Skira Albert Editor (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book in French. Good softcover/cardboard boards in Good dust jacket, which is wrapped. Interior is in excellent condition, no noticeable markings or underlining. ; 9" x 11 1/2"; 155 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Ex library hardback with DJ (officially withdrawn); usual stamps/markings. Published in 1972 by MacMillan, London. 108 full colour reproductions & 510 black & white illustrations. DJ worn/creased, internally very clean. Heavy book will ship overseas for extra postage. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 6A*.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Ex-library, hardback without D/J, usual stamps/markings. 1947 publication by Albert Skira, Fama ltd., London with 6 text pages and 10 colour plates.A few small marks to boards & a few handling marks to page margins otherwise a clean, sound copy. Ready for immediate dispatch from UK. 6C*.…

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. "Dessins De Goya": Wrappers; Original 1946 and 1947 correspondence between Albert Skira in Switzerland and Randon House in New York; contains booklet with Introduction in French about Goya with copies of Goya's most famous drawings. Second book: "Go ya; Drawings from the Prado"; dust wrapper over paper boards; first English language edition. Slip case. …

Condition: Good. 4to. 32 x 25cm. Original wraps. Bookblock unglued from spine. Small creases on cover. Very good. Photographs by de Man Ray y& Brassai. Art by Hans Bellmer, Anduve Beaudin, Balthus. Textos de Tériade, Roger Callois, Henri Michaux, Paul Eluard, Maurice Raylan (Bores), Maurice Heine, , André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Herbert Reed.Minotaure, published in Paris between 1933-39, was a Surrealist-oriented publication founded by Albert Skira with editors André Breton and Pierre Mabille. Prior to serving as a Minotaure editor, Breton lent his support by publishing the full-page advertisement reproduced to the right, which announced the first issue of the new publication in the final issue of Le Surréalisme au service de la revolution.Minotaure, although not exclusively Surrealist in orientation, was faithful to the Surrealist spirit. The periodical's appeal for the mainstream art public gained wider recognition for the movement, especially with its feature articles on architecture, not commonly found in other Surrealist publications. The goal of Minotaure was to introduce Surrealism to a new generation of theorists and artists, but with the onset of World War II in Europe, Skira ceased publication in 1939.Each number of Minotaure included contributions from artists, writers, philosophers, critics, and psychoanalysts, and was meant to be read as a collective work. Contributors included Paul Éluard, Salvador Dalí, Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, and Kurt Veil. Covers included artwork by Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Gaston-Louis Roux, André Derain, Francisco Borés, Joan Miró, Dalí, Henri Matisse, René Magritte, Max Ernst, André Masson, and Diego Rivera.Provenance: Galerie Kornfeld, Bern. …

Condition: Good. 4to. 32 x 25cm. Original wraps. Bookblock unglued from spine. Very good. .Minotaure, published in Paris between 1933-39, was a Surrealist-oriented publication founded by Albert Skira with editors André Breton and Pierre Mabille. Prior to serving as a Minotaure editor, Breton lent his support by publishing the full-page advertisement reproduced to the right, which announced the first issue of the new publication in the final issue of Le Surréalisme au service de la revolution.Minotaure, although not exclusively Surrealist in orientation, was faithful to the Surrealist spirit. The periodical's appeal for the mainstream art public gained wider recognition for the movement, especially with its feature articles on architecture, not commonly found in other Surrealist publications. The goal of Minotaure was to introduce Surrealism to a new generation of theorists and artists, but with the onset of World War II in Europe, Skira ceased publication in 1939.Each number of Minotaure included contributions from artists, writers, philosophers, critics, and psychoanalysts, and was meant to be read as a collective work. Contributors included Paul Éluard, Salvador Dalí, Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, and Kurt Veil. Covers included artwork by Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Gaston-Louis Roux, André Derain, Francisco Borés, Joan Miró, Dalí, Henri Matisse, René Magritte, Max Ernst, André Masson, and Diego Rivera.Provenance: Galerie Kornfeld, Bern.…