Search results for: 'gallery'
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MILNE, A. A. A Gallery of Children.London : 1925
Signed limited edition, number 13 of 500 copies signed by the author, of which 485 were for sale.
Milne supplied the stories for A Gallery of Children at the urging of the American publisher David McKay. As he was simply adding words to an existing set of illustrations, Milne somewhat misguidedly agreed to payment in a lump sum without royalties.... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 147749
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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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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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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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HEANEY, Seamus. Crediting Poetry. The Nobel Lecture.London : 1996
First UK edition, first impression, signed by the author on the half-title. One of 500 copies printed for private circulation, this is a finely produced edition of the text of Heaney's Nobel Prize acceptance speech, delivered in December 1995. It is preceded by the Gallery Books paperback published in Ireland the previous year. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 148157
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HIRST, Damien. The Souls I-IV.London : 2011
First edition, first printing. The Souls ran as a solo exhibition at the Paul Stolper gallery from 7 October to 13 November 2010. Hirst took four butterfly designs and reproduced each in 80 different colourways, with the present book reproducing these artworks and the colours used. The lavish illustrations offer an excellent example of how the deluxe... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 147008
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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
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WILDE, Oscar. Two autograph letters signed to his close friend Arthur Clifton.1 August 1887; second letter n.d.
Two autograph letters from Wilde, both signed with his initials "OW", to Arthur Bellamy Clifton, one of his closest and oldest friends; inviting Clifton to, and apologizing for missing, the theatre, both letters, the first sprightly and the latter depressed, characterful and apparently unpublished.
The first letter arranges to meet the following... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 144930
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KERSHAW, James, & William Daniell. Views in the Burman Empire.London : [1831]
First and sole edition, rare, "Kershaw's views were among the first to present images of Burma to the British public" (British Library); this copy with the distinct advantage of the beautiful plates being clean and the subtle original hand-colouring bright.
Glowing reviews for this fine suite of plates were published in Smith, Elder's The Byron... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 137687
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WOOLF, Virginia. Jacob's Room.Richmond : 1922
First edition, first impression. This copy bears the bookplate of Edward Sackville-West (1901-1965) on the front free endpaper, and a gift inscription penned on blue paper and pasted on the front pastedown: "Dear Eddy, Please accept this belated and inconsiderable birthday present, if you don't already possess it. If you do, will you let me know? Yrs.... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 148416
