Arti decorative e design

Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of Wall-Papers

OMAN CC · 1929 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London, Published under the Authority of The Board of Education 1929 114pp, 24 bw plates 25x19, red cloth, glt lettering. Ex libris British Institute in Athens, a couple of neat stamps thus, otherwise very good in nice slightly rubbed binding.

Hepplewhite Furniture Designs

EDWARDS Ralph (preface) · 1955 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Alec Tiranti 1955 12pp, 80 bw plates. 25x16, dark grey cloth, no dw. Very good. Reproduction of plates from the definitive third edition of Hepplewhite from 1794.

English Rooms & Their Decoration at a Glance: a simple review in pictures, from the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries (two volumes: 1066-1620 and 1620-1800)

HAYWARD Charles H · 1925 · Inch's Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, Architectural Press 1925 83pp, 85pp, 49 and 45 bw line illustrations. Two uniform volumes, 21x14, boards with cloth spine. Good, some light bumping to extremities of boards, contents very good. Cloth on spine doesn't quite match across the volumes.

Furniture in Roman Britain

LIVERSIDGE Joan · 1955 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, John Tiranti 1955 80pp plus 69 bw plates. 19x13, black cloth, no dw. Good, elegant ex libris plate on fep.

Susie Cooper: An Elegant Affair

YOUDS Bryn · 1996 · Inch's Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, T&H, (NY 1996), 1996. 80pp, 96 specially commissioned col photos by Earl Beesley, some b/w photos, chrons, glossary, useful list of stamps and designs. Laminated wraps. 37x26. Very good. Excellent survey of Cooper's work with good technical documentation.

Portrait of Francis Bacon

ESHLEMAN Clayton · 1975 · Inch's Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Sheffield, Rivelin Press, 1975. 11 single-sided yellow sheets. Stapled pink card covers, 26x20. Very good copy. One of a limited edition of 250 copies. The poem originally appeared in The Gull Wall, published by Black Sparrow also in 1975.

Henry Moore: Ausstellung von Skulpturen und Zeichnungen

MOORE Henry (foreword) · 1950 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Hamburg, The British Council, 1950. 36pp inc 24 plates, 2 in colour, biography. Wraps, 25x19. Cover a little dusty, contents very good. Attractive Moore item, nicely designed. Scarce (mostly German text)

Der Papierschnitt. Eine praktische Anleitung vom...

KUNZFELD Ernst · 1929 · Inch's Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Berlin, Heinze & Blanderz, 1929. 43pp incl illustrations, some in colour. Wraps, 25x19. Covers dusty and spine rubbed with tear at top, contents nice and bright. Owner's name neatly printed on cover, written neatly on ffep.

Zero - Hans Schleger - a life of design

AYNSLEY Jeremy (foreword) · 2007 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London, V&A, 2007. 18pp incl illustrations, chron. Spiral bound card in card wraps, 22x22. Very good. Catalogue for the exhibition at the V&A between March and July 2007 that marked the donation of his archives to the museum.

Light Box

WEIL Daniel · 1985 · Inch's Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Architectural Association, 1985. One yard of fabric, 6 x A4 plates on stiff card, PCB, Tin Copper Chessboard, all in presentation box (should also contain 32pp sketchbook with thick card covers, but the sketchbook is missing). 31x31, purple board box with yellow and ...

Andrew Holmes - Addition. A folio of 20 silkscreen prints which assembled form a print 1525x1120mm published as an edition of one thousand numbered 1/1000 to 1000/1000 with twenty artist's proofs signed and numbered by the artist printed in 3 colours on 300gsm fabriano 5 liscia paper at G&B Arts, London.

PRICE Cedric and HOLMES Andrew · 1986 · Inch's Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Architectural Association, Folio IX, 1986. 28pp booklet, mostly full page photographs plus prints all in presentation box, this being no 63. Red cloth band. 31x31, black board box. Box slightly sunned, contents very good to near fine. Published to coincide with an ex...

The Spirit of Place. Nine Neo-Romantic artists and their times

YORKE Malcolm · 1988 · Inch's Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Constable, 1988. Colour frontis, 366pp inc illustrations, chronology plus 10 colour plates. Cloth, 25x18. Very good copy in very good dust wrapper. The first serious attempt to research and present this movement, which began in the late 30s and petered out in the 50s....

Mini: the design icon of a generation

SETRIGHT L J K · 1999 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Virgin, 1999. 223pp, a great many colour and b&w illustrations. Foreword by Terence Conran. Cloth, 30x25. Fine copy in dust wrapper. Nice, large-format study of this famous design object.

Andrzej Pagowski.

KURASIAK Malgorzata · 1989 · Inch's Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Warszawa, Galeris Zacheta, 1989. 139pp inc illustrations, list of posters, bibliog. Boards, 30x22. Fine copy. Monograph on this Polish poster artist, notable for his dark and sombre imagery. Scarce.

Die Jugende der Plakate 1887-1917.

WEMBER Paul · 1961 · Inch's Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Krefeld, Scherpe, 1961. 28pp text, 342pp, pages 47-307 being 848 examples, some in colour, the other pages being an index with name, date, description and name of printer. Bibliog. Attractive cloth cover, 21x22. Very good copy in dust wrapper. Text pages a little tanned. Prob...

Edouardo Manet with 33 reproductions in phototype

SEVERINI Gino · 1924 · Inch's Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Rome, Valori Plastici, 1924. 22pp+ 32 b&w plates. Card covers. 20x14. Edges browned and ragged where they overhang the cover in places but good.

Jon Shaw. Designer and Maker of Fine Furniture

WALES Rod (text) · 1997 · Inch's Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Place unstated, Two Heads Publishing, nd, c1997. 48pp, nearly half being full page colour plates, short list exhibitions, publications. Letter signed by author loosely inserted. Bosardsm 20x24. Very good copy. Chairs, tables desk, hi-fi cabinet etc. very nice publicity book f...

Die Moderne Wohnung

ROH Juliane · 1954 · Inch's Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Darmstadt, Franz Schneekluth, c1954. 32pp, + 25 b&w plates, bibliog. Boards, cloth spine. 12x13. Attractive book plate, good. Modernist interiors, incl. Neutra, Gropius, Robin Day etc. Very nice plates

The History of Surrealist Painting

JEAN Marcel, with MEZEI Arpad · 1959 · Inch's Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, (1959) 1960. 383pp, hundreds of ills throughout, some in colour, text translated from French by Simon Watson Taylor. Cloth. 24x21. Name on fep, otherwise very good. Arguably still the best book on this subject.

The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of 20th Century Design and Designers

JULIER Guy · 1993 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, T&H, 1993. 216pp, b/w ills, bibliog, chron. Pictoral wraps, 21x15. Some cockling at bottom else good. Comprehensive guide-over 500 entries