Art, architecture, photography

[Paris]: Robert Laffont, (1968).. Orange cloth, (xxviii), 144, [4] pp, illustrated in half tone sepia and b/w + 4 colour plates, folding map in rear pocket. pictorial front endpapers. Near fine copy. Dust jacket has tears and rubbing at head of spine, and upper inner corners of panels, VG otherwise. Note: over 1 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Quarto.. more information

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[Paris]: Robert Laffont, (1966).. Orange cloth, xxviii, 176, [4] pp, illustrated in half tone sepia and b/w + 4 colour plates, folding map in rear pocket. Slight yellowing to text page outer margins, otherwise near fine in VG dust jacket. Note: over 1 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Quarto.. more information

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Toronto: The Power Plant, 1987. card covers with flaps. 174 pp. Catalogue of an exhibition of art, video, film, curated by Louise Dompierre and Alvin Balkind.. Softcover. Quarto. more information

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Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1915. Folio. Portfolio quarter bound in brown cloth and printed boards, ribbon tie. 17 pp text booklet. 10 loose plates under cloth flaps, plus a duplicate of plate I (the only one in colour). Small rubbed spots to front cover, damp spot to rear cover, else VG, internally fine, no owner names. . Hardcover. more information

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New York: The Pencil Points Press, 1929. Folio, 36 cm. Red and maroon cloth. 13 pp text + 344 b&w plates (one folding) + 3 p index to the plates + colour frontispiece; one colour plate in text. Ends of light sunned spine are frayed. with gilt spine lettering dulled; moderate wear to outer corners; frontispiece of The Chapel, Princeton University, has diagonal creases; mild spotting, light rubbing, to covers; else a VG copy, text clean, tight and unworn. Plates of their church buildings (mostly gothic, some Georgian), school and university buildings and libraries, furniture and details, and a few residences. The United States Military Academy at West Point and Rice University were two of their notable projects. Note: 4 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required. . First edition.. Hardcover.. more information

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[Paris]: Robert Laffont, (1967).. Orange cloth, xxviii, 176, [4] pp, illustrated in half tone sepia and b/w + 4 colour plates, folding map in rear pocket. pictorial front endpapers A fine copy in VG dust jacket. Note: over 1 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Quarto.. more information

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[Paris]: Robert Laffont, (1969).. Orange cloth, (xxviii), 144, [4] pp, illustrated in half tone sepia and b/w + 4 colour plates, folding map in rear pocket. pictorial front endpapers. A fine copy. Dust jacket has nicks and one short tear, VG. Note: over 1 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Quarto.. more information

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Toronto: Art Gallery of Toronto, 1969.. Oblong 8vo. (ii), 365, (1) pp. Plain card covers with colour dust jacket. Well-illustrated in colour and black & white. Book is fine. Jacket has one inch tear to upper spine fold; slight rubbing to folds; nicks to foot of spine; light rubbing to rea r panel; VG o/w. The exhibition was in Toronto 6 Dec., 1969 - 1 Feb., 1970. Lacks the accompanying 29 page supplementary booklet.. more information

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Stockholm: Government of Sweden, 1931. Octavo, cream card covers. pp 63, (1) + over 60 sepia reproductions + ads. Damp stain to spine ends, upper & lower inner corners of rear cover and late leaves; covers have light soiling, small corner chip; VG otherwise. Textiles, glass, silver, furniture, book bindings. Art Deco.. Softcover. more information

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Toronto: Art Gallery of Toronto, 1926. Quarto, quarter bound in cream cloth and light grey boards. 72 pp including b&w reproductions. Small abrasion to paper at lower outer corners of boards, near fine otherwise, no owner names. Now the Art Gallery of Ontario. Which Frank Gehry just finished updating. . First edition.. Hardcover.. more information

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Ottawa: National Museum of Man / National Museums of Canada, 1992. Squarish octavo, card covers. pp 108. Long introduction by Dr. George MacDonald plus 78 pp of black & white reproductions. VG clean copy, no owner names. . Softcover. more information

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Princeton: The Pyne Press, 1971.. Photo reprint, with notes and a new introduction, of the original Philadelphia, 1786, edition. 8vo. Blue cloth. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket is rubbed, spine lightly tanned; short edge tears, about VG.. more information

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Kleinburg, Ontario: McMichael Collection, 1967. Stated first printing. The paper issue in pictorial card covers. [12] pp text by Paul Duval followed by reproductions in colour and b&w on glossy paper. Laid in is a short letter with printed signature of John P. Robarts, Premier of Ontario, on the opening of the gallery. Soft corner crease to front cover through the text leaves; minor soiling to rear cover; else fine. This catalogue has been reprinted many times, and the collection remains one of the most important for the Group of Seven.. First printing. Softcover. Oblong format. more information

