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Ivon Hitchens. A Retrospective Exhibition
London Lund Humphries 1963
Unpaginated. 158 black and white and colour images forming the main body of the catalogue with a foreword by Gabriel White, an Introduction by Alan Bowness and a useful list of public collections holding the work of Hitchens. A biography, list of exhibitions, select bibliography and list of lenders concludes the book. Exhibition catalogue for an Arts Council retrospective held at Tate Gallery, London July - August 1963. (The exhibition toured to Bradford and then on to Birmingham). Foreword by Gabriel White. Paper wraps with wrap around flaps, small quarto. Very good copy.
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Ivon Hitchens. Unseen Paintings from the 30s
London Jonathan Clark Fine Art 2009
Unpaginated. Foreword by Simon Hucker suceeded by 23 colour plates of works from the exhibition followed by biography, bibliography etc. Decorated paper wraps. Perfect Bound. Very good copy in cellophane wrapper.
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Joseph Cornell Portfolio
Stock ID: 21572More details Price: £85.00 -
Kandinsky
London Thames and Hudson 1983
431pp illustrated. 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. First edition of this very good monograph.
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Light box
London Architectural Association Box 1 1985
32pp text-booklet ('sketchbook'), + collection of material comprising piece of silk screened fabric, tin & copper-plate, 'chessboard' & two circuit boards. 320x320mm in presentation purple box with decorative gilt title on front. Vg. With introductory essays by: Dawn Ades, Nigel Coates, J. Christopher Joner, John Thackara. Collection of material for Daniel Weil's 'Light Box' installation. Mechanism of opening box slightly damaged because of poor assembly when made. Hard to find. The box explores the 1980s works of the 1980s. Best known for his deconstructed radio in a clear bag which challenged the idea of audio equipment always being in a black box.
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Mary Fedden
London Scolar Press; 1st Edition 1995
96pp illustrated in colour. 4to. Very good with dust wrapper.
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Mummy's Bedtime Story Book
London, Cecil Palmer nd [1929]
56pp illustrated with eleven full-page illustrations and others on text pages Recent paper covered boards with original pictorial printed paper covered boards pasted onto them and the spine to make a good copy. Original yellow, blue & white pictorial endpapers. Red pencil name of owner in the past largely erased but has left a very faint mark on half title page.
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Paintings and Drawings by William Roberts R.A.
London Royal Academy 1975
44 b/w plates. 4to. Print wrappers. Loosely inserted paper clippings about Roberts, a post card and photocopy from the National portrait gallery about Roberts c10pp stapled. Very good Wrappers slightly worn at head and base of spine. A previous owner has added some slipped in colour plates of some of the illustrations in the catalogue.
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Peter Blake
London The Tate Gallery 1983
136pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Square 4to 200x200mm. Black laminated wrappers. Very good copy. Foreword by Alan Bowness.L oosley inserted is a 9 page booklet containing Explanations and thoughts toward my Exhibition, a selection of work in progress, letters from friends, bad reviews, good reviews. Also in envelope is a print of the Owl and the Pussycat signed in facsimile by the artist. This exhibition was the first retrospective of Peter Blake's work and also included in this book are extensive articles on Peter Blake, the Ruralist movement and 'Durable Expendables'.
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Peter Lanyon. His Painting
Henley-on-Thames Aiden Ellis Publishing Limited 1971
70pp + 72 colour and black and white, single-sided plates interspersed throughout the text pages. Grey cloth covered boards with white titling on spine and upper board. Dust wrapper a little grubby with tear to upper left edge and spine. Internally a very neat copy. A comprehensive overview of the artists life and work, including lists of exhibitions, locations of his work in public collections, bibliography and biography. Introduction by sculptor and Lanyon's contemporary from St Ives, Naum Gabo.
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Pi in the High
London Faith Press 1959
64pp with b/w line illustrations by Barbara Jones. Decorated paper covered boards with green cloth spine. Board decorations also by Barbara Jones. A little dusty else good copy of this title.
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Play Orbit: Catalogue of the exhibition at Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, Flint, 1969 and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1969-1970
London Studio International 1969
186pp illustrated with b/w plates and colour frontis. 4to. Wrappers. Very good copy. Graphics and catalogue cover design: Ken Hughes Catalogue Design: Malcolm Lauder. Jasia Reichardt's 1969 exhibition Play Orbit was a literal articulation of Herbert Read's commitment to play, featuring toys and games as works to be considered as art, however within the concept of 'play' arguably lies an assumption of a more direct act of participation. In 1968 she was curator of the landmark Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition, also at the ICA.
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Precious Light,
King James Bible, A Celebration 1611-2011 London & the City Art Centre, Edinburgh
Revolution Editions 2011
308pp illustrated colour illustrations. Decorated wrappers, Paperback with French flaps. Strident inscription in thick black pen from David Mach. Edinburgh 2011. Very good copy.
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ROETHEL Hans K. & BENJAMIN, Jean K.
Kandinsky Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings Volume One: 1900-1915 and Volume Two: 1916-1944
London Sotheby Parke 1982
1118 pages with over 1000 illustrations (some in colour). A catalogue raisonné of Kandinsky's oil paintings, comprising over 1000 works; all the descriptive text is in English. Black cloth covered boards with gilt titling. Dust wrappers. Spines slightly sunned else very good. From the collection of Jonathan Silver.
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Saint Hercules and other Stories with drawings by Paul Nash
London The Fleuron Limited, printed by Oliver Simon at the Curwen Press 1927
no 20 of 310 printed on Zander's hand made paper. 65pp, illustrated with with five drawings, hand-coloured through stencils by the artist. Gilt lettered spine, Decorated boards using a Paul Nash design for patterned papers. Small wormhole in front end paper, corner tips a little rubbed else very good copy.
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Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grim with original etchings by David Hockney
Petersburg Press 1970
Unpaginated, c 60pp, illustrated with 39 David Hockney etchings. A small volume (4.25 by 3 inches), bound in blue leatherette with silver gilt lettering.
Stock ID: 22176More details Price: £75.00 -
The Anatomy of Melancholy
What It Is, With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, & Several Cures of It.
Stock ID: 21038More details Price: £500.00
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The Andy Warhol Diaries
London Simon & Schutster Ltd 1989
xix + 807pp with 2 gatherings of black and white photographs, largely taken by Warhol himself. Black cloth boards with silver titling on spine and original dustwrapper. Very good, with slight sun mark along top edge of boards. Spans the period from 1976 to Warhol's early death in 1987. Warhol, who had phoned his long-time friend and collaborator, Hackett, every morning since '76, to recount the events of the previous 24 hours left Hackett with over twenty thousand resulting manuscripts of which this book is a selection. An illuminating social document and inside view into the art world and social happenings of the period.
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The Boots Millennium Sculpture Garden
Nottingham Boots Company June 2000
Mark Lutyens Associates designed the garden. Introductory text + gatefold colour photographic section of 34 images showing the garden + 14 single sided cards each with b/w high quality photo image of sculpture or plants in the gardens + map showing layout. The parts are stored in a white box with photo image on upper surface.
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The Enchanted Capital of Scotland: A tale of mystery and adventure
Edinburgh Plaid Stationary 1945
54pp. Packed full with b/w illustrations plus 4 double-spread colour illustrations by Jessie M. King. Her last book. Small 4to. (245mm x 185mm) Blue boards with gilt lettering. Pictorial wrap around illustrated dust wrapper. The dust wrapper missing in the inner flap and is worn with several closed tears. Chip missing on upper front corner. The book itself is in very good condition.
Stock ID: 21063More details Price: £120.00