BOOKS FOR SALE

  • William Eggleston by (EGGLESTON)
    (EGGLESTON)
    William Eggleston

    London: Thames and Hudson 2002

    Unpaginated. c.200pp of beautifully presented colour and b/w photographic plates plus c.10pp catalogue, bibliography, list of exhibitions. Square 4to in white boards, with tiny bump on upper board bottom edge else very good indeed. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Paris by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. Scarce.

    Stock ID: 12269
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  • William Etty, Art & Controversy by [ETTY] BURNAGE, Sarah, HALLETT, Mark, TURNER, Laura [Ed.]
    [ETTY] BURNAGE, Sarah, HALLETT, Mark, TURNER, Laura [Ed.]
    William Etty, Art & Controversy

    York and London York Museums Trust and Philip Wilson Publishers 2011

    256 pp, comprehensively illustrated in colour. 4to. Very good, Wrappers. Published to mark a major exhibition throwing fresh scholarship on and a reappraisal of Etty's work.

    Stock ID: 23934
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  • William Morris & his Palace of Art: Architecture, Interiors and Design at Red House (National Trust Series) by [MORRIS] WILD, Tess
    [MORRIS] WILD, Tess
    William Morris & his Palace of Art: Architecture, Interiors and Design at Red House (National Trust Series)

    London, Philip Wilson.

    272pp illustrated. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Comprehensive new study of Red House, Bexleyheath; the only house commissioned by William Morris and the first independent architectural work of his close friend, Philip Webb. Beautifully illustrated edition. The house was created 1860-1865 and records the interiors and designs of that period following recent research on the collaborative ventures of Morris, Philip Webb Burne Jones, Rossetti and their immediate circle

    Stock ID: 23766
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  • [MORRIS] MEIER, Paul
    William Morris: The Marxist Dreamer two volume set

    Hassocks, Sussex Harvester and New Jersey, Humanities Press 1977

    800pp. Used - Very Good in slightly worn dust wrappers with illustration of Kelmscott on each. In cardboard slipcase as issued. Spines sun faded. Translated by Frank Gubb with a preface by Robin Page Arnot

    Stock ID: 23497
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  • William Richard Lethaby by (LETHABY) RUBENS Geoffrey
    (LETHABY) RUBENS Geoffrey
    William Richard Lethaby

    The Architectural Press 1986

    320pp illus. with b/w plates and line ills. Major assessment of Lethaby's multi faceted carer as an architect, conservationist and educationalist. Square 4to. Very good in dust wrapper.

    Stock ID: 22039
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  • William Roberts Some Early Abstract & Cubist Work 1913-1920 by [ROBERTS]
    [ROBERTS]
    William Roberts Some Early Abstract & Cubist Work 1913-1920

    London A Canale Production 1957

    16pp text + 12 pages of b/w plates. One of 400 copies, unnumbered. 4to. Yellow lettered boards. Very good copy. Some striking Vorticist images are included in this lovely publication.

    Stock ID: 21996
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  • Winchcombe Pottery, the Cardew-Finch Tradition by WHEELER, Ron.
    WHEELER, Ron.
    Winchcombe Pottery, the Cardew-Finch Tradition

    Edinburgh White Cockade Publishing 1998

    168 pp, colour and black and white photographs[JR1] . 8vo, boards, d/w good. An account of one of the pioneer studio potteries, revived by Michael Cardew in 1926 and continued by Ray Finch.

    Stock ID: 23680
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  • DAY Lewis F.
    Windows: a Book About Stained & Painted Glass

    London, B T Batsford 1909,

    3rd edotopn. 420pp +300 plates and text illustrations. (32pp catalogue of Batsford publications). Tall 8vo. Gilt decorated blue cloth with arts and crafts style decorative gilt lettering on upper board. Decorated end papers. Fine in dust wrapper. Authoritative study of stained glass. Uncommon to find in the dust wrapper.

