Read, Herbert

The Flower of Peace. An essay. (INSCRIBED)

HERBERT READ. · 1959 · Clearwater Books

£40.00 (€47.90 | $53.06 | ¥8,478)

Rhein-Verlag, Zürich, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), An offprint from 'Eranos-Jahrbuches XXVII'. Slim 8vo. Paginated 299-332pp and internally stapled into lettered card wrappers with "Author's copy" printed to the head of the front wrapper. This copy inscribed by the aut...

The Sense of Glory. Essays in Criticism.

HERBERT READ. · 1929 · Clearwater Books

£40.00 (€47.90 | $53.06 | ¥8,478)

Cambridge University Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 228pp. Purple smooth-weave cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Tips of two corners bumped, the backstrip ends gently rubbed, and with some dust soiling to the top edge. Some light partial to...

English Stained Glass.

HERBERT READ. · 1926 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.61 | $198.96 | ¥31,794)

G. P. Putnam's Sons, London, 1st Edition, The deluxe issue of the first edition, printed at the Chiswick Press and limited to 50 numbered copies (this copy un-numbered and marked 'Out of Series'). 4to. xvii, 260pp. Full blue buckram, lettered and bordered in gold at the spine....

Jan Le Witt.

WITT,JAN LE. Read,Herbert, Jean Cassou & John Smith. · 1972 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€22.50 ($24.92 | £18.79 | ¥3,983)

Paris, Éditions Cercle d'Art, [1972]. 172 pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Orig. hardcover (clothbound), d./j.French-language monograph on Jan Le Witt (1907-1991). He was a Polish-born British abstract artist, graphic designer and illustrator.

Anarchy and order. Essays in politics

Read, Herbert, · 1954 · Antiquariaat Clio / Cliobook

€12.50 ($13.85 | £10.44 | ¥2,213)

Lond., Faber & Faber, (1954); First edition. 21x14 cm. Hardcover, cloth (no jacket). 235 pp.(ex-library plate), footnotes, index. Good, no jacket

A Coat of Many Colours: Occasional Essays

Read, Herbert · 1947 · Philip Emery

£6.00 (€7.18 | $7.96 | ¥1,272)

Readers Union First published by Routledge in 1945, viii + 352 pages, illustrated, notes. Fading to spine foot, toned page edges. Good No Jacket Reprint London

The Grass Roots of Art

Read, Herbert · 1947 · Barter Books Ltd

£24.00 (€28.74 | $31.83 | ¥5,087)

VG : in very good condition with dust jacket London Lindsay Drummond Ltd First Edition 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 118pp.

Collected Essays in Literary Criticism

Read, Herbert · 1938 · Barter Books Ltd

£28.00 (€33.53 | $37.14 | ¥5,935)

VG: in very good condition with rubbed and faded dust jacket. Previous owner inscription to fep London Faber & Faber Ltd First Edition 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 366pp.

Art and Industry. The Principles of Industrial Design

Read, Herbert · 1956 · Barter Books Ltd

£36.00 (€43.11 | $47.75 | ¥7,630)

VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket London Faber & Faber Fourth Edition 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 188pp.

Ambush

Read, Herbert · 1930 · Barter Books Ltd

£15.60 (€18.68 | $20.69 | ¥3,307)

G : in good condition with dust jacket London Faber & Faber Ltd First Edition 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 43pp.

Existentialism, Marxism and Anarchism, Chains of Freedom

READ Herbert · 1949 · Fortuna Books

$25.00 (€22.57 | £18.85 | ¥3,995)

FREEDOM Press papered boards soiled and lacks backstrip, former owner inscription to free end paper being the philosophy professor [Denis Dutton | Santa Barbara 1971] 56pp uncommon work on existentialist political theory, Denis Laurence Dutton (9 February 1944 - 28 December 20...

Form in Gothic

WORRINGER Wilhelm Translated By Herbert Read · 1967 · Fortuna Books

$20.00 (€18.05 | £15.08 | ¥3,196)

Tiranti pictorial stiff card wrappers, sewn binding, sunned spine, internally clean, xv 181pp +50 plates, Gothic studied as an expression of the Northern Soul , covers art and architecture H reprint No Jacket London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Art and Industry: The Principles of Industrial Design

READ, HERBERT · 1935 · The Wild Muse

$40.00 (€36.11 | £30.16 | ¥6,392)

NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1935. 1st. Hard. 4to. First American edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1935, first printing, printed in Great Britain by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge. Small 4to, 8" x 10 1/4", 143pp, illustrated with numerous b/w plates...

Gabo-Pevsner

OLSON, RUTH AND CHANIN, ABRAHAM, AND READ, HERBERT · 1948 · The Wild Muse

$30.00 (€27.08 | £22.62 | ¥4,794)

NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1948. 1st. Soft cover. 4to. First edition. Trade soft cover. Published NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1948. Limited to 9,500 copies. 4to. printed gray wrappers with red titles. 83 pp, illus b/w plates, two die cut sheets printed in red on translucent vellu...

Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism

READ, HERBERT · 1964 · The Wild Muse

$40.00 (€36.11 | £30.16 | ¥6,392)

NY: Horizon Press, 1964. 1st. Hard. 8vo.. First American edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Horizon Press, 1964. 8vo, 406 pages. Foreword by Allen Tate. Green cloth with gilt lettering and black block design. Minor foxing on ends papers, else a crisp, bright nea...

Le Sens de l'art

READ, Herbert · 1987 · Chemin des Philosophes

€20.00 ($22.16 | £16.70 | ¥3,540)

Traduit de l'anglais par Anne-Marie Terel. Sylvie Messinger, Paris, 1987, in-8, br., couv. ill., 250 p., 69 fig. I.T., ex-libris du photographe Gaetan Viaris de Lesegno p. de garde, qqs. annotations dernière p. de garde, sinon bon ex. E.O. de cette trad.

The Practice of Design

READ Herbert (Intro) · 1946 · Inch's Books

£50.00 (€59.87 | $66.32 | ¥10,598)

London, Lund Humphries, 1946. 227pp, many ills, texts by Alastair MORTON et al. 25x20, decorated green cloth over spiral binding. Cloth on spine slightly soft at top and bottom, very good thus. Important statement of design modernism, including pleas for its use in reconstr...

Henry Moore

Read, Herbert · 1967 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€5.00 ($5.54 | £4.18 | ¥885)

München, Droemer Knaur, 1967, cloth, dustjacket, 8vo, 284 pp., 245 ills., Deutsche Ausgabe; good condition

Moderne beeldhouwkunst. Oorsprong en ontwikkeling

Read, Herbert · 1964 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€5.00 ($5.54 | £4.18 | ¥885)

Den Haag, Uitgeverij W. Gaade, 1964, cloth, 8vo, 312 pp., 339 ills., klassiek overzichtswerk; eclecticisme; kubisme, constructivisme, futurisme, surrealisme; redelijke conditie (alleen voorzijde stofomslag aanwezig, binnenwerk schoon)

Die Kunst der Kunstkritik und andere Essays zur Philosophie, Literatur und Kunst

Read, Herbert · 1957 · Pallas Books - Antiquarian Booksellers

€4.00 ($4.43 | £3.34 | ¥708)

Sigbert Mohn Verlag, 1957, cloth, 12mo, 375 pp., 40 Essays; good condition