Authors starting with D from Ars Libri Ltd

Paris (Éditions Surréalistes), 1931.. 29, (3)pp., 10 collotype plates on heavy stock. Lrg. 8vo. Textured black wraps., with white title label on front cover. One of 600 numbered copies on vélin blanc, from the limited edition of 615 in all, finely printed by Ducros et Colas. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by Crevel “A Maurice/ Martin du Gard,/ souvenir/ R.C.” across the half-title. Very fine copy of a book usually found in quite worn condition. ... more information

Paris (Éditions Surréalistes), 1937.. (26)pp. 3 plates (1 color). Lrg. 4to. Dec. wraps. Glassine d.j. Unspecified édition de tète, hand-numbered VII in the justification, from the limited edition of 500 in all. Cover photograph by Cecil Beaton. “‘Changer la vie,’ ‘transformer le monde;: les deux adages qui gouvernent l’éthique surréaliste sont traversées par l’idée de la métamorphose.... Titre de plus d’une oe... more information

Montreuil (Jean-Jacques Pauvert), 1963.. 105, (7)pp. Prof. illus. (29 tipped-in plates, of which 3 color). 4to. Natural linen over boards, with striped buckled strap. ... more information

Boston (Exact Change), 1998.. ix, (1), 178, (4)pp. Sm. 4to. Wraps. ... more information

Paris (Éditions des Cahiers Libres), 1932.. 58, (4)pp. Lrg. 8vo. Publisher’s printed apple-green wraps. (slightly chipped at spine). Partly unopened. One of 600 numbered copies on vélin Outheninchalandre, from the limited edition of 623 in all. “Scénario non réalisé de Salvador Dalí, datant de la période la plus inspirée et paru en 1932 aux éditions des Cahiers libres (Paris). Alors que le scénario lui-même est un chef-d... more information

New York (The Dial Press), 1951.. vii, 369pp. 65 illus. hors texte. 4to. Cloth. D.j. Slightly water-damaged. ... more information

New York (The Hyperion Press), 1949.. 98pp. 78 plates. Sm. sq. 4to. Cloth. D.j. ... more information

Worcester, Massachusetts (Davis Publications), 1993.. 122pp. Prof. illus. (14 color). Sq. 4to. Boards. ... more information

Paris (Éditions du Carrefour), 1929.. 252, (2)pp. Sm. sq. 4to. Printed plain yellow wraps. D.j., with design by De Chirico. One of 288 numbered large-paper copies on uncut Hollande Pannekôck, from the limited edition of 300, apart from the regular edition of 2500. First edition. “A travers une suite de visions proches de ses premières toiles, mais où se trouves évoqués les thèmes postérieurs à la période métaphysique--les glad... more information

Köln (Galerie Karsten Greve), 1984.. 153, (7)pp. 4to. Cloth. Parallel text in German and English. Edition limited to 2000 copies. ... more information

Augsburg (Jerem.Wolff exc.), n.d.. Each 285 x 184 mm. (dimensions vary slightly), tipped onto the leaves of a nineteenth-century album. Sm. folio. marbled boards, 3/4 leather (worn). Disbound. The first plate carries a five-line dedication in Latin to the Pfalzgrafen Theodor, and is signed “ P. Decker inv. delin et fecit;” the others carry additional credits to the engravers Johann Adam Delfenbach and J.C. Reiff. Three of the series show the adjacent walls decorated with ornament in the style of ... more information

Paris (Éditions Bernard Grasset), 1948.. 509, (3)pp., 17 plates. Wraps. ... more information

[Milano (Edizione Italiana Dinamo Azari), 1927].. [Page 197:] 219 x 278 mm. (ca. 8 5/8 x 11 inches), printed in black on yellowish tan wove stock; [Page 199:] 220 x 273 mm. (8 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches), printed on tan wove stock. Both are slightly irregular. Versos blank. Both sheets reproduce advertising designs by Depero for Campari: the first leaf with two, the second with six, all dating from the later 1920s. Depero’s brilliantly exuberant campaign for Campari, which began in 1925-1926. “Much of t... more information

Paris (Éditions de Cluny), 1990.. (6)pp., 11 original photographs, most with hand-painted interventions by the artists (many in color, 1 with collage), each signed and numbered in ink or paint on the print, and mounted on board. Image size: 240 x 177 mm. (ca. 9 3/8 x 7 inches); mount size: 323 x 248 mm. (12 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches). Sm. folio. Portfolio. Printed wrapper. One of 24 hand-numbered copies from the limited edition of 35 in all. An impressive Lettrist photography portfolio. A fine copy. ... more information

[Paris] (Éditions Gramma), 1977.. 14, (2)pp. Frontispiece construction by Dezeuze, consisting of a flexible lightweight strip of wood with small, burnt punched holes, stapled onto a loosely inserted sheet of Arches. 4to. Printed wraps. Glassine d.j. One of 80 numbered copies, signed by Barthes and Dezeuze in the justification, from the edition of 120 in all, printed in Bodoni on vélin d’Arches at the Imprimerie Bené, Nîmes. An elegantly provocative design. Dezeuze (b. 1... more information

Paris/New York (Éditions du Chêne/ Tudor), 1950.. 199pp. 160 illus. 4to. Cloth. Ex-library. ... more information

New York (The Museum of Modern Art), 1973.. 345, (3)pp., 12 color plates. 417 illus. 4to. Wraps. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. ... more information

New York (Museum of Modern Art), 1973.. 345, (3)pp., 12 color plates. 417 illus. Lrg. 4to. Cloth. D.j. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. With further contributions by M. Sanouillet, R. Hamilton, A. Schwarz, D. Antin, L.R. Lippard, R. Lebel, O. Paz, J. Tancock and others. ... more information

Munich/New York (Prestel), 1989.. 345, (3)pp., 12 color plates. 417 illus. 4to. Cloth. D.j. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Reprint of the 1973 edition. ... more information

Roma (Edizioni Eos), 2010.. 23, (3)pp. Numerous illus. in text; elements printed in red. 4to. Wraps. Acetate d.j. One of 99 hand-numbered copies from the limited edition of 104 in all, signed by the author in the colophon. Printed on Hahnemühle paper, the design by Piero Varroni. Text in Italian. ... more information