European / British & Irish from LEFT COAST BOOKS

London: Phoenix House, 1957. Cloth, 111 pages, [39] pages of plates, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear, soiling. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to.

New York and London: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.; Christie's, 1979. Cloth, xviii, 249 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated with works by the English exponent of Neoclassicism.. *** Please note: ISBN conflicts with another book. The title of… Read more about this item

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. 259 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Front cover partly sunned. "White on Black is a compelling visual history of the development of European and American stereotypes of black people over the last two hundred years. Jan Nederveen Pieterse shows the pervasiveness of prejudice against blacks throughout the… Read more about this item

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987. Cloth, 49, [79] pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. "Facsimile of author's illustrated copy of the first edition. Contains 23 watercolor caricatures of Pre-Raphaelites and other artists, writers, models, and mistresses surrounding the caricaturist." - Publisher..… Read more about this item

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 268 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations (chiefly colour); 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock's drip painting No. 5, 1948… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Studio, 2001. Cloth, 296 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. A near-fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Come with David Hockney on a journey as he rewrites… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975. Cloth, 280 pages, colour illustrations; 35 cm. First published by Skira, Geneva. Translation of La peinture anglaise. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. First American Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover.… Read more about this item

New York: Nan A Talese; Doubleday, 2001. xxvi, 801 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated First Edition in the United States of America. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1978. Cloth, xxv, 197 pages, [8] leaves of plates, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: Introduction: the search for context, by Garth Clark. I. THE EUROPEAN ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT: The lesser arts of life,… Read more about this item

New York: Da Capo Press, 1976. xxi, 50 pages, [100] leaves of plates, illustrations; 27 cm. Abridged. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, age toning. First paperback edition. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Limpsfield, Surrey: Paper Tiger, 1981. Cloth, 144 pages, colour illustrations; 30 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Corners lightly bumped/front board. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

New York and London: Pegasus Books, 2021. 344 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Pegasus Books cloth edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Hugo Vickers's life took a dramatic turn in 1979 when the legendary Sir Cecil Beaton invited him to be… Read more about this item

London: Tadema Studios, The London Sketch Club, 2012. Pictorial boards, 128 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 x 29 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Lower right corner bumped. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "45 Park Lane, Dorchester Collection Art Book displays the hotel's… Read more about this item

London: Barbican Art Gallery in association with Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 256 pages, illustrations (some colour), 1 map, facsimiles, portraits (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Lower right corner lightly bumped. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Presents a collection of the works of English fashion, portrait and war photographer,… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press; A Studio Book, 1980. Cloth, 256 pages, illustrations; 32 cm. Firm binding, unmarked. Age toning, edges & endpapers lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear/light chipping, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: The early years; The studio at Sussex Gardens; America; The thirties; The royal years; The war… Read more about this item

London: Waddington Galleries, 2002. 55 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 33 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held 27 November to 21 December 2002. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Folio.

San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1992. Cloth, 239 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's signature/front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Edges lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. "This book marks the retirement of Robert Wark as Curator of the Huntington Art Collections and reflects his… Read more about this item

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982. Cloth, 172 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's ink stamp/front paste-down endpaper (inside front cover), otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Nan A Talese; Doubleday, 1996. xxv, 425 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Turning her back on her privileged life in Victorian England, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), fired by her innate curiosity, journeyed the world and became fascinated with… Read more about this item

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006. Cloth, xxi, 534 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), maps; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Carroll & Graf edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "History has long maintained that the Anglo-Saxon overtaking of the Iron Age Celts… Read more about this item