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1913 ARMORY SHOW 50TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION 1963
New York: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1963. The paper issue in card covers, pp 212. Spine yellowed with two small damp spots, bump to lower outer corner of front cover through page 36, VG clean and unworn otherwise. Reprints the catalogue of the seminal 1913 exhibition. 281 plates, 16 in colour. ; Quarto
Book ID: 53848More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
20th century British & Irish art. Including property from the Reader's Digest Association Inc.
London: Christie's, 2004. Glossy card covers. pp 275. Extensively illustrated in colour and b&w. Fine copy. Includes works by Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington, Glyn Philpot and many others. 1.3 kg parcel; Quarto
Book ID: 51775More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
A BOOK OF SPORTING PAINTERS. A Companion Volume of New Research to "British Sporting Artists" and "Angling in British Art". With One Hundred and Thirty-Six Illustrations.
Edition: First Edition
London: John Lane, 1931. Thick quarto, hardcover, green cloth. (2), (xviii), 240 pp + 15 colour plates plus folding chart and black and white plates. Yellowing to page edges; a fine copy, no previous owner names. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Book ID: 3960More details Price: USD $100.00 USD $90.00 -
A DICTIONARY OF BRITISH MINIATURE PAINTERS. Volume I
Edition: First US printing
New York: Praeger, 1972. Large thick quarto, blue cloth. pp 596 + colour plates. Fine in jacket. Information on 4400 artists. There was a second volume, but this is the one which has all the artists' information A-Z. Note: 3 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Book ID: 43715More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
A GUIDE TO JAPANESE PRINTS AND THEIR SUBJECT MATTER
Edition: First Printing
New York: Dover, 1979. Inscribed by Author.; pp (iii)-xvi, 382. Many illustrations. Facsimile reprint of the NY, 1922, edition. 1.25 kg parcel ; B&W Illustrations; Octavo
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 54695More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
A HANDBOOK OF PICTORIAL ART. With a chapter on perspective by A. Macdonald. Second edition
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1875. Second edition, enlarged. Octavo. Prize binding of full brown leather decorated in blind, spine gilt lettered with raised bands, gilt royal arms on front cover, all edges red, marbled endpapers. pp (xiv), 384, [2] + 9 plates (5 in colour with tissue guards). Title page blind stamped T"he Department of Science and Art" (like other copies noted). Slight scuffing to spine ends and outer corners neatly touched up; private owner rubber stamp on half-title; else fine. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping my be required.
Book ID: 40738More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
A LOAN EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS, AND PAINTINGS BY JOHN LINNELL AND HIS CIRCLE
London: P & D Colnaghi, 1973. Blue card covers. 10 page introduction, b&w reproductions, 109 of Linnell, 5 of William Blake, 7 of Samuel Palmer, and others. Soft bump to lower outer corners, near fine otherwise. ; Octavo
Book ID: 52106More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
"A Note on Michael Ayrton", an essay contained on pp 15-18 of "Spectrum", Volume I, Number 2, Spring-Summer 1957
Goleta, CA: University of California, 1957. pp 72, stapled, in cream card covers. Tan spot to front cover, light soiling and foxing to covers, text very softly rippled from damp but no tide marks except on first and last leaf; VG otherwise. Also contains "The Art of Drawing", an essay by Michael Ayrton, and a section "Homage to Wyndham Lewise 1884 [sic, 1882]-1957". Reproduces a chalk drawing of WL by Ayrton. Lewis' essay is said to be the last piece of writing he produced before his death. A very scarce student magazine. ; Octavo
Book ID: 55247More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
À REBOURS: la rebellion informalista / the informal rebellion [1939-1968]
Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno: Madrid, 1999. Squarish quarto, card covers. 386 pp. Text in English and Spanish. Colour reproductions, b&w photos. Tiny rubber stamp to page edges, else fine. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Book ID: 45379More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
A SHORT LIFE AT THE LAND'S END: J.T. Blight, F.S.A., artist, Penzance
Edition: First Edition
Bath: Privately Printed, 1977. Quarter bound in blue cloth with cloth spine label and marbled boards with a gilt illustration on the front cover. pp (96). Index. Illustrated. Two lists of subscribers tipped in at rear Light rubbing to fore edges and outer corners, else fine. John Thomas Blight (1835-1911) was a Cornish archaeological artist who lived in Penzance. ; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 55456More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
A STUDY OF THE ILLUMINATED BOOKS OF WILLIAM BLAKE, poet, printer, prophet
London / Paris: Methuen / Trianon Press, 1970. Second printing. Blue cloth. pp (103). Many colour plates. Fine copy. Jacket has a damp spot at foot of lightly darkened spine, VG+ otherwise. Lacks the slipcase. 1.3 kg parcel; Quarto
Book ID: 52129More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
A VICTORIAN CANVAS: the memoirs of W.P. Frith, R.A. Edited by Nevile Wallis
Edition: First Edition
London: Geroffrey Bles, 1957. Dark blue cloth. pp 238 + numerous b&w reproductions. Index. Ink owner name at front, nearly fine otherwise. Price-clipped jacket has a short tear and creases at head of spine, bit of rubbing to spine folds, VG otherwise. A condensation of the three volumes of reminiscences of this once hugely popular British painter.
