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Period: 21st Century and Contemporary
Period: 1930s
1939 The WPA Guide to New York City: The Federal Writers’ Project Guide
Located in Stamford, CT
1939 The WPA Guide to New York City: The Federal Writers’ Project Guide. Rare Hardcover 1st edition.
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1930s American Modern Vintage Books
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Flower Color Theory Book
By Phaidon
Located in New York, NY
Leading floral designers Putnam & Putnam are back - now with the ultimate flower-arrangement reference book
The follow-up to Darroch and Michael Putnam's acclaimed bestselling debut, Flower Color Theory is the only guide that uses color...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Books
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Paper
Masters of Colour Derain to Kandinsky, Masterpieces from Merzbacher Collection
Located in valatie, NY
Masters of Colour: Derain to Kandinsky - Masterpieces from Merzbacher Collection. Published by Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2002. 1st Ed paperback Exhibition Catalog at the Royal A...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Paper
Stephen Shore: The Hudson Valley: Blind Spot Series 01, 1st Limited Ed, 1/1000
Located in valatie, NY
Stephen Shore: The Hudson Valley: Blind Spot Series 01, by Stephen Shore with Laurie Dahlberg, 1/1000. 1st limited Ed (1/1000) hardcover, no dust jacket as p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Mansions To Dream, to Live, to Feel Hardcover Designer Book
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Mansions To Dream, to Live, to Feel Hardcover.Form, symmetry, and proportion unite to form the unique style of the mansions of Mexico. The shape of Mexican mansions is an experience ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Spanish Colonial Books
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Sotheby's Ariane Dandois, October 2007, Volume II, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's Ariane Dandois, October 2007, Volume II. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog. Sotheby’s New York presented a sale of property from the legendary Galerie Ariane Dandois in Pari...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Paper
The Regional Italian Cookbook Recipes from The Silver Spoon
Located in New York, NY
Italy’s most trusted home cooking resource presents a richly illustrated exploration of the country’s unique regional cuisines
Italy is formed of 20 regions, each with its own disti...
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2010s Chinese Books
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Paper
Izaak WALTON. The Compleat Angler. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham FIRST TRADE ED
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: WALTON, Izaak.
TITLE: The Compleat Angler.
PUBLISHER: London: George C. Harrap & Co., 1931.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST TRADE EDITION. 1 vol., 9-3/4" - 7-9/16", illustrated by Art...
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1930s British Vintage Books
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Leather
Amos Badertscher Images and Stories
Located in New York, NY
The long-awaited first career survey from photographer Amos Badertscher, who comprehensively documented a uniquely American queer underworld
Across s...
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2010s American Books
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Paper
555: Revisiting The Fashion Archive of Francisco Costa
Located in New York, NY
This item will be available to ship October 31, 2023
An evocative photographic homage shot by renowned image-makers that celebrates the iconic archival fashion designs of Francisco Costa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Paper
Long Island Modernism, 1930-1980, by Caroline Rob Zaleski, Stated 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Long Island Modernism, 1930-1980, by Caroline Rob Zaleski. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. An essential reference for architectural followers, historians, and everyone who ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Paper
Building Beautiful: Classical Houses by John Simpson
Located in New York, NY
Author Clive Aslet, Foreword by John Simpson
New homes, featuring interiors, gardens, and furniture from London-based architect John Simpson, famed des...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Paper
Bonhams Sale, The Contents of Great Brampton House, on Site Auction 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Bonhams Sale, The Contents of Great Brampton House Sold by Order of Sir John and Lady Pidgeon. Wednesday 1 October 2008 Great Brampton House, Madley, Herefordshire. Over 700 lots of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary English Books
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Paper
Sotheby's The Wardington Library, Important Atlases and Geographies, Part 1 A-K
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's: The Wardington Library, Important Atlases and Geographies. Part One: A-K., London, 18 October 2005. 1st Ed hardcover catalog with 244 lots photographed in color and fully ...
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Early 2000s English Books
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Paper
Campo Baeza: Selected Works
Located in New York, NY
A comprehensive survey of the work of a master of modernist design today.
Alberto Campo Baeza, one of contemporary architecture’s most distinguished voices, is renowned for a body o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Paper
MOCA: This Is Not To Be Looked At Hardcover Book
Located in North Hollywood, CA
MOCA: This Is Not To Be Looked At.
