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Paul Rand: Thoughts on Design (1st edition)
By Paul Rand
Located in New York, NY
Hardcover first edition (stated) of this classic work. 160 pages, 4to, black cloth decorated in gilt, dust jacket, with 94 half-tone illustrations and 8 color plates. Published by Wi...
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Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Pioneers of Modern Typography (1st American Edition)
By László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Zwart
Located in New York, NY
First American edition of Herbert Spencer’s foundational survey tracing the avant-garde origins of modern graphic design and typography in the first third of the twentieth century, v...
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Vintage 1970s American Bauhaus Books
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Paper
Nature Form & Spirit: The Life and Legacy of George Nakashima
By George Nakashima, Mira Nakashima
Located in New York, NY
First edition of Mira Nakashima’s tribute to her father, George, whose standing as one of America’s foremost designer/craftsmen is reflected in his blue-chip status in the vintage de...
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Early 2000s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
A Handbook of Ornament (Second English Edition)
By Franz Meyer
Located in New York, NY
Second English edition of Franz Sales Meyer’s influential compendium of historical ornamental motifs, revised by Hugh Stannus and published in 1894 by B.T. Batsford in London followi...
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Antique 1890s English High Victorian Books
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Paper
Berrocal: Dossier
By Miguel Berrocal
Located in New York, NY
Dossier of works by Spanish sculptor Miguel Berrocal (1933-2006), known for his abstract and often figurative interlocking puzzle-sculptures, produced in limited editions in various ...
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Vintage 1980s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Design With Type (First Edition)
By Ladislav Sutnar, Herbert Bayer
Located in New York, NY
First edition of Carl Dair’s foundational text on typographical design, published in 1952 by Pellegrini & Cudahy In New York City. Oblong 8vo (8.75” x 5.35”) wire spiral bound with p...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Borge Mogensen/Illums Bolighus Catalog
By Illums Bolighus, Børge Mogensen
Located in New York, NY
Catalog of furniture and accessory designs by Danish master Borge Mogensen, produced in Sweden by AB Karl Andersson & Sons for distribution by the Danish emporium Illums Bolighus. Pu...
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Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Books
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Paper
Museum of Modern Art: Artists' Cookbook
By MOMA Museum New York, Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
First trade edition of the Artists’ Cookbook, a compilation exploring the intersection of art and food, published in 1978 by the Museum of Modern Art New York and distributed by Harr...
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Vintage 1970s American Modern Books
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Paper
Interiors For Today
By Achille Castiglioni, Artemide
Located in New York, NY
First American edition of a survey of contemporary Italian interiors, published in 1975 by Studio Vista/Whitney Library of Design following its original publication in Italy in 1974. Edited by Franco Magnani and translated into English by Bobbi Mitchell. 4to (8.75” x 11.5”), hardcover with dust jacket, 156 pages, profusely illustrated with color reproductions. Showcases a range of interiors by Italian interior designers and architects, many lesser-known, including: De Rossi Coretti studio, Guido Veneziani, Puccinelli, Fabrizio Cocchia and Gianfranco Fini, Enrico Buzzi, Luigi Massoni, Piero Castellini...
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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Jean Royere
By Jean Royère
Located in New York, NY
First edition monograph on the iconic French designer and interior decorator Jean Royere (1902-1981), published in 2002 by Norma Editions. Text in French by Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vi...
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Early 2000s French Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
$600
David Hicks on Decoration-With Fabrics
By David Hicks
Located in New York, NY
First American edition, stated, of the fourth entry in David Hicks’s acclaimed series promulgating his views on interior design and decorating. Published in 1971 by World Publishing/...
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Finn Juhl: Furniture Architecture Applied Art
By Finn Juhl
Located in New York, NY
First edition in English of Esbjorn Hiort’s biography of modern design master Finn Juhl, published in 1990 by The Danish Architectural Press, with translation by Martha Gaber Abraham...
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1990s Danish Scandinavian Modern Books
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Paper
Alexander Calder Monograph (Inscribed by Artist)
By Alexander Calder
Located in New York, NY
Monograph on American artist Alexander Calder, first edition thus, published in 1951 by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and distributed by Simon and Schuster. An expanded edition...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Carl Aubock Culinar Flatware for Collini (Thirteen Pieces)
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck, Collini 1
Located in New York, NY
Culinar series flatware of stainless steel designed by Carl Aubock III (1924-1993) and manufactured by Collini, Austria in 1979.
