Category: Art - General

INDIACOLOR: SPIRIT, TRADITION, AND STYLE. (INDIA COLOR).

By: Crites, Mitchell and Nanji, Ameeta.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: San Francisco, Chronicle : 2008

Seller ID: 25063

ISBN-13: 9780811853163

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Very Good+

176 pp, 10" H. "Journey through this stunning visual landscape, where bazaars offer vibrant surprises at every turn, women in lively saris and men in striking turbans turn crowded streets into dazzling rainbows, and shimmering palace pools arise from the desert. With its 300 photographs and insightful text, 'IndiaColor' reveals the traditions, imagination, and creativity that make India a land like nowhere else." Contents: Introduction; Doors & Passages; Adornment; Flowers; Bazaar; Animals Everywhere; Women at Work; Dhurries: Woven Wonders; Textiles: Threads of Time; Eternal Sari; Turbans; P...
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E.E. CUMMINGS: A MISCELLANY.

By: Cummings, E.E. - Signed. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by George J. Firmage. Foreword by the Author.

Price: $2,500.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Argophile Press : 1958

Seller ID: 30516

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xi, 241 pp, 8vo (9 1/4" H), gray cloth with black lettering on spine and front board, light gray endpapers. Number 4 of the first, limited edition of 75 copies, signed by Cummings. B&w illustrations. "This book consists of a cluster of epigrams, forty-nine essays on various subjects, a poem dispraising dogmata, and several selections from an unfinished play. Taken ensemble, the forty-nine astonish and cheer and enlighten their progenitor. He's astonished that, as nearly as anyone can make out, I wrote them. He's cheered because, while re-reading them, I've encountered a great deal of livelin...
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DAWSON'S ARMY. FROM LIBYA TO THE LEBANON: MEMORIES OF A SOLDIER-ARTIST IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

By: Dawson, Eric. Foreword by Ian G. Robertson.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, National Army Museum : 1992

Seller ID: 22206

ISBN-13: 9780901721266

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

59 pp, 11 11/16" H. Colour and b&w illustrations, map. "Published to coincide with the Special Exhibition of the artist's watercolours and drawings held at the National Army Museum to commemorate the Desert Campaign of 1940 to 1943 and opening in 1992, the fiftieth anniversary year of the Battle of El Alamein." "Complementing his highly popular paintings of the North African campaign of 1940-2, here is Eric Dawson's own account of the stories behind the pictures. This entertaining book details his Wartime career and the doings of his fellow soldiers both on campaign and on leave in Cairo. Amu...
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PRAGUE. GREAT CENTERS OF ART SERIES.

By: Denkstein, Vladimir and Kotalik, Jiri, edited and with an introduction by. Jarmila Brozova, Jarmila Jindrova, Emanuel Poche, Jaromir Neumann, Jan Durdik, Emma Urbankova.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Montclair, N.J., Abner Schram : 1979

Seller ID: 29751

ISBN-13: 9780839002253

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

252 pp, 13 1/2" H. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pictorial endpapers. In publisher's original plain cardboard slipcase. B&w and colour reproductions. "(A) stunning exhibition of the city's mag-nificent art treasures. Compiled by the directors of Prague's National Museum and National Gallery, this important and eye-filling work is a rich cornucopia which art historians, students of central Europe, and travelers to the historic city may sample with profit and pleasure. Itself an art treasure with its ancient buildings, historic monuments, and panoramic views, 'the city of a hundr...
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RAINBOWS IN THE SKY: THE FOLK ART OF MICHIGAN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. AN EXHIBITION PRESENTED BY THE MUSEUM, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY.

By: Dewhurst, C. Kurt and MacDowell, Marsha.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 1978.

