NOW SOLD. Football hooligans, football pin-ups? Charles Buchan’s Football magazine, 3 copies, 1956. 1957, 1960
Football history! Three near perfect copies of this historic football document chock-full of pull-out pin-ups and legendary goal shots interspersed with journalism and stories. Team shots, mug shots and players in the bath, very amusing advertising too. A good read. 22x 28 cm.
Kenneth Rowntree and Gwyn Jones: A Prospect of Wales, Penguin books, 1948.
The finest illustrated books in the King Penguin series edited by Nicholas Pevsner, watercolours by Kenneth Rowntree whose Pop Art sensibility, graphic style and loving, seeing, eye notices cattle grazing and Nonconformist chapels, church yards and coal mine workings, glimpses through windows, cottages, castles and the sea strand. With an essay by Gwyn Jones, Very clean copy, with a superb trompe l'oeil cover design. Hardcover, 12.5 x 18 cm.
SOLD: The Magic of Coal, by Peggy M. Hart, Puffin Picture Book.
Noel Carrington edited and commissioned the groundbreaking Puffin Picture Book series, published under the imprint Transatlantic Arts during WW2. He was above all a design propagandist for the well made object who believed that that 'Nothing Need be Ugly’. Eric Ravilious' High Street, Kathleen Hale's Orlando books, Mervyn Peake's Captain Slaughterboard, were all commissioned by Carrington. Brother of the Bloomsbury artist, Dora Carrington, he was one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century in the commissioning, editing and publishing of children's picture books. In good condition, spine and edges slightly bumped. 23 x 19 cm
SOLD: The New Poacher’s Handbook, Ian Niall, illustrated by Silvanus Marston, 1960
Rather a good read, the confessions of an inveterate poacher and keeper-teaser, snare wires, long-tails, ferrets, natural cunning and pied dogs, but the full glory of this book is in its beautiful black and white graphic illustrations. A eulogy for the end of the old estates and the squirearchy and the resourcefulness of the tradition of poaching practised by the less well resourced, written by a self-confessed 'congenital poacher' with the poetic gift. Good, near perfect condition with paper dust wrapper, lightly foxed and spotted on the fly leaves.14 x 22 cm.
SOLD: The Story of Furniture, Gordon Russell and Jacques Groag, Puffin Picture Book
Noel Carrington edited and commissioned the groundbreaking Puffin Picture Book series, published under the imprint Transatlantic Arts during WW2. He was above all a design propagandist for the well made object who believed that that 'Nothing Need be Ugly’. Eric Ravilious' High Street, Kathleen Hale's Orlando books, Mervyn Peake's Captain Slaughterboard, were all commissioned by Carrington. Brother of the Bloomsbury artist, Dora Carrington, he was one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century in the commissioning, editing and publishing of children's picture books. In near perfect unread condition. 22 x 18 cm
SOLD: Woodworking For Beginners, by John Dumayne, Puffin Picture Book, 1946
Noel Carrington edited and commissioned the groundbreaking Puffin Picture Book series, published under the imprint Transatlantic Arts during WW2. He was above all a design propagandist for the well made object who believed that that 'Nothing Need be Ugly’. Eric Ravilious' High Street, Kathleen Hale's Orlando books, Mervyn Peake's Captain Slaughterboard, were all commissioned by Carrington. Brother of the Bloomsbury artist, Dora Carrington, he was one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century in the commissioning, editing and publishing of children's picture books. This one is in pristine, unread condition. 22 x 18 cm
Nudes, Edward Piper, The Dovecot Press, 2000, limited edition photographic monograph published by Prue Piper
Edward Piper ( (1938- 1990) eldest son of the neo-Romantic painter John Piper and the critic and librettist Myfanwy Piper) was a painter and photographer. As well as his highly distinctive and idiosyncratic black and white landscape and architectural images taken for the Shell County Guides he made hundreds of paintings and photographs of the female nude, In 2000 Prue Piper published this monograph of her late husband’s experimental art photography, Nudes by Edward Piper, in a limited edition of only 1000 copies designed printed at The Dovecot Press. Prue was his favourite model, others were ‘friends of ours, or local girls who liked to show off,’ she says. A limited number of these beautifully printed books, signed and numbered by Prue Piper are available for sale via bibleofbritishtaste.com, price £20.00 plus £5 p and p. (My copy is numbered 378). TO BUY contact Prue Piper: pruepiper@btinternet.com
SOLD: Britain and the Beast, edited by Clough Williams Ellis, 1938.
