- Category = Art,Illustrated,Architecture,Fine Bindings,Photography,Prints & Posters
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Animal Day - 29p stamp. A limited edition print against animal experiments.
Condition: Excellent condition. Currently protected in archival film.
Book ID: 1819More details Price: £120.00 -
Animal Day - 65p stamp. A limited edition print against Animal experiments.
Condition: Excellent condition. Currently protected in archival film.
Book ID: 1820More details Price: £120.00 -
Anish Kapoor.
Kunstverein Hannover, 1991. Large book with red cloth covered boards. Colour catalogue for the exhibition of six large sculptures, which took place in the Orangery Hanover in 1991. Two of the six sculptures were new works, created especially for Hannover. This exhibition presented the artist's work to the German public for the first time. Also included in this book, a selection of images from other Kapoor installments in Venice, Grenoble and Madrid. Text in both German and English. Unpaginated [48 pages]. 355 x 305 mm (14 x 12 inches). Sir Anish Kapoor CBE, RA is a British Indian sculptor who specialises in installation art, and conceptual art.
Condition: Boards have some light soiling, and light handling. No dust jacket, as issued. Inside, fine condition.
Book ID: 2692More details Price: £25.00 -
Apparitions
Verlag Saarbrucken, ND. Complete set of 20 tipped in illustrations by Masereel, with limitation page (This states that the edition was limited to 200 copies but this copy is not numbered or signed). No portfolio cover. The title has a little nicking to the edges. Plates are in good condition. Title, Contents & 20 plates. 300 by 230mm (11¾ by 9 inches).
Book ID: 3686More details Price: £75.00 -
Art Deco drypoint etching of a flirtatious woman, with hand colouring
1920. Gorgeous oval shaped drypoint etching with aquatint, and small detail / colouring by hand. The work is unsigned - but most likely by Jean Gilles. This is a fantastic example of the Années folles (France in the 1920s) passion for what was known as 'Boudoir Art. Gilles worked in the style of Louis Icart or Jean Hardy. Under white cardboard mount. The etching and the mount are both in a very good condition, with just a small spot or two (covered by mount). Whole item including card mount 600 x 400 mm (23½ x 15¾ inches). Image 370 x 195 mm. Perfect fro framing.
Book ID: 3099More details Price: £150.00 -
Art of Tomorrow: Seventieth Founders Year Festival Bauer, Kandinsky, Rebay; Exhibition of Non-Objective Painting, February 27, 1955
Lakeland: 1955. Photographic record / Catalogue of the festival at Florida Southern College. Articles about several modern artists (those in title) and photographs of works exhibited. Stapled softback. Unpaginated.
230 by 160mm (9 by 6¼ inches).Condition: A little foxing to the front cover. Splitting to the spine fold. Internally very good.
Book ID: 2168More details Price: £25.00 -
Assassinat du Général Bréa et de son Aide de Camp
Paris: 1848. Lithograph of the dramatic death of the Général de Bréa and his Aide de Camp Mangin at the hands of insurgents from the Fontainebleau barrier. The murders took place at the Maison-Blanche guard house in Paris, during the June Rebellion. An important part of the French Revolution of 1848. 255 x 340 mm (10 x 13½ inches). Lithographie de la mort dramatique du Général de Bréa et de son Aide de Camp Mangin aux mains des insurgés de la barrière de Fontainebleau. Les meurtres ont eu lieu au poste de garde de Maison-Blanche à Paris, pendant la rébellion de juin. Une partie importante de la Révolution française de 1848. 255 x 340 mm
Book ID: 2908More details Price: £50.00 -
Athlétisme et gymnastique suédoise
Book ID: 3156More details Price: £70.00 -
August 1st 1991
Bern: Albin Uldry, 1991. Scarce original edition silkscreen printed poster on heavy wove. This work was created to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the Swiss Confederation on 1er août 1991. Referenced in the book "Keith Haring, Posters, catalogue raisonné", Jurgen Doring, Prestel 2017 (C120). Sold unframed. In very good condition. Swiss citizen Pierre Keller, then a teacher, first met Keith Haring in New York in 1981. They became friends, and in 1987 Haring visited Switzerland. It was Keller when he later worked for British American Tobacco who supervised the creation of a series of advertising posters for 'Lucky Strike'. 1000 x 700 mm (39¼ x 27½ inches).
Book ID: 2985More details Price: £400.00 -
AUJOURD'HUI. Musiques, poëmes, dessins, prose. Revue des valeurs nouvelles paraissant quatre fois l'an.
