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Sacred and Secular in Art and Industry: A Lecture Given Before the Royal Institution. London, February 1939.

By: Gill, Eric.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Newport, Rhode Island., John Stevens.: 1949

Seller ID: 34348

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 23 x 15.5 cm.; (4) - 31 - (5) pp. Green wraps with black lettering in a saddle stapled binding. This is the second edition of 1000 copies from March of 1949. Half page engraving (David versus Goliath) on the first page as a headpiece and reprinted from a woodblock engraved by Eric Gill. From the page facing this engraving: "This lecture here printed with minor emendations by the author, was originally given before the Royal Institution, London, February 4, 1939." And a quote from the first paragraph of Gill's introduction: "The relations between art and industry have been dis...
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Walter Curtin: A Retrospective/Une Retrospective.

By: Hanna, Martha.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Canada., Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.: 1985

Seller ID: 32430

ISBN: 0888845502

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

4to - 30 x 22 cm.; 69 pp. Text is in English and French. Exhibition catalogue of the works of photo-journalist Curtin with essays by Hanna and Brian Carey. Library stamp on first page, attachment on verso of back cover, otherwise, a clean, sturdy copy.
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Gnome Life.

By: Huygen, Wil.

Price: $40.50

Publisher: New York., Harry N. Abrams.: 1999

Seller ID: 33311

ISBN: 0810941368

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

4to - 29.5 x 20.5 cm.; Unpaginated with24 pp. Subtitled: "A Monthly Celebration of Secrets, Tales, and Whimsy". First published in Dutch in 1988, this is the English version. The last of the nine Gnome books written by Dutch physician, Huygen (1922-2009); all of which were illustrated by Dutch artist, Poortvliet (1932-1995), a passionate outdoorsman. Pictorial cover. A fine copy. Dust jacket has some crumpling along the top but is otherwise in very good condition.
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Oriental Calligraphy and Painting, The 3 Bs, Body, Breath and Brush.

By: Kodama, Tomoko.

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Ottawa, Canada., Atelier Tomo.: 2002

Seller ID: 32289

ISBN: 0969397445

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

4to - 28 x 21 cm.; ix - 192 pp. First published in 1989, this is the Revised Edition. Includes Chinese and Japanese texts. Minor wear on cover; text clean, binding sturdy.
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Niagara Falls Art Gallery: The Passion of Christ W. Kurelek Collection.

By: Kolankiwsky, Mykola.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Niagara Falls, Ontario., Niagara Falls Art Gallery.: 1983

Seller ID: 32632

ISBN: 0969134029

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 86 pp. History of the NFG (Niagara Falls Art Gallery) and the William Kurelek collection it houses. Some soiling, light edgewear on cover; binding sturdy, text clean.
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The Passion of Christ, According to St. Matthew.

By: Kurelek, William.

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Ontario, Canada., Niagara Falls Art Gallery and Museum.: 1975

Seller ID: 32863

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

4to - 28 x 23.5 cm.; 192 pp. First printing of 5000 copies. Commentary is in three languages, English, French and Ukrainian. Kurelek has painted 160 pictures to illustrate the Passion of Christ. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Very minor edgewear on boards, former owners' inscriptions on front free endpaper, otherwise, text is clean, binding sturdy. Dust jacket has very minor general wear and a small (3 cm) tear on the front flap fold.
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Idea and Image. Volume 1, Number 2. 1968

By: Lander, Marvin and Joan Shay. (editors).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York., Idea and Image Inc.: 1968

Seller ID: 34152

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

4to - 30.5 x 23 cm.; 48 pp. Black and white wraps in a saddle stapled binding. Contents: 1 - "The Postulates of Rationalism" by Ren Gunon, 2 - "Death of a Daily" by Jeffrey St. John, 3 - "Trees" with photography by George A. Tice, 4 - "Apprentice of the City" by Luc Dietrich, 5 - "Cradle" by Elizabeth Pace, 6 - "Adventure by Misadventure" by Edward Lavitt and Marlene Fisher, 7 - "We Have Not Known Which Way" by Ten Bears, 8 - "Transitions" with photography by Barbara Jaffee and poetry by Paul Gullen, 9 - "Selections from the J...
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Atlantic Parallels / Paralleles Atlantiques.