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Toronto, 1944-1957. Illustrated paper covers, tall octavos. Complete run, except for Vol. IX, No. 1, of the first 58 issues, Vol. I, No. 1 - Volume XIV, No. 4. All 57 issues are in VG or better condition, except for Vol. X, no. 2, which has the covers separated (but present) at the spine. Volumes I and II had 5 issues, after that it was a quarterly. This important Canadian art magazine ceased publication in 1966. Note: heavy parcel, please enquire for shipping rate. . Softcover. more information

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Ottawa: Canadian Art, 1947. Tall octavo, pp (54), stapled, in paper covers. VG clean and tight copy, no owner names. British Columbia and Alberta Special Number. . Soft Cover. more information

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New York: Museum of Modern, no date (1963), 1963. Squarish card covers. pp (48), black & white reproductions, photos of the artists, and biographical sketches. Light cover soiling, VG otherwise, no owner names. Exhibition catalogue designed by Frank Newfeld. . Softcover. more information

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Paris: Société des amis du musée de l'homme, 1969. Card covers with flaps. Colour and black & white reproductions, text in French and English. Small tear, mild rubbing, to spine tips, else fine, no owner names. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Musée de l'homme, Paris, March - Sept. 1969, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Nov. 1969 - Jan. 1970. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.. First edition.. Softcover. Square quarto. more information

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Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1995. Folio, red silk binding. pp (557), (3). Colour and b&w reproductions. Fine in fine jacket. A massive exhibition catalogue. Note: 3.5 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate. . First edition.. Hardcover.. more information

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Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1978. Square octavo, card covers. pp 232. Colour and black and white reproductions. VG clean copy. Catalogue of the exhibition January 14- February 26, 1978. Harris was an important Canadian painter, member of the Group of Seven.. First edition.. Softcover. more information

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Schuler: München, 1974. Square quarto. Tan cloth gilt. Pp (176). Black and white reproductions, many tipped in colour plates. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has a small nick to front panel, small shallow chip to rear panel, else fine. Text in German. Note: 2 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate. . Hardcover. more information

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Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1980. Card covers. Pp xxviii, 244. Black & white reproductions throughout. Taupe spine sunned to green, else fine, no owner names. Exhibition catalogue. Text in English and French. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.. Softcover. Quarto. more information

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(Toronto): University of Toronto Press, (1974).. 3rd printing (lst was 1966). Yellow cloth. viii, 120 pp. Photos in text. Fine in VG price-clipped jacket. Architectural history of early buildings in the historic city of Kingston, Ontario.. more information

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Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1952.. First edition. Octavo, hardcover, red cloth. [2], 60 pp. Four photo plates inserted. Fore edges untrimmed. Minor sunning to spine tips, else fine, no owner names. Worn dust jacket has chips and tears; fair only. Osgoode Hall, a beautiful old Toronto landmark next door to City Hall, is the headquarters of the Law Society of Upper Canada.. more information

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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1967. Light blue cloth. pp [10], 369 + colour plate at front; diagrams in text, indexed. Bumps to outer corners of covers, soft corner creases to early leaves; VG clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names, no marks in text. Dust jacket lacks the top two inches of the spine, good otherwise. Note: over 1 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.. Hardcover. Quarto. more information

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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (1982).. Black cloth. xiv, 242 pp, index, 250 illustrations in text. Front free endpaper has a bookplate and a small bookstore label, else fine in fine jacket. "An introduction to iron: its preparation, forming, application, and decorative properties and uses." - jacket. Note: heavier book, please enquire for shipping rate.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Quarto.. more information

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Toronto: University of Toronto Pres, 1938. Quarto, softcover, brown card covers lettered in blue. 23, [1, blank] pp, stapled. Photos in text, text in double columns.. Two neat ink letters drawn by hand on front cover; crease to lower outer corner of front cover internally strengthened; small light spots to lower outer corner of title page and recto of following leaf; near fine otherwise. Early and uncommon book from this University of Toronto Professor of Architectural Design and noted architectural historian.. Softcover. more information

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Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, (1997).. First of this edition. Squarish 4to, cloth & boards in printed card slipcase. Colour illustrations. Fine copy. Slipcase has soft bruise at head of spine. A new edition of this livre d'artiste, originally published in 1980 in a costly limited edition of 120 copies. Pachter art, Atwood poetry. First issue, with the slipcase.. more information

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Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, (1997).. First of this edition. Squarish 4to, cloth & boards in printed card slipcase. Colour illustrations. Fine copy. Slipcase has quite minor use, very nearly fine. A new edition of this livre d'artiste, originally published in 1980 in a costly limited ed ition of 120 copies. Pachter art, Atwood poetry. SIGNED BY BOTH ATWOOD AND PACHTER to the half-title leaf, above which in a different hand is "For Jean - with best wishes - ". First issue, with the slipcase.. more information

