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Hardcover. Rochester, Chase Brothers Company, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible tan cloth covers, 134 pages. Illustrated with beautiful, bright, full color illustrations and blow-in sheets of flowers and fruit. A fine, bright copy. No date but appears to be early 1900s.

Hardcover. New Castle DE, Oak Knoll, 1st, 2004, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A History of the Eragny Press, 1894-1914, is a full and exceptionally well-researched account of the Press. It begins with a brief survey of Lucien Pissarro's early career in France in order to establish the influences and motivations for his book designs and proceeds to examine Lucien's association with Charles Ricketts, the establishment of the Eragny Press, and the Press' relationship to the publishers Hacon & Ricketts. Eragny was not a commercial publisher, yet profits was an important motivation for the Pissarros. Included here is the first major account for a private press of the costs of production, profits, and marketing and distribution practices. Eragny Press books were promoted and sold in England, the Continent, and the United States. Two of the Eragny Press books were the results of commissions from French bibliophile clubs. This history of the Eragny Press includes a discussion of the influences and artistic theories that are the basis for the Pissarros' books and provides a critical reassessment of their significance within the history of the English Arts and Crafts Private Press movement. About half the book is devoted to an exhaustive and detailed bibliography of all the Eragny Press publications, with critical commentary on each. Accompanying the text and the descriptive bibliography are more than seventy-five reproductions of rare Eragny wood engravings ( by Lucien Pissarro, T. Sturge Moore, and others), title pages, borders and decorated initials, binding papers, and book covers. A History of the Eragny Press, 1894-1914, is an important book for anyone interested in the history of printing, the Arts and Crafts movement, Impressionism, private presses, the art of wood engraving, and illustrated and fine books.

Hardcover. London, England, Macmillan and Co. , 2nd Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 503 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, some chipping to edges of boards. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Binding very good. Spine straight. Benedetto Croce is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His work in aesthetics and historiography has been controversial, but enduring.

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. Color and black & white images throughout. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. Alison Jackson has photographed the Queen of England on the toilet, George Bush and Tony Blair chatting in the sauna, Mick Jagger doing gymnastics, and Monica Lewinsky lighting Bill Clinton's cigar. Or has she? The likenesses are uncanny, but of course, her subjects are look-alikes. Her photos demonstrate that while seeing is believing, the truth is another story entirely. In her work, Jackson says, "Likeness becomes real and fantasy touches on the believable. The viewer is suspended in disbelief. I try to highlight the psychological relationship between what we see and what we imagine. This is bound up in our need to look--our voyeurism--and our need to believe." Indeed, by showing "celebrities" ostensibly caught unawares, Jackson's pictures show us what we imagine might go on behind closed doors. Jackson's work causes controversy, because it threatens to cross the line between the private and public life of our contemporary icons. Because we unquestioningly accept the authenticity of the photograph, it would appear that we are being given a glimpse of something confidential, a private moment. It is only upon closer examination that we question the reality of the image, and hopefully this makes us question our unwitting tendency to believe everything we see in the media today.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. Roger Fenton (1819-1869) was England's most celebrated and influential photographer during the 1850s, the "golden age" of this radically new medium. Fenton's majestic pictures of cathedrals, country houses, and varied countryside were without peer in England--as were his views of the royal castles and Houses of Parliament that embodied Britain's power. But Fenton's choice of subjects ranged more widely still: he was among the first to photograph the Kremlin and other landmarks of Moscow and Kiev; he was commissioned in 1855 to document the Crimean War, producing early war photographs; and he created theatrical Orientalist costume pictures and a startling series of lush still lifes. Fenton had first studied law and painting, but soon after he took up the camera he was making photographs that were technically superb and highly original in their handling of composition, perspective, atmosphere, and light. Always he strove to demonstrate that photography could equal the art of painting and even surpass it. He was the force behind the founding of the Photographic Society (later the Royal Photographic Society), which worked to advance the profession and encouraged the exhibition of members' works throughout Britain. In a career of a single decade, Fenton did much to transform photography into a medium of powerful expression and visual delight. This exquisitely produced book--the first comprehensive publication on Fenton in almost twenty years--presents eighty-five of the artist's finest photographs and discusses every aspect of his work and his remarkable career.

Hardcover. London, The Fine Arts Society, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages, hardcover. Decorated boards with gilted top text block. Illustrated by Elizabeth M. Chettle. Homes and memorials of the founders of Virginia, the New England states, and Pennsylvania. Also includes the universities of Harvard and Yale, the first president of the United States and other illustrious Americans. Fading and edgewear to spine. Light bumping to corners with mild fraying. Moderate spotting to text block edges. Weak spine at front endpapers. Unmarked. A clean copy.

Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright duct jacket, 251 pages, b&w illustrations. For years, designers, educators, and community administrators have clamored for a book that will highlight the problems with contemporary playgrounds, tender sorely needed strategies with which to redress them, and stimulate national debate about today's crisis of undervalued public space. Susan Solomon's groundbreaking and marvelously illustrated American Playgrounds is that book. Since the 1970s, Solomon maintains, American playgrounds have degenerated into irrelevance as cultural artifacts and educational tools. Imbedded in Solomon's text is a frank indictment of American attitudes that are stunted by a heavy-handed emphasis on safety that limits the nature of play and the vitality of places for public assembly. During the past decade an elite few American architects, landscape architects, and sculptors, including Stanley Saitowitz, Walter Hood, and Mary Miss, have pioneered the restoration of aesthetic and developmental values to play areas for young people. Solomon appraises these success stories and proposes fresh and urgent remedies that blend excellent design principles, innovative planning, and affordability-a vision for the future of the playground in America. Supplementing her impeccable command of primary and secondary sources with hundreds of hours of interviews with designers and clients, the author confronts a seriously under-developed topic with powerful and complex arguments rich in social history, law, theories of play and childhood, and urbanism. Readers will be inspired-and equipped-to take up the gauntlet of advocacy for superior American playgrounds. Clean copy.

