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Browse Books We have over 2,000 books available for sale, from antiques to contemporary bestsellers. Note that the prices below do not include shipping. Please visit the How to Order page to place an order. Order Now! BookId: B4-0121 Title: Great Art of the Ages Edgar- Hilaire Germain Degas Author: Daniel Caton Rich Publisher: Harry Abrams Price: 68.00 Description:Hard cover , great book of art , 40 pages. Order Now! BookId: B4-0123 Title: Salvador Dali 1904-1989 Author: Robert Descharmes Gilles Neret Publisher: Taschen Price: 75.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: B4-0125 Title: SALVADOR DALI 1904-1989 Conquest of the Irrational Author: Gilles Neret Publisher: Taschen Price: 50.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: B4-0129 Title: William Blake at the Huntington Author: Robert Essick Publisher: Harry Abrams Price: 52.00 Description:An introduction to the William Blake 's collection at the Huntington Library and Art Gallery...160 pages Order Now! BookId: B4-0131 Title: Goya et son temps 1746-1828 Author: Richard Schickel Publisher: Time-Life Price: 25.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: B4-0133 Title: Velasquez et son temps 1599-1660 Author: Dale Brown Publisher: Time-Life Price: 25.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: B4-0135 Title: Salvador Dali 1904-1989 Author: Gilles Neret Publisher: Taschen Price: 15.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: B4-15062 Title: Andrea Mantegna The Triumphs of Caesar Author: Christopher Lloyd Publisher: HMSO Price: 28.00 Description:The Triumphs of Caesar are a series of nine large paintings created by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna between 1484 and 1492[1] for the Gonzaga Ducal Palace, Mantua. They depict a triumphal military parade celebrating the victory of Julius Caesar in the Gallic Wars. Acknowledged from the time of Mantegna as his greatest masterpiece, they remain the most complete pictorial representation of a Roman triumph ever attempted and together they form the world's largest metric area of Italian Renaissance paintings outside Italy. 1991. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Plaquette de 22 pages de texte illustrées de nombreuses photos en noir et blanc, et de 8 planches de photos en couleur. . Order Now! BookId: B4-18791 Title: Monet in the 20th century Author: Paul Hayes Tucker Publisher: Yale University Press Price: 65.00 Description:This book sets Money's challenges and achievements within personal and historical contexts and carefully reconstructs his painting campaigns and strategies. What unfolds is a complicated story of an aging artist determined to create a new art. After the scores of beautiful Monet books that have been published over the last two decades, it is hard to imagine that a new one could be indispensable. But this volume, the catalog of an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (fall 1998, then travels to the Royal Academy of Arts in London) is more than just lovely. The main essay, by Paul Hayes Tucker, is a spellbinding history that ably places Monet and his late works in the context of the shattering political upheavals of his time. Tucker demonstrates the patriotic ideal of La France, which for Monet and his public was the ur-subject of his entire oeuvre up to the end of the 19th century, from the crashing waves at Étretat to the shimmering facades of Chartres. Then came the Dreyfus affair, with the Catholic Church and French conservatives united in an anti-Semitic attack against the innocent Jewish army captain accused of treason. Monet passionately and actively joined the writer Émile Zola, who was arrested for defending Dreyfus in his famous article, "J'Accuse." Tucker traces the rift in Monet's use of imagery from this time forward, as he turns his back on quintessentially French scenes to focus instead on the closely observed gardens in his own back yard. Tucker also subtly evokes Monet's despair during the long years of World War I, and his often heroic efforts to be of use, despite his age. This sumptuous volume, with its 12 fold-out plates of the Water Lilies, is very, very beautiful, but its story of an aging artist deeply engaged in his art and his times is something even better. A wonderful fine book , new, perfect soft cover, no dust jacket, 300 pages Order Now! BookId: B4-1943 Title: The Penguin Modern painters Henry Moore Author: Geoffery Grigson Publisher: Penguin Price: 32.00 