Modern Painters: A quarterly journal of the Fine Arts. Spring 1994. Cover picture - Picasso as Sculptor. [See photos for list of contributors and articles.]
Glossy periodical. Very clean fresh copy. Very slight curl to tips of covers. More
Fine Art
Artforum: 4 odd issues (can split): 1983 April. Vol XXI No.8, Eric Fischl cover; 1983 May. Vol XXI No.9 Special issue, 'Mother love in monkeys' cover; 1983 Summer (June). Vol XXI No.10, Chantal Akerman cover; and 1988 April, with Bruce Charlesworth cover.
New York: Artforum, 1983, 1988. Softcover. The contents of these four issues are clean and fresh, with minimal wear to covers, except that the 1983 Summer issue has a large crease across the bottom corner of its front cover, the contents page and first few advertisement pages. [EXTRA Heavy Item]..... More
Information. [Catalogue of the groundbreaking summer 1970 exhibition of Conceptual Art at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.]
New York: MOMA / Museum of Modern Art, 1970. First edition. Softcover. Internally good copy with damaged covers. [iii], 207pp, profusely illustrated in monochrome. Contents clean and unmarked. 10.75x8.25ins, with some light soiling to the closed edges. In the slightly soiled green pictorial card covers, whose exposed surfaces were heavily..... More
![Francis Bacon: Oeuvres Recentes. Galerie Claude Bernard - Paris 1977. [Signed by Bacon]. Francis...](/pictures/thumb/19770090.jpg?v=1599790684)
Francis Bacon: Oeuvres Recentes. Galerie Claude Bernard - Paris 1977. [Signed by Bacon]
Paris: Galerie Claude Bernard, 1977. Softcover. Softcover exhibition catalogue, 29x21.5cms (wider than A4). With Leiris' 9-page essay 'Le Grand Jeu de Francis Bacon', and superbly illustrated with plates of all but the last 4 works listed, and including 3 large foldouts of triptychs, in addition to the one reproduced on..... More
The Lights and Shades of Morning Life. Illustrated by Ten Etchings after recent Academy and other Paintings and Drawings by Eminent Artists: with Critical and Descriptive notes by the late James Reid.
Leeds: Richard Jackson, 1888. First and only edition, limited to 350 copies. Hardcover. #98/350. xiv, 55pp, plus the 10 guarded plates of children, each with a facing caption page. With etchings after Millais, Grossmith, Hedley (2), Scannell, Morgan, Thomas, Stocks, Gore, and Williams. Contents in lovely condition, firm, clean and..... More
The Walberswick Influence: Selected works from the Studio Estate of Lionel Bulmer, 1919-1992. Exhibition catalogue.
London: Messum's, 2002. Booklet. 32pp, with many illustrations in colour, and an introduction by Ian Collins. 23.5x21cms, in pictorial card covers. All in very bright fresh condition, as new, with small scuffs to the spine ends. More
The Shaman's Mirror. Visionary Art of the Huichol.
Austin: University of Texas, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. xii, 284pp, illustrated in colour and monochrome. Unread copy: contents fresh, as new. Explores Huichol yarn paintings in particular, and their transition from sacred offerings to tourist art. 23.5x16cms, in the original binding of blue cloth, spine titled in gilt. Bright, square..... More
Old Leaves Turning. Chinese Album Leaves and Fan Paintings of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Two volumes in slipcase.
London: Sydney L. Moss Ltd., 1995. First edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. The two volumes consecutively paginated: 377pp, + 2 maps. Quarto, with many plates. In the original maroon boards, with dustjackets. In fine condition in the red cloth slipcase. All as new. [EXTRA Heavy Item]. More
Feathered Favourites. Twelve coloured pictures of British Birds, from drawings by Joseph Wolf.
London: Thomas Bosworth, 1854. Hardcover. [vi], 54pp, plus the 12 guarded plates. Each chromolithograph is followed by poems by various authors celebrating the species depicted. In intensely coloured roundels of about 6cms diameter, within a gilt circle, Wolf's illustrations vividly depict birds in their natural setting. Set within a wreath..... More
![Bryan`s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. [Complete in 5 vols.]. revised and Michael Bryan,...](/pictures/thumb/19139090.jpg?v=1572107513)
Bryan`s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. [Complete in 5 vols.]
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1913. New edition. Hardcover. xii, 364; x, 291; xvi, 393; xvi, 308; xviii, 425. With many monochrome plates. Contents clean, with some foxing to prelims, final pages and closed foredges, and with foxing to a few pages and plates. Quarto, 28x21cms, top edge gilt, in..... More
Blank Page: The full run of 6 volumes.
London: B4 Publishing: Philip Dobree & Adrian Self:, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991. Limited Edition of 150 copies. [first and only printing]. Hardcover. A very nice complete set. Unpaginated: each volume 42.3x30cms, in the original printed paper-covered boards, containing tipped-in tissue-guarded signed prints in various media, each by a different artist..... More
![Andy Warhol 1956-86: Mirror of his time. [English and Japanese text]. Margery King Callie Angell,...](/pictures/thumb/19963030.jpg?v=1556029055)
Andy Warhol 1956-86: Mirror of his time. [English and Japanese text]
Pittsburgh and Japan: The Andy Warhol Museum, and The Asahi Shimbun, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 318pp, with many illustrations. Contents clean and unmarked. Large quarto, in pictorial boards with yellow spine, in an unusual binding with the text block in black card covers anchored only at the rear joint, so..... More
![The Adorable Plot. Paintings and writings about garden allotments. [Signed copy]. Tessa Newcomb,...](/pictures/thumb/20129010.jpg?v=1549307775)
The Adorable Plot. Paintings and writings about garden allotments. [Signed copy]
Bristol: Sansom & Company, 2012. First edition. Paperback. 96pp, richly illustrated in colour. The title sounds as though this could be an anthology, but the paintings and, after the introduction, the writings, are all by Newcomb. Quarto glossy paperback, 27x21cms, in fresh, unread condition. Brings together her art, her sly..... More
Artforum: 1984 February. Vol XXII No.6, with Joel Peter Witkin cover.
