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Paris, H. J.
English Water Colour Painters
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight rubbing to spine ends and upper corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with sunning and lightly rubbed plus nicks and chips to edges 48pp. Britain in Pictures no 88 with eight plates in colour amd twenty-one black & white.
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The Editor
Seven Views of the Seven (BMW)
Hardback loose leaf folder tied with grey satin ribbon in excellent condition. pp. A portfolio of specially commisiioned paintings on high quality card celebrating the BMW Series 7 in 1983. Each painting is loose and separated by tissue guards in a hardback folder. Also included are 1) Associated Seven Views of the Seven brochure with endorsements and histories of the seven artists and seven others from the world of motor sport, finance and motoring, 2) A covering letter from the BMW Managing Director, 3) Full specification 53 page publicity colour brochure for the Series 7 BMW - covers loose and in separate torn presentation folder, 4) Model specifications guide for June 1983 and 5) Model Price List for January 1984.
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Fernandez, Justino
Mexican Art
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to lower corner of front cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage and no bumping to corners . Fifty-nine colour plates plus text and drawings on 39pp. Covers art and architecture from Mexico over a 2000 year period - art of the Aztecs, Mayans, Olmecs and Toltecs.
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Spielmann, M.H.; Layard, G.S.
The Life and Work of Kate Greenaway
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 foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 300pp. Biography of the children's writer and artist, born in 1846 whose works are very well known. With 52 of her colour illustrations and 31 black & white works. Originally published in 1905.
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Herrera, Ovidio-Cesar Paredes
New Guide To The Prado Gallery
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 torn or creased with small marks to upper edges. Two fold-out gallery plans in excellent condition. 173pp. Comprehensive guide to the paintings in the Prado Galley in Madrid. Well illustrated.
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Beaty, David
Light Perpetual: Aviators' Memorial Windows Index
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 very minor indenting and traces of storage. 160pp. The history of aviation is here traced through the beauty of stained glass memorial windows in churches, cathedrals and RAF stations in the British Isles, from the 11th century monk at Malmesbury to the airmen who served in the Second World War.
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Lazarev, Viktor
Old Russian Murals & Mosaics
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.
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Merne, J.G.
A Handbook of Celtic Ornament
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. 98pp. With over 700 illustrations of Celtic symbols and designs, this book is a wonderful resource for decoration from Celtic history and mythology. Book dated 1974 but more likely the 1997 reprint.
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Maddocks, Peter
How to Draw Cartoons
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.
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Ruskin, John
Ruskin (Half hours with great authors)
Art stamp on half-title page. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. Lowest 2 cm of spine strip missing. A clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Tucked in are (1) signed 'Good Wishes' slip of same format as book, (2) a number of old small newspaper cuttings.. 64pp. John Ruskin's thoughts on literature, painting, the Queen's gardens, architecture, drawing, laws and government. Illustrations after J.M.W.Turner. Undated, signed slip dated 1917. Scarce.
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R. P. Reynolds & K R Clark
Sixty Miles of Pencil: An intimate impression of the Brighton Run
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with tiny tear to slightly rubbed upper corners and traces of storage. 126pp. An account of the London to Brighton Motor Rally from sixty-three of the competitors - their eccentricities, their cars and their intrepid driving - alongside full-page pencil sketches of every one.
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Michael Fitzgerald
The Genesis of Artistic Creativity: Asperger's Syndrome and the Arts
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. The author, a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry offers compelling insights into the association between creative genius and autism spectrum disorders. A revealing exploration of 21 famous writers, philosophers, musicians and painters including Orwell, Mozart, Warhol, Beethven, van Gogh, Simone Weil and others.
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Clark, Sir Kenneth
Animals and Men
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 nicks to spine ends and very slight rubbing to upper edge. 240pp. A study of the depiction of animals in Western art and how their representation describes man's attitude to them over time from prehistory to modern times. With over 200 reproductions, most in colour and full page.
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Fletcher, Adelene
The Watercolour Flower Painter's Pocket Palette, Book 2: Practical Visual Advice on How to Create Flower Portraits Using Watercolours v. 2
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. 64pp. With step-by-steo demonstrations for painting over 70 different flowers, berries and foliage
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The Editors
Maurice Sendak Feature in Guardian Weekend Magazine
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to resr cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 110pp. Contains an illustrated feature about children's artist Maurice Sendak and his work including fourteen of his illustrations (13 in colour) over eight pages.
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Mason, Garry (editor)
FX - Design, Business and Society : Issue 139 October 2005
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. 170pp. A monthly trade magazine for the contract interior design industry with Gary Rhodes W1 restaurant, designing out the terrorists, National Trust HQ in Swindon, Butlin's Shoreline Hotel and much more.
