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African Art Books & Ephemera
The Orchestra: A Very Short Introduction
by D. Kern Holoman
Orchestra: Short Introduction D. Kern Holoman, pub USA Oxford University Press (2012) 6925
*GIFTABLE* The Orchestra: A Very Short Introduction, D. Kern Holoman, pub Oxford University Press in the USA (2012), ISBN 9780199760282, 158 pages, about 4-1/2 x 6-3/4 in...Small paperback book in very good condition, slight scuffing at upper corners, french fold covers are very nice, bright colorful, pages clean, crisp, unmarked...book includes some b/w pictures, diagrams, charts...LAX Vespa, Los Angeles -... Read more about this item
*GIFTABLE* The Orchestra: A Very Short Introduction, D. Kern Holoman, pub Oxford University Press in the USA (2012), ISBN 9780199760282, 158 pages, about 4-1/2 x 6-3/4 in...Small paperback book in very good condition, slight scuffing at upper corners, french fold covers are very nice, bright colorful, pages clean, crisp, unmarked...book includes some b/w pictures, diagrams, charts...LAX Vespa, Los Angeles -... Read more about this item
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NZ$23.99
Tudor Renaissance
by Lees-Milne, James
B. T. Batsford Ltd.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in grey cloth with gilt titles, minor foxing to page edges, no inscriptions. viii + 152 pages, 127 illustrations on plates plus illustrations in the text, index .
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NZ$17.09
Architecture and city planning: Rediscovering ancient Greece
by Ioanna Phoca; Panos Valavanis
U.S.A.: Kedros Books, 1999. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Clean & bright pages and covers. With photos, architectural floor plans and drawings of reconstructed buildings. Covers with small corner turns. .
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NZ$34.29
Monet at Argenteuil
by Tucker, Paul Hayes (on Claude Monet)
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1982 1st ed. 211pp. illus. hardbacksm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [couple of corner bumps; else F]
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NZ$42.86
Mosaiques de Tunisie
by Fradier, Georges
Editions Ceres Productions, 1976. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Tidy, well-kept copy with covers like new. Illustrated with ancient mosaics in color on oversize pages. Text in French, English & Arabic. Jacket with a little fading at edges, & a mini tear at upper spine. Oversize, so may need more international shipping. .
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NZ$68.58
The Illustrated Flower
by Chwast, Seymour & Emily Blair Chewning
New York: Harmony Books, 1977 1st ed. 72pp. illus. paperback 4to: Very Good [bottom outside corners are bumped; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A colorful array of floral art.
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NZ$25.72
Graphic illustrations of Hogarth: from pictures, drawings and scarce prints, etc.
by Ireland, Samuel [Hogarth, William]
R. Faulder & J. Egerton. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1794. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in brown half leather with gilt titles on a black spine panel, marbled paper over boards, red sprinkled edges, worn at corners, minor tanning/offsetting of contents, no inscriptions. xvi + 184 pages, 55 (of 57) plates, one folds out. Two plates have been neatly excised (The complicated Richardson, and, Frontis-piss) as is often the case, else a very sound example .
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NZ$128.15
Cockatoos and coral trees
by Harford-Cross, Michael
Kirkby Malzeard: Privately Issued. Very Good. 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound landscape format paperback original, no inscriptions, spine uncreased, appears little used. Unpaginated (c120 pages), 50 illustrations, mainly b/w but 8 are in colour .
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NZ$13.35
Aquarelles en Provence
by Neri, Jeannine & Mora, Francis
France: Self Published. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Text in French. Very clean and tightly bound larger format hardback, no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which has crease/short closed tear at top of spine/front cover. 152 pages, full page colour illustrations in the text, bibliography .
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NZ$32.04
Persian miniatures
by Robinson, B. W
Oxford: Bruno Cassirer. Good in Good dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean, small format, tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a rubbed, price clipped dustjacket which is chipped at the edges. 30 pages, 20 illustrations on plates. No date but British Library gives 1957 .
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NZ$14.95
Islamic art
by Hagedorn, Annette & Wolf, Norbert (ed)
Germany: Taschen Gmbh. Very Good. 2009. First Edition. Softcover. 9783822856697 . Clean and tightly bound paperback original, no inscriptions, spine uncreased, appears little used. 96 pages, photos in the text .
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NZ$17.09
The Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
by Wood, Lucy (ed.)
Port Sunlight: National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside. Fine. 1996. Revised Edition. Softcover. 0906367840 . Clean and tightly bound paperback original, no inscriptions, spine uncreased, appears little used. 112 pages, many colour & some b/w illustrations in the text, notes, bibliography, index. .
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NZ$12.82
Degas and the ballet: picturing movement
by Kendall, Richard & Devonyar, Jill
Royal Academy of Arts. Fine. 2011. First Paperback Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 1905711697 . Clean and tightly bound paperback, french binding, no inscriptions, spine uncreased, as new. 280 pages, many colour & b/w illustrations in the text, notes, bibliography, index. Heavy book, near 1.5kg .
