Biografia

Ray Martin\S Favourites the Stories Behind the Legends

MARTIN, RAY · 2011 · Little Lane Books

A$30.00 (€18.44 | $20.33 | £15.39 | ¥3,245)

Australia, Victory Books. 2011. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24.5cm. Book, 1200g & 383pp & masses of illustration. Giving readers privileged access to the foibles of the famous, the chases to get "big interviews," and the extraordinary locations where they take place, this reco...

Classic Raf Battles from World War One to the Present

ARMITAGE, MICHAEL (EDITOR) · 1995 · Little Lane Books

A$46.00 (€28.28 | $31.17 | £23.59 | ¥4,975)

UK, Arms and Armour Press. 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket, 22.5cm. Ill.: Various. Book, This book chronicles the combat exploits of the RAF from World War I up to the Gulf War. Almost 40 different events are covered with an appropriate painting used to illustrate to illustra...

Monet\S Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism

WILDENSTEIN, DANIEL · 1978 · Little Lane Books

A$25.00 (€15.37 | $16.94 | £12.82 | ¥2,704)

UK, Windward. 1978. Hardcover with dust jacket, 26cm. Book, 182 pp, just under a kilo to post. Claude Monet lived in rural Giverny from 1883 until his death in 1926. Many of the paintings that we most closely identify with his oeuvre were done on his property or in the neighbo...

The Art of Jama - One Hundred Covers and Essays from the Journal of the American Medical Association

SOUTHGATE, M. THERESE, M.D. · 1997 · Little Lane Books

A$45.00 (€27.66 | $30.49 | £23.08 | ¥4,867)

USA, Mosby. 1997. Hardcover with dust jacket, 31.5cm. Book, 221 super clean pp, 1.5kg to post. From the 1880 to the 1960s the AMA's journal had a simple cover detailing contents. In April '64 a new tradition started with artwork on the covers & accompanying dicussions. Dr Ther...

Target for Tonight: A Pilot\S Memoirs of Flying Long-Range Reconnaissance and Pathfinder Missions in World War Two

BRAITHWAITE, SQD LDR DENYS · 2005 · Little Lane Books

A$47.00 (€28.89 | $31.84 | £24.10 | ¥5,083)

UK, Pen & Sword. 2005. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Book, 154 crisp pp, a whisker under 500g, photo sections. The author was born of a prosperous Yorkshire family and joined the Auxiliary Air Force on his eighteenth birthday in 1939. On the occasion of Chamberlain's spee...

Human Anatomy for Art Students

FRIPP, SIR ALFRED & THOMPSON, RALPH · 2006 · Little Lane Books

A$24.00 (€14.75 | $16.26 | £12.31 | ¥2,596)

USA, Dover Publications Inc. 2006. Soft cover with dust jacket, 22cm. Book, 338 crisp whte pp + catalogue, under 500g for post. Human Anatomy for Art Students by Ralph Thompson, Alfred Downing Fripp 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 · rating details · 0 ratings · 0 reviews The most concise,...

The Voice of War : The Second World War Told By Those Who Fought It

OWEN, JAMES & WALTERS, GUY ( EDS. ) · 2004 · Little Lane Books

A$25.00 (€15.37 | $16.94 | £12.82 | ¥2,704)

UK, Viking. 2004. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Book, A kilo to post, 628pp, ex-Wiltshire lib with usual indicators & plastic over dj, all pp clean well-bound. The Second World War was the first truly global conflict and sixty years on its consequences continue to shape t...

Greta & Cecil

SOUHAMI, DIANA · 1996 · Little Lane Books

A$12.00 (€7.38 | $8.13 | £6.15 | ¥1,298)

UK, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1996. Soft cover with dust jacket, 24.5cm. Book, The story of the tempestuous romance between screen goddess Greta Garbo and society photographer Cecil Beaton--two enigmatic and iconic legends of the 30s. Best-selling author Souhami has drawn on diar...

Obstinate Heart: Jane Austen - a Biography

MYER, VALERIE GROSVENOR · 1997 · Little Lane Books

A$23.00 (€14.14 | $15.58 | £11.80 | ¥2,488)

UK, Michael O"Mara Books Limited. 1997. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Book, 700g packed to post, 248pp with photos mid section. This biography may best be read in conjunction with its subject's novels, for so much of Jane's life went into her six books, although her heroi...

Norma Jeane : The Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe

GUILES, FRED LAWRENCE · 1989 · Little Lane Books

A$16.00 (€9.84 | $10.84 | £8.21 | ¥1,731)

UK, Grafton. 1989. Soft cover with dust jacket, 19.5cm. Book, 528pp, photo centre section, less than 500g for posting. Gules authorative bio was very popularly received having gone through several print runs & impressions. From the preface - the amalgam of innocence & power is...