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Layard, A. H.
The Brancacci Chapel and Masolino, Masaccio, and Filippino Lippi
Clean pages with very creased, incomplete covers and very dusty page edges. Text complete. 67pp. A study of the paintings of the Church of S Maria del Carmine at Florence. Illustrated in black & white drawings.
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Rice, David Talbot
Masterpieces of Byzantine Art
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked front cover, foxing to rear cover and no bumping to corners. Sixteen plates plus 96pp. Catalogue from the Byzantine Art Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1958. Description and discussion of 266 exhibits plus some black & whilte plates.
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Langdon, Helen
Holbein (Colour Plate Books)
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.
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Herrmann, Daniel F. (editor)
Eduardo Paolozzi
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. 288pp. Biography of the sculptor considered the 'Godfather of Pop Art' Eduardo Paolozzi and 217 plates of his works in sculpture, print and collage in this catalogue for this major exhibition in London 2017 and Berlin in 2018 plus comment and discussion of his public sculpture.
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Billcliffe, Roger
Mackintosh Watercolours
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 144pp. Am in-depth study of Mackintosh's watercolours with almost 100 pages of the book given over to the actual paintings including some paintings by his wife Margaret Macdonald.
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The Editor
Fineartcollector : Spring 2014
No marks or inscriptions. Faint crease to upper rear corner. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 66pp. Half filled with the Spring/Summer collection at the Castle Galleries plus features on Marilyn Monroe from the Edward Weston private collection, Shady Ladies from Keith Maiden, Michael Donald's Rolling Stones photographs, Stuart McAlpine Miller's Eyecons and Mannequin Muses/Roxy Music from Chris Acheson.
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Duchamp, Marcel
Notes
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. 155pp. With 289 separately numbered notes about art and more from Marcel Duchamp, artist, writer, exponent of Dada and Cubism, chess player and sculptor. Text in French.
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Combes, Simon
An African Experience: Wildlife Art and Adventure in Kenya
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.
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Harry Harrison
Planet Story
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, very slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with repair to upper rear corner and general traces of storage. 113pp. A space opera from legendary science fiction author Harry Harrison and fantasy artist Jim Burns in which the wold of Strabismus is invaded by an immense automatic track-laying robot which lays down railway lines so the US of Earth can exploit the rich mineral deposits. Many adventures follow.
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Fonstad, Karen Wynn & Anne McCaffrey (foreword)
Atlas of Pern
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. 169pp. The perfect companion and guide for Anne McCaffrey's stories of the Dragonriders of the world of Pern. Karen Wynn Fonstad has created an Atlas of Pern to augment these tales with her visual description of Pern in consultation with Anne McCaffrey.
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Hill, Adrian
6 Titles : Landscapes & Seascapes, Watercolour Painting, Oil Painting, Sketching & Painting Out of Doors, What Shall We Draw ?, Drawing & Painting Flowers
Six titles. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spines. Six very clean very tight copieswith bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Total of 468pp. A lovely well illustrated set of six books on how to paint and draw. The six titles are Landscapes & Seascapes, Watercolour Painting, Oil Painting, Sketching & Painting Out of Doors, What Shall We Draw ? and Drawing & Painting Flowers
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Lesberg, Sandy (editor)
American Primitive
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and with bumping to lower corners. pp. Examples in colour on forty-two pages of the art, paintings, sculpture of the Native Americans, both North America and South America, plus a Glossary on sixteen pages
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Barnes, Tess
Women of Substance (Signed By Author and other)
Inscribed by Tess opposite title page and signed by Sophie Grigson to her portrait. No other marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 112pp. With concise portrats of and interviews with fifty significant women of our time including politicians, artists, musicians, chefs etc. Each person is depicted in a coloured painting by the author.
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Welch, Stuart Cary
Royal Persian Manuscripts
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight sunning to spine margin and no bumping to corners. 127pp. The classical painting from 16th century Iran was spectacular and this study shows five such manuscripts in all their colour.
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Westgate, Alice
The Home Colour Directory
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. 192pp. A guide to finding the right paint for interior decoration. Includes 14 pages of 225 small tear-out colour swatches to make matching easier. Colours are from the Dulux range.
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Lehndorff, Vera & Trulzsch, Holger & Sontag, Susan (intro)
Veruschka : Transfigurations
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.
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Mackintosh, Charles Rennie & Robertson, Pamela (editor)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh : Architectural Sketches
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. Thirty-six plates with descriptions on facing pages plus text on 31pp. A study of drawings made by Mackintosh on his travels around Britain and Europe from 1891 to 1914. These drawings are from the Hunterian collection.
