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Art and Antiques Sorted By Author's Surname - Section G

Gatt, Guseppe - Constable. Thames and Hudson. Gatt, Giuseppe - Constable. Translated by Pearl Sanders. Thames and Hudson, not dated (copyright 1968 but this is a latter reprint). Life, descriptive data and 80 colour 'plates' (printed both sides, more than one reproduction on some sides). 6ž" x 4ž", 40pp plus 80 plates, paperback. Illustrated in colour. Slight cover marks and slighly 'dusty'; very, very slight corner wear; very good (no inscriptions, not ex-library).
[Order code:15110 / Price £1.00]

Gauguin, Paul - Paul Gauguin. Beaverbrook Newspapers Limited, not dated, c1960? Comprises 6pp text by John Rewald, 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. The plates are: Contes Barbares; Breton Peasant Women; The Yellow Christ; We Secret Three, Mary; Tahitian Landscape; Still Life with Flowers; The Spirit of the Dead Watches; Whispered Words; The Moon and the Earth; Nativity; and, Where Do We COme From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?. Quality materials used. 14ź" x 10ž", card covers covered in cellophane. Slight glue transfer from last plate to previous page causing 'rub' to margin of plate, no damage to actual plate; slight crease to lower-front corner of cover, fine.
[Order code:10136 / Price £5.00]

Gilbert and Kilby, Douglas and Clyde S. - C. S. Lewis: Images of His World. Hodder and Stoughton. Gilbert, Douglas and Kilby, Clyde S. - C. S. Lewis: Images of His World. Hodder and Stoughton, 1973, 1st. ... take us behind the name, and into the places where Lewis lived, walked, taught, worshipped, loved and died. In photographs and text they show us the deer park outside his rooms at Magdalen College; the Kilns, where Lewis lived most of his life; the forests and mountains and seascapes that delighted him on the walking trips he was fond of taking - and that later served as inspiration for the settings in his Narnia tales; the small parish church he attended, and next to which he was buried; the friends and colleagues who played so large a part in shaping his life. ...(Wrapper flap). 9ź" x 10ž", 192pp, pale-brown cloth, black blocked lettering, hardback. Illustrated in monochrome and colour. Ex-library, University of Nottingham (reference number written near foot of spine; 2" x 3" label on front paste-down; that's it, nothing else to the book), slight disturbance to cloth of lower-edge of front-board near fron-corner (probably from new), corners rounded, text-block edges 'browned', very good minus, complete with poor (blue library dot sellotaped near foot of spine; edges reinforced with something sililar to filmoplast; general edge-wear and creasing, 3" near central portion of spine flapping and held to front-edge only, marks, a little 'dusty') wrapper. A reasonable ex-library copy of this edition.
[Order code:14269 / Price £5.00]

Gordon, Hampden - The Lure of Antiques. John Murray, 1964 reprint. For explorers in the fascinating worl of antique shops, Dealers' Fairs, auction rooms, and collections that are open to us all. A sympathetic guide which shows how to recognise the best work of its kind, and also the famous rarities. On a more practical plane, it helps to choose wisely when venturing into the market. (back cover). 7ž" x 5ź", 132pp plus 12 plates, illustrated card, softback. Illustrated with 24 sides of monochrome photographs. One central spine crease; covers slightly 'dusty'; edge-wear; very good minus (no inscriptions, not ex-library).
[Order code:4738 / Price £2.00]

Gordon, Jan - A Stepladder to Painting. Faber and Faber. Second revised edition, 1962. Revised by Colin Hayes. ...has become an established textbook on the elements of the parinter's art. But it is a textbook with a difference: it combines a comprehensive and most stimulating view of the craft and science of picture-making with an unpretentious and straightforward approach to the student's practical problems. ... (flap). 8" x 5ź", 238pp plus 8 plates, red cloth, hardback. Index. Illustrated with 15 sides of monochrome photographs plus drawings within the text. Very, very slightly sunned spine; edge foxing; very good (no inscriptions, no bumps, not ex-library) complete with good (edge-wear, slightly sunned spine, masking tape repair to verso of head of spine and lower front-edge of spine) price-cut wrapper.
[Order code:7068 / Price £5.00]

Goya - Goya. Knowledge Publications (Purnell), 1965, no. 1 in a series. 14" x 10ž". Comprises 8pp of text by Lawrence Gowing and 16pp of colour reproductions; pages printed both sides, 1 reproduction per page. Comprises: I Don Manuel Osobrio de Zuniga; The Sunshade; Self Portrait; Ferdinand Guillemardet; The Naked Maja; King Charles IV and His Family; The Council of the Philippines; Majas on a Balcony; A Miricle of Saint Anthony; The Colossus; The Shootings of 3rd May; The Witches' Sabbath; The Balloon; The Milkmaid of Bordeaux; and, Senora Sabasa Garcia. Near fine, complete with original series promotion leaflet.
[Order code:7646 / Price £2.50]

Graber, Corinne - The Impressionists. W. H. Smith. And Jean Francois Guillou. 1990. 14ž" x 10˝", 238pp, colour illustrated laminated boards, harback. Lavish production, printed on 'art' paper. Illustrated with colour reproductions. Small (pen-end size) dent in adjacent, central, front-edge of front-board; slight printing plate smeer to front-edge of page 51; couple of rubs to back paste-down; very good plus (no inscriptions, not ex-library) complete with poor (tears, edge-wear) wrapper.
[Order code:9443 / Price £5.00]

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