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Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, 1976-1978, Volume 5
Located in New York City, NY
The highly anticipated fifth volume of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, covering his paintings from 1976 to 1978
This two-book addit...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Books
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Andy Warhol Cover Post-War & Contemporary Art Christie's New York Catalog Book
Located in New York, NY
An Andy Warhol cover Post-War and Contemporary Art Christie's New York 'Evening Sale' catalog book, 2010.
A beautifully done catalog book (soft-cove...
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2010s American Modern Books
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"Austrian Applied Arts" Book
Located in New York, NY
One-volume survey of "Austrian Applied Arts", primarily Secession, with an introduction by Josef Hoffmann. Published in 1930 by Heinz & Co. Organized by t...
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1930s Austrian Vienna Secession Vintage Books
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The Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum by Alice Winchester and Joseph Downs. The Magazine Antiques, 1951. First Edition hardcover. A classic work from the...
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1950s American Vintage Books
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Suppressed Books a History of the Conception of Literary Obscenity First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Suppressed books a history of the conception of literary obscenity by Alec Craig. The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York, 1963. Stated first edition hardcover with dust...
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1960s American Vintage Books
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Fine Furniture A Timeline in Woods by Mallett & Son Antiques, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Fine Furniture: A Timeline in Woods by Mallett & Son Antiques. Mallett & Sons Antiques, 2007. 1st Ed softcover. 144 pp. Illustrated with furniture, mirrors, and accessories all photo...
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Early 2000s English Books
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French Folk Art, First Edition
By Jean Cuisenier
Located in valatie, NY
French Folk Art by Jean Cuisenier. New York: Kodansha International Ltd., 1977. Stated First English edition hardcover with dust jacket. 310 pp. A larg...
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20th Century American Books
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Alvar Aalto Furniture (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Alvar Aalto was a Finnish Architect and Furniture designer whose career spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s, this book shows the progress of his designs from the 1920s Classic designs with modern twists through to what was to be referred to as "Scandinavian Modern" in the latter years of his career. He was best know for his use of moulded plywood and tubular metal in his designs and for creating stackable seating...
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20th Century Books
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Whirlwind by James Clavell Stated First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Whirlwind by James Clavell. William Morrow & Co., New York, 1986. Stated First editon hardcover with dust jacket. The story of three weeks of fanaticism,...
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1980s American Vintage Books
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The Makers of Indian Colonial Silver by Wynyard R. T. Wilkinson (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a register of European goldsmiths, silversmiths, Jewellers, Watchmakers and clockmakers in India and their marks 1760-1860. Containing a register of over 900 Europeans who w...
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19th Century Antique Books
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Meubles et Ensembles Bretons by Stany Gauthier, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Meubles et Ensembles Bretons by Stany Gauthier. Ch. Massin Paris, 1950. 40 b&w plates. 12 page introduction followed by b/w photo plate section of 36 pages. Part of 'Collection de l'...
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1950s French Vintage Books
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Armada, 1588-1988 An International Exhibition to Commemorate the Spanish Armada
Located in valatie, NY
Armada, 1588-1988: An International Exhibition to Commemorate the Spanish Armada by M. J. Rodriguez-Salgado and The National Maritime Museum. Penguin Bo...
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1980s English Vintage Books
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Quest for the Future by A. E. Van Vogt, First Edition BCE
Located in valatie, NY
Quest for the Future by A. E. Van Vogt. Ace Books, New York, 1970. First edtion hardcover BCE with dust jacket. He was one of the most popular and prolific science fiction writers du...
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1970s American Vintage Books
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"Low Bridge" Casting Cry of the Salt Water Angler by Kenn Bayless, Signed 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
"Low Bridge" casting cry of the salt water angler by Kenneth Bayless. Fish and Game Publishing Co., 1950. Signed and numbered (#175) 1st Ed hardcover no dust jacket. illustrated with...
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1950s American Vintage Books
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"The Age of Jackson" by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Book of the Month Edition
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Age of Jackson. New York: The American Past, 1989. Book of the Month Club edition. New introduction by the author with original boards, dust jacket, s...
