Produced by Jones & Palmer Ltd nd 2004

96pp, with full page colour illustrations of the pots featured. 4to. Cloth bound. Very good with dust wrapper. Introduction by Tanya Harrod. Photography by Chris Chapman. Features the work of Svend Bayer, Bruce Chivers, Clive Bowen, Nic Collins, Tim Andrews. Beautifully produced study of contemporary ceramics.

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.

Grove Press, Inc, 1968

First edition. First printing 451pp Dust jacket and edges shows shelf wear and has a number of short tears along top edge. Not price clipped but inner flap has been creased. Cloth a little faded along lower edge. he Pop Art legend's first novel, consisting of transcriptions of conversations between the author and Factory-figure Ondine. From the collection of Eduardo Paolozzi but without his ownership signature. Slight musty smell.

London: Faber and Faber, 1958

448pp. Crown 8vo. Illustrated with 9Colour frontis, 394 further illustrations in black and white and some additional colour tipped in plates. Very good copy in a slightly chipped dw. History of European illustration is surveyed from the earliest illuminated manuscripts down to the present day + a description of all the processes employed in reproduction of images etc. First edition. Loosely inserted contemporary book review from the Times by Robert Harling.

London, Melbourne and Paris Cassell and Company 1901

Unpaginated. [4]pp prelims + 40pp, French fold pages. 285 x 210mm. Cloth spine, Paper covered boards. Decorated end papers. Slightly rubbed at edges else good copy. Essays of Elia is a collection of essays written by Charles Lamb; it was first published in book form in 1823, with a second volume, Last Essays of Elia, issued in 1833 by the publisher Edward Moxon. Illustrated in colour throughout; each page has an image with text inset.

Dublin, Arthur Guinness, Son & Co 1938

Guinness 24pp colour illustrations throughout the text, a collection of parodies and imitations of common rhymes advertising Guinness. Paper wrappers which are stapled. Scattered foxing to page edges else a good copy.

New York MOMA 1943

67pp illustrated with 61 b/w plates. Decorated boards. Split along part of spine, slightly chipped and with shelf wear on lower edge else good copy with striking design on covers. Large exhibition of 43 painters and artists as the second exhibition by the museum to provide a survey of Contemporary American Art trends. 265 items listed. Hard to find.

London, Glasgow and Dublin Blackie and Son Limited 1910

Unpaginated Full page colour plates throughout. First few and last few pages slightly foxed. Some light marking in places. Publishers pictorial brown paper covered boards lightly rubbed around edges. Parts of hollow paper spine chipped and damaged. One page has sympathetic repair to a tear else generally a very good copy. The alphabet is one of girls names with short verses about each of the girls illustrated.

London Conaghi & Co Limited 1971

71pp, b/w plates. Sugar paper wrappers printed with black titles. Small 4to. Signed in back pen by Eduardo Paolozzi on the front end paper.

Privately printed by the author 2009

60pp, case bound with bookmark and luggage label ticket. Printed by The Society of Revisionist Typographers. Limited edition. [40 printed in the edition?] Colophon noting this is an artist's proof. Mss postcard from the author to Gavin, signed with note saying the book won a design award and another from the author wishing him a Happy Easter. Associates this particular typeface with places. Ex libris Gavin Stamp with his bookplate.

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.

New York Komer, Landesman & Guarino, 1992

121pp illustrated in colour and black and white. Many period ads for exhibitions. Square 4to.

New York Charles Cowles 1969

74pp illustrated in colour and black and white. Some period ads for exhibition including David Hockney's. Grimms Fairy Tales. Lead article by Robert Smithson, "Incidents of Mirror Travel in the Yucatan" which also provides the cover design. Others featured include Richard Serra, Edouard Manet. Ads for Les Levine, Robert Crumb, Stephen Kaltenbach Teach art .Square 4to. Edges and corners a little rubbed.

New York Artforum International Magazine 1976

82pp illustrated with b/w plates and some colour illustrated adverts. Worn at corners and spine else good copy of this leading journal. Lead article by Brian O'Docherty on Gallery Space - Inside the White Cube. [ Part 1] Other articles on Women and Photography by Jeff Perrone. Oldenburg's Mouse by Phil Patton + other items. Wrappers a little worn else good copy.

New York Charles Cowles March 1969

Special Issue. 97pp illustrated with b/w plates and some colour illustrated adverts. Worn at corners and spine else good copy of this leading journal.

New York Komer, Landesman & Guarino, 1987

136pp +with c20pp period ads. Square 4to. Cover design by Tom Otterness. Illustrated throughout with line ills, colour and black and white photographs including two by Bruce Weber. Good copy. Articles include Kay Larson on Clement Greenberg, Jan Hoet on Exhibiting Art + many more articles. The American-based international art journal Artforum has proved one of the most prominent and influential of art history's critical journals.

London Fanfrolico Press nd 1930

Unpaginated. Forty-two poems .Translated by Jack Lindsay and decorations by Edward Bawden. 235 x 155mm Blue cloth blind stamped patchwork pattern to boards. T.E.G. Printed on Charles I paper by the Fanfrolico Press. Limited edition no 71 of 400. Spine sunned else very good copy. Illustrations in black and white.