Seller ID: 23052

128 pp, 10 15/16" H, soft cover. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs of artists and their works. Introduction, essay. Features the works of the following artists: Alice Bennett, Russell Bennett; Eli Thomas; Glen VanAntwerp; Stan VanAntwerp ; H.H. Ackerman; Miles Smith; Marvin Mason; Gail Schmitz; Steve Harley; Ben Plourde; William Poe; Adah McBride; C. Kurpinski; John Wasilewski; Burr Parker; Ray Johnson; R.K. Cook; John VanZile; John Young; George Cass Shelby; Robert I. Pasan e n ; M a l c ah Zeldis; Gertrude Rogers; Ed Kay; Grace McArthur; Sali Frantz; Al Reiss; Dorion Raidel; Joh...
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MINIATURES ARMENIENNES.

By: Dournovo, L.A. Redaction et preface de R.G. Drampian.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Institut Mesrop Machtots des Anciens Manuscrits - Matenadaran Galerie d'art d'etat de la RSS d'Armenie, 1967.

Seller ID: 14078

234 pp, large 4to (12 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Trilingual text - Armenian/Russian/French. Color plates. Previous owners 2" square label with Armenian text on free front endpaper. Dust jacket has light rubbing/soiling, 1 1/4" closed tear, light edge wear, light edge wrinkling - mainly along parts of top edge. tiny tears/creases at top of spine, a few tiny scuffs. VG+/VG-
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PAUL NASH: THE MASTER OF THE IMAGE, 1889-1946.

By: Eates, Margot.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1973

Seller ID: 25125

ISBN-13: 9780719526718

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

156 pp, 4to (11 1/2" H). B&w and colour reproductions, b&w photographs. "Paul Nash was always a leading and often a controversial figure in modern English art. His complete integrity of vision, his sturdy individualism and his remarkable ability to evoke the indwelling spirit of his subject - a quiet woodland scene, a menacing prehistoric site, a strange 'objet trouve' or 'monster' bombers on the ground or in the air - set him somewhat apart from his contemporaries. In its later phases his work was marked by a degree of intuitive vision which may well explain why he never adhered closely to a...
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BIRDS, FLOWERS AND BUTTERFLIES: STAINED GLASS PATTERN BOOK.

By: Eaton, Connie Clough.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Mineola, New York, Dover : 1999

Seller ID: 21895

ISBN-13: 9780486407173

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

60 pp, small 4to (10 15/16" H). 68 b&w line illustrations, 12 color illustrations on covers. "In her latest collection of exquisite patterns, stained glass designer Connie Clough Eaton has put her aesthetic spotlight on these three motifs. Included are full-page designs of lush baskets, vases, and garden flower bouquets, as well as butterflies and birds, set among floral sprays and in various bucolic settings. Masterfully rendered for stained glass work, the beautiful graphics in this rich collection are also suitable for use in a myriad of other arts and crafts projects." Interior - dog-ear...
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MY SCOTTISH SKETCH BOOK.

By: Edwards, Lionel. (1878-1966)

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: London, Country Life : 1929

Seller ID: 30732

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

VII, 32 pp, 4to (12 1/4" H). Gray/purple cloth with paper title label on front board, purple marbled endpapers. 16 colour plates, including frontispiece (all present - clean, bright, with no tears or creases). All pages (text & illustrations) are printed on one side only on heavy stock (versos blank). Each illustration page consists of a colour plate and a drawing in the margin Lionel Edwards, renowned artist of British hunting life, presents a selection of works produced during "the course of almost annual visits to Scotland", with short notes facing each illustration. Horses, hounds, dee...
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PERSIAN ART. CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN COLLECTION.

By: Ettinghausen, Richard, introduction.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Lisboa, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian : 1972

Seller ID: 20212

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Unpaginated, 4to (12 3/4" H). Additional clear mylar cover. Introductory essay plus colour and b&w illustrations with captions. "This Album, published on the occasion of the celebrations of the 2500th Anniversary of the Iranian Monarchy, presents a selection of the Persian works of art in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum from the sections of Ceramics, Textiles and Artistic Books. The criterion adopted for this selection was, generally speaking, the quality and aesthetic value of the items included and, for some of them, their rarity as well. In the Ceramics and Textiles sections the main centres...
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THE LIFE AND ART OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK 1792-1878.

