Hardcover. Zaltbommel NL, European Library, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth boards with black lettering to spine and front board, no dustwrapper. Old Photograph inlaid into front cover. Introduction followed by 108 old photographs (one to a page) with short caption notes. Bookplate on inside front cover, small name stamp on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Basil Blackwell, 2nd pr., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Thirty-one indexed unpaginated plates, including frontispiece. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. "Sir Muirhead Bone, the illustrator of Came To Oxford, was Britain's first officially appointed war artist, serving in both the First and Second World Wars. He is recognized as well for his portraits of Joseph Conrad, his watercolours and drawings of Old Spain, and his works recording the damage and reconstruction in his beloved England following the wars." Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Brighton UK, Alpha Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 127 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. This book examines the extraordinary metamorphosis that has occurred in the presentation of the human face during the twentieth century. A series of essays charts the portraits which are the "Milestones" to that change, while the discussion that follows - "Changing Perceptions" - endeavours to identify its nature, its causes, and to show the manner in which the artists reveal this transformation when painting their sitters. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 16 plates, 13 text maps, bibliography, index; An insightful history of Churchill's lifelong commitment-both public and private-to the Jews and Zionism, and of his outspoken opposition to anti-SemitismWinston Churchill's commitment to Jewish rights, to Zionism, and ultimately to the State of Israel never wavered. In 1922, he established on the bedrock of international law the right of Jews to emigrate to Palestine. During his meeting with David Ben-Gurion in 1960, Churchill presented the Israeli prime minister with an article he had written about Moses, praising the patriarch. In between these events he fought harder and more effectively for the Jewish people than the world has ever realized.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers stamped in blue, 294 pages. Endpapers art and b&w illustrations by Eva A. Watson. A story based on the formation of the Coat-Rolls. New England women were asked to make coats for their men fighting in the War of Independence. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY , Harper and Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Randy Gaul. dust jacket price-clipped. Four short stories: The Shade Cutter, Enemies of the Eye, Slaves of Sham, Country Pay. The tales present the adventures of itinerant artisans and tradesmiths as they travel through a small New England town in the year 1800.
Hardcover. London, Stacey International, 1st US, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A treasury of aristocratic photography from the 1850s to 1930s. England's leisured and affluent upper classes made an art form of their new picture-taking toy, creating intimate portraits of stunning beauty. Includes previously unpublished photographs discovered in dusty corners and attics of Britain's grandest houses.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, Vidal Sassoon Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 169 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Original receipt from Vidal Sassoon Shop in London, England laid-in. Book has damp odor. Light foxing to edges. Light wear.
Hardcover. New York , Nan A. Talese, 1st US, 2014-11-11, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 430 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Richard Cohen Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. Monumental biography and critical study, 810 pages, 200+ photographs, 16 pages in color. Kevin Brownlow, a film editor in his own right and author of the seminal silent film trilogy initiated with The Parade's Gone By. . ., brings to Lean's biography an exhaustive knowledge of the art and the industry. The life and its biographer provide a landmark work on the cinema. Emerging from a childhood of nearly Dickensian darkness, David Lean found his great success as a director of the appropriately titled Great Expectations.There followed his legendary black-and-white films of the 1940s and his four-film movie collaboration with Noel Coward. Lean's 1955 film Summertime took him from England to the world of international moviemaking and the stunning series of spectacular color epics that would gain for his work twenty-seven Academy Awards and fifty-six Academy Award nominations. All are classics, including The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Passage to India. Ownership name on half-title page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Germany, Taschen, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 3-vol set in slip case. Hardcovers. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Editor Dian Hanson traces the fascinating development of the genre from 1900 to 1969 in three compact, informative volumes. In Volume 1 you'll learn about the first magazines that appeared around 1900 in France, Germany, and the U.S., and follow the development of the genre through the First and Second World Wars. Covered are men's magazines masquerading as movie magazines, humor magazines, art magazines, nudist magazines, and "spicy" fiction. Volume 2 documents the proliferation of pin-up magazines following World War II, most notably a little item called Playboy that debuted in December 1953 and spawned dozens of imitators. This volume also charts the emergence of English men's magazines, fetish magazines, and the top five covergirls of the 1950s. Volume 3 begins with an explosion of new American pin-up magazines following the loosening of U.S. obscenity laws, and continues with French titles in decline, England going pervy; nudists going hippy, and Germany going pervy, hippy and political.