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NZ$25.63
This Other Eden: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art
by Warner, Malcolm & Julia Marciari Alexander w/intro. by Patrick McCaughrey
New Haven: Yale Press, 1998 1st ed. 216pp. illus. blue cloth 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [hint of age darkening top edge; else F; dj = several tiny corner tears; else F] A lavish volume published to coincide with a traveling exhibition from the Yale Center for British Art to Australia in 1998.
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NZ$42.86
Arthur Rackham
by Larkin, David (editor)
Pan Books. Good. 1975. First Edition. Softcover. 0330246828 . Clean and tightly bound paperback original, corners rubbed, neat name/date on first page else no inscriptions, couple of fingermarks internally. xvi pages + 40 colour plates, introduction by Leo John de Freitas has a few text illustrations .
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NZ$10.68
Groundstory: Tales from the Shade of the South
by Alembik, Lisa, curator
Decatur, GA: Agnes Scott College. undated. 93pp. illus. paperback oblong sm 4to: Fine [white back cover has some smudges; else a nice crisp copy] The catalogue of a storytelling exhibition at the Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott College in 2012 that focused on the southeastern United States.
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NZ$42.86
Collection of 7 prints/ lithographs signed by the artist plus Christmas card. 4 of Cuthbert Road, Haddon Township, NJ, 3 of a nuclear submarine and the card is the Atlantic City skyline. Included is a copy of the Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin 11 Aug 1963
by Bancroft, Ray
U.S.A: Ray Bancroft. Very Good. 1965. First Edition. Ephemera. 7 prints/ lithographs signed by the artist plus a Christmas card. A set of 4 presented by the Peoples National Bank are of the Newton Grist Mill, the Old Blacksmith's Shop, the Cuthbert Homestead and the Van Scriver Mansion, Cuthbert Road, Haddon Township. 2 of these have marks to top left hand corner where glue from the label has browned. 2 of the submarine prints show a sub under construction and the third is of a submarine in a...
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NZ$42.72
Textile Dyeing and Printing Simplified
by Proud, Nora
New York: Arco, 1974 1st ed. 96pp. illus. hardback sq 8vo: Very Good in a near Very Good dj [top edge is slightly age darkened; small ink dots @ top and bottom edges; else a nice clean and crisp copy; dj = a long section of the laminate torn away @ tail edge of back cover; else nrVG] Includes 24 color plates and 64 photographs.
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NZ$25.72
Korean art treasures
by Won-Yong, Kim et al; Whitfield, Roderick & Young-Sook, Pak (eds)
South Korea: Yekyong Publications. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0810912147 . Very clean & tightly bound large format hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. 412 pages, 352 colour photos, illustrations in the text, chronology, maps. Extremely heavy book (packed weight over 4kg), usual postage rates inapplicable .
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NZ$96.12
Hosie's Aviary (signed)
by Baskin, Leonard with Tobias, Lucretia, Hosie & Lisa Baskin
New York: Viking, 1979 1st ed. SIGNED on ffep by artist. unpaginated [42pp] illus. green cloth 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [hint of foxing half-title p. & opposite p.; else F]
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NZ$1,285.95
Air Powered: The Art of the Airbrush
by Elyce Wakerman
Random House, 1979. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Good/poor and tattered. Stated First Edition. Published in 1979 by Random House, Inc., New York, N.Y. Dust jacket is in poor condition. Hardcovers are in good condition but do show shelf dirt at edges. Pages are generally clean and unmarked but again show shelf dirt at edges. A nice book for its age covering techniques of airbrush techniques using full color illustrations. see pictures maybe this will do it! I try to note all defects, make an...
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NZ$30.01
Mary Tuthill Lindheim: Art and Inspiration
by Wasserman, Abby
U.S.A.: Cameron + Company, 2011. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Fresh & glossy, newlooking copy. Oversize. .
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NZ$54.87
Circus : a world history
by Rupert Croft-Cooke & Peter Cotes
* Circus : a world history -printed in France library of congress catalog card number 76 – 25319....this is a rather interesting book with the historical origins of the circus, and how we have all evolved as aficionados, also does a good job delving into how Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Baileys became the best-known circus in America there are many beautiful color pictures in black and whites shots of wonderful publicity poster art quite interesting. the book is missing its dust cover the spine is...
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NZ$25.72
Double Page: The Fountains of Versailles
by Mazin, rosine, and Moeur, Jacques
Double Page, 1981. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Double Page No. 15. Glossy oversized softcover, pages and covers bright and sharp. Gorgeous full page photos of the Versailles fountains. Trace of old sticker to front. Edges have a smidge of shelfwear. Due to overlong size may need special shipping..
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NZ$77.16
The art of illuminated manuscripts: Illustrated sacred writings
by Westwood, John Obadiah & Zaczek, Iain
Studio Editions. Good in Good dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 1858910811 . Clean and tightly bound larger format hardback, marks on front endpaper where pasted in cards have been removed, no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed at the edges and chipped at the top of the spine. 128 pages, illustrations in the text .
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NZ$17.09
