Art, Architecture & Design (all items)
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Queen Mary's Needlework Guild. Its Work During the Great War. St. James's Palace 1914-1919. [1919]
£200
First and only edition. Remarkable initiative to provide comforts for troops and supply items of kit, surgical equipment &c. to all the fighting fronts. Guild volunteer workers...
Quarto. Original card wraps. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, 38 plates, 2-page facsimile letter, and a folding map in two colours. Wraps a little rubbed and with... Read more
GUGGENHEIM, Peggy.
Una Collezionista Ricorda. 1956
£200
First Italian Edition, First Printing. One of 1000 numbered copies. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the first blank, "To Darling Quentin from forever & forever...
Octavo. Original photographic wrappers. Illustrated. An excellent copy. Read more
REID, Jamie.
Up They Rise: The Incomplete Works of Jamie Reid. 1987
£200
First Edition, First Impression. Inscribed on page 3 'Peace is Tough / Jamie Ried.'
Quarto. Original printed wrappers. No dust jacket issued. Near fine. Read more
HOCKNEY, David.
Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik 1959—1977. 1978
£200
First edition, first printing. Signed by Hockney on the title page. Catalogue published to coincide with an exhibition touring Vienna, Innsbruck, Graz and Salzburg with German text.
Octavo. Original canvas wrappers, titles to front cover and spine in black. White wrappers darkened, small owner's label to front free endpaper, internally clean and... Read more
CROWE, J. A., & G. B. Cavalcaselle.
A New History of Painting in Italy from the Second to the Sixteenth Century. 1864
£225
First editions.
3 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, titles and decoration to spines gilt, panelled design to boards gilt and in blind, crimson endpapers. With numerous black and... Read more
(BLAKE, William) WICKSTEED, Joseph H.
Blake's Innocence and Experience. A Study of the Song and Manuscripts. 1928
£225
First edition, first impression.
Quarto. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, boards blocked in blind, dark green top-stain. With the dust jacket. 79 plates of which 4 are in colour. Corners... Read more
GOODWIN, Philip L.
Brazil Builds. Architecture New and Old 1652 - 1942 1943
£225
First edition, first printing.
Quarto. Original black boards, titles and design to front cover and spine in green and yellow. With the dust jacket. Photographs by G. E. Kidder Smith. Very minor... Read more
HIGGINS, Vostell.
Fantastic Architecture. 1971
£225
First US edition, first impression. An expanded version of the first edition, published in Germany in 1969.
Octavo. Original white and brown cloth, titles to spine in black, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout. A superb copy in the dust jacket. Read more
(GILL, Eric.)
Letters. 1948
£225
First US edition, first printing. Originally published in the UK in the previous year. With two pages of the Gill-designed King George VI stamps tipped-in at pages 385 and 453.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 11 plates. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with... Read more
PIPER, John, & Richard Ingrams.
Piper's Places. John Piper in England and Wales. 1983
£225
First edition, first impression. Inscribed on the title page by the artist. "For Desmond with love from John". St Peter's Church, Wolvercote houses John Piper's Palm Sunday Window,...
Quarto. Original grey boards, titles to spine dark green. With the dust jacket. C. Desmond Walshaw's name and address to half title otherwise near fine in near fine... Read more
HARRER, Heinrich.
Seven Years in Tibet. 1953
£225
First English language edition, first impression. Originally published in German in 1952.
Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt, red top-stain. With the dust jacket and original Book Society wraparound band. Corners and head of spine bumped,... Read more
HARTNELL, Norman.
Silver and Gold. 1955
£225
First edition, first impression. Publisher's presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author, "John S., present from Norman".
Octavo (243 × 165 mm). Publisher's presentation binding of blue calf, pink calf labels, triple line ruling to boards and all edges gilt. Colour frontispiece and... Read more
SMITH, G. E. Kidder.
Sweden Builds. Its Modern Architecture and Land Policy Background, Development and Contribution. 1950
£225
First edition, first printing.
Quarto. Original blue cloth, titles and Swedish flag pattern to front cover gilt, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Photographs by the author. Light wear to... Read more
SMITH, G. E. Kidder.
Switzerland Builds - Its Native and Modern Architecture. 1950
£225
First edition, first printing.
Quarto. Original red cloth, titles and Swiss flag pattern to front cover in silver, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Photographs by the author.... Read more
HAMILTON, Richard.
Tate Exhibition 12th March - 19 April 1970. 1970
£225
First Edition, First Impression, Hardback Issue. Copies of the hardback issue are very uncommon.
Square octavo. Original white boards titles to spine in silver. With the Hamilton illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated with plates in colour and monochrome. A superb... Read more
(STEADMAN, Ralph.) STEADMAN, Anna.
The Prints of Ralph. 2003
£225
First edition, first printing. Limited to 50 numbered copies signed by Anna Steadman, Ralph Steadman and Joe Pietro III.
Small octavo. Original half bound in blue cloth with illustrated boards, titles to spine in silver on black leather ground. Illustrated throughout the text by Ralph... Read more
DOWLING, Henry G.
A Survey of British Industrial Arts. 1935
£250
First edition, first impression. With an attractive inscription and drawing of a spark plug by the author on the front pastedown "K. L. G. Campbell A. I. B. D. With the very best...
Quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 100 pages of plates from photographs. Some light toning to... Read more
(NASH, Paul) READ, Herbert.
Art and Society. 1937
£250
First edition thus, first impression, originally published in a different form by Faber & Faber in 1936. Nash, designer of the dust jacket, earned fame as an enlisted artist during...
Quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine and roundel to cover gilt, yellow endpapers. With the dust jacket. Black and white images throughout. Faint spotting to... Read more
(GILL, Eric.)
Art-Nonsense and Other Essays. 1929
£250
First edition, first impression. Scarce in such nice condition.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine very slightly faded, minor bump to top corner. An excellent copy in the rubbed and... Read more
WHITNEY, Charles S.
Bridges. 1929
£250
First Edition.
Quarto. Recent half blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, blue cloth boards, top edge gilt. 400 illustrations. A few small marks to edges. A very good copy. Read more
PIPER, John.
Buildings and Prospects. 1948
£250
First edition, first impression. Bookplate signed by John Piper to pastedown.
Quarto. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in red. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with prints, engravings, drawings and photographs by Piper. An excellent copy in... Read more
ASHTON, Leigh, & Basil Gray.
Chinese Art. 1953
£250
Sixth impression; first published 1935.
Octavo (242 × 150 mm). Finely bound for Asprey & Co. in full dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, rules and cornerpieces to... Read more
RUBIN, William S.
Dada & Surrealist Art. [1968]
£250
First edition, first printing. The first comprehensive history of these two twentieth century art movements by the Chief Curator of the Painting and Sculpture Collection at The...
Quarto. Original mauve velvet boards, illustration to front board in white, titles to spine in white and gilt. With the dust jacket. Discoloured a little to edges,... Read more
STEADMAN, Ralph.
Dogs Bodies. 1970
£250
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by Steadman on the title pages with a large drawings of a dog barking.
Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in brown and black. Illustrations by Ralph Steadman throughout. Wrappers tanned and lightly rubbed and marked, contents toned.... Read more
HEPWORTH, Barbara.
Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape. 1966
£250
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, "for Thomas C. Mendenhall with every good wish for 1967, Barbara Hepworth".
Quarto. Original white cloth, titles to spine and design to upper board in black, brown endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout from photographs.... Read more
