Tzara's 'Préface', leaf with Pascal's 'Préface' recto and quotations verso, section title and ten leaves with Picabia's verse recto and verso dated 'Paris, 6 janvier 1920', final leaf with justification and publisher's woodcut vignette by Derain; the protruding uncut pages have some minor spotting at foot. An unsophisticated copy of the large paper édition de tête of Picabia's dada verse composition.From the edition limited to 1,025 copies, with this No. 3 of 10 copies from the édition de tête on large paper vergé d'Arches - all hors commerce - stamp-numbered to the justification.Published in the series 'Collection Dada' with a preface by Tristan Tzara,… Read More

Amsterdam: art & project., 1976.. Publisher's orange printed wrappers. A fine copy.. 8vo. (170 x 110 mm).. First collected edition, being a reprint of the two earlier art & project books by Weiner, here reduced in size and printed in a single volume.Limited to 500 copies.[Ref. Dieter Schwarz. Lawrence Weiner Books 1968-1989. Catalogue raisonné, p.43; Printed Matter. Die Sammlung Marzona in der Kunstbibliothek. The Marzona Collection at the Kunstbibliothek, p.167].

London.: Frith Street Gallery., 1989.. Original publisher's black printed boards.. Oblong 8vo.. Illustrated with thirty-nine monochrome reproduction sketches and a tipped-in signed and dated pencil drawing. From the edition limited to 500 copies, this copy with a signed drawing by de Francia tipped-in to front free endpaper.'Unlike Goya's Disasters of War to which this series is deeply indebted the drawings give no indication of specific places, countries, or events. This is deliberate.Those at the beginning deal with themes of the violation of innocence. The final drawings affirm the possibility of a different future brought into being by the children of a new generation.' The artist writing in the postscript.

Amsterdam.: art & project., 1971.. Publisher's wrappers, stapled. A fine copy.. Narrow 8vo. (210 x 99 mm).. Weiner's texts in English, and also translated into Dutch by Louise van Santen. One of Weiner's earliest publications, and his first artist book for Amsterdam's 'Art & Project'.Limited to 300 copies.[Ref. Dieter Schwarz. Lawrence Weiner Books 1968-1989. Catalogue raisonné, p.15; Printed Matter. Die Sammlung Marzona in der Kunstbibliothek. The Marzona Collection at the Kunstbibliothek, p.167; Lippard - Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object, p.219].

Stockholm.: Moderna Museet., 1966.. Single sheet of perforated glossy white card. (200 x 273 mm).. Illustrated with four Oldenburg offset lithographs, each signed and dated 'CO 1966' within plate. Four rare and ephemeral Claes Oldenburg postcards published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Claes Oldenburg: Skulpturer och teckningar, 1963-66' at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm (16 - 30 October 1966).The four postcards, printed on one perforated sheet, were slipped into copies of the exhibition catalogue. They show the drawings 'Winged Screw,' Bicycle Bell, 'Doorhandle' and 'Swedish Electric Outlet.'The edition size is unknown. All copies were unsigned.[39. Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg, p.104].

London.: Whitefriars Press Ltd., 1958.. Original printed wrappers, rear cover detached, otherwise good.. 8vo.. Between 1953 and 1962, while establishing his own architectural practice, Theo Crosby acted as Technical Editor of Architectural Design magazine, which was seeking to bring a more youthful, vital and progressive approach to the subject than the previously dominant Architectural Review. Whilst at Architectural Design, Crosby attached himself to the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, attended meetings of the Independent Group there, and was particularly impressed by the group's discussions of the impact of mass communication and information theory on architecture and design. It was Crosby who suggested, and steered to completion, what would be the Independent Group's swansong - the watershed exhibition This Is Tomorrow at London's Whitechapel Gallery. In Architectural Design Crosby wrote that the exhibition was "evidence of attempts towards a new sort of order, a way towards that… Read More

Rome. : In Aedibus Valerii Dorici & Aloisii fratris, Academiae Romanae Impressorum., (1544).. Contemporary limp vellum, wrinkled and somewhat stained, spine worn with cords exposed, remains of ties to front and rear covers.. Small folio. (305 x 215 mm).. Printed title with privilege, leaf with dedication to Francis I of France ('Francisci Regi Gallorum'), three leaves with 'Tabula Aedificiorum Urbis' and Marliani's text illustrated with 24 woodcuts including several full-page and the large double-page map by Giovanni Battista Palatino (305 x 466 mm), leaf with errata and privilege verso and final leaf with register, colophon and large woodcut device of the publisher. Printed text in Latin in italic throughout. [PROVENANCE: Ownership inscription of 'Frid. Ments' to foot of title and dated 'MDCCXVIII'; ownership signature: 'W. Ashburner / Firenze / 1907' to title]. The first illustrated edition of Marliani's influential guide to Rome.Bartolomeo Marliani's text is one of the earliest and most famous… Read More