John Beardsley Et Al (9 results)

Hardcover with dustjacket, 256 pages; very good condition except dj is yellowed along upper left corner of front cover; the first two pages are creased; no internal marks. Includes work by: Mel Chin, Lewis DeSoto, Richard Misrach, Matt Mulican, Judy Pfaff, Martin Puryear, Edward Ruscha, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Alison Saar, Mark Tansey, James Turrell, Bill Viola, Meg Webster. Foreign shipping may be extra.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 152 pp. ISSN 0033-3557). Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Magazine. Edited by Geoff Holland. Octavo. Stapled wrappers. Near fine with a bit of bumping at the edges. A quarterly poetry magazine published with help from the Northern Arts and Mid-Northumberland Arts Group. Contributors include James Kirkup, Steve Duffy, Cyril Patterson, Julie Cashford, Eric Taylor, John Rice, J.D. Beardsley, Steven Kyle, Michael R. White, Martyn Broad, Bob Bevan Jones, Mark Williams, David Ward, Bill Barnes, Stanley T. Thomas, Steve Sneyd, Joan Downar, Rough McGough, Harold Hilkins, and others. With publisher's subscription form laid in at the rear.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. LIKE NEW CONDITION; SHIP FREE, MEDIA MAIL, USA.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 0.85 x 10.86 x 10.85 Inches.

Uniformly Bound Hardcovers. Condition: Very Good/Fine. First Editions. Thirteen volumes. 8vo. Profusely illustrated with over 200 plates. Original black-stamped yellow cloth. Bound without advertisements. Spine of Vol. I a tad dulled; front cover a touch rubbed; rear hinge of Vol. XII cracked. Withal, original cloth bright, in VG-Fine condition. First editions of all thirteen volumes of Beardsley's celebrated art-nouveau quarterly with plates after works by Beardsley, Sargent, Sickert, Rothenstein and may others. With literary contributions from luminaries such as W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Henry James, Anatole France, Kenneth Grahame, et al.The renowned journal was conceived in 1894 by Beardsley and the American novelist Henry Harland, who explained: "In one of the densest and soupiest and yellowest of all London's infernalest fox, Beardsley and I sat together the whole afternoon . we thought it quite a pity that London publishers should fee themselves under any obligation to refuse any of our good manuscripts . and then and there we decided to have a magazine of our own and the next day we had an appointment with John Lane."What they had in mind was a literary journal that would attract attention for its content, format, and unique artistic vision. Beardsley, who served as the art director for the quarterly until his dismissal in 1895, due to his association with Oscar Wilde, was responsible for the cover designs for the first five volumes and, more importantly, for setting an aesthetic tone that touched on morbidity, eroticism, perversity and irony, The Yellow Book carried on until 1897, giving rise to a variety of artists and writers whose collective spirit gave rise to a cultural spirit that transcended Victoriana.A magnificent set. John Singer Sargent, Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Conder, William Rothenstein, Walter Sickert, Philip Wilson Steer, et al. (illustrator). …

First Editioin. Ovtsvo. 155 pp. 8-page catalog dated (November 1904) at the end of text. Introduction by the Rev. John Gray, translator of Baudelaire, Verlaine, and Rimbaud, friend of Decadents including Pierre Louys, and fellow-convert and by the time of the publication, Dominican. Bound in olive green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and black, spine gilt and black, lacks front free endpaper, spine darkened, light wear to corners, soiling to binding, top edge gilt. A good copy.…