Lucie Rie by Tony Birks (42 results)

Condition: NEW.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. Light shelf wear to extremities.

First edition thus, second printing. Fine large format paperback edition.

First edition, first printing. Fine in near fine dustjacket, slight wear and spine faded.

First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dustjacket.

First edition, first printing. Fine in near fine, price clipped dustjacket.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Clean, sturdy, and unmarked copy in very good condition. DM.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. The Lucie Rice book is a revised edition published in 1994 ISBN 0951770071, slipcase in vg condition, heavy set. Pottery.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Two volumes, in the publisher's slipcase. The Coper volume was published in 1991 (1993 printing), originally published London : William Collins & Co., 1983; the Rie volume was published in 1994. Both volumes are in very good condition, their pictorial paper wrappers fresh, the corners sharp, with bumping at the head of their spines; the contents of both are as new. The slipcase is fine but for bumping at the head of its front panel. 2040 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. A few tiny dents to rear DJ panel. Clean, bright, and unmarked.

Hardcover. Chocolate brown cloth/boards; yellow script lettering. Color-photographic dj with black lettering. 224 pp. full of color plates and bw photos. Tony Birks' much praised biography was written with the full cooperation of the potter, whose friendship with the author spanned more than a quarter of a century It stands as the only complete account of the life and work of this extraordinary figure in European ceramics Lucie Rie made her first pots in 1923, her last in 1990. Born Lucie Gomperz in Vienna in 1902, she came to England in 1938 to escape the Nazis. Her artistic achievement closely related to the encouragement and personal inspiration provided by a series of men. As Lucie herself said, "I am man-made". Simple, yet infinitely subtle and complex, Lucie Rie pots approach excellence not by refinement to an ever purer shape: it is by their sturdiness and their frailty: a combination of opposites, economy and luxuriance, lightness and dark. As a person, she showed the same combination of opposites. Her diminutive size belied her determination, her capacity for work. She received many honours, an OBE in 1968, a CBE in 1981, and was made a Dame in 1991. She was much written about, and was the subject of a BBC film. Lucie Rie died in 1995. NF/Good (dj has some shelf wear and is torn 2 inches at tail of spine).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. Later Edition. ISBN 9780801979620. Hardback. First American edition of 1987 British original. Slight wear to corners and edges; slight rippling along top edge; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Good condition. Dustjacket with slight wear to corners and edges; slight browning and dustsoiling along top edge; $40.00 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket; Good to Very Good condition. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dark brown cloth, white titles, peach endpapers / pstedown, & lush photo illustrations throughout; A fine copy in a fine dust jacket; 224 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. BIRKS, Tony [224] pp. Alphabooks A & C Black 1987 11 1/4" x 9" Dame Lucie Rie, DBE (16 March 1902 1 April 1995) was an Austrian-born British studio potter. Tony Birks' much praised biography was written with the full cooperation of the potter, whose friendship with the author spanned more than a quarter of a century It stands as the only complete account of the life and work of this extraordinary figure in European ceramics Lucie Rie made her first pots in 1923, her last in 1990. Born Lucie Gomperz in Vienna in 1902, she came to England in 1938 to escape the Nazis. Her artistic achievement closely related to the encouragement and personal inspiration provided by a series of men. As Lucie herself said, "I am man-made". Simple, yet infinitely subtle and complex, Lucie Rie pots approach excellence not by refinement to an ever purer shape: it is by their sturdiness and their frailty: a combination of opposites, economy and luxuriance, lightness and dark. As a person, she showed the same combination of opposites. Her diminutive size belied her determination, her capacity for work. She received many honours, an OBE in 1968, a CBE in 1981, and was made a Dame in 1991. She was much written about, and was the subject of a BBC film. Lucie Rie died in 1995.

Condition: Very Good. First edition, signed presentation copy by the artist, 4to.,pp. 224, brown cloth, crea, lettering, b/w illustrations with some colour illustrations, b/w frontispiece; signed dedication inscription by the artist to frontispiece verso, some adhesive markings to front and rear paste down endpapers, otherwise a clean and very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hans Coper (illustrator). 1st Edition. 4to. Printed in the UK . 208pp. A major book on Hans Coper; Published to coincide with the 1983 exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre. An illustrated biography of the potter by a life-long admirer of Coper and his work. Beautifully illustrated with fine photographs, many by his wife,Jane Coper, showing for the full range of Hans Coper's work as well including graphic work. Over 200 illustrations including 40 Colour Plates. Bound in brown cloth cover with white facsimile signature on front & spine. INSCRIBED BY LUCIE RIE To David with love from Lucie Rie . Ephemera included: The Times newspaper article Master at the wheel by David Sexton, 1990; Large flyer for the exhibition at the Sainsbury s centre listing 123 items in the show. The dust wrapper has a fox mark,the inscription has ghosted/ offset on the facing page, else very good. Size 28.5 x 22.5cm (11 x 9 inches) Provenance. David Coachworth David Coachworth joined the Victoria and Albert Department of Circulation in the late 1950 s as a museum assistant. In the early 1970 s he was involved in numerous exhibitions including International Ceramics which was exhibited in 1972. It seems likely that his friendship with Lucie Rie developed during their collaboration with the exhibition. Size 20 x 15cm (8 x 6 inches). Signed by Author(s).