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Vendor:Bantam Press
Rejected Books: The Most Unpublishable Books of All Time (Non-mint)
Graham Johnson & Rob Hibbert Hardcover | 13.5 x 1.3 x 18.6 cm | 112 pp Bantam Press | 2022 | 9780593235928 Rejected Books imagines the covers of books that failed to get published. These awful pitches were turned down for any number of reasons:...- £7.00
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Vendor:British Film Institute
The Story of British Animation (Non-mint)
Jez Stewart Softcover | 17.15 x 1.11 x 21.29 cm | 192 pp British Film Institute | 2021 | 9781911239659Richly illustrated with unique material from the BFI National Archive, The Story of British Animation is the first authoritative account of the history, art and industry...- £14.00
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Vendor:Faber & Faber
Fried & Justified: Hits, Myths, Break-Ups and Breakdowns in the Record Business 1978-98 (Non-mint)
Mick Houghton Softcover | 12.8 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm | 300 pp Faber & Faber | 2019 | 9780571336838 The list of bands and artists Mick Houghton worked with in an illustrious career in the music business reads like a Who's Who of some of the greatest,...- £4.50
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Vendor:Prestel
Now You See Me: An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design (Non-mint)
Charlene Prempeh Hardcover | 17.78 x 2.31 x 24.41 cm | 224 pp Prestel | 2023 | 9783791388472 Previously marginalised, overlooked, or even erased from history, Black designers are finally given their due in this first book to celebrate a century of groundbreaking work by...- £12.50
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Vendor:teNeues
dots on paper: Philip Glass by Andreas H. Bitesnich (Non-mint)
Andreas H. Bitesnich Hardcover | 31.24 x 2.03 x 30.73 cm | 96 pp teNeues | 2023 | 9783961715053 Philip Glass is one of the most important pioneers of American minimal music and scores for for well-known films such as The Illusionist, The Truman Show, Fantastic...- £40.00
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Vendor:Laurence King
Regenerative Fashion: A Nature-based Approach to Fibres, Livelihoods and Leadership (Non-mint)
Safia Minney Softcover | 18.92 x 2.67 x 22.99 cm | 224 pp Laurence King | 2022 | 9781529419924 As our climate, ecological and social crises converge, urgent action is needed to maximise our chances of survival. A new commercial approach is possible but it...- £16.00
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Vendor:Grove Press
Rock Concert: An Oral History as Told by the Artists, Backstage Insiders, and Fans Who Were There (Non-mint)
Marc Myers Hardcover | 16.5 x 3 x 24 cm | 320 pp Grove Press | 2021 | 9780802157911 Decades after the rise of rock music in the 1950s, the rock concert retains its allure and its power as a unifying experience - and as...- £15.00
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Vendor:Sei Swann
Elizabeth Heyert: The Narcissists (Non-mint)
Hardcover | 27.94 x 1.91 x 10.16 cm | 124 pp Sei Swann | 2009 | 9780615280127 Best known for her controversial 2005 postmortem portrait series The Travellers, which The New York Times called "a peek... at the vibrant, living face beneath the mask...- £40.00
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Vendor:Coracle
Percy Grainger: The Free Music Machine Drawings (Non-mint)
Hardcover | 22.5 x 30 cm | 72 pp Coracle | 2014 | 9780906630501 Edition of 300 numbered copies 22 drawings by Australian composer Percy Grainger from 1951 and 1952, for the potential Free Music Machines worked on by himself and musician and singer...- £22.50
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Vendor:Thames & Hudson
The Theatre: A Concise History (World of Art) (Non-mint)
Phyllis Hartnoll Softcover | 15 x 2 x 21 cm | 312 pp Thames & Hudson | 2012 | 9780500204092 Fourth Edition The essential guide the history of theatre, updated and extended to cover the key themes and shows of early twenty-first century drama....- £7.50
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Lynne Cohen: No Man's Land (Non-mint)
Hardcover | 27.9 x 2 x 29 cm | 160 pp Thames & Hudson | 2001 | 9780500542408 No Man's Land is a surreal and terrifying place, a world at once horrific and hilarious. It consists entirely of strange, often sinister, interiors: spas that look...- £30.00
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Do Not Erase: Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards (Non-mint)
Jessica Wynne Hardcover | 26.67 x 2.29 x 19.56 cm | 240 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2021 | 9780691199221 "A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns," wrote the British mathematician G. H. Hardy. In Do Not Erase, photographer Jessica Wynne presentsremarkable examples...- £16.00
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Vendor:Verso
Kenneth Goldsmith: Capital - New York, Capital of the 20th Century (Non-mint)
Hardcover in slipcase | 18.9 x 5.23 x 27.13 cm | 1008 pp Verso Books | 2015 | 9781784781569 Renowned poet and conceptual artist Kenneth Goldsmith collects a massive assortment of quotations about New York City in the twentieth century. This kaleidoscopic montage from hundreds...- £25.00
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Vendor:Coracle
Stephen Willats: Stairwell (Non-mint)
Softcover | 12.8 x 0.3 x 19 cm | 32pp Coracle | 1990 Edition of 1000 Rare & collectable An artist's book by British conceptual artist Stephen Willats (b. 1943) consisting of black-and-white photographs of the stairwell in Homecourt, Highfields Estate, Feltham, West London. ...- £7.50
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Vendor:Edition Patrick Frey
Christian Marclay: Index (Non-mint)
Softcover | 20.96 x 5.84 x 29.85 cm | 1200 pp Edition Patrick Frey | 2021 | 9783907236086 Marclay’s compilation of hundreds of high-contrast black-and-white Xeroxes are like scribblings in a notebook, the first stages of experimentation towards more finished works, a glimpse into...- £27.50
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Vendor:Whitechapel Gallery
ON&BY Christian Marclay (Non-mint)
Softcover | 15 x 2.2 x 21 cm | 240 pp Whitechapel Gallery | 2014 | 9780854882304 Influencing a whole generation of artists, musicians and theorists, since the late 1970s Christian Marclay (b. 1955) has explored the interplay between sound, audio cultures and art...- £6.50
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Vendor:Wienand
Christoph Loos: Nanna-Paradox (Non-mint)
Hardcover | 24.89 x 2.79 x 31.5 cm | 146 pp Wienand | 2007 | 9783879098910 Christoph Loos has been involved in an ongoing dialogue with the element of wood since the very beginning of his artistic career, and has examined it through the...- £10.00
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Vendor:Lars Muller Publishers
Lukas Felzmann: Waters In Between (Non-mint)
Hardcover | 19 x 3.5 x 27 cm | 320 pp Lars Muller Publishers | 2008 | 9783037781388 An Archive of a Marsh with Marginalia by Angelus Silesius and John Berger. The photographer Lukas Felzmann was fascinated by the very thing that some driving...- £15.00
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Vendor:Touchstones Rochdale
Rachel Kneebone: The Dance Project (Non-mint)
Hardcover | 14.8 x 0.7 x 21 cm | 64 pp Touchstones Rochdale | 2018 Rachel Kneebone’s work has been described as ‘sculptural choreography’, the expression of physical metamorphosis and dynamic movement. The Dance Project (Touchstones, Rochdale, 2018–19) was an exhibition of sculptures and...- £8.00
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Vendor:Coracle
Jason Clark: Driven-Out, Ditched & Deserted (Non-mint)
Softcover | 13 x 0.5 x 17.5 cm | 36pp Coracle | 2008 | 9780906630389 Offset printed | Letterpress cover | Sewn binding Edition of 300 Drawn on location in ink, this book is as much a document of abandoned cars found while hiking in...- £5.00
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