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Great Modern Architecture: the World's Most Spectacular Buildings Hardcover Book
By Frank Gehry
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Great Modern Architecture: The World's Most Spectacar Buildings Hardcover – January 1, 2009 by Bill Price. From the Publisher "All architecture is shelter...
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Mid-20th Century North American Modern Paper Books
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Paper
R. E. Lee: a Biography by Douglas Southhall Freeman, Four Volume Set, 1936
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Freeman, Douglas Southall. R. E. Lee: A Biography. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1936. Four volumes, Octavo. Early edition. Rebound in ¼ leather and cloth, with raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to spine, new endpapers, and a matching archival slipcase to house all four volumes.
Presented is a beautiful, four volume set of R. E. Lee: A Biography, by author and historian Douglas Southall Freeman...
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1930s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Blanco by OCTAVIO PAZ
Located in Middletown, NY
A scarce example of one of the 29 privately circulated lettered copies. The entire run consisted of 529 copies, 500 of these being the numbered ones available to purchase.
Paz, Octavio. BLANCO.
Mexico City: Joaquín Mortiz, 1967. First, Limited Edition.
8vo., 9 x 6 3/4 in. (229 x 173 mm); printed in black and red, Bodoni type on Antique RLCH paper, joined to create a continuous 'concertina' of 32 pages (joined every 4) and printed on one side only. LEPORELLO BINDING with printed boards and cream cloth spine, title in black, slipcase. The binding is very faintly thumbed and slipcase has a closed tear to the base and some rubbing at corners but overall this delicate book is in wonderful condition. One of the 29 lettered and privately circulated copies, as stated on the limitation page, from a run of 529 (500 copies numbered).
EXTRAS: "Aviso al lector" sheet printed on yellow paper. Very good.
Octavio Paz wrote this poem in New Delhi between July and September of 1966, while he was serving as Mexico's Ambassador to India.
As outlined in the "Aviso al lector", separately printed and included in this copy of the work, «Octavio Paz conceives the long poem as a different form and governed by its own logic, not as an expansion or extension of the short poem.» He begins experimenting with "poetry of movement, signs in rotation" culminating in Blanco. «Appearance, disappearance and reappearance of certain themes, presences, words, obsessions, the shape of Blanco is that of the spiral. There are two main currents—word and eroticism—that come together, separate and come together again. The text allows multiple readings: it is a cluster of meanings, a poem that contains several poems. ... The same poetic requirement governs the visual conception of the page and explains the particularities of this edition. Typesetting is one aspect of verbal composition. On the one hand, it is a kind of punctuation, not orthographic but rhythmic; on the other, it is the space where the written sign...
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Mid-20th Century Mexican Paper Books
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Paper
Giovanni Bellini by Philip Hendy and Ludwig Goldscheider, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Giovanni Bellini by Philip Hendy and Ludwig Goldscheider. ?Publisher Phaidon; 1945. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. With 6 tipped in color plates and 122 b&w plates. Giovanni Bell...
Category
1940s English Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
The Inhabitants, Wright Morris, 1st Edition, Scribner's, 1946
Located in London, GB
First Edition, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York & London, 1946.
"The Inhabitants" is a stunning collection of photographs by the acclaimed artist and writer Wright Mor...
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1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
A. A. Milne, a Fine Letter Signed Mentioning Christopher Robin and Pooh, 1931
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: MILNE, A. A..
TITLE: A fine ALS mentioning Christopher Robin and Pooh.
PUBLISHER: Chelsea, 1931.
DESCRIPTION: AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. 1 page, in ink, single sided,...
