- Category = Art,Illustrated,Architecture,Fine Bindings,Photography,Prints & Posters
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A sketchbook containing original pencil, ink and charcoal sketches
Book ID: 3289More details Price: £200.00 -
A Travel Photograph Album Of England, Germany, South Tyrol And Austria
Book ID: 2911More details Price: £475.00 -
A Vanished World
London: Allen Lane, 1984. Second printing of this fascinating photo-book. In hardback in brown boards, under original unclipped dust jacket. Foreword by Elie Wiesel, himself a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. This book is illustrated with a comprehensive selection (180) of Vishniac's celebrated photographs of the Jews of Eastern Europe in the lead up to World War Two. Many of the photos are are full-page. The images were taken secretly, under difficult circumstances, between 1934 and 1939, and the negatives smuggled out sewn in to clothing etc. It is not an over statement to say that these photographs remain important to preserve for posterity unforgettable images of pre-war Jewish life. Unpaginated [96 pages]. 315 x 315 mm
Book ID: 3618More details Price: £40.00 -
A Window in Thrums
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1892. First edition. Illustrated with 18 etchings by William Hole. Limited edition. This copy is 450/550. Original blue cloth with gilt titles. Very nice clean copy with almost no bumping or edgewear. Internally spotless, with a foxing to the end papers only. xiv, 217 pp. 270 by 190 mm (10¾ by 7½ inches).
Book ID: 2380More details Price: £100.00 -
A Wonderful Likeness
Book ID: 2987More details Price: £150.00 -
Adp Riot Tour. Limited Edition Distressed Riot Map
Jimmy Cauty. States Second Edition - 13th June 2016. This copy hand numbered #33 of limited number of 100. Please note: comes folded and in a deliberately 'distressed' condition. Each map has been hand-distressed and the deliberate tears may vary from ones shown in the images. 1030 x 750 mm (40½ x 29½ inches).
Book ID: 2486More details Price: £45.00 -
Age of Surrealism
London: Dennis Dobson, 1953. First GB edition. Published in hardback in original dust jacket. Russet cloth boards under jacket are clean. Dust jacket is light coloured so has some age toning and grubbiness. The first popularly written history of surrealism in art and literature which has appeared in Great Britain when it was published. Professor Fowlie deals in this book with the artists: Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Breton, Apollinaire, Cocteau, Eluard, Mallarmé, and Picasso. Previous owner's name and stamp to FFEP. Overall good copy. 203 pages. 220 x 150 mm (8¾ x 6 inches).
Book ID: 3547More details Price: £30.00 -
Ai Weiwei: On The Table.
Barcelona: La Virreina / La Fábrica, 2014. First edition, in its original clothbound format. Unpaginated [280 pages]. 310 x 230 mm (12¼ x 9 inches). This book served as both a retrospective of Weiwei's career, and as a companion publication to the exhibition of the same name. With photographs of many of his best-known items, an essay by the exhibition's curator Rosa Pera, and an artist interview conducted by Llucià Homs. Text in Catalan, English and Spanish. Ai Weiwei is best known for his use of Chinese art forms to display Chinese political and social issues. This book includes photographs from his early years in New York, a selection of his 'altered objects', such as 'Suitcase for Bachelor', and 'One Man-Shoe', plus much more.
Condition: Like new.
Book ID: 2689More details Price: £35.00 -
Aigle et Palombe au Survol de la Mer
Book ID: 2153More details Price: £400.00 -
Airborne - The New Dance photography of Lois Greenfield
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998. Softcover first edition. Clean and tidy white covers. Internally in excellent condition. Dance photography. 112 pages. 265 by 265mm (10½ by 10½ inches).
Book ID: 3249More details Price: £20.00 -
Album du Journal des chasseurs. Collection de 24 sujets de chasse et de courses avec fanfares nouvelles
Book ID: 3228More details Price: £600.00 -
Albumen Photograph of John Ruskin
Condition: The image is a little faded, but clearly still a portrait of Ruskin! The verso is clean. Overall in excellent condition.
Book ID: 2588More details Price: £240.00 -
Allegory of the History of England. With a portrait of Isaac de Larrey
1713. Engraving taken from Isaac de Larrey's Histoire d'Angleterre. Designed by B. Picart and engraved by Gouwen. Shows the Thames and London Bridge, as well as mythological figures, including Britannia, leaning on the shield of the Union - only formed 6 years before this engraving - alongside a lion. A little darkening to the leaf, and a small tear to the right edge, but overall in very good condition. 400 x 260 mm (15¾ x 10¼ inches).
Book ID: 3170More details Price: £50.00 -
Almanak voor het Verstand en Hart voor het Jaar 1825
Amsterdam: G. Schaares: 1825. A small almanac in a marbled slipcase. Turquoise illustrated boards. Engraved title page & 5 further engraved plates. Calendar to the first few pages. Contents to the rear. There is a little rubbing to the edges of the boards, and splitting to both front and rear hinge (boards are holding well though). Slipcase is marbled, with a touch of rubbing and a little nicking to the head and tail - not split though. Internally clean and tidy - with a little darkening and a few light foxing spots.
Book ID: 1856More details Price: £64.00 -
America [with introduction by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson]
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1974. First Edition. Bound in publisher's original full black cloth with the title stamped in white on the spine. In original illustrated dust jacket. Some wear and a small tear to top right of dust jacket, otherwise in quite a good condition and unclipped. Book is clean inside and in a good condition. 310 x 235 mm (12¼ x 9¼ inches).
Book ID: 2784More details Price: £45.00 -
Amsterdam and Bridge across the Amstel (aquatint)
London: T. & I. Egerton, 1790. Lovely sepia aquatint taken from 'A picturesque tour through Holland, Brabant and part of France; made in the autumn of 1789', published in 1790. In a lovely cream coloured mount. Ready to frame. Visible image size: 130 x 165 mm (5 x 6½ inches). Actual size in mount: 260 x 280 mm (10¼ x 11 inches).
Book ID: 3354More details Price: £35.00 -
An attractive Dutch School Landscape Oil Painting
1985. A Dutch oil painting of a landscape scene - a water mill by a canal with trees and sky. Probably an amateur artist, it is signed P.M. '85. Assumed 1985. Oil on canvas, and mounted in a wooden and gilt frame. Sold with the frame. Frame size 500 mm width x 420 mm height. Image size 285 mm x 230 mm. The painting is in very good condition, with just a touch of crackle to the glaze. The frame is mainly in good condition, but with a little rubbing to the lower edge.
Book ID: 3102More details Price: £75.00 -
Andy Warhol
Bogota: Galeria Fernando Quintana, 1988. First edition. Scarce exhibition catalogue from Colombia. Dark soft covers, with the 'negative' version of one of Warhol's famous Marilyn Munroe silkscreens adorning the front cover. Perfect binding. Unpaginated. High quality reproductions throughout. 285 x 240 mm (11¼ x 9½ inches).
Condition: Covers rubbed, particularly at tail of spine. Slight rubbing to first page.
Book ID: 2140More details Price: £70.00 -
Andy Warhol's Factory Photos. Factory Foto.
Tokyo: Uplink, 1997. Second edition. Hardback. From the photo exhibition 'Andy Warhol's Factory Silver Years' at Parco Gallery, Tokyo. Many iconic (mostly b/w) full-page images from the years 1964-1968. 270 x 220 mm (10¾ x 8¾ inches).
Condition: Ex-library copy. Laminated boards. A little bumping, and a few library marks / stamps.
Book ID: 2778More details Price: £40.00 -
Andy Warhol's Index book
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 2034More details Price: £1,000.00