Tegneserier og illustration

My Autobiography (in Japanese)

Ikeda, Masuo · 1968 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$750.00 (€678.81 | £567.00 | ¥119,901)

Tokyo, 1968, FIRST EDITION of the autobiography of this multifaceted Japanese artist. 275 pp plus 16 full-page color plates (of artworks) plus 12 photographs (mainly of the artist). Text in Japanese. A PRESENTATION COPY from the artist / author to SYLVAN COLE, dean of Ameri...

El Miro Invisible: Vint Visions d'un Vident / El Miro Invisible: Veinte Visiones de un Visionario / Der unsichtbare Miro: zwanzig Visionen eines Hellsehers / The Invisible Miro: Twenty Visions of a Visionary (Joan Miro and Nils Burwitz)

Burwitz, Nils (Joan Miro, Pierre Restany, Rafael Santos Torroella, Rafael Alberti, Francesc Catala-Roca, Jose Corredor Matheos, Raimon, Camilo Jose Cela, Robert Graves, et al. · 1999 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$75.00 (€67.88 | £56.70 | ¥11,990)

Valldemossa, Mallorca: Libra Press, 1999, A book about Nils Burwitz' magisterial (and very expensive) livre d'artiste of the same title, designed to illuminate Miro's work. Includes fine color reproductions of Burwitz' twenty marvelous etchings, as well as translations (Engl...

El Miro Invisible: Vint Visions d'un Vident / El Miro Invisible: Veinte Visiones de un Visionario / Der unsichtbare Miro: zwanzig Visionen eines Hellsehers / The Invisible Miro: Twenty Visions of a Visionary (Joan Miro and Nils Burwitz)

Burwitz, Nils (Joan Miro, Pierre Restany, Rafael Santos Torroella, Rafael Alberti, Francesc Catala-Roca, Jose Corredor Matheos, Raimon, Camilo Jose Cela, Robert Graves, et al. · 1999 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$7,500.00 (€6,788.14 | £5,670.00 | ¥1,199,010)

Valldemossa, Mallorca: New Seizin Press / Libra Press, 1999, THE LAST TRULY GREAT ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A BRILLIANT EXPOSITION OF JOAN MIRO'S WORK THAT REQUIRED SEVEN YEARS TO PRODUCE, WITH TWENTY PENCIL-SIGNED ORIGINAL PRINTS BY NILS BURWITZ. Twenty te...

Habitations champetres. Recueil de Maisons, Villas, Chalets, Pavillons, Kiosques, Parcs et Jardins, dessinees par Victor Petit

Petit, Victor · 1855 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$4,950.00 (€4,480.17 | £3,742.20 | ¥791,347)

Paris: Monrocq Freres, c. 1855, First and only edition. Title-page (with large lithographed image of a country house) plus one hundred gorgeous lithographs by Victor Petit, each depicting a a country house or related structure, such as a gazebo, belvedere, pavillion, etc. C...

Maisons de campagne des environs de Paris. Choix des plus remarquables maisons bourgeoises, nouvellement construites aux alentours de Paris. Avec plans. Dessines d'apres nature par Victor Petit

Petit, Victor · 1857 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$2,500.00 (€2,262.71 | £1,890.00 | ¥399,670)

Paris: Monrocq Freres, c. 1857, First and only edition. Two leaves of text (half-title, list of plates, title-page) plus fifty gorgeous lithographs by Victor Petit, each depicting a recently-built country house near Paris. COMPLETE. About a third of each plate is devoted t...

Les cloches de Nantes. Illustrations par l'auteur.

Roy, Bernard · 1941 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$275.00 (€248.90 | £207.90 | ¥43,964)

Paris: Pierre Tisne, 1941, FIRST EDITION, illustrated throughout by the author. From a total edition of 422 numbered copies, this is ONE OF ONLY 25 COPIES PRINTED IN LARGE FORMAT WITH THE ILLUSTRATIONS HAND-COLORED BY THE AUTHOR / ARTIST. These copies were printed for the b...