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1930s British Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
“The Machine – Museum of Modern Art New York” Book by K.G. Pontus Hulten 1968
Located in San Diego, CA
A very rare and cool book, “The Machine – As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age'" by K.G. Pontus Hulten for the Museum of Modern Art New York, circa 1968. The book is in its original form; pressed, painted and hinged aluminum covers with an image of MOMA and a yellow New York taxi cab at the front. This is the exhibition catalogue for an important exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1968 showing an overview of machines and the mechanical age prior to the digital age, as seen through the eyes of and interpreted by many important artists from Da Vinci, to Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Klee, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, El Lissitzky, Ettore Bugatti...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paper Books
Materials
Aluminum
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Signed by Ernest Hemingway, Later Edition, 1955
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Schribner’s Sons, 1955. Later edition. Signed and inscribed by Hemingway on front free endpaper. Octavo. Rebound in ¼ black leather and burgundy cloth boards with gilt tooling to the spine. Presented with a new archival slipcase.
This is a later edition of the classic Hemingway novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls. Published in 1955, this printing was signed and inscribed by Hemingway two years later, in 1957, while aboard the liner Ile de France. Written on the front free endpaper, the inscription reads, "To Robert Stein...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Wrightsman Collection, 1st Ed. signed by Charles and Jane Wrightsman, 1966-1973
Located in San Francisco, CA
The Wrightsman collection, Vols.I-V, New York, The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, 1966-1973. First Edition, hardcovers with dust jackets. Inscribed by
the Wrightsmans, incl. a Christ...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
1970s Andy Warhol Art in America
By Andy Warhol
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Andy Warhol issue of Art in America magazine, featuring four articles on the artist ("Warhol: The Medium As Cultural Artifact," "A Catalogue Raisonn...
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1960s Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
1940s Our Big Red Story Book First Edition Children's Book
Located in New York, NY
"Our Big Red Story Book" 1940s binder children's book with a red vinyl cover. Published by Ginn and Company. Copyright 1948. It helps to teach students "My Little Red Story Book," wh...
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1940s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Picasso in Antibes by Dor De La Souchère, 1960
By Romuald Dor de la Souchère 1
Located in London, GB
Picasso in Antibes by Dor De La Souchère.
Published by Perry Lund, Humphries & Company Ltd. 1960.
First edition.
Photographs by Marianne Greenwood, ...
Category
1960s British Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Beautiful Homes and Gardens in California
Located in New York, NY
Important and lavishly produced survey of postwar California domestic architecture, written by Frank Lloyd Wright-trained California architect Herbert Weisskamp and published by Abrams in 1964. First edition, oblong 4to (10.25” x 7.25”) hardcover with pictorial dust jacket, 4 full color photos, 314 black-and-white photos (3/4 of them by Julius Schulman), plus 113 b/w plans, drawings, and elevations. Showcases the work of the following architects and landscape designers: Raphael Soriano, Pierre Koenig, Craig Ellwood, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mark Mills, Aaron Green...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Gore Vidal's First Novel "WILLIWAW", Signed First Edition
Located in Middletown, NY
Gore Vidal, WILLIWAW
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1946.
First edition, first printing
Measures: 8vo, 8 x 5 1/2 in. (223 x142 mm); pp. 222 . Original black cloth, titles on spine...
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Mid-20th Century American Paper Books
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Paper
Circe and Ulysses by Wm. Browne / Golden Cockerel Press
Located in Middletown, NY
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS / Browne, William.
Circe and Ulysses; The Inner Temple Masque ... with an essay on William Browne and the English Masque ...
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Mid-20th Century English Paper Books
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Paper
The Loom of Art by Germain Bazin, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Loom of Art by Germain Bazin. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1962. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. In ten chapters of text and plates, Bazin,...
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1960s English Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Dorothy M.T. Colles Anthology Manuscript in Painted Binding
Located in Middletown, NY
This elegantly decorated Florentine album belonged to the young Dorothy Colles, who received it as a present in 1931 when she was 14 years of age. On the cover Colles notes "This boo...
Category
1930s European Vintage Paper Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
The Modulor, Le Corbusier, third printing, 1954
By Le Corbusier
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The Modulor - Le Corbusier - third printing - 1954
In overall good condition.
A classic for all designers and lovers of design.
Category
1950s Modern Vintage Paper Books
Materials
Paper
Pasiphaë by Algernon C. Swinburne / Golden Cockerel Press
Located in Middletown, NY
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS / Swinburne, Algernon C. PASIPHAË.
