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Vendor:Omnibus Press
The Lionel Bart Story: Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be
David Stafford & Caroline Stafford Hardcover | 24.1 x 2.8 x 16.7 cm | 288 pp Omnibus Press | 2011 | 9781849386616 Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music and lyrics for Oliver!...- £10.00
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Young Michelangelo: The Path To The Sistine
John T. Spike Hardcover | 15.6 x 1.78 x 22.81 cm | 336 pp Gerald Duckworth & Co | 2011 | 9780715640661 This is a long-awaited and authoritative reinterpretation of the early life and career of arguably the greatest artist in history. Author John T....- £7.50
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Young Rembrandt: A Biography
Onno Blom Hardcover | 16.26 x 2.54 x 24.38 cm | 288 pp W. W. Norton | 2020 | 9780393531794 Like Shakespeare, Rembrandt van Rijn left us a world rich with his work but with few clues about his enigmatic life. How did a...- £12.00
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Hanne Darboven: Boundless
Hardcover | 17.78 x 2.03 x 21.84 cm | 262 pp Hatje Cantz | 2015 | 9783775740197 Compiling columns of numbers on typewriter paper, Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) catalogued time. Probably the most important German Conceptual artist, Darboven added, cross-totaled, wrote down, recorded. In her...- £20.00
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Ravi Shankar: My Music, My Life (Limited Edition)
Hardcover in portfolio case | 29.72 x 5.08 x 34.29 cm | 160 pp Mandala Publishing Group | 2008 | 9781601090102 Numbered limited edition of 250 copies Includes an original photographic portrait of Ravi Shankar signed by photographer Michael Collopy My Music, My Life...- £60.00
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Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar
Oliver Craske Hardcover | 16.64 x 5.97 x 25.15 cm | 672 pp Da Capo Press | 2020 | 9780306874888 The definitive biography of Ravi Shankar, one of the most influential musicians and composers of the twentieth century, told with the cooperation of his estate,...- £12.50
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Vendor:Frances Lincoln
Artistic Circles: The inspiring connections between the world's greatest artists
Susie Hodge & Sarah Papworth Hardcover | 14.73 x 2.16 x 20.7 cm | 192 pp Frances Lincoln | 2021 | 9780711255869 Artistic Circles introduces some of the most inspirational stories of friendship, love, creativity and shared passions in the world of art. Whether through teaching, as...- £5.00
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Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time (Non-mint)
Jenny Uglow Hardcover | 15.3 x 3 x 23.4 cm | 416 pp Faber & Faber | 2021 | 9780571354153 In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both...- £9.00
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Nineteenth-Century Women Artists: Sisters of the Brush
Caroline Chapman Hardcover | 15.88 x 2.29 x 23.5 cm | 224 pp Unicorn | 2021 | 9781913491413 For much of the nineteenth century, women artists laboured under the same restrictions and taboos they had endured for centuries, and it was assumed that marriage and...- £15.00
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Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser
Harriet Vyner Softcover | 12.95 x 2.29 x 20.57 cm | 384 pp Heni Publishing | 2016 | 9780571205752 Acclaimed on first publication, Harriet Vyner's Groovy Bob is the cult biography of hedonistic gallery owner Robert Fraser and a dazzling evocation of 1960s culture and counter-culture....- £5.00
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Why Karen Carpenter Matters
Karen Tongson Softcover | 12.9 x 1.1 x 19.8 cm | 138 pp Faber & Faber | 2021 | 9780571369003 In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix...- £5.00
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Michael Graves: Design for Life (Non-mint)
Ian Volner Hardcover | 17.46 x 2.86 x 24.77 cm | 304 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2017 | 9781616895631 One of the most prominent and prolific designers and architects of the late twentieth century, Michael Graves is best known for his popular product...- £8.00
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This is Magritte
A FURTHER 10% OFF WHEN YOU BUY ANY THREE THIS IS... TITLES View more in the This is... series Hardcover | 17.78 x 1.59 x 23.18 cm | 80 pp Laurence King | 2016 | 9781780678504 Belgian artist René Magritte’s biography is a key element of...- £5.00
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This is Rembrandt
10% OFF WHEN YOU BUY ANY THREE THIS IS... TITLES View more in the This is... series Jorella Andrews & Nick Higgins Hardcover | 17.8 x 1.9 x 22.9 cm | 80 pp Laurence King | 2016 | 9781780677453 Rembrandt is probably the most famous Dutch...- £5.00
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This is Cézanne
A FURTHER 10% OFF WHEN YOU BUY ANY THREE THIS IS... TITLES View more in the This is... series Jorella Andrews & Patrick Vale Hardcover | 17.8 x 1.9 x 22.9 cm | 80 pp Laurence King | 2015 | 9781780674780 Paul Cézanne challenged convention and...- £5.00
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This is Goya
A FURTHER 10% OFF WHEN YOU BUY ANY THREE THIS IS... TITLES View more in the This is... series Wendy Bird & Sarah Maycock Hardcover | 17.8 x 1.9 x 22.9 cm | 80 pp Laurence King | 2015 | 9781780676166 Modern art...- £5.00
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This is Gaugin
10% OFF WHEN YOU BUY ANY THREE THIS IS... TITLES View more in the This is... series George Roddam & Slawa Harasymowicz Hardcover | 15.88 x 2.06 x 24.13 cm | 80 pp Laurence King | 2014 | 9781780671895 Paul Gauguin created some of the most advanced...- £5.00
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This is Leonardo da Vinci
A FURTHER 10% OFF WHEN YOU BUY ANY THREE THIS IS... TITLES View more in the This is... series Joost Keizer & Christina Christoforou Hardcover | 17.8 x 1.9 x 22.9 cm | 80 pp Laurence King | 2016 | 9781780677514 Leonardo da Vinci lived an...- £5.00
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Tracey Thorn: Bedsit Disco Queen - How I grew up and tried to be a pop star
Softcover | 12.7 x 2.54 x 19.69 cm | 384 pp Virago | 2014 | 9781844088683 I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played...- £6.50
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Pandamonium!: How Not to Run a Record Label
Simon Williams Hardcover | 16.2 x 3.2 x 24 cm | 336 pp Nine Eight Books | 2022 | 9781788707282 As a one-time NME journalist, former Xfm radio presenter, toilet-circuit promoter and the founder of enduring homespun British record label Fierce Panda, Simon Williams has...- £10.00
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