William L Shirer

8 Vols. Edward Gibbon. The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire Plus The Memoirs of The Life of Gibbon. Bound in full red morocco, all edges gilt, raised bands, gilt panels, crest on...

Seminal early consideration of Machine Age design and architecture in America, tracking the rise of the industrial design profession, written by Sheldon and Martha Cheney and publish...

A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union Book by David Elliot Cohen. More than three hundred photographs visually survey the diversity of Russian landscapes and cityscapes and depict r...

Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and transformation By Rubin, William, Editor; with essays by Anne Baldassari. by Pablo Picasso, Anne Baldassari, Pierre Daix, Michael C. Fitzg...

A leading figure in the world of networked culture explores the artists and events that defined the mass medium of our time Since 1989, the year the World Wide Web was born, the art world has grappled with the rise of networked culture. This unprecedented survey of the artists and innovators in this area from 1989 to today is interwoven with the personal narrative of one of the leading voices on the digital world. In this book, Omar Kholeif, whose prolific career parallels the growth of the internet, tells the story of this mass medium and how it has fostered new possibilities for artists, both analog and digital. The book showcases work spanning a range of media from legendary artists including Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Nam June Paik, Heather Phillipson, and Wu Tsang...

The art of decorative stone work - known as Pietre Dure, or polychrome hardstone inlay resurfaced in Rome in the sixteenth century with the flowering of the Italian Renaissance. Tabl...

The History of the Colony Club by Ann F. Cox. Hardcover, 1st edition. 1984. Privately printed by the club. The Colony Club is a women-only private social club in New York City.

KELMSCOTT PRESS Orbeliani, Sulkhan-Saba. Translated by Oliver Wardrop. The Book of Wisdom and Lies; A book of Traditional Stories From Georgia in Asia Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, ...

The Art Deco Poster By: William Crouse Introduction by Alastair Duncan Posters of the Art Deco period, which once graced billboards and walls to advertise every variety of product, ...

The unfolding of the Cubist idea in the years before World War I was perhaps the key episode in the development of modern art. Yet the fact that Cubism emerged from creative dialogue...

A smart early edition of one of Ernest Hemingway's best known novels, a brilliant leather bound example of the great American novel. An early printing, published the year following the first, with 'stopped' spelt correctly to page 181 line 26, 'down-staris' to page 169 line 34, and 'BOOK THREE' to page 235, rather than 'Book III'. A popular work, this went through three printings in 1926, and an additional four printings in 1927, two each in January and February, and one printing in March. The printings were stated to the spine of the dust wrapper, not seen in this smartly rebound copy. Smartly rebound in a half morocco binding, with the original cloth boards restored. 'The Sun Also Rises...

The Treasures of Rembrandt Book by Michiel Roscam Abbing Art Gallery Book in slip case. Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the birth of one of the wo...