Description:The Penguin Modern Painters series are an excellent introduction to the various painters covered in each title. They are particularly interesting as they are written about the artist when he is in mid career and the foreword is always by a well respected critic of the time. The reproductions of the work are of course rather less than the high standard we now expect in print, but each of these fascinating little books shows some unexpected work by the artist and some that has rarely been reproduced since. They are a very well worthwhile buy and Henry Moore is particularly good as it concentrates on his early figure drawings. Softcover in very good condition with clean, unmarked pages and no marking or creasing to front or back cover .56 pages some color and black and white full page plates. Order Now! BookId: B4-19471 Title: The Penguin Modern Painters Stanley Spencer Author: Eric Newton Publisher: Penguin Price: 28.00 Description:In keeping with Penguin's brief to bring great literature to the masses, the Penguin Modern Painters series was conceived as a way of bringing art to the people at a time when, because of the war, much art had been removed from public, city-based galleries and packed off for safekeeping within rural collections. Softcover in very good condition with clean, unmarked pages and no marking or creasing to front or back cover. No markings of any kind , not even the name of past owner . Absolutely fine old book . 54 pages. Order Now! BookId: B4-19551 Title: Vincent Van Gogh Author: Stedelijk museum Amsterdam Publisher: Stedelijk museum Price: 100.00 Description:Very rare catalogue from an exposition of the Works of Vincent Van Gogh at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam , ... the catalogue presentation by Van Gogh himself was for an exhibition in 1905 of over 445 different works , paintings and drawings .... and Mr Beaubourg (art Critic) said at the time: :il ne faut pas voir un unique tableau de Vincent VanGogh , il faut les voir tous pour comprendre " Alas , they are not all in there in pictures , but a lot of unknown works are there listed ... Order Now! BookId: B4-1965 Title: The Drawings of Raphael Author: Richard Coke Publisher: Paul Hamlyn Price: 175.00 Description:Raphael was, with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, one of the three masters of the High Renaissance. He was also the youngest and died prematurely after a life of incredible creativity and accomplishment. The son of a painter, Giovanni Santi, his actual name was Raffaello Santi of Sanzio. He was trained in Florence but spent most of his short life in Rome. There he created his major works, famous for the harmony and elegance of their design. Above all, there are the frescoes for the papal apartments in the Vatican (The Stanze), which he painted at exactly the time Michelangelo was painting the Sistine Chapel (1508--12); among them are such masterpieces as the School of Athens and the Disputa. His oil painting, the Sistine Madonna, is justly famous. Raphael---in the Renaissance manner---was also an accomplished architect and, in his last years, architect-in-chief of St. Peter's. London: Paul Hamlyn 1969. (4to) 43pp. plus 132 plates. Very good in near fine dust jacket. Illustrations. Slightly cocked and the dust jacket spine is very lightly faded. Art of Raphael. Order Now! BookId: B4-196723 Title: The drawings of Kaethe Kollwitz Author: Stephen Longstreet Publisher: Borden Price: 12.00 Description:First edition. thisis mostly a presentation of the Drawing art of Kaethe Kollwitz with a short introduction of her biography . Soft cover, no dust jacket, clean book. Order Now! BookId: B4-19678 Title: Pablo Picasso La nascita del Cubismo Author: Alberto Martini Publisher: Fratelli Melita Price: 65.00 Description:Rare book on Pablo Picasso and Cubism . Hardcover and dust jacket. Minimal shelf wear. Good binding and cover. . Clean, unmarked pages. This book is in Italian but the beautiful illustrations of the paintings of Picasso are universal.... a great book on Cubism as a school of painting...60 pages of full plates , 100 pages in all. Order Now! BookId: B4-1987 Title: Turner in the Clore Gallery Author: Tate Gallery Publisher: Tate gallery Price: 25.00 Description:Hundred and thirty-six years after his death Turner's great gift of all his paintings , drawings, and watercolours to the nation has found a permanent home in Clore gallery , a newly built extension to the tate Gallery on Millbank. Herein a splendid suite or rooms the entire contents of his studio can be seen arranged in a beautiful and instrictive sequence following the cemtal themes of Turner's art. This book provides a readable and accessible introduction to the display. 