Maverick architect and architectural historian Clough Williams-Ellis, editing a selection of polemical essays by his illustrious friends and acolytes, a compendium of texts urgently seeking to put the country to rights, campaigning for countryside, vernaculars, cultural heritage and the preservation of the best of all these. Contributions from John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, G. M. Trevelyan, and a message of support from the former Prime Minister and Liberal politician David Lloyd George ( Clough would design his commemorative tomb-monument in Wales a few years later). In good clean condition with a blue cloth binding, published by the Readers Union and J M Dent and Sons on the eve of war in 1938. A poignant historical document. With the bookplate of Stuart H. Borland. Illustrated with many sepia photographic plates.
SOLD: Dahlias For Everyone, T.R.H. Lebar (1961), from the Blandford Horticultural List.
Dahlias For Everyone! by Terence Ronald Harry Lebar, (1961). Foreword by Stuart Ogg, Chairman of the National Dahlia Society. Richly illustrated with technicolour full page colour plates and black and white photographs and diagrams, 28 chapters on how to grow dahlias, in original dust wrapper which is slightly torn and scuffed, printed in Bungay, this copy smells very nicely of wood pulp. UK postage and packing £3.99.
SOLD: Printing, by Harold Curwen and Jack Brough, Puffin Picture Book, 1948, Curwen Press
Noel Carrington edited and commissioned the groundbreaking Puffin Picture Book series, published under the imprint Transatlantic Arts during WW2. He was above all a design propagandist for the well made object who believed that that 'Nothing Need be Ugly’. Eric Ravilious' High Street, Kathleen Hale's Orlando books, Mervyn Peake's Captain Slaughterboard, were all commissioned by Carrington. Brother of the Bloomsbury artist, Dora Carrington, he was one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century in the commissioning, editing and publishing of children's picture books. In near perfect unread condition. 22 x 18 cm
SOLD: The Battle of Britain, by David Garnett and James Gardner, Puffin Picture Book, 1940
'Based on the Air Ministry Official Account.' Noel Carrington edited and commissioned the groundbreaking Puffin Picture Book series, published under the imprint Transatlantic Arts during WW2. He was above all a design propagandist for the well made object who believed that that 'Nothing Need be Ugly’. Eric Ravilious' High Street, Kathleen Hale's Orlando books, Mervyn Peake's Captain Slaughterboard, were all commissioned by Carrington. Brother of the Bloomsbury artist, Dora Carrington, he was one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century in the commissioning, editing and publishing of children's picture books. This one is almost perfect condition, slight foxing to spine, condition. 22 x 18 cm
SOLD: The Pleasure Garden, Anne Scott James and Osbert Lancaster, John Murray, 1977.
Hardback in green cloth covers and dust wrapper, good condition but slightly kibbled edges and one mended tear to top left corner of dust wrapper, this very funny illustrated book co-authored and illustrated by a married pair of snobbish, clever, social commentators and aesthetes. A pictorial survey of garden history down the ages starting with a peristyle and ending with a patio, a perfect present.
SOLD. Crewel Embroidery by Erica Wilson, hardback, 1954
Technical instructions in clear incisive mode, photographs and how to do it. An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that sets up the beginner. In good near perfect condition, dust wrapper, previous owner's name pencilled on the flyleaf. Very tempting. Published by Faber and Faber.
SOLD. House and Garden, Guide to Interior Decoration, Conde Nast publications 1967
One of Conde Nast's epic, now period, interior design compendiums, including engravings by Eric Gill! The interior treatments are spectacularly fresh looking and innovative , new ways with hanging pictures, shocking colour combinations, maximalism, David Hicks on acid and DIY tips galore. Crammed with masses of technicolour and black and white plates. Coffee-table sized hardback. In extremely good condition, dust wrapper intact and only slightly chipped, with the bookplate of Harkan E. Stromberg.
