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Memoirs of a Publisher by F. N. Doubleday, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Memoirs of a Publisher by F. N. Doubleday. Published by Doubleday and Co., 1972. Stated 1st Ed
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1970s American Vintage Memoirs

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Paper

"Memoirs of Richard Nixon" Two-Volume Set, Easton Press Edition, 1988
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Nixon, Richard. The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1988. Two-volume set
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1980s American Vintage Memoirs

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Gold Leaf

The Memoirs of Richard Nixon by Richard Nixon, Signed, First Edition, 1978
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Nixon, Richard. The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. First Edition
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1970s American Modern Vintage Memoirs

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Paper

Memoirs Year of Decisions and Years of Trial and Hope, Signed and Inscribed
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Truman, Harry. Memoirs by Harry S. Truman. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1955-1956. Both volumes
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Mid-20th Century Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Paper

Memoirs: Year of Decisions and Years of Trial and Hope, Signed by Harry Truman
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Truman, Harry. Memoirs by Harry S. Truman: Year of Decisions [and] Years of Trial and Hope. New
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Paper

Memoirs of a Geisha A Portrait of the Film By Peggy Mulloy 2005 Hardcover Book
By David James
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Memoirs of a Geisha A Portrait of the film by Peggy Mulloy · 2005 hardcover book. By David James
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Late 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Vintage Memoirs

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Paper

Oscar Niemeyer "Alta" Chair & Ottoman
By Oscar Niemeyer
Located in Padova, IT
,” Niemeyer would write in his memoirs. “I am attracted to free-flowing sensual curves.”
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1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Steel

Vintage Oscar Niemeyer "Alta" Chair & Ottoman
Oscar Niemeyer "Alta" Chair & Ottoman
H 25.6 in W 29.53 in D 43.31 in
Memories Of Cassanova, Paperback Cover
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover for The Memoirs of Casanova (Bantam books #FB-415, 1957): A New Edition of the French
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1950s Other Art Style Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Board, Oil

Andy Warhol Diaries, Hard-Cover Library or Coffee Table Book, 1989
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
is the dictated memoirs of the American artist, Andy Warhol, posthumously published, May 1989, USA
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1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Memoirs

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Paper

Marilyn Monroe & Albert Einstein, Red Grooms
By Red Grooms
Located in Fairfield, CT
by the artist. Notes: Dave Ray wrote in The Vintage News, “In her memoirs, actress Shelley Winters
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1980s Pop Art Vintage Memoirs

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Monotype, Mixed Media

Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A bouquet of roses and nasturtiums, Signed oil
By Maurice Asselin
Located in Paris, FR
his memoirs of the summer activities of Maurice Asselin and his painter friends Ricardo Florès, Émile
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1930s Post-Impressionist Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Oil

Studio St. Petersburg by Deborah Turbeville 1997 by Bulfinch Press 1st Ed.
Located in North Hollywood, CA
, Turbeville creates a powerful, intuitive portrait of St. Petersburg. With brief texts drawn from the memoirs
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Late 20th Century American Expressionist Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Paper

Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A Bunch of flowers in a vase, Signed oil on canvas
By Maurice Asselin
Located in Paris, FR
. Mac Orlan writes in his memoirs of the summer activities of Maurice Asselin and his painter friends
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1930s Post-Impressionist Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Oil

Sunflower Floral Arrangement - French 1930's Art Deco flower oil painting
By Jacques Emile Blanche
Located in London, GB
. Blanche’s memoirs suggest this first meeting took place when he visited his friend, Mrs Edwin Edwards, who
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1930s Art Deco Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Oil

California Design Enamel on Copper Pin Dish by Jade Snow Wong
By Ellamarie & Jackson Woolley
Located in San Diego, CA
cleaned as a maid to pay for her college education; she wrote her best-selling memoirs by hand and on the
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Copper, Enamel

Mother and child, hand signed painting (unique), Hammer Galleries
By Gloria Vanderbilt
Located in New York, NY
she had kept since childhood. Among her other writings were four memoirs: Once upon a Time: A True
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1960s American Modern Vintage Memoirs

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Acrylic, Gouache, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker

Memoir, Signed by Barbara Bush, in Original Dust Jacket, 1994
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
. This is a signed printing of Barbara Bush’s memoirs. The book was published in 1994 by Lisa Drew Books
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1990s American Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Paper

Fireworks on the Thames, London - British art river night landscape oil painting
By Laurence Henry Irving
Located in London, GB
(1934). In his memoirs, Irving vividly recounts working in Hollywood for such figures as Mary Pickford
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1950s Post-Impressionist Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Oil

Rother Valley Landscape Kent - British 1950's art harvest oil painting
By Laurence Henry Irving
Located in London, GB
(1931) and Colonel Blood (1934). In his memoirs, Irving vividly recounts working in Hollywood for such
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1940s Post-Impressionist Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Oil

