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.

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 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 Institute of Contemporary Arts 1979

36 unpaginated pages numerous b/w illustrations with captions. Small 4to, staple bound illustrated wrappers. Small chip to the verso else a good copy. Well illustrated, contemporary catalogue of Dimitrijević's work, one of the pioneers of conceptual art.

London Scolar Press; 1st Edition 1995

96pp illustrated in colour. 4to. Very good with dust wrapper. Dust wrapper a little bumped on top edge of spine. Bookplate of Jose and Michael Manser on front free end paper. Dedicated copy from Mary Fedden, written on half title page.

London, Cassell 1934

124pp, 67 plates b/w photographs. 4to. Yellow cloth with brown lettering in dw which is preserved in good order in a glassine wrapper. Signature of former owner on front end paper. Iconic book which covers work by: Sculptors: Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth; Painters: John Armstrong, John Bigge, Edward Burra, Tristram Hillier, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Edward Wadsworth; Architects: Wells Coates, Colin Lucas. Unit One was a British grouping of Modernist artists founded by Paul Nash. Despite its brief period of activity, the group is regarded as influential in establishing the pre-eminence of London as a centre of modernist and abstract art and architecture in the mid-1930s.

London A Canale Production 1957

16pp text + 12 pages of b/w plates. One of 400 copies, unnumbered. 4to. Yellow lettered boards. Very good copy. Some striking Vorticist images are included in this lovely publication.

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.

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.

London Architectural Association Box 4 2004

[14] pamphlet with introductory text and large colour images + 18 large colour plates. Large square 4to in presentation box with decorated colour title on front. Box is a little dusty with small nick on lower edge else very good copy. The 18 plates are each composed of nine Polaroid images that can be assembled in any arrangement to form a composite work, called Nine Times. The images on these plates were the most controversial of Holmes' work at the time of publication, in both form and content: unlikely combinations of fragments of contemporary living -- urban waste, trucks, flowers, animals and images culled from the TV screen.

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.

Wakefield The Fleece Press 1982

[112]pp. b/w wood engravings. 4to. Quarter buckram with gilt decoration and title, marbled paper covers and green slipcase. Limited edition, standard copy, no. 209 of 350. Exquisite collection of illustrations made from original wood engragvings, created as a second volume following 'S.T.E. Lawrence: Boxwood Blockmaker', printing work of artists missed out from the first book. With an introduction by John Lawrence. Fine.

Wakefield The Fleece Press 1986

[48]pp. Frontispiece, 2 small vignettes and 16 full page wood engravings, postcard showing a copy of this book specially bound by John Pearson loosely inserted. Quarto. Green quarter morocco, patterned paper boards in paper created by Sage Reynolds of New York. Preserved in a in custom made cloth covered drop-back box case A fine copy. Limited edition, no. 153 of 200 copies.

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 Architectural Association 1986

28pp booklet + 20 silkscreen prints which assembled form a print 1525x1120mm. Large square 4to in presentation black box with white title on front. Vg. Published to coincide with an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Andrew Holmes. Published as as edition of one thousand numbered 1/1000 this being number 146. Holmes has used this Folio to continue his explorations by creating twenty silkscreen fragments which when put together create dramatic 4 x 5 foot detail of Richard Rogers' hi-tech Inmos building.

Washington Government Printing Office 1902

[2] title + [13] numbered 501-513. Small 4to pamphlet. Edges sl. chipped else very good. A lecture on the development of art, specifically the shaping of materials, within the Victorian scientific paradigm of progressive cultural and material evolution. A lovely period piece.

London The Mayor Gallery 1984

Catalogue to accompany an exhibition to celebrate the half centenary of the first UNIT ONE exhibition held at the Mayor Gallery in Cork Street April 1934. 4to. Typographical cover based on a design by E McKnight Kauffer advertising Unit One in 1933. 98pp illus with b/w plates. Featuring the work of the original participants including Wells Coates, Colin Lucas, Edward Wadsworth, Ben Nicholson, Nash, Burra, Moore and Hepworth etc. Uncommon.

London, Bradbury, Agnew 1967

viii, 66 pages, 91 black and white plates. 4to in blue lettered cloth. A little wear to cloth and edges, else good. Catalogue of paintings and drawings originally from the Wantage Collection, now at Betterton House. A beautiful collection of works by artists including Canaletto, Constable, Degas and many others. The vast majority of items are accompanied by a b/w reproduction.