Raymond Chandler a Biography

HINEY, TOM · 1997 · Little Lane Books

A$22.00 (€13.52 | $14.91 | £11.28 | ¥2,380)

UK, Chatto & Windus. 1997. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Book, 310 crisp pp, photo section, 700g packed to post. Raymond Chandler is an uncensored look at the tortured man who wrote the classic mystery novels The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. There are insights into the...

Figure Drawing & Anatomy for the Artist

RAYNES, JOHN · 1996 · Little Lane Books

A$30.00 (€18.44 | $20.33 | £15.39 | ¥3,245)

UK, Mitchell Beazley Limited. 1996. Soft cover with dust jacket, 29.5cm. Book, 256 crisp pp & a kilo packed to post. Practical life-class projects covering the basic principles of figure-drawing, muscular info/diagrams with over 200 working drawings, sketches and photographs. ...

An Introduction to Drawing the Nude

CONSTANCE, DIANA · 2004 · Little Lane Books

A$28.00 (€17.21 | $18.97 | £14.36 | ¥3,028)

USA, New Burlington Books. 2004. Hardcover with dust jacket, 29cm. Book, 128 pp packed with guided illustration, 800g for posting. Book has a library reference sticker on the spine & two stamps stating withdrawn, a magnetic patch rear, ticket removed. An Introduction to Drawin...

An Introduction to Drawing the Nude

CONSTANCE, DIANA · 1993 · Little Lane Books

A$23.00 (€14.14 | $15.58 | £11.80 | ¥2,488)

USA, Chartwell Books Inc. 1993. Hardcover with dust jacket, 29cm. Book, 128 pp packed with guided illustration, 800g for posting. Book has a library reference sticker on the spine & two stamps stating withdrawn, a magnetic patch rear, ticket removed. An Introduction to Drawing...

Anatomy for the Artist

CARTER, DANIEL & COURTNEY, MICHAEL · 2002 · Little Lane Books

A$36.00 (€22.13 | $24.39 | £18.46 | ¥3,894)

UK, Parragon Books. 2002. Hardcover with dust jacket, 27.5cm. Book, 160 crisply presented pp with masses of clearly explained anatomical/art centric instruction & information. Approx 850g for posting. All artists, whether professional or amateur, need a thorough understanding ...

By Underground to Kew: London Transport Posters 1908 to the Present

RIDDELL, JONATHAN & STEARN, WILLIAM · 1994 · Little Lane Books

A$26.00 (€15.98 | $17.62 | £13.33 | ¥2,812)

UK, Studio Vista - London. 1994. Hardcover with dust jacket, 28.5cm. Book, 96 crisp white pages of some of the most beautiful travel/garden art ever designed. Colours that are vibrant, muted, harmonious, attracting & offering never-ending appeal. Samples from well-respected gr...

Forty-Two Months in Durance Vile: Prisoner of the Japanese

MITCHELL, R. KEITH · 1997 · Little Lane Books

A$30.00 (€18.44 | $20.33 | £15.39 | ¥3,245)

UK, Robert Hale. 1997. Hardcover with dust jacket, 22cm. Book, 255 crisp pp, under 500g for posting, photo section amidships. This is a first-hand account of life as a Japanese prisoner during the Second World War. It reveals how R. Keith Mitchell was taken to Japan as part of...

Gore Vidal a Biography

KAPLAN, FRED · 1999 · Little Lane Books

A$19.00 (€11.68 | $12.87 | £9.74 | ¥2,055)

Doubleday. 1999. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Book, 1.3 kgs & 850 pp in total. faults? Bump to top edge, dj worn at fold front flap (we do have a better copy) Novelist, cultural critic, essayist, historian, comic satirist, image maker, provocateur, actor, homosexual, bis...

Beyond Bokhara, the Life of William Moorcroft, Asian Explorer and Pioneer Veterinary Surgeon 1767-1825

ALDER, GARRY · 1985 · Little Lane Books

A$62.00 (€38.11 | $42.01 | £31.80 | ¥6,706)

UK, Century. 1985. Hardcover with dust jacket, 23.5cm. Book, 417pp, a kilo to post. ex-Wilmslow lib (Cheshire), usual indicators/tickets. In the India office library there is a letter addressed to w. moorcroft edq. samarkand or elsewhere'. It is a tribute to this astonishing m...

Anatomy for the Artist: The Dynamics of the Human Form

FLINT, TOM · 2002 · Little Lane Books

A$28.00 (€17.21 | $18.97 | £14.36 | ¥3,028)

UK, Arcturus. 2002. Card Cover with dust jacket, 30cm. Book, 208 crisp pp & 900g packed for post. Everyone understands that the internal structure of the body affects shape, posture and movement. Without an understanding of what is hidden from view, the artist cannot express t...