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover set. Two volumes in a cardboard slipcase, 344, 300 pages. Illustrated with b&w photographs throughout. Vol. 1 covers New England, Vol. 2 - The Middle Colonies and the South. Clean, tight copies.

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 345 pages. 272 black and white illustrations and frontispiece in color. Folio 14" x 10 1/4". Sturdy blue textured cloth stamped in gilt on spine. 3 Appendices: 1. Intro to English edtion of 1749 Albinus's "Table of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body". 2. text of "The Anatomy of the Horse". Good dust jacket worn at edges, closed tears.

Softcover. London, Barbican Art Gallery, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages. Color photos throughout. A collection of photographs chosen from Eggleston's earliest photographs taken in the American South and through to his most recent work in England. William Eggleston (born 1939) was a pioneer in exploring the artistic potential of color photography. Eggleston made a name for himself with his eccentric, unexpected compositions of everyday life that were nonetheless rife with implied narrative, elevating the commonplace to art. William Eggleston, born in 1939 in Memphis, is one of the most important contemporary American photographers. From the 1970s onwards, his work has significantly contributed to the recognition of color photography as an artistic medium.

Hardcover. New York, Brentano's Publishers, reprint, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. 1 of 1000 copies. Color and b&w illustrations by the subject throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Illustrated frontispiece. Decorative stain to top edge. Edge wear to top and bottom edge. Minor stains and shelf wear. Foxing throughout. Otherwise, clean tight copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Zodiaque, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 374 pages plus index. Color, b&w gravure photographs, plans of churches, cathedrals, abbeys and monasteries in England. Text in French. Ribbon marker.

Hardcover. London, Country Life, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete, large folio (15" X 12"). 344 and 361 pages plus 100 appendix and index pages. pale green cloth with gilt lettering and design, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece in Volume II, profusely illustrated with about 700 b&w illustrations, plans and drawings. Clean, bright set. First edition of Arthur T. Bolton's monumental monograph on the architecture of Robert (1728-1792) and James Adam (1732-1794), two Scottish brothers who were renowned neoclassical architects, interior and furniture designers.

Hardcover. England, Antique Collectors Club , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 63 color plates, 56 b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 245 pages. B&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Decorated endpapers. Decorative pink stain to top edge. Private library stamp on front endpaper. Otherwise clean. Entertaining recount of the pivotal battle of the Crimean War. Includes bibliography & index. Excellent collection of period photographs and artwork.

Softcover. Millbank, Tate Gallery Publications, Reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages. Softcover. Light marginal wear to edges. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Cover photograph of the artist's workshop in full color. Clean & unmarked.

Softcover. South Yorkshire, Pen and Sword, reprint, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages, b&w illustrations. Even before she emerged from the cot in her nursery Beatrix Potter was up against it. With her prodigious memory she recalled being placed under the tyranny of a cross old nurse who introduced her to witches, fairies and the creed of the terrible John Calvin. More sadness followed. She had no siblings of her own age and was brought up virtually in isolation. She was afflicted by two most unpleasant illnesses one of which has not previously been recognized - and she found herself often at odds with her mother. She also had a love affair that ended tragically.

Softcover. Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1st, 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 119 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Blue pictorial stiff wrappers. Lovely copy. Like new.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. Oversized. Black cloth cover, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has some wear to corners and edges, small faint smudge. Inside is bright and clean. Many b&w photographs throughout. A nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Price clipped dust jacket with light wear to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 327 pages, illustrations in color. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 260 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Lucian Freud's paintings are instantly recognizable: often shocking and disturbing, his portraits convey a profound yet compelling sense of discomfort. Freud was twice married and the father of at least a dozen children, and his numerous relationships with women were the subject of much gossip-but the man himself remained a mystery. An intensely private individual (during his lifetime he prevented two planned biographies from being published), Freud's life, as well as his art, invites questions that have had no answer-until now.In Breakfast with Lucian, Geordie Greig, one of a few close friends who regularly had breakfast with the painter during the last years of his life, tells an insider's account-accessible, engaging, revealing-of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating, enigmatic, and controversial artists. Greig, who has studied his subject's work at length, unravels the tangled thread of a life lived on Freud's own uncompromising terms. Based on private conversations in which Freud held forth on everything from first love to gambling debts to the paintings of Velazquez, and informed by interviews with friends, lovers, and some of the artist's children who have never before spoken publicly about their relationships with the painter, this is a deeply personal memoir that is illuminated by a keen appreciation of Freud's art.

Hardcover. London, Frances Lincoln, 1st, 2011, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 255 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Brenda Colvin (1897-1981) ranks with Sylvia Crowe and Geoffrey Jellicoe as a pioneer of twentieth-century landscape design in Britain. This first full account of her life and work demonstrates her importance. Early in her career Colvin visited the USA to see the new civic landscaping projects, especially the parkways. In England she transformed the landscapes of power stations, reservoirs, industrial sites, new towns and national parks and worked on private gardens. Her simple planting style and her ecological approach had enormous influence. NOTE: There is a very mild ripple/wave throughout the pages, otherwise a clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.