Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Gotcha By The Books

New York: The Vendome Press, 2007. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Illustrated biography/study of the life and work of Raymond C. Yard (and the Yard company), from classic Art Deco clips and bracelets to rabbit waiter brooches; over 300 illustrations throughout; text by Natasha Kuzmanovic, foreword by David Rockerfeller, photography David Behl; Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING DEPENDING ON DESTINATION

Les Presses du Reel, 2001. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. sm 4to. profusely illustrated Published in conjunction with the Yayoi Kusama exhibition, Le Consortium Contemporary Art Center Dijon November 2000 - January 2001 (and touring); curated by Xavier Douroux; texts by Vincent Pecoil, Franck Gautherot, and others; copiously illustrated in colour and b&w showing Kusama's art from the 1960's to the late 1990's; mirrored endpapers, no dustwrapper (as issued); Very Good; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING.

London: Blades and East, no date (1923). 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 4to. b&w illustrations Scarce Year Book for St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, including a 16 page pink blotter bound in; illustrated overview of the history of ""Barts"", from foundation in 1123 to the early c20th; no author, publisher, publishing date provided (for these details I am going by the listing on WorldCat); string-bound, brown card wraps with Celtic cross to front; blotters were often bound-in to year books when fountain-pens were in common use, in this case the blotter is part-promo for 'Earley Coal'; occasional minor creases to some pages, blotter with foxing to most pages, o.w. Very Good throughout; wraps lightly rubbed.

London: Macmillan, 1949. 1st Edition. hardbound. Good-Very Good in Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. B&w frontispiece plate 1st Edition (dated 1949 to title page with no other publication details) of Richard Ellmann's definitive study of the life and work of Yeats; b&w frontispiece plate with tissue-guard, from the portrait of Yeats by Augustus John; green cloth boards with gilt titling to spine; heavy foxing to endpapers and prelims, bookshop label front pastedown, tissue-guard tanned (and with offset from same to title page), creases top corners of last 2-3 pages, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, minor loss to head of spine, tanning around edges front and rear, and along spine.

London: Hutchinson, 1965. 1st thus. hardbound. Very Good in G-VG Dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. A volume in the uniform Danube Edition of Koestler's works, being a series of essays on politics, society, literature, history; black cloth boards with silver spiral motif to front board, silver titling to spine; minor worn patch and former owner's name to front endpaper, small bookshop label to front pastedown, minor knock to lower edge front board, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn, with short closed tears to lower front, lightly rubbed, price clipped, o.w. G-VG.

Bendigo: Bendigo Art Gallery, 2010. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. large 8vo. colour and b&w illustrations Catalogue for the exhibition (Bendigo Art Gallery 30 October 2010 - 30 January 2011 - and touring) inviting Australian artists to respond to the game of chess, with works by Sebastian Di Mauro, Emily Floyd, Claire Healy/Sean Cordeiro, Robert Jacks, Sally Smart, and others - inspired by the London exhibition The Art of Chess; colour and b&w illustrations throughout; Very Good throughout, wraps lightly rubbed.

Los Angeles/Koln: MAK/Hatje Cantz, 2004. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good in rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. sm 4to. profusely illustrated Published in conjunction with the Yves Klein exhibition, May 13 - August 29 2004 MAK Center for Art and Architecture Los Angeles, with focus on Klein's concept of an Architecture of Air, a visionary project of living environments reconnecting people with the earth and its elements - and more broadly ways in which the artist pursued aspects of 'immaterialization' in art; colour and b&w illustrations throughout; texts by Mark Wigley, Juli Carson, Sylvere Lotringer; edited by Peter Noever and Francois Perrin; includes Bibliography, and a Klein Chronology; stiff-card wraps faintly illustrated to front and rear with a corridor and ceiling lit with fluorescent lights, the illustration being completed by the printed acetate dustwrapper showing Klein walking down the corridor; Very Good and clean throughout; acetate dustwrapper rubbed and with significant loss of titling… Read More