This Is Not To Be Looked At: Highlights from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Hardcover – April 1, 2008
by Paul Schimm...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Post-Modern Books
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Paper
Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921 Reinventing Tradition Marilyn McCully
Located in valatie, NY
Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921 : Reinventing Tradition by Marilyn McCully; Susan Grace Galassi. Yale University Press, 2011. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 74 drawings with detail...
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2010s American Books
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Paper
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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Paper
Stephen HAWKING. My Brief History. 1ST ED - WITH HIS BLACK INK THUMB PRINT !
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: HAWKING, Stephen.
TITLE: My Brief History. A Memoir.
PUBLISHER: London: Bantam Press, 2013.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST LONDON EDITION FIRST PRINTING BEARING THE BLACK INK THUMB P...
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2010s English Books
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Paper
Vitamin V Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art
Located in New York, NY
The most comprehensive survey to date of contemporary video and moving-image art from the last decade
Video has never been more prevalent in contemporary art than it is today. At a ...
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2010s Chinese Books
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Paper
The Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García by Tomas Llorens, 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
The Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García by Tomas Llorens, Abigail McEwan and Frederic Tuten. Publisher Rizzoli International Publications, 2018. 1st Ed hard...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Paper
Yves Saint Laurent Accessories
Located in New York, NY
An exclusive homage to, and retrospective of, the iconic fashion designer's couture accessories.'
One can never overstate the importance of accessories. They are what turns a dress ...
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21st Century and Contemporary European Books
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Paper
Ashley Longshore: I Do Not Cook, I Do Not Clean, I Do Not Fly Commercial
Located in New York, NY
Ashley Longshore: I Do Not Cook, I Do Not Clean, I Do Not Fly Commercial
Author Ashley Longshore, Contributions by Linda Fargo and Blake Lively and Diane von Furstenberg and Tommy Hilfiger
New Orleans-based self-taught pop artist Ashley Longshore, known for her bold fashionista portraits and larger-than-life personality, has a massive art-cult following. I Do Not Cook, I Do Not Clean, I Do Not Fly Commercial highlights Ashley's colorful life story and showcases her bejeweled vibrant pop art.
Ashley Longshore delivers exactly what her fans are clamoring for: a look at Ashley's big life, her audacious aphorisms, and of course her sumptuous, glittering art in sublime detail. Ashley Longshore's pop-art paintings are always daring; her art makes noise. On any given day, you may catch her in her New Orleans gallery painting with Blake Lively, talking art and fashion with Dapper Dan in New York, or on a remote island in Hawaii painting...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Inventing the California Look
Located in New York, NY
Inventing the California Look: Interiors by Frances Elkins, Michael Taylor, John Dickinson, and Other Design Innovators
Author Philip E. Meza, Photographs by Fred Lyon, Foreword b...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Monet's London, Artist's Reflections on the Thames 1859-1914
Located in Bradenton, FL
Monet's London, Artist's Reflections on the Thames 1859-1914. Softcover book published in 2005. Co-published by the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg and Snoeck Publishers of Ghe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Belgian Books
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Paper
KENNA, Michael. Mont-Saint-Michel. 21st Editions, 2007. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: KENNA, Michael - Henry Adams.
TITLE: Mont-Saint-Michel.
PUBLISHER: 21st Editions, 2007.
DESCRIPTION: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. 1 vol., 16-3/4" x 14-3/4", limited to 60 numb...
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Early 2000s British Books
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Fabric
Sotheby's NY Property From the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra, Vol. III
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's New York: Property From the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra Volume III, November 4, 2005. First Edition softcover catalogue on European Furniture and Fine & Decorativ...
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Early 2000s American Books
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Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at The Frick
Located in New York, NY
American artist Barkley L. Hendricks (1945–2017) revolutionized contemporary portraiture with his vivid depictions of Black subjects beginning in the late 1960s. This book contextualizes Hendricks’s portraits at different stages of the country’s history and places him in the pantheon of innovative twentieth-century artists.
Hendricks developed his signature style at a time of significant social and cultural change in the United States, especially with regard to Black artists, and amid a perceived bifurcation between abstraction and representation. He produced portraits from the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Following a hiatus during which he made landscapes, basketball paintings, works on paper, and photographs, he resumed his portraiture practice from 2002 until his death in 2017. Hendricks’s portrait paintings, often derived from photographs of friends and family, hired models, or figures he encountered on the street, were inspired by the artist’s research, international travels, and visits to museums like The Frick Collection, where he studied centuries-old European paintings...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Paper
Marina Abramovic Turned Herself Into Art and Wasn’t Sorry.