By: Evans, Hilary and Evans, Mary.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: New York, S.G. Phillips : 1978

Seller ID: 27804

ISBN-13: 9780875992273

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

192 pp, 11 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w reproductions. "When George Cruikshank died, (over) a hundred years ago, he was admired as an artist, respected as a reformer, loved as a man. But he had lived so long and created so much that few could discern any unity underlying the diverse creations of his seventy-year working life - creations ranging from a thumbnail caricature of Napoleon III ('it never reigns but it bores!') to the four-metres-wide 'Worship of Bacchus' which now hangs, dusty and neglected, in the storerooms of the Tate Gallery. For some he was the artist who showed u...
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LA LINEA VIENNESE: GRAFICA ART NOUVEAU.

By: Fanelli, Giovanni.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Firenze (Florence), Cantini : 1989

Seller ID: 15179

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

338 pp, 4to (11 3/8" H). ITALIAN TEXT. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. 400 illustrazioni a colorie 300 in bianco e nero. Sommario: Una rivoluzione artistica - la grafica applicata momento della Gesamtkunstwerk viennes; Disegnare a piu mani - la grafica applicata come prodotto di collaborazione; Giovani illustratori viennesie il settimanale "Meggendorfer Blatter"; "Allegorien. Neue Folge"; La Secessione viennese e la grafica; Koloman Moser - l'infinito ornamento; Lo Hagenbund e la grafica; Le fonti del gusto grafico viennese e la Kunstgewerbeschule; La Wiener Werkstatte e la grafica...
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THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN. VOLUME 5. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: THE AUGUSTAN AGE.)

By: Ford, Boris, ed. Arthur Humphreys, Geoffrey Beard, Raymond O'Malley, David Mannings, Cinzia Maria Sicca, Pat Rogers, T.J. Edelstein, Sally Jeffery, Michael Symes, Nicholas Anderson, Bryan Little.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press for The Folio Society : 1995

Seller ID: 29881

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

349 pp, 10" H. Bound in full dark blue cloth with title and shield in gold on spine. B&w illustrations and colour plates. Contents: General Introduction; The Arts in Eighteenth-Century Britain; The Decorative and Useful Arts; Flowers in the Valley: Folk-Songs in Britain; The Visual Arts; Holkham Hall, Norfolk; Literature; Vauxhall Gardens; Architecture; 'The English Taste in Gardening'; Music; Augustan Bath; Further Reading and Reference; Index. Book is Fine.
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THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN. VOLUME 7. VICTORIAN BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: THE LATER VICTORIAN AGE.)

By: Ford, Boris, ed. Asa Briggs, John Summerson, Jacques Carre, John Holloway, George Rowell, John Nelson Tarn, Peter Fuller, Andor Gomme, Gillian Naylor, William Price, Michael Kennedy, Roly Bain, Norman Vance.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press for The Folio Society : 1995

Seller ID: 29883

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

347 pp, 10" H. Bound in full dark blue cloth with title and shield in gold on spine. B&w illustrations and colour plates. Contents: General Introduction; The Later Victorian Age (The reign in review / Tendencies and trends); Architecture; The Public Park; Literature; The Drama of Wilde and Pinero; New Homes for Barons and Artisans; Fine Arts; The City of Glasgow; Design, Craft and Industry; The Eisteddfod; Music; Clowns and Augustes; Further Reading and Artists' Biographies; Index. Book is Fine.
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THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN. VOLUME 3. SIXTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION.)

By: Ford, Boris, ed. Dominic Baker-Smith, Malcolm Airs, Derek Traversi, Eric Mercer, John Milsom, John Steane, Maurice Howard, Nigel Llewellyn, Philippa Glanville, Michael Leslie.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambrige University Press for The Folio Society : 1995

Seller ID: 29879

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

325 pp, 10" H. Bound in full dark blue cloth with title and shield in gold on spine. B&w illustrations and colour plates. Contents: General Introduction; Renaissance and Reformation; Architecture; Literature and Drama; The Town of Shrewsbury; Music; Renaissance Gardens and Parks; Painting and Imagery; A Tudor House: Hardwick Hall; The Crafts and Decorative Arts; Further Reading and Artists' Biographies; Index. Book is Fine.
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THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN. VOLUME 9. MODERN BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

