Essay Murphy (44 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. xlviii, 148 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 22 x 23 cm. Exhibition held at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, April 21 to June 17, 1979, at three Japanese museums in the latter half of 1979, and at the Denver Museum of Art, February 13 to April 20, 1980. Near fine. Firm binding, clean i…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First. A sumptuously illustrated catalogue of a touring exhibit of 19th- and early 20th-century French paintings owned by Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, starting with Jean-Baptiste Corot's Neo-Classical landscapes and going through the Cubist works Georges Braque produced after World War I. Dozens…

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st. 11 pages, 41 leaves of plates, colour illustrations; 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held October 18 to November 21, 2001. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** The Barbizon painters were a group of mid-nineteenth-century French landscape painters who paint…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Catalogue to exhibition of posters from the Northern Ireland Political Collection, held 11 October-2 November 2001. 124 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm. Hole punched in corner near head of spine (probably for display purposes), otherwise slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and squa…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 26 color plates. Foreword by Kevin Anderson. Essay by Alexandra Murphy. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Galerie Michael, Beverly Hills, CA. ; Tight and clean. Solid binding. Mild age-toning and storage rubbing to wraps, otherwise in Very Good conditi…

Softcover. Oblong quarto. Softcover. Cream paper wraps with color illustration and black titles. xix, 58 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 22 x 26 cm. Exhibition held at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, Sept. 5-Oct. 10, 1976; Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Oct. 24-Dec. 26, 1976; the Currier Gallery…

Soft Cover. Condition: As New. First Edition. First Edition Second Printing (stated) in illustrated self wraps SIGNED by John Frame with personalized inscription direct to front endpaper (as well as noting his website on last page), binding is tight pages are bright, there are no markings, no spine/cover creases, a pristine exem…

HardBack. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First edition. Presumed 1st Edition Thus, Routledge, no date, circa 1880. Works of Fielding Complete in One Volume. Very Thick Royal 4to. Each work individually paginated, circa 900pp. Tissueguarded frontispiece and eight further full page plate steel engraved illustrations. Cracked to upper…

SOFTCOVER. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Extra Large 4to. in colour printed stiff card covers, 32pp on thick glossy art paper, plus die-cut end-papers, colour plates, etc . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy in not far from new condition (minute speck of shelf rub to cover corner tips…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 192 pages. Illustrated. 305x245mm. Original pictorial paper covered boards. A superbly illustrated catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Stephen McKenna, Paintings, Drawings, Watercolours - A Selection 1969-2004' in the Autumn of 2005. *This copy is signed and inscribed b…

SOFTCOVER. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Catalogue for the Australian artist's Galerie Hilger exhibitions held in Franfurt 1990 and Wien 1991. tall 4to. in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 48pp on glossy art paper, plates in colour and b/w, etc. Dual text in English and German . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved al…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. New Edition. SCARCE, this 8 volume edition with maps, and especially so in such lovely condition. Eight volumes in contemporary full polished calf, gilt backs with calf labels, the covers with double gilt rules bordering blind tooled arabesque dec…

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. First Thus. Complete in two (2) volumes, uniformly bound in full original calf, with horizontal gilt bands on spine panels. Vol. I: The History of Tom Jones; Vol. II: The History of Joseph Andrews, Amelia, and The Life of Jonathan Wild. Leather shows surface rubbing/scutting, with some scaling to s…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt, gilt-stamped lettering in black leather spine labels; complete set of 2 volumes, large 8vo; pp. 424, plus frontispiece portrait; 456. Bindings dust-smudged and scuffed. Contents foxed, but clean and unmarked. A nice working set. A scarce Philadelphia imprin…

Full Calf. Condition: Good+ (Book Condition). A nice set with gorgeous marbled-calf boards, gilt lettering and tooling to spine, and hand-marbled endpapers. Leather brittle at spine, but conditioned to prevent further drying. Light chipping of leather at spines and to corners. Owner's attractive bookplate. Texts clean throughout…

Full Calf. Condition: Good+ (Book Condition). A nice set with gorgeous marbled-calf boards, gilt lettering and tooling to spine, and hand-marbled endpapers. Leather brittle at spine, but conditioned to prevent further drying. Light chipping of leather at spines and to corners. Owner's attractive bookplate. Texts clean throughout…

Full Morocco. Condition: Good+. Reprint. Twelve volumes complete - Volume One - v, [1], 344pp; Volume Two - iv, 438pp; Volume Three - [4], 442pp; Volume Four - vi, 446pp; Volume Five - v, [1], 443pp, [1]; Volume Six - v, [1], 397pp, [1]; Volume Seven - v, [1], 408pp; Volume Eight - iv, 412pp; Volume Nine - vi, 459pp, [1]; Volume…