Phillips Tom Introduction Huston Paschal (4 results)

Self-Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Tall 4to, 296 pp., color plates throughout. Wrappers handled and edgeworn, page edges tanned and lightly dustsoiled.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Large paperback. 30 × 23cm, 296pp. Tom Phillips is a multi-talented artist whose central passion is language and whose genius lies in his ability to generate images that, while concerned with the structure of ideas, also convey a rich coherence of decoration, eloquence and sensuality. These concerns have led him into opera, ballet and film-making; he is also an accomplished composer and poet, and his achievements in the production of books and prints are renowned worldwide. Published to accompany a retrospective exhibition organised by the Royal Academy, Tom Phillips: Works and Texts is a discriminating survey of over twenty years of his work, including pages from Dante's Inferno (Thames and Hudson, 1985) and A Humument. Condition: This copy is in very good condition, with a little light wear to the wrapper's edges.…

First edition, first printing Fine and bright gatefold wraps. With 500 illustrations. 415 in color. From another artist's library with a small and attractive name stamp which bothers none of the text. Gorgeous display, many in full page color as well as a strong text. Portraits of Samuel Beckett, self-portraits as well as other writers and artists and locations. Gift quality. Gorgeous. …

4to, 296pp, colour and black and white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket. Foxing to fore edges. Inscribed by Tom Phillips to plate.