Search Results: Authors starting with W from Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books

Berlin: Vice Versa Verlag, 1995. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. NB: Dual text in English and German. Softcover. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 99pp. Several b/w illustrations. With the completion of the New National Gallery in Berlin in 1967, Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) created a "Greek temple" of modern architecture..

Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Olive green cloth with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers and light bumping to base of spine. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light shelfwear. Not price-clipped. 324pp. This volume presents the papers reviewing the ideas presented in the international symposium on the ecology of soil fungi held in the department of botany in the University of Liverpool during the Summer of 1958..

New Jersey: Wellfleet Press, 1984. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 276pp. An overview of a thirty year span in Viennas history when it was at the centre of cultural achievements by amongst others, Klimt, Schiele, Mahler, Wittgenstein and Loos. NB: Quite a heavy book to post. Will require extra shipping charges if to be sent outside UK..

Gillingham, Dorset: Flung Publishing, 2011. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Black hardcover with title in silver on spine. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. No inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with just a hint of shelfwear. 136pp. This book consists of 65 distinctive black & white and colour images taken by the photographer Charlie Waite (b.1949) of landscapes around the world, including the British Isles..

Gillingham, Dorset: Flung Publishing, 2019. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed By Photographer. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Black hardcover with title in silver on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear. Inscribed to the previous owner by Charlie Waite on the front endpaper. 136pp. Many colour photographic illustrations. This book contains a collection of the favourite photographs of the British landscape photographer Charlie Waite (b.1949). Each full page image is accompanied by a description of the location and Waite's reminiscences of capturing the shot. Locations from Britain, Europe and further afield are included..

Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England.: The MIT Press, 1977. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black hardcover with title in green on spine. NB: Dustjacket is present but in poor condition. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Poor, generally heavily scuffed with shelfwear to edges and several repaired tears. 484pp. 142 b/w illustrations. A collection of essays regarding Le Corbusier and his work, including essays by Maxwell Fry on Chandigarh and Anthony Sutcliffe on Corbusiers vision of Utopia..

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Third edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 563pp. Many b/w illustrations. This book includes chapters on construction materials, preparation of construction drawings, walls, fences, steps, ramps and pools. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Colchester, London and Eton: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co., 1944. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Cream cloth with title in brown on front cover and spine. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear and light soiling to covers. Light foxing to front endpapers. The front endpaper bears the previous owners name and the date Christmas 1945 with the bookplates of two presumably later owners on the front endpaper, the earliest being the bookplate of the distinguished amateur archaeologist C.E.Bean of Sherborne. 147pp. 4 b/w illustrations. This book was published posthumously by friends of the author, and consists of reprints of articles in Dorset and Somerset journals and magazines relating to the borough of Lyme Regis printed between 1923 and 1943. The period covered by the articles is 1288 to 1859..

London: Chapman & Hall, 1909. Book. Fair. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Olive green/brown cloth with titles in gilt on spine and front cover together with a circular relief in gilt on front cover. Condition: Fair, covers are lightly shelfworn with slightly more wear to head and tail of spine, and sunning to spine. Bookplate of John Vinycomb (1833-1928), the Newcastle born artistic director of Marcus Ward in Belfast and an international expert in heraldry, on front pastedown. Authors presentation inscription on title page to John Vinycomb. Browning to endpapers. Binding cracked in a couple of places, otherwise sound. Some cockling to text and plates towards the end of the book. 72pp. Four tipped in colour plates and thirty-one half-tone illustrations of Italian and other fresco paintings. Also enclosed with the book is a presentation letter from the author to John Vinycomb dated 1909, and printed copies of two papers on mural decoration given by John Ward, one at… Read More

London: Chapman & Hall, 1903. Book. Fair. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Olive green cloth with titles in gilt on spine and in dark green on cover. Condition: Fair, covers have light shelfwear and bumping to spine and cover corners. Binding cracked internally in a couple of places, otherwise sound. Inscription on title page from the author to Mr John Vinycomb (1833-1928), the Newcastle born artistic director of Marcus Ward in Belfast and an international expert in heraldry. 140pp. Sixteen chromolithographic plates, with tissue guards. Light soiling to the base of plate 6. Letter also included with book from the authors brother, Richard Ward, written from the offices of the New Zealand Herald, to Mr Vinycomb. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, 1996. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. This 33 item catalogue with 33 associated illustrations, mostly in colour, was produced to accompany the exhibition of work by the British artist John Ward (1917-2007) held at Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox from 24 April to 24 May 1996..