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1950. Limited Edition.
8vo; 9 x 5 3/4 inches (228 x 144 mm); 40 pp., 13 pt Bembo type. 6+1 copper engravings by John Buckland Wright...
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Mid-20th Century English Paper Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
The Ivory Hammer, The Year At Sotheby's, 1962-1963, Ian Fleming James Bond Story
By Ian Fleming
Located in valatie, NY
The Ivory Hammer, The Year At Sotheby's 219th Season 1962 - 1963,
by Sotheby's. With Ian Fleming's "The Property Of A Lady" insert, an original short stor...
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1960s North American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Art and the Machine Book by Sheldon and Martha Cheney
Located in New York, NY
Seminal early consideration of Machine Age design and architecture in America, tracking the rise of the industrial design profession, written by Sheldon and Martha Cheney and publish...
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1930s American Machine Age Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming, First Edition in Original Dust Jacket, 1962
By Ian Fleming
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Fleming, Ian. The Spy Who Loved Me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Presented in the publisher's original dust jacket and original black cloth boa...
Category
1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
Materials
Paper
Lucian Freud Illustrated Book the Equilibriad by Wm. Samson / Limited Edition
Located in Middletown, NY
THE EQUILIBRIAD by William Samsons with illustrations by Lucian Freud.
London: Hogarth Press, 1948. Limited Edition.
8vo, 8 5/8 x 5 5/8 in (220 x 140...
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Mid-20th Century English Paper Books
Materials
Paper
Lonsdale Library, Fishing Book
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Fine Angling For Coarse Fish, Lonsdale Library Book.
One of the volumes from Lonsdale Library, Fine Angling For Coarse Fish, with original dust cover. The book with one hundred and forty-eight illustrations.
The Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games & Pastimes, Editors The Right Hon. The Earl of Lonsdale & Mr. Eric Parker...
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1940s English Sporting Art Vintage Paper Books
Materials
Paper
Salvador Dali, Dali Edited by Max Gerard 1968
Located in London, GB
Published by De Draeger 1968
First edition of this lavishly illustrated work by Salvador Dali which was organised and edited by Max Gerard who collated the subject of this book. The War: The Landscape; Gala; The still life; eroticism; Mysticism; space-time; Oneros; Towards an imperial classicism; Chronological index; celebrating sixty-four years of Salvador Dali I Domènech...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
Materials
Paper
Rome for Ourselves by Aubrey Menen, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Rome For Ourselves by Aubrey Menen. Published by Mcgraw-Hill, New York, New York, 1960. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 244 pp. Illustrated with 151 plates, 41 in color. A persona...
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1960s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Aristitde Maillol Illustrated: Daphnis & Chloe
By Aristide Maillol 2
Located in Middletown, NY
According to Eleanor Garvey "The Artist and the Book" (p. 122) this work is "perhaps the most harmonious of Maillol's illustrated books."
Aristide MAILLOL, illus.; LONGUS author
Daphnis and Chloe; A Most Sweet, and Pleasant Pastoral Romance for Young Ladies, translated out of the Greek of Longus by Geo. Thornley.
London: A. Zwemmer [printed in Paris by Philippe Gonin], 1937. Limited Edition.
8vo, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. (200 x 132 mm); pp. vi, 211,colophon,12;
Copy 21 of 250 numbered copies on hand-made Maillol paper and SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the colophon, with 52 original woodcuts, and 4 woodcut initials, printed in bistre; leading and bottom edges deckled. Full vellum with laced-in thongs, gilt lettering on spine, faint; pencil notations and tipped in label from earlier booksellers on inside front cover, edges stained on first 2 and last 2 blanks.
EXTRA SUITE of 45 WOODCUTS in a separate vellum portfolio, printed in black.
Fine copy in simple cardboard slipcase.
Colophon: "Aristide Maillol engraved with his own hand the wood-cuts which illustrate this book, The text is that of Thronley's translation of 1657, revised and augmented. Philippe Gonin of Paris undertook the achievement of this work, and printed it on his hand-press, for A. Zwemmer, London. Paris December 7th, 1937", followed by MAILLOL'S SIGNATURE IN PENCIL.
