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Baumer, Angelica
Gustav Klimt: Women
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 traces of storage. 143pp. A fascinating collection of Gustav Klimt's favourite subject - women.
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Dickens, Charles & Zwerger, Lisbeth
A Christmas Carol
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Unpaginated. 64pp. Delightful coloured illustration by Austrian artist Lisbeth Zwerger accompany the text of Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol.
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Barry Maybury
Wordscapes
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight foxing to page edges and a trace of rubbing to corners. 160pp. Poetry, essays, many from young children and associated images for stimulating creativity in students.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hayes, John
The Art of Graham Sutherland
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked matt black boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little indenting mainly to front. 190pp. Biography of and over 160 reproductions from the paintings of the greatest English landscape painter of the 20th century and one of the greatest English portrait painters of all time.
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Cocard, Emmanuel
Le Carabe d'Or
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked stiff card boards, rubbing to edges and corners and spine ends and no bumping to corners. Unpaginated. 32pp. The golden beetle is the theme through this story which involves many maidens and a knight rescuing the princess from a dragon.. Very vivid colour illustrations throughout. All text in French.
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The Editorial Staff of the Gryphon
Farb Werke : Historical Labels
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, extremely minor traces of foxing to boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight rubbing down spine margin and traces of storage. Now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 231pp. A history of the multi-coloured textile labels from the German firm Hoechst which were used as stickers on on the textile dyestuffs that were sent all over the world. The designs were even tailored to suit the countries supplied. Text is in English, German, French and Spanish.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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