Those who pass by our Fulham Road shop on a regular enough basis will already be aware that our window display changes frequently. Just in case you won’t have the chance to see it for yourself, we thought we’d keep you up-to-date on the books, prints and curiosities making an appearance each time a reshuffle takes place.
Below you’ll find listings for each of the items featured; Should you wish to enquire further, you can simply email mail@peterharrington.co.uk
(ATELIER POPULAIRE).
Texts and Posters by Atelier Populaire.Posters from the Revolution. Paris, May 1968.
London: Dobson Books Ltd, 1969
Folio. Original cream card wrappers printed in black and red. With 98 full-page monochrome illustrations in a variety. Small gift inscription to verso of first leaf. Wrappers with a few minor stains, short split to head of spine, faint dampstaining to top edge of a few leaves but overall contents bright. An excellent copy.
first edition, first printing, of this comprehensive catalogue of posters produced in staggering numbers by the Atelier Populaire between May and July 1968. This publication was published shortly after the events in Paris and in collaboration with the Atelier Populaire, who saw it as a means to propagate their message.
£325
(AUERBACH, Frank.) FEAVER, William.
Frank Auerbach.
New York: Rizzoli, 2009
Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to front cover and spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Housed in the original publisher’s slipcase. Illustrated with over 200 colour plates together with a separate reference section comprising around 900 images. Fine in fine slipcase.
First edition, first impression. Signed on the title page by Auerbach.
£300
BACON, Francis.
Caged. Uncaged.Translated by Sofia Gomes and Maria Ramos.
Porto: Fundaçào de Serralves, 2003
Original padded cloth boards, titles to spine blind stamped, front cover blind stamped and half printed with grey. With the printed acetate dust jacket. Includes the large white envelope titled Items from Francis Bacon’s Studio containing 10 pages with 22 numbered illustrations. Illustrated throughout including four fold-out plates. Fine in fine dust jacket.
First edition, first printing. Published to coincide with Bacon’s exhibition at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, January 24 – April 20, 2003.
£180
BETJEMAN, John.
London’s Historic Railway Stations.Photographed by John Gay.
London: John Murray, 1972
Quarto. Original purple cloth, titles to spine silver. With the photographic dust jacket. Black and white photographs by John Gay throughout. Spine slightly rolled, internally fine; an excellent copy in the jacket with rubbed spine ends and a few minor nicks to extremities.
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Signed for John H, the railway barn owl (GNR of I) by John Betjeman, 1972. GWR, NLR, & LSWR.”
£375
CHRISTO.
The Gates Project for Central Park, New York City.This is a supplement to the application for a Permit to create a work of art in Central Park, filed with Gordon J. Davis, Commissioner of Parks and Recreation, on April 9, 1980.
New York: Christo and C. V. J. Corporation, 1981
Quarto. Original laminated pictorial boards, titles to front board in black. Illustrated throughout with preparatory drawings, plans, and photographs by the artist. Spine gently cocked, small, light stain to title page. An excellent copy.
First edition. Signed by Christo on the title page. The concept of The Gates was first developed in 1979, though Christo and Jeanne-Claude would have to wait until 2003 to begin to realise the art work as permission for the work was granted by New York City in 2003. With gallery exhibition guide and a colour photograph for Christo’s installation Surrounded Islands loosely inserted.
£175
(DUCHAMP, Marcel.) TAKIGUCHI, Shuzo.
To and From Rrose Sélavy.Selected Words of Marcel Duchamp. Japanese Version. With Special Contribution: a Self-Portrait in Profile by Marcel Duchamp; Works by Shusaku Arakawa, Jasper Johns and Jean Tinguely.
Tokyo: 1968
Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine green. With the original dark purple slipcase. 4 tipped-in plates, black and white illustrations throughout. One corner slightly bumped, slipcase a touch rubbed. An excellent copy.
First edition, first impression. Number 367 of 560 copies of the first monograph on Marcel Duchamp by the Japanese poet and art critic Takiguchi (1903–1979), an early proponent of Surrealism in Japan who was keen to share Duchamp with Japanese audiences. The monograph, which consists of artworks by Duchamp as well as Japanese translations of his writings, also includes four tipped-in prints by artists with strong ties to Duchamp: Takiguchi, Jasper Johns, Shusaku Arakawa, and Jean Tinguely. With the promotional leaflets and envelope, as well as a four-page English translation of the author’s introduction loosely inserted.
£1,500
FREUD, Lucian.
Works on Paper.
London: South Bank Board in association with Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1988
Quarto. Original grey cloth, titles to spine gilt, roundel to front board gilt, grey endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with 96 full page illustrations. Ownership signature to front free endpaper. Minor foxing to top edge, front board slightly bowed; an excellent copy in the price-clipped jacket that with a few nicks to extremities and tape repair to head of spine on verso.
First edition, first impression. A catalogue to coincide with Freud’s first exhibition devoted to his works on paper including all of his prints up to 1987 and sixty-four drawings.
£75
GABO, Naum.
Gabo.Constructions, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings. With introductory essays by Herbert Read and Leslie Martin.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957
Quarto. Original black and white cloth, titles to spine in red. With the dust jacket. Original stereoscopic glasses inserted in rear board. Illustrated throughout. An excellent copy in the nicks and short closed tears along the edges.
First edition, first impression.
£175
GILBERT & GEORGE.
Worlds and Windows. Introduction by Robert Rosenblum.
