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Books For Sale
Sotheby's Important Americana - Collection of Adolph Henry Meyer, 1st Ed
By Sotheby's
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's Important Americana - Collection of Adolph Henry Meyer, 1st ed hardcover. New York: Sotheby's, 1996. With 222 lots illustrated (mostly in color) and annotated. A one of a k...
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1990s American Books
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Paper
Steichen in Color Portraits, Fashion & Experiments by Edward Steichen, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Steichen in color: Portraits, fashion & experiments by Edward Steichen and Foreword by Joanna Steichen. Sterling Innovation September 2010. 1st Ed hardcover no dust jacket as publish...
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2010s American Books
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Paper
Blurring the Boundaries Installation Art 1969-1996, by Ronald Onorato
Located in valatie, NY
Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996 by Ronald J Onorato and Hugh M Davies. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 1999. 1st Ed, 2nd printing softcover. A classic documentation of site-specific and multi-media installation artwork, Blurring the Boundaries surveys twenty-five years of the genre's finest artwork. Included are: James Turrell, Vito Acconci...
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1990s American Books
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Paper
VISIONAIRE 23: The Emperor's New Clothes by Karl Lagerfeld (2247/5000) (wrapped)
Located in Kleinburg, ON
From the Visionaire website:
23 THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES is our nude issue. Setting fashion aside but keeping style intact, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld picked up his camera for...
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1990s American Books
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Paper, Wood
American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Met Museum of Art Book
Located in valatie, NY
‘American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’ by Albert TenEyck Gardner. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1965. First Edition, 1st printing...
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1960s American Vintage Books
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Paper
Sotheby's Pre-Columbian Art Sales Catalog, New York, November 23rd, 1992
Located in Stamford, CT
Sotheby's Pre-Columbian Art Sales Catalog, New York, May 17th 1993.
Amazing photos of incredible pieces of spiritual artistry, almost all of it no doubt looted, and also the only r...
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Late 20th Century American Pre-Columbian Books
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Paper
Christie's: Furniture, Pictures & Silver from Tythrop Park, April 27, 1995, 1st
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's: Furniture, Pictures & Silver from Tythrop Park, April 27, 1995. 1st Ed Soft cover. A Christie's Auction catalogue for the Cotton family. Listings include works from Isaac Liger, James Shruder, Peter Archambo, and David Willaume...
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1990s English Books
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Paper
Sotheby's Continental Furniture, Decorations and Carpets, Prince Giulio Di Monza
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's: Fine Continental Furniture, Decorations and Carpets Including Property from The Collection of Prince Giulio Durini Di Monza, October 1997. 416 lots on 173 pages Illustrate...
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1990s American Books
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Paper
A Decade of Champions by Richard Stone Reeves and Patrick Robinson, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
A Decade of Champions by Richard Stone Reeves and Patrick Robinson. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Published by Fine Arts Enterprises, NY, 1980. Drawings and paintings of winning...
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1980s North American Vintage Books
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Paper
Christie's: Important English Furniture, Property from the Estate of Vander Poel
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's: April 2004 Important English Furniture including Property from the Estate of Halsted B. Vander Poel. New York, first edition catalog with 298 lots all photo’d in color an...
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Early 2000s American Books
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Paper
Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion by Paul Grushkin & Dennis King
Located in valatie, NY
Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion by Paul Grushkin & Dennis King. Published by Chronicle Books, 2004. Hardcover with dust jacket. Authoritative, eye-popping, and massive, Art of Modern Rock is the first and last word on contemporary concert posters. An art form that has grown hand-in-hand with the independent music scene, heralding small and large gigs alike, the posters have emerged from visually creative street-level notices to prized collectibles rendered in a variety of styles and media. Today's poster artists combine the expressive freedom pioneered in the poster revolution...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Paper
Haute Bohemians Greece Book by Miguel Flores-Vianna
Located in New York, NY
Haute Bohemians: Greece
By: Miguel Flores-Vianna
A glorious, intimate homage to this magical country from bestselling photographer and writer Miguel Flores-Vianna
A land immortaliz...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Paper
Sadaharu Horio by Atsuo Yamamoto, Axel Vervoordt and Heinz-Norbert Joks
Located in valatie, NY
Sadaharu Horio by Atsuo Yamamoto, Axel Vervoordt and Heinz-Norbert Joks. Publisher: MER. Paper Kunsthalle, ASA Publishers 2011. 1st Ed Exhibition hardco...
