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Art : History and Reference

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John Singleton Copley

Houghton Mifflin, Boston
4to in red and gilt printed tan linen covered boards, xv + 139pp text + 32pp plates, colour frontispiece, index etc
A well preserved near FINE clean and tight copy (covers very slightly tanned, few spots of slight shelf rub to cover edges)
1st editionHardcover
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Rebecca Horn (Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart 1999)

Ifa / Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart
Heavy 4to. in colour printed stiff card covers, 198pp, mainly colour plates. Text in German
AS NEW
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William Blake - the Complete Illuminated Books

Thames & Hudson, London
Thick, heavy 4to. in colour printed stiff card covers, 480pp, colour plates, etc
An AS NEW unread or barely read copy (minute speck of shelf rub to cover corner tips)
Softcover
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Sonia Delaunay- Alfabeto

Gustavo Gili, Barcelona
4to in colour printed laminated boards, unpaginated, approx. 60pp, colour plates, etc. text in Spanish
Almost AS NEW (tiny slight crease to tiny creases to cover corner tips from mild bumping)
Hardcover
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A Very Close Conspiracy - Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf

Jonathan Cape, London
Heavy 8vo. in brown faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 338pp, plates in colour and b/w, bibliog, index
An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread or barely read copy (top edge of page block slightly dusty) in an AS NEW Dust Jacket
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Vermeer and Music - the Art of Love and Leisure ( National Gallery, London 26 June - 8 September 2013)

National Gallery, London
4to in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 80pp, colour plates, etc
NEW copy
1st editionSoftcover
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Hammershoi

Royal Academy, London
Large heavy 4to. in colour printed stiff card covers, 176pp, colour plates, index etc. Published to coincide with the exhibition 'Vilhelm Hammershoi - The Poetry of Silence' held in London and Tokyo
NEW unused copy
1st editionSoftcover
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It's True, the Magic Left Saatchi & Saatchi on January 11th 1995

Saatchi & Saatchi, London
Large 4to. in stiff glossy card covers, unpaginated, approx. 72pp, illustrated in colour and b/w showing work done by the agency in 1995
AS NEW (minute speck of shelf rub to cover corner tips)
1st editionSoftcover
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Glen Baxter (Abbaye Saint- Andre, Centre D' Art Contemporain, Meymac - 24 Mars - 20 Mai 1991)

Abbaye Saint- Andre, Centre D' Art Contemporain, Meymac
Large 4to. in textured orange stiff card covers, 42pp, colour plates, etc. Text in French. Catalogue to exhibition which toured France until February 1992
An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW copy (slight hint of sunning to spine)
1st editionSoftcover
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L S Lowry - the Art and the Artist

Unicorn Press, Norwich
Large heavy 4to. in black faux cloth, silver lettering to spine. 320pp, colour plates, index etc
NEW copy in NEW Dust Jacket
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Motif - Number 2 - February 1959 - A Journal of the Visual Arts (SIGNED COPY)

Shenval Press, London
Extra Large 4to. in colour printed boards to a design by Robert Stewart. 92pp on various types of paper, colour plates, illustrations in text, type samples etc. This copy inscribed and signed by Ruari McLean (as Ruari) on the title-page.
A well preserved clean and tight VERY GOOD+ copy (tiny speck of wear to cover corner tips, head of spine slightly creased and rubbed, spine and covers slightly tanned)
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Alan Phelan - Fragile Absolutes (Irish Museum of Modern Art 21 July - 1 November 2009)

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Thick 4to. in silver embossed and brown printed boards, 268pp, numerous illustrations (some folding)
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1st editionHardcover
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Georgina Starr - the Bunny Lakes

Emily Tsingou Gallery, London
Tall 4to. in photo illustrated, textured boards, white lettering to spine, unpaginated, approx. 96pp, colour plates, etc
About FINE, a very clean and tight copy (slight shelf rub to cover corner tips, short mild scuff to top edge of front cover)
1st editionHardcover
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Topolski's Legal London

Stevens & Sons, London for 'The Lawyer'
Large landscape Folio in blue grey cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. xi + 76pp, 15 large tipped in colour plates (one folding double size)
VERY GOOD, a well preserved clean and tight copy (mild rub to covers, tiny spot of soil to front cover, thin sliver of edge creasing to one of the plate backing leaves).
1st editionHardcover
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Art for Children

