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BEN NICHOLSON
Written by Jeremy Lewison. Illustrated by Ben Nicholson.
Stock no. 1829389
Published by Tate Gallery. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition.

This catalogue, published to accompany the major exhibition of Nicholson's work held at the Tate Gallery 1993-1994, sheds new light on Nicholson's achievements and his life. All the works in the exhibition are described and analysed and there are ten essays on different aspects of Nicholson's art. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. 277 pages. ISBN: 1854371304. Lower front edge and top & tail of spine lightly rubbed. Contents clean. Contained in publisher's pictorial slipcase which has a few marks.

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ILYA KABAKOV
Written by Boris Groys; David A. Ross; Iwona Blazwick. Illustrated by Ilya Kabakov.
Stock no. 1829388
Published by Phaidon Press Limited. 1st 1998. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Ilya Kabakov is the most prominent contemporary Russian artist. Boris Groy, an art critic and philosopher, surveys the artist's long career and analyzes its philosophical and formal dimensions in terms of art history as well as the artist's own biography. David A. Ross discusses the artist's practice and its bridging of Eastern and Western contemporary art by means of an interview with the artist. Large format. White cardwraps with black titles. Colour & b/w illustrations. 160 pages. ISBN: 0714837970. Text block slightly grubby, cover edges lightly rubbed. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine.

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TURKS: A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND YEARS, 600-1600
Written by David J. Roxburgh.
Stock no. 1829385
Published by Royal Academy of Arts. 1st 2005. Very good condition.

This magnificent catalogue accompanies the spectactular exhibition of the same name devoted to the artistic and cultural riches of the Turks. Large, heavy format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour illustrations throughout. 494 pages including index. ISBN: 1903973570. Text block a little grubby and marked. Book has been dropped on lower rear corner giving rise to corner crease of last few page. 0.5" split to rear edge at base of spine. Front joint pulled where glue has dried out but binding is tight. Some imprinting of ink from front flap and frontispiece. Contents very good.`

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OUR NEIGHBORS
No author listed. Illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson.
Stock no. 1829247
Published by James Henderson. 1st 1905. Poor condition.

The tenth book in the regular series of Mr. Gibson's published drawings. Mr. Gibson's best cartoons from Life Publishing Company 1904 & 1905, and Collier's Weekly 1904 & 1905. Very large oblong format. White cloth spine, white paper boards with illustration by the artist to front. Boards have bevelled edges. B/w cartoons throughout. Unpaginated. Boards marked and stained. Spine browned, cloth fraying to rear edge. Edges of boards worn with surface paper loss. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Front joint pulled wide exposing webbing between front endpaper and half-title page, also rear hinge pulled with some surface paper damage to gutter. Binding is generally tight. Endpapers are grubby and marked. A few marks to contents. Some page edges worn.

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GLYN MACEY'S CORNWALL
Written by Glyn Macey; Vivien Minton. Illustrated by Glyn Macey.
Stock no. 1829243
Published by Halsgrove. 1st 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Glyn Macey is one of Cornwall's foremost young artists whose fresh approach to painting is bringing a new vibrancy to the art scene in the county. Macey's landscape paintings. Oblong format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations throughout. 144 pages. ISBN: 9781841147246. Lower edges of boards very lightly knocked else contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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SNAFFLES ON RACING AND POINT TO POINTING
Written by John Welcome; Rupert Collens. Illustrated by Snaffles.
Stock no. 1829241
Published by The Lambourn Press. 1st 1988. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Snaffles work gives an accurate and interesting development of point-to-poinnting and steeplechasing between 1907 and 1953. Large oblong format. Colour & b/w illustrations. 159 pages. ISBN: 0951369709. Light fading to front board. Heavy foxing to top edge of text block, contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to front panel and is scuffed, creasing to top edge of rear panel.

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JEAN-LUC BARONI LTD.: AN EXHIBITION OF MASTER DRAWINGS NEW YORK & LONDON 2003
Written by Stephen Ongpin.
Stock no. 1829235
Published by Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd.. 1st 2003. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Exhibition ran from 1st to 30th May 2003 in New York, 3rd to 26th July in London, this is the catalogue of drawings. Large format. Dark green cloth, light green title to spine, front board has faint vignette in light green. B/w and colour illustrations by various artists. Not paginated. 56 Master Drawings. Light rubbing to spine and lower edge of boards. Lower edge of boards lightly knocked. Text block a little dusty. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased, worn at top rear edge of spine with slight loss, scuffed to rear panel.

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DURER IN AMERICA: HIS GRAPHIC WORK
Written by Charles W. Talbot; Gaillard F. Ravenel; Jay A. Levenson; Wolfgang Stechow. Illustrated by Albrecht Durer.
Stock no. 1829230
Published by The Macmillan Company. 1st 1971. Very good condition.

Exhibition dates at the National Gallery of Art, April 25 - June 6, 1971. Edited by Talbot, Notes by Ravenel & Levenson, Essay by Stechow. Large format. Red cloth boards, black title label with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations throughout. 362 pages. A few marks to boards, top corners bumped, Spine slightly faded and worn at top & tail. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean.

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MAN, DRAGON AND DEATH: THE GLORY OF SAINT GEORGE
Written by Laurent Busine; Manfred Sellink.
Stock no. 1829229
Published by Mercatorfonds. 1st 2015. Slightly better than very good condition.

Published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name which ran from October 2015 - January 2016. This book offers the first-ever survey of artistic depictions of the legend of Saint George defeating the dragon. White paper boards, black title to spine, red title to front. Colour & b/w illustrations throughout. 287 pages. ISBN: 9780300215755. A few grubby marks to white boards, else a lovely copy.

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STUART LUKE GATHERER: A RAKE'S PROGRESS
No author listed. Illustrated by Stuart Luke Gatherer; William Hogarth.
Stock no. 1829227
Published by Albemarle Gallery. 1st 2005. Slightly better than very good condition.

Oblong format. Beige cardwraps, black titles. Colour illustrations. Exhibition catalogue. Some fading to covers. Contents clean.

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MAKING COLOUR PRINTS: AN APPROACH TO LINO CUTTING
Written by John Newick.
Stock no. 1829225
Published by The Dryad Press. 3rd 1964. Very good condition.

Third revised edition. Matt pictorial boards. B/w illustrations, colour examples. 47 pages. Board edges rubbed, corners lightly worn. Contents clean.

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ADVERTISING ART OF STEIFF
Written by Dottie Ayers; Donna Harrison.
Stock no. 1329011
Published by Hobby House Press. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A compilation of antique Steiff advertisements. Large format. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Colour & b/w illustrations/photos. The text of the German advertisements has also been translated into English. ISBN: 087588363X. Foxing to endpapers, textblock and verso of wrapper.

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