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Vintage 1968 Edition Dali de Draeger by Max Gerard Book Art Table Book
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in San Diego, CA
Incredible art table book that is enigmatic as well as unique. This book from the first edition
Category

1690s French Mid-Century Modern Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

The Land of Nod
By Susan Beatrice Pearse
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Book Art, ''Flights into Fantasy'', July - October 2008
Category

Early 1900s Antique Book Art

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

Notes d'Art - Rare Book Illustrated by André Toulet - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 1000 copies. One of 100 copies numbered by Roman numerals on Japon paper. Language: french. Little foxing on cover, perfect conditions inside. Uncut. 
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Rambles in the Wye Valley, Original Artwork for Book Cover, Railway Art
By Gwynn
Located in London, GB
Gouache on paper Image size: 12 x 15 ¼ inches (30.5 x 39 cm) Art Deco frame This rare original
Category

Early 20th Century Art Deco Antique Book Art

Materials

Gouache

Baby's First Christmas
By Rose Cecil O'Neill
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Picture Book Art, "Flights into Fantasy", July - October 2008
Category

1910s Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Pencil

Chap Book
By Frank Hazenplug 1
Located in New York, NY
Hazenplug, Frank. Chap Book. Color Lithograph, 1895. 20 1/2 x 14" Frank Hazenplug, was an
Category

1880s Art Nouveau Antique Book Art

Materials

Lithograph

George Cruikshank’s Table Book - Rare Book Illustrated by G. Cruikshank - 1845
By George Cruikshank
Located in Roma, IT
George Cruikshank’s Table Book is an original modern rare book illustrated by George Cruikshank
Category

1840s Modern Antique Book Art

Materials

Etching, Paper

Ondine - Rare Book - 1939
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 540 copies. Copy on Alfa. Original editorial soft cover, perfect conditions and uncut.
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Portrait of a Boy Holding a Book, Early American Portraiture, American Folk Art
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Portrait of a Boy Holding a Book, c. 1820s Oil on Panel 24" x 19.5" Housed in a 3" Carved Frame
Category

Early 19th Century Folk Art Antique Book Art

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

Book of Style in Form and Color - Rare Book by Giulio Ferrari - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
Book of Style in Form and Color is a rare and precious book realized by Giulio Ferrari in 1925
Category

1920s Antique Book Art

Materials

Offset

Portrait of a Young Woman with Book - British Art Deco 20s portrait oil painting
By James P. Barraclough
Located in London, GB
This lovely Art Deco portrait oil painting is by noted British artist James P Barraclough. Painted
Category

1920s Art Deco Antique Book Art

Materials

Oil

Find the Woman
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Housekeeping. Book art for Man from Galilee and others. Ad contracts for GM, Eastern, Pennsylvania Railroad
Category

1920s Antique Book Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Torrent
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
generation. Oils for Cosmopolitan, Redbook, True, American Weekly, Life, Good Housekeeping. Book art for Man
Category

1910s Antique Book Art

Materials

Oil, Board

L'Enfant - Rare Book - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 1000 copies. Copy on Japon Imperial, one of 60 copies. Perfect conditions and uncut.
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Apollinaire Vivant - Rare Book - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
Very rare edition of 25 copies. Copy number 7 of the only 25 copies on Lafuma Navarre paper. Includes an unpublished photograph and a caricature by Pablo Picasso. Particularly releva...
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Guillaume Apollinaire - Rare Book - 1927
By Alexandre Alexeieff
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 548 copies including and original xylography by Alexeieff on frontispiece.  Copy in near perfect conditions and uncut, n. 10 belonging to the 73 copies on vélin and Holla...
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Frontières Humaines - Rare Book - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 2108 copies. Copy on Velin Alfa Lafuma paper. Original paperback cover. Binding partially unglued. Very good conditions. Uncut.
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Les Facheux - Rare Book - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Les Facheux is a ballet of Boris Kochno, inspired by Molière's comedy, with the choreography of Bronislava Nijinska, music by Georges Auric, costumes by Georges Braque. First perfor...
Category

1920s Modern Antique Book Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset, Paper

Les Facheux - Rare Book - 1924
Les Facheux - Rare Book - 1924
H 11.19 in W 9.06 in D 0.6 in
French Art Deco Plaster Child Reading a Book Sculpture, 1920s
By Studio Art Deco
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
French Art Deco plaster child sculpture, France, 1920s. Child reading a book. Polychrome plaster
Category

1920s French Art Deco Antique Book Art

Materials

Plaster

Golden Boys Book Cover
By Mead Schaeffer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
" Men depicted in a winter scene, used as a book cover for Golden Boys.
Category

1920s Antique Book Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Art Deco Silvered Bronze Duck Bookends G.H. Laurent France 1925
By Georges H. Laurent
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
illustrated in the book: “Art Deco and other figures” by Brian Catley. General information about the artist
Category

1920s French Art Deco Antique Book Art

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Girl Reading a Book
By Lucien Pissarro
Located in Sheffield, MA
Lucien Pissarro French, 1863-1944 Girl Reading a Book Oil on canvas 18 ¼ by 15 in. W/frame 24
Category

Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Antique Book Art

Materials

Oil

"Invocation" Art Deco Bronze & Marble Sculpture by D.H. Chiparus, c. 1920's
By Demetre Chiparus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
arms raised, only wearing a beaded headdress. This stunning sculpture is featured in the book "Art Deco
Category

1920s French Antique Book Art

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Interpres Homeri Pervetustus - Rare Book - 1517
Located in Roma, IT
Interpres Homeri Pervetustus, Scholia Vetera in Rome, 1517.  Vol. in 8º, cm 27.5 x 3 x 21, in Greek. Missing sheets pp 70 -79,  122-128, 171-189 Binding half-leather and marbeliz...
Category

16th Century Modern Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

ZANG TUMB TUMB - Rare Book - 1914
By Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Located in Roma, IT
One of the main and most famous works by the Italian futurist poet F.T. Marinetti ( Alessandria d'Egitto , 1876   –  Bellagio ,  1944 ), clearly inspired by the Adrianople siege in 1...
Category

1910s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Le Jeune Homme - Rare Book - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 785 copies. Copy on papier du Madagascar. Near perfect conditions. 
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Point du Jour - Rare Book - 1934
Located in Roma, IT
Petite rousseur sur la couverture souple éditoriale originale. Langue: français. Excellentes conditions.André Breton, né en 1896 et mort en 1966, était un écrivain et poète français....
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Point du Jour - Rare Book - 1934
H 7.29 in W 4.73 in D 0.6 in
Le Ranocchie Turchine - Rare Book - 1909
Located in Roma, IT
Le Ranocchie Turchine , Edition of  1909, edited by edizioni di "Poesia", Milano : via Senato n°2. with Manifesto del Futurismo. Very good conditions. 
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Fragment en Prose - Rare Book - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Translated in french by Maurice Betz, from the original "Prosafragmente" by Rainer Maria Rilke. Edition of 675 copies. Copy on Outhenin-Chalandre paper. Spine lightly worn, perfect c...
Category

1910s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Trail's End, Book Illustration
By Percy van Eman Ivory
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1921 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 30.00" x 21.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right This illustration was published in Trail's End by George W. Ogden, Grosset & Dunlap, ...
Category

1920s Antique Book Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Artistes italiens contemporains - Rare Book - 1927
Located in Roma, IT
V.A., Artistes Italiens contemporains, Stabilimento grafico Foa, Torin, 1927. Vol in 8°, pp. 209, cm 25x1.5x22. In French. Catalogue of the "Exposition d'Artistes Italians Contemp...
Category

1920s Modern Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Châtiments - Rare Book by Victor Hugo - 1853
By Victor Hugo
Located in Roma, IT
Châtiments is a rare book by Victor Hugo published in 1853 Edit by Imprimerie universelle, Saint
Category

1830s Modern Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Chinese Herbal Book - Rare Illustrated Book - 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Chinese Herbal Book is a Rare book with beautiful oriental herbal wood prints realized in the 19th
Category

19th Century Modern Antique Book Art

Materials

Woodcut, Paper

Félicien Rops - Rare Vintage Book - 1905
Located in Roma, IT
Érastène Ramiro Ramiro, Félicien Rops, Paris, Pellet-Floury, 1905. Vol. in 8º, pp. 215, cm 26.5 x 3.5 x 20, in French. One of the few copies on original editorial soft cover and ja...
Category

Early 1900s Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Dessins - Rare Book by Jean Cocteau - 1923
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
for example I. Strawinsky, J. Hugo, P. Picasso, F. Poulenc and many others. Book dedicated to Pablo
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Men's nude. 1925, оil on canvas, 81x116 cm
Located in Riga, LV
at book “Art history” (Baroque and Rococo, paintings at Italy, England). Wordings: - Culture fund
Category

1920s Naturalistic Antique Book Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Harlequin. 1923, oil on canvas, 40x53 cm
Located in Riga, LV
at book “Art history” (Baroque and Rococo, paintings at Italy, England). Wordings: - Culture fund
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mother Goose Gems Book - Three Dutch Children
Located in Miami, FL
Sarah Noble Ives, artist (1864-1944). Original drawing of three Dutch children, with an ink inscription reading: “Full Page / 6 Buff / Three children sliding on the ice / upon a summ...
Category

1910s Art Nouveau Antique Book Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

Posinsky - Rare Book by Rudolf Grossmann - 1917
By Rudolf Grossmann
Located in Roma, IT
Posinsky is an original modern rare book illustrated written by Carl Sternheim (Lipsia, 1878
Category

1910s Modern Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Man with Bandaged Head, Saturday Evening Post Illustration
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
. Book art for Man from Galilee and others. Ad contracts for GM, Eastern, Pennsylvania Railroad, Paul
Category

1910s Antique Book Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

100% - Rare Book by George Grosz - 1921
By George Grosz
Located in Roma, IT
100% is an original Modern rare book written by Upton Beall Sinclair (Baltimora, 1878 – Bound
Category

