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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: $45.00 USD

Publisher: London, National Army Museum: 1992

Seller ID: 22206

ISBN: 0901721263

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 lea...
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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: 0839002254

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...
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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;...
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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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RUTH DUCKWORTH / CLAIRE ZEISLER. OCTOBER 12 - NOVEMBER 17, 1979. (EXHIBITION CATALOGUE).

By: Drutt, helen William, Foreword. McTwigan, Michael, Essays. (Ruth Duckworth, Claire Zeisler.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, Moore College of Art: 1979

Seller ID: 30401

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good-

Catalogue of the exhibition, consisting of two stapled booklets (36 pages each), bound back-to-back (sharing a back cover), 7 3/4" H x 8" D, erratum slip laid in. B&w and colour photographs. Each booklet contains a Foreword, an essay on the artist (Ruth Duckworth, ceramicist and Claire Zeisler, fibre artist), an artist chronology, a catalogue to the exhibition, a bibliography and a list of public collections housing the artists' work. Interior - very light toning to margins of pages and in gutters of pages, waviness at bottom front corner of pages in the Claire Zeisler booklet and a...
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PAUL NASH: THE MASTER OF THE IMAGE, 1889-1946.

By: Eates, Margot.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: John Murray, London, 1973.:

Seller ID: 25125

156 pp, 4to (11 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. 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 contemporarie s. In its later phases his work was marked by a degree of intuitive vision which may well ex...
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GAUGUIN AND THE NABIS: PROPHETS OF MODERNISM.

By: Ellridge, Arthur.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Paris, Terrail: 1995

Seller ID: 25148

ISBN: 287939080X

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Very Good

223 pp, 4to (11 13/16" H). 164 colour reproductions. "Gauguin, the leading figure of the Pont-Even group, inspired the Nabis through his influence on the young painter Paul Serusier. In the Breton village where they spent the summer of 1888, Serusier, under Gauguin's direction, painted a landscape in pure colours that verged on the abstract. When they returned to Paris and showed the picture to their friends, Maurice Denis, Vallotton, Vuillard and Bonnard, the effect was so magical that it became known as 'The Talisman'. The painting was at odds with the academic teaching of the time a...
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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...
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THE LIFE AND ART OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK 1792-1878.

By: Evans, Hilary and Evans, Mary.

Price: $25.00 USD

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

Seller ID: 27804

ISBN: 0875992277

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 ...
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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 Wer...
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Image for 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.)

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 6. THE ROMANTIC AGE IN BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: ROMANTICS TO EARLY VICTORIANS.)

By: Ford, Boris, ed. David Punter, Alexander Youngson, John Beer, Michael Rosenthal, John Harvey, Alexandra Wedgwood, H.C. Robbins Landon, Tom Williamson, Pat Kirkham, Christopher Gillie.

Price: $25.00 USD

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

Seller ID: 29882

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

330 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; Romantics to Early Victorians; Edinburgh: City of Reason and Nature; Literature; The Fine Arts; Graphic Satire and Illustration; Architecture; Music; The Athenaeum; Enclosure and the English Hedgerow; The Applied Arts: Design, Craft and Trade; Further Reading and Artists' Biographies; Index. Book is Fine.
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Image for 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.)

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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Image for THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN. VOLUME 1. EARLY BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: PREHISTORIC, ROMAN, AND EARLY MEDIEVAL.)

THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN. VOLUME 1. EARLY BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: PREHISTORIC, ROMAN, AND EARLY MEDIEVAL.)

By: Ford, Boris, ed. Jacquetta Hawkes, Peter Salway, Barry Cunliffe, Sheppard Frere, Janet Huskinson, Roger Ling, Richard Bailey, Mildred Budny, Michael Alexander, Martin Biddle, Isabel Henderson, Richard Gem, Christopher Page, R. Allen Brown, Cherry Lavell

Price: $25.00 USD

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

Seller ID: 29877

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

289 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 / Prehistoric Britain: Stone Age to Iron Age / Roman Britain: The Cultural and Social Setting; Studies in the Individual Arts (Architecture; Verulamium: Social and Artistic Development; The Visual Arts and Crafts; Lullingstone Villa) / Early Medieval Britain: The Cultural and Social Setting; Studies in the Individual Arts (The Visual Arts and Crafts; Old English Literature; Winchester: The Rise of an Early Capital; The Arts of Late Cel...
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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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Image for 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.)

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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Image for BASSENGE AUKTION 61. 14. BIS 15. MAI 1993. MODERNE LITERATUR UND KUNSTDOKUMENTATION, ARCHITECKTUR, EXLIBIRS, FOTOGRAFIE, FILM, RUSSISCHE AVANTGARDE.

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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I DIPINTI GHIRIBIZZOSI DI GIUSEPPE ARCIMBOLDI., PITTORE ILLUSIONISTA DEL CINQUECENTO (1527-1593).

By: Geiger, Benno. With Lionello Levi and Oskar Kokoschka.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Firenze (Florence), Vallecchi: 1954

Seller ID: 1996

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

265 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8" H). Small envelope with four colour post cards of Arcimboldi's work laid in. *ITALIAN TEXT ONLY*. Profusely illustrated with tissue-covered colour plates and many b&w reproductions. Contents: Premesa; Giuseppe Arcimboldi; L'Arcimboldi musicisa (Lionello Levi); Epilogo (Oscar Kokoschka); Documenti; Regesti e Bibliografia; Elenco delle opere. The artist is known for his fantastic portraits made up of vegetables, animals, fruit, everyday utensils/instruments, flowers, etc. Very slight browning to page edges and to endpapers, small bump to bottom corner of front boa...
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Image for PITTSBURGH BIENNIAL. SEPTEMBER 9 - NOVEMBER 6, 1994. BOB BINGHAM, LOWRY BURGESS, DENNIS CHILDERS, JOANNA COMMANDAROS, AARONEL DE ROY GRUBER, THOM DROEGE, CHRISTOPHER L. FETTER, JOSEPH DANIEL FIEDLER, ANN NEAL GILLEN, TIM KAULEN, BOB LA BOBGAH, ET

PITTSBURGH BIENNIAL. SEPTEMBER 9 - NOVEMBER 6, 1994. BOB BINGHAM, LOWRY BURGESS, DENNIS CHILDERS, JOANNA COMMANDAROS, AARONEL DE ROY GRUBER, THOM DROEGE, CHRISTOPHER L. FETTER, JOSEPH DANIEL FIEDLER, ANN NEAL GILLEN, TIM KAULEN, BOB LA BOBGAH, ET

By: Grote, Robert E., foreword. Introduction by Murray Horne. (John Kissick, Eleanor Heartney, Murray Horne.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1994.:

Seller ID: 20763

40 pp, 11" H, soft cover. Addendum laid in. Color and b&w illustrations. The catalogue of the exhibition. Artists represented: Bob Bingham; Lowry Burgess; Dennis Childers; JoAnna Commandaros; Aaronel de Roy Gruber; Thom Droege; Christopher L. F etter; Joseph Daniel Fiedler; Ann Neale Gillen; Tim Kaulen; Bob La Bobgah; Bryan Rogers; Phil Rostek; Carolyn P. Speranza; William D. Wade. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear - light at t o p / b o t t om of spine, very light rubbing - mainly on front cover. Very Good
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Category: Art - General