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An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson by Roy Strong. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. ...

First edition of Larry Clark’s iconic second book of photographs (following 1971’s Tulsa) documenting and immortalizing a debauched adolescent subculture. Self-published in 1983. Con...

Christies 2000 The di Portanova Collection. Softcover copy. Fabergé, Russian Works of Art and Objects of Vertu from The di Portanova Collection. 100 p...

Sotheby's: The Garbisch Collection, Vol. 2, May 17, 1980, important French furniture, European porcelain Vertu, and rugs. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 588 lots of import...

First American edition of Raymond Chandler’s fifth Philip Marlowe detective novel, concerning a case of blackmail involving a Hollywood starlet and a Cleveland/LA hoodlum. Published ...

Antiquities from The Collection of the Late Christos G. Bastis, Sale 7404. Sotheby's (New York). 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. In 1987, 188 antiquities assembled by Christos G....

The Great British by Arnold Newman. New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1979. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. The celebrated portrait photographer offers a selection of notable Brit...

Russian Furniture: The Golden Age, 1780-1840 by Antoine Chenevière. New York: Vendome Press, 1988. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 312 pp. This beautiful book is a comprehensive and chronological study of the development of Russian furniture style during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. During the late 18th century there was a burst of palace and grandiose apartment construction that were filled with magnificent furniture...

Things That Go Bump in the Night Hardcover by Louis C. Jones. Hill and Wang, NY, 1959. 1st Ed hardcover with Mylar covered dust jacket. Contains more than 200 stories of the restless dead, most from around New York state; each of the six chapters is made up of a continuous flow of narrative. Ghosts, in various forms, are seen and talked about all over the world. People who have recently come to America, as well as those whose families have lived here for generations, tell ghost stories, and it is this basic American folklore that Dr. Jones has collected and retold. Included are stories about haunted houses, murder, murderers, revenge, suicide, and the hungers that bring the departed back to their earthly haunts. The chapter on haunted history, containing more than forty stories, is a kind of spooky chronology of American history. The stories begin with the Indians, tell of the French and Indian wars, the Revolution, the early days on New York State's Erie Canal, Martin Van Buren...

Diane Arbus: Family Albums, by Anthony W. Lee and John Pultz. Yale University Press, 2003. Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is renowned for her provocative and unsettling portraits of modern ...

American Victorian by Lawrence Grow and Dina Von Aweck. NY: Harper and Row, publishers, 1984. First edition hardcover, no dust jacket. 223 pp. A fully-illustrated source book of the ...

Nancy Mitchnick: Uncalibrated, by Lynn Crawdord, Jens Hoffmann, Renee Hoogland, Steve Hughes, Claire Lehmann and Marsha Miro. This book accompanies the...