Fine Art

London: Chatto & Windus, 1923 Rebound in strong library binding.. Fifth Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Heinemann, 1974 First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Allen Lane, 1981 Romanticism as a historical phenomenon rather than as a state of mind. Part of the Style and Civilization series deboted to both the history and problems of style in European art, being expository rather than critical.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Amsterdam: Sombrero Books, 1994 Explicit erotic comic book. Dutch text.. First Dutch Edition. Paperback. New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Amsterdam: Galerie XY, 1990 A beautiful hand numbered limited edition of 180 copies of a screen printed lithograph of a collage of explicit images from the original editions of Sade's Justine & Juliette commissioned by Champagne Marquis de Sade to launch their branded champagne at the Galerie XY in Holland. Signed and numbered by the artist.. Signed by Artist. First Edition. Poster. Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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Amsterdam: Galerie XY, 1990 A postcard of a collage of explicit images from the original editions of Sade's Justine & Juliette commissioned by Champagne Marquis de Sade to launch their branded champagne at the Galerie XY in Holland.. First Edition. Postcard. New. A6. more information

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Amsterdam: Galerie XY, 1990 A poster of a collage of explicit images from the original editions of Sade's Justine & Juliette commissioned by Champagne Marquis de Sade to launch their branded champagne at the Galerie XY in Holland. Some minor wear to one edge.. First Edition. Poster. Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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Milano: Bich Verlag, 1994 Erotic comic strip. German text.. First German Edition. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket, as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1991. Limited to 1750 copies. Including a select bibliography. Rare.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/No Jacket, as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913 Essays on George Moore, Richard Wagner, Matisse, Picasso, Impressionists, Whistler.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Sinclair Browne, 1982 Traces the history of the Arts Council and its policies, and suggests ways in which it can be more open in its decisions and thus more accountable to the public.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Munchen: O.C. Recht Verlag, 1923 Includes 14 plates. German text. Front hinge cracked but holding, slight nick to spine. Matthias Grünewald (c.1470 - August 31, 1528), is a highly regarded figure from the German Renaissance. He painted primarily religious works, especially somber and awe-filled crucifixion scenes. The visionary character of his work, with its expressive colour and line, is in stark contrast to Albrecht Dürer's works. His real name was Mathis Gothart Neithart. A 17th-century writer, Joachim von Sandrart, mistakenly identified him by the name Grünewald; his real name was not discovered till the 1920s. He was born in Würzburg in the 1470s. He served as court painter and hydraulic engineer to two successive archbishops of Mainz, Uriel von Gemmingen and Albrecht von Brandenburg, in the German Rhineland from about 1510 to 1525. He left this post apparently because of Lutheran sympathies. Grünewald died in Halle in 1528.. First German Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Thames and Hudson, 1978 Price cut from back cover.. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Ivry: CAP, 1985 Explicit erotic comic strip. French text.. First German Edition. Hardcover. New/No Jacket, as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Columbus Books, 1987. Overview of new materials used in design such as Plexiglas, plastics, rubber, concrete, laminates, and synthetic stone.. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Luik: Verantwordelijke Uitgever, 1985 Explicit erotic comic strip. Dutch text. c.1980s.. First Dutch Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Salmon (Richard) Ltd, 1994. Jarman was born in Northwood, Middlesex, boarded at Canford School in Dorset and from 1960 studied at King's College London. This was followed by four years at the Slade School of Art, starting in 1963. He had a studio at Butler's Wharf, London, and was part of the Andrew Logan social scene in the 1970s. On December 22, 1986 he was diagnosed HIV positive, and was notable for later discussing his condition in public. His illness prompted him to move to Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, near to the nuclear power station. In 1994 he died of an AIDS related illness. Chumbawamba subsequently released Song for Derek Jarman in his honour. These paintings were exhibited at the Whitworth Gallery, University of Manchester.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Les Editions Rieder, 1928 (1471-1528) German painter, engraver, and designer of woodcuts, the greatest artist of the n Renaissance. During Dürer's visits to Italy, he was influenced by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci. His personal synthesis of north and south European traditions deeply affected European art. Dürer's album of woodcuts, The Apocalypse (1498), established him as a supreme graphic artist. His paintings include The Feast of the Rose Garlands (1506) and Four Apostles (1526), which reveal his preoccupation with Lutheranism. Biographical study with 60 reproductions. French text.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Sphere, 1983 English text.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Printed By Order of the Trustees, 1923 This Guide is a commentary upon the monuments of the Maya people of Central America, as revealed by the field-work of Dr. Alfred Percival Maudslay (from preface). Maudslay's researches inaugurated the first intensive study of this remarkable cultural field (from introduction) with 8 plates, 20 illustrations and a map. Some wear to spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Work, Play and No Rest, 2004 Photoraphs taken on the hoof during a five-year backpack pilgrimage around South Africa, Colombia, Peru and Mexico. Colombian Photographer, Julio Cesar Osorio, wanted to reflect the memories of his own childhood through camera lens; concentrating in the poorest areas of the countries visited to show how children live only with the basics but who have found happiness in daily chores. It prefers to focus on these moments of sanctuary from grinding poverty: a cheerful Colombian girl playing in a river, three pre-adolescent Venezuelan windscreen cleaners, showing the vitality of their age, and the day to day mischievousness of childhood, rather than images of abject realities that shock and are then forgotten. The main concern of this project is to urge people to help those or any children that are not by their own faults, but that have just happen to be born into those circumstances. Contains 158 photographs of poor and disadvantaged children in Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela and South Africa. 