Books - "arts"
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Alphabets: A Handbook of Lettering with Historical Critical & Practical Descriptions
REBACKED. Crown 8vo, xix + 294 pp.; heavy card covers, black lettering to spine; teg, fore & bottom edges sl deckled, frontis., illus. tp, plates, illus.; G+ (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; heavy bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, with heavy chipping; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; moderate cracking to central & rear gutters).
PUBLISHER: George Bell & Sons 1895
KEYWORDS: Edward F Strange calligraphy lettering typography history historical book arts design writing
Alan Kitching: A Life in Letterpress
4to, 408 pp.; illus. heavy card bds; black eps, photos, illus.; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps).
PUBLISHER: Laurence King 2016
KEYWORDS: Alan Kitching printing printer letterpress printing press history book art arts design 20th century
Fine Print on Type: The Best of Fine Print Magazine on Type and Typography
4to, [8] + 147 pp.; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; light cracking to front & rear hinge).
PUBLISHER: Fine Print 1989
KEYWORDS: Fine Print magazine printing type typography press book arts design
Politics and the Arts: Letter to M. D'Alembert on the Theatre
8vo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: The Free Press 1960
KEYWORDS: Jean-Jacques Jean Jacques Rousseau political political arts art philosophy
Circus and Allied Arts: A World Bibliography 1500-1957, Volume One
THIS VOL ONLY, ex-library, imperial octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 185pp + illus/plates to rear, VG (usual library markings- minimal, light to moderate bruising & soiling to spine & board edges/extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minor patches of soiling to some terminal pages)
PUBLISHER: Harpur & Sons 1958
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies collections circus literature arts
Sounding the Depths: Theology through the Arts
Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: SCM Press 2002`
KEYWORDS: christianity humanities arts theology jeremy begbie essays
The Beauty of God: Theology and the Arts
Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Inter-Varsity Press 2007
KEYWORDS: christian theology arts humanities essays
Currency Companion to Music & Dance in Australia
Super 8vo, pp. 734; blue heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping).
PUBLISHER: Currency House 2003
KEYWORDS: music dance art arts Australia Australian Currency Companion history
Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps
Super 8vo, pp. xvii + 243; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to pg edges; prev owner's stamp in black ink to top & bottom pg edge, front cover & tp).
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2010
KEYWORDS: 20th century Jewish Nazi Germany holocaust concentration camp music arts
The Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music
Super 8vo, pp. xvii + 376; illus. heavy card bds; illus. eps & prelims, photos, illus.; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; light cracking to front gutters); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping; light to moderate tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: India South Indian music Oxford Companion illustrated history ancient classical history arts
Weavers of Song: Polynesian Music and Dance
Super 8vo, pp. x + 543; black heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; photos, illus.; disc to rear; VG moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev owner's stamp in black ink to top & bottom pg edge, ffep & tp).
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: Pacific Islands Polynesia Polynesian music dance arts ethnomusicology anthropology social history custom culture
Korean Musicology Series 5. Korean Folk Song, Arirang
Disc to rear. Super 8vo, pp. 220; black cl bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt; illus. tp, photos, illus.; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges).
PUBLISHER: National Gugak Center 2012
KEYWORDS: Korea Korean music musicology art arts folk song
Korean Musicology Series 7. Yeonhui, Korean Performing Arts
Super 8vo, pp. 220; black cl bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt; illus. tp, photos, illus.; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges).
PUBLISHER: National Gugak Center 2015
KEYWORDS: Korea Korean music musicology art performing arts
More Dark than Shark
Imp. 8vo, pp. 144; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1986
KEYWORDS: 20th century art artist commentary design arts poetry poems
The Visionary
SIGNED BY JOHN DENNY & ARTISTS ELIZABETH SERJEANT & JOHN TAYLOR. NO. 17/50 COPIES. Fol. pp., [48] unpaginated; cream cl bds, spine lettered in red; fore & bottom edge deckled, illus.; VG (light to moderate foxing, scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; minor tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals); in slipcase, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; moderate foxing). Won the BNZ Art Award.
PUBLISHER: n/p
KEYWORDS: New Zealand art artists works poetry poems poets BNZ Art Award book arts design
The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture
Fol., pp. xv + 236; black heavy card bds; all edges stained black, photos; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: National Gallery of Victoria 2017
KEYWORDS: high fashion art arts Dior clothing designer history 20th century
The Penrose Annual: 44th volume (1950)
Imp. 8vo, pp. xii + 140; red buckram bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt; frontis., plates & advts to rear; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Lund Humphries & Co. 1950
KEYWORDS: Penrose annual graphic arts design art 20th century
The Penrose Annual 1968
4to, pp. 274 + [16]; black cl bds, spine lettered in yellow; plates, illus., advts to rear; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light chipping & some archival repairs; light to moderate tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: Lund Humphries & Co. 1968
KEYWORDS: Penrose annual graphic arts design art 20th century
The Penrose International Review of Graphic Arts; Vol 70 1977-78
4to, pp. 238; black cl bds, spine & front board lettered in silver gilt; frontis., plates, illus., advts to rear; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; light soiling throughout); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light chipping; moderate tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: Stanley Greenwood 1977
KEYWORDS: Penrose annual graphic arts design art 20th century
The Penrose Vol 54 1960
4to, pp. xl + 120; illus. cl bds; frontis., plates, illus., advts to rear; VG- (moderate scuffing, tanning/foxing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; ex libris stamp in black ink to ffep); lacking d/w.
PUBLISHER: Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. 1960
KEYWORDS: Penrose annual graphic arts design art 20th century