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Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered
by Hales, Dianne
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Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered, Hales, Dianne. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2014. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 317pp. bibliography, references, index and map. Quarter green cloth over black boards, color illustrated endpapers. Contents in fine condition; 2 small remainder marks to edge; dustjacket has light edge wear.
Lisa Gherardini (1479-1542) was a quintessential woman of her times, caught… Read more about this item Item Price
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Eyes of a City: Early Vancouver Photographers 1868-1900
by Mattison, David
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Eyes of a City: Early Vancouver Photographers 1868-1900, Mattison, David. Published by Vancouver City Archives, Vancouver, B.C., 1986. Occasional Paper No. 3. Oblong 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 76pp., Bibliography; Appendix of Vancouver Commercial Photographers and Studios 1886-1900; Index. Card covers with glossy pages. In fine condition.
An exploration of early Vancouver through the photographs that have managed to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sculpture of the Inuit
by Swinton, George
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Sculpture of the Inuit, Swinton, George. Published by McClelland & Stewart, Inc. Toronto, 1992. Revised and Updated edition; fifth edition. Folio up to 15" tall., 285pp. with color plates and black and white photographs. Black cloth boards with white spine titles. Volume is fine condition, dustjacket has very light top edge ruffle. Item Price
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Gibson Guitars 100 Years of an American Icon
by Carter, Walter
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Gibson Guitars 100 Years of an American Icon, Carter, Walter. Published by Gibson Publishing, 1994. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 341pp. illustrated, index. Burgundy textured boards with gilt spine titles; endpapers illustrated with diagram of the Gibson guitar. Volume is in fine, unread condition; dustjacket has light top edge ruffling and is otherwise fine.
Chronicles 100 years… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lost Divas
by Tubeuf, Andre
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Lost Divas, Tubeuf, Andre. Published by Assouline. New York, 2005. Folio up to 15" tall., 120 pp. with full page black and white photographs printed on high quality paper; rear pocket with accompanying CD produced specially for this publication. Photographic boards; issued without dustjacket. Volume is in fine condition and CD has not been used or removed.
Photographs (some unpublished) of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Shakespeare's Face
by Stephanie Nolen
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Shakespeare's Face, Stephanie Nolen. Published by Knopf Canada, Toronto, 2002. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 365pp. with black and white and color illustrations, notes, index.S Black boards with bronze spine titles. Volume is in fine condition, jacket has light shelf wear.
A fascinating literary detective story charting the surprising, true history of a recently discovered painting of Shakespeare held by the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Seven Journeys: The Sketchbooks of Emily Carr
by Shadbolt, Doris
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Seven Journeys: The Sketchbooks of Emily Carr, Shadbolt, Doris. Published by Douglas and McIntyre, 2002. First Edition. Card covers. 160pp. In fine, unread condition.
Spanning the years 1927 to 1930, at a turning point in her life when Emily Carr was in her mid-fifties, these sketches record seven significant journeys -- to isolated Native villages in coastal British Columbia and to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dear Nan: Letters of Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, and Humphrey Toms
by Edited by Doreen Walker
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Dear Nan: Letters of Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, and Humphrey Toms, Edited by Doreen Walker. Published by The University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1990. First Edition. xlvi, 436pp. black and white photos, appendix and index. Blue grey boards with white spine titles. Tiny inked name to free endpaper and otherwise contents are in fine condition; light outer edge dusting,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Emily Carr
by Hill, Charles C., J. Lamoureux, I. M. Thom et al
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Emily Carr. Nouvelles perspectives sur une légende Canadienne, Hill, Charles C., J. Lamoureux, I. M. Thom et al. Published by Musée des beaux-arts du Canada / Vancouver Art Gallery / Douglas & McIntire, Ottawa/Vancouver, 2006. French Version. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 336pp., 302 colour and black and white illustrations with essays by distinguished critics. Photographic boards with… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Free World; Art and Thought in the Cold War
by Menand, Louis
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The Free World; Art and Thought in the Cold War, Menand, Louis. Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2021. First Edition. 857pp. with notes and index. Black boards with silver titles. In fine, unread condition; dustjacket has very light shelf edge wear..
