Search results for: 'gallery'
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CITY PLANNING - NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY. Where Shall I Live?
Nottingham : 1978
First edition, first impression, of the Gallery's pamphlet about the world's first garden city designed by Raymond Unwin, produced to accompany the exhibition of the same name which ran from 25 May - 14 June 1978. "Students of architecture and planning may turn again for inspiration to the deep roots of our national tradition in city design, and Letchworth... Learn More£30.00Stock Code: 119042
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SHEPHERD, T. H. Marlborough House. The Residence of the late Queen Dowager (now the Vernon Gallery).
c.1880
Attractive view of Marlborough House with visitors. Marlborough House was used as a gallery for Robert Vernon's large collection. Vernon's collection was bequeathed to the National Gallery in 1845. Published in 'Architectural Beauties of London'. Engraved by Le Pettit. Learn More£120.00Stock Code: 64248
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GRANNAN, Joseph C. Grannan's Pocket Gallery of Noted Criminals of the Present Day,
Cincinnati, OH : 1892;
Rare fourth edition of this terrific and highly evocative mug shot book, an online search of institutional libraries showing one copy only, at Public Library of Cincinnati, all early iterations being very scarce. This copy is paired with an attractive exemplar of the handsome official badge issued to detectives and stamped on verso "This Badge is Not... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 120206
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CHAFFERS, William. The New Keramic Gallery.
London : 1926
Third edition, enlarged by over 100 additional illustrations with descriptions as well as extra full-page colour plates. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 22567
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STEPHANOFF, J. Cartoon Gallery, Hampton Court.
1819
Pyne's work is a remarkable pictorial record of the interior decorations and furnishings of various residences including Hampton Court. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 58155
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ALLOM, Thomas, J. H. Le Keux & J. T. Willmore (engr.) London, from the Upper Gallery of St. Paul's Cathedral; [together with] London, from the Upper Gallery of the Steeple of St. Bride's Church.
London : [c.1850]
Apprenticed to an architect in 1819 aged 15, Allom attended the Royal Academy Schools as an architectural student from 1828, and was one of the founder members of the Institute of British Architects in 1834. His obituary in the Art Journal stated that "in his three-fold capacity of architect, artist and draughtsman few men were more widely known in... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 55530
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MILNER, Thomas. The Gallery of Geography: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour of the World.
London : 1864
First edition, an attractively bound copy. Little is known about the author, Rev. Thomas Milner, d.1882, whose numerous publications involved science, religion and travel, and enjoyed great success in both Great Britain and America. As mentioned, this copy is missing one plate and has therefore been priced accordingly. Learn More£185.00Stock Code: 136880
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RAY, Man. Man Ray.
London : 1969
First edition, sole printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the artist on the half-title, "For Jean-Yves, gratefully, Man Ray, 1969". This exhibition catalogue, with an essay by Man Ray written in 1948, was published to coincide with his exhibition at the Hanover Gallery in January 1969.
Jean-Yves Mock worked at the Hanover Gallery from 1956... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 120880
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HARING, Keith; PINCUS-WITTEN, Robert; Jeffrey Deitch; David Shapiro. Keith Haring.
New York : 1982
First and limited edition, first printing, one of 2,000 copies of the Tony Shafrazi Gallery's exhibition catalogue for one of Keith Haring's early exhibitions with the gallery, which took place in 1982. It includes excerpts from "Questions for Keith Haring" as well as essays upon the artist and his works by Jeffrey Deitch, Robert Pincus-Witten and David... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 123544
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PENN, Irving. Cigarettes.
London : 2012
First edition, first impression. This collection was published three years after the author's death and was created in collaboration with the Irving Penn Foundation. This is a catalogue of prints from the 1975 and 2012 Cigarettes exhibitions, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Hamiltons Gallery in London respectively. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 131553
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WEBER, Bruce. Shufly.
New York : 2000
First edition, first printing. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 50841
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OPIE, Julian. Amelia.
Victoria : 2018
First edition, first printing, limited to 50 copies signed by Opie with the original loose lenticular; a limited-edition catalogue produced to coincide with the exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria. Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 141604
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TURK, Gavin. Collected Works 1994—1998.