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1980s American Vintage Books
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Two Books on Trade Tokens, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Two books on trade tokens. 1.) U.S. Merchant Tokens 1845-1860 by Russell Rulau. Iola: Krause Publications, Inc., 1985. Softcover. 192 pp. A catalogue of the unofficial coinage of Ame...
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20th Century American Books
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Lost Ecstasy by Mary Roberts Rinehart, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Lost Ecstasy by Mary Roberts Rinehart. George H. Doran Company, New York, 1927. 1st Ed hardcover. "Kay Dowling was used to luxury, expensive plea...
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Early 20th Century North American Books
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In Perfect Picture + Frame Harmony, 1850-1920, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
In Perfect Picture + Frame Harmony, 1850-1920 by Eva Mendgen. Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 1995. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 277 pp. A catalogue published to correspond with a ...
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20th Century Dutch Books
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19th History of the Antecolombian America with Original Engravings and Pictures
Located in Miami, FL
The book it´s in Spanish.
Catalan Region
Beautiful handmade engravings
996 pages.
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Late 19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Books
English Furniture Decoration Woodwork and Allied Arts by Thomas Arthur Strange
Located in valatie, NY
English furniture decoration woodwork and allied arts from the last half of the 17th century to the early part of the 19th century by Thomas Arthur Strange. New York: Bonanza Books, ...
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20th Century American Books
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Table Talk of W.H. Auden by Alan Ansen, Limited Ed 1/150, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Table Talk of W.H. Auden by Alan Ansen. New York: Sea Cliff Press, 1989. Limited Ed 1/150, 1st Ed softcover bound in Bemboka Cotton. 119 pp. In New York, between 1946 and 1948, the scholar and poet Alan Ansen made rapid notes of Auden's inimitable conversations. This book is a record of Auden's private, offhand and sometimes wayward remarks and opinions about art, literature, music, politics, religion and sexuality. With tipped-in sepia photo...
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20th Century American Books
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American Clock, a Comprehensive Pictorial Survey, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
The American Clock: A Comprehensive Pictorial Survey, 1723-1900, with a listing of 6153 Clockmakers by William H Distin. E.P. Dutton & Co, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1976. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. A reference guide for collectors and clock lovers. Details and illustrations of tower clocks, tall case clocks, dwarf tall case clocks, bracket clocks, Massachusetts shelf clocks, lighthouse clocks...
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1970s American Vintage Books
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Karim Rashid: Evolution, First Edition
By Karim Rashid
Located in valatie, NY
Karim Rashid: Evolution by Karim Rashid. Universe, 2004. First edition hardcover no dust jacket issued. Karim Rashid is redesigning the world we live in one design at a time, or in K...
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Early 2000s American Books
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Christie's: 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Carpets from the Corcoran Gallery
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's: 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe including carpets from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, November 2009. Softcover auction catalogue with 474 lots all in color on 303 pages, ...
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Early 2000s American Books
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The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture by Herbert Cescinsky
By Herbert Cescinsky
Located in valatie, NY
The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture by Herbert Cescinsky. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1967. Unabridged and unaltered re-publication edition from original published in 1931, so...
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20th Century American Books
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Comment Installer Son Interieur en Louis XIII ou Louis XIV, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Comment Installer Son Interieur en Louis XIII ou Louis XIV, by Colette Lehmann. Paris, Éditions Charles Massin, 1963. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. How to decorate with L...
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1960s French Vintage Books
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Givenchy: 40 Years of Creation (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book was published in 1991 to coincide with an exhibition which marked Hubert de Givenchy's 40 years in fashion. It is dividing into three sections; it presents a portrait of Gi...
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20th Century Books
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Pour Une Renaissance De La Peinture Française
Located in valatie, NY
Pour une Renaissance de la Peinture Français by Jacques Baschet. Paris: Édition S.N.E.P. Illustration, 1946. Soft cover with French text. 114 pp. An oversized art book on the rebirth...
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Mid-20th Century French Books
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Dutch and Flemish Furniture by Esther Singleton, First Edition
By Ester Singleton
Located in valatie, NY
Dutch and Flemish Furniture by Esther Singleton. New York: The McClure Company, 1907. First edition hardcover, 338 pp. A history of the decorative ar...