    Stock ID: 23604
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  • DARWIN Robin CBE
    Windows for Coventry

    Colchester The Royal College of Art June 1956

    10pp 2 full page colour photographs 12 b/w photographs. Collated by different authors such as Basil Spence, A.R.A on the Function of the windows, Lawrence Lee, A.R.C.A , and Geoff Clarke, A.R.C.A on their Iconography, and An Appreciation by Basil Taylor. Covers a bit worn from general use and slight crease vertically through the pamphlet, else good. Loose piece of paper slipped in with summaries of six of the 10 great windows created for the nave of the new cathedral and a plan of their intended location. A note from an unknown Charles to John regarding the leaflet (and publication?). From the collection of George G. Pace.

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    Colchester The Royal College of Art June 1956

    10pp 2 full page colour photographs 12 b/w photographs. Collated by different authors such as Basil Spence, A.R.A on the Function of the windows, Lawrence Lee, A.R.C.A , and Geoff Clarke, A.R.C.A on their Iconography, and An Appreciation by Basil Taylor. Covers a bit worn from general use and slight crease vertically through the pamphlet, else good. Loose piece of paper slipped in with summaries of six of the 10 great windows created for the nave of the new cathedral and a plan of their intended location. A note from an unknown Charles to John regarding the leaflet (and publication?). From the collection of George G. Pace.

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    Stock ID: 22722
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  • GENTLEMAN, David. SCOTT, Asgeir. ARDIZZONE, Edward & WATERS, Sheila (illustrator)
    Wine List Decorations 1961 – 1963

    Bristol, John Harvey and Sons Limited 1963

    100 pp 8vo, Cloth. Gilt lettering. Spine slightly sunned. Designed by the typographic designer John Lewis with wood illustrations by David Gentleman, decoration by Asgeir Scott, illustrations by Edward Ardizzone and maps by Sheila Waters. The book is a compilation of the illustrations and maps sent to their clients by the wine dealers Harveys. This charming small book contains a pamphlet advertising the letters from Ardizzone to Lewis concerning his commission for the Harveys Wine List which were published in 2016 by the Reading Room Press.

    Stock ID: 23698
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  • Worlds and Windows by Signed copy GILBERT & GEORGE
    Signed copy GILBERT & GEORGE
    Worlds and Windows

    London & New York Anthony D'Offray and Robert Miller 1990

    6-page introductory essay by Rosenblum + 130 full page colour reproductions of works in the Worlds and Windows series. Original publishers' blue cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. 310mm x 231mm. Not issued with a dust wrapper. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Inscribed in red ink "With love from Gilbert and George" on free end paper. From the collection of Johnathan and Maggie Silver.

    Stock ID: 22531
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  • FRENCH, Thomas
    York Minster, The Great East Window (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain) (Vol 2)

    Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995

    161pp + 20pp of colour plates at back. c120 b/w photographic plates in text. 4to, original decorated dustjacket, fine. A detailed catalogue of the stained and painted glass in the Great East Window of York Minster. All photography is beautifully clear and both the black and white and colour images are stunning in their clarity and quality.

    Stock ID: 22559
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  • York Minster through the Centuries by WALKER, Estra. [1904 -1933]
    WALKER, Estra. [1904 -1933]
    York Minster through the Centuries

    1927

    8pp illustrated in black and white. Decorated wrappers by the artist. 245x180mm. This is Estra Walker's first publication, advertised for sale in July 1927. Foreword by W. Edward Parkinson of the York School of Arts and Crafts who predeceased the publication by a few months. Carefully designed pamphlet to show the evolution of the Cathedral at York over the centuries. Illustrated with small b/w vignettes and floor plans of the minster at different periods. The paper is semi transparent allowing the various stages of the building's history to be compared. The whole pamphlet is beautifully constructed with an arts and crafts style vignette on the upper wrapper. Estra Walker is best known for her pictorial maps of York,…

