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Francisco Calvo Seraller and Nina Zimmer
10 Picassos del Kunstmuseum Basel
Book in mint condition. 127pp. A study of ten master works by Pablo Picasso, from the Kunstmuseum, Basle, on the occasion of its renovation. All text in Spanish.
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Nina Kalitina & Nathalia Brodskaia
Claude Monet
Book and jacket in mint condition. 199pp. A magnificant collection of the great master Claude Monet's works with many full-colour full-page plates plus a concise biography of the man. A lavish volume. Very scarce in this condition.
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Victoria Charles
Vincent Van Gogh
Book in mint condition. 199pp. A magnificant collection of the great painter Vincent Van Gogh's works with many full-colour full-page plates together with a biography of the man. A lavish volume.
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Pamela Todd
The Impressionists at Leisure
Book in mint condition. 176pp. A visual delight with its wealth of colour paintings from the Impressionists, many full-page showing their love of leisure activities plus a fascinating account of the new leisure society of the 19th century.
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Beatrice Fontanel & Liz Nash (translator)
Daily Life in Art
Book and jacket in mint condition. 199pp. Vividly reproduced paintings in large format showing domestic life through time and tracing the technical innovations that changed our lives. A beautiful and lavish study.
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Matthew Gale
Alfred Wallis (St Ives Artists series)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, the tiniest rubs to front cover corners and no bumping to corners. 80pp. Biography and paintings from Cornish artist Alfred Wallis who was unappreciated in his lifetime but is now considered very highly.
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Marie-Laure Bernadac; Paule Du Bouchet
Picasso: Master of the New
Book in mint condition. 191pp. An intimate portrait of Pablo Picasso which traces his life from the early years in Spain through his long residence in Paris. Very well illustrated with his master works throughout the book.
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John Finlay
Picasso's World
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with very slight traces of storage to bright padded hard covers and no bumping to corners. 180pp. The illustrated story of Pablo Picasso's life and work including over 40 documents and countless illustrations, photographs and his paintings.
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Dieter Beaujean
Van Gogh
Book in mint unread condition. 96pp. The life and work of Vincent Van Gogh. Very well illustrated.
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Denis Thomas
Monet on Location
Book in mint unread condition. 80pp. The life and work of Claude Monet. Very well illustrated.
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Janice Anderson
The Life and Works of Renoir
Book and jacket in mint condition. 78pp. Very well illustrated life and works of Pierre Auguste Renoir.
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Heinrich, Christoph
Claude Monet 1840-1926
Book in mint condition. 96pp. Well illustrated life and works of Claude Monet.
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Angela Sanna
Impressionism
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovel clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small storage scratch to rear and no bumping to corners. 256pp. Art of the 19th century, bringing in a new art convention with artists including Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir and Sisley.
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Ingo F. Walther
Van Gogh 1853-1890 : Vision and Reality
Book in mint unread condition. 96pp. The life and works of Vincent Van Gogh, very well illustrated.
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Michael Robinson
The Pre-Raphaelites
Book in mint unread condition. 384pp. The most talked about art movement in the second half of the 19th century. Very well illustrated.
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Frank Zollner
Leonardo Da Vinci : 1452-1519 : Artist and Scientist
Book appears in mint unread condition. 96pp. The art and science of Leonardo Da Vinci, very well illustrated. 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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Clarence Jones
The Life and Works of Constable
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. 79pp. Very well illustrated study of the paintings of John Constable with biographical details. 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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Gordon Kerr
100 Claude Monet Masterpieces
Book in as new condition. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with small crease to upper front edge. 144pp. Art and life of Claude Monet illustrated with 100 of his masterpieces. 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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Tamsin Pickeral
Impressionism
Book appears in mint condition. 384pp. The lives and paintings of artists such as Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Manet - very well illustrated. 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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Fabrizio Mancinelli
The Sistine Chapel
Probably unread. No marks or inscriptions. Very tiny creasing to lower corner of front cover, none to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 112pp. The history and the art of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. 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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The Editor
Phillips : The Auction Year 1984/5
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. 112pp. Catalogue of sale room goods sold in 1984/5 with colour photographs and prices of each across the complete range of items put up for auction.
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Salvador Dali
Diary of a Genius
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.
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Peter Collyer
Rain Later, Good : Painting the Shipping Forecast
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.
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Beeren, Dr Willem
Hals
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight rubbing to lower corners, tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 90pp. The life and paintings of Frans Hals, very well illustrated. No 10 in the Blandfford Art Series.
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DeNys Sutton
Titian
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 90pp. The life and paintings of Tiziano Vecelli (Titian), very well illustrated. No 13 in the Blandfford Art Series.
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Dr Xavier De Salas
Goya
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 88pp. The life and paintings of Francisco Jose Goya, very well illustrated. No 5 in the Blandfford Art Series.
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Du Guiseppe M. Pilo
Canaletto
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 90pp. The life and paintings of Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto), very well illustrated. No 8 in the Blandfford Art Series.
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Perruchot, Henri
Manet
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to page edges, minor bump midway down spine edge and no bumping to corners. 89pp. The life and paintings of Edouard Manet, very well illustrated. No 6 in the Blandfford Art Series.
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The Editor
The Folio Diary 2010
Diary in mint unused condition. Unpaginated. pp. With one beautiful painting opposite each week's diary space for every week of the year. Captions to each of the 53 weeks at the end.
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Nik Cohn
Rock Dreams
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.