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Early 20th Century American Books
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Big Shots, Edwardian Shooting Parties, First Edition
By Jonathan Garnier Ruffer
Located in valatie, NY
The Big Shots, Edwardian Shooting Parties by Jonathan Garnier Ruffer. London: Debrett's Peerage Ltd., 1977. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 144 pp. ...
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20th Century English Books
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Golden Age of Spanish Sculpture by Manuel Gómez Moreno, First Edition
By Manuel Gómez Moreno
Located in valatie, NY
The Golden Age of Spanish Sculpture by Manuel Gómez Moreno. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1964. First English edition hardcover with dust jacket. 63 pp. A beautiful, large for...
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20th Century American Books
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Soul Unsold by Mandy Vahabzadeh, Limited 1st Ed
By Mandy Vahabzadeh
Located in valatie, NY
Soul Unsold by Mandy Vahabzadeh. Graystone Books, CA, 1992. Limited 1st Ed (1/5000) hardcover with slipcase. Black and white images taken in India. Handmade red Ginsheni endpages. Poems by Chitra Neogy-Tezak. Presents the first collection of work by the Iranian artist-photographer (trained at both the Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design). Striking portraits of India...
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1990s American Books
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Oriental Rugs, a Complete Guide by Charles W. Jacobsen, Signed First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Oriental rugs, A Complete Guide by Charles W. Jacobsen. Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc., 1962. Signed first edition hardcover with dust jacket. 479 pp. A detailed resource b...
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20th Century American Books
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Furniture of Historic Deerfield by Dean A. Fales, Jr.
Located in valatie, NY
The Furniture of Historic Deerfield by Dean A. Fales. Deerfield: Historic Deerfield, Inc., 1981. Second edition hardcover with dust jacket. 294 pp. A book on the antique American furniture collections of historic Deerfield Massachusetts. The book includes details of the pieces with their histories, woods, and dimensions. It also includes information on the development of styles and the use of forms. The largest percentage of the collection is New England furniture...
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Late 20th Century American Books
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Historic Deerfield, A Portrait of Early America, First Edition
By Elizabeth Stillinger
Located in valatie, NY
Historic Deerfield, A Portrait of Early America. New York: Dutton Studio Books, 1992. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 206 pp. A book on historic Deerfield Massachusetts. The town was founded in 1669 by prosperous farmers who lined the mile long main street with architecturally significant houses. A lot of these house are now museums filled with American paintings, furniture, silver, and ceramics. The describes the rescue and restoration of Deerfield village building by building. Buildings include: The Allen House...
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20th Century American Books
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Ronald Searle Painting for 'Modern Types' Book Cover
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Ronald Searle painting for 'Modern Types' book cover
Medium: Watercolor and Ink
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Without Frame: 13" high x 10" wide
With Frame: 28" high x 21" wide
Ronald Se...
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Mid-20th Century English Books
Gisele Freund, Photographer First Edition
By Gisele Freund
Located in valatie, NY
Gisele Freund, photographer by Gisele Freund, New York: Abrams, 1985. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. For 50 years Freund documented some of the most influential artists and intellectuals and in this book she presents over 200 of her most compelling images of the 20th century's most significant artist and writers including: Jean-Paul Sartre, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Colette, Pierre Bonnard, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw...
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20th Century American Books
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Pay Dirt - Kenward Elmslie, Joe Brainard - 1st Edition, Bamberger Books, 1992
Located in London, GB
First Edition, published by Bamberger Books, Michigan, 1992.
A very scarce retrospective collection of poetic comics produced by Kenward Elmslie and Joe Brained who worked collabora...
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1990s American Modern Books
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19th Century Masterpiece BIG Book "The Superstitions of Humanity"
Located in Miami, FL
19th Century. Impressive book
Works illustrated with gorgeous stickers and engravings depicting historical and mythological scenes momuments and copied art objects of the most auth...
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1880s Spanish Baroque Antique Books
Modern Prints and Drawings by Paul J. Sachs, First Edition
By Paul J. Sachs
Located in valatie, NY
Modern Prints and Drawings, a guide to a better understanding of draughtsmanship, by Paul J. Sachs. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First edition hardcover with no dust jacket. 262 ...