London & New York: Robert Miller Gallery & Anthony d’Offay Gallery,
Quarto. Original dark blue cloth, titles to front cover and spine gilt. Illustrated with 130 colour plates of Gilbert & George’s Postcard Art, a photographic portrait by Liam Woon, and 3 monochrome plates. Gilt lightly rubbed, an excellent copy.
First printing, first impression. Inscribed by the artists on the front free endpaper, “Lots of love, Gilbert & George”. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London and Robert Miller Gallery, New York,
£175
HEPWORTH, Barbara.
Drawings from a Sculptor’s Landscape.With an introduction to the drawings by Alan Bowness.
London: Cory Adams & Mackay, 1966
Quarto. Original white cloth, titles to spine and design to upper board in black, brown endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout from photographs. Dampstain to lower edges and bottom quarter of spine. A very good copy in the rubbed and nicked jacket with a number of short closed tears and dampstain along the lower edges.
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, “for Thomas C. Mendenhall with every good wish for 1967, Barbara Hepworth”.
£250
HIRST, Damien.
The Death of God. Towards a Better Understanding of a Life Without God Aboard the Ship of Fools.
London: Other Criteria/Galeria Hilario Galguera, 2006
Small quarto. Original black wrappers, titles and decoration to spine and front cover in gilt, red and silver foil, red ednpapers. Lavishly illustrated throughout in colour. A fine copy.
First edition, first impression. Signed by Hirst on the front free endpaper. The catalogue was published to accompany Hirst’s first show in Mexico; it includes an interview with the gallery owner, Hilario Galguera, exploring the relationship of religion to Hirst’s work. as a continuing theme. With text in both English and Spanish.
£250
(HOCKNEY, David.) FRIEDMAN, Martin.
Hockney Paints the Stage.With contributions by John Cox, John Dexter, David Hockney and Stephen Spender.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1983
2 volumes, quarto. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine in grey, publisher’s device to front cover in grey. With the pictorial dust jacket. Supplement in original pictorial wrappers. With 288 illustrations, 187 in colour. A fine copy.
First edition, first impression. Together with the 36-page supplement, which contains illustrations and descriptions of seven large environmental works Hockney created especially for the Hockney Paints the Stage exhibition at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
This item is now sold.
£90
LUCAS, Sarah.
Exhibitions and Catalogue Raisonné 1989-2005. Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Tate Liverpool.
Ostfildern-Ruit, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2005
Quarto. Original grey boards, titles to front board in blind, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. 545 illustrations, 76 in colour. Spine lightly bumped, a near fine copy.
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the artist “For Aaron ‘long live the Caper !’ love Sarah Lucas.”
£250
(SCHIELE, Egon.) LEOPOLD, Rudolf.
Egon Schiele: Paintings, Watercolour, Drawings.Translated by Alexander Lieven.
London: Phaidon, 1973
Quarto. Original black full calf, titles to spine and front board in red. Housed in the publisher’s black card slipcase. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Spine ends a touch rubbed, a few minor scuff marks to spine. Otherwise a fine copy in a slightly rubbed slipcase.
First deluxe edition in English. One of 50 numbered copies with two original rubber stamps by Schiele printed on handmade Bütten paper. The stamps are titled Head I and Mother and Child. There are no impressions of Head I pulled during the artist’s lifetime being documented and only 10 impressions of Mother and Child collected on 3 different postcards. This Schiele monograph by the noted Austrian art collector Rudolf Leopold (1925–2010) was originally published the previous year in German by Residenz Verlag, Salzburg, in an edition of 200 numbered copies.
£3,500
STEADMAN, Ralph, & Kurt Vonnegut.
Modern Fiction and Art. Prints by Contemporary Authors.
Lexington: University of Kentucky Art Museum and Petro III Graphics, 1999 – 2000
Slim quarto, original wrappers, titles and illustration to front cover in black, green and blue. Two screenprints, Red Shark by Steadman and Messenger by Vonnegut on Coventry cotton paper, each 42.5 x 30.5 cm. Statement of limitation on glassine. All housed in a black cloth portfolio, titles to front cover in silver.
An artist’s proof aside from an edition of 50. First edition, first printing. Catalogue numbered and signed by the curator Rachel Sadinsky, the publisher Joe Petro III, and the artists Ralph Steadman and Kurt Vennegut. Each screenprint signed by the respective artists.
£1,800
TWOMBLY, Cy.
Souvenirs of D’Arros and Gaeta.
Zurich: Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, 1992
Folio. Original white paper boards, facsimile of the artist’s signature to front board in grey and to spine in red. With the pictorial dust jacket. With 28 colour plates from acrylic, crayon and pencil drawings on paper, one colour photograph by Tatia Franchetti Twombly. Top corner of front board lightly bumped, spine tips a little rubbed. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed jacket with two tiny brown speck to rear panel.
Signed limited edition. Number 87 of 100 copies signed by Cy Twombly, from a complete edition of 1,000 copies. The drawings were all done by Twombly on the Island D’Arros (Seychelles) and in Gaeta (Italy) in 1990.
£2,250
VALENTINO, Clemente Ludovico Garavani.
Valentino: Themes and Variations.Together with a signed original sketch.
New York: Rozzoli, 2008
Quarto. Original red boards, titles to spine white and front board blind, red endpapers. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the bright, unclipped jacket.
First edition, first printing. With an original sketch laid-in, signed by Valentino.
£1,250
WILLIAMS, Kyffin.
Drawings.
Llandysul: Gomer Press, 2001
Quarto. Original dark grey cloth, titles to spine in silver, light grey endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout by the artist. A fine copy.
First edition, first impression. Signed by the artist on the front free endpaper.
£175