The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jane Austen Embroidery
by Batchelor, Jennie; Larkin, Alison
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Jane Austen Embroidery: Regency Patterns Reimagined for Modern Stitchers, Batchelor, Jennie; Larkin, Alison. Published by Dover Publications, 2020. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 160pp., illustrated. In fine, unread condition.
Jane Austen was as skillful with a needle as she was with a pen and this unique book showcases rare and beautiful embroidery patterns from her era. Derived from Lady's… Read more about this item Item Price
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Bestiary Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library
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Bestiary Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford M.S. Bodley 764 with all the Original Miniatures reproduced in Facsimile. Translated by Richard Barber. Published by Folio Society, London, 1992. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 202pp. with 135 colour illustrations of the original illuminated miniatures; title-page lettering by Sebatian Carter. Cream pictorial boards with blue cloth spine,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tensile Structures
by Otto, Frei
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Tensile Structures, Otto, Frei. Published by the MIT Press, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1973. Fifth printing, 1982. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume 1 and 2 combined. Vol.1: 320pp.; Vol. 2: 168pp. Card covers. Moderate shelf wear to covers; binding is tight and secure. Ordre des Architects du Quebec stamp to first 3 pages and otherwise contents are in fine… Read more about this item Item Price
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Awakenings
by Thomas and Martha Henrickson
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Awakenings, Thomas and Martha Henrickson. Published by Arterial Books, Thornhill, On., Canada, 1977. First Edition. Photo illustrated boards. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 79pp. with 33 1/3 rpm record in rear sleeve. Contents are in fine condition; light toning and very shelf wear to covers. Issued without dustjacket.
Martha and Thomas Henrickson combine their experiences in the visual arts… Read more about this item Item Price
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Indian Art Traditions of the Northwest Coast
by Roy L. Carlson
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Indian Art Traditions of the Northwest Coast, Roy L. Carlson. Published by Archeology Press, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, 1982. Card covers. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 214 pp. with black and white figures and photographs. "Based on papers of a symposium titled: The prehistory of northwest Coast Indian Art, held at Simon Fraser University in 1976." Light shelf… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Toute Epreuve
by Joan Miro, Eluard, Paul
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A Toute Epreuve: Gravures sur bois de Joan Miro, Eluard, Paul. Published by George Braziller, Inc, New York, 1984. Facsimile Reproduction Copy #75 of the Gerald Cramer, Geneve copy. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Contains 2 parts. Primary volume contains Eluard's poem with 80 woodcuts in colour by Miro; boards, 92pp. Booklet containing an English-language introduction and history… Read more about this item Item Price
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Patrick Heron
by Mel Gooding
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Patrick Heron, Mel Gooding. Published by Phaidon Press, London, 1994. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 272pp. with black and white and colour illustrations; bibliography; index. Cream boards with illustrated endpapers; dustjacket with French flaps. In fine condition.
Patrick Heron (1920 – 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, critic, writer, and polemicist, associated with the St… Read more about this item Item Price
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Georgia O'Keefe: Art and Letters
by Cowart, Jack, Jun Hamilton Sarah Greenough
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Georgia O'Keefe: Art and Letters, Cowart, Jack, Jun Hamilton Sarah Greenough. Published by National Gallery of Art, Washington, in Association with New York Graphic Society Books Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1987. First Edition, First printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 306pp., 119 color plates and 11 black and white photographs; over 120 letters, many never before published;… Read more about this item Item Price
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Celtic Art: From Its Beginnings to the Book of Kells
by Megaw, Ruth; Megaw, Vincent
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Celtic Art: From Its Beginnings to the Book of Kells, Megaw, Ruth; Megaw, Vincent. Published by Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, 1990. Softcover. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 288pp. 452 illustrations in black and white and colour, bibliography, index. In near fine condition with light wear to covers and very light top edge toning to pages. This is the first… Read more about this item Item Price
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Who Shot Van Gogh?
by Turnbull, Alan
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Who Shot Van Gogh? Turnbull, Alan. Published by Thames & Hudson, London, 2022. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 256pp. index, bibliography, notes. Grey boards with yellow titles, red end papers. Blind stamp to lower edge of title page and otherwise contents are in fine, unread condition and housed in a fine dustjacket.
Fact or fiction? An imaginative assemblage of… Read more about this item Item Price
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