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Art Crime and its Prevention: A Handbook for Collectors and Art Professionals
Art Crime and Its Prevention is the definitive handbook on art crime for art-world professionals of all kinds - from the museum, auction house or art-insurance employee to the contemporary...
Visions of Ancient Egypt
From antiquity, when the Great Pyramid was revered as a wonder of the ancient world, to the Cleopatra of Shakespeare's stage, and from the medieval Arab scholars who sought hieroglyphs'...
Living Well Is The Best Revenge: Two Americans In Paris 1921-1933
$100.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerIn the glittering, jazz-soaked boulevards of 1920s Paris, few Americans lived with more style, generosity, and élan...
Penguins Stopped Play
Author: Harry Thompson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of...
All About Love: New Visions
Author: bell hooks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks'...
Vision Vol. 2: Little Better Than A Beast
Once upon a time a robot and a witch fell in love. What followed was a tale of the dead and the dying, of the hopeful and the lost, of...
Merchants And Masterpieces: The Story Of The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA richly detailed work of cultural history, Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the...
Shearer
The true story about the greatest shearer in the world ... whose incredible shearing record remains unbeaten after more than a century! Jack Howe had hands the size of tennis...
Visions Of History
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to write history from the margins — from the factory floor, the enslaved quarters,...
Binocular Vision
The collected stories of an award-winning, modern classic American writer who has been compared to Alice Munro, John Updike - and even Anton Chekhov.'The best short story writer in the...
Shearer
The true story about the greatest shearer in the world ... whose incredible shearing record remains unbeaten after more than a century! Jack Howe had hands the size of tennis...
Céline And His Vision
$110.00 AUD
Edition: Second ImpressionCondition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good, slightly yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact, pages secure. Very good copy. A work...
Story Of Our Country: Labor's Vision For Australia
"As Labor's primary vote in national elections drifts inexorably downwards, a fundamental debate about the party's purpose and beliefs is long overdue. Story of Our Country is a great place...
Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush
Kate Bush: the subject of murmured legend and one of the most idiosyncratic musicians of the modern era. Comprising fifty chapters or 'visions', Running Up That Hill is a multi-faceted...
Duchamp
Description: A portrait of the artist Marcel Duchamp, an influential and admired artist of the 20th century. Calvin Tomkins explores Duchamp's humour, his love affairs and originality, as well as noting...
Tunnel Vision
$10.00 AUD
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Field of Vision: A Decade of Change:Women's Art in the Seventies
$40.00 AUD
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Every Day is To-Day: Essential Writings
In this collection, readers will rediscover Gertrude Stein as the bearer of a joyfully radical literary vision. A bold experimenter, her writing sparks with vitality, relishing in rhythm, repetition, sound...
The Lives of Artists: Collected Profiles
In 1959, Calvin Tomkins interviewed Marcel Duchamp for Newsweek, beginning his sixdecade-long career writing about art. He then joined The New Yorker, where he has contributed dozens of profiles on...
Merchants And Masterpieces: The Story Of The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
$30.00 AUD
Author: Calvin TomkinsBinding: HardbackPublished: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has minor wear and tear along some edges, page...
Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader
The question of affect is central to critical theory, psychology, politics, and the entire range of the humanities; but no discipline, including psychoanalysis, has offered a theory of affect that...
Binocular Vision
Author: Edith Pearlman (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The collected stories of an award-winning, modern classic American writer who has been compared to Alice Munro, John Updike -...
Karl Lagerfeld/Amanda Harlech:Visions and a Decision: Visions and a Decision
$60.00 AUD
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Merchants And Masterpieces: The Story Of The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
$25.00 AUD
Author: Calvin TomkinsBinding: HardbackPublished: LONGMAN, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling non-fiction work chronicles the fascinating genesis and evolution of one of the world's most...
Visions of Gerard
A devastating semi-autobiographical novel and the first volume of Kerouac's memoir cycle Gerard Duluoz was born in 1917, 'a sickly little kid with a rheumatic heart'. Based on Jack Kerouac's...
The Man Who Died Twice: The Life and Adventures of Morrison of Peking
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Peter Thompson Format: Paperback...
American Visions
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Renoir: Sensuous Vision
In a career spanning 60 years and thousands of paintings, Auguste Renoir ensured that his art communicated a sense of happiness and contentment. Through his sense of colour, he transformed...
Running up that Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush
Author: Tom Doyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Kate Bush: the subject of murmured legend and one of the most idiosyncratic musicians of the modern era. Comprising fifty chapters...
The American Vision of Robert Penn Warren
$30.00 AUD
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Vision Splendid (SIGNED)
$125.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Boards faded. Hinges cracked. Binding shaky. Foxing...
City of Virtues: Nanjing in an Age of Utopian Visions
Throughout Nanjing's history, writers have claimed that its spectacular landscape of mountains and rivers imbued the city with "royal qi," making it a place of great political significance. City of...
Visions Of Life
$50.00 AUD
Author: David HolbrookBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 1964Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerVisions of Life presents a four-volume nonfiction anthology designed...
Peripheral Vision
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Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People
Using Shakespeare's play The Tempest and its characters Prospero and Caliban as structural metaphors representing the master-slave relationship between humans and chimpanzees, authors Dale Peterson and Jane Goodall collaborate in...
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
The legacy-defining Sunday Times bestseller by Sir David Attenborough - now in paperback. With a new afterword, Why You Are Here- A speech on the opening of the COP26 climate...
Visions of Cody
An experimental and colourful novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York...
Old Masters New Visions from the Phillips Collection, Washington DC
$15.00 AUD
Author: Laughlin PhillipsBinding: PaperbackPublished: Australian National Gallery, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image-
A Vision of Nature: Traces of the Original World
For thousands of years humans have grappled with the idea of Nature. This enduring question has left its poignant mark in a multiplicity of images, stories, works of art, and...
The Irish Country House: A New Vision
A unique presentation of Irish country house interiors, combining well-preserved historic estates with adventurous contemporary restorations, celebrating some of the most characterful houses in Ireland. Forgoing the criteria of stateliness...
Class of 2024: Future Visions of Photography
A limited-run, special publication created to showcase the work of 10 young photography talents from top US art school SCAD, to be published in the year of T&H's 75th anniversary....
Visions of Arcadia: Pavilions and Follies of the Ancien Regime
Astonishing buildings created for casual amusements, the splendid pavilions and garden follies of prerevolutionary France are the glorious productions of an age now past-but they continue to speak to us...