New York: Artforum, 1984. Softcover. The contents clean and fresh, with minimal wear to cover. More
Artforum: 5 odd issues (can split): 1983 September. Vol XXII No.1, Brice Marden cover; 1983 October. Vol XXII No.2, Jannis Kounellis cover; 1983 November. Vol XXII No.3, Joan Miro cover; 1984 January. Vol XXII No.5, Pontus Hulten & Jean Tinguely cover. 1984 March. Vol XXII No.7, Robert Colescott cover.
New York: Artforum, 1983, 1984. Softcover. The contents of these five issues are clean, with some degree of rippling from former damp towards the upper corners. The covers are clean, with minimal wear, although March 1984 has a crease to the back cover. [EXTRA Heavy Item]. More
Artforum: 3 odd issues: 1980 May. Vol XVIII No.9, Marcel Broodhaers cover; 1981 Summer (June). Vol XIX No.10, Coffeeshop cups cover; 1982 September. Vol XXI No.1, Forum portrait cover.
New York: Artforum, 1980, 1981, 1982. Softcover. The contents of these three issues are clean, with slight rippling from former damp, and with light wear to the covers. The 1981 Summer issue is rather more rippled, with a heavy scuff to the fore-edge of its front cover, and the 1982..... More
Artforum: 3 odd issues (can split): 1978 October. Vol XVII No.2, David Diao cover; 1980 November. Vol XIX No.3, Scott Burton cover; 1982 Summer (June). Vol XX No.10, Robert Mangold cover.
New York: Artforum, 1978, 1980, 1982. Softcover. Contents clean and fresh in all three issues. 1978 October is VG+, the 1980 November Scott Burton cover has edge and spine scuffs and a big crease to the wide fore-edge border, and the 1982 Summer issue is about Fine. [Heavy Item]. More
Artforum: 1969 February. Vol VII No.6, with Richard Serra cover.
New York: Artforum, 1969. Softcover. Contents clean and fresh. Covers have short split to bottom 2" of spine, some soiling to back cover, front cover slightly rubbed, with top corner bent, and writing in biro under the title. Good copy of a scarce issue. More
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LIving Arts 1 [aka LIving Arts I]
London: Institute of Contemporary Art / ICA, 1963. First edition. Softcover. 107pp, illustrated in monochrome, and with excellent articles concerning themselves with music, film, photography and poetry as well as painting and sculpture, and followed by a few pages of advertisements. Most of the first page [pp1-2] has been neatly..... More
Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland.
London: William Tegg, n.d. [c.1870]. A New and Complete Edition. Hardcover. xxxiv, [ii], 486, [2], [4] adverts. Many engravings in the text. Inner joints discreetly repaired. A few pages circa p333 have some foxing to the margin. p.xiii/xiv has an edge repair, and there is a little damage to the..... More
![Tessa Newcomb [Signed copy]. [fyi - nb: 'Pristine Perceptions (or Pristine Visions): the Art of...](/pictures/thumb/20103040.jpg?v=1548941250)
Tessa Newcomb [Signed copy]. [fyi - nb: 'Pristine Perceptions (or Pristine Visions): the Art of Tessa Newcomb' was the proposed title, changed just prior to publication, but it still often shows online (viz amazon) with an image of the never-used cover.]
Bath: Sansom, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. 128pp, with many illustrations. Half title signed 'Tessa Newcomb 2010'. An immaculate, unread (pristine) copy in dust jacket. More
Transforming.
London: Fine Art Society, 2013. First and only edition. Hardcover. 335pp, richly illustrated in colour. A conspectus of the couple's extraordinary work over 15 years. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at The Fine Art Society Contemporary, London, 4 October-2 November 2013. Contents fresh and unmarked: (light 1cm..... More
Looking Closely: A Private Collection. Evening Auction in London 10 February 2011. [Includes the Francis Bacon Triptych wraparound.]
London: Sotheby's, 2011. Softcover. 200pp, richly illustrated in colour, with some foldouts. Softcover, 11.5"x9", with grey card covers illustrated with the Lucian Freud self-portrait on the front and the Dali portrait of Paul Elouard on the back: but this copy also includes the glossy card wraparound which reproduces the Francis..... More
Candice Breitz: The Scripted Life.
Bregenz: Walther König, KUB Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. 231pp, illustrated. German and English text. Catalogue Raisonné Video Installations 1999-2010. Fine and unmarked in the original binding of red cloth. More
The Seeing Eye: Michael Kitson: Critical Writings on Art, Renaissance to Romanticism.
London: Mnemosyne Art History Press (MAH):, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. x, 182, illustrated in colour. New unread copy. Quarto, In the original green cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright and firm, corners sharp, foot of spine slightly blunted. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, bright and crisp. Lovely..... More