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Gorgeous, high-end art tomes and collectable rare books at a fraction of the original price, selected for quality and scholarship and sheer beauty. Some are "coffee table" art books too or colouring books for adults, how to create art for yourself and learn from the experts or the Masters.
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Well, I am a Sunday painter. It’s just that I paint every other day of the week as well. - L.S. Lowry
| EDITED BY JOHANNES ERLER Book Number: 89711 |
Published price: $45
Bibliophile price: £12.50
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A Princess Diana lookalike stares straight out of the picture and gives us the finger, Prince Charles sits at an easel measuring up a fig-leafed Camilla for his watercolour, while with impeccable d...
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| EDWARD QUINN Book Number: 89722 |
Published price: £26.95
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No other photographer has documented the social and cultural life of the Cote d'Azur of the golden 50s so comprehensively, alertly and with such fine irony as the Irishman Edward Quinn (1920-1997)....
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| ANDREW MACPHERSON Book Number: 89729 |
Published price: £50
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Photographer to the stars, it must have been a hard day for Macpherson to be driven on the speed boat by model Heidi Klum, her perfect figure squeezed into a tiny bikini! The summer before he had ...
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| SUSAN FRASER ET AL Book Number: 89775 |
Published price: £40
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The New York Botanical Garden houses perhaps the greatest research botanical library in the world, a precious repository of knowledge from cultures all over the world spanning from the 12th century...
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| ROBERTA BERNSTEIN ET AL Book Number: 89776 |
Published price: £575
Bibliophile price: £270.00
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Weighing in at an incredible 16kg, this box set is tremendously heavy and incredibly well designed and produced for protecting this rare 2016 first edition imported art book set published by Yale U...
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| HAYLEY CAMPBELL Book Number: 90088 |
Published price: $39.99
Bibliophile price: £10.00
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With his blockbusting novels, films, blogs, cartoon art, guest appearances on The Simpsons and authorship of two episodes of Doctor Who, the fantasy and sci-fi maestro Neil Gaiman has excelled at e...
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| ROBERT O'BYRNE Book Number: 90124 |
Published price: £35
Bibliophile price: £11.00
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The beautiful white-painted Luggala House in County Wicklow, with its pointed neo-Gothic windows, crenellations and lavish interior, was acquired by the fabulously wealthy Guinness family in 1937 w...
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| UNIVERSE PUBLISHING Book Number: 90130 |
Published price: £15.99
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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This pictorial panorama of more than 300 Marvel Comics characters extends to a full, mind-boggling 12 feet, featuring the work of the finest comic artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The revers...
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| FRANZISKA BOLZ Book Number: 90163 |
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George Barbier's The Purchase featuring a glamorous woman in a swirling tight red dress with plumes in her hat showing off her big diamond ring to another beauty in a transparent dress adorned with...
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| JOSEPHINE BINDE Book Number: 90164 |
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At a time when mythological and historical themes dominated the art world, Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) without regard for her critics or her career set out to find new motifs in nature. Following t...
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| MARTINA PADBERG Book Number: 90165 |
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This artist was truly intoxicated with colour. Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) was a man possessed with his art who was a difficult person, usually silent, mostly a loner, but in rare moments almost ebu...
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| MARTINA PADBERG Book Number: 90166 |
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Like no other artist from the circle of Impressionists, Claude Monet (1840-1926) focussed on the core business of a painter - observation. He placed the landscape with its daily and seasonal chang...
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| DANIEL KIECOL Book Number: 90167 |
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Old Damascus, Jews Quarter by Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) sees a little girl in pink silk dress catching lemons being shaken from a tree in a beautifully decorated patio courtyard with Arabic til...
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| VALENTIN GRIVET Book Number: 90168 |
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The extraordinary light and realism in the work of Jean-Léon Gérôme such as his Prayer in Cairo and Prayer at the Sultan's Room, the blues inside the mosque and exquisite garments captured in his S...
