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Tokyo: Sompo Museum of Art, 2021. Japanese text. A very good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this large soft-cover book. Issued by Sompo Museum of Art to accompany an exhibition of the work of the Japanese printmaker Kawase Hasui (or Hasui Kawase in western style) who worked between the early 1900s… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2000. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Issued to accompany and exhibition (The Scottish Colourists 1900-1930) at the Royal Academy of Arts, London and the Dean Gallery, Edinburgh between July 200 and January 2001. Looks at the work of the Scottish painters Francis Cadell,… Read more about this item

Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Publishing, 2000. Very slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Looks at the kachina (or more correctly katsina), small carved wooden figures used in the culture of the Hopi Indians, and more so at the modern Hopi carvers. Signed… Read more about this item

London: The Studio, 1935. Some creasing and tears to edges of price-clipped dustwrapper, also a piece missing at top left of front panel of same. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of light brown boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. The cartoonist David Low on his work and technique. 128pp,… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. Some creasing and a few small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of gray boards, previous owners gift message on f/ep dated 1980, possibly from the editior (... from all the Barkers...), but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim hard-cover book. Originally written in 1947 but… Read more about this item

London: Ilex, 2018. Slight scuffing to bottom edge of front cover, otherwse a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Looks at the Bauhaus art movement through 100 short pieces on the personalities, designs, ideas and events from the movement. 224pp, colour and b&w illustration throughout.. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1947. No dustwrapper (as issued: King Penguin books were only issued with dustwrppers after 1949-50, with a couple of exeptions). Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of boards, a one-inch split to the top right-hand side of the spine, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim hard-cover book, part of the publisher's… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2002. Minor scuffing to outer corners of cover, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this large-format (11" high by 9.5" across) soft-cover book. Issued to accompany the exhibition of the same title of photographic images by Calum Colvin at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh between… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1914. Brown paper dustwrapper is present, but in poor shape: torn in two at the spine,creasing and tears to the edges, and the folds of inner flaps starting to give way as well. Some wear to ends of gray cloth spine strip and to corners of gray paper-covered boards, mark on half-title where original owner's… Read more about this item

Potsdam: H F Ullmann, 2016. A small tear to bottom outer corner of front panel of unclipped dustwrapper, water-marking to back panel of same, and some old mould marks on reverse of same. But otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim hard-cover book, part of the publisher's "Masters of German Art" series. This one looks at… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1947. Minor scuffing to spine ends and corners of cover, some corrugation to outer edge of pages where water has been spilled at some point, some pages have marks at the edges where they have been stuck together but with no damage to the illustrations, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this soft-cover book, part… Read more about this item

London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1947. No dustwrapper, minor bumping to corners of paper-covered boards, original owner's gift message dated 1947 on f/ep, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim hard-cover book. Looks at twenty British paintings of the 1940s (and possibly earlier?), with emphasis on composition. 64pp, 20 full-page colour illustrations of the paintings.. First… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Very slight creasing to top edge of unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A collection of caricatures by Beerbohm of writers, artists, and dramatists; as well as politicians, royalty and others. A heavy book, packaged weight is around 1500g, so extra postage will be required from buyers… Read more about this item

Leigh-on-Sea: F Lewis (Publishers) Limited, 1937. Unclipped dustwrapper is in quite bad condition, with two large tears to top left and bottom right corners of front panel, a piece missing at top left corner of same, also wear and creasing to the edges. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of red boards, some foxing to outer pages, but… Read more about this item

London: The Herbert Press, 1991. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to spine ends of olive-green boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A collection of landscape drawings by the artist. Packaged weight is just over 1 kilo, so extra postage will be required from buyers outside the UK. 128pp,… Read more about this item

London: John Lane, 1935. Creasing and a couple of small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of buff-coloured boards, an old water-stain to outer edge of top corner of pages, some pencil marking and underlining to the introduction, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in… Read more about this item

London: Barrie & Jenkins Ltd, 1978. Minor wear to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, original owner's gift message on f/ep, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Looks at the work of British artist and illustrator Rowland Hilder. Packaged weight is just over a kilo, so… Read more about this item

London: Eyre Methuen, 1980. Some creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to spine ends and corners of black boards, otherwise a good tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the work of Charles Ricketts (1866-1931), an English artist, illustrator, typographer and stage designer. 200pp, b&w illustration throughout, also 8pp colour illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969. Price-clipped dustwrapper has creasing and tears to the edges, some bumping to spine ends and corners of brown boards, a previous owner's name on half-title, otherwise a good tight copy of this hard-cover book. The author looks at Gothic architecture and other detail as found in English mediaeval churches (in the first half of… Read more about this item

Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1998. Paperback edition. Very slight bumping to outer corners of cover, a little bit of yellowing (not from tobacco) to the outer edges of back cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this soft-cover book. Issued to accompany an exhibition of a collection of book illustrations from the mid-nineteenth century which was gathered by… Read more about this item