Art and Design

Secondhand Landmarks of the World’s Art Bargain Book Box SP4122 The complete nine-volume Landmarks of the World’s Art series from Paul Hamlyn, all hardback with jackets: Prehistoric and Primitive Man,...

Secondhand Art Book Bargain Book Box SP4105 Fifteen art books, most large-format hardback: Treasures of the Louvre, Monet and the Impressionists, Taschen’s Courbet, the Prado and Rijksmuseum guides, Van Gogh...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the twentieth century embodied wit, elegance, and creative genius quite like Noël Coward...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew biographies of an artist carry the intimacy and authority of a memoir written by a close personal friend, and...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: pp105-108 looseA life spent among books, paintings, and music is a life richly examined, and The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor decades, John Cargher was the irreverent, passionate, and brilliantly entertaining voice of classical music and opera on Australian radio, and There's Music in...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sun-drenched landscapes of colonial Australia to the grand galleries of Europe, Comedy of Life chronicles the remarkable journey of Sir...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn an era when women were expected to remain firmly within domestic confines, Marianne North defied every convention — picking up her paintbrushes and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodAt the end of the nineteenth century, a revolution in Australian art transformed the colonial landscape into something radical, luminous, and distinctly national — The...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the age of cameras and computers, one man saw the world with impossible clarity — painting...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: stained book blockFrom the thunderous drama of Verdi to the mythic grandeur of Wagner, Stories of the Great Operas &...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFew lives in twentieth-century British theatre burned as brightly — or as improbably — as that of Emlyn Williams, the Welsh miner's...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA masterwork of operatic scholarship, Famous Puccini Operas by Spike Hughes is the definitive...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerLong before photography captured the raw, sun-scorched reality of colonial Australia, one man's pen and brush did it with startling wit and...

Few names in the history of Western civilisation carry the weight of Leonardo da Vinci — painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. This...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the sun-scorched plains of Australia emerges a myth reimagined — The Legend: Leda and the Emu presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artists have captured the riotous, joyful absurdity of everyday British life quite like Beryl Cook, and Private...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artists in Western history command the draftsmanship and raw expressive power of Peter Paul Rubens, and this...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark survey of Australian artistic achievement, Modern Painters 1931-1970 chronicles four decades of creative evolution that transformed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThroughout the centuries, women of extraordinary courage, intellect, and vision have shaped the course of history...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersAt the crossroads of cultural identity and artistic ambition, Modern Australian Painting, 1975/1980 presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in Australian cultural history provoke as much fascination, controversy, and sheer creative wonder as Norman Lindsay...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew artists have captured the soul of a continent with the raw, mythic intensity of Sir Sidney Nolan, and Sidney Nolan-Australia stands as a definitive...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFew artists have captured the spiritual heartbeat of Australia's First Nations people with the breathtaking reverence of Ainslie Roberts, and this volume stands as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; minor stain on the book blockAt a time when the Australian art world was largely...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedFew artists have abandoned the comfort of bourgeois civilization so dramatically — or so defiantly — as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an age of unparalleled artistic ambition, two titans rose above all others — and Leonardo, Michelangelo and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodGreat Artists: A Treasury of Paintings by the Masters is a magnificent compendium that transports the reader through centuries of artistic genius, presenting an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the raw brushstrokes of colonial settlement to the bold experimentation of the mid-twentieth century, Australian Painters: Colonial 1788–1880; Impressionists 1881–1930; Modern...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodA landmark publication from one of Australia's most prestigious cultural institutions, 25 International Artists Who Have Made an Impact...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: pages can have minimal notes and/or underlining in grey leadOne of the most radical and transformative movements in the history...

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Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners,Previous ownerFew...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century theatre command the reverence accorded to Sir John Gielgud, and this celebratory anthology — assembled to mark the great actor's...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew collaborations in cinema history have been as turbulent, visionary, and ultimately tragic as...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerWhat does it truly mean to inhabit a character, to breathe life into a role...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodA tender act of filial devotion and a landmark of art history, Renoir: My Father presents an intimate portrait of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew artists have shaped the course of Western civilization as profoundly as the Renaissance master whose hand brought to life the Sistine Chapel ceiling,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in the history of Western music loom as large or as luminously as Ludwig van Beethoven, and Beethoven: A Documentary Study...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of Australia's wild bush country, where the ancient rhythms of the natural...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind the formidable image of an empire's sovereign lay the tender hand of a devoted artist — and Queen Victoria's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew art forms have shaped the soul of the twentieth century quite like jazz — and The World of Jazz by Rodney Dale stands...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew minds in human history have ignited the imagination quite like Leonardo da Vinci, and Leonardo's Inventions presents a captivating window into...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor nine decades, the Royal Australian Air Force has soared through the skies of history — defending...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image **GERMAN TEXT ONLY**Few artists have made the impossible feel so inevitable as Maurits Cornelis Escher, and Bruno...