Gone? Colorado in the 1980s.
(Göttingen, Steidl Publishers, 2010). First edition, 4to, 109, (7) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy.
Art
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Untitled.
New York: Aperture, 2011. Fourth printing. Small folio. (114) pp. Publisher's grey boards illustrated to the upper cover, dust jacket replicating the same design, original price sticker to the lower cover. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Very good.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gillian Ayres.
(Aldershot): Lund Humphries, (2001). First edition, 4to, 191, (1) pp. Coloured illustrations throughout. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
Burlesques.
London: Duckworth & Co., (1922). 4to, (viii), 71, (1) pp. Black and white illustrations. Original cloth backed boards, d.w. with tears and some loss and repairs to reverse.