River Landscape - British 1970's Post Impressionist art oil painting
By Laurence Henry Irving
Located in London, GB
the films 77 Park Lane (1931) and Colonel Blood (1934). In his memoirs, Irving vividly recounts
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1970s Post-Impressionist Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Oil

Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) Les Anémones, oil on canvas signed
By Maurice Asselin
Located in Paris, FR
friendship followed. Mac Orlan writes in his memoirs of the summer activities of Maurice Asselin and his
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1930s Modern Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Oil

Elegy to a Dead Tree - Kent Landscape - British 1950's art oil painting
By Laurence Henry Irving
Located in London, GB
the films 77 Park Lane (1931) and Colonel Blood (1934). In his memoirs, Irving vividly recounts
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1950s Realist Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Oil

Gypsy Rose Lee
By Bruno Bernard (Bernard of Hollywood)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Photographs". In the 1980s Bernard was living in Palm Springs and writing his memoirs. He died of cancer on
Category

1940s Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Ciros Life - British 50's art male portrait oil painting London theatre West End
By Laurence Henry Irving
Located in London, GB
Director for the films 77 Park Lane (1931) and Colonel Blood (1934). In his memoirs, Irving vividly
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20th Century Impressionist Vintage Memoirs

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Oil

Mid-Century Modern Rare "Aran" Lounge Chair Oscar Niemeyer, 1970s
By Oscar Niemeyer
Located in Brussels, BE
, created by man,” Niemeyer would write in his memoirs. “I am attracted to free-flowing sensual curves
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Stainless Steel

Al Quattro Large Surrealist Modernist Lithograph Embracing Couple
By Bruno Bruni
Located in Surfside, FL
Schröder and has published a cooking book with his favourite recipes, memoirs and pictures related to his
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1980s Surrealist Vintage Memoirs

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Lithograph

Great Houses of Italy The Tuscan Villas by Harold Acton, First Edition
By Harold Acton
Located in valatie, NY
restored 15th-c Tuscan Villa. He quotes in his memoirs ''In Italian, villa signifies not house alone, but
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20th Century American Vintage Memoirs

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Paper

The Columns of Herakles
By Ossip Zadkine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
, collectors and doctors, industrialists, businessmen… worldwide. He gathered together his memoirs in “Le
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1960s Surrealist Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Lithograph

Carolina Rice Plantation of the 50's Signed by the Illustrator, Publisher's Copy
Located in valatie, NY
The Unpublished Memoirs Of D.E. Huger Smith. Publisher, New York: William Morrow, 1936. Signed 1st Ed
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1930s American Vintage Memoirs

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Paper

On the Road to Palm Spring
Located in San Francisco, CA
, California. In 1989 Mabel worked on writing her memoirs. The result was a book which was published under the
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Vintage Memoirs

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Oil

Help
By Bruno Bruni
Located in Kansas City, MO
cooking book with his favourite recipes, memoirs and pictures related to his life.
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1960s Modern Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Screen

Help
H 29.5 in W 24 in
Melancholia
By Bruno Bruni
Located in Kansas City, MO
cooking book with his favourite recipes, memoirs and pictures related to his life.
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1960s Modern Vintage Memoirs

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Screen

Ritorno
By Bruno Bruni
Located in Kansas City, MO
cooking book with his favourite recipes, memoirs and pictures related to his life.
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1960s Modern Vintage Memoirs

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Screen

Ritorno
H 29.5 in W 24 in
Prego, s'accomodi
By Bruno Bruni
Located in Kansas City, MO
Schröder and has published a cooking book with his favourite recipes, memoirs and pictures related to his
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1960s Modern Vintage Memoirs

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Screen

Io Vengo
By Bruno Bruni
Located in Kansas City, MO
cooking book with his favourite recipes, memoirs and pictures related to his life.
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1960s Modern Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Screen

Io Vengo
H 29.5 in W 24 in
Melancholia
By Bruno Bruni
Located in Kansas City, MO
cooking book with his favourite recipes, memoirs and pictures related to his life.
Category

1960s Modern Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Screen

Vintage Swedish Wooden Black Rocking Chair Grandessa by Lena Larsson for Nesto
By Lena Larsson, Nesto
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
unconventional, environmentally friendly solutions that she created. In her memoirs, she wrote I wanted to
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1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Memoirs

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Beech

Circa 1918 charcoal on paper portrait by Jean van den Eeckhoudt of his daughter
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
and Andre Girde among other notable figures and is mentioned in several memoirs of the period. The
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Modern Abstract Red & Purple Toned Figurative Lithograph of Nude Changing Woman
By Bruno Bruni
Located in Houston, TX
published a cooking book with his favourite recipes, memoirs and pictures related to his life.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Lithograph