20% from each copy sold will go to two charitable organisations looking after deprived children in Abancay in Peru and Cape Town in South Africa. "Colombian photographer shows his unique way of capturing the beauty of things that most of us would not see" Bookseller Magazine. Limited edition of 2000 copies signed by Julio Osario.. Signed by Photographer. First Edition. Paperback. New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Long Beach: B&D Pleasures, 1991 Bondage cartoon story.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. Illus. by Lou Kagan. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Wien: C.W. Stern, 1908 Illustrated history of explicit erotic art. 120 pages. Bound in plain green cloth with original wraps preserved. German text.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Paris: Collection Vertiges Passions, 1992. Explicit erotic comic strip. English and French text.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Bill Ward. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Country Life Ltd., 1965 First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Charles Skilton, 1975 Charles Edmund Brock (1870 - 1938) was a widely published English line artist and book illustrator, who signed his work C. E. Brock. He was the eldest of four artist brothers, including Henry Matthew Brock, also an illustrator. He was born in Holloway, London; the family later settled in Cambridge. Charles studied art briefly under sculptor Henry Wiles.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Commission for Racial Equality, 1982 Minor tear to back cover.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Seattle: Eros Comix, 1996 Female domination comic strip.. Second Printing. Pamphlet. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1962. One of 975 copies. (b Cork, 23 Mar. 1889; d Oxford, 19 Jan. 1958). British wood engraver, book designer, and travel writer. He founded the Society of Wood Engravers in 1919 and ran the Golden Cockerel Press from 1924 to 1933, illustrating many of its books himself and also employing engravers such as Eric Gill and Eric Ravilious. He went through a nudist phase at about this time and sometimes typeset in the nude. Gibbings's books typically combine topographical impressions, personal anecdote, and observations of nature, illustrated with his own engravings; they include two on the River Thames, Sweet Thames Run Softly (1940) and Till I End my Song (1957). Rare.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: British Museum Publications, 1983 First Edition. Paperback. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Lom: Paladin, 1976 Second Printing. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Bielefeld & Leipzig: Velhagen & Klasing, 1900 NOTE PAGE 37/38 MISSING. (1471-1528) German painter, engraver, and designer of woodcuts, the greatest artist of the northern Renaissance. During Dürer's visits to Italy, he was influenced by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci. His personal synthesis of north and south European traditions deeply affected European art. Dürer's album of woodcuts, The Apocalypse (1498), established him as a supreme graphic artist. His paintings include The Feast of the Rose Garlands (1506) and Four Apostles (1526), which reveal his preoccupation with Lutheranism. Translated by Campbell Dodgson. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1989. Academic study of the portrayal of the Orpheus myth in all art forms during the 19th century. Profusely illustrated with full bibliography and index. Part of the series Studies in the Fine Arts: The Avant-Garde, No 61.. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Wien: Galerie Julius Hummel, 1998 Hermann Nitsch, Otto Muehl, Gunter Brus, Rufolf Schwarzkogler were four artists who, during the Sixties, became notorious for pushing the definition of art to an extreme which has yet to be surpassed. Variously fined, gaoled, and forced into exile, they were ignored by the art establishment of the day, only to be hailed in recent years as one of the most outstanding and unique contributions to post-war art in Europe. Exaggeration and myth still obscure their activities, however, and their actual motives for an art centred on the examination of taboos, the "hidden" secrets of the body, the aesthetics of destruction and the possibilities of regeneration have remained elusive. Subsequent generations of artists have claimed them as their forefathers or unscrupulously borrowed their ideas (but without approaching the intensity of their actions), and while international exhibitions have reclaimed their work for the visual arts, their writings have remained largely unpublished since they first appeared in small mimeographed editions, or are long since out of print. The Vienna Actionists were indeed unique at the very outset of post-war performance art they trod a path very different from the "Happenings" in the USA or the belated neo-Dada pranks of many of their contemporaries. They not only established a new territory for art but they explored it so thoroughly as to make most subsequent "body art" simply irrelevant. Principle events included:The Blood Organ, The Festival of Psycho-Physical Naturalism, Material Action and Direct Art, the Destruction in Art Symposium, the Orgies Mysteries Theatre, the Vietnam Party, Body Analysis, Zock and The Zock Festival, the Art and Revolution scandal. Text in English and French.. First Edition. Paperback. New/New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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New York: Grove Press, 1968 With reproductions in 41 colour plates and 400 black and white along with foreword, intro. essays and a special report on the First International Exhibition of Erotic Art. This book stems from the First International Exhibition of Erotic Art, which took place in public museums in the cities of Lund, Sweden and Aarhus, Denmark, during the summer and fall of 1968. It included over a thousand examples of erotic pictures and statuary from ancient to modern times and from such different cultures as India, China, Japan, Africa, Europe and the U.S. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Paris: Truong, 1970 Collection of erotic bookplates. French text.. Third Edition. Paperback. Poor. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Keele: Pan, 1973 Second Printing. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Ballantine Books, 1975 Slight fracture to spine.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Arthur Barker, 1962 Some wear to d/j.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Keele: Keele University Press, 1996 A reassessment of surrealism, exploring the concept of visuality and presenting research on surrealism in its various forms including painting, film and automatism, with essays on the work of Dali, Picasso, Ernst, Magritte, Maddox, Breton, Artaud, Fondane and Masson are discussed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: New York University Press, 1976 Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 - May 29, 1970), was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. After graduating from New York's School of Industrial Art in 1952, Hesse studied at New York's Pratt Institute (1952-1953) and Cooper Union (1954-1957), then at the Yale School of Art and Architecture (1957-1959), where she studied under Josef Albers and received a B.F.A. Upon returning to New York she made friends with many young artists. In 1961, she met and married fellow sculptor Tom Doyle. In August 1962 Eva Hesse and Tom Doyle participated in an Allan Kaprow Happening at the Art Students League in Woodstock, New York. There Hesse made her first three dimensional piece: a costume for the Happening. In 1963 Eva Hesse had a one-person show of works on paper at the Allen Stone Gallery on New York's Upper East Side. The couple, whose marriage was coming apart, lived and worked in an abandoned textile mill in the Ruhr region of Germany for about a year during 1964-1965. Hesse was not happy to be back in Germany, but began sculpting with materials that had been left behind in the abandoned factory: first relief sculptures made of cloth-covered cord, electrical wire, and masonite, with playful titles like Eighter from Decatur and Oomamaboomba. Returning to New York City in 1965 she began working in the materials that would become characteristic of her work: latex, fiberglass, and plastics. She was associated with the mid-1960s "anti-form" trend in sculpture, participating in New York exhibits such as "Eccentric Abstraction" and "Abstract Inflationism and Stuffed Expressionism" (both 1966). In September 1968 Eva Hesse began teaching at the School of Visual Arts. Her only one-person show of sculpture in her lifetime was "Chain Polymers" at the Fischbach Gallery on W. 57th Street in New York in November 1968; her large piece Expanded Expansion showed at the Whitney Museum in the 1969 exhibit "Anti-Illusion: Process/Materials". There have been dozens of major posthumous exhibitions in the United States and Europe, including at The Guggenheim Museum (1972, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002), and the Jewish Museum of New York (2006). Except for fiberglass, most of her favored materials age badly, so much of her work presents conservators with an enormous challenge. Arthur Danto, writing of the Jewish Museum's 2006 retrospective, refers to "the discolorations, the slackness in the membrane-like latex, the palpable aging of the material. Yet somehow the work does not feel tragic. Instead it is full of life, of eros, even of comedy, Each piece in the show vibrates with originality and mischief." In 1969 she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Her death in 1970 ended a career spanning only ten years. Some bumps and creases otherwise an unread copy.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1953 Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Milan: Les Editions du Fromage, 1980 Explicit erotic comic strip. French text.. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Bath: Cedric Chivers, 1974. Chapters on Restoration, Repair, Strengthening, Effects of Light, Moisture, Dust, Insects, Covering Baskets and Reed Work, Clay, Faience, Pictures, Parchment, etc. Includes bibliography and index.. Reprint. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Madrd: Litografia Zugel-Valencia, 1978 First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, 1905 Corners bumped.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. (1864-1901) French painter and lithographer. He chose a career in painting after a childhood accident left his legs permanently deformed. In c.1888, he began to illustrate the theatres, cabarets, music halls, cafés, and brothels of the Montmartre district of Paris, such as the Moulin Rouge series (1894). He was profoundly influenced by Degas and drew inspiration from Gauguin and Japanese wood-block prints. His prints depict powerfully simplified forms and their impact helped to establish the poster as a respected art form. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Benjamin Blom, 1968. William Morris (24 March 1834 - 3 October 1896) was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, socialist and Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his life. His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858), The Earthly Paradise (1868-1870), A Dream of John Ball and the utopian News from Nowhere. He was an important figure in the emergence of socialism in Britain, founding the Socialist League in 1884, but breaking with the movement over goals and methods by the end of that decade. He devoted much of the rest of his life to the Kelmscott Press, which he founded in 1891. The 1896 Kelmscott edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design.. First Thus. Cloth. New/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: The Erotic Print Society, 1996 First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Creation Books, 2002. A collection of Gerard Malanga’s many writings on, and interviews with, Andy Warhol over the years. It is heavily illustrated by revealing pictures from Malanga’s extensive photographic archive of Warhol and the Factory, including many shots published here for the first time. Subjects include Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, Nico, Bob Dylan, Edie Sedgwick, and of course Warhol and Malanga himself. Archiving Warhol provides a unique historical insight into Andy Warhol’s art and philosophy, and is an invaluable document of the Warhol 1960s, one of the most crucial and innovative periods in modern art.. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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