PREFERENCES IN ART, LIFE, AND LITERATURE by [Housman, Laurence]: Quilter, Harry:

Milan: Electa Architecture, 2005. Signed by Waro Kishi. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

[Nice: Editions Jacques Matarasso, 1987]. Octavo. Ten panel leporello, printed on recto only, laid into printed wrapper. Fine. First edition in this format, with Verdet's poem printed across the leporello above Baltazar's etching. One of 75 numbered copies on Japon Sekisbu (plus 10 h.c.), signed by the author and the artist.

Sotheby Parke Bernet Publication LTD, New Jersey and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc, New York, 1976 Book. Good. Hardcover. English text.; Hardcover (3 volumes with dust jacket in slipcase). Top edges gilt.; 34 x 25.5 cm.; 8.3 Kg.; 1034 pages with black and white and a few colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the dust jackets and slipcase. Interior in very good condition.; Limited edition of 2,000 copies of which this is 793.; Among the arts of Japan, the colour print continues to exercise the strongest appeal to us in the West. The main reason for the present widespread and growing interest is the powerful design combined with the beauty of the colour harmonies of the prints. But there are also other reasons; they depict a Japan of the past now almost vanished, its culture, mores, annual events, legends and its history; and they also show the influence of the Japanese print on the evolution of modern Western art. In the last few years the most important event in the world of… Read More

Privately Printed, 1924. Softcover. Very Good. Original exhibition catalog issued on the occasion of an exhibition of books containing illustrations by celebrated painter, engraver, publisher and illustrator Jean-Gabriel Daragnes - specifically, woodcuts. Illustrated with an original portrait etching of Daragnes by Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, 11 black-and-white Daragnes plates, three depicting lesbian scenes, and an original Daragnes hand-colored engraving laid in showing a husband walking in on his wife in bed with her lover - a scene from Fielding's Tom Jones. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper thus: "Pour Madame Legat | Ce registre d'etat und des infants | qu'un pere demature confie a | l'assistance publingier | le pere indigne | Daragnes." Translation: "For Mrs. Legat: This register of state and children that a father has entrusted with the assistant publisher. The unworthy father, Daragnes." Also signed and inscribed on front free endpaper by an… Read More

CA Book Publishing, 2022 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (cloth without dust jacket - as issued); 26 cm x 33 cm; 1.6 Kg; 172 pages with 134 colour plates.; The Mingzhitang Collection of Sir Joseph Hotung is one of the finest collections in the world to capture the essence of early Chinese blue-and-white porcelain. With twenty outstanding examples, it concentrates on the first hundred years of China's blue-and-white production, in the late Yuan (1271-1368) and early Ming (1368-1644) dynasties - a period that was never surpassed in artistic ingenuity and material quality. The charisma and the energy of the masterly paintings on porcelain created in the Yuan dynasty at the kilns of Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province, which made this genre so influential and universally admired, are represented with twelve exceptional examples, most of them unique. They demonstrate the powerful blue-and-white style developed under Mongol rule, when the artisans appear to have been working with… Read More

Printed by Douglas Pepler, Ditchling, Sussex. 1918. 16 pp Catalogue plus invite to private view. (6.3 x 4.8 inches). Illustrated with 6 wood engravings. Contains a foreword by Pepler plus a list of the items in the exhibition, three with hand written notes, including prices for the items. Printed on Caslon O. F white paper, sewn. Loosely inserted is a hand printed invite to the private preview on Sunday may 5th, 2.30-6pm. (one sheet, 10.9 x 3.8 inches, folded once). A scarce survivor, even more so with the preview invite. --Evan Gill. Bibliography of Eric Gill. No. 364 , the preview invite is not recorded in the bibliography.

[Nice: Editions Jacques Matarasso, 1987]. Octavo. Ten panel leporello, printed on recto only, laid into printed wrapper. Fine. First edition in this format, with Verdet's poem printed across the leporello above Baltazar's etching. One of 75 numbered copies on Japon Sekisbu (plus 10 h.c.), signed by the author and the artist.

London: Cassell, 1998. First edition thus. First English edition (UK). Trade softcover. Published London: Cassell, 1998, first printing. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6 1/4" x 9 1/4", xvii+200pp., illustrated with b/w and color plates. Near very fine, crisp, tight.. 1st. Soft Cover. Near Very Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

The Mysterious Affair At Styles (1935 Bodley Head Half-Crown Edition) THE FIRST HERCULE POIROT TITLE EVER WRITTEN BY CHRISTIE. Mandarin Orange cloth boards with black and green stripes on front cover. Black Titling. States Bodley Head on spine. Spine may be slightly sunned. Pages are fairly bright. Foxing noted, chiefly at the title page and verso. Used. Good Condition / New fax candlestick motif dust jacket. Hardcover. BOARDS ARE VERY CLEAN. NO CORNER BUMPS.Made and printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Ltd., Frome and London.

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