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21st Century and Contemporary Belgian Books
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Paper
Sulphides, The Art of Cameo Incrustation, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Sulphides The Art of Cameo Incrustation by Paul Jokelson. New York: Galahad Books, 1968. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 149 pp. A book on the art of cameo incrustation ca...
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20th Century American Books
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Paper
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Located in valatie, NY
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by Julie Lane. Hardcover with dust jacket. Published by Equity Publishing 1979. Nicholas the orphan becomes Nicholas the woodcarver, whose job ...
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1970s American Vintage Books
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Paper
Furniture of George Hunzinger: Invention & Innovation in 19th-Century America
Located in valatie, NY
The Furniture of George Hunzinger: Invention and Innovation in Nineteenth-Century America, by Barry Robert Harwood. 1st Ed Softcover exhibition catalog. Published by Brooklyn Museum,...
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1990s American Books
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Paper
The Prints of Roger Shimomura, a Catalogue Raisonnè, 1968-2005
Located in Bradenton, FL
The Prints of Roger Shimomura, a Catalogue Raisonnè, 1968-2005 by Emily Stamey. Paperback book published by The University of Washington Press in 2007....
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Early 2000s Chinese Books
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Paper
The Last Country Houses by Clive Aslet, 1st Ed
By Clive Aslet
Located in valatie, NY
The Last Country Houses by Clive Aslet. New Haven: Yale University Press. First edition hardcover with dust jacket, 1982. 344 pp. The social and architectural history of the prospero...
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20th Century American Books
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Paper
A Personal View: Photography in the Collection of Paul F. Walter, 1st Ed
By John Pultz
Located in valatie, NY
A Personal View: Photography in the Collection of Paul F. Walter by John Pultz. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1985. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 136 pp. with 19 refere...
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1980s American Vintage Books
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Paper
Sotheby's British Art Pottery, Martin Brothers, the Harriman Judd Collection
By Sotheby's
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's British Art Pottery, Martin Brothers, The Harriman Judd Collection, New York, January 22, 2001. Softcover auction catalog. 497 Lots on 196 Pages – All Described and illustrated in color. the Harriman Judd Collection of British Art Pottery, the finest, most comprehensive collection of this type ever to come up for auction. Taken from the California home of the late Allen Harriman and Edward Judd the sale includes 800 lots of British Art Pottery, Studio Pottery and Majolica with estimates ranging from $200-$80,000. Harriman and Judd began collecting in the 1970’s and the collection they amassed largely over a ten-year period provides an in-depth survey of 130 years of British Art Pottery from all of the major factories working in this period. With objects ranging in size from 3 inches to 6ft. tall, potteries and artist potters highlighted include: Doulton Lambeth, the Martin Brothers, William Moorcroft, George Tinworth, Hannah Barlow, Mark Marshall...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Paper
Pleasures of the Porch by Daria Price Bowman & Maureen LaMarca First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Pleasures of the Porch by Daria Price Bowman & Maureen LaMarca. New York: Rizzoli, 1997. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 144 pp. Idea book for making the perfect porch no matter the style or location. The book discusses the history of the porch from ancient Greece, the outdoor sitting room of the Victorian era to modern times. Includes ideas for areas of solitude, outdoor rooms...
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20th Century North American Books
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Paper
Christie's Magnificent Jewels Geneva May 27, 1993 First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's Magnificent Jewels Geneva May 27, 1993. First edition softcover. The 491 lot catalog on 181 pp. Color photographs throughout.
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1990s Swiss Books
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Paper
Made for Maharajas A Design Diary of Princely India Book by Amin Jaffer
By Amin Jaffer
Located in New York, NY
Made for Maharajas
A Design Diary of Princely India
By: Amin Jaffer
The Indian princes of the British Raj lived lives of unparalleled opulence and luxury. Made for Maharajas returns...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Paper
Audsley, George Ashdown and James, Lord Bowes ‘The Keramic Art of Japan’
By George Ashdown Audsley & James Lord Bowes
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Audsley, George Ashdown and James, Lord Bowes ‘The Keramic Art of Japan’, Liverpool and London, Henry Sotheran, 1875. 2 volumes, first edition hardback folio including 41 coloured an...