London : 1998
First edition, first impression, signed on the title page by Turk. 1,500 copies were published to accompany the exhibition Gavin Turk: The Stuff Show, South London Gallery, 9 September - 18 October 1998. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 73937
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HIRST, Damien. Superstition dinner invitation.
New York, : 2007
First edition, first printing. Edition of approximately 50. An invitation for a private dinner with Damien Hirst and Larry Gagosian at Mr Chow, Beverly Hills, to celebrate the opening reception of Hirst's Superstition exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, 22 February, 2007. With the original mailing box.
Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 141821
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HIRST, Damien. Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings.
New York : 2000
First edition, first printing. An invitation designed by Hirst for the opening evening of his exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, New York, 23 September 6 December, 2000. With the original white mailing tube with red plastic end caps. Learn More£900.00Stock Code: 141819
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PENN, Irving. Platinum Prints.
Washington, New Haven, London : 2005
First edition, first printing. Published to coincide with Penn's exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 19 June - 2 October 2005. From the library of Sam Haskins. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 142733
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HAMILTON, Richard. Richard Hamilton.
London : 1991
First edition, limited issue, number 78 of 100 copies with a slipcase and original photograph, entitled "Orange Order", numbered and signed by the photographer, tipped into a white card portfolio and laid in the book. This work was produced to accompany an exhibition of Hamilton's work at Anthony D'Offay Gallery in London from 20 June to 10 August 1991.... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 126257
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PENN, Irving. Portraits.
London : 2010
First edition, first impression. This work, with an introductory essay by curator Magdalene Keaney was published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name which was held at the National Portrait Gallery from 18 February to 6 June 2010. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 126826
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WHITEREAD, Rachel. Shedding Life.
London : 1996
First edition, first impression. Inscribed on the title page by the artist "12.7.99 Dear Paul with best wishes R. Whiteread". Catalogue published to coincide with the exhibition at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, 13 September 1996 - 5 January 1997 and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 11 February - 22 April 1997. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 73924
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SMITH, Brydon. Donald Judd.
Ottawa : 1975
First edition, first printing, cloth issue (also issued in wrappers). The definitive catalogue raisonné on Judd, compiled to coincide with the major exhibition of Judd's work, held at The National Gallery of Canada that year. The volume contains an interpretative essay on Judd's work and development by Roberta Smith, an illustrated list of his exhibitions,... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 140026
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MESENS, Édouard Léon Théodore. Troisième Front.
London : 1944
First UK edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed on the half-title "A mon vieil ami Jacques Bernard Brunius, 'Nous avons mis vingt ans trente ans, A vivre avec ingénuité, Force et ingéniosité...' En toute affection, E. L. T. Mesens. 9 Avril 1944". This bilingual publication, with French and English facing texts, is number 8 of 500... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 140447
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WEBER, Bruce. Shufly.
New York : 2000
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Weber, "for my dear pal Claire from Bruce NYC 2000". A catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York, it was designed by Sam Shahid and includes text by S. E. Hinton, Zane Grey, Muhammed Ali, and Robert Frost. Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 116611
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STIEGLITZ, Alfred - GREENOUGH, Sarah. Alfred Steiglitz: The Key Set. The Alfred Steiglitz Collection of Photographs. Volume One 1886-1922; Volume Two 1923-1937.
New YorK : 2002
First editions, first printings. Steiglitz wife, Georgia 0'Keeffe created what she called "the key set", this included one print of every mounted photograph in his possession at the time of his death. Steiglitz did not consider a print finished until it was mounted. Published to coincide with the exhibition "Alfred Steiglitz: Known and Unknown", organized... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 147358
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PIERCE, Elijah - YOUNG, Mahonri Sharp. Elijah Pierce Woodcarver.
Columbus, OH : 1973
The catalogue for Elijah Pierce's 1973 exhibition at the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, his first major show, the commentary largely composed from Pierce's own words, edited from taped interviews with Carolyn Jones, 1972-3. Pierce is now widely considered one of the great American outsider artists. Signed by Pierce with his address on the title page:... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 142515
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BEDFORD, Francis, & W. M. Thompson. The Holy Land, Egypt, Constantinople, Athens, etc. etc.
London : [c. 1866-7]
First edition thus, notably scarce, comprising some superb views of Egypt (10), Palestine (23), Lebanon (8), Syria (1), Constantinople (3), and Athens (3). Francis Bedford (1815-1894), one of the most important photographers of the period, his work characterised by it "rich tonalities" (ODNB), was the first photographer to accompany a Royal Tour.
In... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 142282
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Marine, Dessein d'une Galere à la Rame nommée la Réale.
1769
This beautiful print, both elegant and exact, engraved from drawings by the French hydrographer, Bellin, show a gallery. Engraved by Goussier. Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 79943
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MACKINTOSH, Robert W. Bacchus and Ariadne.
London : 1887
After Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne at the National Gallery, London. Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 77285
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BACON, George Washington. [Chelsea, Battersea, Clapham, South Lambeth, Newington, Brixton, Camberwell, Herne Hill, East Dulwich].
1905
Map extending from Battersea New Bridge to East Dulwich and from tate Britain Gallery to Brixton prison. Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 57401
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MCDOWALL, Roddy. Double Exposure.
New York : 1966
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the photographer on the front free endpaper, "To Reuee - with love - Roddy". A photographic gallery of celebrities with the images accompanied by writing about them by their peers. Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 77299
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TITIAN, After. Bacchus and Ariadne.
London : 1887
After Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne currently in the National Gallery, London. Signed by the engraver and the printer in pencil. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 77246
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PENN, Irving. Photographs.
Tokyo : 1997
First edition, one of 1,000 copies only. Published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name held at the Wildenstein gallery in Tokyo in 1997, it includes an essay by the Japanese art and photo critic Michiko Kasahara in both Japanese and English. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 140165
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HIRST, Damien. From the Cradle to the Grave. Selected Drawings.
London : 2004
First edition, first printing. Limited to 1500 copies signed and numbered by Hirst. Published on the occasion of Hirst's exhibition of drawings at the Tivoli Gallery, Ljubljana, June 10 - September 28, 2003 and subsequently touring under British Council auspices to other venues in Europe. Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 142478
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MCLEAN, Bruce, & Mel Gooding. Knife Edge Texts.
London : 1992
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 been crossed through and marked AP (Artist's Proof). Published to coincide with the exhibition Knife Edge: Another Situation / No Style at the Eagle Gallery, London, November... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 66742
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WILDE, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C.3.3.
London : 1898
First and limited edition, one of 800 unnumbered copies printed on handmade paper; 30 copies were issued on japon. Wilde published this work under the pseudonym "C.3.3." after his cell in Reading Gaol (cell 3 on the third landing of Gallery C). The first edition sold out rapidly, and a second edition was printed within weeks. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 146094
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CLARK, Larry. 1992.
New York & Cologne : 1992
First and only edition, one of an edition of 1000. Presentation copy, inscribed by the photographer to the inside of the rear wrapper: "To Diego Cortez - Larry Clark. New York City, 1992". Loosely inserted is a folded poster announcing the Larry Clark exhibition at the Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, from 18 February to 27 March, 1993. The recipient... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 119849
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MURAKAMI, Takashi. (Ed). Little Boy. The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture.
New York, New Haven & London : 2005
First edition, first printing. Signed by Murakami on the half title with a drawing of a flower and Dob. Published to coincide with an exhibition presented at the Japan Society Gallery, New York, and venues throughout New York City, 8 April - July 24, 2005. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 147278
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NICHOLSON, William. THE LIBRARY, CHRIST CHURCH
1905
Signed in ink by the artist. Blind stamped 'Published Nov 1905 The Stafford Gallery 34 Old Bond Street'. Nicholson made numerous drawings and sketches of Oxford between 1902 and 1904. The series was completed in 1904 and published November 1905 in two portfolios consisting of 24 plates. The descriptions which accompany them were written by Arthur Waugh.... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 56601
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CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. Don Quixote de La Mancha.
London : 1820
First Westall edition. Richard Westall (1765-1836) was an important illustrator and a "significant and innovative figure in the development of the English watercolour," whose engravings for Don Quixote are lively and well executed. Westall served for nine years as drawing master to Princess Victoria and is best remembered for his portraits of Byron,... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 138480
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LAWRENCE, T. E. Oriental Assembly.
London : 1939
First edition, first impression, containing all the hitherto uncollected writings by Lawrence about the East, containing his diary kept during a journey in Northern Syria in 1911, the suppressed introductory chapter of Seven Pillars of Wisdom (its first publication for the general public), two of Lawrence's newspaper articles, the preface to the Leicester... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 142422
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MOORE, Henry. Henry Moore 85th Birthday Exhibition. Stone Carvings - Bronze Sculptures - Drawings.