By: Langford, Martha.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Canada., National Film Board of Canada.: 1980

Seller ID: 32426

ISBN: 0889340072

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

4to - 29 x 23 cm.; Unpaginated. Saddle-stapled booklet. Exhibition catalogue showcasing works by ten photographers - Susan McEachern, Peter Barss, Alvin Comiter, Renate Deppe, Neal Livingston, George Steeves, James Wilson, Francis Coutellier, Peter Gross, Jack Turner. Some of the text is in French, some in English. Information and samples of their work on each photograher. Sunning and edgewear on card stock cover, library stamp on first page and attachment on verso of back cover; binding sturdy, text pages otherwise clean.
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Beedahbun: First Light of Dawn.

By: Leach, George P. and Greg J. Humbert.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: North Bay, Ontario / Espanola, Ontario., Tomiko Publications and Anishinabe Spiritual Centre: 1989

Seller ID: 34510

ISBN: 0969278721

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

4to - 28 x 21.5 cm; 98 pp. Full colour pictorial wraps. A gorgeous volume celebrating a new interpretation of the Stations of the Cross by Leland Bell, a gifted native artist. The reproductions are very good with the descriptions and accompanying text tying it all together and all printed on a high quality coated paper. Incidentaly, the title "Beedahbun" (First Light of Dawn), is the name given to Bishop Alexander Carter by the native people during a special naming ceremony. Otherwise, very clean with a tight binding. The covers show very minor edge wear and a bit of soiling. Both front and ba...
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Tauromaquia: Goya, Picasso.

By: Licht, Fred (curator).

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Venice, Italy., 1985

Seller ID: 32429

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

4to - 26 x 19 cm.; 70 pp. Exhibition catalogue for the first temporary exhibition to be presented in Venice by the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation. Essays and pictures of Goya and Picasso's exploration of the bullfight. Bit of damage to lower corner of catalogue, otherwise, a clean, sturdy copy.
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J.E.H. MacDonald Sketchbook, 1915-1922.

By: MacDonald, J.E.H.

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Moonbeam, Ontario., Penumbra Press.: 1979

Seller ID: 32385

ISBN: 0920806074

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

8vo - 19.5 x 15.5 cm.; xvi then unpaginated. A facsimile edition of 2200 copies. An introduction by Hunter Bishop with background on MacDonald (1873-1932), one of the founders of the Group of Seven. Card stock covers are soiled, former owner's blindstamped name is on the front cover and two pages; binding sturdy, text pages otherwise clean.
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The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century.

By: Male, Emile.

Price: $6.75

Publisher: New York., Harper & Brothers Publishers / Harper Torchbooks.: 1958

Seller ID: 31795

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 20.5 x 13.5 cm.; xxiv - 415 pp. Translated from the third French edition by Dora Nussey and published in English in 1913 as "Religous Art in France of the Thirteenth Cetury: A Study in Mediaeval Iconography and Its Sources of Inspiration". This is the Harper soft cover reprint with a new title. Illustrated with many black and white photographs and line drawings, 190 in all. Footnoted throughout. One 6 page appendix: "List of the Principal Works Devoted to the Life of Christ (end of the twelfth and thirteenth and fourteenth centuries)", 4 page bibliography, and a 5 page index of works of ...
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The Life of Guido Reni.

By: Malvasia, Carlo Cesare.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: State College, Pennsylvania., The Pennsylvania State University Press.: 1980

Seller ID: 34042

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

0271002646 8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; (8) - 150 pp. Charcoal gray cloth over boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine.Translated and with an introduction by Catherine Enggass and Rober Enggass. Illustrated with 8 full page black and white reproductions and a black and white frontis piece of Guido Reni. Five pages of notes and a 2 page select bibliography. The spine of the dust jacket is a tad darkened or sunned, else fine.
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Maria Priymachenko "Ukrainian Folk Art".

By: Maria Priymachenko (Priimatchenko or Prijmatschenko).

