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Anderson, Hans Tales of Hans Andersen
London Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald 1929 First Edition Decorative Cloth Very Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Hester Sainsbury
vg, with decorative paper backed boards, with tan buckram spine w/ gilt lettering. Edges of boards rubbed, interior is pristine. No. 175 of 535 numbered copies, privately printed by Richard Clay & Sons on all rag paper. 15 tales, each is illutrated in color by Hester Sainsbury. A lovely copy of this very scarce book.
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120.00 USD
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Child, Heather Calligraphy Today
New York Pentalic Corporation 1973 Cloth Very Good Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
vg/vg with Demco book jacket over cover. Ex-lib. w/ usual markings, but obviously not checked out more than a few times. Book plate ffep, no marks. The work of outstanding calligraphers from Britain, America and Europe.
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6.99 USD
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Greenaway, Kate Language of Flowers
New York Avenel Books 0517221756 / 9780517221754 Hard Cover Fine Fine 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Greenaway
F/F, with no marks inside or out. Pristine. Never used. 80pp. Criss-cross index in back w/ various attributes and the flowers that represent them, plus a description of the meaning of each flower. Reprint or original printed in 1884 at the apex of Kate Greenaway's career. Lovely drawings of children and flowers w/ beautiful detail and color.
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17.99 USD
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Hilton, Timothy Pre-Raphaelites (World of Art Ser.)
New York, NY, U.S.A. Thames & Hudson 1985 0500201021 / 9780500201022 Soft Cover Fine-Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Fine/good, with no marks. Virtually every pre-Raphaelite painting is discussed and illustrated in this significant paperback, from the Thames and Husdson series. The movement is placed in its historical setting, relating the individual painters and their art to the larger concerns of nineteenth-century society.
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Parker, Michael St.John; Drake, Jane (editor) King Arthur
Andover, Hampshire, United Kingdom Pitkin Unichrome Ltd 1995 0853727368 / 9780853727361 Soft Cover Fine No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
F, with no marks. 29pp. illustrated in color throughout. Traces the mystery of King Arthur, with period works as illustrations. Also maps, diagrams, etc.
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Rabb, Theodore K. Renaissance Lives Portraits of an Age
New York Pantheon Books 1993 Soft Cover Fine No Jacket - as Issued 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
No marks.262pp. Illustrated throughout in color and b/w. Titian, Petrarch, Galileo, Milton, a few of the characters discussed in this cultural view of the Renaissance. Fascinating read.
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14.99 USD
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Ruskin, John; Morris, Jan Stones of Venice
Little, Brown and Company 1981 0316761907 / 9780316761901 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Pristine boards and interior, w/ vg d/j with very minor shelf wear. Edited with an introduction by Jan Morris, who offers a view of Venice as Ruskin saw it. Illustrated throughout in b/w and color. A lovely copy.
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32.00 USD
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Russell, Leonard (ed.) The Saturday Book Being the Eighth Annual Issue of This Celebrated Cabinet of Curiosities Adn Looking-Glass of Past and Present
Hutchinson 1948 Cloth Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
G, cover is faded along edges, corners slightly bumped. Interior has minor foxing on endpaper and first pg. only, otherwise inerior is pristine. Tight, bright copy. Arts, music, painting, poetry, photography. A lovely copy with photos by Lewis Carroll and much, much more.
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Taylor, Joshua C. (editor) Nineteenth-Century Theories of Art (California Studies in the History of Art, No. XXIV)
Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. University of California Press 1987 0520048873 / 9780520048874 First Edition Cloth Fine-Very Good Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
VG-F with no marks throughout. Very slight edgewear to cover; d/j is good with minor edgewear and one small slit near spine. An excellent copy. Edited by Herschel B. Chipp, with contributions by Peter Selz and Joshua C. Talyor. A rich, thorough and authoritative anthology of the theoretical source materials on painting and sculpture since Cezanne. Recommended for art collections and also for its relevance to humanities in general, by the Library Journal.
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17.50 USD
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