Walter J Strachan (14 results)

1st edition. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Bumped corners. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 157 pages ; 20 cm. Notes; Translation of: Unterm Rad. This translation originally published: London : Owen, 1961. Translated from the German. Subjects; German fiction. Gifted children Education ; Fiction. Child psychopathology ; Fiction. Fiction in German, 1900- Texts (including translations). 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Bumped corners. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 157 pages ; 20 cm. Notes; Translation of: Unterm Rad. This translation originally published: London : Owen, 1961. Translated from the German. Subjects; German fiction. Gifted children Education ; Fiction. Child psychopathology ; Fiction. Fiction in German, 1900- Texts (including translations). 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 263 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. Notes: Illus. (9 col., 1 on title-page) incl. facsimiles. Includes bibliographical references (page 251) and index. Subjects: 1800-1999; Sculpture, Modern 19th century; Sculpture, Modern 20th century; Models (Clay, plaster, etc.); Drawing; ;Preparatory studies; Sketches; Scale models; Sculpture, Modern History; Sculpture Technique; Modeling; Drawings for Sculpture. 1 Kg.…

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 263 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. Notes: Illus. (9 col., 1 on title-page) incl. facsimiles. Includes bibliographical references (page 251) and index. Subjects: 1800-1999; Sculpture, Modern 19th century; Sculpture, Modern 20th century; Models (Clay, plaster, etc.); Drawing; ;Preparatory studies; Sketches; Scale models; Sculpture, Modern History; Sculpture Technique; Modeling; Drawings for Sculpture. 1 Kg.…

250 copies printed at Skelton's Press, pp.(16); one half-page & 24 thumbnail illustrations; very good in pictorial handmade paper wrappers with bifolium of the thumbnails laid in. Introduction by Christopher Hewett, biographical note and essay by Walter Strachan. Illustration Fine Printing.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition (hardback). Oblong 8vo (21cm by 24cm), 146pp. Full-page colour illustrations. Original grey cloth, grey cloth slipcase. The book and the slipcase are in very good condition. This is the collector's edition, limited to 500 copies. ISBN 0946425035.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Paperback booklet in good- condition. General wear to covers with creasing to rear cover. Pages tanned throughout. 8vo. 60pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED - True First Edition, First Printing. Softcover.92 pages. Published jointly by the Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Institution, Oxford (1987). Bound in the publisher's original stiff card pictorial wrappers. Lavishly illustrated with full-page monochrome figures and vivid colour plates capturing landmark French avant-garde printing. A nice near fine copy (light tone to edges), square, clean an all round tight, uncreased spine and fine internal pages. Crucially, this is a peerless association copy, hand-inscribed and signed by the author in Oxford directly following the launch: 'For David Chambers with my gratitude and compliments, Walter J Strachan, 27.1.87, Oxford.' An unread, museum-grade reference landmark celebrating a legendary cross-channel bibliographical archive. Elite Association Provenance Archive: Warmly hand-signed, inscribed, and dated by the author in Oxford directly following the exhibition's launch: "For David Chambers with my gratitude and compliments, Walter J Strachan, 27.1.87, Oxford". NOTES : This historic catalogue was published to celebrate a major event in 20th-century printing history: the official transfer and presentation of Walter J. Strachan's monumental collection of French avant-garde livres d'artistes to the Taylor Institution Library in Oxford. Strachan was the preeminent British champion of the genre, amassing pristine graphic sheets and texts designed by artists like Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Sonia Delaunay, and Joan Miró. The handwritten inscription to David Chambers dated 27 January 1987 is exceptionally moving. The grand exhibition opened at the Ashmolean Museum in January 1987. This inscription proves that Strachan took one of the very first crisp copies fresh off the press during the launch week and personally dedicated it to Chambers, his closest peer-collaborator and the director of the Private Libraries Association, thanking him for his lifelong friendship ("with my gratitude"). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine hardcover collection of W.J. Strachan's poetry issued in an edition of 160 copies - this being copy no.79. Flat Signed on the limitation page by the author and artist Charles Marq who contributes two abstract copper engravings (tissue guards laid-in). Printed at Skelton's Press, Wellingborough on attractive Japon Hosho paper (deckled edges). The book istelf remains in excellent condition but the accompanying slipcase is rated Good/presentable - a bruise to top spine tip (not reflected in the book), inked price on front panel and some edge fading. Please see five pictures attached for a closer look.…

Condition: Good. 8vo. Softcover. 65 pp. B&W Plates. Very Good.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Softcover. 65 pp. B&W Plates. Very Good, sticker on back.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 64 pp., small 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine title, dustjacket. With a warm, contemporary presentation inscription from poet, translator, arts advocate and educator W. J. Strachan (1903-1994) to British painter, engraver and art educator Geoffrey Rhoades (1898-1980). Strachan met Rhoades after the latter joined the faculty at Bishop's Stortford College, a boys' public school in Hertfordshire, where Strachan also taught. The two became good friends, as evidenced by their extensive correspondence. Very good, well-preserved copy (light foxing on the endleaves and a few spots on the foredge) in a very good dustjacket (some age-toning at the spine panel and edges).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed copy. Copy No. 144 of a limited run of 200 produced in 1976. Poems of Walter Strachan with two copper engravings by Charles Marq. The book is signed by both poet and artist.This book comes complete with a slip-case which is slightly sun-faded. The pages are rough-edged and made of Amatruda Amalfi rag. Some marking to front of slip-case, and tissue paper covering illustration is loose.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. True First Edition, First Printing. Large Quarto. 369 pp. Published by Peter Owen Limited, London (1969). Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth with vibrant gilt-stamped cover devices and spine titles. Lavishly illustrated with 181 plates and 8 rich full-colour sheets charting the 20th-century French livre d'artiste movement across masters like Picasso, Matisse, and Braque. A magnificent, Fine copy—the volume remains clean, tight, square, and bright all round with perfectly sharp corners. An elite, high-magnitude association copy, warmly inscribed and signed by the author to his direct publishing contemporary in August 1992: 'For David, August 1992, a fraternally allied on the L'artiste front and a good friend - Walter Strachan.' Features the matching private bookplate of David and Hermione Chambers to the front pastedown. A peerless document representing the intersection of Britain's greatest post-war book scholars. NOTE: This is an extraordinary association. Walter J. Strachan (1903-1994) was the ultimate British authority on the French livre d'artiste (artists' books). David Chambers was the Honorary Publications Secretary for the Private Libraries Association. Strachan is affectionately declaring that they are brothers-in-arms ("fraternally allied") fighting on the front lines to protect and promote the history of fine printing and book. NB: David & Hermione Chambers Bookplate (designed by Reynolds Stone (Engraver) affixed to the front pastedown. Signed by Author(s).…