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| to select author names starting with A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z back to page 1 of full catalog (starting with NO authornames) | This selection contains 104 title(s) on 5 pages. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 25 |
| ALEXANDER, MARK Canvasses of courage: a gallery of art inspired by triumph over adversity Leader Books, Churt, 1991, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 907159 02 8.Fine/Fine.Alison Lapper's success as an artist has brought the story of disabled peoples' art to a wider audience, but here she shares a book with many other less well known disabled artists whose work testifies to their commitment and drive.183 pp. In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 2427 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| ANDROSOV, SERGEI & UMBERTO BALDINI Ermitazhnyi mal'chik i Novaya Riznitsa Mikelandzhelo [The Hermitage's ""Adolescent"" by Michelangelo] Maschieto & Mussolino, 2000, 1st edition.Paper covers, fold-over flaps.88 87700 22 2.As new/No Jacket.Unworn, stamped 'Tate Gallery duplicate' on ffep.Catalogue of an exhibition held in Florence and St.Petersburg in 2000 focussing on the Hermitage's little known Michelangelo sculpture in marble titled ""The Boy"" (or ""L'adolescente"" in Italian).Curated by Sergei Androsov and Umberto Baldini, and with a foreword (in Russian only) by Luciano Berti and Pina Ragionieri, this catalogue presents a wide-ranging analysis of Michelangelo's works in sculpture, drawing, painting and architecture, many loaned by some of the world's leading museums.The introductory chapters, by Androsov, Baldini, Berti and Ragionieri, are printed in both Italian and Russian; the bilingual catalogue (from p.73) treats 49 exhibits.Beautifully printed in Italy, with many full-colour and monochrome illustrations, by AL.SA.BA.of Siena.198 pp. In Italian & Russian. GBP 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 45 US$ 66.64 | JP¥ 5928] Book number: 2182 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| ARCH, NIGEL ET AL. Carlton House: the past glories of George IV's palace The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, 1991, 1st edition.Paper covers.0 9513373 6 X.Fine /No Jacket.Slight corner wear, otherwise as new.(2), 240 pp. In English. GBP 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 US$ 29.99 | JP¥ 2668] Book number: 5761 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BADE, PATRICK Renoir: the masterworks Studio Editions, 1990, Reprint. first published in 1980.Hard covers, dust jacket.1 85170 312 8.Fine /V.g. 143 pp. In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 4709 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BENNETT, MARY Merseyside painters, people & places: catalogue of oil paintings Merseyside County Council, 1978.Paper covers.0 901534 62 5.V.g./No Jacket.A scholarly catalogue of oil paintings with links to Merseyside.2 vols. one of text and the other of photographs.In English. GBP 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.75 US$ 23.32 | JP¥ 2075] Book number: 585 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BENNETT, MARY Merseyside painters, people & places: catalogue of oil paintings Merseyside County Council, 1978, 1st edition.Paper covers.0 901534 62 5.V.g./No Jacket.A scholarly catalogue of oil paintings with links to Merseyside.2 vols. one of text and the other of photographs.In English. GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 18 US$ 26.66 | JP¥ 2371] Book number: 5673 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BIENKOWSKI, PIOTR & TOOLEY, ANGELA Gifts of the Nile NMGM / Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1995.Paper covers.0 11 290538 2.Good /No Jacket.Good, some pages sl.folded at corners, back cover creased.Nicely illustrated book based on the ancient Egyptian collections at Liverpool Museum.In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 587 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BORGER, HUGO (ED.) Museums in Cologne Prestel.Paper covers.3 7913 0787 8.As new/No Jacket.In protective plastic wrapper.""An extensive guide to the Cologne collections.It is equally suitable for use in the museums or at home."" - blurb.In English. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 | JP¥ 1186] Book number: 2910 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BROOKE, XANTHE Mantegna to Rubens: the Weld-Blundell drawings collection Merrell Holberton, 1998, 1st edition.Paper covers.1 85894 053 2.Fine/No Jacket.Catalogue of an exhibition which celebrated the acquisition, by the Walker Art Gallery (National Museums Liverpool), of a spectacular and little-known collection of Old Master drawings amassed by Henry Blundell, one of Lancashire's greatest art collectors.Some of the drawings had equally illustrious former owners: William Roscoe, Sir Peter Lily, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Benjamin West, to name but four.The catalogue is well-illustrated, and includes a chapter on collectors' marks and biographies by Miranda Stacey and a preface by (Sir) Richard Foster and Julian Treuherz.The collection is of pre-eminent quality, and its acquisition attracted substantial financial support from the NACF, the NHMF and Sir Denis Mahon among others.No.43 shows Primaticcio's ""Ulysees winning the archery contest"" (sometimes named 'shooting through the rings'), a red chalk drawing on light red paper, made in preparation for a fresco at the Ulysses Gallery at Fontainbleau. In English. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 | JP¥ 1778] Book number: 2111 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BROWN, E. MYRA Julia Carter Preston National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside, 1999, 1st edition.Paper covers.1 902700 00 7.New /No Jacket.Catalogue of an exhibition of a noted Liverpool ceramicist working mainly through the sgraffito technique of decoration.32 pp. col.photographs. In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 3786 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BRYAN, LYNN Country Crafts: drying flowers and herbs Bloomsbury Books, 1993, Originally published in 1992.Hard covers, dust jacket.1 85471 156 3.Fine/Fine.Introduction to the long-established methods of drying flowers and herbs for use in handicrafts.Well illustrated with attractive colour photographs.48 pp. In English. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 | JP¥ 593] Book number: 2660 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| CALDER, RITCHIE Leonardo & the age of the eye Arcadia Press / Heinemann, London, 1971, Limited edition (265 copies), originally published in 1970.Full leather binding in drop-down box.0 434 10503 1.Fine /.Hand bound in full decorated morocco by Zaehnsdorf, numbered No.9 and signed by the author, spectacular marbled end papers, spine with green title label with gilt lettering and frame, author's name in gilt, geometric monogram to front cover in black, green and gilt, all edges gilt, in publisher's grey cloth clamshell case (sl.edge wear) with black labels on spine.29 colour and many monochrome illustrations.(1), 288 pages.In English. GBP 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 336.25 US$ 499.8 | JP¥ 44460] Book number: 4201 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| CANBY, SHEILA R. Shah 'Abbas: the remaking of Iran British Museum Press, 2009, 1st paperback edition.Paper covers (wrap-around flaps).978 0 7141 2452 0.New /No Jacket.Catalogue of an exhibition, with 127 main entries and a series of more discursive introductory pieces by various authors.No 98 was misidentified as a Delphinium, probably due to undue reliance on a mistranslation of al-mivizaj (the fact that the plant is bulbous is a bit of a give-away).(6), 274 p. In English. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 | JP¥ 3705] Book number: 4779 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| COCKRILL, MAURICE; KIDSON, ALEX Maurice Cockrill: paintings and drawings 1974-1994 National Museums Liverpool, 1995, 1st edition.Paper covers.0 906367 74 3.New /No Jacket.Catalogue of a retrospective exhibition organised jointly by the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and the Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham University.Unpaginated; 40 leaves (c.80 pp.). In English. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 | JP¥ 1186] Book number: 6055 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| COMPTON, MICHAEL; FOREWORD BY ALAN BOWNESS New art at the Tate Gallery 1983 Tate Gallery, 1983.Paper covers.0 905005 79 1.V.g./No Jacket.Catalogue of an exhibition of new works shown at the Tate in the autumn of 1983.Illustrated partly in monochrome, partly in colour.72 pp. In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 4726 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| CROW, THOMAS The rise of the sixties Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996, Everyman Art Library.Paper covers.0 297 83543 2.Fine /No Jacket.Subtitled 'American and European Art in the Era of Dissent"", this book summarises post war developments from 1955 to 1969 in essay style but with copious illustrations.192 pp. In English. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 | JP¥ 1186] Book number: 3203 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| CUSHION, J.P.; HONEY, W.B. Handbook of pottery and porcelain marks Faber & Faber, 1980, 4th edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0571 04922 2.Good /Good.Corner of cover damp-stained, internally fine.A standard reference work for pottery marks.(8), 272 pp. In English. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 | JP¥ 1186] Book number: 3886 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| DAVIDSON, A.S. Samuel Walters, marine artist: fifty years of sea, sail and steam Jones-Sands Publishing, 1992, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 94776 446 1.V.g./V.g. Signed and dated by the author; little used.(2), 226 pp. In English. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 83.3 | JP¥ 7410] Book number: 4790 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| DAVIES, PETER Liverpool seen: post-war artists on Merseyside Redcliffe, Bristol, 1992, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.1 872971 27 X.Fine /Fine.An overview of the fine art scene in post-war Liverpool, highlighting Arthur Ballard, Maurice Cockrill, Arthur Dooley, Sean Rice, Stuart Sutcliffe and Sam Walsh, and not forgetting John Lennon.Well illustrated in colour and monochrome.viii, 9-223 pp. In English. GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 18 US$ 26.66 | JP¥ 2371] Book number: 4436 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| DOELMAN, CORNELIUS Wassily Kandinsky Blandford Press, 1964.Paper covers.Good /No Jacket.Pages browned at edges, jacket sl.soiled.A well-illustrated pocket guide to the work of the Russian-born abstract artist.54 colour and monochrome figures.90 pp. In English. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 2149 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| DUECHTING, HAJO Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944: a revolution in painting Midpoint Press, 2001, English translation.Hard covers, dust jacket.3 8228 1547 0.As new/As new.A concise biography of the Russian artist whose 'path to abstraction' pioneered a style of non-representational art which achieved a pure concord of colour through the interplay of shapes and textures.96 pages, richly illustrated in full-colour and with monochrome figures.Published in association with Taschen.In English. GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 US$ 14.99 | JP¥ 1334] Book number: 2639 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| DYCKMAN, DAN Hidden dimensions Stanley Paul, 1994.Publisher's photographic boards, no dust jacket.0 09 179130 8.Fine /No Jacket.Fine.Optical illusions.The trick is to squint.64 pp.In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 590 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| EDMONDSON, JOHN; MATTHEW H. CLOUGH (ED.) A growing concern: William Roscoe and Liverpool's first botanical garden University of Liverpool art collections, 2005, 1st edition.Paper covers.New /No Jacket.Catalogue of an exhibition commemorating 200 years of Liverpool's botanic gardens.22 pp. In English. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 4479 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| EGERTON, JUDY (INTRODUCTION) George Stubbs 1724-1806 Tate Gallery Publications, 1984, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 946590 12 5.V.g./V.g. Lightly used.248 pp.Catlaogue of the major Stubbs exhibition held at the Tate Gallery in 1984.Includes contributions by Robert Shepherd, Ian McClulre and Rupert Featherstone. In English. GBP 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 US$ 39.98 | JP¥ 3557] Book number: 5994 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| ERWITT, ELLIOTT Collezione privata Contrasto, 1997.Hard covers, dust jacket.88 86982 04 6.V.g./V.g. A collection of monochrome photographs by the renowned Magnum photographer, mostly of human subjects in off-beat settings.Introduction in Italian; captions in English.255 pp. In Italian. GBP 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 45 US$ 66.64 | JP¥ 5928] Book number: 4055 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. |
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