Serenata (bound in cloth made by Mariano Fortuny)

Mercein, T. Randolph (Mariano Fortuny) · 1929 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$295.00 (€267.00 | £223.02 | ¥47,161)

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1929, FIRST EDITION of this long poem, limited to 100 numbered copies, of which this is number 100. 4to. In the publisher's binding, MADE OF CLOTH (printed silk, in the art-nouveau style) DESIGNED BY MARIANO FORTUNY Y MADRAZO (1871-1945), the ...

L'Enfer de Joseph Prudhomme. Deux gougnottes. La grisette et l'etudiant. (Jean Dulac, illustrator)

Prudhomme, Joseph (i.e., Henry (Henri) Monnier) (Jean Dulac, illustrator) · 1932 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$1,950.00 (€1,764.92 | £1,474.20 | ¥311,743)

Paris: A l'Enseigne du Plaisir des Filles, c. 1932, A beautifully-illustrated edition of this erotic classic, with TEN GRAPHICALLY EROTIC ORIGINAL COLORED ETCHINGS BY JEAN DULAC. Of the two editions of this work (with completely different etchings) illustrated by Dulac aroun...

The Book of Ah! (illustrated by Julio de Diego)

Diego, Julio de · 1969 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$975.00 (€882.46 | £737.10 | ¥155,871)

Woodstock, New York: the author / artist, 1969, A wonderful livre d'artiste: poems by Julio de Diego, illustrated throughout with original woodcuts by the author. INCLUDES SIX LARGE MOUNTED WOODCUTS PRINTED ON FINE WOVE PAPER, EACH OF WHICH HAS BEEN SIGNED IN PENCIL AND ENT...

Sous les drapeaux morts. Illustre par Edy Legrand

Montherlant, Henri de (Edy Legrand, illustrator) · 1929 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$475.00 (€429.92 | £359.10 | ¥75,937)

Paris: Editions du Capitole, 1929, ONE OF 30 LARGE-PAPER COPIES ON FINE MADAGSCAR WOVE PAPER, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND WITH SEVEN ORIGINAL ETCHINGS BY EDY-LEGRAND. This is a collection of unpublished pieces on various subjects, especially World War I and Spain. Although the...

Pablo Picasso (Joseph Solman association copy, with two drawings)

Nikodem, V. (Pablo Picasso) (Joseph Solman) (Man Ray) · 1936 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$495.00 (€448.02 | £374.22 | ¥79,135)

Prague: Manes, 1936, A UNIQUE COPY, WITH TWO ORIGINAL DRAWINGS. First and only edition of this rare Czech monograph on Picasso, with an introduction by Nikodem, 64 black and white plates reproducing Picasso's work in all media, and two photographic portraits of Picasso, incl...

Hans le marin [with] Un scandale au XVIIIe siècle [with] La femme et le pantin [with] Le manchot. Eaux-fortes originales de Paul-Louis Guilbert

Peisson, Edouard, Frédéric Boutet, Pierre Louys, and Charles-Theophile Feret (René Fauchois, introduction) (Paul-Louis Guilbert, etchings) · 1943 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$9,750.00 (€8,824.58 | £7,371.00 | ¥1,558,713)

Paris, Inter Nos, A COMPLETE SET--PERHAPS UNIQUE--OF THE FOUR BOOKS PUBLISHED BY "INTER NOS" IN PARIS DURING WORLD WAR TWO, THE FIRST TWO OF WHICH WERE ISSUED DURING THE OCCUPATION. The first three are EXTREMELY RARE because of the tiny edition sizes (by the time the fourth w...

Calendrier de la Belle Jardiniere, 1898. (calendar with full-page chromolithograph plates by Boutet de Monvel, Lhermitte, Caran d'Ache, Merson, Sabattier, Orange, De Monzaigle, Destez, De Myrbach, Rejchan, Parys, and Kowalski)

Boutet de Monvel, Lhermitte, Caran d'Ache, Merson, Sabattier, Orange, De Monzaigle, Destez, De Myrbach, Rejchan, Parys, and Kowalski. · 1897 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$495.00 (€448.02 | £374.22 | ¥79,135)

Paris: Imprimerie de Vaugirard for La Belle Jardiniere, 1897-1898, A BELLE EPOQUE CALENDAR WITH FULL-PAGE CHROMOLITHOGRAPH PLATES BY MANY OF THE LEADING ARTISTS OF THE PERIOD, including Henri Boutet de Monvel, Leon Lhermitte, Caran d'Ache, and Luc-Olivier Merson. La Belle Ja...