Chicago, Illinois: Drawn & Quarterly, 2007. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Dark grey hardcover with title in gilt on beige quarter cloth spine. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. .

Tiverton, Devon: Devon Books in association with Common Ground, 1999. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Grey hardcover with title in black on spine. Condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear and some sunning to lower edge of front cover. No inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear. 95pp. Many colour and b/w illustrations. In 1990, Common Ground, the environmental and arts charity initiated their first project on local distinctiveness with the sculptor Peter Randall-Page (b.1954). The project spanned 6 years, and was documented by the photographer Chris Chapman. This book documents the making of five sculptures and a garden in an around the Teign Valley near the village of Drewsteignton on the edge of Dartmoor. The works were made by Randall-Page in and for an area that he knew intimately. Made from local materials and embedded in the landscape without signs or plaques, they have a powerful resonance with place..

London/Salisbury: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd.in association with Salisbury Museum, 2015. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover. Condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Very light sunning to spine, and edge of front cover where it meets the spine. 208pp. Many colour illustrations. This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of work by J M W Turner entitled "Turner's Wessex - Architecture and Ambition" held at Salisbury Museum from 22 May to 27 September 2015. Turner was only 20 in 1795 when he first visited Salisbury, and had yet to make his name in the art world. This catalogue focuses on the important commissions that he gained from his contacts in the region, from patrons including Sir Richard Colt Hoare, which provided the foundations for his success..

London: John Murray, 1968. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Dark green buckram with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper, dated Christmas 1981 and a blank bookplate on front pastedown. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear and a couple of very small tears to spine and top of rear cover of jacket. Price-clipped. 316pp. 101 b/w plates. Thomas Hope (1769-1831), eccentric offspring of a Dutch banking family, employed his wealth and taste to impress on Regency society the principles of Neo-Classicism. While he invested in Old Masters, antique statuary and vases, he also patronised such contemporary painters as Flaxman, Thorvaldsen, Haydon and Benjamin West..

Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, 1979. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Pale green paper covered thread sewn booklet. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 40pp. .

London: The Radcliffe Press, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Brown hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound. Inscribed by the author to Elspeth Huxley (who wrote the foreword for the book) on front endpaper, and dated April 1995. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with sunning to spine and just a hint of shelfwear. 266pp. Twelve b/w plates and two b/w maps. Oscar Watkins strove unceasingly to protect the interests of the African peoples in East Africa, particularly Kenya. This biography by his daugter provides him with in the words of Elspeth Huxley "an eloquent and fitting memorial".

New York: Pantheon Books, 2003. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Silver hardcover with title in black on spine. Condition: Very good, with just a hint of shlefwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear. 490pp. More than 130 b/w illustrations. This book describes the avant-garde group that came together from 1964 to 1968 as Andy Warhol's Silver Factory. The group included Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, Joe Dallesandro and Candy Darling. He follows their lives from childhood through their factory years and show how this unusual mix of people interacted to create more than 500 films, the Velvet Underground, paintings and sculpture, and thousands of photographs. .

Edinburgh: Ingleby Gallery, 2011. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Rectangular 8vo. White hardcover in black dustjacket with title in white on front cover. Condition: Very good, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with just the faintest hint of shelfwear. 56pp. This catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition of work by Alison Watt (b.1965) with accompanying verse by Don Paterson (b.1963) held at the Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh from 5 November 2011 to 28 January, 2012. One of an edition of 1000 copies..

Amsterdam/Toronto: Amsterdmas Historisch Museum/Art Gallery of Ontario, 1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Dual text in English and Dutch. Hardcover. Blue cloth with title in silver on front cover. Condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Previous owners name at top of title page. Binding sound. Dustjacket condition: Good, with a couple of small repaired tears, general shelfwear and a small chip missing to base of front cover of jacket. 272pp. Many b/w and occasional colour illustrations. This book was published to accompany the exhibition held at the Amsterdams Historisch Museum from 17 June to 28 August 1977 which then toured to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto from September 27 to November 13, 1977. The exhibition aimed to provide insight into the development of the cityscape of the Northern Netherlands during the 17th century, through the medium of paintings, drawings, maps, books and prints..