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Item #19852110 A Salute to British Surrealism 1930-1950. Catalogue to the exhibition which showed...

With an Introducton by James Birch, Jonathan Blond and Jeremy Theophilus, and with essays by George Melly (Foreword), Michel Remy (Was the Snark really a Boojum?), and Louisa Buck (The Writings of the British Surrealist Group); plus a 1936 poem by David Gascoyne, and a 1942 tailpiece by Conroy Maddox.

A Salute to British Surrealism 1930-1950. Catalogue to the exhibition which showed at the Minories in Colchester, Blond Fine Art in London, and Ferens Art Gallery in Hull.

Colchester: The Minories, 1985. Softcover. 48pp, with text and monochrome illustrations. 29.5x21cms, in glossy covers illustrated in colour. Includes a two-page detailed time-line of Surrealism in England, 1924-1951. The 30 artists represented each have a page with a photo of one of their works, a list of their works in..... More

Price: £50.00

Item #19782100 [Dora] Carrington, Paintings, drawings and decorations. Noel Carrington, Sir John...

Noel Carrington, with a foreword by Sir John Rothenstein:

[Dora] Carrington, Paintings, drawings and decorations.

Oxford: Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1978. Limited Edition (100): unnumbered copy, signed by Noel Carrington. hardcover in slipcase. 95pp, + signed limitation page; pictorial endpapers. Text and many illustrations, some in colour, showing both her work and photographs of herself and friends. Fine copy (21x19cms) in the original quarter binding of..... More

Price: £75.00

Item #19952060 The Stations of the Cross, by Norman Adams RA, in Manchester's Hidden Gem. (St....

Foreword by Sir Philip Dowson, President of the Royal Academy of Arts, and with introductory pieces by Father Denis Clinch of St.Mary's, by Sister Wendy Beckett, Norman Adams, and Anna Adams.

The Stations of the Cross, by Norman Adams RA, in Manchester's Hidden Gem. (St. Mary's).

Manchester: St. Mary's (The Hidden Gem), 1995. Softcover. [40]pp. A4 large format, 29.5x20.5cms. Produced to commemorate the installation of Adams' fourteen paintings in the Church. The images, and L.S.Lowry's sketch of St Mary's, are reproduced in colour, and are preceded by the contributors' text. Contents clean and unmarked. Laid in..... More

Price: £45.00

Item #19391050 Picasso: Master of the Phantom. Robert Melville

Robert Melville:

Picasso: Master of the Phantom.

London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. [x], 52pp, illustrated with a photograph of Picasso by Dora Maar as the frontis, and XI monochrome photographs of works by Picasso from the collection of Hugh Willoughby. An idiosyncratic and very personal statement, at a time when Picasso was..... More

Price: £100.00

Item #19941020 Modern Painters: A quarterly journal of the Fine Arts. Spring 1994. Cover picture...

Edited by Karen Wright. [See photos for list of contributors and articles.]

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

Price: £24.00

Item #19839011 Artforum: 4 odd issues (can split): 1983 April. Vol XXI No.8, Eric Fischl cover; ...

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

Price: £45.00

Item #19770090 Francis Bacon: Oeuvres Recentes. Galerie Claude Bernard - Paris 1977. [Signed by...

Francis Bacon: Michel Leiris.

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

Price: £2,250.00

Item #19889091 Blank Page: The full run of 6 volumes. Philip Dobree, Adrian Self

Philip Dobree and Adrian Self:

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

Price: £2,250.00

Item #19963030 Andy Warhol 1956-86: Mirror of his time. [English and Japanese text]. Margery King...

Callie Angell, Margery King, Mark Francis, Kunio Yaguchi:

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

Price: £60.00

Item #19849010 Artforum: 1984 February. Vol XXII No.6, with Joel Peter Witkin cover

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

Price: £60.00

Item #19839010 Artforum: 5 odd issues (can split): 1983 September. Vol XXII No.1, Brice Marden...

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

Price: £65.00

Item #19809010 Artforum: 3 odd issues: 1980 May. Vol XVIII No.9, Marcel Broodhaers cover; 1981...

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

Price: £15.00

Item #19789010 Artforum: 3 odd issues (can split): 1978 October. Vol XVII No.2, David Diao cover;...

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

Price: £35.00

Item #19699010 Artforum: 1969 February. Vol VII No.6, with Richard Serra cover

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

Price: £40.00

Item #20137100 Transforming. Rob and Nick Carter, an, Kate Bryan, Rob, Nick Carter

Rob and Nick Carter: with an essay by Kate Bryan.

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

Price: £950.00

Item #20117090 Looking Closely: A Private Collection. Evening Auction in London 10 February 2011....

Tobias Meyer (introduction by):

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

Price: £45.00

Item #20102058 Candice Breitz: The Scripted Life. Candice Breitz, Yilmaz Dziewior

Candice Breitz: edited by Yilmaz Dziewior:

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

Price: £25.00

Item #19954120 Art and Power. Europe under the Dictators, 1930-45. [Hardback edition]. Tim Benton...

Dawn Ades, Tim Benton, David Elliott, and Iain Boyd Whyte (compiled and selected by): with an introduction by Eric Hobsbawm and an afterword by Neal Ascherson:

Art and Power. Europe under the Dictators, 1930-45. [Hardback edition].

London: Thames and Hudson, in association with Hayward Gallery, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 360pp, illustrated in colour and monochrome. Contents fresh and clean, as new. Large quarto, in the original binding of glazed ochre cloth, spine titled in red. Bright, fresh and sharp, with slight blunting to spine ends. In..... More

Price: £90.00

Item #19914030 Virgin Oil. Nicholas DeVille

Nicholas DeVille:

Virgin Oil.

[publisher not stated], 1991. Softcover. [16]pp. A4 art-catalogue-style stapled booklet: black text and monochrome images on good quality semi-gloss paper. White card covers subtitled: 'Enacting the Biography of the Artist / Modern Genres / A Morphology of Art Language'. An Art polemic. Very fresh copy with small knock to foot..... More

Price: £30.00

Item #19893050 India, Culture and Management: the art of doing business. SVIIB Students'...

SVIIB Students' Association of the Faculty of Business Administration, and Rotterdam School of Management:

India, Culture and Management: the art of doing business.

Delft: Eburon, 1989. First edition. Paperback. viii, 271pp. Illustrated with text diagrams and 24 colour plates of work by contemporary Indian artists. The half-title bears a signed gift inscription which appears to be that of Amit Ambalal, one of the artists whose work is reproduced, and whose painting also adorns..... More

Price: £22.00

Item #19582120 The War of Liberation in the Works of Yugoslav Artists / Narodnooslobodilacka...

Toman Brajovic, edited by:

The War of Liberation in the Works of Yugoslav Artists / Narodnooslobodilacka Borba u Delima Likovnih Umetnika Jugoslavije / NOB u Delima Likovnih Umetnika Jugoslavije.

Belgrade / Beograd: Invalidski List, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Over 300pp, consisting of a foreword followed by 272 illustrations - mostly full-page, and including many tipped-in colour plates. Text and captions in both Serbian and English. Contents clean, fresh and unmarked. Large quarto, in the original half binding of..... More

Price: £70.00

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