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Verbier Festival. 25 Years at the Top. FINE COPY

ENGSTROEM, Martin Tison · 0

£60.00 (€71.86 | $80.70 | ¥12,751)

Editions Noir sur Blanc, [Lausanne], [2018]. Folio, First Edition, text in French and English, with very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout; pictorial boards, yellow endpapers, a fine copy. Sumptuous celebration of the Festival, its recent past, achievem...

[Catalogue of] The Mercury Asset Management Collection. [Introduction by Hugh Stevenson.] NEAR FINE COPY

MERCURY ASSET MANAGEMENT COLLECTION · 0

£48.00 (€57.49 | $64.56 | ¥10,201)

Mercury Asset Management, [1996]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured illustrations throughout; printed wrappers, a near fine copy. The catalogue includes works by thirty-three twentieth-century British artists, including Hitchens, Knight, Lowry, Nash, Pissarro and Seago among ...

The New Oxford Companion to Music. [Complete set.]. General edition: Denis Arnold. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

ARNOLD, ed. Denis · 0

£48.00 (€57.49 | $64.56 | ¥10,201)

Oxford University Press, [1988]. 2 vols., roy. 8vo., with very numerous illustrations throughout; navy buckram, gilt backs, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Elegant set of this indispensable and renowned reference. The work comprises: Vol. I: A-J; Vol. II:...

Charles Keene 'the Artists' Artist' 1823-1891. [Introduction by John Ward. Essays by Simon Houfe. Postscript by Michael Broadbent]. NEAR FINE COPY

KEENE Charles · 0

£31.00 (€37.13 | $41.70 | ¥6,588)

Christie's with Punch, [1991]. 4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Uncommon catalogue of a major retrospective commemorating the cent...

Matthew Maris . EDITION LIMITED TO 750 COPIES

FRIDLANDER Ernest D. · 1921

£44.00 (€52.70 | $59.18 | ¥9,351)

Medici Society and Jonathan Cape, 1921. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and 7 plates, free endpapers lightly spotted; cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, backstrip faded at headband else...

The Great Silver Manufactory. Matthew Boulton and the Birmingham Silversmiths 1760-1790. Research collaboration by Michael Roberts. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

DELIEB Eric · 0

£26.00 (€31.14 | $34.97 | ¥5,525)

Studio Vista, [1971]. 4to., First Edition, with 16 fine coloured plates and very numerous monochrome photographs (many full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A standard reference.

Five Girls. Photographed by Sam Haskins. SAM HASKINS' FIRST BOOK

HASKINS Sam · 1962

£168.00 (€201.22 | $225.97 | ¥35,703)

Crown, New York, 1962. Sm. folio, First Edition, with photographic title-spread and very numerous fine full-page photographs throughout; rose cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in white, lightly browned at extremities (as often), a very good, bright, firm copy in unclip...

The Western Wynde Mass for Four Voices. Edited and arranged for liturgical Use. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

TAVERNER John · 0

£18.00 (€21.56 | $24.21 | ¥3,825)

J&W Chester, [1924]. Sm. 4to., original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.

Baron Encore. Introduction and Commentary by Arnold L. Haskell. ONE OF FIFTY SIGNED PRESENTATION COPIES

HASKELL Arnold L. · 1952

£88.00 (€105.40 | $118.37 | ¥18,702)

Collins, 1952. 4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and very numerous monochrome photographs (many full-page) in the text, endpapers, half-title and title moderately spotted; full red calf, sides with three-quarter gilt frame border, back, lettered in gilt, gilt t...

The Master Painters of Britain. Edited by Gleeson White. Volumes II, III and IV [of IV] only.

WHITE (ed.) Gleeson · 1897

£40.00 (€47.91 | $53.80 | ¥8,501)

Blackwood Le Bas, n.d. [c. 1897]. 3 vols., roy. 4to., First Editions, with frontispieces (original tissue guards present) and 80 fine plates, endpapers mildly browned, some light marginal spotting (not affecting text or plates); original cloth,, upper boards blocked in gilt w...

