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The Editor
I. C. S. Reference Library : Drawing - Volume 47
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright very lightly marked, lightly rubbed embossed boards and no bumping to corners. 784pp. Volume 47 in this series with sections on Geometrical Drawing, Architectural Drawing, Freehand and Ornamental Drawing, Advanced Architectural Drawing, Architectural Perspective Drawing, Shades and Shadows, Sketching and Measuring, Drawing from the Cast, Black-and-White Drawing, Drawing from Life and questions and answers on all of these. Illustrated with many 'to scale' examples. A scarce volume.
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Eisler, Steven
The Alien World : The Complete Illustrated Guide
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, single 2cm tear to fore-edge of one page and bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with a little creasing, nick to upper rear edge and lightly rubbed edges/corners. 96pp. The fantastic artwork from Steven Eisler which are split into the five groups Oisir-Raxxla, Human, Hiraldron, Narathnu and Uan-Irec. With ninety colour illustrations. Scarce in the UK.
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Frank, Alan
Galactic Aliens
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked slightly indented, slightly rubbed boards and no bumping to corners. Unpaginated ca 96pp. The author explains that he is now releasing information from secret archives which tell of much contact with interstellar species. The forms of these creatures is displayed in fabulous artwork by nine artists. Very scarce in the UK.
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Christou, Chrysanthos
Greek Painting 1832-1922
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 slight rubbing/nicks to spine ends. Presented in a well-repaired plain card slipcase. 174 plates plus text on 56pp. A close look at the historical record and artistic creativity of Greece through the paintings of a crucial period of Greek history.
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Robotham, Tom
Varga ; The Varga girls 1940-1947
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 with light creasing to upper edge. 112pp. Every page a coloured sensuous erotic image of a young lady in skimpy clothing.
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Dopagne, Jacques
Miro
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very tiny bump to lower rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with faint creasing and nicks to upper edge. pp. Lengthy text plus 88 coloured plates of Miro's work.
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Ochs, Michael
Classic Rock Covers (Icons)
Slight rubbing to upper corner of front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight sunning to board edges and no bumping to corners. 191pp. Coloured images of rock LP covers from the 1950s onwards, set out in each decade. Text in English, German and French.
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Ochs, Michael
Classic Rock Covers (Icons)
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. 191pp. Coloured images of classic rock LP covers. Text in English, Japanese and French.
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Bowness, Alan (director)
The Tate Gallery : An Illustrated Companion
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 152pp. The National Collections of British and Modern Foreign Art at the Tate Gallery.
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Robertson, Pamela; Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh Flower Drawings
Appears unread. 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. 56pp. With thirty-two of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's flower drawings and paintings in full-page colour. Also a desciption and the story of how each originated and a sixteen page introduction.
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Neret, Gilles
Tamara de Lempicka, 1898-1980
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. 79pp. The life and art of artist painter Tamara de Lempicka who created most of her works in the first half of the 20th century.
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Richmond, Leonard
The Art of Landscape Painting
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly tanned page edges, sunned spine, very slightly foxed and no bumping to corners. 100pp. A guide for students taking up landscape painting. With twenty-five tipped-in landscape colour plates, many full-page.
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Robins, Gay
Egyptian Painting and Relief
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with slightly marked front cover, minor sunning and no bumping to corners. 64pp. Concise illustrated account of the paintings of Ancient Egypt.
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McKnight-Tronz, Jennifer
This Ain't No Disco : New Wave Album Covers
Appears unread. 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. 255pp. A visual romp though 300 of the best album covers of the 'New Wave' era from the late 1970s to the mid 1980s.
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Trunk, Jonny
The Music Library (includes CD)
Book in as new condition. 207pp. Library Music, also known as source or mood music, was made for use in animations, commercials, film and TV programmes. This book is a compilation of cover artwork from some of the most important and beautiful library LPs from the 1960s and 1970s. These were never commercially available and were manufactured in limited numbers. The CD in a pocket at the back of the book includes 17 of these rare library recordings.
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McLeod, M. D. (director)
The Estate and Collection of Works By Charles Rennie Mackintosh at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
Appears unread. 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. 55pp. Exhibition catalogue from the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow from 1991 showing the variety of Mackintosh's work - architecture, cutlery, furniture, paintings, property designs, drawings and more.
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Harris, Nathaniel
The Life and Works of Rennie Mackintosh
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to upper corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with traces of storage. 79pp. Biography and the works of Mackintosh including his architecture, cutlery, furniture, paintings, property designs, drawings and more.