Hardcover. London, Cassell & Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan boards stamped in black, 82 pages with dozens of gorgeous b&w pen line drawings by Moreland. "The face of London is changing so rapidly that the time cannot be far distant when much that is recording these pages will have disappeared". As this was written in 1931, the anticipated changes came of course much sooner and much more dramatically than had been anticipated. The author has depicted Dickens' storied locations as they appeared when written. Previous owner's inscription, name stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Antique Collectors Club Dist, rep, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 455 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. England, Antiques Collectrors Club, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 520 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ex-Lib with usually stamps and markings on end papers, front fly leaf and spine. Faded dust jacket spine. Black and white illustrations throughout. Tight copy.
Softcover. New Britain, CT, New Britain Museum of American Art ; London : University Press of New England, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 84 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout. This catalogue explores the often uneasy relationship between the art of painting and the art of illustration, featuring American artists who practiced both styles of painting between 1850 and 1950. The catalogue charts the development of both types of art through the eyes of a select group of artists of who engaged in both fine art and illustration.
Softcover. New Britain, CT, New Britain Museum of American Art ; London : University Press of New England, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 84 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout. This catalogue explores the often uneasy relationship between the art of painting and the art of illustration, featuring American artists who practiced both styles of painting between 1850 and 1950. The catalogue charts the development of both types of art through the eyes of a select group of artists of who engaged in both fine art and illustration.
Hardcover. Cleveland, Collins, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs and art by Tasha Tudor. Dust jacket worn with Short closed tears along edges - dust jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. London, Pimlico , reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 570 pages. The life of the painter and designer Duncan Grant spanned great changes in society and art from Edwardian Britain to the 1970s from Alma-Tadema to Gilbert and George. This authoritative biography combines an engrossing narrative with an invaluable assessment of Grant's individual achievement and his place within Bloomsbury and in the wider development of British art.
Hardcover. Athens, Georgia, The University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. AN important study of early gravestone carvers in Georgia and South Carolina and the influences of their likes from New England. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Gray pictorial dust jacket with minor wear to edges of spine, else like new.
Hardcover. London, Bradbury & Evans, 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 full page engravings of Leech's 19th century political cartoons. 3/4 leather front cover (detached) deletes "Early" from title. Back cover mostly detached, but good internally. Shipping extra for this volume.
Hardcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 214 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Edward and Jo Hopper first discovered Vermont in 1927, making day trips from the Whitney Studio Club's summer retreat for New York artists in Charlestown, New Hampshire. In 1935 and 1936 the Hoppers again traveled to Vermont, this time from their summer home in Cape Cod, in Edward's continuing search for new places to paint. During these quests they identified the White River and what Edward considered to be Vermont's "finest" river valley, and they returned there for longer visits in 1937 and 1938, boarding at Robert and Irene Slater's Wagon Wheels farm in South Royalton. These "vacations" were a change from the usual tempo of their lives, a break from the studio-bound easels, canvas, and oils, an opportunity to paint something different, to be in a new place and paint en plein air. Over the course of Vermont sojourns, Edward Hopper produced some two dozen paintings, watercolors that are among the most distinctive of his regional works, strongly characterized by place. In this accessible volume, Bonnie Tocher Clause tells the story of the Hoppers' visits to Vermont, their stays on the Slater farm, and their introduction to farm life. She locates the sites shown in Hopper's Vermont paintings, identifies two watercolors not previously recognized as Vermont scenes, and traces the development of Hopper's singular interpretations of the Vermont landscape. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of drawings and paintings by Edward Lear. Dust jacket has small closed tear on front bottom edge. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, UK, Barrie & Jenkins, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Scarce title. Light gray cloth with gilt title to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Minor bump to upper front corner, else like new.