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Dore Ashton | Yes, but … | Viking | 1976 | 670793884 No jacket, boards are foxed, spine is almost unreadable. The book has been exposed to damp at some time, with some crinkling to the corners of the opening pages, & offset from the spine’s cloth binding on the front endpapers. Some clippings on Guston are loosely inserted. Name label on the ffep, apparently covering over some earlier ownership mark. | £50
Freddie Baer; Peter Lamborn Wilson (pref.) | Ecstatic Incisions | AK | 1992 | 01873176600 Light wear to cover & edge. | £50
William Blake | Illustrations of the Book of Job | Methuen | 1904 | Boards are worn & marked, with loss to extremities of spine. Label on spine is worn & rubbed. Name on ffep. A previous owner has numbered each plate in pencil in the upper right hand corner of the page, well away from the illustration itself. | £100
William Blake; Meira Perry-Lehmann (ed.) | There was a Man in the Land of Uz | Israel Museum | 1992 | Reproductions of Blake’s engravings, watercolours & studies for the Book of Job. Text in English & Hebrew. White jacket is lightly marked, blue lettering faded on its spine. Some wear to edges of boards. | £30
Derek Boshier | Flikker Book No 9 | Alecto | 1972 | Cover rather worn & scuffed. Lower edge lightly marked. Book a little bowed. | £75
Patrick Eliot; Bill Hare; Andrew Wilson | Boyle Family | National Galleries of Scotland | 2003 | 9781903278437 Rather worn copy with sunned spine, bumped lower corner, signed by all four members of the Boyle Family. | £50
Peter Davies | Bratby | Old Bakehouse Publications | 2002 | 9781874538745 Signed by author. | £35
John Bratby | John Bratby RA | Millinery Works | 1999 | A 63 x 15 cm sheet of light card, folded in three. Contains a brief text on Bratby by LS & a personal recollection of the artist by JHR. | £50
John Bratby; Betty Middleton-Sandford (intr.) | John Bratby: 30 Years Retrospective | Sandford Gallery | 1980 | White unlaminated cover is lightly foxed/marked. | £50
John Bratby; Catherine Smith (intr.) | Sixteen Sweet Somethings | Stables Theatre and Art Gallery | 2000 | Stapled booklet. Its white back cover is foxed. There is also some foxing to the edges of the pages. | £50
Ian Breakwell, Colin Rhodes | Ian Breakwell: Textworks 1966-1999 | Loughborough | 1999 | 01900856425 Unlaminated cover is a little foxed/marked. | £15
Gian Carlo Calza | Ukiyo-E | Phaidon | 2007 | 9780714847948 Card bound book in jacket. Minor wear to jacket, most evident at top edge. Outer edge of jacket sunned. | £50
Anthony Caro; Alastair Grieve (intr.) | Anthony Caro: Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Festival 1973 | Norfolk & Norwich Triennial Festival | 1973 | Folded sheet with two columns of text & 20 small monochrome photos of Caro’s sculptures. | £30
Anthony Caro | Neue Eisenplastiken / Recent Sculpture | Galerie Andre Emmerich | 1974 | Rather worn stapled booklet. Cover is worn & foxed, lower outer corner is bowed. | £15
Charles Biederman | The New Cezanne | Red Wing | 1958 | First edition in worn, marked jacket. The book itself is in close to very good condition, with a light mark on the top edge of the page-block, foxing on the endpapers, & some wear to the edges of the cloth cover. | £50
Jill Cook | Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind | British Museum Press | 2013 | 9780714123332 In unclipped jacket. Minor wear to jacket. Top edge of pageblock lightly foxed. | £90
John Craxton; Patrick Leigh Fermor (intr.) | John Craxton: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings 1980-1985 | Christopher Hull Gallery | 1985 | Minor wear to cover, small skinned patch on back cover where a label has been removed. | £50
Joanna Drew; Michael Harrison; David Attenborough | Miniature African Sculptures from the Herman Collection | Arts Council of Great Britain | 1985 | 0728704544 Predominantly white cover rather worn & marked, impression of old pencilled price on first page. | £100
Mary Anne Aytoun Ellis | Thinking Places | Portland Gallery | 2009 | Some wear to cover. Price list loosely inserted. | £50