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1870s English Antique Books
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Paper
The Andy Warhol Collection Americana & European & American Paintings & Prints
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's: The Andy Warhol Collection Americana and European and American Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Vol. V, Friday, April 29 and Saturday,...
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1980s American Vintage Books
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Paper
Three Centuries of Furniture in Color by J. A. Kenworthy-Browne, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Three Centuries of Furniture in color by J. A. Kenworthy-Browne and H. D. Molesworth. Published by Viking a Studio Book, New York, 1972. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Beautiful photos of European and American furniture from the 17th century through the Art Nouveau period, to the present. From a Philadelphia mahogany...
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1970s Vintage Books
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Paper
Impressionist New York by William H. Gerdts
Located in Bradenton, FL
Impressionist New York by William H. Gerdts. Hardcover book with dustjacket. Stated first edition published by Artabras in 1994. Printed in Italy, illustrated, 224 pages.
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1990s Italian Books
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Bill Burke - I Want to Take Picture
By Bill Burke
Located in New York, NY
"The triumph of this book is that it does manage to reflect the mad experience of traveling in Southeast Asia, while still reflecting on what it all means" (Roth 101).
FIRST EDITION of one of the seminal photobooks of the 1980's. SIGNED BY BURKE INSIDE ORIGINAL DRAWING OF HIS HAND. One of only 1000 copies printed of the first edition.
"Bill Burke has become known for his large-format portraits shot on Polaroid Land film, which have the formality and feel of nineteenth-century photographs whilst remaining acutely modern in their sensibilities. In his best book, I Want to Take Picture, this technique is entirely appropriate, since it records his personal pilgrimage to southeast Asia, duplicating the enterprise of the old colonialist photographers but adding a contemporary twist...
"Although the pictures have a nineteenth-century feel, the book is also a diary that records a twentieth-century experience. Burke not only uses his photographs, but also employs documents- reproductions of ephemera like money...
FIRST EDITION of one of the seminal photobooks of the 1980's. SIGNED BY BURKE INSIDE ORIGINAL DRAWING OF HIS HAND. One of only 1000 copies printed of the first edition.
"Bill Burke has become known for his large-format portraits shot on Polaroid Land film, which have the formality and feel of nineteenth-century photographs whilst remaining acutely modern in their sensibilities. In his best book, I Want to Take Picture, this technique is entirely appropriate, since it records his personal pilgrimage to southeast Asia, duplicating the enterprise of the old colonialist photographers but adding a contemporary twist...
"Although the pictures have a nineteenth-century feel, the book is also a diary that records a twentieth-century experience. Burke not only uses his photographs, but also employs documents- reproductions of ephemera like money...
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Late 20th Century American Books
Christie's Champalimaud Collection London, 6 & 7 July 2005, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's: The Champalimaud Collection: London, 6 & 7 July 2005. First Edition softcovers with slip-case. Consists of 2 oversize catalogs from the auction. The 2 catalogs and their ...
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Early 2000s English Books
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Paper
45 wood-engravers – WHITTINGTON PRESS
Located in Middletown, NY
Lawernce, Simon WHITTINGTON PRESS
45 wood-engravers (Forty-five Wood-engravers); With an Introduction by John Lawrence.
Yorkshire, UK: Simon Lawrence printed by The Whittington Pre...
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20th Century English Books
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Gold Leaf
EDWARD STEICHEN A Life in Photography Hardcover Book 1984
By Edward Steichen
Located in North Hollywood, CA
EDWARD STEICHEN A Life in Photography Hardcover Book 1984 Bonanza Crown Japan.
Arguably one of the most influential American photographer of the twentieth century, this book chronicl...
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Late 20th Century American Expressionist Books
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Paper
Sotheby's The Thanet Dinner Service Paul de Lamerie, 1742-1746 London 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's The Thanet Dinner Service Paul de Lamerie, 1742-1746 London 11/22/84. First edtion hardcover with results. Lot 60 of this silver auction broug...
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1980s English Vintage Books
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Paper
Set of Three Important Key Books on Shaker Furniture and Accessories
Located in valatie, NY
Set of Three Important Key Books on Shaker Furniture and Accessories:
1. By Shaker Hands by June Sprigg, Softcover Published by Knopf, 1975. New York.
...
