Art from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

Boston / New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 2004. 4to. First Edition. 224 pp. Pictorial boards in pictorial unclipped jacket. Light scratching to jacket's panels and very slight wear to its corners. Minor bumping to book's corners. Internally clean. This work presents sketches, digital paintings and concept pieces from those who contributed to the award-winning films. Featuring comments from Peter Jackson.… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape 1930. 8vo. Second impression, unpaginated. Publisher's quarter black cloth over pictorial boards. Paper title label to spine. Slight rubbing to bottom corner and light bumping to bottom edge. A few light marks to back board otherwise clean. Ink ownership inscription to FFEP from 1930. Internally clean. Wordless novel with 139 black-and-white woodblock illustrations, an influential precursor to… Read more about this item

San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2002. 4to. Still shrinkwrapped. 343 pp. This catalogue addresses Eva Hesse's innovative working methods and choices of materials, as well as the larger aesthetic and philosophical questions her practice raises. It looks at over two hundred works by Hesse in all media, focusing particularly on her sculptures. Contributors' essays deal with themes… Read more about this item

New York: Rizzoli 1990. Large Square 4to. 529 pp. Cream hardcover with black lettering to the spine in dustjacket, in VG pictorial slipcase. Illustrated throughout in colour and b&w. Some rubbing to the corners of the slipcase.Internally clean and bright. This is a heavy item and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 0847812383 . Fine. Cloth.… Read more about this item

London: Bell and Daldy 1867. 4to. 59 pp. 15 photograph plates as called for. Full morocco with bevelled edges and gilt border and devices to boards; raised bands and gilt lettering and ruling to spine; marbled endpapers and gilt decorated turn-ins; a.e.g. Rubbing to extremities, with slight wear at top right corner and at top joints. Some foxing throughout, though… Read more about this item

London: Marlborough Gallery 2021. Oblong 4to.Presentation Copy. 44 pp. Softcover. Light marking and rubbing to rear cover, though would otherwise be described as near fine. Internally clean. Presentation copy from and signed by the artist. The exhibition 'Deep Water and the Architecture of Memory' ran at Marlborough London from November 2021 to January 2022. 9781909707665 . Near Fine. Softcover. 2021.… Read more about this item

London: Cassell & Co. 1929. 8vo. x, 325 pp. Blue buckram with bevelled boards in dust jacket (not price clipped). Slight sunning to spine; a little discolouration to bottom edge of book and some bumping to bottom corners. Clean boards. Dust jacket a little tanned and spotted, with a few chips and tears. Light foxing to edges and endpapers, otherwise… Read more about this item

London: Odhams Press 1948. 8vo. First Edition. 32 [+18 plates] pp. Bound in recent half dark red morocco over marbled boards in cloth-covered slipcase. Top edge stained red; raised bands, green title label and gilt lettering and devices to spine. Minor scattered spotting along top edge of leaves, with slight running of the red staining from the top edge. Otherwise… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber Limited 1949. 8vo. First Edition. 271 pp. Teal cloth with lettering to front board and gilt lettering to spine in illustrated and clipped jacket. A number of tears and areas of loss to the jacket. Minor bumping and rubbing to book extremities and front joint a little loose . Ink ownership mark, otherwise quite clean internally.… Read more about this item

Farnham, Surrey: Lund Humphries, in association with Osborne Samuel 2013. 4to.Catalogue Raisonne. First edition. 112 pp. Hardcover in illustrated jacket. Internally clean and colours bright. Vann is author of numerous books on modern British artists. With a forward by Gordon Samuel. Power was ibe of the leading lights of the Grosvenor School. 9781848221406 . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 2013.… Read more about this item

London: Whitechapel Gallery 2017. 4to. 288 pp. Illustrated hardcover boards. Slight rubbing at extremities, though in near fine condition. Internally clean and fresh. Published on the occasion of the Paolozzi exhibition held in London and Berlin in 2017 and 2018. 9780854882502 . Near Fine. Illustrated Boards. 2017.

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1986. 4to.Catalogue Raisonne. 279 pp. Cloth with blind-stamped signature to front board in pictorial jacket. Light rubbing to jacket. Light spotting and marking to top and bottom edges. Minor foxing to prelims and endpapers, otherwise internally clean. A VG to near fine copy. 0941434923 . Very Good. Cloth. 1986.

Cologne: Kunsthalle Krems / Verlag der Buchandlung Walther Konig 2017. 4to. German and English text. 217 pp. Hardcover with illustrated boards. Light rubbing to boards and spine, with a very small case of wear to the head of the latter. Internally clean. With contributions by Heinrich Klotz, Ulrich Loock and Demetrio Paparoni. 9783901261701 . Near Fine. Illustrated Boards. 2017.

London: Times Books 1974. 4to. First UK edition. 300 pp. Orange woven burlap-covered boards in pictorial jacket. A few punctures and marks to jacket. Some sunning to jacket and top edge. Pencil inscription to ffep. and associated illustrated card insert. Internally clean otherwise. Black and white and colour illustrations, including photographs. From the flap: Seeing Pablo Picasso and his work… Read more about this item

New York: Abbeville Press Inc. 1980. Large Square 4to. 321 pp. Blank white cloth binding in pictorial jacket. Light spotting and rubbing to jacket and book, with light curling to the former. Internally clean and colours bright. the dustjacket has Taschen's name on it, so this may well be one distributed by them. This is a heavy item and may… Read more about this item

Sparham, Norwich: The Mainstone Press 2012. Oblong 4to. 47 pp., Pictorial Hardcover with jacket. A clean and bright copy, illustrated in colour. 9780955277788 . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 2012.

London: Country Life 1970. 4to. 382 pp. Blue cloth with blue printed jacket and black & white illustration; top edge gilt. A few tears to the jacket. Some sunning to boards and foxing to fore-edge. Bookplate of Roy and Nina Merley of Plash/Plaish Hall. Internally clean. Black and white illustrations. Price clipped, with later price sticker. The second volume of… Read more about this item

London: The British Council 2002. Small 4to. First edition. 156, [2] pp. Softcover in translucent wrapper. Very slight tear at base of jacket's spine, otherwise a fine copy. Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Imaging Ulysses: Richard Hamilton's illustrations to James Joyce. With an introduction and commentaries by Stephen Coppel, Assistant Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings.… Read more about this item

London: Tate Publishing 2001. 4to.Exhibition Catalogue. 240 pp. Large format paperback. Clean copy. No ownership marks. Full colour throughout. Published to accompany the exhibition at Tate Britain, London, in 2001. Includes an introduction by Richard Godfrey, introduction by Mark Hallett and plenty of illustrations throughout. 1854373641 . Near Fine. Softcover. 2001.

Upper Denby: The Fleece Press 2002. Oblong 4to.Limited Edition. 285 pp. Limited edition of 750 copies. Light blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and a paper title label to the front board, in a protective plastic cover. With some 120 colour plates as well as lithographs of other works, including works from his time as an Official War… Read more about this item