Book ID: 44503More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
ABSTRACT ART IN ENGLAND 1913-1915. 11 November - 5 December, 1969
London: d'Offay Couper Gallery, 1969. Pictorial card covers with printed acetate wrapper. pp 56. Tipped in colour reproductions, b&w reproductions in text. Exhibition catalogue, 59 items. Essay by Anthony d'Offay. Fine copy. Wrapper has a misfold to outer front panel, else fine. Wyndham Lewis, David Bomberg, Jacob Epstein, Laurence Atkinson, William Roberts.; Large quarto
Book ID: 55210More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
AELBERT CUYP
New York: Thames & Hudson, 2001. Oblong format, 24.5 x 29.3 cm. Beige cloth. 320 pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. Fine in fine jacket. "Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691) was one of the foremost Dutch painters and draughtsmen of the seventee nth century. His prolific artistic career spanned the years between 1640 and 1665, the golden age of Dutch painting, and his idyllic views of the Dutch countryside have entranced collectors and connoisseurs ever since." - jacket. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra postage will be required. 0500510571
Book ID: 17984More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
: an evolution in volume and space
Edition: First US printing
New York: Wittenborn, 1955. Blue cloth. pp (xxxii), (328). 379 b&w reproductions. Bibliography. Small rubber stamp on title page, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has nicks and rubbing to spine ends, slight rubbing to spine folds, VG otherwise. Documents of Modern Art vol. 12. 1.7 kg parcel; Quarto
Book ID: 52617More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
Andre Bieler: An Artist's Life and Times. Introductioni by Michael Bell
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Merritt Publishing Company, 1980. Limited edition, # 56 of an edition of 200 numbered copies signed by the author and artist. Square folio, quarter bound in black morocco and black cloth, illustrated endpapers. pp 207 + 30 tipped in colour plates with tissue guards; 84 b&w reproductions in text. LACKING the accompanying serigraph. A fine copy, no owner names, in the plain black cloth slipcase. Includes Notes, Selected Bibliography, and list of Exhibitions, at rear. Important Canadian painter. Note: 3.5 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.; Signed by Author & Artist 092088606X
Book ID: 31361More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
AQUARELLE, PASTELLE, HANDZEICHNUNGEN
Berlin: Gallery Meta Nierendorf, 1962. Glossy pictorial boards. pp 32. Reproductions in colour & b&w. Fine copy. Catalogue for the Nov. 1961 - Feb., 1962, exhibition. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced; Octavo
Book ID: 52661More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
ART AS HISTORY. Episodes in the Culture and Politics of Nineteenth Century Germany.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. Second printing. Brown cloth. (xi), 227 pp. 4 color plates, numerous illustrations in text. Fine copy in lightly soiled VG jacket with sticker stain on front panel. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.; Quarto
Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Book ID: 1584More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
ART MADE MODERN: Roger Fry's Vision of Art
London: Courtauld Gallery / Merrell Holberton, 1999. Glossy card covers. Pp 224. Colour reproductions. Index. Fine copy. 1.3 kg parcel ; Quarto
Book ID: 51808More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
Art restoration: The culture, the business, and the scandal
Edition: First paper edition
London: John Murray, 1994. Card covers. pp 210 + plates. Index. Fine copy.; Octavo
Book ID: 51792More details Price: USD $8.95 USD $8.06