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Desastres de la Guerra

GOYA'S MASTERPIECE DESASTRES DE LA GUERRA: EXTRAORDINARY 1863 FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, COMPLETE WITH 80 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS

GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José de. Desastres de la Guerra. Madrid, 1863. Total of 80 numbered and titled copperplate etchings done with drypoint, burin, aquatint and lavis, on wove paper with watermark J.G.O. and palmette.

First edition, second issue, of "the most brutally savage protest against cruelty and war which the visual imagination of man has conceived"—one of only 500 copies in the first printing. Fine, early impressions, with tonal variations in the lavis that disappear in later editions. $175,000.

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Body and the Bird

WONDERFUL PORTFOLIO OF HAND-PAINTED PHOTOGRAPHS BY VICTOR VAZQUEZ, EACH SIGNED BY HIM

VAZQUEZ, Victor. The Body and the Bird. Philadelphia, 2002.

Signed limited first edition of this dramatic portfolio of nine hand-painted gelatin silver prints by an iconic Puerto Rican artist, number 6 of only 25 copies produced, each print signed, titled and dated on the verso by Vazquez. $8500.

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Haggadah for Passover

BEN SHAHN’S SIGNED LIMITED FOLIO HAGGADAH, WITH ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPH ALSO SIGNED BY HIM

SHAHN, Ben. Haggadah for Passover. Paris, 1966.

Beautiful large limited folio Passover Haggadah, number 175 of only 228 copies (out of a total edition of 292) on Arches Vergé paper, illustrated by Ben Shahn with 21 color pictorial borders and line drawings and an additional beautiful double-page color lithograph also signed by him. $6500.

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Illuminations

“VOICI LE TEMPS DES ASSASSINS”

(LÉGER, Fernand) (MILLER, Henry) RIMBAUD, Arthur. Illuminations. Lausanne, 1949.

Lovely signed limited illustrated edition of one of Rimbaud's most important poetical works, with 15 splendid original full-page lithographs by Fernand Léger—12 vividly hand-colored using the pochoir technique—one of only 275 copies on handmade paper (from a total edition of 395), signed on the limitation page by Léger and publisher Louis Grosclaude. With Preface by Henry Miller. Handsomely bound in full morocco with original paper wrappers bound in. $5900.

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Yakumo no Chigiri

19TH-CENTURY JAPANESE EROTIC BOOK WITH TWELVE COLOR WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY TOMIOKA EISEN

EISEN, Tomioka. Yakumo no Chigiri. Tokyo, circa 1890.

Early printing of this 19th-century Japanese color woodblock print “pillow book,” graphically depicting erotic material, complete with 12 exceptional double-page full-color woodblock prints (each 13 by 9-1/2 inches) by celebrated Meiji era artist Tomioka Eisen. $5800.

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Bar Mitzvah

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF DAVID MAMET’S BAR MITZVAH

MAMET, David. Bar Mitzvah. El Segundo, California, 1999.

Signed limited edition of this poignant story about a boy's bar mitzvah, number 135 of only 395 copies signed by Mamet and artist Donald Sultan, exquisitely illustrated with 20 hand silk-screen plates, many heightened with 22-karat gold inlays. $4200.

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Three Young Rats

FIRST EDITION OF THIS SPLENDID COLLECTION OF RHYMES ILLUSTRATED AND ARTISTICALLY INSCRIBED BY ALEXANDER CALDER

CALDER, Alexander. Three Young Rats. New York, 1944.

Limited first edition, one of only 760 copies, with a wonderful inscription with flourishes that fills almost the entire front free endpaper: "to Edward L. Fischer, Cordial Greetings from Alexander Calder, Jan. 1945." $4200.

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Leon Bakst

WITH 68 MOUNTED COLOR PLATES AND PORTRAIT OF BAKST BY MODIGLIANI

(BAKST, Leon) LEVINSOHN, Andre. Leon Bakst. Berlin, 1925.

Limited first German edition of Levinsohn's life of Bakst, number 23 of only 250 copies produced, tracing the artist's important contributions to the history of modern art and dance, with 68 full-page mounted plates of costumes and sets, 52 in color, including the frontispiece portrait of Bakst by Modigliani, and numerous in-text mounted linecuts and photogravures, many also in color. $4000.

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Autres Visages d'Acteurs. WITH: Three subsequent works.

SET OF FOUR REMARKABLE LE PRAT PHOTO-ESSAYS ON THE HUMAN FACE,
TWO INSCRIBED BY HER TO ART CRITIC RAYMOND CHARMET,
WITH ORIGINAL SILVER-GELATIN PRINT

LE PRAT, Thérèse. Autres Visages d'Acteurs. WITH: Three subsequent works. Paris, 1952-66. Four volumes.

First editions of Le Prat’s four separate photo-essays on dramatic facial expressions, together containing 190 striking full-page héliogravures, two copies inscribed to art critic Raymond Charmet. Accompanied by an original silver-gelatin print from negative. $3800.

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Pensées sur la Danse

LIMITED EDITION OF MAILLOL’S LITHOGRAPHS FOR LIFAR’S LA DANSE

(MAILLOL, Aristide) LIFAR, Serge. Pensées sur la Danse. Paris, 1946.

Limited edition, number 587 of only 745 copies of dancer and director Lifar’s “Thoughts on the Dance,” with seven wonderful full-page lithographs by Maillol, beautifully bound in full morocco with colorful morocco onlays in the form of dancers. $3500.

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