London : 1983
First edition, first printing. Inscribed on the half title by the artist, "For Sue, With love and best wishes, Henry, August 1983." This catalogue was published to coincide with a selling exhibition at Marlborough Gallery, London. 15 June - 13 August, 1983. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 143147
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MORIYAMA, Daido. Paris 88/89.
Paris : 2012
First edition, signed by Daido Moriyama on the title page, this copy number 12 of 50 signed copies from a total edition of 1000. This was published after a series of exhibitions dedicated to the photographer at the Polka gallery from September 2012 to January 2013. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 134566
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NICHOLSON, William. WADHAM COLLEGE
1905
Signed in ink by the artist. Blind stamped 'Published Nov 1905 The Stafford Gallery 34 Old Bond Street'. Nicholson made numerous drawings and sketches of Oxford between 1902 and 1904. The series was completed in 1904 and published November 1905 in two portfolios consisting of 24 plates. The descriptions which accompany them were written by Arthur Waugh.... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 56605
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NICHOLSON, William. ORIEL COLLEGE
1905
Signed in ink by the artist. Blind stamped 'Published Nov 1905 The Stafford Gallery 34 Old Bond Street'.Nicholson made numerous drawings and sketches of Oxford between 1902 and 1904. The series was completed in 1904 and published November 1905 in two portfolios consisting of 24 plates. The descriptions which accompany them were written by Arthur Waugh.... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 56607
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EVANS, Walker. Walker Evans.
New York : 1971
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the photographer "To John Wilmerding, with pleasure, with respect, Walker Evans, Oct. 1972, Hanover" on the front free endpaper, and with an original photograph of Walker Evans laid-in at the rear. The recipient was the former senior curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and professor... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 105046
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ROLLING STONES - O'NEILL, Terry; Gered Mankowitz. Breaking Stones.
London : 2016
First edition, first impression, signed on the title page by Gered Mankowitz and inscribed by Terry O'Neill: "Long Live the Stones Terry O'Neill". This work was published to coincide with the opening of Exhibitionism, the first international exhibition on the Rolling Stones, which was held at Saatchi Gallery from 5 April to 4 September 2016. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 128784
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HOENICH, P. K. Robot Art. Research No. AR10 of the Faculty of Architecture.
Haifa : 1962
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Paul Konrad Hoenich "To Alto Meyer - with friendship - P. K. Hoenich, Haifa, 31. I. 63." One of the earliest publications on computer art. Prof. Emeritus Paul Konrad Hoenich (1907-1997), nicknamed PeKA, was born in Austria-Hungary and died in Haifa. PeKA studied at the Academies of Vienna, Florence and Paris.... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 46774
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LAWRENCE, T. E. Oriental Assembly.
London : 1939
First edition, first impression, a bright copy in a particularly attractive example of the jacket. Oriental Assembly contains all the hitherto uncollected writings by Lawrence about the East, including the first publication for the general public of the suppressed introductory chapter of Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
The work also includes the diary... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 143030
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GREAVES, Walter. Portrait of James Abbott McNeill Whistler in front of the Thames.
London : [c.1875]
Whistler moved to 7 Lindsey Row, Chelsea, in March 1863. Among his neighbours were the Greaveses, a family of Thames watermen. Walter and Henry Greaves (1844-1904) became his guides on the river, pupils, and devoted assistants in the studio. Walter and Henry themselves had been painting from their earliest years, probably starting by doing heraldic... Learn More£40,000.00Stock Code: 75289
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MUNNINGS, Sir Alfred. An Artist's Life; The Second Burst; The Finish [together with] Ballads and Poems or, A Rhyming succession of Rhyming digression.
London : 1950-57
First editions, first impressions. Volumes I and III of The Autobiography and Ballads and Poems signed by Alfred and Violet Munnings. With a manuscript letter by Violet Munnings, dated 30 January 1962, giving opening times for Beldon House and studio, alongside other ephemera related to the book and Alfred Munnings, constituting newspaper clippings,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 121829
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ROBERTSON, Walford Graham. "Troy Town": pair of sheets with two original watercolours, calligraphy and musical notation.
c. 1905
Highly attractive piece rather in the style of the Beggarstaff Brothers, illustrating the old English ballad "The Wandering Prince of Troy", here shortened to simply "Troy Town", a retelling of the story of Dido and Aeneas; the opening lines reading "When Troy Town had, for ten yeeres past, Withstood the Greekes in manfull wise". The first sheet carries... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 136594
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FILLIOU, Robert. Longs poemes courts a terminer chez soi.
