Books - "arts"
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The Victorian Romantics 1850-70
ex-lib.first edition 161pp [sepia frontis.] VG (tan cloth,sl.rubbed and mod.soiled,spine sunned w.libr.mark,mod.bumps to extrems.,usual stamps and labels,prelims.and untrimmed content edges sl.soiled,teg,spine cracked)
PUBLISHER: gerald howe london 1929
KEYWORDS: arts literature victorian romantics welby biography rossetti
Diane Arbus
scarce, first uk edition 15pp+plates [b/w photos by arbus] VG+ (white cloth w.b/w photo of twins to top board,sl.rubbed and soiled,minor shelf wear,owner's sign.to front pastedown,content edges v.sl.soiled,7 black ink lines to photo of girl with a cigar o/w contents clean and tight) in VG- d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled,chipping and wear to extrems.w.1cm loss to foot of spine,2cm closed tear to upper edge of front cover w.other minor closed tears,price-clipped)
PUBLISHER: allen lane london 1974
KEYWORDS: arts photography diane arbus
Eros
first edition thus 192pp [text in french] ills.[b/w photos] F in F d/w
PUBLISHER: evergreen cologne 1997
KEYWORDS: arts photography erotica eros nudes linda ferrer jane lahr
The English Pre-Raphaelite Painters
their associates and successors
first edition 126pp ills.[b/w and photogravure] VG+ (blue cloth w.gilt scrollwork to top board and spine,sl.rubbed and soiled,minor wear to extrems.,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed o/w contents clean and tight,teg)
PUBLISHER: george bell london 1899
KEYWORDS: arts pre-raphaelite percy bate
Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle
first edition 226pp ills.[b/w and col.] NF (burgundy cloth,spine cracked but tight) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled)
PUBLISHER: chatto & windus london 1991
KEYWORDS: arts biography history ford madox brown pre-raphaelite teresa newman
Escape from the Amazon!
first edition 105pp ills.[b/w by searle] NF (black cloth w.gilt matador cyclist stamp to top board,eps and content edges v.sl.soiled) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,price-clipped)
PUBLISHER: perpetua books london 1964
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature arts alex atkinson ronald searle
Painful Pleasures
first edition thus 283pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (black cloth,v.sl.soiled,content edges v.sl.soiled,sl.cocked) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.bumps and creasing to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: delectus books london 1995
KEYWORDS: literature arts erotica meusal
World Encyclopedia of Naive Art
a hundred years of naive art
first edition 735pp ills.[b/w and col.] NF (black cloth,content edges v.sl.soiled,spine cracked but tight) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: frederick muller london 1984
KEYWORDS: arts na�ve oto bihalji-merin nebojsa-bato tomasevic
Human Scandals
first edition 207pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (burgundy cloth,v.sl.soiled w.sl.stain to top board,owner's sign.to ffep,content edges sl.soiled) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed and mod.soiled,mod.wear and chipping to extrems.,internal tape repairs to head/foot of all hinges)
PUBLISHER: push pin press new york [1977]
KEYWORDS: arts brad holland illustration
Desmond Morris 50 Years of Surrealism
first edition 224pp ills.[b/w and col.] F in NF d/w (v.sl.rubbed)
PUBLISHER: barrie & jenkins london 1997
KEYWORDS: arts history surrealism silvano levy desmond morris biography
The Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci
2 vols.
third edition 2 vols.393pp+plates/458pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (tan cloth,minor bumps to extrems.,content edges v.sl.soiled,spines cracked but tight) in VG d/ws (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,internal tape reinforcing to hinges)
PUBLISHER: phaidon london 1970
KEYWORDS: arts biography literature leonardo da vinci jean paul richter
Ten Little Nigger Boys
Imperial octavo illus heavy card covers [first edition] unpaginated VG- (colour illus card boards w.cream cloth spine,rubbed and soiled,wear and chipping to extrems.w.some surface losses,heavy card leaves,some sl.soiling to contents,sl.surface loss to lower corner of rear pastedown, last page possibly missing)
PUBLISHER: nelson london [nd]
KEYWORDS: historical children's literature illus systemic racism race social history academic reference arts first edition
The Paintings of Heather Busch
first edition signed by author 112pp ills.[b/w and col.] NF (white cloth,minor shelf wear,author's sign.to title) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.bumps to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: hazard press christchurch 1989
KEYWORDS: arts biography signed new zealand heather busch
Henry Fuseli
first uk edition 88pp ills.[b/w and col.] NF (blue cloth,minor bumps to extrems.,sl.foxing to eps) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,price-clipped)
PUBLISHER: academy editions london 1974
KEYWORDS: arts biography henry fuseli carolyn keay
Villas and Gardens of Tuscany
first edition 223pp ills.[col.] VG+ (red cloth,v.sl.soiled w.sl.bumps to extrems.,spine cracked but tight) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.bumps and mod.wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: terrail paris 1993
KEYWORDS: arts gardens landscape tuscany sophie bajard raffaello bencini
Michelangelo the Sculptor
2 vols.
first edition 2vols.in slipcase 404pp/plates [b/w] VG+ (black cloth,v.sl.soiled,minor foxing to eps and content edges,plates are clean) in VG+ d/ws (sl.rubbed and soiled w.sl.wear to extrems.,price-clipped) in VG slipcase (rubbed and soiled w.wear and chipping to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: routledge & kegan paul london 1967
KEYWORDS: arts biography sculpture michelangelo martin weinberger
The New Woodcut
first edition [the studio special spring number] 176pp ills.[b/w and col.] VG (in ill.wrappers,mod.rubbed and soiled,mod.wear and chipping to extrems.,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed w.some sl.foxing to margins,spine cracked but tight)
PUBLISHER: the studio london 1930
KEYWORDS: studio arts woodcut salaman
Photography Theory and Practice
2 vols.
first edition thus [2 vol.revised and enlarged] 890pp+index [b/w diagrams] VG+ (grey cloth,sl.stained w.minor bumps to extrems.,eps sl.foxed,spines cracked but tight) in VG+ d/ws (v.sl.soiled,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: focal press london 1972
KEYWORDS: arts photography history clerc
William Morris
a study in personality
first edition 325pp ills.[b/w] VG (green cloth w.blind borders and gilt dec.stamp to top board,mod.rubbed and sl.soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,owner's bookplate to front pastedown w.owner's inscr.to ffep,prelims.and contents sl.foxed,spine cracked but tight)
PUBLISHER: herbert jenkins london 1913
KEYWORDS: literature biography william morris arthur compton-rickett arts crafts
The Pilgrims of Hope and Chants for Socialists
first public edition 81pp+ads. VG+ (green cloth w.blind stamp to top board and gilt.dec.to spine,v.sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.bumps to extrems.,paste action to eps w.owner's inscr.to ffep,content edges v.sl.soiled)
PUBLISHER: longmans,green london 1915
KEYWORDS: arts literature politics socialism william morris