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The luck of the Bean-Rows:
A fairy tale for lucky children
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"
Stock ID: 22809More details Price: £55.00 -
Oho
London John Lane, The Bodley Head 1946
Illustrated with 15 reversible heads and 30 associated verses. paper covered boards with original unclipped dust wrapper. Dust wrapper a little worn at corners, base and head of the spine else good. Quirky collaboration by the famed British artist, designer and illustrator, Rex Whistler and his brother who wrote the verses. The drawings area of people which, when turned upside down, show a different but related person.
Stock ID: 22808More details Price: £25.00 -
Eskimo Graphic Art / L'art graphique des Esquimaux
Stock ID: 22805More details Price: £35.00 -
The Pot Book
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.
Stock ID: 22681More details Price: £75.00 -
Coombe Abbey, Warwickshire Original Water Colour
Stock ID: 22508More details Price: £125.00 -
Certain Trees The Constructed Book, Poem and Object 1964 - 2006
Sain-Yrieix-Perche Centre de livres d'artistes 2006
173pp. Colour images throughout. Contributions in the form of essays, poetry, musings and artwork from David Bellingham, John Bevis, Thomas A Clark and Laurie Clark, Les Coleman, Simon Cutts, Stephen Duncalf, Martin Fidler, Ian Hamilto Finlay, Brian Lane, Robert Lax, Stuart Mills, Martin Roger, Colin Sackett, Rica Van Horn, Steve Wheatley and Harry Gilonis. Small octavo with decorated green paper wraps. Exhibition leaflets and guide loosely inserted into book. Produced on the occasion of the exhibition which was held at the Centre de livres d'artistes in 2006 and later at the V&A, and organised with the support of The Henry Moore Foundation. A very fine copy and beautifully produced book.
Stock ID: 22504More details Price: £45.00 -
Young America 1965: Thirty American Artists Under Thirty-Five
New York Published for the Whitney Museum of Art by Frederick A. Praeger [1965]
Unpaginated and 50 black and white illustrations. Small 4to Off-white cloth, Slightly browned dust wrapper with titles and listing artists featured.
Stock ID: 22646More details Price: £35.00 -
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.
Stock ID: 22552More details Price: £150.00 -
William Blake's Illuminated Books
Stock ID: 22537More details Price: £250.00
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Kandinsky
London Thames and Hudson 1983
431pp illustrated. 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. First edition of this very good monograph.
Stock ID: 22536More details Price: £165.00 -
Walking in Circles
London Thames and Hudson 1991
To accompany an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. Long 4to. 263pp Illustrated throughout in black and white and colour. Very good with dust wrapper. Signed by Richard Long on half title. An Interview with Richard Long by Richard Cork. From the collection of Jonathan Silver.
Stock ID: 22535More details Price: £100.00 -
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.
Stock ID: 22534More details Price: £400.00 -
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: 22533More details Price: £385.00 -
Worlds and Windows
London & New York Anthony D'Offray and Robert Miller 1990
6-page introductory essay by Rosenblum + 130 full page colour reproductions of works in the Worlds and Windows series. Original publishers' blue cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. 310mm x 231mm. Not issued with a dust wrapper. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Inscribed in red ink "With love from Gilbert and George" on free end paper. From the collection of Johnathan and Maggie Silver.
Stock ID: 22531More details Price: £145.00 -
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: 22514More details Price: £110.00 -
Ivon Hitchens
London Lund Humphries 1973
Edited by Alan Bowness with an introductory essay by T.G. Rosenthal. Unpaginated c.334pp. 35pp introduction followed by 193 illustrative reproductions, 123 laid in, in colour. Quarto. Beige cloth covered boards with white lettering on spine. Dustwrapper. Ivon Hitchens was born in 1893. He spent many years living and painting in West Sussex, where the English countryside acted as inspiration for much of his work. This comprehensive monograph follows Hitchens artistic development from the 1920s to 1973, when Hitchens was celebrating his eightieth year, with the added benefit of information given by the artist himself to the authors. Dustwrapper chipped and torn in three places else a very good copy.
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Vasarely
Plastic Arts of the 20th Century. Collection edited by Marcel Joray. Introduction by Marcel Joray. Texts and dummy by Victor Vasarely. Translated by Haakon Chevalier.
Basel Editions du Griffon Neuchatel 1965
Plastic arts of the 20th Century: 194pp illustrated with full page optical images. Complete with five plastic illustrated transparencies/overlays that are not bound in. Chronology of work at the end of the book. 4to. Lettered grey cloth boards. Very good. Head of dust wrapper very slightly bumped on upper side and dust wrapper slightly browned else good.
Stock ID: 22505More details Price: £80.00 -
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.
Stock ID: 22502More details Price: £110.00 -
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: 21037More details Price: £220.00 -
The Brassfounder's Manual
Instructions for Modelling, Pattern-Making, Moulding, Alloying, Turning, Filing, Burnishing, Bronzing, Etc. Etc. With Copious Receipts and Tables and Notes on Prime Costs and Estimates
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.
Stock ID: 22420More details Price: £20.00