Search Results: Art from Ayers Books/Livres Ayers

Johannesburg: AD. DONKER, 1989 Hard cover, 252 pages. Red boards with white titles, illustrated dust jacket, black and white and coloured illustrations throughout. Book and dust jacket in very good+ condition. An exploration of the African artistic tradition and its evolution. . Hard Cover. Very good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paris: Les Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 1926 Couverture souple,[10] 213 [4] pages. 28.5 cm, Nombreux planches, dessins et autographes en couleur et noir et blanc, Couverture jaunie, le dos a été réparé. L'intérieur trés bon. Large quarto, [10] 213 [4] pages.Text in French. Many plates, drawings and several reproductions of hand written letters. Cover is toned, the spine has been professionally repaired. Interior bright. Very good condition. . Original Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft Cover.

Sydney, Australia: Crafts Council of Australia, 1974 Soft cover, 75 pages. The Crafts Council of Australian was founded the same year as the World Crafts Council and this edition was published to showcase Australian crafts on the occasion of the first World Crafts Exhibition, Toronto, Canada held in 1974. A letter 'to the reader' from Marcia Del Thomas, President of the Council laid in. Text in English, French and Japanese, including translations from the Pitjantjatjara language. Illustrated throughout in blackand white and colour. The handmade paper cover is worn and folded at the edges, the interior is in very good condition. . Soft Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Leipzig: E;A; Seemann, 1922. Octavo, 25cm.[1] 278 [68] pages, with slipcase. Text in German. Catalog with 278 pages of notations followed by 375 small, numbered illustrations of Rembrandt etchings over 68 pages. Half leather with green paper covered boards, gilt titles on the spine. Light edgewear and rubbing to the leather, otherwise in very good condition with a pristine interior. . Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Rembrandt. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011 Soft cover 4to, 112 pages. Paintings by poet Elizabeth Bishop. Illustred cover and 40 full-page colour illustrations. Includes 20 pages of prose (from Bishop's correspondence) and an afterword. Top front corner lightly bumped. Very good. . Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Elizabeth Bishop. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987 First edition. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket, unpaged. Complied by Roger G. Taylo: art work and quotations about Elvis, with commentary.. A bit of wear to the dustjacket at the top edge of the spine. Interior good with a few pages lightly creased. Very good condition. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Various. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

St. Albans, UK: Paladin, 1976 Soft cover, 223 pages. Illustrated cover, 33 pages of blackand white reproductions of Hogarth's works on 30 unnumbered pages . Hogarth's depictions of the social history of England placed in context by the author, based on primary sources. Pages are lightly toned. Very good condition. . Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Montreal: Editions Liber, 1999. Couverture souple, 101 pages. 27 pages d'illustrations plein couleur. Entretiens avec Jacques de Tonnancour, peintre et entomolgiste amateur, qui a participé à l'émergence de l'art moderne au Québec. Très bon. . Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Vancouver: J.J. Douglas, 1975 Soft cover, 246 pages. Illustrated dust jacket, 70 stunning full-page plates with detailed descriptions, bibliography and index. Photographs by Alfred A. Blaker. The entire collection of the Lowie Museum Collectin at UC Berkely is represented in this book. Lightly used, very good condition. . Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Alfred A. Blaker. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Grove Press, 1963. Soft cover, 256 pages. "The Eye of Mexico" edition featuring over 15 Mexican writers and artists, including: Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, As well music and poetry reviews. Black and white photos and illustrations. Advertisements, especially related to Mexico. Edgewear. no longer fresh. Good. . Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Grove Press, 1958. Soft cover, 185 pages. Short stories, poetry, reviews, letters to the editor and contemporary advertisements, including for a new book by Jack Kerouac: the Dharma Bums. Contributers include Daisetz T. Suzuki (on Japanese culture), Lorca, Kline, Snyder and others. Black and white illustrations, photos. Edgewear, no longer fresh. Previous owner's name in small letters on ffep. Good condition. . Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Alden Pres Ltd. Oxford: Liverpool University Press s , 1996 Soft cover, 336 pages including bibliography and index, 108 black and white illustrations throughout the text. The art of medicine in the eighteenth century illustrated, with drawings by Hogarth, Rowlandson, Cruikshank, Dighton. Gillray and other contemporaries.. Near fine.. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Tokyo: Insatsujiho-sha, 1981. Hard cover with just jacket and slip case, 146 pages.Text in Japanese with English titles on the dust jacket and in the text English renderings of the artists' names. Full page optical illusion and stereogram graphics. Loose patterned acetate overlays can be used over any of the various designs in the book to create different effects. Slip case no longer fresh, dust jacket and book very good +. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Montréal: BanQ/Fidès, 2013 Couverture souple, 452 pages. Catalog avant publication de Bibliothèque et archives nationes de Québec et Bibliothèque et archives Canada. Illustrations en couleur et noir et blanc par l'auteur. Mémoires, correspondances et carnets de voyage de l'artiste René Derouin. . Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by René Derouin. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2011. Soft cover. From an exhibition at the Montreal Musuem of Fine Arts held October 13m 2011 through January 20, 2012. Includes works by Bonnard, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Gérôme, Sisley, Corot, Lautric, Tissot and Gauguin. As new. . Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall.

Tokyo: Sanseido Company, 1936. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Second edition, xiii, 525 pages. Includes index. Red boards with gilt titles. All that remains of the dust jacket is the front page with flap, now laid in. Preface to the second edition by the author. Glossy paper with ten full-page colour plates and 345 black and white illustrations. Two-page map tipped in at end. The spine is faded and worn. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Very good. . Signed by Author. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Annecy, Montréal: Musée-Château d’Annecy et l’École d’arts d’Annecy, 2000 Couverture souple, 30.5 x 24 cm. Catalogue d'une exposition, Galerie de l'UQAM (Montréal), Mars - Avril 1998. Texte en francais et anglais. Étampe de la Collection Maurice Forget et numéro de catalogue en encre page de garde avant. Soft cover, oblong. Text in English and French. Catalogue from an exhibition and artist book. Stamp and catalogue number from the Maurice Forget Collection front half-title page. Very good. . Soft Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Nicole Jolicoeur. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Montreal: Concordia University/The Journal of Canadian Art History, 2006 Soft cover, 118 pages. Portrait, front cover, black and white illustrations throughout. Articles in French or English. Includes article on the exploration of the Atlantic coast of Canada with maps and drawings by Champlain and others. Very good condition. . Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paris, New York, Dusseldorf: Editions Denise Rene, 1975. Illustrated souvenir album from the exhibition /artistic manifesto held in Paris,1955 and repeated in New York in 1975. Featuring important artists who experimented with motion,such as Agam, Bury, Calder, Duchamp, Jacobsen, Soto, Tinguely & Vasarely. Large 4to, oblong format, unpaged (43 pp.) Includes a 34 inch, 86 cm. poster printed on one side with the names of the participating artists and on the reverse "Sequences from the film "Le Mouvement"" directed and filmed [by] Pontus Hulten and Robert Breir, Paris 1955". The cover is worn at the corners and there is light wear to the top fore edge and pages. The poster is in very good condition. Important events in the history and development of kinetic art. . Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Collective. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Stapled Soft Cover.

Boston: MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2014. Hard cover, 128 pages. Illustrated boards and decorative end papers. Published on the occasion of a travelling exhibition in the US, Japan and Canada. The influence of Japan on Western art lavishly illustrated throughout, often with Japanese and Western representations juxtaposed. Near fine. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.