Vietnam Inc.
(London: Phaidon, 2008). Large 8vo. Black and white photographic illustrations. Card covers with printed flaps, an excellent copy. Originally published in 1971. More
Art
A Gothic Vision: F.L. Griggs and His Work.
Boston Public Library and Ashmoleon Museum, Oxford, 1978. Second edition, one of 500 copies. 4to. xii, 370 pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered to the spine. Black and white illustrations. Very good. A substantial catalogue of this prolific wood engraver's work. First published in 1966. More
Painter of Moonlight. Edited by Jane Sellars.
The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate Borough Council, 2011. First edition. 4to. xii, 180 pp. Publisher's colour illustrated card covers with flaps. Colour illustrated. Slight sunning to the spine, very good. More
Gwathmey Siegel. Buildings and Projects 1982-1992. Introduction by Peter Eisenman. Edited by...
New York: Rizzoli, (1993). First edition. 4to. 336 pp. Publisher's beige cloth, white lettered to the spine, dust jacket, inscribed by both Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel to the fellow architect Michael Wilford "with great admiration and respect...". Profusely illustrated. Fading to the jacket spine, else very good. More
A Summer in Saint Tropez.
London: Collins, 1982. First edition. 4to. 118, (2) pp. Publisher's black cloth, white lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Colour photographic illustrations. Slight wear to the head of the jacket spine with a small tear at the corner of the lower panel, else very good. More
Nina Hamnett: Queen of Bohemia.
London: Constable, 1986. First edition, 8vo, 288 pp. 8 colour and numerous other black and white illustrations. Cloth, d.w. with mild wear to corners. More
Beguiled by the Wild. The Art of Charley Harper. Introduction by Roger Caras.
Gaithersburg: Flower Valley Press, (1994). 4to, 132 pp. Coloured illustrations. Cloth, d.w. with light browning. More
Drained.
Heaton Moor, Stockport: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2018. First edition. Square 4to. 92, (4) pp. Publisher's blue boards, silver lettered to the spine and upper cover, the latter also featuring a mounted black and white photographic illustration, inscribed by Hart on the title page. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Very..... More
Fashion Etcetera...
(Bowral): The Haskins Press, (2009). First edition, folio, (vi), 310 pp. Numerous photographic illustrations in both colour and black and white. Cloth, d.w., an excellent copy. More
Photo Graphics.
Genève: RotoVision SA, (1980). First edition, 4to, (140) pp. Coloured photographic illustrations throughout, signed by Haskins on the title page. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
Wild-Life Calendar, 1960.
British Transport Hotels; (Printed at the Curwen Press), [1959]. Oblong 8vo, 15 leaves printed on one side only, being the cover and a leaf per month plus two half sized insets advertising hotels. 12 wood engraved illustrations, list of hotels to the reverse. Spiral bound with some wear to the..... More
James Havard. Foreword by David Lynch. Introduction by C.K. Williams. Essay by Julie Sasse. Afterword by Dianne Vanderlip.
New York: Hudson Hills Press, (2006). First edition, 4to, (x), 237, (1) pp. Numerous colour illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More
Nash, Nevinson, Spencer, Gertler, Carrington, Bomberg: a Crisis of Brilliance, 1908-1922 With Essays by Frances Spalding and Alexandra Harris.
London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishing... in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2013. First edition. 4to. 176 pp. Publisher's printed card covers with flaps. Illustrated throughout, mostly in colour. A few minor rubs, very good. More
English Rooms & their Decoration at a Glance. A Simple Review in Pictures of English Rooms and their Decoration from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Centuries. Volume I 1066-1620... Volume II 1620-1800.
London: The Architectural Press, 1925. First editions. Two volumes. 8vo. xii, 83, (1); xii, 86 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards, volume I with a gift inscription to Peter E. Leach from his aunt, volume II inscribed to him from "an old friend", dust jackets. Black and white illustrations throughout. Some..... More
Poole Pottery. Carter & Company and their Successors 1873-1998. Edited by Paul Atterbury.
Shepton Beauchamp: Richard Dennis, 1998. Second edition. 4to. 208 pp. Publisher's green cloth, silver lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Profusely illustrated, mostly in colour. Occasional mild wear to the jacket, very good. More
French Costume Drama of the 1950s. Fashioning Politics in Film.
Bristol: Intellect, (2010). First edition, large 8vo, 480 pp. Black and white illustrations, inscribed from the author to the half title. Original pictorial paperback covers, some very mild rubbing, near fine. More
A Dialogue with Solitude.
(Toronto): Lumiere Press, (2000). Limited edition, no. 84 of 100 copies signed by the Author, 4to, (100) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., held in a folding cloth case with a signed and numbered photograph ("Washington Square, New York City, 1958") in a separate paper folder. Fine. More
Monument Builders. Modern Architecture and Death.
London: Academy Editions, 1999. First edition. 4to. 224 pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Very good. More
Jazz Bibliography. International Literature on Jazz, Blues, Spirituals, Gospel and Ragtime Music with a Selected List of Works on the Social and Cultural Background from the Beginning to the Present.
München: K.G. Saur, 1981. 8vo, viii, 368 pp, marginal browning throughout, original orange cloth, spine a little darkened. More
Stephen Heller: His Life and Words. From the French of H. Bardbedette.
London: Ashdown & Parry, 1877. First edition, small 8vo, (x), 89, (1), xii pp. Photographic portrait frontispiece and a folding plate of music. Original gilt titled and decorated green cloth, light rubbing to extremities otherwise a very good copy. Heller was a Hungarian composer and concert pianist. More
Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta: A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel.
Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1992. First edition thus. 8vo. x, 412 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt to the spine and upper board, slipcase on the same design. Colour illustrations reproducing the original manuscript throughout. Slight fraying to the edges of the cloth slipcase, else very good. More
The Wood-Engravings of... Edited and with an Introduction by Judith Russell. Essays by Simon Brett and Bryan Robertson.
Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1993. First edition. Folio. 132 pp. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, Fleece Press Christmas card on handmade paper with a Hermes engraving on the front loosely inserted, with a pencilled inscription at the bottom from Simon Lawrence - "with apologies for wrong-side..... More
The Art of East Asia.
Cologne: Könemann, 1998. First edition. Two volumes. 4to. 406; 407, (1) pp. Publisher's red cloth, blind lettered to the spine, dust jackets, colour illustrated slipcase. Profusely illustrated in colour. An excellent set. More
A Weekend with Mr. Frank.
Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2006. Limited edition, no. 147 of 500 copies. 8vo. (16) pp. Publisher's gold boards with white lettering. Five black and white photographic reproductions plus, at the rear, an original tipped in print signed by the Hibi to the verso. Very good. Images of the photographer Robert Frank..... More
Japanese Crafts: Materials and their Applications. Selected Early Papers from the Japan Society of London.
London: East-West Publications, (1978). First reprint, viii, 360 pp, black and white illustrations, cloth, d.w., a fine copy. More