THE LIVING THEATRE OF MEDIEVAL ART
Written by Henry Kraus.
Stock no. 1830488
Published by Indiana University Press. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

From the foreword: Whether working from a single monument to its ramifications in the relevant social context, or from major social themes to their documentation in works of art, he has traced the broad picture of living circumstances and problems in the Middle Ages, to create a vivid documentary picture of the period and its art. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine, blind title to front board. B/w illustrations. xxi and 248 pages. Small foxspots to top edge of text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is rubbed at corners, creased and worn to top rear edge.

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RUDOLF STEINER'S SCULPTURE IN DORNACH
Written by Ake Fant; Arne Klingborg; A. John Wilkes; Hagen Biesantz. Illustrated by Rudolf Steiner.
Stock no. 1830474
Published by Rudolf Steiner Press. 1st 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Rudolf Steiner's wood sculpture of the 'Representative of Humanity' - or the 'Christ Being' as he himself also referred to it - stands in a room specially provided for it in the present Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. This book is an intriguing survey of the sculpture's development, supported by a factually clear and artistically perceptive commentary as well as by numerous clearly documented utterance of Rudolf Steiner's on his own conception of the work and its particular style of execution. Introduced by Hagen Biesantz. Large format. Yellow cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 85 pages. ISBN: 0854403019. Light rubbing to base of spine, boards clean. Some pale foxing present, mainly to prelims. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and lightly scuffed. Musty odour present.

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PRACTICE
Written by John Moat. Illustrated by John Moat.
Stock no. 1830469
Published by Libanus Press. 1st 1994. Very good condition.

Limited edition of 300 signed copies of which there are three editions: soft bound, hard-bound, and quarter leather bound in slipcase. This is one of fifty hard-bound with hand-coloured illustrations. The author & artist travels to New Zealand, the birth-place of his mother. Poems and b/w illustrations as well as a few hand-coloured illustrations. Oblong format. Beige cloth spine with white title label, grey paper boards with white title label. Not paginated. ISBN: 0948021322. SIGNED by the author and numbered 38 (of 50) to rear. Gift inscription to half-title page also from the author. A few light foxspots to text block. Boards a little grubby. Contents clean.

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PIET MONDRIAN
Written by Hans L.C. Jaffe. Illustrated by Piet Mondrian.
Stock no. 1830446
Published by Thames and Hudson. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A concise edition of Hans L.C. Jaffe's Mondrian, originally published in 1969. Large format. Grey cloth boards iwth gilt title and publisher vignette to front. Colour & b/w illustrations. 128 pages. ISBN: 0500080402. Spine has a slight lean. Board edges have a few light knocks. Name in ink to front pastedown. Some light foxing, mainly to endpapers and text block. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and has a small patch of surface paper loss to top edge of rear panel.

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AIRCRAFT OF THE ACES LEGENDS OF WORLD WAR 2: FEATURING THE ACCLAIMED ARTWORK OF IAIN WYLLIE
Written by Tony Holmes. Illustrated by Iain Wyllie.
Stock no. 1830442
Published by Osprey Aviation. 2002. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Showcasing the specially commissioned cover artwork of leading aviation artist Iain Wyllie, who has produced over 30 action-packed paintings for the world's most successful aviation series of recent years, Aircraft of the Aces. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. Colour illustrations. 143 pages. ISBN: 1841351679. Reprint. A lovely copy. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded at spine and front spine edge, scuffed to spine and rear panel.

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STRUGGLE: THE ART OF SZUKALSKI
Written by Stanislav Szukalski; Eva Kirsch; Donat Kirsch. Illustrated by Stanislav Szukalski.
Stock no. 1830420
Published by Last Gasp. 2nd 2023. Nearly fine condition.

Szukalski was a Polish sculptor. Foreword by Leonardo & George DiCaprio. Second Edition. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour photos. 199 pages. ISBN: 9780867194791. Third printing. A very nice copy.

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ART DECO
Written by Norbert Wolf.
Stock no. 1830414
Published by Prestel Verlag. 1st thus 2016. Slightly better than very good condition.

This opulent volume traces the chronology of Art Deco style by looking at the politics and culture of Europe in the 1920s and early '30s, and the artistic movements that paralleled its popularity. Large volume. Matt pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 286 pages including index and appendix. ISBN: 9783791382418. Boards lightly bumped & worn at corners, scuffing to rear board. Contents clean.

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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND THE FUTURE
Written by Geoffrey Holme.
Stock no. 1830406
Published by The Studio Limited. 1st 1934. Almost very good condition.

A Challenge to the Producer. Industrial Design. Green cloth boards, black title to spine, black pattern to front board. B/w photos. 160 pages. Boards a little marked, rubbed at edges and lightly worn to corners. Endpapers and text block browned. Some foxing present. Slight tobacco odour present.

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SELECTED POEMS
Written by W.B. Yeats. Illustrated by Jack B. Yeats.
Stock no. 1830342
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1998. Nearly fine condition.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour plates from paintings by Jack B. Yeats. xxvii and 228 pages. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.

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THE ART OF TAXIDERMY
Written by Jane Eastoe.
Stock no. 1330183
Published by Pavilion Books. 1st 2012. Nearly fine condition.

A striking and thought-provoking exploration of the fine art of taxidermy. Black glazed pictorial boards. 160 pages. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 9781862059870. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners.

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ROLAND PENROSE: THE LIFE OF A SURREALIST
Written by James King.
Stock no. 1830234
Published by Edinburgh University Press. 1st 2016. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The first biography of Roland Penrose, one of the great English-born practitioners of modernism in the twentieth century. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Yellow endpapers. B/w photos. 328 pages including index. ISBN: 9781474414500. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-rubbed else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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AUREL STEIN ON THE SILK ROAD
Written by Susan Whitfield.
Stock no. 1830222
Published by Serindia Publications. 1st 2004. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Evocatively illustrated account of the intrepid adventures and amazing discoveries of the great explorer and archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein, who travelled the Silk Road nearly a century ago in the footsteps of Alexander the Great and the seventh-century Buddhist pilgrim monk Xuanzang. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. 143 pages including index. ISBN: 1932476113. 1cm crease to cloth at top front edge of spine else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine and lightly scuffed.

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