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.

London Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd 1965

[vi], 174pp, [xxxviii]. Black and white photographs throughout by Ken Heyman. Plus colour catalogue of Pop Art examples after the text. Foreword by Samuel Adams Green, Director of the Philadelphia Institute for Contemporary Art. First UK edition. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt title on spine. Original dustwrapper protected in cellophane wrap. Book and d/w near fine. The first major work to address the then most controversial of all modern art movements. An interesting analysis of the influence of Pop Art on the mainstream of modern art and contemporary culture.

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.

Sidcot Anthony Baker, The Gruffyground Press 1977

8pp. B/w woodcuts by Richard Shirley Smith. 160 mm × 237 mm. 110 copies produced. Printed in black in Bell roman and italic on pale blue Portals mould-made laid paper. Bound in an unprinted French-folded dark blue Japanese Mingei handmade laid paper cover. Very good. Paper wraps a little sun bleached. Very scarce to find a copy of this which is bound, after publisher Anthony Baker shunned the publication for its poor printing quality. Most of the copies of this publication remain uncollated, unfolded sheets, without covers.

Manchester At the College of Science and Technology 1961

7 x 8pp 8vo gathering for an illustrated version of Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode is a narrative poem with strong tragic themes by Matthew Arnold, first published in 1853. These gatherings produced with illustrations at the printing department of the College of Science and Technology. Illustrations by Margaret Turner. Produced by Christopher Day and John Naylor. Colophon indicates there was to be a numbered edition of this publication. Preserved in white paper wrapper contemporary with the pages publication. Unbound.

London The Arts Council 1955

16pp. Exhibition pamphlet, stapled, with card wraps. 8 b/w plates, foreword, essay by Palmer, biographical notes and list of work in the exhibition. Wraps a little rubbed and worn, name of former owner on upper right corner of front cover. Very good. A short but useful introduction to Spencer Frederick Gore, first president of the Camden Town Group.

Princeton and Oxford Princeton University Press 2001

185pp. 31 color plates, 55 black-and-white illustrations. Decorated boards with cloth spine and gilt titling, in dust wrapper. Book and d/w both fine. A comprehensive study of the Hudson River School in the nineteenth century.

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.

Wakefield The Fleece Press 1991

156 pp. Illustrated with engravings of printers at work. Quarter red cloth, printed paper boards. Rear pocket contains a wood engraving signed by Lawrence. Square quarto. Fine copy in cloth slipcase with a little wear. One of 250 unnumbered copies. From the library of Michael Harvey.

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.

London Strahan & Co. Publishers 1870 (1861)

3rd edition, with illustrations. viii + 141pp + 12pp list of publications by Weales and 32pp Crosby Lockwood titles. Decorated end papers with further information on the Weale's series of publications. Green stamped cloth boards with gilt title and paper title label on spine. Paper label, rubbed and missing in places and inside hinges cracked, else a good copy. Bookseller's label (Wm. Henry Greer) paste down in top left corner of inside upper board.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1962

257pp with 257 b/w and 24 colour illustrations Square 4to. Very good copy in sl. worn and scuffed dust wrapper with one inch piece missing from spine top. Nonetheless a striking copy. A comprehensive review of the Russian contribution to the modern movement.

London The Arts Council 1964

Unpaginated. 12pp illustrated with b/w plates. This catalogue reviews the work of the first eight Gregory Fellows appointed at Leeds University. They were Reg Butler, Martin Froy, Kenneth Armitage, Terry Frost, Hubert Dalwood, Alan Davie Trevor Bell and Austin Wright. The Gregory Fellows was the brainchild of Mr Eric Craven Gregory who established the fellowships in 1949 to promote contemporary art and sculpture. He was a Yorkshire business man and chair of the art publishing company, Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., Hard to find catalogue. Note in red ink on upper wrapper providing a name and address in neat hand.

London Daniel O'Connor, 1921

60pp illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser with title-page vignette and 30 further colour-printed illustrations by Fraser of varying sizes. A charming fairy-tale by Charles Nodier. Translated into English. Very slightly worn at corner, head and base of spine and end paper a little browned. else a very good copy. Loosely inserted folded broadsheet A Garland of New Songs by L.F. Printed at the Curwen Press. Stamp on verso of half title "With the publisher's compliments"

London & Edinburgh T.N. Foulis 1910

From the Arts and Crafts of the Nations series - General Editor: S.H.F. Capenny. xv + 444pp + [ivpp list of new art books from T.N. Foulis] Seven tipped in colour plates along with other b/w illustrations. Paper covered boards with brown cloth spine. Black lettering on upper board and gilt titles on spine. Quarto. Deckled edged pages. Slight foxing inside but book block generally very good indeed. Outer boards a little scuffed with a bump on the right edge of the upper board. Mark from what looks to be a sticker on the spine. Fourteen chapters addressing; Egyptian pigments, Classical Mediums, Fresco Painting, Illuminated Manuscripts, Oil Paint etc.

Glasgow William MacLellan & Co. Ltd 1951

166pp. Copious black and white illustrations and designs plus 40 plates at the end of the text including three in colour. Colour frontispiece of the Tara Brooch. All "Pictish Decorations" by George Bain. Cloth covered boards with gilt titling and embossed decoration on upper board. Quarto. Previous owners name written in neat hand, along with an earlier dedication to a Jean Fraser. Good. Some minor foxing internally, and upper hinge cracked. Boards age worn and marked or nicked in some places. A good copy nonetheless, of an important and influential book which contributed to a revival of interest in Celtic art.

Trevor Hickman at the Brewhouse Private Press, Leicester 1974

Unpaginated c. 100pp, illustrated throughout with b/w drawings and photographs by Graham as well as brass rubbings, historical memorabilia etc. Cloth-backed boards with illustrations by Graham, vg indeed in protective glassine, this a little worn. Recording the travels of author, illustrator and binder along this ancient Norfolk coastal path. A synthesis of text and image, meditation and historical information, photograph and illustration, this is an evocative exploration of memory and place. No. 82 of 100 copies.

London Phaidon 2011

319pp illustrated in colour. Large 4to. Laminated boards, dust wrapper. Organised in an A-Z format, traces the artisan pots of ealy CHinese Millennia to modern vessels of Hans Coper and Grayson Perry today.