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Moriyama: Quartet Mark Holborn 9780500027882
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $88.39An anthology of the four seminal photobooks that form the foundation of Daido Moriyama's photographic career: Japan, A Photo Theater, A Hunter, Farewell Photography and Light and Shadow. Once... -
Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $20.48Design for the Real World has been translated into over twenty languages since it first appeared in 1971; it has become the world's most widely read book on design and is an essential text in many... -
Wren by Margaret Whinney 9780500201121 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $3.84Sir Christopher Wren overcame a complete lack of formal training and firsthand knowledge of European architecture to become a master of his art. He built nothing before he was thirty; but by the time... -
Impressionism: Origins, Practice, Reception by Belinda Thomson 9780500203354
Booksplease Price: $49.32Belinda Thomson illuminates Impressionist art through the thinking and personal lives of the artists themselves, examining the factors that allowed Impressionism to develop when it did. In her... -
Creation: Artists, Gods & Origins by Peter Conrad 9780500513569 [USED COPY]
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $4.93Throughout history artists, writers and musicians - 'creative' people - have tried to outdo God or the Gods in the acts of creation. This extraordinarily wide-ranging study traces the different... -
The Postcard Century: Cards and Their Messages, 1900-2000 by Tom Phillips 9780500975909 [USED COPY]
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $7.33This work tells the story of the 20th century using images and messages from 2000 picture postcards. The postcards depict the day-to-day life of people and what mattered to them, pleased them,... -
Richmond upon Thames Through Time Paul Howard Lang 9781445639239
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $22.78Richmond upon Thames was the first borough to be known as the 'Queen of the Suburbs', before Ealing or Surbiton were known by this sobriquet. With around 100 parks and green spaces, including Kew... -
Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs by Michael D Coe
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.94This authoritative volume has been revised throughout and expanded, with stunning new images and accounts of the major discoveries of recent years. Recent findings have been added to expand our... -
Retro Watches by Mitch Greenblatt 9780500297575
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.08An accessible, design-savvy collector’s guide to the world of unusual, rare and dazzlingly retro watches. Retro Watches is a popular, accessible collector’s guide for anyone who wants to make a... -
Romanticism and Art by William Vaughan 9780500202753
RRP: $56.45Booksplease Price: $44.38In the age of revolutions, at the end of the eighteenth century, the mental and spiritual life of North America and Europe began to undergo an historic and irreversible change. The ideas of... -
J. M. W. Turner: The Man Who Set Painting on Fire by Olivier Meslay 9780500301180 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $3.86In 1801, at the age of 26, Joseph Mallord William Turner became the youngest ever member of the Royal Academy. His early paintings combined great historical themes with inspired visions of nature,... -
3, 2, 1, GO! by Virginie Morgand
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $15.60Count to 20 and back with an amazing animal team! They're all ready to run, ride, jump, swim and play all day. On your marks... get set... GO! There is a cup to win, and all the animals are invited... -
Contemporary Ceramics by Emmanuel Cooper
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $50.80This fresh global survey makes sense of a vast and increasingly diverse area of intense creativity. An essential and invaluable analysis of work from the last ten years, the book covers every aspect... -
Moonlight by Fergus O'Connell 9780857280954
Booksplease Price: $20.49Summer, 1914. Clara, a passionate young London wife and the mother of two small girls, is married to Henry, a manager at an insurance company, but the marriage is not in good shape. Both of them... -
The Spirit of Chaumet by Gabrielle de Montmorin 9780500025475
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $93.78A dazzling immersion into the universe of Chaumet, the Parisian High Jewellery Maison. The Spirit of Chaumet offers an unparalleled journey into the world of the exclusive Parisian High Jewellery... -
Le Corbusier by Kenneth Frampton 9780500203415
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $39.21Le Corbusier is probably the most famous architect of the 20th century. The richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture have had a gigantic impact on... -
The Incas and their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru by Michael E. Moseley 9780500282779
Booksplease Price: $52.18Described as a 'masterly study' and 'an outstanding volume' on its first publication, The Incas and Their Ancestors quickly established itself as the best general introduction to the cultures and... -
Arts of Southeast Asia by Fiona Kerlogue 9780500203811
Booksplease Price: $11.33A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the region's arts and cultureThe pagodas of Burma, the temples of Angkor, the great Buddhist monument of Borobudur - these achievements are a familiar... -
Thames Estuary. Guide to the Navigation of the Thames Mouth, and Key to the Model. by James Mangles 9781241360269
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241360269Author James ManglesFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint -
Pre-Islamic Carpets and Textiles from Eastern Lands by Friedrich Spuhler
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $29.70Celebrates the earliest history of the Islamic world's great textile traditions through fifty beautiful carpets and fragments. A wave of these beautiful textiles has reached the West since the turn... -
Modern Sculpture: A Concise History by Herbert Read 9780500200148