128 pages of beautiful art , the book is fine , soft cover as new , no dust jacket. Order Now! BookId: B4-200152 Title: Stanley Spencer Author: Timothy Hyman and Patrick Wright Publisher: Tate Publishing Price: 100.00 Description: Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE RA (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, the small village beside the River Thames where he was born and spent much of his life. Spencer referred to Cookham as "a village in Heaven" and in his biblical scenes, fellow-villagers are shown as their Gospel counterparts. Spencer was skilled at organising multi-figure compositions such as in his large paintings for the Sandham Memorial Chapel and the Shipbuilding on the Clyde series, the former being a First World War memorial while the latter was a commission for the War Artists' Advisory Committee during the Second World War. As his career progressed Spencer often produced landscapes for commercial necessity and the intensity of his early visionary years diminished somewhat while elements of eccentricity came more to the fore. Although his compositions became more claustrophobic and his use of colour less vivid he maintained an attention to detail in his paintings akin to that of the Pre-Raphaelites. Spencer's works often express his fervent if unconventional Christian faith. This is especially evident in the scenes that he based in Cookham which show the compassion that he felt for his fellow residents and also his romantic and sexual obsessions. Spencer's works originally provoked great shock and controversy. Nowadays, they still seem stylistic and experimental, while the nude works depicting his futile relationship with his second wife, Patricia Preece, such as the Leg of mutton nude, foreshadow some of the much later works of Lucian Freud. Spencer's early work is regarded as a synthesis of French Post-Impressionism, exemplified for instance by Paul Gauguin, plus early Italian painting typified by Giotto. In later life Spencer remained an independent artist and did not join any of the artistic movements of the period, although he did show three works at the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition in 1912. The book is in fine condition , still new, doft cover , no dust jacket , plenty of full page paintings , 142 in colours, 55 in black and white and 264 pages . A beautiful book. Order Now! BookId: B4-2057 Title: Humorous Victorian Post illustrations Author: Carol Belanger Grafton Publisher: Dover Price: 25.00 Description:With 1049 illustrations the most complete humorous selection of Victorian heritage...Soft cover ,124 pages. Order Now! BookId: B4-21221 Title: National Gallery Illustrated guide for British schools Author: National gallery Publisher: Natinal gallery Price: 22.00 Description:Good condition guide for students to move around the National Gallery . History of the Museum, the works of Art and the artists, 165 pages . Book is soft cover , a bit dusty but clean and useful. Order Now! BookId: B4-60015 Title: Picasso Author: Hans L C Jaffe Publisher: Doubleday Price: 35.00 Description:Doubleday, Garden City NY, 1980. 4to, pp. 159. Bibliography, biographical outline. With 183 illustrations, including 48 color plates. A nice copy . A very nice comprehensive book about Pablo Picasso. Order Now! BookId: B4-60016 ISBN: 2893930492 Title: Monet Author: Alberta Melanotte Publisher: Phidal Price: 15.00 Description:Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Monet (Phidal Art Series) This book is in very good condition Phidal, 1990. Boards. Book Condition: Very Good. very good Jacket as well. Illustrated (illustrator). A short bio of Claude Monet and 44 plates in full colour. Order Now! BookId: B4-60017 ISBN: 2893930506 Title: Vincent van gogh Author: Edda Fonda Publisher: Phidal Price: 15.00 Description:Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Vincent van Gogh (Phidal Art Series) This book is in very good condition Phidal, 1990. Boards. Book Condition: Very Good. very good Jacket as well. Illustrated (illustrator). A short bio of Vincent Van gogh and 44 plates in full colour. Order Now! BookId: C1-19135 Title: Lorna Doone A Romance of Ermoor Dulverton edition Author: R D Blackmore Publisher: Sampson Low< Marston , & co Price: 225.00 Description:A Beautiful