Chopin ou le Poete. Illustre de nombreuses photographies d'apres les documents de l'epoque. THE MAXWELL-SCOTT COPY IN QUARTER MOROCCO

POURTALES G. de · 1929

£210.00 (€251.52 | $282.46 | ¥44,629)

Librairie Gallimard, Paris, 1929.. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with half-title ('La Vie de Chopin'), with 42 fine plates (the majority portraits) on 39, one leaf (pp. 137-138) with small marginal repair (not affecting text); handsomely bound in contemporary marbled boards, green...

Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento. Elenco dei Principali Artisti e delle loror Opere con un Indice dei Luoghi. La Scuola Veneta in due Volumi. [New Edition].

BERENSON Bernard · 0

£332.00 (€397.65 | $446.56 | ¥70,556)

Phaidon Press & Sansoni, London & Firenze, [1958]. 2 vols., roy. 8vo., Best Edition, with 2 mounted coloured frontispieces and 1333 fine monochrome plates; original cloth, gilt backs, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Arguably Berenson's masterpiece, his indispensable...

[Exhibition Catalogue]. Toulouse-Lautrec 1864-1901. An Exhibition organised by the Association Francaise d'Action Artistique with the Arts Council of Great Britain 1961.

ARTS COUNCIL · 1961

£3.00 (€3.59 | $4.04 | ¥638)

Arts Council, 1961. 4to., with 8 full-page monochrome plates; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Lists a total of 90 works drawn from national and private collections.

The Architecture of Southern England. Photography by Jorge Lewinski and Mayotte Magnus.

NORWICH John Julius · 0

£24.00 (€28.75 | $32.28 | ¥5,100)

Macmillan, [1985]. 4to., First Edition, with many hundreds of fine photographs throughout, bookplate scar on front paste-down; cloth, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Standard, profusely illustrated, reference covering the twenty-four counties south of a line ...

The Letters of Mozart and his Family. Chronologically arranged, translated and edited with an Introduction, Notes and Indices. With Extracts from the Letters of Constanze Mozart to Johann Anton Andre translated and edited by C.B. Oldman. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN PUBLISHER'S CLOTH

ANDERSON Emily · 1938

£120.00 (€143.73 | $161.41 | ¥25,502)

Macmillan, 1938. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispieces, plates and facsimiles (a number folding); dark blue coth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in publisher's binding. The original dustwrappers (worn, chipped and faded) are present but not show...

The Chateaux of France. Photographs by Fredrick H. Evans from the Archives of Country Life 1897-1939. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

BINNEY Marcus · 0

£70.00 (€83.84 | $94.15 | ¥14,876)

Mitchell Beazley, [1994]. Roy. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous fine photographs (many full-page) throughout, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

John Piper in the 1930s. Abstraction on the Beach. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

JENKINS D. F. · 0

£85.00 (€101.81 | $114.33 | ¥18,064)

Merrell, [2003]. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and very numerous fine coloured and monochrome reproductions and photographs in the text; grey boards, backstrip lettered in white, yellow endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published to acc...

Buildings and Prospects. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

PIPER John · 0

£120.00 (€143.73 | $161.41 | ¥25,502)

Architectural Press, [1948]. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread, and very numerous photographs and illustrations in the text oatmeal hessian, backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter chipped at upper edge.

Motif 6. Spring 1961. Edited by Ruari McLean. NEAR FINE COPY

MOTIF 6 · 1961

£40.00 (€47.91 | $53.80 | ¥8,501)

Shenval Press, 1961. Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous tinted and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout, and printed endpapers; pictorial boards, a near fine copy. Major contents include: Debuffet in Paris; Eichenberg Lamentations; Hans Unger Some Impressio...

Anglo-Saxon Architecture. COMPLETE EXTENDED SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

TAYLOR H.M. · 1965

£320.00 (€383.28 | $430.42 | ¥68,006)

Cambridge, 1965-78. 3 vols., sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous plates, illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; green coarse-grain cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt and red, gilt backs, green tops (lightly faded), a near fine set in unclipped dustwrappers. Sp...