Bruxelles Hamburg : 1984
First edition, one of 500 sets printed and now scarce, with only two recorded at auction. Filliou's text on the folder states that the postcards were issued in memory of Danish artist Arthur "Addi" Kopke (1928-1977), at whose gallery these poems were originally exhibited during his 1961 residence in Copenhagen with his wife Marianne.
These postcard... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 143553
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GREENE, Graham. Nino Caffè.
[Rome] : 1960
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the artist on the second leaf, "Best wishes! Nino Caffè, Jan. 1966". An earlier version of Graham Greene's appreciation of Italian painter Nino Caffè, 'the painter of young priests', had previously appeared in the catalogue for Caffè's exhibition at the Knoedler Gallery in New York in 1953. Text in English,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 103301
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LEIBOVITZ, Annie. Photographs 1970-1990.
New York : 1991
First edition, first printing, inscribed by Leibovitz on the title page "Boston October 1991 For Stephen Annie Leibovitz". The second of Leibovitz's photobooks, Photographs 1970-1990 was a companion book to her first museum exhibition, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. At the time she was only the second living photographer, and the... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 137981
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SLADE SCHOOL OF ART - HAYCOCK, David Boyd. Nash, Nevinson, Spencer, Gertler, Carrington, Bomberg: A Crisis of Brilliance, 1908-1922.
London : 2013
First edition, first impression, of Haycock's authoritative group biography of David Bomberg, Dora Carrington, Mark Gertler, Paul Nash, C. R. W. Nevinson and Stanley Spencer, six of the most important and distinctive British artists of the 20th century. It was published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, with... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 144811
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TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Landleaguers.
London : 1883
First edition in book form of this novel left incomplete at the author's death, on 6 December 1882. A postscript by Trollope's son Henry explains briefly how the plot was to conclude. The novel should have consisted of 60 chapters which first appeared in print, in a paper called Life: A Weekly Journal Of Society, Literature, the Fine Arts and Finance,... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 128318
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GRIVAZ, Eugene. The World Awheel.
New York : 1896
First and only edition. Extremely uncommon, just 8 copies listed on WorldCat, all in North America, no copies traced at auction. Wonderful Gibson Girl-style illustrations on a cycling theme. The twelve images, originally published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company in their Cycling World Calendar, represent bicyclistes of different nationalities; "they... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 133637
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FREUD, Lucian. Recent Work.
London : 1968
First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed "Dear Binky, You missed it and I missed you. Are you angry about the vanishing act? 'I went see sic a man about a dog'... A Borzoi in fact that looked like you. Lots of Love, Lucian" to title page, with the address "227 Gloucester Terrace W.2 (Until Friday)" penned above.
The recipient,... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 138200
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CATLIN, George. North American Indians.
Edinburgh : 1926
A handsomely produced edition, scarce in the dust jackets. A young lawyer turned portraitist, Catlin set out in 1830 from his home in Pennsylvania to record on canvas the indigenous tribes of North America and their way of life. His eight years among the major tribes of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains resulted in his "Indian Gallery," an enormous... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 121781
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MACINNES, Colin - WEATHERSON, Alexander (illus.) Dust jacket design for City of Spades.
London, : 1957
An original drawing used for the cover design of MacInnes's novel City of Spades. The book is the first in a trilogy known as the London novels based on the nature and cultural importance of youth and black subcultures.
Born in Nottinghamshire, Alexander Weatherson (1930-) finished his art education in London at the Royal Academy Schools and... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 50270
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OLIVER, Mary, & Molly Malone Cook. Our World.
Boston : 2007
First edition, first impression, signed by Oliver on the rear free endpaper. Published two years after the death of Oliver's partner, Molly Malone Cook, in 2005, Our World brings together Cook's photography and Oliver's poems and prose in "an intimate revelation of their lives and art" (front flap).
Mary Oliver (1935-2019) is best remembered... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 147538