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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SCARFE, Gerald.
Scarfeland. The Lost World. 1989
£50
First edition, first impression. inscribed by the author on the half title "Cai Happy Christmas, Gerald Scarfe".
Quarto. Original brown boards, titles to spine gilt, patterned endpapers. With the dust jacket. Colour illustrations throughout. Rubbed out inscription on half title,... Read more
SCHNABEL, Julian.
C. V. J. Nicknames of Maitre D's & Other Excerpts From Life. 1987
£375
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper "Joseph and Anna, love Julian, 1994".
Large octavo. Original red and white cloth, pictorial endpapers. With the printed acetate dust jacket with titles to spine and front panels in black. Colour... Read more
SCHÜRMANN, Ulrich.
Teppiche aus dem Kaukasus. [1964]
£450
Originally issued as the catalogue for the first exhibition of Caucasian carpets at the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts in 1961. This revised edition was produced in response to...
Tall octavo. Original mid-blue cloth with title gilt to spine and stylized weaver device to the upper board. In the dust jacket. 160 colour illustrations, 140 of them... Read more
SHORE, Stephen.
Uncommon Places. Photographs. 1982
£2,000
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, "For Ruth from Stephen 12/10/82". Ruth Ansel was the co-art director of Harper's Bazaar and the art director...
Oblong quarto. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and upper board in mauve. With the dust jacket. 49 plates from photographs. An excellent copy in the dust jacket... Read more
SISKIND, Aaron.
Harlem Document. Photographs 1932–1940. 1981
£275
First edition, first impression. Signed by the photographer on the front free endpaper. Images of Harlem by Aaron Siskind, alongside text collected through the Federal Writers...
Quarto. Original white wrappers printed in maroon, maroon endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrations from photos throughout. Inner edge of front free endpaper... 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
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STARCK, Philippe.
Starck [and] S+arck. 2000-3
£60
First editions, first printings. Text in French, German and English.
Two small quartos. Original stiff wrappers, titles to front cover in yellow, titles to spine in silver and titles to front cover in pink and bronze, titles to spine in... Read more
STEADMAN, Ralph.
America. Introduction by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. 1974
£500
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the artist on the copyright page "For Eduardo, Artist, Sculptor and Godfather from Ralph Steadman, 24 . 4 . 75." The dedicatee is Eduardo...
Quarto. Original black boards, titles to spine in white. With the dust jacket. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. Spine bumped, dust jacket rubbed to corners, a few small... 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
STEADMAN, Ralph.
I Leonardo. 1983
£125
First edition, first impression. Inscribed on the half title "For Philip from Ralph Steadman".
Quarto. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, with the dust jacket. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. Slight fading to edges, dust jacket rippled. Read more
STEADMAN, Ralph.
I Leonardo. 1983
£200
First US edition, first printing. Inscribed on the half title "For John from Ralph Steadman" with an original drawing.
Quarto. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, with the dust jacket. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. Spine bumped in near fine dust jacket. Read more
STEADMAN, Ralph, & Kurt Vonnegut.
Modern Fiction and Art. Prints by Contemporary Authors. 1999 - 2000
£1,800
Edition of 50. First edition, first printing. Catalogue numbered and signed by the curator Rachel Sadinsky, the publisher Joe Petro III, and the artist's Ralph Steadman and Kurt...
Slim quarto, original wrappers, titles and illustration to front cover in black, green and blue. Two screen prints, Red Shark by Steadman and Messenger by Vonnegut,... 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
STEPHEN, Sir Leslie.
Sir Leslie Stephen's Mausoleum Book. 1977
£40
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Original brown boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. Read more
STIEGLITZ, Alfred.
America & Alfred Stieglitz. A Collective Portrait. 1934
£275
First edition, first printing.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver, black top-stain. With the dust jacket. 31 plates of illustrations from photographs. Contents lightly tanned,... Read more
TARBOTTON, M. O.
History of the Old Trent Bridge, 1871
£100
First edition, first impression.
Quarto. Original red cloth, titles and ruling to upper board gilt, brown coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Tipped-in frontispiece and 11 plates from photographs.... Read more
(TARTAN SILK SAMPLES)
Lista True Tartans - All British. c.1920]
£450
Wonderful sample books for "true" tartans, that is fabrics woven with accurate thread counts to match the approved sett or pattern for recognized clan tartans. A total of 146...
2 volumes, folio (375 × 225 mm). Original green cloth, titled as above in gilt. One containing 15 leaves with 4 mounted silk samples to each, the other with 20... Read more
TAYLOR WOOD, Sam.
Unhinged. 1996
£150
First edition, first impression. Limited to 1000 copies. Inscribed by the artist "To Paul, with best wishes, Sam T-W!"
Duodecimo. Original illustrated grey boards, bound in concertina style, titles to front cover and spine in silver. Illustrated throughout. Fine condition. Read more
TIPPING, H. Avray.
English Homes. 1921–37
£4,750
First editions, first impressions save for volume II of Mediaeval & Early Tudor (early impression dated 1937) and Late Stuart (second impression). Author H. Avray Tipping...
9 volumes, folio. Original blue buckram backed blue cloth, titles to spines and upper boards, gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Frontispiece to each volume and... Read more
TIPPING, H. Avray, & Christopher Hussey.
English Homes Period IV – Vol II. 1928
£600
First edition rare in dust wrapper.
Folio, pp, lxiv + 333. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover, complete with dust wrapper. Photographic illustrations and diagrams throughout the... Read more
(TUTANKHAMUN.)
Treasure of Tutankhamun. 1972
£275
First edition, first impression of the companion book to the blockbuster Tutankuhman exhibition that began at the British Museum in 1972 and was shown around the world until 1979.
Quarto. Original red morocco, titles to spine, double line ruling to boards, and all edges gilt, white silk endpapers. In a red cloth slipcase. 16 colour plates and... Read more
TWOMBLY, Cy, & Robert Duncan.
The Song of the Border-Guard. [1952]
£3,000
First edition, first printing. One of the earliest printed works by Twombly. Approximately 200 copies were issued.
Folded broadside. Original illustrated coral wrappers, poem printed in red and black on Rising Line Marque laid paper. An original woodcut by Cy Twombly illustrates... 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
VALENTINO GARAVANI.
Una Grande Storia Italiana. 2007
£750
First edition, first rinting. Limited to 2,100 copies.
Folio. Original white cloth, titles to front cover in six colour silkscreen and gilt, titles to spine gilt. Housed in original red silk covered clamshell box. Fine in... Read more
