Hong Kong: WIPS Women In Publishing in Hong Kong, 2018. Paperback. Since its inception in 2001, IMPRINT has provided a showcase for WiPS members' work. While many contributors are established authors, illustrators and photographers, for others, IMPRINT provides the opportunity to see their work in print for the first time..... More
Hong Kong: WIPS Women In Publishing in Hong Kong, 2019. Paperback. Featuring the work of 53 writers and artists with a connection to Hong Kong, as well as the winning entry to our Short Story Competition for Young Writers. Each year, WiPS invites its members to submit examples of..... More
Washington, D.C. National Portrait Gallery, 1987. First Edition. Softcover (Outsized). Book based on an exhibition which opened at the Hong Kong Museum of Art in Dec. 1987. More
London: Architectural Design, 1980. First Edition (presumed). Softcover (oversized). Charles Alexander Jencks (21 June 1939 – 13 October 2019) was an American cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian, and co-founder of the Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres. He published over thirty books and became famous in the 1980s as theorist of..... More
Singapore: National Gallery Singapore, 2017. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Oversized. Please note additional handling charge. Chen Chong Swee was an important early Singapore artist and educator who made significant contributions to the development of the Singapore and Malaya art scenes. He was amongst the first artists in Singapore to incorporate..... More
SIngapore: National Gallery Singapore, 2017. Szewee Low, Grace TNG (eds.). First Edition (presumed). Paperback. Significant achievements in art notwithstanding, Chen Chong Swee was also a prolific, vivid essayist. His writings—collated here and also translated into English for the first time—range from the value of art education to the responsibilities of..... More
Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2018. Softcover. Gerhard Richter is an exceptional personality—not only because his pictures are world famous, but also because he has demonstrated a new approach to painting. His pictures neither cultivate a modest interplay of colors and forms nor deliver an intact picture of reality, but rather move..... More
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. Pictures in a minute! In the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, Polaroid was the hottest technology company on Earth. They were an innovation machine that cranked out one irresistible product after another. It was even the company after which..... More
Oxford: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2011. Softcover. A unique visual history of the world’s best-selling book of all time, Bibles provides a rich snapshot of the biblical bookmaking tradition through images from fifty rare and important Bibles. As the captivating and colorful images collected here reveal, in many ways..... More
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1987. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Additional handling charge for heavy item. More
London: Ivy Press, 2017. Reprint. Hardcover. Grays Anatomy, that classic beloved of medical students for over 100 years, is the fundamental work underlying Anatomy. But this is Grays with a difference with all the fine engravings of the original, but accompanied by fresher, more accessible text that explains in lay..... More
Hong Kong: Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973. Softcover. c/r page states: "ART GALLERY PUBLICATION NO. 6" In English and Chinese. The book published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Art Gallery, Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 29th June -..... More
SIngapore: Page One, 2012. Sergio Pirrone (photography). First Edition. Softcover. White is the very symbol of purity, light and minimalistic perfection. Be it white on the inside or the outside, the contemporary Japanese houses presented in this unique, never-before-seen collection show the wildest possibilities of how one can live in..... More
New York/ New Haven: The Jewish Museum/ Yale University Press, 2007. First Edition. Outsize Hardcover. Foreword by Maurice Sendak. With contributions by Robert Cottingham, Edward Sorel, Jeanne Steig and Maggie Steig. The definitive work on the career of the beloved New Yorker cartoonist and children’s book illustrator Known..... More
New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2016. Victor Aures (illustrations). First Edition. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. For dreamers of escaping to a cozy cabin in the great outdoors, Your Cabin in the Woods is a classic work that not only makes this a reality, but also imparts a deeper appreciation..... More
Berlin/Hong Kong: Sternberg Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. This is A Journal of the Plague Year, published by Sternberg Press in 2015 in conjunction with a 2013 traveling art exhibition of the same name held at Para Site art gallery in Hong Kong, among other places. Through a...... More
The Viking Press, 1961. Compass Books Edition. Softcover. More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Softcover. The Invisible Dragon made a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty—and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismissed the..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. Softcover. David Macaulay takes us on a visual journey through a city's various support systems by exposing a typical section of the underground network and explaining how it works. We see a network of walls, columns, cables, pipes and tunnels required to satisfy the..... More
2018. Digital Print. Medium: Watercolor, acrylic, marker. Following the successful launch of Hong Kong Noir (Blacksmith Books 2018), a collection of dark fictional stories set in various places in Hong Kong, Bleak House Books asked some local artists to pick their favorite stories from the book and create cover art..... More
Louisville, Kentucky: The Golden Pond Press, 1988. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. 1988 Olympic Games Commemorative Edition. More
Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1952. William A. Bostick (catalogue design), Sylvester Luca (photos), Leo Teholiz (map of Japan). Second Edition. Paperback, Staple-Bound. Features map of Japan with indications of localities represented in exhibit. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Art Museums, 1988. Softcover. More
New York: Dover Publications, 1964. William F. Winter (photographs). Unabridged republication of 1937 edition. Outsized softcover. A definitive work on the distinctive American Shaker furniture style, photographed in rooms of actual Shaker dwellings and workshops in New Lebanon, New York, and Hancock, Massachusetts. Shown in 48 superb photographic plates are..... More
New York: Allworth Press, 2009. Paperback. Aspiring and new art gallery owners can find everything they need to plan and operate a successful art gallery with How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery. More
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