collectible vintage book from 1913 with coloured illustrations specially prepared for this work: landscapes by Charles E Brittan ; Figure subjects By Charles Brock. This is a wonderful book , I was not able to count the illustrations which are all of a great quality but hidden into this 520 pages book . Art nouveau decoration , blue cover with picture of Lorna... an eternal romance which has been for many years a best seller . This is a collectible edition from 1913 (the date is on the book ). Order Now! BookId: C1-19141 Title: Nests and Eggs shown to the Children Author: A H Blaikie / J A Anderson Publisher: T C Jack Price: 36.00 Description:A beautiful vintage book Nests and Eggs Shown to Children by A. H. Blaikie and J. A. Henderson. The book describes forty eight birds nests and eggs with coloured pictures. The book has a gold pattern on the spine, picture of a nest on the front and gilt lettering.. The book is in good condition for its age. A presentation to a young boy going back to school in 1914 on the first page will date the book. a great vintage. A delightful book which can be used as a reference book,a collectible for your library. 78 pages plus 48 color picture full pages. Order Now! BookId: C1-19142 Title: The Amateur Gentleman, a romance Author: Jeffery Arnold Publisher: Sampson Low,Marston Price: 175.00 Description:Twenty-one illustrations, drawings by C E Brock R.I. in this beautiful collectible vintage book from 1914.Attractive decorated binding. Regency romance about Barnabas Barty, the son of John Barty, the former boxing champion of England and landlord of a pub in Kent. At the start of the tale, Barnabas comes fortuitously into the possession of a vast fortune - £700,000, an astronomical amount by Regency standards - and determines to use this fortune to become a gentleman. His father objects to this plan and they quarrel. They settle their differences in a round of fisticuffs, which Barnabas wins, beating his father fair and square. Barnabas sets off for London to further his ambitions and, on the way there, contrives to make a number of influential friends and enemies. 23cms x 17cms. Top edge gilt. Pp.xiv/599, colour illustrated title page, colour frontispiece + 20 further colour plates by C.E.Brock with tissue-guards, occasional light spotting. Dark green gilt decorated cloth, colour illustrated paper roundel pasted to front board is slightly rubbed, minor edge wear. G+.**The Amateur Gentleman is an early novel by the popular author of Regency period swashbucklers, Jeffery Farnol. The novel was made into a silent film in 1920, another silent film in 1926 and a talking film in 1936 with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. starring as the protagonist, Barnabas Barty.( Order Now! BookId: C1-500001 Title: The woodcarver of the Olympus Author: M E Waller Publisher: Musson Book Price: 28.00 Description:Rare first edition of The woodcarver of the Olympus, published by Musson, Toronto. Hardcover sage colour in good condition, an older novel with a country flavor, 311 pages. Only one illustration. Order Now! BookId: C1-500004 Title: Heart Throbs National magaZine 1904-1905 Author: 50.000 people Publisher: Chapple Publishing company Price: 60.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: C1-500005 Title: Deep Waters Author: W W Jacobs Publisher: Scribners Price: 35.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: C1-500006 Title: The silver horde Author: Rex Beach Publisher: A L Burt Price: 25.00 Description:First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 390 pages; Red decorated cloth with a paste-on picture. Covers with some rubbing and wear. Paste-on illustration of woman in front of huskies and arctic cabin is lightly rubbed but presentable with good color. The themes of the story is THE GOLD RUSH IN ALASKA. This book has been the source story for two films; 1) 1920 Silent Film directed by Frank Lloyd and 2) a 1930 film staring Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea and Directed by George Archainbaud. A good collector book Order Now! BookId: C1-500007 Title: The net Author: Rex Beach Publisher: Harper & Brothers Price: 45.00 Description:Light green cover with gold lettering and framing of pastedown of lovely woman in a garden setting. Cover is soiled with edge wear, a novel staged in Sicily with an apparition of the Mafia. 1912 edition in good condition, some rubbing of course and small spotting , but overall good, 333 pages |
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