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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CHAFFERS, William. The New Keramic Gallery.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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(VATICAN MAPS.) The Gallery of Maps in the Vatican.Modena : 1994
A handsome, comprehensive publication of the maps and associated items housed in the Vatican collections. With parallel Italian and English text. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 137737
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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 until... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 120880
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ORMEROD, Michael. States of America.Manchester : 1993
First edition, first impression; published to coincide with the exhibition at the Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 104826
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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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DISNEY, Walt. Pinocchio production cel of a Dutch milk maid from the"Give a Little Whistle sequence".Burbank : 1940
An original Pinocchio production cel, with an early inscription. Blue pencil signature and inscription, "To Peggy Fox, from Walt Disney," (possibly studio hand) on a brown 4.25 x 2 inch card affixed to the mat of an original production cel featuring a little Dutch milk maid, who was one of the carved characteras featured on the clock in Geppetto's workshop... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 102774
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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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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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TURK, Gavin. Collected Works 1994—1998.London : 1998
First edition, first impression. Signed on the title page by Turk. 1500 copies 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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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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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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BAILEY, David. Rock and Roll Heroes.London : 1997
First edition, first impression. Bailey here presents for the first time a collection of his favourite images of late 20th century musicians, from Mick Jagger to Duke Ellington, in a gallery of celebrity that has helped shape the iconography of modern pop. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 137455
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HIRST, Damien. In the Darkest Hour There May Be Light: Works From Damien Hirst's Murderme Collection.London : 2006
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper "To Manuel Damien Hirst" with a love heart. The book of Hirst's exhibition of works from his own collection, at the Serpentine Gallery from 25 November 2006 to 28 January 2007. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 133990
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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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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: 140162
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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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(JUDD, Donald.) 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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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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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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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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(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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(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: 140154
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WILDE, Oscar, & Henry-D. Davray (trans.) Ballade de la Geôle de Reading.Paris : 1898
First edition in French, with the original English text facing the translation. It was first published in the same year in London under the pseudonym "C.3.3." after Wilde's 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£375.00Stock Code: 140497
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BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel. Jean-Michel Basquiat.Zurich : 1985
First edition, first printing. This copy marked artist's proof 44/100 and signed by Basquiat aside from the edition of 1000. A hardback catalogue issued to accompany an exhibition of Basquiat's paintings at the Gallery Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich, Switzerland from Jan. 19 to Feb. 16, 1985. Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 139454
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HIRST, Damien. Superstition.London : 2007
First edition, first impression. This is the book of the eponymous Hirst exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, in February 2007, with essays by the writers John Banville and Richard Bradford, and poetry by Philip Larkin. Hirst titled each work in this exhibition twice: first with an allusion to spirituality and religious iconography, and... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 136847
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FLIGHT, Claude, & Edith Lawrence. The Art and Craft of Lino Cutting and Printing; Lino-cuts, A Hand-book of Linoleum-cut Colour Printing; The Practice of Lino Cutting & Printing in Colours and Black & White explaining the use of the "Claude Flight Lino Cutting and Colour Printing Outfit."London : 1934; c.1947; c.1940s
First edition, first printings and proof of a revised edition. In 1920 Edith Lawrence met the painter and linocut artist Claude Flight and the two became lifelong companions. After living at his studio in St John's Wood for a time, the couple set up a new studio in 1925 off Baker Street from where they run an interior decoration business and produced... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 139780
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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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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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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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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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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,... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 137981
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(Boyle Family.) ELLIOTT, Patrick; Bill Hare; Andrew Wilson. Boyle Family.Edinburgh : 2003
First edition, first impression, signed by all four artists - Mark Boyle, Joan Hills, and their children Sebastian and George. The Boyle family members collaborate on their artwork, with the present profusely-illustrated work issued to accompany an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, exploring the family's beginnings... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 129722
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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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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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BAILEY, David. Rock and Roll Heroes.London : 1997
First edition, first impression. Bailey here presents for the first time a collection of his favourite images of late 20th-century musicians, from Mick Jagger to Duke Ellington, in a gallery of celebrity that has helped shape the iconography of modern pop. This copy with a loosely inserted folding invitation card for the book's private view, the front... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 139539
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HIRST, Damien. For the Love of God: The Making of the Diamond Skull.London : 2007
First edition, signed by the artist on the title page. Published on the occasion of the "Beyond Belief" exhibition held at the White Cube Gallery in 2007, the book traces the production of Hirst's diamond skull, with preliminary drawings and sketches, photographs, diagrams, as well as text by Rudi Fuchs, Tania Kausmally, Marcel Tolkowsky, Helen Liversidge,... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 97047
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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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(THE SAVOY.) The Savoy.London : [1923]
