Nicolai Abildgaard. Revolution Embodied.
(Copenhagen: Statens Museum for Kunst, 2009). First edition, 4to, 294, (2) pp. Numerous illustrations, mainly in colour. Pictorial boards, fine. More
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Ansel Adams at 100.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, (2001). First edition, oblong folio, 191, (1) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations, loose print held in an envelope at the end. Linen boards, slipcase, fine. More
Appalachian Lives.
Jackson: University of Mississippi, (2003). First edition, 4to, xxii, 98 pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Pictorial boards, d.w., a fine copy. More
Dada and Surrealism Reviewed. With an Introduction by David Sylvester and a Supplementary Essay by Elizabeth Cowling. [with] An Outline of Dada and Surrealism by...
London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978. First edition. Two volumes. 4to. xii, 475, (1) pp. Publisher's taupe cloth decorated with stylised lettering to both boards, "Outline" in plain white wrappers with black lettering. Profusely illustrated in black and white throughout plus 30 pages of colour illustrations to the rear..... More
Qilima Shqiptare. Tapis Albanais. The Albanian Carpets.
The State University of Tirana, [1970s]. Folio. 12, 12, 12 pp. Publisher's grey cloth backed ring bound covers with gold decoration to the upper board, dust jacket. 54 colour plates. Some soiling and light wear to the jacket, else in very good condition. More
David de Almeida.
[Lisbon]: ACD Editores, 2008. First edition. 4to. 349, (1) pp. Publisher's black cloth, silver lettered to the spine and upper board, dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in colour. Fine. A well illustrated catalogue of this Portuguese artist. The three articles on the artist are repeated in English at the rear of..... More
Hints to Young Practitioners in the Study of Landscape Painting... Intended to Show the Different Stages of the Neutral Tint... to which are Added, Instructions in the Art of Painting on Velvet.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, [c. 1804]. Second edition. 8vo. (vi), 67, (1) pp. Original boards, recently rebacked to style. Engraved title page with vignette plus 6 plates, including 1 hand coloured and 1 tinted. A very good copy. More
Santa Barbara Architecture from Spanish Colonial to Modern. Photography by Wayne McCall. Text by... Introduction by David Gebhard. Edited by Bob Easton and Wayne McCall.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1980. Second edition. Oblong 4to. 297, (3) pp. Publisher's pebbled black board, gilt lettered to the spine and upper cover, the latter with mounted photographic illustration, pictorial endpapers, original glassine wrapper. Numerous black and white photographic illustrations throughout. An excellent copy. More
The Art of Florence. Principal Photography by Takashi Okamura.
New York and London: Artabras, [N.d.]. First Artabras edition, ninth printing overall. Two volumes. 4to. 703, (1); (8), 713-1312 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spines and blind stamped to the boards, slipcase with colour illustrations to the sides. Profusely illustrated throughout. An excellent set. More
The Half. Photographs of Actors Preparing for the Stage.
(London): Faber and Faber, (2008). First edition. 4to. xii, 308 pp. Publisher's grey boards, blind lettered to the spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. Black and white photographs throughout. Fine. More
Picture Magazine. Issue # 16. Diane Arbus: A Monograph of Seventeen Photographs.
(Los Angeles, 1980). Folio, (36) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations, subscription insert bound in. Original wrappers, stapled as issued, some mild soiling, very good. More
Arnaboldi.
(Basel: Birkhaüser Verlag AG, 2010). First edition. 4to. 62, (74) pp. Publisher's grey cloth with light grey lettering to the spine and upper board, dust jacket. 48 pages of colour photographic illustrations to the front plus numerous black and white illustrations to the text pages at the rear. A few..... More
Cinéma Calendrier du Cœur Abstrait: Maisons. Bois par Arp.
Ann Arbor: Thomas Press, (c.1982). Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies. Small 4to. (40) pp. Original white boards with red printed wraparound band, slipcase, folded sheet comprising of 6 pp. of English translations by Mary Ann Caws loosely inserted. 19 woodblocks after Hans Arp. Mark to the slipcase which has..... More
The School Prints. A Romantic Project.
(London: Ruth Artmonsky, 2006). First edition, oblong 8vo, 125, (1) pp. Illustrations in both colour and black and white. Paperback, d.w., a fine copy. More
Mute 3. (Works after 1987).
Sorø: Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum; Dublin: The Irish Museum of Modern Art & Manchester: Cornerhouse, (1992). 4to, 35, (1) pp. Coloured illustrations. Pictorial wrappers, spine a little worn. More
Observations. Photographs by Richard Avedon. Comments by Truman Capote.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1959). First English edition, folio, 151, (1) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations, brief inscription to fly leaf. Original boards, slightly soiled, foot of spine rubbed, slipcase also somewhat marked and a little worn, one corner with loss. More
An Autobiography.
New York: Randon House, Inc. and Eastman Kodak Company, 1993. Second impression. 4to. (432) pp. Publisher's brown buckram, lettered in red of differing shades to the spine and upper board, the lower board with a mounted photographic self portrait of Avedon, thick glassine wrapper, housed in the original cardboard box..... More
The Life and Lineage of Nancy Haselswon.
(London: Nylon, 1999). Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies, this copy not numbered or signed, 4to, (64) pp. Coloured illustrations, one corner creased. Cloth, d.w. with mild soiling, very good. More
Berlioz. A Singular Obsession. A personal portrait of Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) on the centenary of his death.
(London): British Broadcasting Corporation, (1969). First edition, large 8vo, 64 pp. Numerous illustrations, a few in colour. Inscribed from Ayrton on the fly leaf, later owner's ink stamp to the foot of the same page. Cloth, d.w. a little worn to extremities. More
Goodbye Baby & Amen. A Saraband for the Sixties.
New York: Coward-McCann, (1969). First American edition, folio, 237, (3) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., slight rubbing to spine ends, small crease to the foot of the upper cover. More
David Bailey. Archive One. 1957-1969.
(London): Thames & Hudson, (1999). First edition, 4to, 273, (3) pp. 313 photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., an excellent copy. More
Bailey's Stardust.
London: National Portrait Gallery, 2014. First edition. 4to. 272 pp. Publisher's colour illustrated boards, signed by Bailey to the half title. Photographically illustrated throughout, predominantly in black and white. An excellent copy. More
Architecture & Personalities.
London: Country Life Limited, (1944). First edition. Large 8vo. Publisher's cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, lettered and decorated to the upper board, dust jacket, price clipped. Frontispiece, illustration of a bust of the author which is also replicated on the upper cover of the dust jacket plus 182 black..... More
The Casting-Counter and the Counting-Board. A Chapter in the History of Numismatics and early Arithmetic.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916. First edition, 4to, 357, (1) pp. 64 plates, some foxing, with a letter to a previous owner and several relevant press cuttings tipped in, other material loosely inserted. Original gilt titled dark blue buckram, some rubbing to extremities otherwise very good. A scholarly and very scarce..... More