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| VALENTIN GRIVET Book Number: 90169 |
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Gustave Caillebotte's Paris Street, Rainy Day is the first of this famous art gallery of beautiful paintings reproduced in glorious colour. The far less realistic but equally vibrant daubed colour...
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| HAJO DÜCHTING Book Number: 90171 |
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Unforgettable images of the Belle Époque Paris are captured in Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings, lithographs and posters as graphic designer for the Moulin Rouge Club in Montmartre. Some 280 reproduct...
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| MARTINA PADBERG Book Number: 90172 |
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William Turner quickly rose to become one of the most successful landscape and maritime artists in Britain, today internationally regarded as an exceptional talent, somewhere between Romanticism an...
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| ALAN COWSILL ET AL Book Number: 90186 |
Published price: £35
Bibliophile price: £22.50
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In a large striking graphic designed slipcase featuring DC Comic books heroes like Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, this beautiful, in-depth insight into DC Comics history is full of images of or...
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| CHRISTINE TEMPLE Book Number: 90212 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £5.50
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Picasso believed that intelligence was relevant to the creative process, saying "one can see the intelligence in each of Manet's brushstrokes", and although there is no psychometric assessment of h...
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| N. K. GUY Book Number: 84157 |
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From vast mechanical creatures to mind-blowing pyrotechnics, the Burning Man Festival is the incubator of some of the most remarkable outdoor art in the world. Temporary community, spiritual adven...
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| FRANK WHITFORD Book Number: 84661 |
Published price: $19.95
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The Royal Academy of Arts exhibition begins 4th Nov 2018 - 3rd Feb 2019. Here's your chance to gen up first! Egon Schiele was born in 1890 at the railway station where his father worked, in Tulln...
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| VALENTINE GALLET Book Number: 85347 |
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Here are the splendours of a forbidden place, the city of women, their occupations and diversions, the pleasures of the bath, the accessories of seduction, the sensual and the cruel, the Orient of ...
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| CATHERINE HEWITT Book Number: 87724 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £3.75
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Suzanne Valadon was an artist. With her bold contours and plump, self-assured models, her works flew in the face of popular conceptions of femininity and fine art, and added to which, her painting...
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| ROLAND & SABRINA MICHAUD Book Number: 87855 |
Published price: £49.99
Bibliophile price: £12.00
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In their own eloquent words and stunning colour full page photographs, the authors narrate a lifetime of travel, adventure and discovery in some of the world's most remote regions. They have spent...
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| ELIZABETH COWLING Book Number: 89131 |
Published price: £24.95
Bibliophile price: £11.00
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Portraiture and the human figure remained Pablo Picasso's prime subject and favourite genre throughout his life. His earliest portraits were done from life, and reveal a precocious ability to catc...
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| EDITED BY BOUCHERON, ROUTEX Book Number: 90321 |
Published price: £19.99
Bibliophile price: £7.50
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From Damien Hirst's diamond-encrusted skull to Caravaggio's "Death of the Virgin Mary" based on a drowned prostitute, art's power to shock is one of the things we love about it. This collection of ...
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| DAVID SUCHET Book Number: 89741 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.50
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Showbiz Memoir of the Year, here is an arresting photographic voyage through the life and loves of this enigmatic English actor. David Suchet has been a stalwart of British stage and screen for 50...
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| EMMA PEARCE Book Number: 90223 |
Published price: £11.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Completely revised and updated, the Complete Source Book of Methods and Media is a compact, indispensable and comprehensive practical guide for all experienced and aspiring artists. Get the most o...
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| ELIZABETH ATHENS & B. RUUD Book Number: 90231 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £14.00
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The celebrated American artist Winslow Homer spent 18 months in the village of Cullercoats, Northumbria, in 1881-1882, and during this time he engaged with English painters both living and dead, in...
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| MICHELANGELO & ERIC GOTTESMAN Book Number: 90270 |
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Alive with colour and emotion, the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City is more than a jewel box for lovers of fine art - it is also the Pope's private chapel and the room where cardinals from around the...
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