October 11, 2012
Live Auction104 East 25th Street
New York, NY, 10010 USA
Phone: 212.254.4710
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Viewing NotesExhibition & Sale Schedule: Sale 2289 - Art, Press & Illustrated Books - begins at 1:30pm in New York on Thurs, October 11. All material in Sale 2289 on display at our premises in New York City, 104 East 25th Street, as follows - Sat, Oct 6: 10am to 4pm - Mon, Oct 8: 10am to 6pm - Tues, Oct 9: 10am to 6pm - Wed, Oct 10: 10am to 6pm - Thurs, Oct 11: 10am to Noon.
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Lot 1: ALBERS, JOSEF. Formulation: Articulation.
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Description: ALBERS, JOSEF. Formulation: Articulation. 2 volumes. 127 color screenprints, 380x510 mm; 15x20 inches (sheets), full margins, each printed on folding numbered folio sheets. Large oblong folio, booklet with preface and descriptive text and plates laid into publisher's grey cloth-covered folding portfolios; slipcases. New York: Harry N. Abrams; and New Haven: Ives-Sillman, Inc., 1972
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Lot 2: ALBERS, JOSEF. The Interaction of Color.
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Description: ALBERS, JOSEF. The Interaction of Color. 80 color screenprints. 330x255 mm; 12 7/8x9 3/4 inches (sheets), full margins, laid into individual folders. Folio, plates and accompanying booklet laid into brown cloth folding box, gentle separation at corners of box; text volume is bound in cloth; slipcase, light usual fraying. Danilowitz page 20. New Haven, 1963
View additional info »Lot 3: (ALLEN PRESS.) Allen, Lewis and Dorothy. The Allen Press Bibliography.
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Description: (ALLEN PRESS.) Allen, Lewis and Dorothy. The Allen Press Bibliography. Printed in vermilion, blue and green. Illustrated with tipped-in samples from past printings, woodcuts, etc.; title-page with vine design by Mallette Dean hand-colored by Dorothy Allen. Folio, beige fabric hand-blocked with Lion device by Fortuny, Venice; slipcase; prospectus laid in. Greenbrae, 1981
View additional info »Lot 4: (ALLEN PRESS.) Cott, Hobart; editor. Dialogues of Creatures Moralised.
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Description: (ALLEN PRESS.) Cott, Hobart; editor. Dialogues of Creatures Moralised. 122 woodcuts after the first edition of 1480. Folio, pictorial cloth; slipcase, very mild fraying; prospectus in mailing envelope laid in; Norman J. Sondheim bookplate. Kentfield, 1967
View additional info »Lot 5: (ALLEN PRESS.) Dryden, John. All for Love: Antony-Cleopatra, a Romantic Tragedy.
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Description: (ALLEN PRESS.) Dryden, John. All for Love: Antony-Cleopatra, a Romantic Tragedy. Frontispiece portrait of Cleopatra, hand-painted on papyrus in the style of ancient Egypt by artists in Cairo using gold and colors; hand-colored woodcut chapter heads by Dorothy Allen; text pages decorated in the margin with Egyptian hieroglyphs and symbols. Folio, ecru silk; slipcase. one of 140 unnumbered copies./span Kentfield, 1976
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