Thirteen pieces in total, consisting of the followin...
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Vintage 1970s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Tableware
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Stainless Steel
La Baule (Artist's Book Inscribed to Thierry Despont)
By Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
Luxe, limited edition artist’s book in portfolio format by marketing and branding whiz Marc Gobe, consisting of ten loose copper-etched photogravures with scenes from the French seas...
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1990s American Modern Books
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Paper
What It Is (Tony Shafrazi Gallery)
By (after) Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Catalog accompanying a group exhibition of contemporary New York City artists held at the Tony Shifrazi Gallery in Soho from September 13-October 12, 1986. Part of Shifrazi’s influen...
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Vintage 1980s American Modern Books
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Paper
Tata Ovvero del Ludico: Tatoy Presenta La Collezione Ludica
By Ennio Chiggio
Located in New York, NY
Limited edition, ring binder catalog/artist’s book published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Galleria TOT in Padua in 1982, curated by the Italian artist and graphic design...
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Books
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Paper
Featherston Chairs
By Grant Featherston
Located in New York, NY
Catalog accompanying an exhibition of modernist chairs by Australia’s pre-eminent postwar furniture designer Grant Featherston (1922-1995), held at the National Gallery of Victoria f...
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Vintage 1980s Australian Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Dagobert Peche and the Wiener Werkstätte
By Yale University Press, Dagobert Peche
Located in New York, NY
First edition in English of this retrospective monograph/exhibition catalog on the renowned Austrian artist and designer Dagobert Peche, published in 2002 by Yale University Press in...
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Early 2000s American Vienna Secession Books
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Paper
Architecture for the New World: The Work of Harry Seidler (Inscribed)
By Peter Blake, Marcel Breuer
Located in New York, NY
Monograph on eminent Austrian-born Australian architect Harry Seidler, written by eminent American architect, historian, and educator Peter Blake. Seidler (1923-2006) was an early an...
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Vintage 1970s Australian Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Swiss Furniture and Interiors in the 20th Century
By Hans Bellmann, Max Bill
Located in New York, NY
Encyclopedic survey of modernist Swiss design beginning in 1870 but focused on the Bauhaus/Ulm School driven twentieth century, which is divided into chronological chapters of 15 to ...
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Early 2000s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Guglielmo Ulrich
By Guglielmo Ulrich
Located in New York, NY
Weighty monograph on Italian modernist architect and designer Guglielmo Ulrich, whose prolific creative output spanned the years from 1926-197 and whose furnishings in art deco and m...
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Early 2000s Italian Art Deco Books
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Paper
$550
Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams (First edition)
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in New York, NY
First American edition of Patrick Mauries’s comprehensive monograph celebrating the whimsical, surrealist-inspired oeuvre of prolific Italian designer Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988). P...
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1990s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Electronics--A New Science for a New World (Herbert Bayer design)
By General Electric, Herbert Bayer
Located in New York, NY
Booklet touting the wonders of the nascent electronic era published in 1942 by the General Electric Company, “leader in radio, television, and electronic research.” Austrian-America...
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Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Our Bodies Ourselves: A Course By and For Women (1st edition, 2nd printing)
By Yoko Ono 1
Located in New York, NY
First edition, second printing of a foundational text of the women's liberation movement, radical both in its political messaging and because it was written “by women for women.” Ari...
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Vintage 1970s American Modern Books
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Paper
The Dada Painters and Poets
By Robert Motherwell, Paul Rand
Located in New York, NY
First edition of The Documents of Modern Art, Vol. 8, edited and with an introduction by Robert Motherwell. Cover and typography by Paul Rand. Published in 1951 by Wittenborn, Schultz Inc. With texts by Richard Huelsenbeck, Hugo Ball, Kurt Schwitters, Jacques Vache, Tristan Tzara, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, George Hugnet, Andre Breton, Jean Arp, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon, Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia, and Hans Richter. Illustrations by (or after) Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Raoul Hausmann, Paul Klee, Marcel Janco, Man Ray, Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, Kurt Schwitters, Kasimir Malevich, Pablo Picasso, Sophie Tauber...