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20th Century American Books
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"Story of Western Furniture" Book by Phyllis Oats, First Edition
By Phyllis Bennett Oates
Located in valatie, NY
“The Story of Western Furniture” book by Phyllis Bennet Oats. NY: Harper and Row, 1981. Stated first U.S. Edition hardcover with dust jacket. 253 pp. A survey of the development of f...
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20th Century American Books
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English Furniture Decoration and Allied Arts by Thomas Strange, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
English Furniture Decoration and Allied Arts from the last half of the 17th century to the early part of the 19th century by Thomas Strange. NY: Bonanza Books, 1950. 1st Ed thus repr...
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20th Century American Books
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Nouvelles Devantures et Agencements de Magasins (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Designs for Shop Windows
An hardcovered ribbon tied portfolio with 60 photogravure reproductions showing examples of New Shop fronts and Shop fittings in the Art Deco style by some ...
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Mid-20th Century Books
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Barbizon School of Painters: Corot by David Thomson, Bookplate Thos. Barratt
Located in valatie, NY
The Barbizon School of Painters: Corot by David C. Thomson. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1892. First Edition Thus. Inscribed by the author to Thomas J. Barratt. Ba...
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19th Century English Antique Books
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Rankin Works with Interview by Jefferson Hack1 st ed. 2000 (book)
Located in London, GB
Published by Booth Client 2000 h/b interview by Jefferson HackThis books delves into Rankin's work during the 1990s: over 200 of the very best of his early anti-fashion shots for the...
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Early 2000s Books
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Building by the Book Volumes 1 & 2 First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Building by the Book Volumes I & 2, Building by the Book, by Center for Palladian Studies in America. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1984-1986. Pair of 1st Ed har...
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1980s American Vintage Books
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Mobilier Savoyard et Dauphinois by Lucile Oliver
Located in valatie, NY
Mobilier Savoyard et Dauphinois by Lucile Oliver. Editions Ch. Massin, Paris, 1978. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Examines Savoyard and Dauphin period antique furniture. The are...
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1970s French Vintage Books
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Ferronnerie d'Aujourd'hui (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A hardback folio with 42 black and white plates showing beautiful examples of Art Deco designs for metal ware, the vast majority are by two of the masters o...
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20th Century Books
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Antique and Vintage Books
Antique and vintage books add a sense of culture and style to any room. Displaying these types of books in your living room or reading nook can warm a space with a distinguished feel.
Several factors make antique books highly desirable. Original jackets, ornate binding, illustrations and quality of the print all contribute to making a vintage book special. Rare books are of great interest to collectors in the know and can command high prices at auction. In 2021, an important early artist book by Andy Warhol sold at auction for more than $106,000. Somewhere between all the commercial work he did as an ambitious young graphic designer in the early 1950s and his first real debut as a Pop artist a decade later, Warhol produced a trove of incredibly charming drawings. His illustrated self-published artist books from the 1950s are very rare.
Many collectors seek the first edition of certain books. Fewer copies of a book and higher demand make it a rare find. A book that contains the author’s signature also makes it much more prized than other examples of the same title.
Collectors and designers decorate rooms with vintage books for a cozy feeling in a home. Coffee-table books, such as those featuring photography and design, serve as conversation pieces or offer a relaxing moment when leafed through.
Interior designers look for vintage books when they want to add color or detail. For instance, leather-bound books can create a scholarly air while mid-century titles offer a modern edge. Vintage international books or first editions can provide a sense of history.
No matter the genre, there is a book for you. You can find rare, one-of-a-kind antique books on 1stDibs. Browse by authors, like celebrated architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright and Edgar Rice Burroughs, as well as by period, including mid-century modern, Art Deco and Victorian.
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Italian writer and collector Umberto Pasti opens the doors to his remarkable cave of wonders in North Africa.
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Whaam! Blam! Pow! — a New Book on Pop Art Packs a Punch
Publishing house Assouline and writer Julie Belcove have teamed up to trace the history of the genre, from Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Yayoi Kusama to Mickalene Thomas and Jeff Koons.
The Sparkling Legacy of Tiffany & Co. Explained, One Jewel at a Time
A gorgeous new book celebrates — and memorializes — the iconic jeweler’s rich heritage.
Tauba Auerbach’s Geometric Pop-Up Book Is Mighty Rare, Thanks to a Hurricane
This sculptural art book has an epic backstory of its own.
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