AIRCRAFT OF THE ACES LEGENDS OF WORLD WAR 2: FEATURING THE ACCLAIMED ARTWORK OF IAIN WYLLIE
Written by Tony Holmes. Illustrated by Iain Wyllie.
Stock no. 1830442
Published by Osprey Aviation. 2002. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Showcasing the specially commissioned cover artwork of leading aviation artist Iain Wyllie, who has produced over 30 action-packed paintings for the world's most successful aviation series of recent years, Aircraft of the Aces. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. Colour illustrations. 143 pages. ISBN: 1841351679. Reprint. A lovely copy. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded at spine and front spine edge, scuffed to spine and rear panel.

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STRUGGLE: THE ART OF SZUKALSKI
Written by Stanislav Szukalski; Eva Kirsch; Donat Kirsch. Illustrated by Stanislav Szukalski.
Stock no. 1830420
Published by Last Gasp. 2nd 2023. Nearly fine condition.

Szukalski was a Polish sculptor. Foreword by Leonardo & George DiCaprio. Second Edition. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour photos. 199 pages. ISBN: 9780867194791. Third printing. A very nice copy.

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ART DECO
Written by Norbert Wolf.
Stock no. 1830414
Published by Prestel Verlag. 1st thus 2016. Slightly better than very good condition.

This opulent volume traces the chronology of Art Deco style by looking at the politics and culture of Europe in the 1920s and early '30s, and the artistic movements that paralleled its popularity. Large volume. Matt pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 286 pages including index and appendix. ISBN: 9783791382418. Boards lightly bumped & worn at corners, scuffing to rear board. Contents clean.

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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND THE FUTURE
Written by Geoffrey Holme.
Stock no. 1830406
Published by The Studio Limited. 1st 1934. Almost very good condition.

A Challenge to the Producer. Industrial Design. Green cloth boards, black title to spine, black pattern to front board. B/w photos. 160 pages. Boards a little marked, rubbed at edges and lightly worn to corners. Endpapers and text block browned. Some foxing present. Slight tobacco odour present.

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SELECTED POEMS
Written by W.B. Yeats. Illustrated by Jack B. Yeats.
Stock no. 1830342
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1998. Nearly fine condition.

Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour plates from paintings by Jack B. Yeats. xxvii and 228 pages. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.

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THE ART OF TAXIDERMY
Written by Jane Eastoe.
Stock no. 1330183
Published by Pavilion Books. 1st 2012. Nearly fine condition.

A striking and thought-provoking exploration of the fine art of taxidermy. Black glazed pictorial boards. 160 pages. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 9781862059870. Minimal rubbing to spine and corners.

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ROLAND PENROSE: THE LIFE OF A SURREALIST
Written by James King.
Stock no. 1830234
Published by Edinburgh University Press. 1st 2016. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The first biography of Roland Penrose, one of the great English-born practitioners of modernism in the twentieth century. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Yellow endpapers. B/w photos. 328 pages including index. ISBN: 9781474414500. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-rubbed else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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AUREL STEIN ON THE SILK ROAD
Written by Susan Whitfield.
Stock no. 1830222
Published by Serindia Publications. 1st 2004. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Evocatively illustrated account of the intrepid adventures and amazing discoveries of the great explorer and archaeologist Sir Marc Aurel Stein, who travelled the Silk Road nearly a century ago in the footsteps of Alexander the Great and the seventh-century Buddhist pilgrim monk Xuanzang. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. 143 pages including index. ISBN: 1932476113. 1cm crease to cloth at top front edge of spine else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine and lightly scuffed.

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CELTIC AND ANGLO-SAXON ART: GEOMETRIC ASPECTS
Written by Derek Hull.
Stock no. 1830219
Published by Liverpool University Press. 1st 2003. Very good condition.

Much of early medieval Celtic and Anglo-Saxon art is based on the display of motifs - key, interlacing, spiral and zoomorphic - in well-defined panels in simple and complex arrays. This book reflects the author's life-long interest in interpreting the exciting and exotic patterns revealed by scientific studies using light and electron microoscopes. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. 254 pages including index. ISBN: 085323549X. A few minor marks to covers, spine faded but title bright, minor foxing to vertical edge of text block. Contents clean.

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ARTS & CRAFTS
Written by Judith Miller.
Stock no. 1830183
Published by Miller's. 1st 2014. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An elegant and informative guide for all those who want to know more about this hugely influential movement. Large format. Matt pictorial boards. Colourful endpapers. Colour illustrations throughout. 239 pages including index. ISBN: 9781845339432. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is rubbed at top of spine and lightly scuffed, small closed tear to lower corner of rear panel (no loss).

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CELEBRATION OF FLIGHT: THE AVIATION ART OF ROY CROSS
Written by Roy Cross; Arthur Ward. Illustrated by Roy Cross.
Stock no. 1830178
Published by Airlife Publishing Ltd. 1st 2002. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A collection of some of Roy's best sketchs, paintings and technical drawings. Large oblong format. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Endpapers show sketch of Sopwith Pups. Colour illustrations. 128 pages. ISBN: 1840373261. SIGNED by the artist with personal dedication to title page. Pictorial dustwrapper is unevenly faded.

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PAINTINGS AT HASDRUBAL
Written by Rachida Triki.
Stock no. 1830171
Published by Hasdrubal-Thalassa Hotels. 1st 2000. Good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This book presents to the reader one of the most comprehensive private collections of paintings in Tunisia. The fruit of the relentless endeavours of Mohamed Amouri, one of the country's pioneers in the hotel trade and president of the Hasdrubal chain. The collection is now disseminated in the Hasdrubal hotels at El Kantaoui, Jerba and Yasmine Hammamel. Large format. Navy blue cloth boards with no titles. Colour illustrations and b/w portraits of the artists. 231 pages. Boards faded at edges. Hinges cracked and pulled, Couple of hinges are split wide but thread is not broken. Contents themselves are clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed, worn at corners and lightly faded to spine.

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