Book ID: 3626More details Price: £875.00 -
'Australia. News from Home' [along with] ' News from Abroad'
Book ID: 3377More details Price: £80.00 -
Autoportraits photographiques: 1898-1981 brève rencontre (l'autoportrait en photographie)
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou / Herscher, 1981. Softback first edition. Exhibition catalogue. 88 pages. Black and white photographs (and a few colour). A touch of darkening and edgewear to the wrapper - but overall in very good condition. 300 x 210 mm (11¾ x 8¼ inches). Couverture souple de la première édition. Catalogue d'exposition. 88 pages. Photographies en noir et blanc (et quelques couleurs). Une touche d'assombrissement et d'usure des bords de l'emballage - mais dans l'ensemble en très bon état. 300 x 210 mm `
Book ID: 3341More details Price: £25.00 -
Baccante en fureur - etching from the work: Suite de sujets dessinés d'après l'antique par Edme Bouchardon sculpteur du Roy
Book ID: 3009More details Price: £80.00 -
Beelden Sculptures - Environmentprojecten met Reinout van den Bergh.
Dordrecht: Gerhard Lentink, 1993. First Edition. Hardback. Essays, photographs and art objects. Text dual English / Dutch. Red cloth with label stuck down. Good clean condition. Very slight darkening to page edges. Illustrations in Black and White.
80 pages. 260 x 215 mm (10¼ x 8½ inches).Book ID: 2941More details Price: £15.00 -
Before Color. With an Essay by Dave Hickey
Gottingen: Steidl, 2012. Second edition of the hardback photobook by Eggleston. 209 pages of black and white photographs, taken by Eggleston in the 1960's and 1970's. The images are taken from his original negatives. As Hickey writes, about these photographs taken in the Southern USA "Eggleston portrays the site of our youth undisguised by design or nostalgia." Bright yellow covers, with red and black text and a black and white image inlaid to the front board. In excellent condition, with just a slight bumping to one corner. Internally spotless. 206 06) pages. 260 by 230mm (10¼ by 9 inches).
Book ID: 3773More details Price: £95.00 -
Billingsgate Market. A plate from the "Microcosm of London."
London: R. Ackermann's Repository, 1808. Plate number 9 from Ackermann's "Microcosm of London". A lovely aquatint. The architectural details were drawn by Pugin, and Rowlandson drew the figures (both are credited on the sheet). The aquatinting was done by J. Bluck. Ackermann produced this work between 1807 and 1810. One of the greatest of the colour plate books. "The plates by Rowlandson and Pugin present an unrivaled picture of London in early 19th century, of historic value, as many of the buildings no longer exist." (Tooley).
Condition: Very nice clean impression of this plate, with good colouring. A very small closed foxing spot to the bottom edge of the plate.
Book ID: 1724More details Price: £100.00 -
Birket Foster
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1906. First Edition. Hardback in original blue decorated cloth boards. Spine sunned, boards somewhat faded. Slight foxing to fore edge. Illustrated throughout. Captioned tissue guards for over 70 colour illustrations, some others in b/w and a b/w frontis photo portrait. Top edge gilt. 216 pages. 230 x 170 mm (9 x 6¾ inches).
Book ID: 3520More details Price: £40.00 -
Blackhearted Woman - a text and some pictures.
Utrecht: Self published, 1989. With hand cut and tipped-in original photographs. 320 x 310 mm (12½ x 12¼ inches). Text in English and illustrations by Titi (Tineke) Zaadnoordijk. Titi is a poet, performer and visual artist. Her work is always figurative, and humour is always woven through it.
Condition: Fine. Limited production. This copy is numbered 79 of 100.
Book ID: 2238More details Price: £95.00 -
Blinde Verrassing. First edition, with additional original photograph.
Edition: First Edition
Uitgeverij Fragment: Den Haag: 1993. Grey cloth with embossed titles, and a photograph laid onto the front cover. Original photograph loosely inserted. The photo-book Published in collaboration with Tel Design, Koninklijke Drukkerij GJ Thieme Nijmegen and Kadee Delft. 24 black and white photographs printed on glossy photo paper. To the rear of each are the details about the subject, the scene and those who participated. A fascinating concept in photography. A complex scene is set up - and the central subject is blind folded and brought into the scene. The blindfold is then briefly removed - and the photograph taken. They are then apparently blind folded again, and only see what was really there when the photograph is produced.
Condition: Very good
Book ID: 1983More details Price: £35.00 -
Book of homemade Jianzhi - traditional Chinese papercut art
Unique homemade Leporello style binding in silk with paper label (with gold flecks) to the front board. Often red papercuts like these are used to decorate special events; for example Chinese New Year. There are twelve pages of glued on papercuts in this concertina style book, each one represents one of the traditional Chinese zodiac animals. We therefore assume that this was made as a New Year gift for someone. At the back there is a stamp saying 'China Longyuan Paper-Cut Club'. The China Longyuan Power Group Corporation Limited is the largest wind power producer in China and Asia. 250 x 170 mm (9¾ x 6¾ inches).
Book ID: 3602More details Price: £30.00