David Evans (ed.) | Appropriation | Whitechapel Gallery | 2009 | 9780262550703 A couple of creases to spine. | £75
J.J. Fox & T.H. Bowles | The Analysis of Pigments, Paints & Varnishes | Ernest Benn | 1927 | Hardback/no dj. Good. Grey boards rather worn at top and foot of spine and corners. Spine slightly faded but blue lettering still clear and well-defined. Top of page edges dusty and a little foxed. Some foxing to eps. Crossed-out name on fep. Ready to post in UK. | £35
Gilbert & George; Marco Livingstone (intr.) | The World of Gilbert & George | Enitharmon | 2001 | Minor wear from previous storage/display. | £30
Philip Guston; Michael Auping | Philip Guston Retrospective | Royal Academy of Arts | 2003 | 9781903973493 Light wear to cover & edge | £50
Roger Hilton | Roger Hilton May 1960 | Waddington Galleries | 1960 | Lightly pencilled initials at top corner of front panel. Corners of thin book are bowed. | £30
Roland Jarvis | Roland Jarvis: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings | Fleet Gallery | n.d. | Back cover marked. Price list from exhibition loosely inserted. | £30
Guy Atkins | Asger Jorn : the Final Years 1965 – 1973 | Lund Humphries | 1980 | Hardback in jacket, damp stain on front endpaper, small ink / paint marks on edge, paper becoming foxed. | £200
Peter Lanyon | Peter Lanyon Paintings, Drawings and Constructions 1937-64 | Whitworth Art Gallery | 1978 | Cover sunned around spine, old Tate Gallery price label on rear panel. | £15
Robert O. Lenkiewicz | Observations on Local Vagrancy Plymouth | Ferns | n.d. | 903516020 Stapled booklet with stain at top corner of spine & a light crease to the front cover & first page. Includes a brief fold-out questionnaire on vagrancy. Shakespearian quotations have been written in ink on three otherwise blank pages at the beginning & end of the book: the handwriting does not appear to be Lenkiewicz’s. A price list for Lenkiewicz’s vagrancy paintings has been loosely inserted. | £250
Russell Ferguson et al. | Christian Marclay | Steidl | 2003 | 3882439319 Some wear to cover & edge, front cover set forward. | £40
Barry Martin | Barry Martin | Rigo | 2003 | Three statements by the artist in English & Croatian translation, 14 colour reproductions of artwork, & a colour photograph of Martin & Teeny Duchamp playing chess: details of this last item have been pasted onto the facing page. | £30
Vincent Moleta | Exhibition of Italian Art Books | Aeolian Press | 2010 | No. 69 of an edition of 400. Unlaminated cover is lightly worn & marked. | £50
Jane Morris [compiler] | Directory of Artists: Space Open Studios, London, 1975 | Space Open Studios | 1975 | Ringbound publication. Photos, CVs & statements for artists based at Somers Town Depot, Old St Patrick’s School, 124-130 Tabernacle St, Bombay Wharf, 79-89 Lots Rd, New Crane & Metropolitan Wharves, 71 Stepney Green, 10 Martello St, Charlton House Studio, 1 Cahill St, The Dairy, Ravenscroft Studios & 18 Phipp St. Artists listed include Susan Hiller, Brian Catling & COUM. | £50
Paul Morrison | Haematoxylon | Irish Museum of Modern Art | 2003 | 1903811201 Black boards are scuffed. Internally in very good condition. | £50
Malcolm Haslam | William Staite Murray | Crafts Council | 1984 | 0903798794 Faint impression of old pencilled price on ffep. | £40
Eric Newton | British Sculpture 1944-1946 | John Tiranti | 1947 | In unclipped jacket. The top edge of the first couple of pages has been slightly roughly cut. | £15
An-Yi Pan: Contemporary Taiwanese Art in the Era of Contention. Taipei Fine Arts Museum/ Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2004. 9570169273. Oversized paperback. Catalogue published to accompany exhibition of same name. Parallel English/Chinese text. Illustrated. Good. Cover is rather worn, particularly on lower edge front cover. Corners bumped. Lower corner front cover creased. Gift inscription on title page which also has set off from yellow inside front cover. Tiny closed nick in top of edge of contents page. Edge of page block a little grubby. Dispatched first class from UK within 2 working days. (Stock ref 373) £55
