LACH, WILLIAM; METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART STAFF

New York, New York : The City in Art and Literature

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 0789305216) Hard Cover, 8.5 x 6 inches. No inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased. 144pp. With an introduction by Brooke Astor. In this book, paintings, prints, photographs, postcards and other works of art from the Metropolitan Museum's collections have been sensitively paired with writing that celebrates the city, including poems, letters, fiction and memoirs. As New/As New.

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Book number: 003774

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Cities and Towns, United States Cities 0789305216

LANGDON, HELEN

Holbein (Colour Plate Books)

Oxford, Phaidon Press Ltd. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0714817481) Hard Cover, 12 x 9 inches. 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 with small tear to lower rear edge and general traces of storage. 48 full-page colour plates plus 16pp. A concise biography of the German painter Hans Holbein with examples of his work. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 024487

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Painter, 16th Century, German Biography - Art 0714817481

JAMES LAVER

English Sporting Prints (Collectors Monograph)

London, Ward Lock Ltd. 1970, First Edition. (ISBN: 0706318897) Hard Cover, 9.25 x 6.75 inches. Ex-library book with usual marks and stamps. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, missing front end paper and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 96pp. a study of the English sporting print, popular for around a hundred years over the last half of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries. About 75% of the book is a display of actual examples. Very Good/Fine.

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Book number: 019130

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Social History, Animals, Sporting Prints, Hunt, Baiting Sport - Other / General Social History 0706318897

LAZAREV, VIKTOR

Old Russian Murals & Mosaics

London, Phaidon. 1966, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12.25 x 9.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor rubbing around lower board edges, a trace of dustiness to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 290pp. A detailed study of Russian mosaics and frescos from the 11th to the 16th century with 265 illustrations. A heavy book. Very Good (+)/Near Fine.

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Book number: 023627

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Russia, Art, Paintings, Icons, 15th Century

LEHNDORFF, VERA & TRULZSCH, HOLGER & SONTAG, SUSAN (INTRO)

Veruschka : Transfigurations

Thames & Hudson. 1986. (ISBN: 050027424X) Soft Cover, 11.25 x 9.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, tiny mark to upper front and to top of page edges, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 160pp. The art of the body. Surrealistic type photographs of Veruschka (Vera Lehndorff) - the 6ft tall German model, actress and artist in a mixture of clothed and nude images. With 205 illustrations, 163 in colour. Very Good.

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Book number: 025653

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Art, Photography, Body, Nudity Photography 050027424x

LEMAN, MARTIN

Martin Leman's Painted Cats

London, Pelham Books. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0720718082) Hard Cover, 7.75 x 7.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor storage rubbing to surface. 42pp. A series of beautiful stylised paintings of cats and accompanying anecdotes. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 026385

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Paintings, Cats, Feline Pets 0720718082

LENG, RICHARD

Painting the Village: Portraits & Drawings of Mellor, Moor End & Marple Bridge

Cheshire, Galloways Printers Ltd. 2017, First Edition. Soft Cover, 9.25 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 68pp. Anecdoes, portraits and local history about three districts of Stockport. There are thirty full page colour paintings of local residents, with names and occupations. Scarce. Fine.

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Book number: 027445

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Social History, Portraits, Stockport Local History Social History

FRANCOIS LETARGAT

Kandinsky (Art Monographs)

London, Academy Editions. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0856709646) Soft Cover, 11.75 x 8.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to covers and creaser to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight fingermarking to page fore-edges and no bumping to corners. 128pp. Concise biography of Russian-born abstract artist Vasili Kandinsky plus 125 plates of his work, all in colour. Very Good.

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Book number: 020242

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Abstract Art, Paintings, Biography - Art 0856709646

LEYMARIE, JEAN

L'esprit de la lettre dans la Peinture

Geneva, Skira. 1967, First Edition. Hard Cover, 11.25 x 9.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked cream boards and very minor bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with some repaired tears to upper and lower edges. 96pp. A study of the letter in painting, writing the letter, reading the letter, letters on a desk and more - all as tipped in colour representations from famous artists of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. All text in French. Near Fine/Very Good (-).

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Book number: 022656

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Art, Paintings, Letters,

LINKHORN, FORBES LLOYD (EDITOR)

Illustrators 22 : The Twenty Second Annual of American Illustration

New York, Hastings House Publishers Inc. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0803834330) Hard Cover, 12 x 9.25 inches. 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 or creased with slight sunning to spine. Unpaginated pp. With 633 illustrations chosen for the Society of Illustrators' 1980/81 Exhibition. A heavy book. Scarce in the UK. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 026259

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Design, Images, Arts, Prints 0803834330

LOSOWSKY, ANDREW

Book 05.06

London, Young Creative Network and John Brown Citrus Publishing. 2005, First Edition. (ISBN: 0954859715) Hard Cover, 9.75 x 9.75 inches. No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 190pp. This volume, the third in the annual series, gives you a showcase of the best work submitted as part of the previous year's Youth Creative Network programme. Fine.

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Book number: 003053

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Design, Young Talent, 0954859715

MACCARTHY, FIONA

The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination

London, Faber & Faber. 2011, First Edition. (ISBN: 0571228615) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 629pp. A major biography of Edward Burne-Jones, the most admired British artist of his generation of the 1880s, who was a bridge between Victorian and modern art. His work is all around us from the angels on our Christmas cards to the stained glass in our churches. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 028005

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: 1880s, Social History, Artist, Painter, Burne-Jones, Biography - Art Social History 0571228615

MADDOCKS, PETER

How to Draw Cartoons

London, Michael O'Mara Books Ltd. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 1854790781) Hard Cover, 10 x 8.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards. 95pp. A book for the budding cartoonist by top cartoonist Maddocks. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 023693

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Drawing, Self Help, Cartoons Cartoon Books Self Help 1854790781

MADDOX, CONROY

Dali

Cologne, Taschen Verlag. 1983. (ISBN: 3822800694) Soft Cover, 11.75 x 9 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Small crease near rear spine foot, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, a few tiny indents and no bumping to corners. 96pp. Biography and a wealth of colour images of the work of Salvador Dali. Near Fine.

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Book number: 017285

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Art, Surrealism, Painting, Salvador Dali Biography - Art 3822800694

ULRIKE BECKS-MALORNY

Cezanne 1839 - 1906 : Pioneer of Modernism

Koln, Taschen GmbH. 2006. (ISBN: 3822856428) Soft Cover, 9 x 7.25 inches. Book in mint condition. 96pp. Concise biography and the paintings of Paul Cezanne. Very well illustrated with mostly colour plates of his work throughout. As New.

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Book number: 020372

Catalogue: Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing

Keywords: Art, Artists, Painting, Painters, Paul Cezanne Biography - Art 3822856428