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Vintage 1950s American Modern Books
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Paper
Macy's Giant New-Nation Celebration (Yippie Handbill)
By Aptekar
Located in New York, NY
Youth International Party (Yippie) mimeographed handbill distributed to promote a planned anti-consumer protest at Macy’s flagship New York store followed by a gathering in the Centr...
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Vintage 1960s American Modern Posters
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Paper
Chairs By Bertoia (Knoll Marketing Brochure/Poster)
By Harry Bertoia, Herbert Matter, Knoll
Located in New York, NY
Marketing poster/brochure for Harry Bertoia’s line of sculptural steel wire mesh-and-rod chairs for Knoll Associates, published in 1957. Graphic design by Herbert Matter. Folded in e...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
[1st ed] Shocking Life
By Elsa Schiaparelli
Located in New York, NY
First edition (stated) of Italian/Parisian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli’s autobiography, published in 1954 by E.P. Dutton & Co. Per the dust jacket, Schiaparelli “tells her...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Food Sex Art: The Starving Artists' Cookbook (With Five Signatures)
By Hannah Wilke
Located in New York, NY
Cook book comprising 161 recipes, some real and some decidedly not, by 161 different artists and world personalities, mostly from lower Manhattan. Each recipe accompanied by a b/w il...
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1990s American Modern Books
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Paper
Les Lalannes: Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne (Exhibition Catalog)
By Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne
Located in New York, NY
Catalog accompanying an exhibition held at New York’s Marisa Del Rey Gallery from May-June 1988. Features both independent and collaborative work by the French artists Claude and Fra...
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Vintage 1980s American Modern Books
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Paper
Osvaldo Borsani Monograph
By Tecno, Osvaldo Borsani
Located in New York, NY
First edition of this comprehensive monograph on acclaimed Italian architect and designer Osvaldo Borsani (1911-1985), tracing his career and oeuvre from early works in an Italian Ar...
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1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Carlo Mollino: Photographs 1956-1962
By Carlo Mollino, Fulvio Ferrari
Located in New York, NY
First edition of this book showcasing Carlo Mollino’s portrait photographs, unpublished in his lifetime, taken between 1956 and 1962 and set in one of Mollino’s private apartments in...
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Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1st edition)
By Norman Bel Geddes
Located in New York, NY
First edition (stated) of Robert Caro’s magisterial biography of Robert Moses, awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Biography and selected by Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest no...
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Irving Penn: Photographs in Platinum Metals--Images 1947-1975 (Doubly Inscribed)
By Irving Penn
Located in New York, NY
Catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition of Irving Penn’s experimental platinum-emulsion photographs held at New York City’s Marlborough Gallery from September 8-October 1...
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Vintage 1970s American Modern Books
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Paper
[1st ed] The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
By Agatha Christie
Located in New York, NY
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 ...
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Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Rama: Poeme Dramatique en Trois Actes (Illustrated by Alphonse Mucha)
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in New York, NY
First edition of this three-act dramatic poem by French poet, novelist, journalist, and editor Paul Vérola (1853-1934). Decorated with five full-page color lithographs by Alphonse M...
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Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Books
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Paper
George Nakashima and the Modernist Moment
By George Nakashima
Located in New York, NY
Book contextualizing the work and career of mcm designer/craftsman George Nakashima, published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Bucks Cou...
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Early 2000s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Futuro: Tomorrow's House From Yesterday
By Buckminster Fuller
Located in New York, NY
First edition, second printing of this appealing monograph on Finnish architect Matti Suuronen’s iconic saucer-shaped Futuro House, introduced in 1968 and produced in an edition of 7...
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Early 2000s Finnish Space Age Books
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Paper
Jules Wabbes Monograph
By Jules Wabbes
Located in New York, NY
First edition monograph on the Belgian mid-century designer and interior architect Jules Wabbes (1919-1974), edited and with text in English by his daughter, the art historian Marie ...