Located in New York, NY
The first ever picture-book biography for readers aged 4-7 years of the performance art pioneer – Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic is a world-famous artist who uses her body to per...
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2010s Chinese Books
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Paper
Luigi Ghirri It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It... by Luigi Ghirri, Stated 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Luigi Ghirri: It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It... by Luigi Ghirri. Published by Aperture, NY, 2008. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Ghirri was an extraordinary photographer, as well as a writer and curator whose career was so rich and varied that it seems like a lesson in the contemporary history of the medium. Although well known in his native Italy, Ghirri does not yet have the international audience his work merits--perhaps because he died so young. This is the first book published on Ghirri in the U.S. It will establish him as the seminal artist he was. Uncannily prescient, Ghirri shared the sensibility of what became known in the U.S. as the New Color and the New Topographics...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Paper
Basquiat: Boom for Real Herbert Kasper's Estate With 1 of His Paintings Illus
Located in valatie, NY
Basquiat: Boom for Real by Eleanor Nairne and Dieter Buchhart. 1st Ed hardcover no dust jacket as issued. Published by Prestel, Munich, 2017, for exhibitions in London and Frankfurt....
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21st Century and Contemporary German Books
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The Silverman Collection by Robert Brown, 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
The Silverman Collection by Robert Brown. Published London: Richard Nagy Ltd, 2012. 176 pgs w/ 25 color plates and many other color & b&w illustrations. A beautiful collection of Ger...
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21st Century and Contemporary English Books
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Paper
Christie's The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A. London
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A. London 9/18/13 Sale #1186. 1st Ed. softcover auction catalog. 401 pages with 635 lots illustrated in color and al...
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21st Century and Contemporary English Books
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Mid-Century Modern Designers
Located in New York, NY
An homage to the design pioneers who defined the Mid-Century aesthetic through their work in furniture, glassware, ceramics and textiles
More than 50 years later, the fascination wi...
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2010s Chinese Books
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Paper
Sotheby's London 2019 Auction Catalog Qing Imperial Porcelain, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's London 2019 Auction Catalog Qing Imperial Porcelain. 1st Ed
hardcover. This is a collection of fine imperial porcelains carefully assembled by a discerning private collec...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Books
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Paper
Important Italian Glass: the Collection of Frank Toskan, 1/1, 2012 by Wright
Located in valatie, NY
Important Italian Glass: The Collection of Frank Toskan, January 1, 2012
by Wright Auctions. 254 lots photoed in color and fully described.
NPT Books, a division of Trent Antiques,...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Paper
Art Nouveau by Klaus-Jurgen Sembach
By TASCHEN
Located in Bradenton, FL
Art Nouveau by Klaus-Jurgen Sembach. Softcover book, published in 2002 by Taschen. Printed in Italy, illustrated, 240 pages.
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Early 2000s Italian Art Nouveau Books
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Paper
Miquel Barcelo: 'Conjeturas sobre Vasijas' - Special Large Edition Book
Located in Barcelona, ES
Dive into the captivating world of Miquel Barceló's ceramic art with this extraordinary special edition book titled 'Conjeturas sobre Vasijas.' Published in 2008, this book is a test...
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Early 2000s Spanish Books
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Paper
Modern Living: Gio Ponti and the Twentieth-Century Aesthetics of Design
Located in valatie, NY
Modern Living: Gio Ponti and the Twentieth-Century Aesthetics of Design
by Georgia Museum of Art and Perri Lee Roberts. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket exhibition catalog. 2017, Un...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Mr. Dooley at His Best, by Finley Peter Dunne Edited by Elmer Ellis
Located in valatie, NY
Mr. Dooley at His Best. Edited by Elmer Ellis at the University of Missouri. With a Foreword by Franklin P. Adams. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition, 1st printing, one of 520 copies with one page of the author's original manuscript. Frontispiece portrait. 291 pp. Buckram and decorated boards with a leather label. Finley Peter Dunne (1867- 1936) was an American humorist and writer from Chicago. In 1898 Dunne published Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, a collection of his nationally syndicated Mr. Dooley sketches. Speaking with the thick verbiage and accent of an Irish immigrant from County Roscommon, the fictional Mr. Dooley expounded upon political and social issues of the day from his South Side Chicago Irish pub...