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Soviet Union / USSR / Russia., 1971

Seller ID: 5657

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

4to - 26 x 24.5 cm.; 21 - [3] - 46 - [2] pages. Pictorial papered boards. A collection of Maria's dramatic and very colourful folk art paintings from the Ukraine. First section is a biography and description of Maria's work in Russian (Cyrillic), English, French and German. Previous owner's book plate on front paste down plus a gift card from that owner to Mr. And Mrs. W(illiam). Kurelek. Moderate wear to the extremities with a 4" tear on the spine crown. Removal remains on the front free end paper where the card had been attached. Printed on a high quality coated paper.
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September Gale: A Study of Arthur Lismer of the Group of Seven.

By: McLeish, John A. B.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., J. M. Dent & Sons.: 1973

Seller ID: 24742

ISBN: 0460945572

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 22 x 15 cm.; xi - 212 pp. First published in 1955, this is the second edition. Illustrated with 17 pages of photogrpahs and reproductions of which 4 are colour plates and one is the black and white frontis photograph of Arthur Lismer. Four page chronological listing of Lismer's paintings and drawings, 1913-1950, along with a 4 page index of proper names. The covers show some very light shelf wear to the edges and the spine is a tad darkened or sunned.
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Separate From the World, Meetings with Doukhobor-Canadians in British Columbia.

By: Minden, Robert.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia., National Film Board of Canada.: 1979

Seller ID: 32427

ISBN: 0889340064

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

4to - 30 x 21.5 cm.; Unpaginated. Text is in three languages - English, French and Russian. Exhibition catalogue of photos taken by Minden of Doukhobors living in the southern interior of British Columbia. Included is a small bibliography and the text of a letter written by Leo Tolstoy in 1900 to the Doukhobors who immigrated to Canada. Tape residue on spine of cover, library stamp on title page and attachment on verso of back cover; otherwise, text pages clean, binding sturdy.
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The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World.

By: Moore, Andrew with Nathan Flis and Francesca Vanke. (editors).

Price: $99.00

Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut., Yale Center for British Art.2018:

Seller ID: 31547

ISBN: 030023290X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

4to - 29.5 x 25 cm.; 589 - (1) pp. Red cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and the front board. A publication designed to accompany the 2 exhibitions sponsored by the Yale Center for the British Arts and Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery during the spring and summer of 2018. Three appendices, an exhaustive 17 page bibliography and a comprehensive 11 page general index. Signed by one of the editors, Nathan Flis, on the half title page. An as-new and unused book.; Signed by Author
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The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World.

By: Moore, Andrew with Nathan Flis and Francesca Vanke. (editors).

Price: $99.00

Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut., Yale Center for British Art.: 2018

Seller ID: 32013

ISBN: 030023290X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

The Sublime: Documents of Contemporary Art.

By: Morley, Simon. (editor).

Price: $18.00

Publisher: London, UK / Cambridge, Massachusetts., Whitechapel Gallery / MIT Press.: 2010

Seller ID: 33602

ISBN: 0262513919

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

8vo - 21 x 15 cm.; 238 - (2) pp. After the introduction, this anthology has 7 groupings of documents as follows: "The Unpresentable" with 9 documents, "Transcendence" with 10 documents, "Nature" with 8 documents, "Technology" with 4 documents, "Terror" with 10 documents, "The Uncanny" with 4 documents, and lastly "Altered States" with 6 documents. Five pages of biographical notes, a 4 page bibliography and then a 5 page index. An as-new and unused book.
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The Art of Ngan Siu Mui.

By: Ngan Siu Mui.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Hong Kong., Room of Subtle Fragrane.: 1983

Seller ID: 32286

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

4to - 26 x 19 cm.; 79 pp. Text is in English and Chinese; book reads in the Chinese style, what we term back to front. Introduction by Cheng Kwing Kin of the University of Hong Kong. A collection of the paintings, calligraphy, seal carving, and poetry of Ngan Siu Mui. The artist was born in Hong Kong and trained in traditional Chinese art by some of the great masters. She immigrated to Canada in 1988 where she has continued to practice and teach her art. A clean, sturdy copy with minor general wear.
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Category: Art