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Duncan, Alastair
Art Deco
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor sunning to rear and no bumping to corners. 216pp. Detailed study of the many aspects of Art Deco which began in France before the First World War and had its greatest and most spectacular foreign success in the United States. Very well illustrated.
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Marnat, Marcel
Klee
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with nick to upper front edge and traces of storage. 88 plates plus 34pp. An account of the life and work of Swiss artist Paul Klee.
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Leicester-Warren, Margaret
Stories of the Italian Artists : Venetian and Umbrian Schools
Previous owner's bookplate inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked orange cloth boards, slight bumping to ends of sunned spine, tanned end paper and page edges and no bumping to corners. 84pp. The artists of the Italian regions of Venice and Umbria in the 15th and 16th centuries - Piero della Francesca, Giovanni Bellini, Pietro Perugino, Vittore Carpaccio, Giorgione, Raphael, Titian and Tintoretto.
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Watkinson, Ray
William Morris as Designer
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked cream cloth boards, tiniest amount of sunning to upper edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 90 plates plus 81pp. This study consider three aspects of William Morris, as an individual playing his part in a large development, as a working designer and as a theorist about art and its function in society. Well ilustrated.
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Melanotte, Alberta
Monet
Appears unread. Book in as new condition. 44 full-page plates plus 15pp. A concise biography of impressionist Claude Monet plus examples of his work in colour.
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Linkhorn, Forbes Lloyd (editor)
Illustrators 22 : The Twenty Second Annual of American Illustration
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.
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Ash, Russell
Lord Leighton
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. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with small crease to lower rear edge and minor traces of storage. Forty full-page colour plates with description on each opposite page plus concise biography over 9pp. A lavish work depicting the paintings of Frederick Leighton who dominated the Victorian art world becoming among the best known of both his age and our own.
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Gillow, Norah
William Morris : Designs and Patterns
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. Tiniest bit of creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Forty full page colour images of Morris's designs for wallpaper and textiles plus introduction on 8pp.
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Buffet-Challie, Laurence
Art Nouveau Style
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to some corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with tiny nicks to top of spine and rear corners and slight creasing to upper edge. 176pp. Mainly illustrations with some description, in colour and black & white of the objects of Art Nouveau from the early years of the 20th century, including furniture, sculpture, tapestry, wallpaper, fabrics, ceramics, metal work and more. We do not use stock photos, the pictur displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Hartley, Sheril G.
All Saints Church, Selsley (Signed By Author)
Signed to first page by the author. Page references to some of images. Light creasing to front cover adjacent to spine. A very clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 20pp. An account of the church at Selsley in Gloucestershire which has ornamental stained-glass windows from artists William Morris, Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Philip Webb. In an attached pocket are four reproductions of these windows plus a letter written by the author (first name difficult to read). Extremely scarce.
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Johnson, Caroline
Angels
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. 64pp. Generations of artists have depicted angels as divine messengers, spiritual guides or heavenly musicians. This study shows some of these images with lengthy descriptions of each.
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Wilde, Lyn Webster
Celtic Inspirations
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. 160pp. A distillation of ancient wisdom illustrated with evocative photographs and superb artworks specially commissioned to capture the mystery and beauty of the Celtic imagination.
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Leman, Martin
Martin Leman's Painted Cats
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.
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Taylor, Richard
Watercolour Lakes and Rivers
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. 96pp. Advice and technique on painting lakes and rivers in watercolours.
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The Editor
Our Art - 24 South African Artists
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Crease across rear cover. Clean pages with slightly marked dusty covers. 143pp. Hole-punched pages bound with brown ribbon. Paintings and a little sculpture in colour and black & white of the work of twenty-four South African artists. Each set of works accompanied by concise biographies of the artist by different writers. Scarce in the UK.
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Beiles, Sinclair and Skotnes, Cecil
Tales : Poems by Sinclair Beiles Original woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly sunned boards, minor rub/indent to rear and no bumping to corners. 46pp. Six coloured woodcuts from the original blocks created by Cecil Skotnes accompanied by twenty poems from Sinclair Beiles. Both are distinguished South African artist and poet.
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Dunkley, Clive & Morrison, Mary & Harris, Barnaby
Ampersand : Student Magazine for the Arts : Issue 2
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 46pp. Cambridge Students Magazine for Poetry, Photographs, Artwork, Short Stories. Full list of contributors on the second image. Very scarce.
