Return to the House of Invention de Morriseau, Norval - 2005

Paris: Damascene Morgand Et Charles Fatout. Very Good+. 1880-82. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Five rebound volumes. Limited edition 327/500, printed on Holland paper. Tome 1, Partie 1, 1880, 394pp; Tome 1, Partie 2, 1880, 398pp - 759pp; Tome 2, Partie 1, 1881, 336pp; Tome 2, Partie 2, 1881, 344pp - 771pp; Tome 3, Partie 1 only, 1882, 384pp. Clean red buckram cloth. Bright gilt title on spines. Texts tight, clean & intact. Rare Section; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Seattle / New Haven: Henry Art Gallery / Yale, 2006 Signed on the title page by Maya Lin and dated 2006. Additionally signed by Lawrence Weschler, who contributed the Foreword. First edition / First printing. Off White cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The catalogue of Maya Lin's 2006 exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. An attractive production. The cover is embossed with the artist's "Waterline.

Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications by Philip Wilson Publishers Limited, London, 1978 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (two hardcover volumes in buckram bound with dust jackets in splicase); 25.6 x 35 cm; 5.243 Kg; 704 pages with 103 colour plates and 100 monochrome illustrations; Used books wih signs of wear, namely on the dust jacket that show minor tears. Interior in very good condition.; This century has brought a growing awareness of the vast scale of Chinese export of decorative arts from the seventeenth century onwards. Until very recently however this subject had been very little studied, overshadowed as it was by the ever-widening perspectives of China's ancient past. It was nevertheless through this trade, and especially its ceramic wares, that the unique artistic creativity of the Chinese first became widely known and appreciated. This book aims to provide the most detailed and penetrating analysis yet made of the porcelains produced for Western markets during… Leer más

Kyuryudo, Japan, 1969 Book. Good. Hardcover. Japanese text; Hardcover (without dust jacket in slipcase); 29.5 x 30.5 cm; 1.890 Kg; 161 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear. The slipcase shows edgewear. Signs of wear on the interior.; A catalogue of fine examples of those Chinese porcelain wares known as Ko-sometsuke or literally 'old blue and white', destined to the Japanese market. In 161 pages, the book comprises 33 colour plates and a number of black and white images throughout the rest of the book, along with explanatory articles and captions. Showing pieces with a variety of shapes and decorative themes, this catalogue is a reference book for those who are interested in this intriguing and distinctive group of blue and white tea ceremony porcelain wares produced at the kilns of Kigndezhen, Jiangxi, during the declining decades of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644)..

NY: Praeger Publishers. Very Good with no dust jacket; Lacks acetate jacket, boards faintly sunned.. 1956. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Preface by A. Hyatt Mayor, introduction by Isabel Bishop. Black cloth titled in silver. 60pp plus [2]pp alphabetical index. One of 100 limited numbered copies (this is 33) with frontispiece etching signed in pencil by Reginald Marsh (F. M. ) - Marsh's wife, the artist Felicia Meyer, as Marsh died in 1954.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

San Francisco: Chronicle Press, 2000. Signed by Ruth Bernhard on the title page. First edition / First printing. Gray cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

London: Batsford, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good copy of this scarce and standard work. Some discoloration of front and rear flyleaf. Minor shelf wear. Top of pages gilded. Original charcoal grey boards with gilt lettering. Clean interior with no foxing. Pp. xv, 268, with 441 illustrations.

San Francisco, CA: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2011. Rare volume. The actual title on the cover is NIN ET HOU SA NDP IE CES // EUA NM ACD ON ALD 8vo horizontal pictorial softcover with photo illustrated pages; unpaginated - about 150 pages, most with full-page color photographs. A few pages have no image on the reverso, most do, and a few appear to have a smaller image continued from the previous page. Front cover has some textural, engrossed elements: lines across the top that replicate piano keys and others that outline the photograph of the piano on the front cover. This Private Press book of the 2011 exhibit at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco is based on the artists 9,000 Pieces project, photographed at a musical instrument factory in Shanghai, China. Artist Euan MacDonald has exhibited around the world. Also includes the articles: Euan MacDonald: In the Making by Julio Cesar Morales Responsiveness Testing by Ralph Rugoff. Edgewear and light wear to covers,… Leer más

Paris: Espace Carole Brimaud, 1995. Livre. Illus. by Jean Clerté. Très bon. En Feuilles. Signé par L'auteur et L'illustrateur. Edition originale. Petit In-4. Paris, Espace Carole Brimaud, 1995. Coll. "Tambour de soie" (n° 2). 24 x 21,5 cm, petit in-4, 23 (2) pp., 9 oeuvres reproduites dont 7 en couleurs, en feuilles sous couverture blanche à rabats imprimée, étui. Tirage à 500 exemplaires. Celui-ci l'un des 30 de tête, signés par l'auteur et l'artiste et enrichis d'une AQUARELLE ORIGINALE de Jean Clerté. Très bel exemplaire..

Folio, original illustrated French-folded wrappers, original acetate and original red cloth bound slipcase. Translated by J.B. Sidgwick, 1958. Text in EnglishLimited first edition, number 1265 of 2000 copies, with four original black and white lithographs and one fifteen-color double page lithograph entitled " The Road". This volume also includes 37 beautiful color plates. The original lithographs were pulled in Paris by the Mourlot Freres atelier. Mourlot's printing of "The Road" was supervised by the artist in collaboration with Charles Sorlier.This copy is in very fine condition with the exception of two loose pages before the title page and some slight wear on the slip case.