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Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1941. Paper issue. pp [2], 44, [2]. Salmon pictorial card covers printed in blue, sewn binding. Frontis. + 24 black & white reproductions in text. Fine copy. Front wrapper design by Thoreau MacDonald. Edison C44. A volume in the publisher's Canadian Art Series, this is the 7th title in the series overall, and the first title in the Second Series. A little monograph on the best political cartoonist of 19th century Canada.. First Edition. Softcover. 12mo. more information

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Toronto: Ryerson, 1948. The hardcover issue, red cloth gilt. (iv), 36 pp. 4 colour reproductions inserted, black & white reproductions in text. A few small damp spots to front cover, near fine copy otherwise, lacking the plain tissue jacket. A short monograph on one of the most important of 19th century Canadian painters.. First edition.. Hardcover.. 12mo. more information

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(Ottawa): National Museum of Canada, 1957.. First edition. 8vo, softcover, pictorial card covers, endpaper maps. viii, 214 pp. Many photos and illustrations in text. Spine lightly tanned with slight rubbing to folds, bit of wear to foot; ink name to top margin of title page; corner crease to rear cover; VG clean copy otherwise. Bulletin no. 139, Anthropological Series no. 38. There was also a hardcover issue.. more information

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Ottawa: National Museum of Canada, no date [1935?].. First edition. 8vo, yellow card covers. (viii), 72, (4) pp. 7 drawings by Arthur Lismer in text. Faint dust soiling, half inch edge tear, to covers; cloth tape inner hinges (as issued?); else fine.. more information

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New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1956), 1956. Blue cloth, blue cloth inner hinges. pp (299), colour and b&w reproductions throughout. Translated from the Italian by John Drummond. Soft vertical crease to last few leaves, else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has a short tears at spine tips and corners but VG otherwise. Note: 2kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.. First US edition. Hardcover. Square quarto. more information

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Hamburg (Germany): Christians, Printer, 1962. Oblong quarto, 26 x 24 cm, blue card covers lettered in red. pp (52), unpaged. Covers uniformly lightly sunned, near fine otherwise. Signed by Naomi Groves Jackson (Canadian, niece of A.Y. Jackson, artist, Germanic philologist), who also provides a two page Foreword. With promotional material from the Canadian distributor, Shirley Leishman Books, Ottawa, laid in. The wood cuts were originally published in Berlin in1922. Groves' PhD thesis was on Barlach. The translated Barlach texts are taken from his DRAMEN, PROSA and BRIEFE. . Signed by editor. Softcover. more information

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Hamburg: Ernst Barlach Haus, 1971.. 20 leaves printed rectos only, stapled, in square 8vo card covers with cover label. Tipped in reproduced drawing to verso of 2nd leaf. Edition of 500 numbered copies, this is number 65. Fine copy, inscribed by the translator. "These musings from a B arlach notebook of 1911 were published for the Ernst Barlach Gesellschaft in January, 1970, the hundredth anniversay of the artist's birth." - translator's note. The translator is a Canadian.. more information

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New York: Museum of Modern Art, in Collaboration with The Art Institute of Chicago, 1939. Second edition, revised. Red cloth stamped in yellow. pp (208) + colour frontispiece, many black & white reproductions in text. Includes lists at rear - ballets in which he collaborated, books he illustrated, works in Amer ican museums, a chronology, exhibitions, and a bibliography. Spine faded with yellow lettering faint, slight wear at head of spine; one small light spot on front cover; VG tight jacketless copy otherwise, no owner names. First published Nov., 1939 ( 10 k copies), there were 5 k copies of this revised edition published Dec., 1939. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.. Hardcover.. Quarto. more information

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Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1983. Blue boards. (xiv), 391 pp, indexed, numerous photos and reproductions in text. Fine copy. Dust jacket has soft ripples to front panel, else fine. Note: over 1 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.. First edition.. Hardcover. Octavo. more information

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NY: Whitney Museum of American Art / Macmillan, 1954.. First edition. Small 4to, yellow cloth. 67, (1) pp. 2 colour plates inserted (included in the pagination), black & white reproductions in text. Bookplate to front free endpaper, else fine. Orange jacket has triangular chip (1 x 1/2 inch) and 3 small damp spots to front panel; spine slightly darkened, rubbed, small chip to head, partial spits to folds; small chip to corner of rear panel; good. Includes a catalogue of the exhibition and a chronology. "While there have been many earlier books on Grosz, this is the first to survey his career as a whole and the first to do justice to the paintings of his American period." -jacket.. more information

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(Ipswich, England): Suffolk Records Society, 1966.. Olive buckram, spine gilt lettered. x, 481, [1] pp. 15 plates inserted. Covers have a bruise to lower outer corners, else fine in VG price-clipped jacket. Note: heavier book, please enquire for shipping rate. Hardcover. Octavo. more information

