Search Results: The Arts from Lansdowne Books

Four stories with numerous coloured illustrations, bound in stiff illustrated boards. A very good copy printed on quality paper. Cover shows signs of wear but pages are very clean and tight. Illustrated by Hans Heysen and sixteen other Australian artists. First Edition First Impression

1st Edition. 216 illustrations, 84 in colour. No marks or inscriptions.

A rare copy of this title offered for sale. Beautiful production of high quality photographs celebrating the "Divine Child" and representations of the Infant Jesus. This title comes with related exhibition brochure and 6 postcards from the exhibition hosted in Gardone Riviera. A delightful Christmas Gift.

Christie's Auction catalogue. 2008 Sale No. 7674. Lots 1-157. vo. 291 pp. Near fine with soft covers. Color plates, photographs. Text in English. Pages like new are clean and unmarked. Beautiful colour reproductions and photos.For larger or multi-volume items additional shipping charges may be necessary.

First impression, not price-clipped. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, dust jacket now in protective mylar. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Subjects: Li, Cunxin 1961-. Ballet dancers. Defectors. Genre: Biography. Language: EnglishSynopsis:An extraordinary memoir of a peasant boy raised in rural Maoist China who was plucked from his village to study ballet and went on to become one of the greatest dancers of his generation. In 1961, three years of Mao's Great Leap Forward-along with three years of poor harvests-had left a rural China suffering terribly from disease and deprivation. Li Cunxin, his parents' sixth son, lived in a small house with twenty of his relatives and, along with the rest of his family, subsisted for years on the verge of starvation. But when he was eleven years old, Madame Mao decided to revive the Peking Dance Academy, and sent her men into the countryside searching for children to attend. Chosen on the basis of his physique alone, Li… Read More

1st Edition. Near fine hardback purple cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.Dust jacket in protective mylar. Physical description: . Subjects: Melba, Nellie Dame 1861-1931. Melba, Nellie Dame. Opera Singing Melba, Dame Nellie Biographies. Opera - Singers. Singers - Biography. Singers Australia; Biography. 1 Kg.

An invaluable illustrated catalogue of all the etched works of Norman Lindsay, whose output in this medium was remarkable. The various essays, appendices and notes make this reference book an essential resource on the subject. Bungendore: Odana editions and Sydney : Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1999. First edition. Quarto, illustrated boards. Beautifully illustrated. Out of print. The contents cover: the etchings: notes on the unpublished etchings catalogue raisonne; notes on the published etchings catalogue raisonne; selected exhibitions in chronological order; public collections; glossary of etching terms; selected bibliography; index of published etchings in alphabetical order; index of etchings in chronological order.

Hardcover. 1st Edition Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy.Introduction. Book is divided into 2 sections: The Obstacles and How They Ran. 327 pp. plus: List of Illustrations (326), List of Colour Plates (32), Acknowledgments, Notes, Index. Subjects: Kauffman, Angelica. Goncharova, Natalia 1881-1962. Valadon, Suzanne 1865-1938. Morisot, Berthe 1841-1895. Kollwitz, Kathe 1867-1945. Greer, Germaine 1939-. Women artists. Women painters. Women in art. Painting women artists to ca.1930 feminist viewpoints.Book weighs nearly 3 lb. and may require extra shipping costs.

Galahad Books, New York, 1974. Hardcover (Illustrated Boards). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.
A note about the artist.--Omar Khayyam: an introduction, by E. J. FitzGerald.Green coloured endpages. The text is illustrated with coloured illustrated frontispiece, coloured plates and black-and-white drawings throughout the text by Sarkis Katchadourian. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured illustration to the front panel and backstrip. Purple coloured insert to the backstrip and within that insert, gilt coloured titles. Illustrated dustwrapper in protective sleeve, again by Sarkis Katchadourian, with black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. The classic Edward Fitzgerald translation of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam's poems. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [8], IX - XVI, 19 - 131, [1] pagesweight .7

First Edition. Binding tight and straight, Inner pages crisp and clean.

1st Edition. .Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in mylar sleeve. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Introduction by Lord Wedgwood.For larger or multi-volume items additional shipping charges may be necessary.

3 Volumes. Dark blue texture cloth covers with blind stamped decoration & gilt lettering to fronts and spines. Many beautiful tipped in colour plates of the world's finest paintings. Foxing to pages but not plates. Shipping to be calculated due to weight and size 12" Tall weighs 3.3 kilos so postage will be extra.