El fotografo volador. Ilustraciones del autor. (Borja de Pedro)

Pedro, Borja de · 1981 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$475.00 (€429.92 | £359.10 | ¥75,937)

Boveda: Borja (i.e., the author / artist), 1981, A fascinating example of a modern block-book, in which BOTH THE TEXT AND THE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE ENTIRELY ENGRAVED IN WOOD. 18 wood-engraved panels (measuring 12.5 x 12.5 cm), plus the covers (also engraved in wood), folded acco...

Suite des vases tiree du cabinet de Monsieur le Marquis de Felino....

Petitot, Ennemond-Alexandre and Benigno Bossi · 1764 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$9,750.00 (€8,824.58 | £7,371.00 | ¥1,558,713)

Milan: Ioachim Betalli, 1764-1765, A COMPLETE SET, WITH EXCELLENT IMPRESSIONS AND HUGE MARGINS, OF ONE OF THE TRULY GREAT LATE-18TH CENTURY SUITES OF ORNAMENTAL PRINTS. 33 leaves in all: an etched title-page, by Bossi after Petitot; an engraved title-page; an etched dedicat...

The Illustrated Books and Print Portfolios of Masafumi Yamamoto: A Catalogue Raisonne.

Cole, William (Masafumi Yamamoto) · 2008 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$495.00 (€448.02 | £374.22 | ¥79,135)

Sitges: Cole & Contreras, 2008, The bibliography and catalogue raisonne of the livres d'artiste and print portfolios of Masafumi Yamamoto (born 1949), one of the world's great printmakers and book artists. Yamamoto has produced illustrated books in collaboration with Yves Bo...

Les Amours. Poemes choisis. Texte et illustrations graves a l'eau-forte par Leon Courbouleix.

Ronsard, Pierre de (Leon Courbouleix, illustrator) · 1935 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$495.00 (€448.02 | £374.22 | ¥79,135)

Paris: (the artist), n.d. (c. 1935), An attractive livre d'artiste comprising 59 plates printed on Chine applique (fine Chinese paper laid down on thick Arches wove paper). The artist has elegantly engraved BOTH TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS (with drypoint, burin, and etching), pri...

Jose Clemente Orozco. Forma e Idea.

Fernandez, Justino (Jose Clemente Orozco) · 1942 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$1,250.00 (€1,131.36 | £945.00 | ¥199,835)

Mexico City: Porrua, 1942, First edition of the first comprehensive monograph on Orozco. Limited to 2025 numbered copies. This copy is SIGNED IN INK BY OROZCO ON THE HALF-TITLE. 183 pp plus 209 full-page plates printed on coated paper. Large 4to. Publisher's cloth. Some...

Chryseis, danseuse etrusque. Poeme en prose. Illustre de lithographies en couleurs par Andre Provot

Aressy, Lucien (Andre Provot, illustrator) · 1945 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$225.00 (€203.64 | £170.10 | ¥35,970)

[Paris]: Aux Depens de Quelques Bibliophiles, c. 1945, A beautiful livre d'artiste, with 15 ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPHS (12 of which are full-page and hors-texte) BY PROVOT, most of which depict Lesbian eroticism. Edition limited to 420 copies, of which this is one of 275 num...

Musiques nouvelles. Lithographies de Robert Lotiron.

Chabaneix, Philippe (Robert Lotiron, illustrator) · 1958 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$495.00 (€448.02 | £374.22 | ¥79,135)

Paris: Le Pharmaciens Bibliophiles, 1958, A livre d'artiste illustrated with 32 FULL-PAGE ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS BY ROBERT LOTIRON. Edition limited to 200 numbered copies, all printed on fine Rives wove paper. This copy printed for "Le Docteur Roulland". 4to. Loose as issue...