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19 Artists Emergent Americans
Stock ID: 18486More details Price: £14.00 -
45 Wood Engravers chosen by Simon Lawrence
Wakefield The Fleece Press 1982
[112]pp. b/w wood engravings. 4to. Quarter buckram with gilt decoration and title, marbled paper covers and green slipcase. Limited edition, standard copy, no. 209 of 350. Exquisite collection of illustrations made from original wood engragvings, created as a second volume following 'S.T.E. Lawrence: Boxwood Blockmaker', printing work of artists missed out from the first book. With an introduction by John Lawrence. Fine.
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A Sketch-Book of R Caldecott's
reproduced by Edmund Evans the Engraver and Printer
London and New York George Routledge & Sons nd c1883
48pp Long 8vo. Contrasting cloth with title on upper board. Bookplate from "Yews" on front paste down. Colour and sepia lithographic prints. Lightly rubbed on spine and boards a little grubby else good copy. From the collection of James Morton (Sundour Fabrics). The sketchbook was made in 1870-75 depicting natural history subjects. The reproduced printed version of the sketch book was issued in c1883. Randolph Caldecott, born 1846, died in 1886 in Florida after he went there to find sunnier climes to counter his ill health where he was caught out by an exceptional cold snap.
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Alfred Wallis
London Arts Council 1968
177 numbers, 18 plates, one in colour. Two text illustrations. Long 8vo. Decorated sepia wrappers. Loosely inserted post card. Useful catalogue
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Art Against Aids
New York The American Foundation for Aids Research 1990
xxx + 114 pp. colour + b/w illus with captions. Long 8vo, striking pink/orange decorated wrappers, preserved in sticky backed plastic by the previous owner. Catalogue of a sale of contemporary art held to benefit The American Foundation for Aids Research and a number of other organisations. Catalogue features work for sale from Robert Rauschenburg Robert Mapplethorepe, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Leon Golub + many more. Has a section listing participating artists and galleries in the public art project. Useful introduction. Hard to find.
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Avant-garde attitudes: New Art in the Sixties
The John Power Lecture in Contemporary Art delivered at the University of Sydney on Friday May 17 1968
Sydney, Power Insitute of Fine Arts 1968
12pp printed on high quality paper. Cream wrappers over printed with title. Wrappers a little browned else good copy.
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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen : large scale projects
London Thames and Hudson 1995
583pp over 500 illustrations, 420 in colour. 4to cloth boards with illustrated dust wrapper, minor bump at the top corner else very good indeed. Brilliantly illustrated account of Oldenburg and Van Bruggen's collaborative public sculpture projects
Stock ID: 18943More details Price: £65.00 -
Dear Mercia
Paul Nash letters to Mercia Oakley 1909-18
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.
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Dearest Sydney: Joan Hassell's Letters to Sydney Cockerell
Wakefield The Fleece Press 1991
67, [5]pp. Illustrated with tipped in b/w reproductions of letters and photographs. Narrow 8vo. Decorative paper covered boards and linen spine with paste down label. A limited (but unnumbered) edition of 220 copies printed by Simon Lawrence. Fitzwilliam curator Sydney Cockerell financed Hassell's first trip abroad in 1950, where she wrote almost a letter a day, telling him of her adventures in Florence, Venice, Paris and other destinations. These evocative and descriptive letters are reproduced in this beautiful Fleece Press book. fine.
Stock ID: 13381More details Price: £200.00 -
Dieter Roth Unique Pieces
with an introduction by Laszlo Glozer
Stock ID: 18430More details Price: £150.00
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Disinformation the Manufacture of Consent
New York Alternative Museum 1984
64pp, b/w plates in text. 4to. White lettered wrappers. Essays by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman. The Alternative Museum New York was a not for profit organisation dedicated to a pluralist approach to the arts and cultural activities of New York City. Disinformation is defined by Rodriguez in his introduction as the production of half truths, bias etc to avoid the pertinent points. Mixed show of graphics mostly ilustrated.
Stock ID: 18279More details Price: £36.00 -
Dorothy's Umbrellas
Nottingham Openings Press 1971
48pp illustrated with colour lettered title page, b/w grainy photographs 4pp centre fold in colour with images by Tom Phillips. Small 4to. Decorated printed wrappers. Followed a similar group show held at Oxford in 1970 called "Dorothy" the relevance of the title was to attract attention to what otherwise might have been a difficult conceptual show to attract people to and so this approach appears to have been adopted here. The show travelled to Newcastle and Bristol. The catalogue is themed around the idea of Umbrellas. The work of a significant number of individual [student?] contributors as well as group pieces were put together for this show associated with the Nottingham Festival.