The Studio, London
4to in orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, top edge gilt, 150pp, tipped in colour plates with printed tissue guards, etc. Collated complete, though pages 117 to 134 have been duplicated in this copy, a minor binding fault we have seen in other copies of this edition.
An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight copy
1st editionHardcover
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Anywhere Or Not At All - the Philosophy of Contemporary Art

Verso, London
Large 8vo Paperback.
NEW unread copy
1st editionSoftcover
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The Sign of the Tree - Meditations in Images and Words

Mitchell Beazley / Artist's House, London
Extra Large Square 4to in black faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 192pp, plates etc.
A well preserved FINE clean and tight copy
1st editionHardcover
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The Symbolism of Habitat - An Interpretation of Landscape in the Arts

University of Washington Press, Seattle and London
8vo in blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 113pp, plates, index etc
A few scattered ink linings in text else FINE an otherwise well preserved and very clean and tight copy still close to new in an AS NEW Dust Jacket
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Ivory and Painting - Indian Goods for the Luxury Markets

Francesca Galloway, London
Extra Large 4to. in colour printed and gilt embossed card covers, 104pp. 36 item exhibition catalogue, each described in detail and illustrated in full colour, bibliography at rear
AS NEW
1st editionSoftcover
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Adriaen Brouwer - the Master and His Work (English Edition)

L J C Boucher, The Hague
Heavy Folio in black cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, 193pp, plates in colour and b/w, etc. Text in English throughout
An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight copy (very small private bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper, page-block edges faintly tanned)
1st editionHardcover
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The International Design Yearbook 2001

Laurence King, London
Large heavy 4to. in black faux cloth, silver lettering to spine. 240pp, numerous illustrations in text (mainly full colour)
NEW copy in NEW Dust Jacket
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Drawings of L S Lowry

Cory, Adams & Mackay, London
Large heavy 4to. in grey cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 22pp text plus 64 full page plates with opposing printed description. This copy, incidentally, belonged to the artist Maurice Sheppard and has his signature on the front blank fly-leaf along with a note from him stating the book came from the private library of Prof. Carel Weight R.A.
An extremely well preserved FINE clean and tight copy in a VERY GOOD+ Dust Jacket (small chip to head of spine panel, minute rubbed chips to flap fold corner tips, looks fine in its protector)
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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Stanley Spencer - A Biography

Harvill Press, London
8vo in cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 255pp, plates, index etc
VERY GOOD, a clean and tight copy
Hardcover
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His Other Half - Men Looking At Women Through Art

Harvard University Press
8vo in pale blue cloth, black lettering to spine. 294pp, bibliog, index
An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread or barely read copy in an AS NEW Dust Jacket
1st editionHardcoverDustjacket
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The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature

Oxford University Press, Ontario
Thick, heavy 8vo. in blue faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 1199pp
AS NEW copy in an AS NEW Dust Jacket
HardcoverDustjacket
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Mit Haut Und Haaren - Der Korper in Der Zeitgenossischen Kunst

Dumont, Koln
Large 4to. in colour printed boards, 159pp, numerous illustrations in text, etc. Text in German
NEW copy
1st editionHardcover
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Joseph Beuys - Actions, Vitrines, Environments (Tate Modern, London 4 February - 2 May 2005)

The Menil Collection, Houston / Tate Publishing, London
Extra Large 4to. in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 224pp, colour plates, bibliography etc. Errata leaf taped to front fly-leaf (as issued)
NEW unread copy
1st editionSoftcover
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Maxfield Parrish - A Retrospective

Pomegranate, San Fransisco
Large heavy 4to. in brown faux leather, gilt lettering to spine, 164pp, colour plates, bibliog, index etc
NEW copy in NEW Dust Jacket
HardcoverDustjacket
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The History of Glass

Tiger Books International, London
Thick, heavy 4to. in colour printed boards, 288pp, numerous colour illustrations in text, bibliog, index etc
NEW copy in NEW Dust Jacket
HardcoverDustjacket
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The Materials and Techniques of Painting

Thames & Hudson, London
Heavy 4to. in grey faux cloth, silver lettering to spine. 192pp, plates in colour and b/w, index etc
A well preserved FINE very clean and tight copy in a faintly tanned but otherwise FINE Dust Jacket
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