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A Brief History of Biographies: From Plutarch to Celebs
Andrew Brown Softcover | 12.7 x 0.64 x 19.69 cm | 144 pp Hesperus Press | 2011 | 9781843919728 Does the success of warts-and-all celebrity biographies betray our prurient, voyeuristic times? Or is a fascination with the lives and struggles of others a facet of...- £5.00
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You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico
Jennifer Otter Bickerdike Hardcover | 15.3 x 4.3 x 23.4 cm | 512 pp Faber & Faber | 2021 | 9780571350018 You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone is an empowering reappraisal of an under-appreciated icon. Drawing upon new interviews and rare archival material Bickerdike...- £15.00
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From Punk to Monk: A Memoir
Ray Raghunath Cappo Hardcover | 15.24 x 2.79 x 22.86 cm | 368 pp Insight Editions | 2024 | 9781647228682 Ray Cappo (b.1966) was a hardcore punk singer and pioneer of the straight-edge movement living on the Lower East Side of New York City...- £15.00
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How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone (Non-mint)
Cameron Russell Hardcover | 13.5 x 2.1 x 21.6 cm | 224 pp Oneworld Publications | 2024 | 9780861547869 The realities of the fashion industry is exposed in this devastating account of the life of a successful supermodel. Scouted by a modelling agent when she...- £5.00
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Desperately Young: Artists Who Died in Their Twenties
Angela S. Jones & Vern G. Swanson Hardcover | 24.97 x 2.72 x 29.26 cm | 256 pp ACC Art Books | 2020 | 9781788840842 Desperately Young introduces the masterpieces left behind by some of the greatest rising stars in fine art - all of whom died before...- £17.50
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Lee and Me: An Intimate Portrait of Lee Krasner
Ruth Appelhof Hardcover | 17 x 2.62 x 24 cm | 192 pp Officina Libraria | 2019 | 9788833670164 Angry, outrageous, defiant, and courageous are some of the words that describe the American Abstract Expressionist artist Lee Krasner (1908-1984) – the subject of this...- £12.50
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Josef Albers: Life and Work
Charles Darwent Hardcover | 17.27 x 3.81 x 24.89 cm | 352 pp Thames & Hudson | 2018 | 9780500519103 While Josef Albers’ Bauhaus colleagues Klee and Kandinsky are household names, Albers himself has remained inscrutable. He is best known as the painter of the Homages...- £15.00
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Graham Coxon: Verse, Chorus, Monster! (Signed Limited Edition)
Hardcover in slipcase | 16.51 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm | 320 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571376681 Signed Limited Edition A long-awaited memoir of Blur co-founder, guitar legend and artist Graham Coxon. Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era,...- £50.00
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Kim Fowley: Lord of Garbage
Softcover | 11 x 1.1 x 18.5 cm | 150 pp Kicks Books | 2012 | 9780965977760 Rare & Collectible The autobiography of legendary music producer Kim Fowley told in his own poetry and prose. Kim Vincent Fowley (1939-2015) was an American record producer, songwriter...- £12.00
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Calder (2-volume set)
Jed Perl Hardcover | 1356 pp | 2 volumes Knopf | 2017 | 9780307272720 & 9780451494115 Volume I: The Conquest of Time - The Early Years (1898-1940) Volume II: The Conquest of Space - The Later Years (1940-1976) Over 350 illustrations, including little-known works and many archival photographs...- £40.00
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Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg
Alice Goldfarb Marquis Hardcover | 15.04 x 3.02 x 21.69 cm | 336 pp MFA Publications | 2006 | 9780878467013 In the years of his greatest dominance, Clement Greenberg almost single-handedly established Jackson Pollock and the New York School at the centre of the American...- £10.00
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Spellbound by Marcel: Duchamp, Love, and Art
Ruth Brandon Hardcover | 13.97 x 2.79 x 20.96 cm | 352 pp Pegasus | 2022 | 9781643138619 In 1913 Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase exploded through the American art world. This is the story of how he followed the painting to New York two...- £10.00
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Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time
Jenny Uglow Softcover | 12.9 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm | 398 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571354160 In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years....- £5.00
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True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee (Non-mint) (Rare edition)
Abraham Riesman Hardcover | 16.18 x 3.4 x 24.21 cm | 400 pp Crown | 2021 | 9780593135716 The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, a writer and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture - at great personal cost. Stan Lee, born...- £10.00
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Richard Thompson: Beeswing - Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice 1967–75
Richard Thompson Softcover | 12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm | 290 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571376988 The memoir of international music icon Richard Thompson, co-founder of the legendary folk rock group Fairport Convention. Richard Thompson came of age during an extraordinary...- £7.00
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Wendy, Janey, Joanne and Madge: Inspirational Professors of Fashion at the Royal College of Art 1948–2014
Henrietta Goodden Hardcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 26.04 cm | 224 pp Unicorn Press | 2020 | 9781916495777 This is the first biographical study of the women who made the Royal College of Art's School of Fashion a household name. Madge Garland, Janey Ironside,...- £12.50
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Renoir: An Intimate Biography
Barbara Ehrlich White Hardcover | 17.78 x 4.06 x 24.89 cm | 432 pp Thames & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500239575 The joy that permeates Renoir’s paintings was created by a complicated person. Even close friends and family members were often baffled by the multi-faceted...- £15.00
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The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski & Catherine Grenier Hardcover | 14.7 x 2.2 x 21 cm | 242 pp MFA Publications | 2009 | 9780878467464 Christian Boltanski's votive installations, archives and objects, revolving around the fragile polarities of memory and amnesia, identity and anonymity, have made him...- £10.00
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David Hockney (Lives of the Artists)
James Cahill Hardcover | 12.7 x 1.91 x 18.67 cm | 160 pp Laurence King | 2021 | 9781913947422 David Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well. Emerging from the north...- £8.00
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Judith Kerr’s Creatures: A Celebration of Her Life and Work
Hardcover | 22.6 x 2.2 x 28.6 cm | 176 pp Harper Collins | 2023 | 9780007513215 A lavishly illustrated retrospective in celebration of 100 years since Judith Kerr’s birth, author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and many other iconic books. Judith...- £12.50
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