1920s Expressionist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

L'Assiette au Beurre - Rare Book - 1901
Located in Roma, IT
L'Assiette au Beurre is a Comic Magazine published in 1901, reproducing drawings by Hermann-Paul (1864–1940), Henry Gustave Jossot (1866 –1951), Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934). ...
Category

Early 1900s Modern Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Cast Iron Book Press
Located in Chicago, IL
Cast iron book press.
Category

1910s Italian Antique Book Art

Materials

Iron

Cast Iron Book Press
Cast Iron Book Press
H 14 in W 15.5 in D 13 in
Salomé - Rare Illustrated Book by Alastair - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Salomé is an original modern rare book, a versione of Oscar Wilde's Salomé illustrated by Alastair
Category

1920s Modern Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Almanacco dell'Asino 1902 - Rare Book - 1902
Located in Roma, IT
Almanac of the popular magazine " L'Asino ", founded in 1892 by Guido Podrecca (Goliardo) and Gabriele Galantara (Ratalanga), considered as one of the most important twentieth-centur...
Category

Early 1900s Modern Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Connaissance de la Déesse - Rare Book - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 1060 copies on Navarre verge including a lithograph representing the author on the frontispiece of Edouard Vuillard. Very good conditions and partially uncut.
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Sentiments - Rare Book by Raoul Dufy - 1928
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 100 copies including a portrait of the author engraved with etching by Raoul Dufy. Copy on Hollande van Gelder. Perfect conditions and uncut.
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Des Riens... - Rare Book by Carlègle - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 507 copies including 66 illustrations by Carlègle, colored "au pochoir". Extremely rare and precious copy on Japon Imperial (one of 37 of the commercial edition), includin...
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

La Laurier d’Apollon - Rare Book - 1936
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 145 copies. One of the only 40 copies on Velin pur fil Lafuma Navarre paper. Language: french. First edition. Perfect conditions. Uncut.
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Sa Maitresse et Moi - Rare Book - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
Editorial soft cover, spine restored. Inside excellent conditions.  Couverture souple originale et dos restauré. A l'intérieur le livre est dans d'excellentes conditions. 
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Zoo - Rare Book by Gus Bofa - 1935
Located in Roma, IT
Copy n. 30/1150, on Hollande paper, with b/w lithographies and suite on BFK Rives paper. Superb copy in perfect conditions. Including the complete suite by Gus Bofa.
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Les Français en Voyage - Rare Book - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 563 copies including 19 original engravings by Dubreuil. Exceptionally fine and rare copy. One of the only 18 copies on Japon Ancien including one original drawing by Dubr...
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Jeux de l'Ame - Rare Book - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 2300 copies. One of only 70 copies on Pur Fil Lafuma paper. Language: french. Little foxing on cover, copy with beards. Perfect conditions inside.
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Jeux de l'Ame - Rare Book - 1920s
H 7.56 in W 5.67 in D 0.2 in
Calligrammes - Rare Book Illustrated by Apollinaire - 1925
Located in Roma, IT
Rare and important volume belonging to the deluxe edition of 109 copies in-quarto tellière, of which 100 on Vergé Pur Fil Lafuma de Navarre paper were reserved to the Bibliophiles de...
Category

1920s Surrealist Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Bronze & Iron Book Press
Located in Chicago, IL
Cast iron, bronze and wood book press. Great design.
Category

1880s Italian Antique Book Art

Materials

Bronze, Iron

Bronze & Iron Book Press
Bronze & Iron Book Press
H 12 in W 13 in D 13 in
"The Book Of Jockeys" 1921 Alicia F.
Located in Bristol, CT
Alicia F Muspratt [16] pp. 1921 5 3/4"H x 10"W Amazing 15 sheets w/ 104 hand-painted jockeys in various English owners' racing colours housed in oblong folio w/ floral cloth boa...
Category

1920s Antique Book Art

Materials

Watercolor

Les Misérables - Rare Book by Victor Hugo - 1862
By Victor Hugo
Located in Roma, IT
Les Misérables is a rare book by Victor Hugo published in 1862. Edited by Pagnerre - Paris
Category

1860s Modern Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Quatrevingt - Treize - Rare Book by Victor Hugo - 1876
By Victor Hugo
Located in Roma, IT
Quatrevingt - Treize is a rare book by Victor Hugo Vierge Daniel, Brion Gustave and otherspublished
Category

1870s Modern Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Le Pape - Rare Book by Victor Hugo - 1885
By Victor Hugo
Located in Roma, IT
Le Pape is a rare book by Victor Hugo published in 1885. Edited by Quantin – Paris Original
Category

1850s Modern Antique Book Art

Materials

Paper

Periwinkle House, The Red Book Magazine interior illustration
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This work was published in The Red Book Magazine as an interior illustration for the serial
Category

Early 1900s Antique Book Art

Materials

Oil

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Prices for a piece of antique book art start at $118 and top out at $120,000 with the average selling for $1,046.