Garvey 174; Garvey Wick 22; BNF32393010
Condition: FINE
An ancient Greek novel written during the Roman Empire, the only known work of the 2nd century AD Greek novelist and romance writer Longus, translated by George Thornley...
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1930s British Vintage Paper Books
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Paper, Parchment Paper
Architectural Digest Winter 1967 Magazine
Located in North Hollywood, CA
The Architectural Digest Winter 1967 Magazine.
A great vintage magazine in good Condition.
Full of great ideas from the 1960s.
From the LATE ELIZABETH ARDEN'S 12TH CENTURY IRISH CASTLE...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Paper Books
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Paper
Puzzle in Poison, by Anthony Berkeley
Located in Middletown, NY
A classic of mystery literature by one of the Masters, in a very rare intact dust jacket.
Berkeley, Anthony. A Puzzle in Poison.
New York: The Sun Dial Press, Inc., 1939. Second...
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Mid-20th Century American Paper Books
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Paper
Katsura Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture
Located in New York, NY
Sumptuously produced treatment of the aesthetic and spiritual qualities of traditional Japanese architecture that resonated with and influenced Western modernism—think the simplicity and abstract beauty of tatami geometry combined with a holistic philosophy of indoor/outdoor living. The book itself is a cynosure of academic and graphic quality, with text by Walter Gropius and Kenzo Tange...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
India by Beny Rolloff and Aubrey Menen 1st Edition Hardcover Book
Located in North Hollywood, CA
India. Designed and Photographed by Roloff Beny. Essay by Aubrey Menen. First Edition
Title: Roloff Beny: India
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, New York
Publication Date: 1969
Binding: H...
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Mid-20th Century Indian Folk Art Paper Books
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Paper
House & Garden’s Complete Guide to Interior Decoration, Hardcover Book, 1953
Located in Philadelphia, PA
House & Garden’s Complete Guide to Interior Decoration – Hardcover Book, 1953 Edition.
First published in New York in 1947 by Simon and Schuster, this is the updated 1953 Edition,...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Flowers and Faces by H.E. Bates & John Nash / Golden Cockerel Press
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely SIGNED LIMITED EDITION by the GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS
Bates, H.E. / John Nash ill. Flowers and Faces.
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden C...
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Mid-20th Century English Paper Books
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Paper
Once Upon a Time, Lord Snowdon, Robert Glenton, Stella King, 1st Edition, 1960
By Lord Snowdon
Located in London, GB
First Edition, published by Anthony Blond, London, 1960.
Presenting 'The Story of Antony Armstrong Jones', known as Lord Snowdon, as he told it to h...
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1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Danish Furniture Design in the 20th Century by Arne Karlsen (Books)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A two volume set which provides a well documented and detailed review of Danish furniture design in the 20th century, both having a broadly formulated, illustrated part that describe...
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Mid-20th Century Paper Books
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Paper
Art Treasures of the Louvre by René Huyghe, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Art Treasures of the Louvre by René Huyghe. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1960. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Translated and adapted from the French, by Rene Huyghe who was a curat...
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1960s French Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Wonder Stories Calendar 1930s Covers by Gernsback-Frank R Paul Collectible
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Mystery, Adventure, Romance, the magazine of prophetic fiction.
Wonder Stories Calendar 1930s Covers by Gernsback-Frank R Paul Collectible.
The Tragedy Of Spi...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paper Books
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Paper
Soleri, Paolo. Visionary Cities: the Arcology of Paolo Soleri Hardcover Book
By Paolo Soleri
Located in Ferndale, MI
Praeger Publishers Inc., New York, Washington, London. A lively black & white typography rich volume exploring the theories and designs for the cities of the future by architect, urb...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paper Books
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Paper
English Furniture a.D. 43, 1950 by Edward T. Joy, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
English Furniture A.D. 43 - 1950 by Edward T. Joy. Published by Arco Pub. Co. NY. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 84 pp with 200 monochrome illustrations and archive photographs t...