Stock ID: 18374More details Price: £30.00 -
Edward Ruscha Editions 1959-1999 Volume 1: Prints, Books Miscellany. Volume 2: Essays, Entries, Information
Minneapolis, Minnesota Walker Art Center 1999
304pp 325 colour and 75 bw plates. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Two-volume, full-colour, boxed catalogue raisonné that documents Ruscha's editioned work to date. It features essays by exhibition curator Siri Engberg and independent artist's-book curator-critic Clive Phillpot. This monumental book reveals the depths of Ruscha's printmaking process, and offers important insight into his unique aesthetic.
Stock ID: 18097More details Price: £225.00 -
Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance & Mannerist Art.
Volume 1: Abacco to Lysippus, Volume 2: Macagnino to Zucchi
London/New York Macmillan Reference/Grove Dictionaries Ltd 2000
Vol 1 xxv + 931pp + (1) blank. Vol 2 (6) + pages 933-1881 + (1) blank, 4to. Both volumes with illustrated dust wrappers. Minor creases to the head of the spine else very good. over 750 illustrations. Part of the Grove Encyclopedias of European Art series.
Stock ID: 19302More details Price: £125.00 -
Few Were Left
London Methuen & Co. Ltd 1955
219 pp. 8vo. Vg. Cloth boards with dust wrapper illustration by John Minton. Novel describing story of a group of survivors trapped in a New York underground, after a catastrophe has sealed all the exits.
Stock ID: 16346More details Price: £30.00 -
Heads Figures and Ideas with a comment by Geoffrey Grigson
London George Rainbird Limited New York: Graphic Society and printed at the Curwen Press. 1958
Double page pictorial title page, unpaginated, [64pp], 57 pages of reproductions of Moore's sketches and sketch progressions, Folio. Cloth spine, grey lettered boards. Decorated end papers. The colour auto-lithograph printed on hand made paper signed in the plate by Moore. One small tipped in photograph. Some scattered foxing, upper board slightly rubbed else good with frayed and partial dust wrapper.
Stock ID: 19394More details Price: £200.00 -
Heinrich von Kleist by Frank Stella and The Writings of Frank Stella (2 vols). 2 Volume Set.
Jena, Jenoptik, Cologne 2001
2 Volume boxed set. 339pp + 292pp. Laminated wrappers. 4to. Very Good+. The first volume presents a selection of more than 90 paintings, painted reliefs, and sculptures that Stella produced in response to and in an attempt to better understand the dramas, novellas and theoretical witings of von Kleist. Also included are essays by Franz-Joachim Verspohl, Martin Warnke, Wolfram Hogrebe, Robert K. Wallace. The second volume is a useful collection of writings by Stella, many taken from papers and lectures. Parallel text in German and English.
Stock ID: 6489More details Price: £85.00 -
Helaine Blumenfeld: Mythology, Recent Sculpture
London Ablemarle Gallery 1997
Unpaginated. 24 numbers. List of commissions and introduction by Nicola Upson.
Stock ID: 8356More details Price: £12.00 -
Il Corso del Coltello The Course of the Knife Claes Oldenburg Coosje van Bruggen Frank O.Gehry
New York Rizzoli 1987
239pp, colour + b/w illustrations. 4to boards with illustrated dust wrapper. Small tear to the top edge of the wrapper + minor bumps in places, else a very good copy. Introductory notes by O'Gehry and Oldenburg. brilliantly illustrated documentation of the monumental multimedia collaborative performance between Oldenburg, Van Bruggen and architect O. Gehry. The central figure of the performance, that took place in Vencie, was an eighty three foot ship in the form of the Swiss Army Knife.
Stock ID: 18954More details Price: £65.00 -
Jim Dine Recent Paintings
London Waddington Galleries 1989
40pp. 4to illustrated paper wrapper, very good. 10 colour plates+ list of full 10 works from the exhibition. Contains a list of Dine's previous group + solo shows. Introductory essay by Demetrio Paparoni.
Stock ID: 19477More details Price: £18.00
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