11. [Gray, Cleve / Motherwell, Robert] Smith, David.

David Smith – Exhibition Catalogue April 18 – May 13, 1950. [Cleve Gray’s personal copy]. [With a two page introduction / statement by Robert Mothwell].

New York, Willard Gallery, 1950. Small Octavo. 8 unnumbered pages. Original, illustrated softcover / stapled. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Copy of american abstract expressionist painter Cleve Gray, with his name in ballpen on cover. One part of Motherwell’s introductory – statement with a pencil mark at the side highlighting this section: “When I saw David places his work against the mountains and sky, the impulse was plain, an ieffable desire to see his humanness related to exterior reality, to nature at least if not man, for the marvel of the felt scale that exists between a true work and the immovable world, the relation that makes both human”.

12. Burke, Gerald L.

The Making of Dutch Towns – A Study in Urban Development from the Tenth to the Seventeenth Centuries. [with interesting chapters and maps e.g. “Trade Routes circa 1450”]. Foreword by Sir William Holford.

First Edition. London, Cleaver-Hume Press Ltd. 1956. 19cm x 25cm. 176 pages, with 99 illustrations. Original Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

13. [Pissarro, Lucien] Thorold, Anne.

A Catalogue of the Oil Paintings of Lucien Pissarro / Catalogue Raisonné. Compiled by Anne Thorold with a Preface by Christopher Lloyd and an Introduction by John Bensusan-Butt.

Numbered Limited Edition (One of only 400 printed !) London, Athelney Books / Printed by “The Curwen Press”, 1983. Folio. XIX, 251 pages with 554 paintings listed and illustrated. Including the tipped-in colour-illustration of “La Frette et Sartrouville”. Original Hardcover in original slipcase. The Volume itself in absolutely excellen, near mint condition. The slipcase with some staining and rubbing. Extremely scarce !

14. Ciarrocchi, Arnoldo and Mori, Ermanno.

Le Tavolette Votive Italiane.

First Edition. Udine, Edizione Doretti, No Date (ca.1960). 19cm x 24.5cm. 283 pages with 23 black and white illustrations and 116 colour plates. Original Hardcover with protective Mylar in original slipcase. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

15. Seago, Edward.

High Endeavour.

First Edition. London, Collins, 1944. 18.5cm x 25cm. 78 (1) pages with 20 illustrations. Original Hardcover (blue cloth) without the dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Private inscription on endpaper.

16. [John, Augustus] Christie Manson and Woods.

Catalogue of Drawings and Paintings from the studio of the Late Augustus John, O.M., R.A. (sold by order of the executors). Which will be sold at Auction by Christie Manson and Woods Ltd.

London, Christie, Manson and Woods Ltd, 1962. 18.5cm x 24.5cm. 179 pages with 47 plates. Original paperback (softcover). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Rare auction-catalogue. Wrapper cleanly detached.

17. Edwards, Ralph.

Early Conversation Pictures. From the Middle Ages to about 1730. A Study in Origins.

First Edition. London, Country Life Limited, 1954. 18.5cm x 25cm. 176 pages with 95 illustrations Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Rare !

18. Lunn, Pete / Kelly, Elish.

In the Frame or Out of the Picture ? – A Statistical Analysis of Public Involvement in the Arts. A Report Commissioned by the National Economic and Social Forum.

Dublin, National Economic and Social Forum, 2008. 15,5 cm x 23 cm. 103 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Rare and Out-of-Print!

19. Garner, Philippe.

Sixties Design.

Hong Kong / Köln / London etc., Taschen, 2008. 23,5 cm x 31 cm. 176 pages with Illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

20. Wright, Richard.

Richard Wright.

Newcastle, Locus+, 2000. 19,5 cm x 27 cm. [96] pages. Original Softcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.