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
Making a Photograph. An Introduction to Photography by... Illustrated by the Author. (Foreword by Edward Weston).
London: The Studio Limited, (1939). Large 8vo, 104 pp. 36 photographic plates tipped in, one in colour, contemporary signature to paste down, mild foxing to the edges of the paste down and title page. Original cloth backed pictorial boards, rubbing to edges. "How to Do It" series, no. 8. Originally..... 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
Postmodernism. Style and Subversion 1970-1990.
(London): V&A Publishing, (2012). First edition, 4to, 318 pp. Numerous illustrations, pencilled underlining throughout. Original pictorial wrappers, near fine. More
Dada and Surrealism Reviewed. With an Introduction by David Sylvester and a Supplementary Essay by Elizabeth Cowling.
(London): Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978. First edition. 4to. xii, 475, (1) pp. 30 pages of colour illustrations at the end plus numerous black and white illustrations in the text. Plain card wrappers, d.w. with very mild rubbing, near fine in its original cardboard box, handwritten title to the..... 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
Art for Life. The Story of Peggy Angus. With a Foreword by Tanya Harrod.
Oldham: The Incline Press, 2004 (but 2005). Limited edition, no. 194 of 350 copies. 4to. (iv), 242, (2) pp. Publisher's mustard half cloth over patterned paper boards with an accompanying matching cloth backed folder containing a CD and a collection of facsimile artwork, pamphlets and further illustrations, the whole held..... 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
British Drawings in the India Office Library. Volume I - Amateur Artists. Volume II - Official and Professional Artists.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1969. First edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo. Coloured frontispieces and 120 black and white plates, piece of craft paper erroneously bound in at p.296 in the first volume. Cloth, d.w.'s, spine to volume I sunned, some rubbing to the spine ends of volume II. 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
50 Ans d'Art Moderne.
Bruxelles: Exposition Internationales des Beaux-Arts, 1958. First edition. Large 8vo. (92) pp. Full purple morocco with beaded gilt rules in irregular geometric patterns to both boards, inlaid panels of brown leather to some of the panels, gilt device to the spine. 32 colour plates plus another 8 black and white..... 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
Frank Auerbach. London Building Sites 1952-1962. Essays by Margaret Garlake, Paul Moorhouse and Barnaby Wright.
London: The Courtauld Gallery in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, (2009). First edition, 4to, 127, (1) pp. Numerous illustrations, guide for a 2001 Royal Academy Auerbach exhibition loosely inserted. Pictorial paperback, a fine copy. 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