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Meintjes, Johannes & Marincowitz, Pieter (introduction)
Meintjes : Lyrical Work (Signed By Author)
Flat signed by Johannes Meintjes to copyright page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked green cloth boards, very slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Sunned dust jacket not price clipped with a few small marks to front, small pieces missing from spine ends and some corners and two small tears to upper edge around spine. 50 full-page plates plus 26pp. Biography and work of South African artist Johannes Meintjes. Text in English and Afrikaans.
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Richter, Ludwig & Beer, Johannes (selected by)
Ludwig Richter : The End of Day
Name/date to reverse of frontispiece. No other 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. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with tiny nicks to top of spine. 80pp. 'The end of the day'/closing time' telling the memoirs of a German painter Ludwig Richter accompanied by 16 coloured and 62 of his black & white paintings/drawings. 'The Blue Book' series. Scarce in the UK.
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McConkey, Kenneth
The New English
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 creased with tiny tear to upper rear edge. 260pp. A well illustrated study of the history of the New English Art Club, founded in opposition to the the Royal Academy in 1886, it went on to be a society that has played a vitally important role in the development of British art. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Christie's
Christie's London : British and Continental Decorative Arts from 1850 to the Present Day : 1 May 1997
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. One fold-out page in excellent condition. 127pp. No of Lots - 201 to 442. With furniture, pottery, carpets, glassware, sculpture, paintings, cutlery, housewares etc. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Christie's
Christie's London : British and Continental Decorative Arts from 1850 to the Present Day : 12 May 1999
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers, faint crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage to covers and no bumping to corners. One fold-out page in excellent condition. 151pp. No of Lots - 201 to 486. With furniture, pottery, carpets, glassware, sculpture, paintings, cutlery, housewares etc. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Christie's
Christie's London : Objects of Art, Furniture, Prints and Pictures (Bute Collection) 25 March 1996
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 72pp. No of Lots - 343. With furniture, artworks, paintings, prints. From the Bute Collection. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Christie's
Christie's London : British and Continental Decorative Arts from 1850 to the Present Day : 2 May 1996
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. One fold-out page in excellent condition. 116pp. No of Lots - 219. With furniture, pottery, carpets, glassware, sculpture, paintings, cutlery, housewares etc. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Christie's
Christie's London : The Nineteenth Century : 2 March 1995
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Crease to lower corner of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 176pp. No of Lots - 451. With 19th century furniture, pottery, carpets, glassware, sculpture, paintings, cutlery, housewares etc. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Christie's
Christie's Los Angeles : Innovators of 20th Century Style Including the Billy Wilder Collection : 18 May 2000
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 123pp. No of Lots - 280. 20th century new design including property from thre collection of Billy Wilder. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Christie's
Christie's London : British and Continental Decorative Arts from 1860 to the Present Day : 2 November 1995
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Light creasing to rear cover, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage to rear and no bumping to corners. 148pp. No of Lots - 307. Decorative arts from Britain and the Continent from around 1860 onwards, including the Petrucci Wolfers collection. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Christie's
Christie's London : A Collection of Important Furniture (The Property of Mr Edward Sarofim) : 16 November 1995
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 114pp. No of Lots - 101 - 150. Furniture from the collection of Mr Edward Sarofim. Tucked in are details of Lots sold and their sold prices. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Taylor, Basil
Painting in England 1700 - 1850 : Collection of Mr & Mrs Paul Mellon (2 volumes)
Two volumes - paintings and descriptions. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Two very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards, very minor foxing to end papers and page edges and minor bumping to upper rear corner of text volume. 231 +231 pp, Detailed examination of the collection of 18th and 19th century English art by Paul Mellon and his wife. Volume one includes a twenty page introduction followed by a listing of over 400 paintings and their description and provenance. Volume two comprises about 220 of the paintings displayed full-page, mostly black & white but a few in colour. A heavy set. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Bianchi, Eugenia, and Righi, Nadia, and Terzaghi, Maria Cristina
The Doge's Palace in Venice
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 59pp. Illustrated guide to the history, architecture and the paintings of the Palace of the Doge in Venice. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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O'Neill, Amanda (editor)
Introduction to the Decorative Arts: 1890 to the Present Day
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small mark to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 143pp. Very well illustrated review of some of the most striking and pioneering movements in decorative arts in the 20th century including Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Modernism.
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George, Joan
Stanley Spencer Remembered
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. 92pp. An anthology of people's memories of popular artist Stanley Spencer and a glimpse into mid 20th century social history and its effects on Cookham.
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Sotheby's
Sotheby's : Atlases, Travel and Natural History : 22 June 1990
No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small scratch to front and no bumping to corners. 298pp. Images and description of 576 Lots of maps, natural history prints and paintings and travel and exploration paintings etc.
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