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MY FATHER AND EDWARD ARDIZZONE
Written by Edward Booth-Clibborn. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Stock no. 1328403
Published by Patrick Hardy Books. 1st 1983. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Lasting Friendship. Large format. B/w illustrations. A brief account of the friendship between the author's father and Edward Ardizzone. The illustrations in the book are based on the Christmas cards that Edward and Catherine sent out annually and for which Edward did a special picture each year. ISBN: 074440018X. Spine and corners bumped. Contents fine. Price-cut wrapper is faded to spine with rubbing at top of spine.

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PONTORMO: PORTRAIT OF A HALBERDIER
Written by Elizabeth Cropper. Illustrated by Jacopo Carucci Pontormo.
Stock no. 1828569
Published by Getty Museum. 1st 1997. Slightly better than very good condition.

Getty Museum Studies on Art series. Monograph. A masterpiece of Italian Mannerism, Pontormo's painting of the Halberdier is a poignant image of a heroic youth. But is this proud and beautiful youth the Florentine duke Cosimo I de' Medici, or is he Frencesco Guardi, unknown to history except for Vasari's mention that he was painted by Pontormo during the harrowing seige of Florence in 1529-302? The author examines the many problems surrounding this mysterious portrait, discovering new possibilities of meaning within the volatile politics of the period. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w & colour illustrations. 132 pages. ISBN: 0892363665. A very nice copy.

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MAX GIMBLETT: THE BRUSH OF ALL THINGS
Written by Wystan Curnow; Thomas McEvilley; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Illustrated by Max Gimblett.
Stock no. 1828566
Published by Aukland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki. 1st 2004. Slightly better than very good condition.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name which ran 2004-2005. Red & black pictorial cardwraps. Colour and b/w illustrations. 72 pages. ISBN: 0864632568. SIGNED by Max Gimblett (with personal dedication) to half-title page. Contains various related invitations etc. loosely inserted in the book by previous owner. A few scuffs to covers. Contents clean.

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URBAN WALLS: A GENERATION OF COLLAGE IN EUROPE & AMERICA
Written by Brandon Taylor. Illustrated by Burhan Dogancay; et al..
Stock no. 1828547
Published by Hudson Hills Press. 1st 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An extensive look at the history of Collage and its dialogue with the art of decollage, this book examines the movement through the work of some of its pivotal participants, artists such as Robert Rauchenberg, Mimmo Rotella, Wolf Vostell, Jacques Villegle and within this context is able to frame the work of New York-based, Turkish-born artist, Burhan Dogancay. Large format. Red title to spine, blind title to front board. Colour illustrations. 158 pages including index. ISBN: 9781555952884. A lovely copy.

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UTAMARO: A CHORUS OF BIRDS
No author listed. Illustrated by Utamaro.
Stock no. 1828544
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Viking Press. 1st thus 1981. Slightly better than very good condition.

This book reproduces in size and in the fold-out format of the original copy of Utamaro's 'Momo-chidori kyoka awase' in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. To accomodate the left-to-right tradition of the Western reader, the sequence of illustrations has been reversed, however the Japanese verses should be read from right to left. Green cloth boards, white title label to front board. Boards have no spine as book opens concertina style. Colour illustrations in facsimile. B/w illustrations to rear. ISBN: 0870992805. A lovely copy, contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly faded to spine and lightly knocked at top & tail, foxing to top edge.

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MARY CASSATT: AN AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST
Written by Gerhard Gruitrooy. Illustrated by Mary Cassatt.
Stock no. 1828534
Published by Todtri. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

American Impressionist Mary Cassatt fulfilled a childhood determination to become a great artist, and her colourful paintings and prints rank with the works of Degas, Monet, and Renoir. This volume explores Cassatt's life and art, with an exquisite portfolio of 70 full-colour illustrations. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. 78 numbered pages. ISBN: 1880908670. Pale page edge browning else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and rubbed at top of spine, a few minor marks.

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ELIZABETH SIDDAL: PRE-RAPAHELITE ARTIST 1829-1862
Written by Jan Marsh. Illustrated by Elizabeth Siddal.
Stock no. 1828531
Published by Ruskin Gallery Collection Of The Guild Of St George In Assoc With Lund Humphries. 2nd 1994. Very good condition.

Second Edition. Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal is best known as Pre-Raphaelite Muse, discovered by the Brotherhood in a milliner's shop, who posed for many of their most famous paintings and became the beloved model and wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Originally published to go alongside the exhibition of her work at the Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield. Square format. Blue cardwraps. B/w and a few colour photos. 82 pages ISBN: 0863211356. Corners of covers lightly rubbed. Text block slightly grubby. Rear cover lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

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JOHN PIPER AND STAINED GLASS
Written by June Osborne. Illustrated by John Piper.
Stock no. 1828499
Published by Sutton Publishing. 1st 1997. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

John Piper was one of Britain's many leading artists. His work includes stained glass windows at Coventry Cathedral, Eton College, Robinson College, Cambridge, and the magnificent tower lantern at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w & colour photos. ISBN: 0750910887. Minor white marks to spine. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed.

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PITMEN PAINTERS: THE ASHINGTON GROUP 1934-1984
Written by William Feaver.
Stock no. 1828498
Published by The Mid Northumberland Arts Group. 1st thus 1993. Slightly better than very good condition.

The Ashington Group began in the early 1930s as an evening class of Northumberland pitmen keen to learn about art. Within weeks they were producing their own work and within a few years their paintings amounted to a complete record of life in a mining community. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations, some colour illustrations. 176 pages including index. ISBN: 0904790819. A very nice copy.

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THE WORLD OF BERYL COOK
Written by Jess Wilder; Jerome Sans. Illustrated by Beryl Cook.
Stock no. 1328241
Published by Baltic. 1st 2007. Very good condition.

A unique survey of Cook's forty year career and the origins of her inspiration. Also, a specially commissioned interview with Beryl, who just celebrated her 80th birthday. Cardwraps. 159 pages. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9783791339207. Corners bumped and some slight bumping to cover edges. Contents fine.

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DRAWINGS OF BRITISH PLANTS PARTS I - XXIX
Written by Stella Ross-Craig. Illustrated by Stella Ross-Craig.
Stock no. 1828445
Published by G. Bell And Sons, Ltd.. Very good condition.

A run of parts I to XXIX. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations of flowering plants that occur naturally in the British Isles. An almost complete run of 29 volumes, parts 30 & 31 missing. Volume I is a first edition, 1948... Volume XXIX is a first edition 1972. Almost all copies covered in clear laminate, some of the older copies have tape to spine (under the clear laminate). Covers are browned. Neat name in ink to top of front covers. Front endpapers have a small, neat identification number. A few hinges are pulled. Contents are otherwise clean.

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THEATRE OF THE FRATERNITY: STAGING THE RITUAL SPACE OF THE SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY, 1896-1929
Written by C. Lance Brockman; et al.
Stock no. 1828419
Published by University Press of Mississippi. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name which ran from October 1996-September 1998 at 5 museums in America, organized by the Frederick R. Weisman Art Mueseum which exhibited from October 1996 through to January 5 1997. Freemasonry from the American point of view. This collection of essays and images invites you to explore the heyday of American Fraternalism. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w photos & drawings. ISBN: 0878059474. Cover corners lightly rubbed. Rear cover lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

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