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $51.64Drawing on the knowledge of a lifetime of study, and the understanding of one who himself participated in the creative adventure of modern art, the late Sir Herbert Read traces the development of... -
This or That? by Delphine Chedru
RRP: $17.45Booksplease Price: $13.18Do you prefer cats or dogs? Chocolate or vanilla ice-cream? The hen or the egg? Mummy... or Daddy ?? These pages are packed with interactive tabs that put children in the driving seat. A pop-up... -
Ceramics from Islamic Lands by Oliver Watson
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $38.96In this richly illustrated volume, Oliver Watson presents a comprehensive history of ceramics from Islamic lands. Clear and informative essays examine the art, archaeology and collecting of Islamic... -
Is it Just Me? by Shinsuke Yoshitake
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.84A humorous new book from the acclaimed author-illustrator Shinsuke Yoshitake. Everyone has something that makes them feel self-conscious. It might be the smell of your breath, the size of your... -
The Search for Ancient Egypt by Jean Vercoutter 9780500300138 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.50Booksplease Price: $3.55Buried treasure, looting, intrigue and dedicated scholarship; 'wonderful things' gleaming in the darkness; the cache of royal mummies; and, most wonderful of all, the tomb of Tutankhamun. This is... -
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Here and Now by Clément Chéroux 9780500298015
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $77.61Described as ‘magnificent’ by the Good Book Guide, this lavishly illustrated monograph traces Cartier-Bresson’s development as a photographer, activist, journalist and artist. This is an... -
The Way to the Sea: The Forgotten Histories of the Thames Estuary by Caroline Crampton 9781783784134 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $5.62Caroline Crampton was born on the Thames Estuary to parents who had sailed there from South Africa in the early 1980s. Having grown up with seafaring legs and a desire to explore, Caroline is both a... -
Elephants by Steve Bloom
Booksplease Price: $21.00Steve Bloom is an internationally bestselling wildlife photographer and the author of Thames & Hudson's bestselling publication, Elephant!. Here, eighty of his stunning photographs and an... -
Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today by Peter Furtado
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $47.39Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as 'liberty, fraternity, equality', articulates aspirations with which we identify; or because... -
Type Directory by Peter Dawson
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $52.36The most comprehensive, practical, and beautiful directory of type, organized by type category - Serif, Sans Serif, Display, and Script - and covering all styles throughout history. Type Directory... -
Photography: A Concise History by Ian Jeffrey 9780500201879 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.45Booksplease Price: $4.89Surveys of photography usually provide little more than a history of the technical developments of the medium. Here is a concise critical history which explains by what criteria we can judge one... -
Glass from Islamic Lands: The al-Sabah Collection by Stefano Carboni 9780500976067
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $94.09The geographical and chronological range of the glass holdings of the Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah is so comprehensive that it allows a detailed study of this neglected medium in the field of Islamic... -
Great Family Wine Estates of France: Style * Tradition * Home by Solvi dos Santos
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $41.73This beautifully illustrated book offers unrivalled access to the magnificent private homes in France's age-old wine industry. Photographs from thirty-one wine estates range from sumptuous Champagne... -
The Big Sticker Book of Beasts by Yuval Zommer
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43This book is jam-packed with more stickers than there are warts on a warthog. You'll discover beasts that growl, prowl, claw and roar and have all sorts of fun sticking them throughout the book. ... -
The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750 by Peter Brown 9780500297483
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.95A remarkable study in social and cultural change that explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c. 150 and c. 750 AD, came to differ from 'Classical civilization'. The first century AD... -
Art of the Byzantine Era by David Talbot Rice 9780500200049
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $44.77For the people of Byzantium, their architectural works, frescoes, mosaics, ivories, chalices, bejewelled gospel covers and qlany other opulent works of art were the material proof of their greatness... -
The True History of Tea Victor H. Mair 9780500299067
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06The most authoritative and entertaining history of tea ever published, written with verve to engage a wide readership. For the first time in a popular history of tea, the ancient Chinese, Japanese,... -
Velazquez by Richard Verdi
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.08A comprehensive introduction to Velazquez's life and art which includes a discussion of all his major works. Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) was one of the towering figures of western painting and... -
Illustrators' Sketchbooks by Martin Salisbury 9780500023303
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $43.10A treasure trove of visual delights: examples of the sketchbooks of sixty international illustrators offer new insights into their artistic practice. Intimate and often unseen, the sketchbook means... -
Van Gogh: The Passionate Eye by Pascal Bonafoux
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.22Through his intense vision Van Gogh was able to create paintings that speak directly to us all, and today this disturbed and rejected misfit is the most universally loved of all artists. The story...