Garibaldian Memories - Autograph Card Signed by Clelia Garibaldi - 1945/1990
Located in Roma, IT
, welcoming guests and visitors and writing his memoirs. Clelia Gemella or Gonella (Turin, 1916) Clelia
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Late 20th Century Vintage Memoirs

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Paper, Ink

'On Stage' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
, surrounded by an electrically illuminated man-made landscape, he dictated his memoirs into a tape recorder
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1940s Surrealist Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Engraving

'Together' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
his memoirs into a tape recorder and would, from time to time, polish the copper matrices that held
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1940s Surrealist Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Engraving

'Early Marshes' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
electrically illuminated man-made landscape, he dictated his memoirs into a tape recorder and would, from time
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1940s Surrealist Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Engraving

Ceramic Plate by Master Art Forger David Stein after Pablo Picasso Vallauris
Located in Surfside, FL
activities. The book Three Picasso's Before Breakfast (Mémoirs of an Art Forger's Wife) by Anne Marie Stein
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1970s Modern Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Enamel

1950s Art Deco Style Figurative Painting with Horses by Porter Woodruff, Framed
By Porter Woodruff
Located in Morristown, NJ
memoirs. Woodruff died of cancer in 1959 and his ashes were scattered at Dar Sebastian. Provenance
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1950s Tunisian Art Deco Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Wood, Paint

'Mountain Climber' — 1930s American Modernism
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Greenland by Rockwell Kent. He wrote several illustrated memoirs about his adventures abroad, including
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1930s American Modern Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Woodcut

"Back Cover of "Chagall Lithographe III, " M 577, " an Original Color Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
wrote articles, poetry and his memoirs (in Yiddish,) which were published mainly in newspapers (and only
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1960s Surrealist Vintage Memoirs

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Lithograph

"Motorcycle" From the portfolio"The Beautiful Sixties"
By Ilya Kabakov
Located in New York, NY
, drawings, installations, and theoretical texts — not to mention extensive memoirs that track his life from
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1960s Modern Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Lithograph

'Forest Woman' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
-made landscape, he dictated his memoirs into a tape recorder and would from time to time polish the
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1940s Surrealist Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Engraving

'Encircled' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
illuminated man-made landscape, he dictated his memoirs into a tape recorder and would from time to time
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1940s Surrealist Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Engraving

'Mother of All' – Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
-made landscape, he dictated his memoirs into a tape recorder and would from time to time polish the
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1940s Surrealist Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Engraving

'The Bather' — 1930s American Modernism
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Chicago’s 1933 Paintings and Drawings of Greenland by Rockwell Kent. He wrote several illustrated memoirs
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1930s American Modern Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Woodcut

Portrait of Leopold Myers by Sir William Rothenstein
By Sir William Rothenstein
Located in Soquel, CA
Whither Painting (1932). During the 1930s he published three volumes of memoirs: Men and Memories, Vol I
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1930s Realist Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Conté, Handmade Paper

Vintage Poster Clinton Capitol Building Pop Art Hand Signed Peter Max Lithograph
By Peter Max
Located in Surfside, FL
published a book of the artist's memoirs and thoughts called The Universe of Peter Max. In it, he relates
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1990s Pop Art Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Vintage Poster President Bill Clinton Pop Art Hand Signed Peter Max Lithograph
By Peter Max
Located in Surfside, FL
published a book of the artist's memoirs and thoughts called The Universe of Peter Max. In it, he relates
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1990s Pop Art Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Gypsy Rose Lee
By Bruno Bernard (Bernard of Hollywood)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Photographs". In the 1980s Bernard was living in Palm Springs and writing his memoirs. He died of cancer on
Category

1940s Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Thomas Hoving John Lindsey Costume Party Photo
By Fred McDarrah
Located in Surfside, FL
memoirs of his time at the Met, he is also the author of books on a number of art-related subjects
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1960s American Modern Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Black and White Bouquet in Vase on Table, Marc Chagall lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
his memoirs (in Yiddish,) which were published mainly in newspapers (and only posthumously in book
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1970s Modern Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Lithograph

"Chagall Gouaches et Lavis, " Offset Poster After Marc Chagall, Galerie Maeght
By (after) Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
and his memoirs (in Yiddish,) which were published mainly in newspapers (and only posthumously in book
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1970s Modern Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Black and White

"Galerie Maeght, " Offset Lithograph Poster After a Painting by Marc Chagall
By (after) Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
and his memoirs (in Yiddish,) which were published mainly in newspapers (and only posthumously in book
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1980s Modern Vintage Memoirs

Materials

Color, Lithograph

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Find a variety of vintage memoirs available on 1stDibs. Frequently made of paper, animal skin and leather, all vintage memoirs available were constructed with great care. Vintage memoirs have been produced for many years, with earlier versions available from the 20th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. There have been many well-made vintage memoirs over the years, but those made by David James and Napoleon le Grand are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much are Vintage Memoirs?

The average selling price for at 1stDibs is $1,800, while they’re typically $95 on the low end and $26,500 highest priced.