Oscar Wilde

Before starting his career as an architect, Scarpa worked for more that ten years as artistic director at the Venini glass works where he gained an exceptional knowledge of raw mater...

The ultimate reference on one of the most influential product designers of all time For more than sixty years Dieter Rams has defined the look, feel, and function of some of the w...

The definitive collection of artist profiles by legendary journalist and New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins, from the 1960s to today In 1959, Calvin Tomkins interviewed Marcel Duchamp for Newsweek, beginning his six decade- long career writing about art. He then joined The New Yorker, where he has contributed dozens of profiles on the most interesting artists of the time, from Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg to Cindy Sherman and Mark Bradford. This six-volume set includes 82 of Tomkins's most significant profiles dating from 1962-2019. Part art history, part human interest, Tomkins offers insights and observations about the artists, their work, and the ever-changing art world they inhabit. Calvin Tomkins has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1960. He has written more than a dozen books, including The Bride and the Bachelors, Merchants and Masterpieces, Living Well Is the Best Revenge, Off the Wall, Duchamp: A Biography, and Lives of the Artists...

Alexander Calder is one of the world's best known living sculptors. He has achieved world-wide recognition as the artist who made sculpture move, and he is one of the few men in hist...

This comprehensive monograph, published by the Vitra Design Museum in 2000, represents the most complete and authoritative survey of Verner Panton’s work to date. Produced in conjunc...

The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb, published by Edward Moxon in 1838 (MDCCCXXXVIII), represents a significant collection of his poems, often considered the "Third Edition" of his st...

AUTHOR: JOSEPHUS, Flavius (Thomas Lodge - translator). TITLE: The Famous And Memorable Works of Josephus, A Man Of Much Honour And Learning Among The Jews. PUBLISHER: London: by T...

AUTHOR: WILDE, Oscar. TITLE: The Sphinx. PUBLISHER: London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane at The Sign of The Bodley Head, 1894. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., 8-1/2" x 7",...

A handsomely-bound collection of juvenile poetry by Thomas Moore (1779 – 1852), published under the pseudonym of Thomas Little due to the eroticism of their content, as Moore's celebration of kisses and embraces was regarded as improper. A relatively successful publication, which was put to an end with the Victorian tight sense of propriety. Thomas Moore was an Irish poet...

The Works of Tolstoi, one volume edition. Hardcover book, published in 1928 by Walter J. Black, Inc. of Madison Avenue, New York. Printed in the United States of America, 728 pages.

2 Volumes. William Whiston, The Works Of Flavius Josephus. The learned and authentic Jewish historian and celebrated warrior with three dissertations. Bound in full brown calf, raise...

AUTHOR: SPIELMANN, Edwin Percy. TITLE: Catalog of the Library of Miniature Books collected by Percy Edwin Spielmann together with some descriptive summaries. PUBLISHER: London: Ed...