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Decoupage - Nine Pieces of Marine Decoupage. N/k. Decoupage - Nine Pieces of Marine Decoupage. 1930s?
Comprises 9 individual pieces: Oil Tanker; S. S. Queen Mary; Lighthouse; Cargo Steamer; Speedboat; Whaling Factory Ship; Submarine; Corvette; and, Steam Trawler.
Queen Mary is the largest at 1½" x 4½" aprox. The ships show an 'embossed' effect.
Tiny brown spot in top-left corner of verso of Cargo Steamer; very faint fox spot near lower-left corner of Oil Tanker; all are in fine condition.
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Ref:#15045 (Trade).
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[Order code:15045 / Price £0.99]
Dickey, E. M. O'R - A Picture Book of British Art. G. Bell, 1931, 1st. 7½" x 4¼", 240pp, cream cloth, red blocking, hardback. Printed on 'art' paper. Illustrated in monochrome. Cloth 'dusty' in places where wrapper is missing; slight bump to front-edge of back-board; very good (no inscriptions, not ex-library) complete with poor ('dusty', couple of chunks missing; edge-wear) wrapper, not price-cut.
[Order code:14944 / Price £5.00]
Dorival, Beranrd - The School of Paris in The Musee D'Art Moderne. 1962. 8" x 6", 316pp, pale-blue cloth blocked in gold with a drawing of the School, hardback. Index. Illustrated in colour and monochrome. Inscription in top-front corner of front-free endpaper, o/w very good plus c/w similar wrapper. Above average.
[Order code:7532 / Price £10.00]
Durrell - The Durrell Collection. Introduced by John Julius Norwich. Harper Collins for Glasgow Museums, 1997 new edition. 10½" x 7¾", 160pp, colour illustrated card, sb. Illustrated throughout in colour. Slight crease on front cover, o/w near fine.
[Order code:3438 / Price £5.00]
Various - Masterpieces of Dutch Painting. Beaverbrook Newspapers Limited, not dated, c1960? Comprises 6pp text by Seymour Slive, including Commentary on each plate; followed by 15 tipped-in colour plates with printed plate number, brief description and location at time of printing concealed below plate. The 16th plate is on the front-cover below the cellophane. Contents: Peter de Hooch: 'A Dutch Courtyard'; Geertgen Tot Sint Jans: 'The Resurrection of Lazarus'; Hieronymus Bosch: 'The Ship of Fools'; Frans Hals: 'Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart', Vrouw Bodolphe'; Rembrandt van Rijn: 'Self-Portrait'; Jan Vermeer: 'The Milkmaid'; Gabriel Metsu: 'The Music Lesson'; Meindert Hobbema: 'The Watermill'; Jan Steen: 'Saint Nicholas Day', The Lovesick Maiden'; Gerard Terborch: 'The Gallant'; Meindert Hobbema: 'Entrance to a Village'; Jan Vermeer: 'The Lovemaker'; Rembrandt van Rijn: 'The Bridal Couple'; Jacob Ruisdael: 'The Burst of Sunlight'. Quality production and materials used; designed to be broken and framed. 14¼" x 10¾", card covers covered in cellophane. Slight loss of cellophane around lower spine of front cover, broken (contents loose and mostly sepperate sheets) fine.
[Order code:10129 / Price £5.00]
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