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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth & boards. pp (xxiv), 418, (4) + b&w plates; maps in text at front, indexed. Bruise to lower outer corners of covers; security sticker on rear cover; remainder stripe on bottom page edges; else VG+ in like jacket. Beckmann was an important German painter who fled the Nazis, first to Amsterdam and thence to the United States. . First printing.. Hardcover.. more information

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London: Chapman & Hall, 1944. The limited issue, #67 of 500 copies on hand made paper. Tall octavo, cream bevel edge cloth with cover and spine label, fore edges untrimmed. pp (xx), 181 + black & white plates; line drawings in text. Light foxing to endpapers; spine faintly spotted and darkened, with mild wear to the label; else a VG clean and tight jacketless copy. Laid in is a 1960 TNS from de Belleroche. The pen & ink drawings in the text are reproduced from Brangwyn letters to the author and are here published for the first time. Note : 1.5 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate. . First edition.. Hardcover. more information

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London: Constable, (1952).. First UK edition. Dark blue cloth. (400) pp. Fine copy, with Mexican bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Cream jacket sunned to spine; short tears to spine folds; light soiling to panels; mainly VG otherwise. The diary of his war years in Italy b y this once respected art critic, exposed in recent years as a crook, liar, and faker working for Duveen, attributing old paintings to order.. more information

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NY: Simon and Schuster, 1962.. First printing. Octavo, black cloth and light brown boards, illustrated endpapers, tan top page edges. 414 pp. Sepia toned plates inserted at front. Small ink price to corner of front free endpaper, neat ink underlining on pp 10-11 of the introducti on but no other marks nor owner name, small soil spots to fore edges, covers a little bowed, else a VG tight and unworn copy. Price-clipped jacket has some small chips; long tears to front panel; good otherwise.. more information

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Belgrade, 1959. Illustrated card covers. Issue number 17 of "Jugoslavia". 144 pp. Colour and b&w reproductions, indexed. Tears to head of spine repaired, covers a little curled, else a VG copy. Ink name of important Canadian poet Miriam Waddington. Folk art in Yugoslavia.. Softcover.. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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NY: Macmillan, 1960.. First edition. Cloth and boards. (x), 177 pp. Black and white plates. Bookplate, else VG in used jacket with spine fading, chip near head of spine. Study of American painters working in Paris in the 19th century.. more information

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Boston: James R. Osgood, 1874.. 16mo, hardcover, original blue pictorial cloth stamped in blind & gilt, all edges red, dark blue endpapers. [2], 215, [1, blank], [1, ads], [2, blank] pp. Frontispiece and one other plate inserted, both with tissue guards, illustrations in text. Spi ne darkened, with mild rubbing to joints, very shallow chips to tips; text paper a little yellowed, probably as always; VG+ copy otherwise, no owner names, inner hinges not cracked. An artist's travels and sketches in the Italian Lakes district and mostly in Algiers. A volume in the publisher's The Saunterer's Series.. more information

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Ottawa: Marcel Broquet, 1988. Squarish folio, green boards. pp (202). Colour and b&w reproductions throughout. Minor rubbing to spine tips, else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has a couple of edge nicks; bit of bubbling to lamination at inner margin of front panel, VG+ otherwise. An uncommon book about this famous Québec painter. Note: 2 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate. . First edition.. Hardcover.. more information

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London: Henry Frowde / Oxford University Press, 1908. Blue cloth lettered in white. pp xii, 192. 152 photos and drawings in text. Spine lightly darkened; endpapers foxed; ink owner name on front free endpaper; else a VG unworn copy. A detailed history of the evolution of the Rood and Rood screen.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Octavo.. more information

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London: John Lane, 1915. Tan pictorial cloth stamp in black, spine gilt lettered, top edge gilt. pp xiv, 415 + frontispiece with tissue guard and 35 other colour plates; 20 b&w illustrations in text. Title page in red and black. Spine lightly darkened, lightly rubbed, with spine imprint dim; front cover a little bowed; bit of wear to outer corners; cracked rear inner hinge neatly repaired; small creased tear to top edge of half-title leaf; corner crease to a few leaves; else a VG tight copy, text clean and unworn. With 1917 ink ownership signature of Frank H. Johnston on front free endpaper, and "FJ/PR" on a strip of paper on rear pastedown. Frank (Franz) Johnston was an important Canadian painter and a member of the Group of Seven. A book on historic bridges, with much history and nice illustrations by the noted British painter Frank Brangwyn. Note: 2 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.. First edition.. Hardcover. Square quarto. more information

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Toronto: Red Rock Publishing, 1977. Squarish quarto, brown boards. pp (x), 156, (2). 1978 ink gift inscription at front, else fine in VG jacket.. First printing. Hardcover. more information

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