Authors starting with P from Ars Libri Ltd

Paris (Arcanes), 1953.. 236, (4)pp. Lrg. stout 8vo. Dec. wraps. Glassine d.j. Edition of 2000 numbered copies on vélin Bellegarde. Paalen designed the cover of this book in two complementary parts: the wrapper itself, which is printed in purple with the author’s and publisher’s names and an abstract arrangement of swirling swashes and blots; and a fragile glassine jacket on top of this, with a fumage composition of biomorphic shapes, and the title in a cloud of smoke. Together they create... more information

Coyoacán, 1942.. Original woodcut, printed on tissue, signed and numbered in pencil (edition of 35). 253 x 197 mm. (10 x 7 3/4 inches). Presentation copy, with a fine six-line inscription in pencil "à Madame/ Marie Cuttoli/ en souvenir de Paris/ hommage respectuent/ de Wolfgang Paalen/ Mexico 1942" at lower left. This woodcut was actually cut by the artist Díaz de León after a design by Paalen, and normal copies of it, unsigned and on ordinary paper, were published in... more information

Rotterdam (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers), 2000.. (24)pp., 56 color plates. Lrg. 4to. Wraps. ... more information

Göttingen (Steidl Verlag), 1991.. Text: 4 signed original color lithographs, and 2 CD recordings, all loose as issued, in fitted box. Text: (96)pp., 4 color lithographs. The volume includes the libretto and a reproduction of the full musical score of the work. Lithographs: 4 original color lithographs by A.R. Penck, each signed and numbered in pencil in the margin, printed on fine wove paper. Sheet size: 290 mm. square (ca. 11 1/2 inches square). Sm. sq. folio. Publisher’s dec. box. Contents loo... more information

New York (I. Rice Pereira), 1957.. (40)pp. 11 color prints in text. 5 illus. (color). Loosely inserted in pocket under front cover, as issued, a suite of 5 original watercolors on cream wove paper. Dimensions of the suite: 328 x 385 mm. (ca. 13 x 15 inches). Title-page printed on uncut handmade wove paper. Folio. Publisher’s boards, stamped in gold (lightly rubbed). Édition de tête: one of 53 copies signed and numbered in pen by the artist, and “specially bound with original water co... more information

Zürich (Scalo), [1997].. 101, (1)pp. 100 illus. Folio. Boards. Facsimile reprint of the 1983 edition. ... more information

Berlin (Walter de Gruyter & Co.), 1965.. 311, (1)pp., 68 plates. 6 text figs. 4to. Cloth. D.j. ... more information

Culpeper, Virginia, n.d. [1965].. 84pp. 70 illus. Sm. oblong 4to. Wraps. Portfolios by Charles Harbutt and Grey Villet. Texts by Ralph Hattersley, Charles W. Millard III, Grace M. Mayer, Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr. and others. ... more information

Venezia (Stampata da Giambatista Albrizzi Q. Girol.), 1745.. (xxiii, 1, 512, 4)pp. Etched and engraved allegorical frontispiece, portrait of Maria Theresa, and 20 plates hors texte, all designed by Piazzetta, as are the 40 culs-de-lampe (20 framed headpieces and 20 tailpieces) within the text. Ornate lettrines. Lrg. folio. Contemporary full vellum over boards (slightly chafed at edges). Pastepaper endpapers. First edition, first issue (indicated by alternating border designs around the plates). One of the ... more information

Paris (René Drouin), 1949.. (4)pp. (single sheet, folding). 27 halftone and line-drawn illus. Superimposed boldface headlines in orange ("Francis Picabia"). Tabloid large folio, folded 4 times. “Catalogue in newspaper format issued March 4, 1949, for Picabia exhibition of 136 works dated 1897-1949. Edited for Drouin Gallery by Michel Tapié, with contributions by Breton, Buffet-Picabia, Roché, Tapié, and essay by the artist, '50 ans de plaisir' " (Mot... more information

[Paris, 1920].. 66, (4)pp. 3 full-page linocuts of drawings by Ribemont-Dessaignes. Sm. 4to. Brown wraps. (not blue, as with the regular issue), with printed label. Glassine d.j. One of 50 numbered large-paper copies on pur fil Lafuma, from the edition of 1060 in all. Theoretical reflections by Picabia, regarded by Sanouillet as “perhaps the most important Dadaist document of that period: as opposed to other contemporary works that fall into the domain of literary creation, ‘Jésus Christ R... more information

Paris (Au Sans Pareil), 1920.. 38, (2)pp. 1 line-drawn illus. Printed wraps. One of 1000 numbered copies on vergé bouffant, from the limited edition of 1025. Picabia’s long and rather aggressively flip nonsense poem, published shortly before the first issue of his scurrilous “Cannibale.” This is one of a handful of classic texts issued in the Collection Dada (Tzara’s ‘Cinéma calendrier du coeur abstrait,’ Breton and Soupault’s ‘Les champs magnéti... more information

Lausanne, 1918.. 74, (6)pp. 18 full-page line drawings by Picabia in text. Sm. 4to. Printed wraps. Glassine d.j. A collection of fifty-one poems and eighteen drawings by Picabia, begun in Martigues in November 1917 and continued in Lausanne the following February, where, suffering from an attack of nervous depression, he had gone to convalesce. Forbidden by his doctors to paint, Picabia complemented his poems, melancholy meditations on love, death, and sensation, with spare mechanomorphic abstractions, t... more information

Paris (Éditions Jeanne Bucher), 1942.. 76, (4)pp. Full-page zincographs, reworked by the artist in copperplate engraving. Lrg. 8vo. Wraps. Glassine d.j. One of 400 numbered copies on vélin bouffant, from the limited edition of 426 in all. ... more information

Paria (Bordas), 1950.. 119, (5)pp. 9 full-page lithographs in text, printed in black. Sm. folio. Printed wraps. Glassine d.j. New fitted clamshell box (cloth with printed label). One of 300 numbered copies on uncut Arches, initialled by Tzara in the justification, from the limited edition of 350 in all, the lithographs printed by Mourlot Frères. “The verve of these lithographs is due to the ease and freedom with which they were drawn. Picasso varied his use of the lithographic crayon by a... more information

New York (Philosophical Library), 1948.. 63pp. Sm. 4to. Cloth. D.j. (worn). ... more information

Frankfurt (Insel Verlag), 1968.. 40pp. 21 plates. Oblong 8vo. Boards. ... more information

Paris (Gallimard), 1945.. 62, (2)pp. Printed wraps. Glassine d.j. One of 2200 copies on papier Châtaignier, of 2240 copies in all, constituting the first edition. A fine copy. ... more information

Paris (Chez Leviez), n.d.. Suite of 8 etched plates, including dec. title, on buff-colored laid paper (watermark Dupuy). Plate size: 245 x 165 mm. (ca. 9 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches); sheet size: 350 x 262 mm. (ca. 14 x 10 1/2 inches). The suite appears to derive, as does Berlin’s, from the collection published by Leviez in 1767 entitled “Oeuvre de Jean Pillement... composé de deux cens pièces, dont une partie gravée par lui-même à l’eau-forte; les autres, par Canot,... more information

Philadelphia (Marian Locks Gallery), 1979.. 34pp. Prof. illus. Oblong 8vo. Wraps. Presentation copy, inscribed by the artist. ... more information