More than a bookshop : Zwemmer's and art in the 20th century / Nigel Vaux Halliday
1991, 1st edition. London : Philip Wilson. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #391147
ISBN: 0856674095
Physical description; 325 pp., 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits (som color) ; 26 cm. Contents; Origins -- Richard Jäschke -- A Zwemmer : fine art bookseller -- 'Knowledgeable, self-certain, unique' -- Publisher and bookseller -- 'Also on view : original works' -- Paintings, books and interiors -- A centre for modernism -- The Gallery and Surrealism -- 'Unbelievable treasures' : Zwemmer as an art dealer -- Expanding markets -- Original books and co-editions -- A new generation : the postwar Zwemmer Gallery -- Studies in architecture -- The end of the story -- Appendix 1. Desmond Zwemmer's diary, Paris 1946 -- Appendix 2. Zwemmer publications and authors -- Appendix 3. Zwemmer Gallery exhibitions -- Appendix 4. Exhibitors at 'Room and book' and 'Artists of To-day', 1932-3 -- Appendix 5. Summer exhibition, 1940 : Contents. Subjects; Zwemmer, Anton 1892-1979. Biography. Zwemmer's Bookshop (London, England). Gallery. Art dealers. Art galleries, Commercial England London History 20th century. Publishers and publishing. Booksellers and bookselling.
Price: €25.00