Art

  • A Bottle of Notes and Some Voyages by Signed by Claes Oldenburg (OLDENBURG) CELANT Germano
    Signed by Claes Oldenburg (OLDENBURG) CELANT Germano
    A Bottle of Notes and Some Voyages Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen

    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.

    Stock ID: 21280
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  • A By Andy Warhol by WARHOL, Andy.
    WARHOL, Andy.
    A By Andy Warhol

    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.

    Stock ID: 20830
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  • A Discipline of the Mind: by BARNS GRAHAM Wilhelmina
    BARNS GRAHAM Wilhelmina
    A Discipline of the Mind: The Drawings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

    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.

    Stock ID: 21985
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  • A House of Pomegranates by [KING, Jessie M] WILDE, Oscar
    [KING, Jessie M] WILDE, Oscar
    A House of Pomegranates

    London: Methuen and Co. Ltd. 1915

    vi + 162pp illustrated with full colour title page and 16 further mounted illustrations in colour by Jessie M. King. Decorated end papers also by King as is the binding design. Royal blue cloth with orange decorative motifs and lettering. Rather faded on the spine, edges, top and base of spine and corners all worn. End papers slightly browned. Some scattered foxing to text pages. The book comprises four fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1891 Jessie M. King was made Tutor in Book Decoration and Design at Glasgow School of Art in 1899 and was influenced by Mackintosh's circle and European traditions of art nouveau. By 1911 she…

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    London: Methuen and Co. Ltd. 1915

    vi + 162pp illustrated with full colour title page and 16 further mounted illustrations in colour by Jessie M. King. Decorated end papers also by King as is the binding design. Royal blue cloth with orange decorative motifs and lettering. Rather faded on the spine, edges, top and base of spine and corners all worn. End papers slightly browned. Some scattered foxing to text pages. The book comprises four fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1891 Jessie M. King was made Tutor in Book Decoration and Design at Glasgow School of Art in 1899 and was influenced by Mackintosh's circle and European traditions of art nouveau. By 1911 she had moved to Paris and with her husband founded the Shieling Atelier. Preserved in glassine wrappers.

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    Stock ID: 21084
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  • A Rudimentary Understanding of Industry: Taking Measurements by BECK, Anne.
    BECK, Anne.
    A Rudimentary Understanding of Industry: Taking Measurements

    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.

    Stock ID: 19581
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  • [O'CONNOR, John]
    An Essex Dozen a twelve point progress from London to the coast

    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.

    Stock ID: 21035
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  • MANCHESTER ART TREASURES EXHIBITION 1857 STANTON, James Taylor, 1816-1875
    Bobby Shuttle un his woife Sayroh's visit to Manchester: un to th' greight Hert Treasures Eggshibishun, at Owd Trafford. Written for Bobby hissel by th' editor oth "Bowton Luminary" ..

    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.

    Stock ID: 21840
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  • [BRZESKA] COLE, Roger
    Burning to speak The Life And Art Of Henri Gaudier Brzeska.

    Oxford Phaidon 1978

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

    Stock ID: 22264
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  • RACKHAM, Bernard
    Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 2 Volumes

    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.

    Stock ID: 22514
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  • Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings [Volume One 1895-1914] and Volume Two 1915-1951] by [NOLDE] URBAN, Martin.
    [NOLDE] URBAN, Martin.
    Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-Paintings [Volume One 1895-1914] and Volume Two 1915-1951]

    London Sotheby's Publications 1987

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

    Stock ID: 22533
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  • Circular respecting memorial studies of St. Mark's Venice : now in progress under Mr. Ruskin's direction by [RUSKIN]
    [RUSKIN]
    Circular respecting memorial studies of St. Mark's Venice : now in progress under Mr. Ruskin's direction

    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."

    Stock ID: 21122
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  • Collage by JANIS, Harriet & BLESH, Rudi
    JANIS, Harriet & BLESH, Rudi
    Collage Personalities, Concepts & Techniques

    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".

    Stock ID: 21682
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  • Cupid's Guide to the Wedding Ring: Containing Full Information on Courtship and Marriage by BLACK PENNELL PRESS
    BLACK PENNELL PRESS
    Cupid's Guide to the Wedding Ring: Containing Full Information on Courtship and Marriage

    Greenock Black Pennell Press 1988

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

    Stock ID: 20878
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  • (NASH Paul) BOULTON Janet (editor)
    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.

    Stock ID: 21359
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  • Earls of Creation by LEES-MILNE James
    LEES-MILNE James
    Earls of Creation Five Great Patrons of Eighteenth-Century Art

    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.

    Stock ID: 21633
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  • CURT VALENTIN GALLERY
    Exhibitions 1951-1952

    New Curt Valentin Gallery 1951-52. 1951

    A set of the gallery's ten exhibition catalogues for that year, in their original wrappers, bound together with a descriptive title page. Exhibitions include Lehmbruch and his Contemporaries, Gerhard Marchs, Sculpture by Painters, Recent Etchings and Lithographs, Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, Lyonel Feininger, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Henri Laurens. Sm 8vo. 6 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches. Variously paged. Fine in grey cloth, gilt spine lettering which is rubbed and hard to read. The striking wrappers for each exhibition alongside the illustrations to each catalogue make this a great set, documenting the projects of the gallery in the immediate post war period. Valetin, first moved to in 1937 New York where he opened…

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    New Curt Valentin Gallery 1951-52. 1951

    A set of the gallery's ten exhibition catalogues for that year, in their original wrappers, bound together with a descriptive title page. Exhibitions include Lehmbruch and his Contemporaries, Gerhard Marchs, Sculpture by Painters, Recent Etchings and Lithographs, Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, Lyonel Feininger, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Henri Laurens. Sm 8vo. 6 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches. Variously paged. Fine in grey cloth, gilt spine lettering which is rubbed and hard to read. The striking wrappers for each exhibition alongside the illustrations to each catalogue make this a great set, documenting the projects of the gallery in the immediate post war period. Valetin, first moved to in 1937 New York where he opened the Buchholz Gallery in September , at 3 West 46 Street. In 1939 the gallery relocated to 32 East 57 Street. From 1951 to 1955 it operated under the name Curt Valentin Gallery, still specializing in modern French and German art. This group of catalogues represents those works exhibited in the first year of the gallery. Valentin was a key figure in the dispersal of so-called "degenerate" art (that is, banished modern artworks removed by the elected government from German state-owned museums in 1937 and sent abroad for sale.) Records of Curt Valentin's activities in New York can be found at MOMA, New York.

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    Stock ID: 6657
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  • [KENT, Rockwell] BUCK, Glen [ text by]
    Fifty Years A B Dick Company 1884-1934

    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.

    Stock ID: 21037
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  • (TANNER) FENN Time (editor)
    From Old Chapel Field: Selected letters of Robin Tanner

    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.

    Stock ID: 536
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  • [GOYA] CAXTON, Francisco Javier Sanchez.
    Goya and the Black Paintings

    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.

    Stock ID: 22147
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  • [KLIMT] HOFSTATTER , Hans K.
    Gustav Klimt Erotic Drawings

    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.

    Stock ID: 22532
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