Art, Architecture & Design (all items)
First editions and rare books in the fields of architecture, art, crafts, design and fashion, engineering, manufacturing techniques, and furniture.
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HIRST, Damien.
I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now. 1997
£425
First edition, first impression. Hirst's first publication and a wonder of modern printing innovatively illustrated with photographs, graphic design, pop-ups, transparencies, movable...
Quarto. Original red cloth, titles to front board blindstamped and gilt, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. With over 700 diagrams and illustrations,... Read more
GOLDIN, Nan.
I'll Be Your Mirror. 1996
£150
First edition, first printing.
Tall quarto. Original grey boards, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout from photos. Slight bump to lower edge. An excellent copy in... Read more
HOLBEIN, Hans, the younger.
Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, 1792-1800
£15,000
First edition, "surely the finest early example of English colour printing" (Ray). These plates by various engravers after Bartolozzi's copies of Holbein's originals were issued in...
Folio (540 × 403 mm). Contemporary calf, title gilt directly to the spine, flat bands with gilt roundel and Greek key rolls, compartments gilt with floral and... Read more
KLEIN, William.
In and Out of Fashion. 1994
£325
First edition, first impression. Inscribed on the half title "William Klein IN & OUT of London 1994". Together with an invitation for the book launch signed on the image "Hat + 5...
Quarto. Original pictorial boards. No dust jacket issued. A fine copy. Read more
(DICKENS, Charles) SMITH, F. Hopkins.
In Dickens's London. 1914
£2,500
First edition. One of a limited edition of 150 numbered sets, each signed on the limitation leaf by the artist and the publisher. Additionally signed by Smith on the print...
22 loose photogravure proofs. Each matted and housed in the publisher's folder. An excellent set in the original folder. Read more
(BAIRNSFATHER, Bruce) HOLT, Tonie & Valmai.
In Search of the Better 'Ole. 1985
£45
First edition, first impression.
Quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. Read more
WARHOL, Andy.
Index (Book). 1967
£5,000
First Edition, First Printing. Limited to 365 copies. Signed by Andy Warhol on the upper cover (rubbed), initialed by Warhol on the Multi-colored pop-up aeroplane; the Paper disc on...
Quarto. Original black and silver 3D illustrated boards, titles to spine in silver. Illustrated by Andy Warhol. Light rubbing to edges and lower panel, a lovely copy... Read more
BERGONZI, Bernard (ed.)
Innovations. Essays on art and ideas. 1968
£50
First edition.
Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in silver, with dust jacket. Dust jacket a little rubbed and crumpled at edges, otherwise an excellent copy. Read more
MASON, Nick.
Inside Out. A Personal History of Pink Floyd. 2004
£2,250
First Genesis edition, first impression. Edition of 500 numbered copies signed by Mason. Together with a T-shirt, 'Hi' hat and a Paiste cymbal badge in a pull-out tray 2 colour...
Quarto. Hand bound in grey morocco, titles to front cover and spine in silver, full colour image laid onto front cover, all edges silver. Housed in a pull-out tray... Read more
HAMILTON, Richard, & Dieter Roth.
Interfaeces. 1978
£4,000
Sole Printing. One of just 15 "corrected" copies of the introduction to Hamilton and Roth's joint exhibition, Annotated by both artists and with a jointly made drawing in red and...
12 pages, xerox and ink, stapled at one corner. Housed in a black cloth slipcase with chemise made by The Chelsea Bindery. Folded once, one margin slightly ragged. Read more
(BACON, Francis) David Sylvester.
Interviews with Francis Bacon. 1975
£2,000
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper "For Isabel with love and best wishes Francis." A series of interviews with Bacon from 1962 to 1974.
Quarto. Original illustrated wrappers, titles to front cover and spine in white. With 94 illustrations. Head and foot of spine rubbed, corners a little creased, white... Read more
VETTRIANO, Jack.
Jack Vettriano. 2004
£175
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by Vettriano "Christmas 2004, For Lance, With all good wishes & fuck off, Jack Vettriano."
Quarto. Original black boards, titles to spine blind stamped. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Read more
(CHAPMAN, Jake & Dinos.) SCHNEIDER, Eckhard. Ed.
Jake & Dinos Chapman. 2005
£60
First edition, first impression. Signed by Jake & Dinos Chapman on the title page. This catalogue was published to coincide with the exhibition 'Explaining Christians to Dinosaurs'...