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Late 20th Century American Books
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Norman Rockwell’s People by Susan E. Meyer
Located in Bradenton, FL
Norman Rockwell’s People by Susan E. Meyer. Hardcover book with dustjacket. First edition, published in 1981 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., of New York. Printed and bound in Japan, 242 pa...
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1980s Japanese Vintage Books
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Paper
1925 The Memory Years, French Book by Editions Larousse, 1988
Located in Atlanta, GA
1925, Les Années-Mémoire (1925, The Memory Years), French book by Editions Larousse, 1988.
Relive the year 1925 as if you were there. This volume will make you relive, with emotion, ...
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1980s French Modern Vintage Books
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Paper
200 Years of Rochester Architecture and Gardens by Richard Reisem, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
200 Years of Rochester Architecture And Gardens byRichard O. Reisem. Published by Landmark Society of Western, 2006. 1st Ed hardcover with dust...
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1990s American Books
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Paper
The Hudson by Carl Carmer, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
The Hudson by Carl Carmer. Farrar & Rinehart, New York:, 1939. First edition hardcover with dust jacket with Brodart cover. Best of the Rivers of America series. The Hudson is less a...
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1930s American Vintage Books
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Paper
Antique Book Modern Practical Farriery, WJ Miles, English Language, Circa 1900
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique copy of Modern Practical Farriery, by W.J. Miles et al. An English language, hard bound non-fiction book, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900.
Full title, as follows: Modern practical farriery - a complete guide to all that relates to the horse, its history, varieties, and uses; breaking, training, feeding, stabling, and grooming; how to buy, keep and treat a horse in health and disease, etc.; forming a complete system of the veterinary art, as at present practised at the Royal Veterinary College, London / by W.J. Miles, M.R.C.V.S.L.; with numerous illustrations and a series of anatomical plates, engraved from original drawings from nature, by Benjamin Herring, Esq.; to which is added an essay on the diseases and management of cattle, sheep, and pigs by J.L. Lupton, M.R.C.V.S.
Intact order, with some light marks but remarkably presentable for age and intended use - occasional pressed leaves throughout
Superb frontispiece in colour, redolent of contemporary William Morris...
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Early 20th Century British Books
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Paper
The Great American Pin-Up
Located in Bradenton, FL
The Great American Pin-Up by Charles G. Martignette and Louis K. Meisel. Hardcover book, published in 2002 by Taschen. Printed in Italy, illustrated, 447 pages. Printed in English, G...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books
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Leonard: Art and Fashion by Daniel Tribouillard (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
The success of Leonard is the result of a unique vision. Daniel Tribouillard creates for a woman in perpetual evolution.
She is read for weekday elegance and weekend nonchalance. Sh...
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20th Century Books
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Philip Guston Retrospective by Michael Auping, 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
Philip Guston Retrospective by Michael Auping. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Association with Thames & Hudson, 2003. 1st Ed softcover exhibition catalog. MET October 28, 2003—Ja...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Paper
Parish Hadley by Sister Parish, Albert Hadley and Christopher Petkanas (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
:Sixty Years of American Design
In this lavishly illustrated book the late Sister Parish and Albert Hadley offered an insight into the timeless elegance and incredible style of their...
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Late 20th Century Books
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Paper
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning - 2 Volumes
Located in Middletown, NY
London: John Murray, 1915.
2 volumes, 8vo; 7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches (190 x130 mm). Vol. 1: xvi, 748 pp.; Vol. 2: vii, 786 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in 1835 in Vol....
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Early 20th Century English Books
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Leather, Paper
Sotheby's Art at Auction: the Year in Review 1995-1996, 1st Ed
By Sotheby's
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's Art at Auction: The Year in Review 1995-96. Published by Conrad Octopus Ltd., 1996. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This annual reference w...
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1990s English Books
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Fashion Icons: Fashion Lives with Fern Mallis
Located in New York, NY
Following Rizzoli’s popular Fashion Lives: Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis this second volume documents a new roster of no-holds-barred interviews with the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Pair of Exhibition Catalogs, Chinese Glass, Phoenix Art Museum & China Institute
Located in valatie, NY
1. Clear As Crystal, Red As Flame: Later Chinese Glass, by Claudia Brown, Donald Rabiner. Natural History, University of Washington Press, 1990. Gloriously colored Chinese glass arti...
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1990s American Books
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Paper
Corot Women by Mary Morton, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Corot: Women by Mary Morton. Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2018. 1st Ed exhibition catalog for Exhibition dates, National Gallery of Art, Washington, September 9-Dec...
