Marshall James Text (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 207 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Exhibition held at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., September 22 to November 28, 1999, and other venues. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. *** "James Tissot (1836-1902), the wry and urbane observer of manners and fashions, painted scenes from the life of 'society' that simmer with undercurrents of sexual drama. This book presents nearly a hundred paintings, prints, and watercolors from every phase of Tissot's career, including such signature paintings as The Ball on Shipboard, Hush! (The Concert), and London Visitors. Nancy Rose Marshall and Malcolm Warner explore Tissot's themes and interests and consider the influence on his work of Charles Baudelaire's brilliant essay on the aesthetics of modernity, Le Peintre de la vie moderne. They examine how Tissot dealt with the ways of modern love in Paris and London in the later nineteenth century." - Publisher. Size: 4to.…

First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Fine in pictorial boards as issued. Story about a lazy fox down on his luck, short of funds, who decides to become a writer. With colour illustrations by the author.

First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. A bookshop stamp on the bottom of the front free endpaper, otherwise fine in fine dustjacket ($ price intact). Illustrated in colour by Marshall. A follow-up to the author's "Miss Nelson Is Missing".