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1930s American Vintage Books
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Paper
Outliers & American Vanguard Art With Letter From Director of National Gallery
Located in valatie, NY
Outliers and American Vanguard Art by Lynne Cooke. Published by National Gallery of Art, University of Chicago Press, Washington, Chicago, 2018. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. With a personal letter from the Director of the National Gallery of Art, Earl A. Powell III, to Herbert Kasper the famous clothing designer and art collector. In 2011, the Morgan Library and Museum devoted an exhibition, called “Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs,” to the designer. Some 250 works explore three distinct periods in American history when mainstream and outlier artists intersected, ushering in new paradigms based on inclusion, integration, and assimilation. The exhibition aligns work by such diverse artists as Charles Sheeler, Christina Ramberg, and Matt Mullican with both historic folk art and works by self-taught artists ranging from Horace Pippin to Janet Sobel...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Finishing the Hat Collected Lyrics '1954-1981' Comments, by Stephen Sondheim
Located in valatie, NY
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim (March 22, 1930 -November 26, 2021). Published by Knopf, 2010. Hardcover with dust jacket. The winner of seven Tonys, an Academy Award, seven Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize and more, Stephen Sondheim's career has spanned more than half a century; his lyrics have become synonymous with musical theater and popular culture. In Finishing the Hat--titled after perhaps his most autobiographical song, from Sunday in the Park with George, Sondheim has not only collected his lyrics for the first time, he is giving readers a rare personal look into his life as well as his remarkable productions. Along with the lyrics for all of his musicals from 1954 to 1981 including: West Side Story, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd, Sondheim treats us to never-before-published songs from each show, songs that were cut or discarded before seeing the light of day. He discusses his relationship with his mentor, Oscar Hammerstein II, and his collaborations with extraordinary talents such as: Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Ethel Merman, Richard Rodgers...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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James Franco: Dangerous Book Four Boys by James Franco, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
James Franco: Dangerous Book Four Boys by James Franco, Alanna Heiss (Editor), and Klaua Biesenbach. Published 2012, Skira Rizzoli. 1st Ed hardcover no dust jacket as published. Cons...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Interior Affairs Sofia Aspe and the Art of Design
Located in New York, NY
Edited by Sofia Aspe, Foreword by Cristina Morozzi
A luxurious presentation of the works by prominent Mexican interior designer Sofía Aspe, known for cre...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Van Gogh by D. M. Field
Located in Bradenton, FL
Van Gogh by D. M. Field. Softcover book, published in 2006 by Chartwell Books, Inc. Illustrated, 446 pages.
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Industrial Sublime Modernism & the Transformation of NY's Rivers, 1900-1940
Located in valatie, NY
Industrial Sublime: Modernism and the Transformation of New York's Rivers, 1900-1940 by Kristen M. Jensen, Bartholomew F. Bland, Katherine E. Manthorne, Wendy Greenhouse, and Ellen E. Roberts. Fordham University Press, 2013. 1st Ed softcover. Co-published with the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers. The exhibition ran from October 12, 2013, through January 17, 2014. It was not until the first decade of the 20th century, as artists like Robert Henri and John Sloan turned their attention to the urban scene, that American art shifted its focus from bucolic landscapes to the cities, the towns, the crowds, especially the raucous urban scene of Manhattan, by then the nation's most important city. This movement away from painting the land to painting the life on the street is often seen as a clean break with the depiction of the landscape, and with landscape painting generally as a mainstay of American art in the face of European Modernism. However, artists continued to paint the Hudson River, as well as its tributaries, the Harlem and East rivers, and the great harbor of New York City. What was different was their approach. Giving way the romantic ideals of earlier painters, artists like Henri and Sloan, and later, Georgia O'Keeffe, George Ault, Edward Hopper, and Preston Dickinson...
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2010s American Books
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Spoon
Located in Richmond, VA
Hardback coffee table book with an undulating steel cover presenting the work of 100 contemporary product designers. By Phaidon, published in 2002. 1st edition, 444 pages.
"Spoon ...
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2010s Books
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Metal
Diego Rivera, Murals for the Museum of Modern Art, by Leah Dickerman, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art by Leah Dickerman and Anna Indych-Lopez. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2011. 1st Ed hardcover with no dust jacket as published. From the personal library of Herbert Kasper. Herbert Kasper was an American fashion designer known as "Kasper." He studied English and advertising at New York University and fashion at The Parsons School of Design in New York from 1951–53 and l'Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in 1953. He left NYU to serve in the US Army in Europe. After WW II he enrolled at Parsons, where he became a protégé of milliner Fred Frederics. After graduating, he returned to Paris for two years developing his skills in design while working for Jacques Fath, Christian Dior, and Marcel Rochas. When he returned to the US, he worked for Frederics at Mr. John. He was an avid art collector with a famous art collection, and in 2011, the Morgan Library and Museum devoted an exhibition, called “Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs,” to the designer.