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1960s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
World of Michelangelo 1475-1564 by Robert Coughlan Book
Located in North Hollywood, CA
The world of Michelangelo 1475-1564
by Robert Coughlan and The Editors of Time-Life Books Published by Time Incorporated, New York, NY, 1966.
Title: The World of Michelangelo 1475-1564
Publisher: Time Incorporated, New York, NY
Publication Date: 1968
Binding: Hardcover with slipcover
Condition: good
Edition: Time-Life Library of Art.
Beautiful and Collectible Vintage 1968 Hardback Time Life Library of Art “The World of Michelangelo” Book...
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Mid-20th Century Classical Roman Paper Books
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Paper
The Windsor Style by Suzy Menkes (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
The Windsor Style is the first book to look at the luxurious post-war life of the Duke and Duchess at home in their Paris mansion and at play at their converted mill-house in the Fre...
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Mid-20th Century Paper Books
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Paper
Victor Hugo Set of 2 Books
By Victor Hugo
Located in South Salem, NY
A bundle of two vintage Victor Hugo books in French. Tied together with a decorative rope trim. Binding has come loose.
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Mid-20th Century French Paper Books
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Paper
Set 5, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Lost Worlds, Middle Ages, Elizab, World
Located in valatie, NY
Set of 5 Books: Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Lost Worlds, Middle Ages, Elizabethan World. New York: American Heritage Publishing Co. Ancient Rome: in an age when Latin has become ra...
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1960s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Private View, Robertson, Russell, Snowdon, 1st Edition, Nelson, 1965
Located in London, GB
First edition, published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, London, 1965.
Private View is a strikingly important document of modern British art and key artists working in Britain duri...
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1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Big Art Deco Original Advertising Promotional Poster Heater/Fire, 1930s
Located in Praha, CZ
- 1930s
- suitable for framing
- original, no reprint
- good original condition with some damages, not seen when framed
- jr.
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1930s Art Deco Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
The Complete Work of Raphael '1483-1520', 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Complete Work of Raphael, (1483-1520). Published in New York, Reynal & Company in association with William Morrow and Company, 1969. Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first na...
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1960s Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Art Deco Advertising Promotional Poster, Theatre, 1930s / Austria / Wien
Located in Praha, CZ
- 1930s
- Wieland Theater, Olly Polly
- Hilde Haagen, Mizzi Freihardt,Menta Breuer, Ludwik Hussnik, Max Christian
Willy Mario Neumann,
- Karel Kostler
- Schillins Wien druck
jr
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1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
The Splendors of Italy by Guglielmo De Angelis D'ossat, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Splendors of Italy by Guglielmo de Angelis d'Ossat, Director-General of Antiquities and Fine Arts Of Italy. Translated by Geoffrey Braithwaite. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket....
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1960s Italian Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Liquidation of The Entire Stock of The NY Store of Yamanaka & Co., 1944, Cat. #1
Located in valatie, NY
Parke-Bernet Galleries Catalog, By Order of the Alien Property Custodian of the United States, Liquidation of The Entire Stock of The New York Store of Yamanaka & Co. Inc., Oriental Art, Part One, New York, 1944, 190 pages. with 939 lots. One of the three catalogues of the auctions held at the Parke Bernet Galleries in 1944. Lots included graeco buddhist, Cambodian, Siamese and Chinese sculptures and bronzes, Chinese porcelains, pottery, jade, coral carvings, pearl necklaces, Chinese paintings, lamps and screens, Chinese and Japanese furniture. The Yamanaka Company was owned by the seventh generation of the family of Ichaguro Yamanaka, who founded this worldwide business by opening a small curio...
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1940s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
London, Tony Armstrong Jones 'Lord Snowdon', 1st Edition, 2nd Printing, 1958
By Lord Snowdon
Located in London, GB
Scarce First Edition, Second Issue Cover, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1958.
The first ever photography book by the famed society and fashion photographer Tony Armstrong Jones...