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2010s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Harvey Probber Advent 1 Series Bookcase(s) in Oak and Walnut
By Harvey Probber
Located in New York, NY
The Advent 1 series bookcase was originally designed for Ford Motor Company before going into production for several years in the early 1970’s. It i...
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Bookcases
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Oak, Walnut
Sister Mary Corita Exhibition Poster/Announcement, Morris Gallery 1966
By Sister Corita
Located in New York, NY
Exhibition poster and announcement for a show of Sister Mary Corita Kent's new serigraphs held at New York City's Morris Gallery from December 7-31, 1966, ...
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Posters
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Paper
Fontana Arte: Gio Ponti, Pietro Chiesa, Max Ingrand
By Gio Ponti, Max Ingrand
Located in New York, NY
Large format, lavishly produced monograph on the famed Italian design firm Fontana Arte, founded in 1932 by Lucio Fontana and Gio Ponti. Showcases lighting, furniture, and accessorie...
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2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Christmas: A Story By Eleanor Roosevelt (1st edition)
By Charles Dickens
Located in New York, NY
First edition (stated) of this Christmas story by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, with illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Published in 1940 by Alfred A. Knopf. 12mo (4.25” x 5.5”), 42 pag...
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Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Modern Furnishings For The Home (1st edition)
By Charles Eames
Located in New York, NY
First edition of William J. Hennessey’s Modern Furnishings for the Home, published in 1952 by the Reinhold Publishing Corporation. Billed as “a comprehensive catalog with over 480 av...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Social Studies (Inscribed with Drawing)
By Tom Wolfe
Located in New York, NY
First edition, first printing (stated, with the number line to 2) of the second collection of stories by New York City humorist and icon Fran Lebowitz. Published in 1981 by Random Ho...
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Vintage 1980s American Modern Books
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Paper
The Chop Suey Club (Signed)
By Bruce Weber
Located in New York, NY
First edition of of this collection of photographs by American fashion photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber, whose ad campaigns include projects with Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Revlon, Armani, Louis Vuitton, and Versace and whose editorial work has appeared in Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Elle, Life, Interview, and Rolling Stone magazines. Published in 1999 by Arena Editions. 8vo (6.75” x 8.5”), 284 pages, hardcover with photographic dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with full-page photography in color and b/w on matte paper. Snippets of text by James Agee, Robert Frost, T.E. Lawrence, Shel Silverstein...
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1990s American Modern Books
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Paper
Takashi Murakami: The Meaning of the Nonsense of the Meaning (Signed)
By Takashi Murakami
Located in New York, NY
Catalog accompanying an exhibition of the works of Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, held at the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, from June 27-September 12, 1999. ...
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1990s American Post-Modern Books
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Paper
The Last Works of Henri Matisse 1950-1954 (Complete Harcourt Brace Edition)
By (after) Henri Matisse, Mourlot Frères
Located in New York, NY
First American edition of Verve no. 35/36, published in 1958 (as was the Verve edition) by Harcourt, Brace & Co and printed in France with color lithographs of the cut-paper collages...
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Vintage 1950s French Modern Books
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Paper
Johnson: Contemporary Designs by Paul T. Frankl
By Johnson Furniture Company, Paul Frankl
Located in New York, NY
Johnson Furniture Company brochure showcasing the mid-century designs of Austrian/American architect, designer, and author Paul T. Frankl (1886-1958). Born in Vienna and educated in ...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Peggy Guggenheim Art of This Century (Inscribed to artist Hans Richter)
By Peggy Guggenheim, Hans Richter
Located in New York, NY
Catalog of the seminal avant-garde exhibition held at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century Gallery in 1942 and published in an edition of 2500. Edited by Peggy Guggenheim with cont...