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    1927

    8pp illustrated in black and white. Decorated wrappers by the artist. 245x180mm. This is Estra Walker's first publication, advertised for sale in July 1927. Foreword by W. Edward Parkinson of the York School of Arts and Crafts who predeceased the publication by a few months. Carefully designed pamphlet to show the evolution of the Cathedral at York over the centuries. Illustrated with small b/w vignettes and floor plans of the minster at different periods. The paper is semi transparent allowing the various stages of the building's history to be compared. The whole pamphlet is beautifully constructed with an arts and crafts style vignette on the upper wrapper. Estra Walker is best known for her pictorial maps of York, Yorkshire, and Ryedale. Hard to find. Details of Estra Walker can be found on an internet blog published by Barron's maps. https://barronmaps.com/estra-clark-1904-1993-york-artist-and-pictorial-cartographer.

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    Stock ID: 23773
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  • Yoshijiro Urushibara by [URUSHIBARA] CHAPMAN, Hilary & HORNER, Libby.
    [URUSHIBARA] CHAPMAN, Hilary & HORNER, Libby.
    Yoshijiro Urushibara

    Leiden, the Netherlands Hotei Publishing 2017

    206 pp. Illustrated. 4to. Decorated wrappers, very good. A catalogue raisonné of an artist who brought together the traditional woodcut print technologies of Japan and Western art.

    Stock ID: 23927
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  • GOODRICH, Lloyd
    Young America 1965: Thirty American Artists Under Thirty-Five

    New York Published for the Whitney Museum of Art by Frederick A. Praeger [1965]

    Unpaginated and 50 black and white illustrations. Small 4to Off-white cloth, Slightly browned dust wrapper with titles and listing artists featured.

    Stock ID: 22646
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  • Young Meteors by HARRISON Martin
    HARRISON Martin
    Young Meteors British Photojournalism: 1957-1965

    London Jonathan Cape 1998

    159pp b/w + colour photographic plates. 4to pictorial wrappers. Very good. Shows the work of a new generation of British photographers. Martin Harrison is widely regarded as the leading authority on the art of fashion photography. His previous books include Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945 (1991), David Bailey: Birth of the Cool (1999), Lillian Bassman (1997), Patrick Demarchalier: Exposing elegance (1998), and numerous others.

    Stock ID: 23484
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  • (ARCHITECTURAL PRESS)
    Your inheritance - uncomic strip

    Architectural Press nd c1941

    Unpaginated c80pp. Small 8vo. Decorated wrappers. Detached and a little faded. Also advertises a competition (1940) run by the Housing Centre for ideas on improving the state of the environment in Britain. Attractive item from the authors of the Architectural Review although none are named directly. The subject of the uncomic strip is a piece of land.

    Stock ID: 22603
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  • [ZODIAC] ALFIERI Bruno [ editor ]
    Zodiac 4. International Magazine of Contemporary Architecture/ Revista internazionale d'architettura contemporanea. Sarrinen Brutalism BBPR Rainer Scarpa Focus

    Milano Edizioni di Comunità c1957 n.d.

    208pp, Illustrated occasional journal. The fourth one. Soft cover; Illustrated. Blue wrappers with wrap around bund with title. A little chipped. Text in English, Italian, French & German; Striking advertisements for contemporary design firms, magazines and products. Very good protected by rather worn and torn cardboard slipcase. Main theme is Men and the ideas of Modern Ornament and Brutalism with contributions on the latter from Maxwell Fry, Alison and Peter Smithson amongst others.

    Stock ID: 22136
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  • OLIVETTI, Adriano. (introduction)
    Zodiac 5 International Magazine of Contemporary Architecture

    Milano C Olivetti and Co 1959

    214pp illus with b/w photographs + period adverts. Perfect bound. Laminated yellow wrappers with example of fantastic architecture. 4to. 27x21cms . Key articles by Le Corbusier on Frank Lloyd Wright with fold out concertina illustrations. Denmark (contributions by Bruno Alfieri, Enzo Fratelli, Keld Helmer-Petersen and others ) and Fantastic Architecture by Ulrich Conrads and Hans Sperlich. Spine split Small tear in front wrap hinge else good copy. Texts in English, Italian, French.

    Stock ID: 22134
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