First edition, first impression of this highly attractive promotional booklet printed at the Curwen Press, complete with the scarce dust jacket. "The purpose of this little book is to offer a few reflections of London from the windows of the Savoy. During the past year more American guests have stayed at the Savoy than ever in its history, and to them... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 139715
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HOCKNEY, David. Some Very Large New Paintings With Twenty-Five Dogs Upstairs and Some Drawings of Friends.Venice : 1995
First edition, first printing. Edition of 3,000. Inscription on the half-title from Hockney to Brian Baggott. "for Brian / much love / David H." This catalogue was published to coincide with an exhibition at the L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, 7 April - 6 May, 1995. Brian Baggott published Off the Wall a Collection of David Hockney's Posters 1987 -1994,... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 139666
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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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BRITISH SPORTS AND SPORTSMEN. British Sports and Sportsmen. Sportsmen of the Past.London : [1908]
Limited edition, number 670 of 1,000 copies. Very handsome copy of this "picture gallery which, of its kind, is unique in its completeness. The retrospect does not extend quite to the days of Nimrod and the mighty hunters of whom we know only by legendary record, but it does go back about as far as oral tradition can carry. There is hardly a sportsman... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 86975
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COWARD, Noel. Post-Mortem. A Play in Eight Scenes.London : 1931
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For William with my love, Noel." The recipient was William Armstrong (1882-1952), director and producer of the Liverpool Playhouse from 1922 to 1944, where he directed several Coward plays in the 1930s. He received an honorary MA from Liverpool... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 114999
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GRIVAZ, Eugene. The World Awheel.New York : 1896
First and only edition. Extremely uncommon, just 8 copies listed on OCLC, 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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BEERBOHM, Max. Cartoons:London : [1911]
First and only edition. "The series of fifteen cartoons called 'The Second Childhood of John Bull' was exhibited in 1901 as part of Max's first one-man show, at the Carfax Gallery, operated by friend Robert Ross. In 1911 Stephen Swift & Co. published the drawings... While allegorical subjects are not considered Max's forte, the John Bull drawings have... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 81571
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LAWRENCE, T. E. Oriental Assembly.London : 1939
First edition, first impression, of "one of the last of the 'literary remains' volumes" (O'Brien). This copy is from the library of author and biographer John Stewart Collis, with a neat ownership inscription to the front pastedown: "John Stewart Collis's copy, given to me after his death by Irene Collis". Collis was an admirer of Lawrence, and wrote... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 134667
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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 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, Hugh... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 138200
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(CHURCHILL, Winston S.) EPSTEIN, Sir Jacob. Original bronze head of Winston Churchill.London : 1947
Widely regarded as one of the finest representations of Churchill by one of the most celebrated British sculptors of the 20th century. In August 1945 following Churchill's defeat in the July general election the Ministry of Information's War Artists' Advisory Committee, at the suggestion of its chairman, Sir Kenneth Clark, commissioned Epstein to... Learn More£150,000.00Stock Code: 130956
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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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(COSWAY-STYLE BINDING) LUDWIG, Emil. Napoleon.London : 1927
First UK edition, following the New York edition of the preceding year and the German of 1925. "Ludwig was trained in law but at 25 began writing plays and poems. After serving as foreign correspondent for a German newspaper during World War I, he wrote a novel (Diana, originally published as two works, 191819; Eng. trans., 1929). In 1920 he published... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 138769
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DUNCAN, Isadora. My Life.New York : 1927
First edition, limited issue, number 211 of 650 publisher's presentation copies, not for public sale. This copy bears the bookseller's ticket of the renowned Kamin Dance Bookshop and Gallery, New York, owned by the publisher Martin Kamin, to the front pastedown, giving the copy a lovely association to both the Parisian and American dance and literature... Learn More£625.00Stock Code: 81051
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STRASSER, Alex. Victorian Photography.London : 1942
First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies of which this is number 107, of the second and final title in Andor Kraszna-Kraus's Classics of Photography series, a venture cut short by the war but which still succeeded in revolutionising the study of Victorian photography. "Gallery of Immortal Portraits (1940) and Victorian Photography (1942) reproduced... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 105637
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CATLIN, George. North American Indians.Edinburgh : 1926
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 collection of artefacts as well as more than four hundred... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 126141
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WHISTLER, James McNeill. Eden versus Whistler. The Baronet and the Butterfly.Paris : [1899]
First and limited edition, one of 250 numbered copies signed by Whistler with his butterfly monogram. "Early in 1894 Whistler painted a small portrait of Lady Eden (Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow), and her husband, Sir William Eden, sent 100 for it, which Whistler banked. Whistler exhibited the picture in Paris but refused to deliver it,... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 104607
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LONDONDERRY, Charles William Vane, third marquess of. Narrative of the Peninsular War, from 1808 to 1813.London : 1829
First octavo edition, following the two quarto editions of the preceding year; the appendix, comprising "communications from some of my brother officers",appears here for the first time. Londonderry (17781854) was a brave but not particularly brilliant soldier - Sir John Moore described him as "a very silly fellow" who served with variable distinction... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 140389
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CATLIN, George. Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians:London : 1851
Handsomely bound early printing of Catlin's illustrated account of Native American tribes, first published in 1841, reissued many times over the following 50 years. 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... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 130731
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ATKINSON, Thomas Witlam. Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the confines of India and China.London : 1860
First edition. Having trained as a stonemason, Atkinson became an architect carrying out some highly accomplished commissions in the Manchester area. Around 1844 "inspired by Alexander von Humboldt's accounts of Siberia, Atkinson then moved to St Petersburg There, in 1846, he abandoned architecture as a profession for the pursuits of an explorer and... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 139349
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[YOUNG, Arthur.] A Six Weeks Tour,London : 1768
First edition of Young's second book, following The Farmer's Letters to the People of England (also 1768). "Arthur Young, like Jethro Tull, was a great agricultural reformer whose influence reached far beyond his own country. England, however, with its increased acreage of cultivated land resulting from the enclosure system, and the consequent rise... Learn More£550.00Stock Code: 129637
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(BLAKE, William.) GAY, John. Fables.London : 1793
First edition thus, with 12 plates engraved by William Blake; these are sometimes stated to have been designed as well as engraved by Blake, but the illustrations are based largely on designs from earlier editions, particularly those of John Wootton and William Kent for the first edition of 1727. Keynes notes that the first Blake plate, "The Shepherd... Learn More£1,650.00Stock Code: 140405