In 1931, Diego Rivera was the subject of The Museum of Modern Art's second monographic exhibition, which set new attendance records in its five-week run. The Museum brought Rivera to New York six weeks before the show's opening and gave him on-site studio space. There he produced five “portable murals” --large blocks of frescoed plaster...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Lonsdale Library Equestrian Book
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Horsemanship - The Way Of A Man With A Horse, Lonsdale Library Book.
One of the volumes from Lonsdale Library, Horsemanship - The Way Of A Man With A Horse. The book with over ninety illustrations, the first is of The Right Hon. The Earl of Lonsdale on 'Marble'.
The Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games & Pastimes, Editors The Right Hon. The Earl of Lonsdale, Sir Theodore Cook & Mr. Eric Parker...
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1930s British Sporting Art Vintage Books
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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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Marty De Cambiaire: Tableaux & Dessins, Paintings & Drawings, 1st Ed Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
Marty de Cambiaire: Tableaux & Dessins, Paintings & Drawings. 1st Ed softcover catalog in French and English. Works by:Alessandro Ballarin, Cristina et Jean-Luc Baroni, Val rie Basty...
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21st Century and Contemporary French Books
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The Surgeon and the Photographer by Geoffrey Farmer, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
The Surgeon and the Photographer by Geoffrey Farmer. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015. First Edition hardcover, no dust jacket as issued. Publish...
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2010s Canadian Books
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Dreams Through the Glass Windows from Bergdorf Goodman by Linda Fargo, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Dreams Through the Glass: Windows from Bergdorf Goodman by Linda Fargo. Assouline, NY, 2003. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Each window is a fantastic tableau, a narrative, a piece of theater inviting the viewer into rich imaginary worlds of fashion and surrealistic luxury. Window design is a vanishing metier, but it remains an enduring art form providing rare views through the glass into fantastic realms of dreams and fantasy. In these pages, Linda Fargo, the renowned window artist for Bergdorf Goodman, opens up her portfolio of magical tableaux created especially for this crown jewel of the retail world. Her palette is wonderfully rich and eclectic, juxtaposing relics of the past and the present, symbols of art and literature, western culture and exotic lands, moving easily between the marvelous and the everyday. These windows continue to astonish and delight all who flock to them for the traditional annual Christmas displays...
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Early 2000s American Books
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Sun and Moon a Story of Astronomy, Photography and Cartography
Located in New York, NY
A unique pictorial history of astronomical exploration from the earliest Prehistoric observatories to the latest satellite images with 280 spectacular images and an inspiring story i...
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21st Century and Contemporary European Books
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Art of Parmigianino by David Franklin, 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
Art of Parmigianino by David Franklin. Published by Yale University Press for National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 2003. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket Exhibition Catalog. Published...
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21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Books
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Masterworks Hardcover Book by Bedoyere D. E. La Camilla
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Louis Comfort Tiffany Masterworks Hardcover Book by Bedoyere D. E. La Camilla.Louis Comfort Tiffany was highly skilled in jewellery design, as well as ceramics, enamels, and metalwor...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Art Nouveau Books
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Manor Houses of England by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Manor Houses of England by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd and Christopher Simon Sykes. Published by Vendome Press, 2001. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 256 pp. with 300 color illus....
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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"Interiors The Greatest Rooms of the Century" 'Merlot Red' Book
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 European 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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Pamela Shamshiri Shares the Secrets behind Her First-Ever Book and Its Effortlessly Cool Interiors
The sought-after designer worked with the team at Hoffman Creative to produce a monograph that beautifully showcases some of Studio Shamshiri's most inspiring projects.
Moroccan Artworks and Objects Take Center Stage in an Extraordinary Villa in Tangier
Italian writer and collector Umberto Pasti opens the doors to his remarkable cave of wonders in North Africa.
Montecito Has Drawn Royalty and Celebrities, and These Homes Are Proof of Its Allure
Hollywood A-listers, ex-pat aristocrats and art collectors and style setters of all stripes appreciate the allure of the coastal California hamlet — much on our minds after recent winter floods.
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.
Step inside the Storied Mansions of Palm Beach’s Most Effervescent Architect
From Spanish-style courtyards to fanciful fountains, these acclaimed structures abound in surprising and elegant details.
A Heady Group of Industry Insiders Pick the World’s Top Interior Designers
With a vast range of styles and perspectives, this global roster of talents represents the best of design.