Sunderland Northern Centre for Contemporary Arts, sponsored by the Henry Moore Foundation et al. 1988

234 pages of bw and colour photographs and illustrations of art work by the artists. Stiff card covers with illustrated wrappers over. Loosely inserted private view card for the Leeds showing of this exhibition and an associated press release. Signed on the half title by Claes Oldenburg. Great catalogue made for a major touring show of works made by Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen.

Orkney Piers Art Centre & The Barns Graham Charitable Trust 2009

49pp including 11pp introduction by Mel Gooding. 31 colour illustrations and 2 black & white photographs. Boards, 250x230mm VG indeed. Beautiful production.

2015

Prototype for an artist's book. 8vo pictorial boards, 43pp loose concertina format. Striking photo litho illustrations depicting the industrial landscape from various locations across the United States. These images have been worked into by hand using pen and ink . The company name and location of the sites are listed, these include refineries, chemical works, factories etc. A beautifully produced prototype. Anne Beck studied Concentration in Printmaking and Painting at McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia, going on to study a MFA in Two-Dimensional Practice at the Pratt Institute. She has shown in numerous solo and collaborative shows, in 2016 she was involved with The New Walled Cities and Hinterlands: Models for Future Peri-urbanisms, Arena1, Santa Monica, CA.

Colchester Benham 1953

8vo. Grey paper covered boards overprinted with the title. Original glassine wrapper partially present. Very good copy. For private distribution. no 242 of 500 copies. Image of Liverpool Street Station and eleven further images all in Essex itself mainly in colour or duotone with one in black and white. Fascinating introduction on how the prints were made from O'Connor's original drawings adding to the interest of this title.

Manchester J Heywood 1857

80pp 12mo. Blue decorated paper wrappers Very good. Wrappers a little dusty. Written in Lancashire dialect, one of a series of books written to explore Manchester and Lancashire people and places including Yetton Park, The Mechanic's Institute and other places. This particular volume explore the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. Humorous account but insightful on how ordinary people responded to the exhibition. Uncommon.

Oxford Phaidon 1978

141pp.will illustrated. Cloth. 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper.

Cambridge The Antique Collectors' Club 1987 (1935)

Volume I - Text and Coloured Plates: xlvii + 49 colour plates + 431pp. Volume II - Monochrome Plates: xv + 266pp. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles. Dustwrapper. Very good. Limited to 1000 copies. The Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection was originally published in 1935 and limited to just 350 copies of the 2 volume sets. Considered one of the great ceramic collections of the world, the Graisher collection was assembled by Dr J.W.L Glaisher and catalogued by Bernard Rackham, Keeper of Ceramics at the V&A and this printed catalogue remains a firm favourite amongst ceramics collectors and curators alike, worldwide.

London Sotheby's Publications 1987

i 644, ii 604pp 4to. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Fine in dust wrappers.

1879

16pp. Paper wrapper. These a little browned else good copy. Last two pages uncut. Upper wrapper notes "This Circular will be given to Visitors to the Old Water-colour Society's Exhibition, Pall Mall East or on application to the Fine Art Society 148 New Bond Street."

Chilton Company, Philidelphia & New York 1962

302pp+ b/w ill, boards, good. In frayed and chipped dust wrapper. Includes discussion about Cubism, Futurism, Dada & Surrealism. Gregory Gale's copy with pencil note "gift from Bob Sluteky 6 March 1970".

Greenock Black Pennell Press 1988

51pp Near fine with original glassine wrapper. 8vo. Text first published in 1877

Netherton, Wakefield The Fleece Press

Limited edition of 300 copies (of which 250 were for sale). Quarter cloth and patterned paste paper boards, paper spine-label, large 8vo, 106, [1], blank leaf, [1] pp, illustrations, some tipped in, map in pocket at end. Fine copy in slipcase as issued.

London Hamish Hamilton 1962

First edition. 285pp, b/w photographic plates. 4to. Very good dw. Jacket design by Philip Waugh. D/w slightly creased and torn on top of spine. The five Earls in the title are Burlington, Pembroke, Leicester, Oxford and Bathurst and Lees-Milne shows how they flourished at a time when the fashionable amateur exercised greater influence than ever before in British art. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.

Published by Privately Printed, Chicago, 1934

Unpaginated. Includes colour portrait of A B Dick, full page photogravure plates of the mimeograph machines and the offices of the firm + decorations by Rockwell Kent. 4to. Gilt decorated cloth. Gold end papers. Very good copy. Printed at the Lakeside Press Limited. Dedicated to Albert Blake Dick, this company history commemorates fifty years of Progress and Achievement. It was produced as a Golden Anniversary souvenir of the firm. A. B. Dick Company was a major American manufacturer of copy machines and office supplies in the late 19th century and 20th centuries.

London Impact Books 1991

As new, Fine in dw. 297pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Companion volume to Double Harness, Robin Tanner's acclaimed autobiography. This collection of letters covers, etching, natural history, countryside and gardening and disarmament.

London Faber and Faber 1964

95pp text, 137 colour illustrations, 56 pages of full colour plates, with detail reproductions of specific paintings, some pull outs to give a sense of scale. Appendix by Xavier de Salas Large 4to. Very good in slightly worn dust wrapper and in original slip case as issued. Hard to find.

London Thames and Hudson. 1980

21 pp, 35 drawings. Small folio. This edition was limited to 1000 copies of which this is no 296. The book was first published in Germany in 1979. Very good with red slipcase as issued. From the collection of Jonathan and Maggie Silver. Slip case a little scuffed on the corners. Glassine dust wrapper fine.

London Whitechapel Gallery 2006

112pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. 4to. Open weave cloth. Dust wrapper, this a little dusty else very good. The book includes essays by Martin Clark, Rod Mengham. It also features an interview with the artist by Andrea Tarsia. Albert Oehlen's work focuses on the process of painting. To accompany an exhibition.