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2010s American Books
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Paper
White Pillars Early Life & Architecture Of The Lower Mississippi Valley, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
White Pillars: Early Life & Architecture Of The Lower Mississippi Valley Written by and Illustrated by J. Frazer Smith. New York: William Helburn, 1941. 2...
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1940s American Vintage Books
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Elemental Living - 60 Stunning Works of Contemporary Architecture
Located in New York, NY
60 stunning works of contemporary architecture, all of which have a special relationship with the natural landscape
Elemental Living presents 60 works of architecture from...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Books
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Paper
Reading Art, Art for Book Lovers
Located in New York, NY
A celebration of artworks featuring books and readers from throughout history, for the delight of art lovers and bibliophiles
As every book tells a story, every book in art is part...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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€30 / item
Harland Miller: In Shadows I Boogie
Located in New York, NY
The most comprehensive monograph to date on the British artist and writer best known for his paintings based on the dust jackets of early Penguin paperbacks
This monograph covers ne...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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€87 / item
Interiors, The Greatest Rooms of the Century 'Platinum Gray Edition'
Located in New York, NY
More than 400 of the world’s best living spaces created by over 300 of the most influential people in interior design in one luxurious book
Oversized and available in four collectab...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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“The Paris Salons”, 1895-1914 Furniture ‘Book’
Located in Montelabbate, PU
This is the third in a multi-volume collection providing a visual catalogue record of the decorative arts of the Paris Salons. Included in this volume are reproductions of the catalogue illustrations of furniture at the Exposition Universelle of 1900, the annual Salons du Mobilier, and the celebrated 1903 and 1904 expositions of the Ecole de Nancy in the French capital. This chronological record clearly shows the revolution in furniture design that transpired in France at the turn of the century. The illustrations trace precisely the emergence of the art nouveau style in the 1890s, its high point between the 1900 Exposition Universelle and the 1903 Salons, its demise between 1905-1909, the return to period revivalism and the transitional art nouveau - art deco style of 1910-1912 with the proto - art deco style of the immediate pre-war years (1911-1914). Many examples of non-art nouveau works from the period are also included. Hundreds of these contemporary illustrations...
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Early 20th Century Books
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Christie's NY: Important French Furniture, Ceramics Property from J. Paul Getty
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's NY: Important French Furniture, Ceramics, Tapestries, and Carpets including Property from J. Paul Getty Museum, October 1996. 447 lots and 295 ag...
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1990s American Books
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"FritzHansen-Furniture" Catalog, 1963
By Fritz Hansen
Located in New York, NY
Hardcover catalog of Fritz Hansen furniture featuring work by Arne Jacobsen, Borge Mogensen, Hans Wegner, Verner Panton, Kaare Klint, Karen and Ebbe Clemmensen, Kristian Vedel, Mogen...
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1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Books
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The Dance of Life a Poem; by Wm. Combe, Th. Rowlandson illustr. - FIRST ed.
Located in Middletown, NY
The Dance of Life, a Poem; by the author of "Doctor Syntax" William Combe & Thomas Rowlandson illustrations.
London: R. Ackermann, 1817. FIRST EDITION. ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Books
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Gold Leaf
Gerrit Rietveld, designer and architect
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Gerrit Rietveld (1888 - 1964) was a Dutch designer and architect.
This booklet gives an interesting insight of his life and struggles he had as an architect.
The text is in Dutch,...
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Late 20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
1900 Set of Five French Factory Portfolios in Leather
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Set of five leather factory portfolios with embossed gilt titles and brass hardware. A unique addition to any desk or library, these beautifully bound ...
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20th Century French Books
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Leather
Steve McCurry, Animals, Art Edition No. 1-100 ‘Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2010’
Located in Los Angeles, CA
From an elephant lovingly resting on his master’s shoulder to a dog led through the rubble of Kabul on the back of a bicycle, these images by Steve McCurry tell a thousand stories, e...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Other
SEVEN ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF SYLVESTER THE CAT & JR. - Signed By Virgil Ross
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
ARTIST: Virgil Ross.
TITLE: Sylvester The Cat & Little Sylvester (Eight Original drawings).
PUBLISHER: Warner Brothers Studios, (c.1990's)
DESCRIPTION: SEVEN ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF...
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1990s American Books
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