Octavo. Original green, pink and brown wrappers, titles to front cover in black and white, titles to spine in black. Fine condition. Read more
REGO, Paula
Jane Eyre. Introduced by Marina Warner. 2004
£100
First Trade Edition. Signed on the title page by Paula Rego. Extracts are from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
Octavo. Original illustrated boards, titles to upper board in blue and black, titles to spine in black. No dust jacket issued. With 23 full page and one gatefold... Read more
(MARTIN, David Stone) DAVER, Manek.
Jazz Graphics. 1991
£550
First and only edition. Beautifully produced in limited numbers, this is the closest thing to a catalogue raisonné of the work of this prolific and highly influential...
Quarto. Original card wraps. with the dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in colour. Text in English and Japanese. Very good. Read more
(AUSTEN, John) RICHARDSON, Dorothy.
John Austen and the Inseparables. 1930
£75
First edition, first impression. Signed by the artist on the half-title.
Octavo. Original blue boards, printed paper labels to upper board. Engraved frontispiece and illustrations throughout by John Austen. Boards very lightly rubbed and... Read more
LEAR, Edward.
Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, &c. 1851
£3,500
First Edition, with the author's signed presentation inscription to the novelist Charles Lever and his wife: "Mr & Mrs Charles Lever from Edward Lear. In remembrance of pleasant days...
Large octavo. Original blind-stamped blue morocco-grain cloth, spine decorated and lettered gilt, cream endpapers with printed adverts, Remnant & Edmonds binders'... Read more
(CRAIG, Edward Gordon) LEAR, Edward.
Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria &c. 1852
£1,250
First edition, first impression. Edward Gordon Craig's copy, in his personal binding style, with his bookplate, and numerous pencil notes in his hand. Craig (1872–1966) was the...
Octavo (252 × 157 mm). Early 20th-century quarter vellum, titles to spine gilt, marbled sides. 2 maps and 20 plates. Map of Calabria pasted to front blank.... Read more
(CAMERON, Julia Margaret.) HILL, Brian.
Julia Margaret Cameron. A Victorian Family Portrait. 1973
£40
First edition. Biography of the Pattle family, whose members included the pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and Maria Jackson, grandmother of Virginia Woolf.
Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine gilt, dust jacket. 16 plates. Jacket slightly sunned on spine and a little rubbed, an excellent copy. Read more
UPDIKE, John.
Just Looking. Essays on art. 1989
£150
First Edition, First Impression. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.
Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to upper board in blind and to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. A fine copy in the dust jacket. Read more
(HARING, Keith.) DEITCH, Jeffrey; Suzanne Geiss; Julia Gruen.
Keith Haring. 2008
£75
First edition, first printing. Includes previously unpublished texts, interviews, and visual images from the estate of Keith Haring based on Haring's own concept for the monograph he...
Quarto. Original pink boards, illustration to covers in black, titles to spine in black, illustrations to edges in black. No dust jacket issued. A fine copy. Read more
MCLEAN, Bruce, & Mel Gooding.
Knife Edge Texts. 1992
£175
First edition. Limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by McLean and Gooding. This copy additionally inscribed by the artist "For Irv from Bruce Mclean, 17 Nov 92". The number has...
Square quarto. Original card boards with black cloth spine. Spotting to spine otherwise in excellent condition. Read more
KNOLL, Hans.
Knoll au Louvre. 1971
£125
First edition, first printing.
Quarto. Original grey boards with white cloth spine, titles to upper board and spine in black. Lower corner bumped otherwise near fine. Read more
KOONS, Jeff.
Koons. 2007
£2,000
Limited to 1500 numbered copies, each signed by Jeff Koons. This exhaustive monograph, the most comprehensive study of the artist's work yet published, includes a biographical essay...
Folio. Original pictorial cloth. Housed in a red cloth solander box. A fine copy in fine box. Read more
MARINETTI, F. T.
L'Alcòva D'Acciaio. Romanzo Vissuto. 1927
£300
Second edition, originally published in 1921. Inscribed by the author on the half-title "a Edward Demaitre avec une vive sympathique futuriste, F. T. Marinetti (mave Calabria verso...
Octavo. Original wrappers printed in red, green, and black. Wrappers rubbed and creased, spine chipped and tanned, contents browned and largely unopened. A good copy. Read more
