New additions to our Typography catalog. All first editions.
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Graphic design by Wim Crouwel and colleagues of Total Design for Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Dutch Art Nouveau books on applied arts will be in auction shortly.
Newly added to our typography collection. Catalog + poster celebrating 50 years of the Helvetica font.
Mishima’s classic novel in an also classic cover design by Dennis Bailey.
New photobooks added to our collection.
J. Huizinga: In de schaduwen van morgen (2e druk). Uit de bibliotheek van collega Jan Romein (met glosse). Alleen die eerste zin al…….
Some recent exhibition invitation/announcement cards added to our ephemeral collection.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer was the preeminent author of resistance-liberation and post-independence literature in Indonesia. His novel Keluarga gerilja chronicles the tragic consequences of divided political sympathies in a Javanese family during the Indonesian Revolution against Dutch rule.
International book history: first edition of Kaas by Elsschot and illustrated by Cantre (both Flemish Belgian), published by Van Kampen in Amsterdam, sold by bookstore Deli Courant (Medan, Indonesia) and inscribed by a previous owner of Batavia (now Djakarta)
Afro-American poetry. Rare hardcover first edition. Henry Dumas: Play Ebony Play Ivory
Books on books and bookcovers. Just added to our collection.
Tom Adams cover art for the European & UK Fontana books started with the fourth impression of Agatha Christie’s A Murder Is Announced in 1963.
New photobooks added to our collection.
New in our collection the Dutch
first edition of “The Adventures Of Tintin: Destination Moon” by Hergé. BTW: we call him Kuifje.
Art nouveau bookdesign anno 1904 by Theo Neuhuys. New in our collection.
Yukio Mishima. US #firstedition with jacket design by Ellen Raskin, American children’s books writer, illustrator and graphic designer. #bookcovers
New in our collection this
classic #sf title. Signet, first edition, stated first printing.
Early and #firsteditions of #Kuifje #tintin #hergé Dutch editions.
New in our collection: original exhibition poster for Documenta 8 by Karl-Oskar Blase. #graphicdesign
Olieverf op board van Egbert Reitsma (1892-1976) voorstellende Jozef, Maria en het kindeke Jezus op de vlucht naar Egypte.
Reitsma is natuurlijk vooral bekend om zijn Amsterdamse school architectuur in Groningen, maar heeft ook een aanzienlijk aantal schilderijen geproduceerd. #GroningerPloeg
Born on this day 1893: Jan Wiegers #GroningerPloeg #graphicart #woodcut #expressionism
Monumental poster (90x128) for the A.R. Penck exhibition at Boymans Rotterdam 1979. #available
Over kunst en kunstenaars – Richard Roland Holst. #bookdesign #artnouveau #artdeco 1923
Must see for all interested in graphic design: retrospective exhibition of Karel Martens at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam