8 Volumes. Alexandre Dumas, Celebrated Crimes.

47 Volumes. Alexandre Dumas, The Complete Works. Edition de Médicis. Bound in 3/4 green morocco and marbled boards with the raised band spines decorated in gilt-tooling and faded to ...

6 Volumes. (Anon) Celebrated Trials and Remarkable Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence. Bound in full speckled multi-color tan calf with covers displaying ornate floral gilt-tooled borde...

6 Volumes. H. D. Traill. Social England, A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws, Learning, Arts, Industry, Commerce, Science, Literature, ans Manners, From the Earl...

3 Volumes. Madame Junot. Memoirs of Napoleon: His Court and Family. Bound in 3/4 red morocco by Morrell, linen boards, top edges gilt, raised bands, gilt spi...

8 Volumes. Jean Froissart, Froissart's Chronicles. Limited Leather Private Press. Bound in full crushed blue morocco, raised bands, gilt ruled and tooled spine and boards, 14th centu...

3 Volumes. James Grant, British Battles. Bound in 3/4 green calf and linen boards. Raised band spine gilt with title panels displaying red inlay with lette...

Original 1935 Swedish film poster. This film was directed by Josef von Sternberg, whose illustrious career spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era. He is best known for his work with Marlene Dietrich in the 1930s. Crime and Punishment was adapted from the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The film stars Peter Lorre...

Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave by Marlene Dumas, Connie Butler and Lisa Mark. Published by D.A.P./Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2008. 1st Ed Hardcover Exhibition Catalog. In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last three decades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focused on the human figure, probing themes of love, desire, despair and confusion in order to slyly critique social and political attitudes toward women, children, people of color and others who have historically been victimized. From her evocative portraits, based on photographs of friends and family as well as figures culled from printed pornography, to her large-scale images highlighting charged relationships within groups, Dumas' work explores the contradictions behind the physical reality of the body, merging acute social commentary with personal experience and art-historical antecedent to create unsettling and ambiguous psychological statements. Accompanying Dumas' first major mid-career survey in the U.S., with stops in three major American cities, (one yet to be announced) this substantial, fully-illustrated publication features a newly commissioned essay by renowned scholar Richard Shiff, placing the artist's work in relation to both American figurative painting...

A beautifully produced, two volume set of books which celebrates the life and career of Prouve. Text is in English and French and takes the form of interviews. The majority of the wo...

O/5680 - Owner- propr. Robert Crawfurd - "Two years ago" - 1857 - Cambridge - Macmillan & Co. - by the rev. Charles Kingsley - F.S.A. F.L.S. (propr./ owner Robert Crawford). I want...

"MENTMORE" Buckinghamshire Country House Sale 1977. Sotheby's Auction Catalogs, a set of 4. The catalogs from what is was possibly the greatest English country house sale ever conduc...

An unprecedented homage to modernist architecture from the 1920s up to the present day Ornament Is Crime is a celebration and a thought-provoking reappraisal of modernist architectu...