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Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Illums Bolighus 1965 Mail Order Catalog
By Finn Juhl, Hans J. Wegner, Illums Bolighus
Located in New York, NY
1965 mail order catalog from Danish emporium Illums Bolighus, the Copenhagen “Center of Modern Design” that retailed high-end Danish furniture and accessories along with a smattering of European offerings to both Danish citizens and the market abroad. Foreigners could shop at the department store when traveling or could order from one of the published catalogs. The 1965 catalog showcases chairs, tables, case pieces, desks, beds, carts, and wall systems by eminent and lesser-known Danish designers including Hans Weger, Peter Hvidt and O. Molgaard Nielsen, Vilhelm Wohlert, N.O. Moller, Finn Juhl, Harbo Solvsten, Erik Kierkegaard, Arne Jacobsen, ROsengreen Hansen, Nanna and Jorgen DItzel, Aage Schmidt Christensen, Poul Hundevad, Grete Jalk, Borge Mogensen, Arne Vodder, Kurt Ostervig, Folke Ohlsson, Kaare Klint, Ingemar Thillmark, Ib Kofod-Larsen, Karl Erik Ekselius, Poul Kjaerholm, Ole Wanscher, Erik Worts, Hans Olsen, Hohs. Aasbjerg, Edv. Kindt-Larsen, E. Engholm and Sv. A. Willumsen, Kai Kristiansen, and Sven Langkilde. Each entry includes a photograph along with curatorial information—designer, materials, and measurements. Stand-out designs in the catalog include Hans Wegner’s cube bar cabinet and Papa Bear chair and ottoman, Finn Juhl’s Judas dining table...
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Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Books
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Paper
Learning From Las Vegas (First Edition)
By Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Located in New York, NY
First edition of this revolutionary/reactionary study of the Las Vegas strip co-authored by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour. Published in 1972 by the MIT Press,...
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Vintage 1970s American Post-Modern Books
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Paper
Ladislav Sutnar Catalog Design Progress (first edition)
By Ladislav Sutnar
Located in New York, NY
First edition of art director Ladislav Sutnar and research director Knud Lonberg-Holm’s landmark exposition on information design and visual communication, published in 1950 by Sweet...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
The Minimum Dwelling by Karel Teige (First English Translation)
By Walter Gropius
Located in New York, NY
First English language translation of Czech artist, critic, curator, and functionalist architectural theorist Karel Teige’s seminal “The Minimum Dwelling,” published in 2002 by MIT P...
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Early 2000s American Minimalist Books
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Paper
Industrial Design 3: June 1954 (Alvin Lustig, Art Consultant)
By Alvin Lustig
Located in New York, NY
Volume 1, number 3 (June 1954) issue of Industrial Design, edited by Jane Fisk Mitarachi and published by Whitney Publications, Inc, known contemporaneously for Interiors and for Geo...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Ahrend Furniture Catalog, 1961 (Friso Kramer, Wim Rietveld)
By Friso Kramer, Ahrend de Cirkel
Located in New York, NY
Handsomely produced catalog for the mid-century furniture lines offered by the Dutch company Ahrend, showcasing the industrially-oriented modernist designs of Friso Kramer and Wim Ri...
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Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
The Catcher in the Rye (First edition, second printing)
Located in New York, NY
First edition, second printing of J.D. Salinger’s iconic American bildungsroman, first published by Little, Brown, and Company on July 16, 1951. The second printing followed in the s...
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Vintage 1950s Books
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Paper
Modern Lighting of the '50's (Arnoldsche Reprint)
By Paavo Tynell, Gino Sarfatti
Located in New York, NY
Reprint of a 1953 international survey of modernist lighting, originally published in Germany by Alexander Koch. This edition published in 2012 by Arnoldsche Art Publishers. Faithful reprint of the original, with a new introduction by Bernd Dicke. Large 8vo (8.5” x 12”), pictorial boards, approximately 122 pages, fully illustrated with b/w photos plus several color images at the front. Introductory text in German and English; curatorial text in German, English, and French. A bible for sourcing and documenting early postwar lighting, based on the perspicacity of the editor(s). A roster of designers and manufacturers, gleaned fro the index at the rear, includes: Arredoluce, Arteluce, BAG Turgi, Peter Behrens, Alexey Brodovitch, Paul Bry, Franco Buzzi, Alexander Calder, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Robert Gage, Lester Geis...
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2010s German Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Ayn Rand's "The Objectivist Newsletter" (48 Single Issues)
By Ayn Rand
Located in New York, NY
All 48 issues (plus the June 1962 Special Supplement) of Ayn Rand’s first monthly publication The Objectivist Newsletter, running from January 1962-December 1965 and from Vol. 1, No....
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Vintage 1960s American Modern Books
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Paper