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English, Michael
The Anatomy of Illusion : A Painter's Guide to Hyper-Realist Technique
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 minor creasing/rubbing to upper edge. 125pp. From the foremost artist of the hippy Underground and exponent in excellence of airbrushed hyper-realism in painting which reveals the detailed trickery of this approach. With a large number of in many cases, full-page or larger colour images which show the style.
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The Editors
Christies : British & Continental Decorative Arts 1850 to the Present Day
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 138pp. Cutlery, furniture, ceramics, silverware, paintings, clothing. Auction date Thursday October 31st 1996 at 10:30 am. No of Lots - 231.
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Museum Ludwig Cologne
20th Century Photography
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.
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Thompson, Kay Morrissey
The Arty and Technique of Sumi-e : Japanese Ink-Painting as taught by Ukai Uchiyama
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. 71pp. An introduction to the artist Ukai Uchiyama, his techniques and instructions on how to do Japanese ink-painting. Very well illustrated with examples. Extremely scarce in the UK.
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Walters, Nigel V. and Bromham, John
Principles of Perspective
Name inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage including storage pressure to spine face and no bumping to corners. 127pp. A self-help study for the student of design. Each page-pair consists of a description on the left and the corresponding architectural drawings on the right.
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Eglington, Hope (editor)
Artlook 35
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to covers. Very clean very tight pages with slightly dusty slightly rubbed unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 44pp. South African art magazine from the 1960s concentrating on current painters also with some other art genres. Scarce.
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Katz, Dina (editot)
Artlook 99
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to covers. Very clean very tight pages with slightly dusty unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 36pp. South African art magazine from the 1970s with features on current painters plus dance, theatre and sculpture. Scarce.
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Dibdin, Rev. T. F.
Printers Devices : Being a Partial Reprint of the Fifth and Sixth Days Delectable Discourses Thereon from the Bibliographical Decameron of the Rev. T. F. Dibdin
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tightly bound pages with lightly marked foxed stiff white card boards and no bumping to corners. Marbled end papers not yet stuck to insides of boards. 64pp. An essay/discussion on devices from private printing presses - being their (probably) copyrighted symbols, trade marks, motifs, heraldic crests. Undated, ca 1910s.
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Skeaping, John
How to Draw Horses
Name to title page. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. Slightly dusty pages and page edges with lightly marked dusty boards and no bumping to corners. 61pp. With step-by-step details on how to draw the horse and many examples of part and full such drawings.
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Bier, Barry
The Art of Stained Glass Made Easy
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. A modern technique for a traditional craft - step-by-step guide, with over 60 beautiful designs and templates to trace and use.
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Knapp, Stephen ; Peterson, Chris; McCree, Livia and McCree, Giorgietta
Stained Glass Sourcebook
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. Very tiny crease to upper corner of rear cover. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 304pp. This work provides information, inspiration and instruction to enhance your existing stained glass techniques or to provide you with the basic tools to get started. Packed with projects and tips from professional artists.
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Gauguin, Paul & Denvir, Bernard (selected by)
Paul Gauguin : The Search for Paradise
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. 160pp. Paul Gauguin's letters from Brittany and the South Seas.
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Perkins, Benjamin
Painting Wild Flowers in Watercolour
No marks or inscriptions. Single tiny front crease adjacent to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 32pp. Takes you through the steps of a number of paint projects.
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Seligman, Patricia
Skies : Painter's Pocket Reference
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. Ring-bound pages within a laminated hard cover. 63pp. Essential tips and techniques for rendering better skies.
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Clinch, Moira
Watercolour Painter's Pocket Palette
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. Ring-bound pages within a laminated hard cover. 63pp. Instant, practiacl, visual guidance on mixing and matching watercolours to suit all subjects.
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Mucha, Alphonse & Bridges, Ann (editor)
Alphonse Mucha : The Complete Graphic Works
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards and the faintest of bumps to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor sunning. Jacket now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 192pp. The works of Alphonse Mucha from the 1890s when he was at the height of his fame and producing his panneaux decoratifs and his celebrated posters for the theatre and other outlets. His style became synonymous with Art Nouveau. With 163 illustrations in colour.
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Lejard, Andre (editor)
The Art Of The French Book - from Early Manuscrips to the Present Time
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked black boards with white lettering and cream vellum spine and bumping to front corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped with some marking, small tears to corners, small piece missing from spine top and rubbed/nicked edges. 164pp. A history of French book production from the 9th century to books illustrated by Picasso, Matisse and Braque.
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