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Ted and David Gibbon. Smart
Art Masterpieces - The National Gallery / London
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards, very slight traces of storage and bumping to upper front corner. Unpaginated. pp. Captioned images of paintings from London's National Gallery.
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Delderfield, Eric
British Inn Signs and Their Stories
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 dusty rear, rubbing to edges and nicks and slight creasing mainly to upper edge. 160pp. An account of the inn signs and their historical connections found on Britsih pubs and hotels with over 200 illustrations.
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Neil Aldis; James Sherry
Heavy Metal Thunder: Album Covers That Rocked the World
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. 251pp. A celebration of Heavy Metal album covers from Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden to Slipknot of the 2000s and all in between.
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Bryan Holme
The Kate Greenaway Book
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright orange cloth boards, very minor fading to top of board edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. Now protected in a fully-removable transparent sleeve. 144pp. A short biography of Kate Greenaway and selections from her best-known as well as little-known works - a charming collection of texts and pictures.
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Irina A. Rodimzeva; etc.; Nikolai Rachmanov; Alfons Raimann
The Kremlin and Its Treasures
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and a very faint trace of a bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 356pp. A lavish work on the art treasures housed in Russia's Kremlin, including the building itself plus its history. Very well illustrated including over 250 colour plates. A heavy book.
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David Hockney and Nikos Stangos (editor)
David Hockney by David Hockney
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 light indenting to front. 312pp. In this witty, candid and revealing account of himself, Hockney tells of his early life in Bradford, his Royal College of Art years and his time in California and Paris. This work is also a showcase for his drawings and paintings, of which there are 414 examples, many in colour.
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Charles Perrault
Cinderella and Other Tales from Perrault
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. Now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 78pp. With eight classic nursery rhymes and beautiful full-colour paintings from Michael Hague - with some elaboration and a few twists, for example, the wolf ate Little Red Riding Hood.
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Robert MacLeod
Charles Rennie Mackintosh : Architect and Artist
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 price clipped but not marked or torn with extremely minor creasing to upper edge. 160pp. The author endeavours to show that Mackintosh was one of the greatest of British architects. The study concentrates on his major design work carried out between 1896 and 1909 but also looks at his later work and in particular his paintings.
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Edward ; Dars, Celestine Lucie-Smith
Work and struggle: The painter as witness, 1870-1914
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.
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Frank Whitford
Gustav Klimt (Artists in context)
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. 160pp. Biography and artworks of fin-de-siecle Austrain painter Gustav Klimt. Very well illustrated.
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The Editor
On the Farm : Post Card Painting Book
No marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease to lower corner of front cover. Contents very clean and very tight copy with very dusty unmarked boards, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. None of the uncoloured cards have been marked. 17pp. With sixteen postcards perforated for removal. Eight of the cards show a farm scene in colour and the other eight (facing) are to colour in as shown in the scene opposite. Extremely scarce.
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Gerald M. King
Alice Through the Pillar Box and What She Found There: A Philatelic Phantasy
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage and slight sunning to spine. 37pp. Alice and the characters from Wonderland in a 'philatelic fantasy' drawn by Gerald King with a little help from Lewis Carroll and Sir John Tenniel.
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Christopher Finch
Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms
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 very slight creasing to upper edge anda few nicks to edges. 160pp. A fascinating look at the work of Walt Disney, with his basic techniques explained and an extensive range of his animations are illustrated.
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Patricia Malarcher (editor)
Surface Design : The Journal of the Surface Design Association : Summer 2007
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. 63pp. Volume 31 no 4. New techniques and new materials. Very scarce in the UK.
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Patricia Malarcher (editor)
Surface Design : The Journal of the Surface Design Association : Winter 2007
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. 63pp. Volume 31 no 2. Mind & body. Very scarce in the UK.
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Patricia Malarcher (editor)
Surface Design : The Journal of the Surface Design Association : Winter 2008
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. 65pp. Volume 32 no 2. Structured surfaces. Very scarce in the UK.
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Mary Ann Wingfield
Sport and the Artist: Ball Games vol. 1
Neat inscription on reverse of frontispiece. No other 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 price clipped but not marked or torn or creased. 359pp. Antique Collectors' Club reference work on sporting paintings and drawings. This volume looks at ball games where the development of twenty-seven such games are discussed and the social attitudes to them. With 74 colour and 272 black & white illustrations.
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Margo Veillon
Nubia: Sketches, Notes, and Photographs
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked dark grey cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with tiny nick to upper front corner and minor traces of storage. 168pp. Before the land of Nubia in Upper Egypt was lost under the waters of Lake Nasser behind the Aswan Dam in the 1960s, the author travelled among the Nubian people from the 1930s onwards. This book is a record of her journeys where she captured the vibrancy, colour and the culture of these people in words, sketches, drawings, photographs and paintings, mostly in colour.
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Yerlashova, S. (compiler)
Painting of Soviet Turkmenia
No marks or inscriptions. Contents in fine condition. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked yellow cloth boards and no bumping but rubbing to top of spine and lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with rubbing, nicks and chips to edges and piece missing from top of spine. 145pp. Introduction plus sixty-five coloured paintings, each with artist, title and details opposite. Text in English and Russian. Scarce in the UK.
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Hutchings, R. S.
The Western Heritage of Type Design
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny rub to upper rear corner, traces of foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with irregular sunning to all surfaces. Now protected in a fully-removable transparent sleeve. 127pp. A treasury of currently available typefaces demonstrating the historical development and diversification of form of printed letters selected and arranged with an introduction, commentaries and reference appendices.
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