“Axel Salto was born in Copenhagen in 1889 and is known today as one of the finest masters of 20th century ceramic art. After studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and commencing an initial career in painting, the artist soon became intrigued by modernism and a progressive aesthetic. He visited Paris, mingled with Picasso and Matisse, and went on to publish the journal Klingen (The Blade), which became a forum for the modernist movement in Denmark between 1917 and 1920.” He made around a dozen of illustrated often very limited artists books or illustrated books of which this book is one of the most charming
Tryk selv dine Billeder. Stempler og Tekst af Axel Salto. (Print Your Own Pictures). Copenhagen, 1943. Folio in original printed illustrated wraps. (24) pp. Illustrated with lithographs, some in colour, throughout. Some edgewear but solid and clean
Danish War time art book object. Well preserved copy. First edition
Map of New York City Issued by the Merchants’ Association of New York. New York: The Merchants’ Association of New York – Colton, G.W. & C.B. 1897. 15 x 17 inches (38.1 x 43.2 cm. ) A Colton pocket map that covers Manhattan to 109th Street, with parts of Long…
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Violette Editions, 2007 (1999). Original halfcloth with signature ribbon. 293 pp. Richly illustrated. Fine clean copy First major publication in English by French artist Sophie Calle, a “double game” between the work of Sophie Calle and the fiction of Paul Auster: Calle takes on the rules of ‘Maria’ from Auster’s…
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Gent, 1988. 8vo in wraps. (40) pages, printed in red and blue – flip the pages and watch the movie. First trade edition
“PICTURES. Erstes internationales Festival des erotischen Films 1971 / First Internation Erotica Film Festival 1971” Germany: Olympia Press, 1972. Oblong 8vo in wraps as issued. Unpaginated with around 130 pages, short intro text in German else illustrated with film stills throughout. Cool book design by Adolf Heinzlmeier With 4 stills…
