BRAMLY, SERGE

Leonardo : The Artist and the Man

London, Michael Joseph. 1992. (ISBN: 0718133862) Soft Cover, 9.25 x 6 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 493pp. An in-depth study of the life and the work of Leonardo Da Vinci, artist and inventor in the 15th and 16th centuries. Very Good (+).

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Book number: 026911

Catalogue: Biography - Art

Keywords: Biography, Painter, Inventor Biography - Engineering / Science 0718133862

CELLINI, BENVENUTO & MACDONELL, ANNE (TRANSLATOR)

Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini; A Florentine Artist; Written by Himself

London, J M Dent & Sons Ltd. 1927. Hard Cover, 7 x 4.25 inches. Name to front a end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, clear gilt lettering/embossing to spine and no bumping to corners. 368pp. The life of Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor, goldsmith and author who lived in Florentine from 1500 to 1571. Translated by Anne Macdonell. Very Good (+)/No Jacket.

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Book number: 025573

Catalogue: Biography - Art

Keywords: Biography, 16th Century

CLARK, KENNETH

Another Part of the Wood : A Self-Portrait

London, John Murray. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 0719529794) Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked yellow cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with creasing to edges. 288pp. Autobiography of Kenneth Clark from his Edwardian childhood, to his appointment as Director of the National Gallery at the tender age of thirty. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 027817

Catalogue: Biography - Art

Keywords: Biography, the Arts 0719529794

ASHLEY JACKSON

My Brush with Fortune : An Autobiography (Signed)

London, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. 1982, First Edition. (ISBN: 0436220350) Hard Cover, 10 x 7.75 inches. Signed with a sketch added to the dedication page. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with light indenting and very slight creasing to edges. 125pp. Autobiography of Ashley Jackson, born in Penang who came to live in Holmfirth in Yorkshire and now flourishes as a renowned watercolourist. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 022207

Catalogue: Biography - Art

Keywords: Biography, Artist, Penang, Huddersfield 0436220350

KASSIL, LEV

Early Dawn

Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House. 1952. Hard Cover, 8.75 x 6.75 inches. Signed JC Dumbreck on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Contents close to 'fine'. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked irregularly sunned boards and very minor bumping to some corners. Colour plates plus 361pp. Soviet literature for young people. Based on the story of the life to date of the young artist Kolya Dmitriev, including at the end a series of sixteen of his colour paintings. Well illustrated throughout. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works. Very Good (+)/No Jacket.

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Book number: 014286

Catalogue: Biography - Art

Keywords: Biography, Russia, Ussr, Children's, Art, Painting

MARSHALL, TILLY

Life with Lowry

London, Hutchinson. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0091440904) Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.5 inches. Ex library book with usual marks and stamps. A very clean very tight copy with tape-marked maroon cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with tape marks to dust flaps and light creasing. Missing front end paper. 260pp. Very personal recollections of LS Lowry by the author, owner at the time with her husband of Newcastle's Stone Gallery where Lowry's work was frequently promoted. During the last fifteen years of his life he spent almost as much time with the Marshalls as in his home in Mottram, Cheshire. Good (+)/Very Good (-).

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Book number: 023828

Catalogue: Biography - Art

Keywords: Painter, Biography, Social History, Lowry Social History 0091440904

TOPPING, BRETT; HELLER, NANCY

The Age of Grandeur and a Woman Who Lived It : Artist Evelyn Metzger

Washington, DC, National Museum of Women in the Arts. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 0940979292) Hard Cover, 11.75 x 9.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump to upper front edge and no bumping to corners. Other than the small bump, the book is 'fine'. 263pp. Biography of Evelyn Metzger, born in New York in 1911 and a woman who has travelled through life first class. The book is her story and is filled with the lavish and sumptuous places and buildings relevant to her life plus reproductions of over a hundred of her paintings. Near Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006156

Catalogue: Biography - Art

Keywords: Women_biography Women Artists 0940979292