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1950s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Savoy Cocktail Book Cradock Harry London Constable 8° Illustrated Orig
Located in Munich, DE
First edition of this iconoc, definite text on cocktails features highly decorative pictorial endpapers. The book is illustrated throughout in Art Deco manner by Gilbert Rumbold. On ...
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1930s English Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Gramar of Chinese Lattice by Daniel Sheets Dye, Harvard-Yenching Institute
By Michael Dye
Located in San Francisco, CA
This book was sold at auction by the Monterey Public Library as part of
a large collection of books, formerly owned by the famous Architect
Robert Stanton, who inherited many books...
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1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
London, Tony Armstrong Jones 'Lord Snowdon', 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1958
By Lord Snowdon
Located in London, GB
Scarce First Edition, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1958.
The first ever photography book by the famed society and fashion photographer Tony Armstrong Jones...
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1950s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Behind the Picture Window by Bernard Rudofsky
Located in New York, NY
First edition of Bernard Rudofsky’s idiosyncratic and iconoclastic discussion of modern living conditions in postwar America, published by Oxford University Press in 1955. 201 pages, 8vo, hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. Several black-and-white illustrations. Rudofsky (1905-1988), an Austrian/American architect, curator, critic, industrial designer, exhibition designer, fashion designer, and author is best-known for his controversial exhibitions and accompanying catalogs, including Are Clothes Modern? (MoMA, 1944), Architecture Without Architects (MoMA, 1964), and Now I Lay Me Down to Eat (Cooper-Hewitt, 1980). He is also famous for his mid-century Bernardo sandal designs, which are popular again today. Behind the Picture Window...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
La Ceramica in Italia
Located in New York, NY
Well-edited and lavishly illustrated survey of mid-century Italian ceramics, written by Hugo Blattler and published in Rome in 1958 by Aristide Palombi as part of the Arti Pratiche series, intended to contribute to an examination in depth of the material, as well as to the documentation and to the spreading of knowledge of each separate subject. Features vessels, lighting, fireplaces, and artworks by renowned artists such as Lucio Fontana, Salvatore Meli, Fauson Melotti, Gio Ponti, Antonia Campi, Marcello Fantoni, Franco Meneguzzo, Pietro Melandri, and Guido Gambone, along with a host of lesser-known figures. Stellar abstract designs throughout. Square 8vo (8.5” x 9”), 206 pages, hardcover, illustrated throughout in b/w. Slight lean to spine. Mild soiling to extremities, with chipping to corners. Professional repair to front hinge, as well as between pp. 194-5 and 204-5. Light chipping to first two leaves. The complete front cover remains of the dust jacket, which is still crisp and vibrant, with only minor chipping to top edge. Missing spine and back of dust jacket. A must-have for collectors and connoisseurs of Italian design and mid century ceramics.
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Japan a History in Art, Book by Bradley Smith 1st Edition 1964
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Japan; a history in art Book by Bradley Smith.
Bradley Smith, Robert Kimmel Smith Simon and Schuster,
Travel - 295 pages
1st edition 1st printing 1964.
Place Of Publication New York
Date Published 1964.
Binding Hardcover
Presents the history and cultural heritage of Japan through twenty...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Japonisme Paper Books
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Paper
Skyward by Richard E. Byrd, First Edition, 1931
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Byrd, Richard E. Skyward. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1931. Octavo. First edition, eleventh printing. In original hardcover boards and original pictorial dust jacket. Presented in a new archival slipcase.
This is a 1931 first edition, eleventh printing of Richard Byrd’s Skyward. The book was published in New York by Blue Ribbon Books in 1931. This is the eleventh printing of Skyward, which was first published in 1928. The book is presented in its original hardcover boards and pictorial dust jacket, with a new archival slipcase. Rear admiral Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957) is celebrated as a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer...
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1930s American Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
A: A Novel - Andy Warhol - First Edition, Grove Press, New York, 1968
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
First Edition, published by Grove Press, New York, 1968.
This first edition, first printing of Andy Warhol's knowing and avant-garde experimental text, 'a, A Novel', was released by...
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1960s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
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