Simon Patterson | Republicans | Third Eye Centre | 1989 | Card covered booklet in jacket. | £50
Rob Perree | Cover to Cover: the Artist’s Book in Perspective | NAi Publishers | 2002 | 905662282X Very light wear to cover. | £250
Tom Phillips | A Humument: First Revised Edition | Thames & Hudson | 1987 | Signed by Tom Phillips on the ffep. Some wear to jacket, with a little loss to top edge. Label trace on rear panel. Outer edge of page-block lightly marked. | £65
Alan Reynolds; Michael Harrison | Alan Reynolds | Kettle’s Yard | 2003 | 1904561020 Brief inscription from artist (first name only) on reverse of cover. Some wear to edges. | £100
John Richardson | The Sorcerer’s Apprentice | Jonathan Cape | 1999 | 9780224050562 Hardback in unclipped jacket. This copy is from the library of a working artist, & there are a couple of small blobs of paint on the edge of the jacket & cover. | £15
Alan Riddell | Typewriter Art | London Magazine Editions | 1975 | 0900626992 Unclipped dustjacket is worn & badly scuffed, with what looks like some damage from a label having been clumsily removed. The pale cover of the book itself has picked up a few small marks, & is a little worn at the extremities of its spine. | £1,000
The Robert Moore Collection of Fine and Important Korean Ceramics. Thursday, October 16, 1986 | Christie’s New York | 1986 | Pressure marks on back cover of jacket where book has been used as a writing surface. Price list loosely inserted. | £35
Toshio Saeki | Reve Eclarte | Cornelius | 2016 | 9782360811069 Light wear to corners of jacket, top corners & lower edge of boards a little bumped. | £200
Emil Schumacher, Jens Christian Jensen, Andreas Franzke, Luigi Cavadini | Emil Schumacher | Fidia | 1994 | Two-volume set in worn slipcase. A few marks on white covers of books. Faint trace of an old pencilled price on ffep of vol 1, ownership signature on half-title page. Text pages & plates in very good condition. | £40
Paolo Soleri | Visionary Cities | Praeger | 1970 | Some wear to cover & edge. | £30
Clyfford Still; Seymour H. Knox, Gordon M. Smith, Katharine Kuh (intrs) | Clyfford Still: Thirty-three Paintings in the Albright-Knox Gallery | Buffalo Fine Arts Academy | 1966 | No jacket, some wear to cover, endpapers foxed, name on ffep. | £30
William Tucker | Space Illusion Sculpture | Mains | 1974 | Stapled pamphlet. White cover has picked up some marks. Outer edge of page-block foxed. | £50
Cy Twombley; Sally Yard [intr.] | Cy Twombly | C&M Arts | 1994 | Pale cloth cover has picked up a few marks; book is a little slant, with back cover set forward. No problem with text pages or plates. | £30
Michael Upton; Jane Hamilton | Michael Upton: Paintings from the Studio Estate | David Messum Fine Art | n.d. | 9781905883387 Minor wear to cover & edge. | £30
Joao Vieira | 25 Anos de Trabalho | &etc | 1985 | Paperback. PORTUGUESE TEXT ONLY. Blue cover rather worn and grubby, several thumb marks, corners bumped. Generously illustrated, with biography and texts by E.M. de Melo e Castro & Ernesto de Sousa among others. PORTUGUESE TEXT ONLY. | £50
James Faure Walker | James Faure Walker | Whitworth Art Gallery | 1985 | Thin stapled booklet with some external wear. | £30
H. S. Ede | Alfred Wallis, 17th July to 11th August 1962, Piccadilly Gallery | William G. Ridler | 1962 | Eight page stapled catalogue for the second gallery exhibition of Wallis’s work, following one shared with Christopher Wood in 1950, consisting of an introduction by Ede, an unsigned biographical note, three black & white reproductions of his paintings, & the list of 52 works on display. A typed price list for 10 of the paintings is loosely inserted.The top edge of the catalogue is a little crinkled. | £50
John C. Welchman (ed.) | Sculpture and the Vitrine | Ashgate | 2013 | 9781409435273 In lightly worn jacket. | £40
Rose Wylie | Twink & Ivy, and Other Paintings and Small Drawings 1999-2003 | R&R | 2004 | 0954665600 Minor external wear. A sticker with the logo of the Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells, has been rather wonkily added to the publishing information page directly under its acknowledgement there. | £50