By: Ford, Boris, ed. Roy Shaw, Gwen Shaw, Paul Griffiths, Fernau Hall, Peter Fuller, Andrew Saint, Christopher Frayling, Gilbert Phelps, Neil Sinyard, Joseph Rykwert, Simon Pepper, John Heskett, Alan Munton.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press for The Folio Society : 1995

Seller ID: 29885

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

350 pp, 10" H. Bound in full dark blue cloth with title and shield in gold on spine. B&w illustrations and colour plates. Contents: General Introduction; The Cultural and Social Setting; Music; Ballet; The Visual Arts; New Towns; The Third Programme; The Crafts; Literature and Drama; Film; Architecture; Housing at Roehampton; Industrial Design; Further Reading and Reference; Index. A few very small areas of faint colour fading on front board.
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THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN. VOLUME 8. EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: THE EDWARDIAN AGE AND THE INTER-WAR YEARS.)

By: Ford, Boris, ed. Wilfrid Mellers, Rupert Hildyard, Jacques Berthoud, Simon Pepper, Michael Kennedy, Richard Cork, John Beer, John Summerson, Neil Sinyard, Gillian Naylor, Frank Whitehead.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press for The Folio Society : 1995

Seller ID: 29884

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

348 pp, 10" H. Bound in full dark blue cloth with title and shield in gold on spine. B&w illustrations and colour plates. Contents: General Introduction; The Edwardian Age and the Inter-War Years; Literature and Drama; The Garden City; Music; The Visual Arts; The 'Civilization' of Bloomsbury; Architecture; Grierson and the Documentary Film; Design and Industry; John Laing's Sunnyfields Estate, Mill Hill; Further Reading and Artists' Biographies; Index. Book is Fine.
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THE GEORGE STUART COLLECTION OF HISTORICAL FIGURES.

By: Foster, Keith, foreword. Inscribed by George Stuart.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Ventura, California, Ventura County Historical Society/Museum : 1985

Seller ID: 19746

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

31 pp, 11" H - stapled in wraps. Profusely illustrated with color and b&w photographs. Inscribed on Foreword page: To E__ M_____, / a real expert / G S Stuart / April (?) '88". The catalog of an exhibition of the amazing one-quarter life-size historical figures of George Stuart. Contents: Acknowledgements; Foreword; George Stuart - artist and historian; The Collection; The Renaissance and Reformation; The Tudors; The Stuarts; The Hanovers; The Three Louis; Marie Antoinette; The Romanoffs; The Fall of the Tzars; The American Patriots; The American Founders; Queen Victoria; Abraham Lincoln; The ...
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THIS WAS EXPO.

By: Fulford, Robert. Picture story texts by Alan Edmonds.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart : 1968

Seller ID: 30864

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

203 pp, 11 3/16" H. B&w and colour photographs. A pictorial look at Expo 67, the World's Fair held in Montreal in 1967. Contents: Introduction / A heaven-storming ambition: Tomorrow's World; The greatest show on earth: How the world saw the fair; An exultation of form and structure: Architecture's giant stride into tomorrow; The fairest of the fair: That great American dome; The future of the city: Reshaping the environment; A new way of seeing: Cine Expo; An argument in concrete: Habitat; Where the medium was the message: The bewitching wonderland of the Czechs; The education of actual exper...
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BASSENGE AUKTION 61. 14. BIS 15. MAI 1993. MODERNE LITERATUR UND KUNSTDOKUMENTATION, ARCHITECKTUR, EXLIBIRS, FOTOGRAFIE, FILM, RUSSISCHE AVANTGARDE.

By: Galerie Gerda Bassenge

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 1993.

Seller ID: 20804

314 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H), soft cover. B&w illustrations. The catalogue of an auction. German text. Interior - small slight bump to top corner of most pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear . Very Good
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Category: Art - General