BOOTH-CLIBBORN, EDWARD (EDITOR)

European Illustration: : Tenth Annual

Harry N. Abrams/Fleetbooks S. A. 1984. (ISBN: 0810908697) Hard Cover, 12.5 x 9.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright pale cream cloth unmarked boards and bumping to upper corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small tear to upper front spine corner and bumping to upper corners. 183pp. Showcasing the best illustrations of the year 1983-84 in editorial, design, books, advertising, film animation and posters. Text in English, French & German. Scarce in the UK. Near Fine/Very Good (+).

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Book number: 022682

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Paintings, Drawing, Advertisements, 1980s 0810908697

NIK COHN

Rock Dreams

Koln, Taschen GmbH. 2003. (ISBN: 382282612X) Soft Cover, 13.25 x 9.75 Inches. Ill.: Guy Peellaert. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 224pp. Amazing paintings of all the rock stars up to 1973 when this work was originally published. Includes Dylan, Elvis, the Stones, Beatles and hundreds more. They are depicted in 'their own settings' - eg the Drifters under the boardwalk, Otis Redding on the dock of the bay, the Beach Boys on the beach. A great study in fantastic condition. Text in English, German and French. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 021079

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Rock Artists, Dylan, Stones, Elvis, Etc Performing Arts - Music 382282612x Guy Peellaert

COLLINS, JUDITH & LINDNER, ELSBETH (EDITORS)

Writing on the Wall: Women Writers on Women Artists

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297813692) Soft Cover, 9.75 x 7.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to two corners of covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly rubbed slightly sunned unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 146pp. Short essays by twenty women writers including Bery Bainbridge, Pat Barker, Eva Figes, Sue Townsend, and Penelope Lively on art works by eighteen women artists including Dame Barbara Hepworth, Dame Elizabeth Frink, Gwen John, Paula Rego and Vanessa Bell. With at least one coloured reproduction for each artist. Very Good.

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Book number: 019547

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Rego, Frink, Hepworthfiges, Lively, Townsend, Bainbridge, Bron Gender Studies 0297813692

PETER COLLYER

Rain Later, Good : Painting the Shipping Forecast

London, Adlard Coles Ltd. 2014. (ISBN: 1408178575) Soft Cover with Self-Wraps, 10.25 x 10.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 144pp. A delightful set of paintings based on the Shipping Forecast by award-winning painter Peter Collyer - surrounded by the words which are part of our cultural heritage taken from the same source. The text is also a description of the painter/author's travels round Britain in search of the places from the Shipping Forecast which we know so well. Fine.

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Book number: 020895

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Painting, Weather Social History 1408178575

MUSEUM LUDWIG COLOGNE

20th Century Photography

Koln, Taschen. 2001. (ISBN: 3822855146) Soft Cover, 8 x 5.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very minor bumping to some corners. 191pp. A series of art photographs beginning at the end of the 19th century. Mostly in black & white. Near Fine.

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Book number: 025667

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Photographs, Photography 3822855146

COMBES, SIMON

An African Experience: Wildlife Art and Adventure in Kenya

London, Clive Holloway Books. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 1853101249) Hard Cover, 12.5 x 9.75 inches. Ill.: Simon Combes (paintings). No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to upper front edge. 143pp. A lavish book filled with exquisite paintings of African wildlife. it is also an in-depth account of the life of the painter Simon Combes who grew up in the African bush. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 024971

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Wild Life, Africa, Paintings Nature 1853101249 Simon Combes (Paintings)

COMINI, ALESSANDRA

Egon Schiele

London, Thames & Hudson Ltd. 1986. (ISBN: 0500270732) Soft Cover, 11 x 8 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Plates on 95 pages plus introduction over 31pp. A study of the life and art of Expressionist painter Egon Schiele who died at the age of 28. Fine.

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Book number: 022637

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Painter, Artist, Expressionist Biography - Art 0500270732

COOK, BERYL

Happy Days (Signed compliment slip)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 0575061928) Hard Cover, 11.25 x 8.25 inches. Gollancz compliemt slip signed by Beryl Cook tucked in. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked or torn with minor creasing to upper edge. Unpaginated. pp. Another beautiful collection of eccentric characters from Buenos Aires to Glasgow, via Plymouth and Tenerife. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 022641

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Art, British, Beryl Cook, Painter, 0575061928

TREWIN COPPLESTONE

Paul Cezanne :

Devizes, Wiltshire, Select Books. 2002. (ISBN: 1853614955) Soft Cover, 12 x 9.25 inches. Book in mint unread condition. 76pp. Forty-six colour plates from artist Paul Cezanne with much descriptive detail and a concise biography of the French painter. As New.

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Book number: 020359

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Art, Paintings, Paul Cezanne Biography - Art 1853614955

CORNET, MAY & SALMON, RICHARD

May Cornet : Quarry

London, Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd. 2010, First Edition. Soft Cover, 10.25 x 10.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. 44pp. The paintings of May Cornet, taken from her exhibition in 2010. Fine.

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Book number: 015348

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Art, Painting,

SALVADOR DALI

Diary of a Genius

London, Hutchinson. 1990. (ISBN: 0091746574) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked pure white boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased. 253pp. A wildly exhibitionist book from artist and eccentric Salvador Dali where he jotted down helter-skelter his thought, his love for his wife, the story of his extraordinary encounters, ideas about aesthetics, morality, philosophy and biology. At the end is a table where he rates himself against ten other famous artists on nine different categories. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 020626

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Art, Artist, Painter, Eccentric, Biography - Art 0091746574

EDWARD ; DARS, CELESTINE LUCIE-SMITH

Work and struggle: The painter as witness, 1870-1914

Paddington Press. 1977. (ISBN: 0448226162) Hard Cover, 11.25 x 8.5 inches. Tape mark to top of front dust flap and correspnding mark to top of front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to edges and traces of storage. 248pp. The paintings of social history which examine and tell the story of the working class in the fifty years before World War One. Very Good (+)/Very Good.

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Book number: 021684

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Realism, Poverty, Social History, Paintings, Art Social History 0448226162

DEMEUDE, HUGUES

The Animated Alphabet

London, Thames & Hudson. 1996. (ISBN: 050027908X) Soft Cover with Self-Wraps, 11.75 x 8.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked, very lightly indented boards and no bumping to corners. 174pp. An excellent study providing a historical text and a vast range of beautifully reproduced examples of illuminated and ornamental letters from the eighth to the twentieth century. Near Fine.

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Book number: 008241

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Artwork, Illuminated Letters, Historical Language 050027908x

DENCHEV, ALEX

George Braque : A Life

London, Penguin Books. 2007. (ISBN: 0141010797) Soft Cover, 9.25 x 6 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to corners of front cover, none to rear, faint crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 440pp. A highly praised biography of artist George Braque draws the painter out of the shadows cast by his more well-known peers and shows how his heroic and multi-faceted life informed the greatest revolution in art since the Renaissance. Very Good.

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Book number: 028026

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Art, Artist, Painter, Biography Biography - Art 0141010797

DESCARGUES, PIERRE

Goya

London, D. R. Books. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0905694430) Hard Cover, 11.5 x 9 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean crisp tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased, with minor traces of storage. 197pp. This book explores the evolution of Goya's artistic genius, and shows that although his art was deeply rooted in Spanish life, his profound insights are of enduring and universal significance. His work began with the elegant, worldly approach of the eighteenth century, progressed to nineteenth century romanticism and later the influence of both Impressionists and Surrealists is unquestionable. Very well illustrated in colour and black & white. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 006899

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Painting, Old Master, Spain 0905694430