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
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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. Publisher's plain card wrappers, dust jacket with stylised lettering to both covers. Profusely illustrated in black and white throughout plus 30 pp. of colour illustrations to the rear. Tape to the head of the spine sometime... More
Ackermann's Regency Furniture & Interiors. Text by... Introduction by Stephen Jones.
(Marlborough): The Crowood Press, (1984). 4to, 200 pp. Illustrations in both colour and black and white. Cloth, d.w. with some mild soiling otherwise very good. More
Old Manor Houses.
London: William Heinemann, (1923). First edition, small 4to, (iv), 108, (2) pp. 12 coloured plates with captioned tissues, numerous illustrations in the text, inscription to half title, pictorial endpapers. Original gilt and blue decorated grey cloth, a lovely copy. More
I Only Want You to Love Me.
New York: Rizzoli, (2013). First edition, 4to, 273, (15) pp. Numerous photographic illustrations. Original pictorial boards, foot of upper joint slightly worn, otherwise good. 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 the book. 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 handcoloured 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 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
Henri Matisse. A Novel. Translated by Jean Stewart.
London: Collins, (1972). First English edition, 2 volumes, 4to. Numerous illustrations, a few in colour, signature to fly leaf in the second volume.. Cloth, d.w., some mild wear to extremities, 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
The Work of Atget. Volume I - Old France. Volume II - The Art of Old Paris. Volume III - The Ancien Régime. Volume IV - Modern Times.
(I, III & IV) London: Gordon Fraser; (II) New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1981-85). Four volumes, volumes I, III and IV first UK editions, volume II first US edition, 4to. 476 photographic plates. Cloth, d.w.'s, a fine set. 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
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
Gillian Ayres.
(Aldershot): Lund Humphries, (2001). First edition, 4to, 191, (1) pp. Coloured illustrations throughout. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. 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, some faint staining, d.w. with light wear to extremities. More
David Bailey. Archive One. 1957-1969.
(London): Thames & Hudson, (1999). First edition, 4to, 273, (3) pp. 313 photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., light soiling to the top edge of the lower wrapper otherwise a very good 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
Venetian Art Glass. An American Collection 1840-1970.
(Stuttgart): Arnoldsche, (2004). First edition, 4to, 352 pp. Colour illustrations throughout. Boards, d.w., a fine copy. More
The Journal of a Young Artist. 1860-1884. Translated by Mary J. Serrano.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, (1926). 8vo, xiv, 467, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece, marbled endpapers, minor marks from an old staple to fly leaf and subsequent blank. Contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., moiré sides, gilt spine, sunned, a very good copy. More
In Praise of John Baskerville. A Tribute by... Illustrated by Anthony Christmas.
(Wakefield): The Fleece Press, (1994). Limited edition, one 260 copies, oblong 32mo - covers measuring 53 x 74 mm, (64) pp. 10 illustrations. Patterned boards, fine. More