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Anatomy for Interior Designers and How to Talk to a Client by Francis Schroeder
Located in valatie, NY
‘Anatomy for Interior Designers’ and ‘How to Talk to a Client’, by Francis de N. Schroeder. Whitney Publications Inc, New York, 1954. 2nd Ed, 2nd printing hardcover no dust jacket. A...
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1950s North American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
The Practical Book of Chinaware
Located in valatie, NY
The Practical Book of Chinaware by Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Roger Wearne Ramsdell. New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1948. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 320 pp. A comprehensiv...
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Mid-20th Century American Paper Books
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Paper
Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire, Illustrated by Major Felten, 1931
By Charles Baudelaire, Major Felten
Located in London, GB
Published by Ives Washburn, 1931 Large Folio-sized Hardcover book; 98 pages with 16 illustrated plates by Major Felton. Translated by Lewis Piaget Shanks. Very Good Condition.
A Fir...
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1930s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Huntsman, What Quarry? by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a Play in Three Acts
Located in valatie, NY
The King's Henchman, a Play in Three Acts by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1927. (D-O date code for April 1939.) First Edition no dust jacket. She ...
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1930s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
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 Paper Books
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Paper
Great Bookstore in Action by Adolph Kroch, Signed First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
A great bookstore in Action by Adolph Kroch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940. Second edition hardcover with paper label on spine and cover. 32 pages. The autographed editi...
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1940s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
"Low Bridge" Casting Cry of the Salt Water Angler by Kenn Bayless, Signed 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
"Low Bridge" casting cry of the salt water angler by Kenneth Bayless. Fish and Game Publishing Co., 1950. Signed and numbered (#175) 1st Ed hardcover no dust jacket. illustrated with...
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1950s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Les Bambous: Fables de La Fontaine
Located in valatie, NY
Les Bambous: Fables de La Fontaine by Louis Jaham-Desrivaux. Paris: J. Peyronnet & Cie., 1931. French edition paperback rebound in blue calf-leather decorated with embossed bamboo impression in green and gilt. 246 pp. Hardcover in custom slipcase. Disguised as an old Creole patois commander, Fontaine was one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. Binding is signed by M. Lambert, a well-known leather book binder...
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Mid-20th Century French Paper Books
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Leather, Paper
Asprey and Company Limited (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is the luxury edition of Asprey and Company Limited Mail Order Catalogue from around 1930, with an imitation crocodile skin cover and velum spi...
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Mid-20th Century Paper Books
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Paper
Patrick Hamilton, The Slaves of Solitude, First Edition Book
Located in London, GB
Patrick Hamilton -The Slaves of Solitude
Published by Constable, London 1947. First edition.
Hamilton, cult author of Hangover Square and denizen of seedy pre-war literary Lond...
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1940s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Comment Installer Son Interieur en Regence ou Louis XV, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Comment Installer Son Interieur en Regence ou Louis XV. Editions Charles Massin, 1963. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. A book on how to decorate with Regency and Louis XV f...
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1960s French Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Meubles et Ensembles Bretons by Stany Gauthier, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Meubles et Ensembles Bretons by Stany Gauthier. Ch. Massin Paris, 1950. 40 b&w plates. 12 page introduction followed by b/w photo plate section of 36 pages. Part of 'Collection de l'...
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1950s French Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Tapis D'Emilio Terry: Projects (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This delightful little book contains 25 plates showing Emilio Tery's geometric carpet designs held in the Musee des Arts Decoratif. Terry was one of the leading and most sought after interior designers and decorators of the mid part of the 20th century, he had a list of very wealthy clients who were the fashionable leaders of the Cafe Society of the time - such as Charles de Beistegui...
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Mid-20th Century Paper Books
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Paper
The Terror The Return of Dr Palfrey by John Creasey
Located in valatie, NY
The Terror : The Return of Dr Palfrey by John Creasey. Walker and Company 1966, New York. 1st Ed hardcover. The story of the near-panic that strikes the world's governments when an u...
Category
1960s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Danske Stole Danish Chairs, 1954
Located in London, GB
First edition, published by Høst & Søns Forlag København, 1954
An important document of Danish chair design during the early 1950s, showing many of the aesthetic and technological...
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1950s Danish Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
"Stars & Bars, A Tribute to the American Fighter Ace, " Signed by Thirteen Aces
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Olynyk, Frank. Stars & Bars: A Tribute to the American Fighter Ace 1920-1973. London: Grub Street, 1995. Deluxe Limited edition signed by author and 13 Fighter Aces. Original dust ja...
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1950s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Meubles et Ensembles Époque Directoire Empire, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Meubles et Ensembles Époque Directoire Empire by Yvonne Brunhammer. Paris: Editions Charles Massin, 1965. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket, 76 pages. Great photos of Empire furniture, a lot in period room...
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1960s French Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
The Clock Book by Wallace Nutting
Located in valatie, NY
The Clock Book by Wallace Nutting. Garden City Publishing Co, Inc., 1935. 2nd Ed hardcover with dust jacket. A comprehensive guide to American and European clocks...
Category
1930s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Dunbar Office Furniture (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Produced in 1959 this catalogue in sort covers introduced what was then "Dunbar's new executive office collection" which had been designed by Edward Wormley.
The introduction states...
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Mid-20th Century Paper Books
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Paper
November Girl - Sam Haskins - Signed 1st Edition, Madison Square Press, 1967
By Sam Haskins
Located in London, GB
Signed First Edition, Published by Madison Square Press, New York, 1967.
Arguably his greatest single work, ‘November Girl’ continues to exert a powerful and widespread influence on...
Category
1960s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Pour Une Renaissance De La Peinture Française
Located in valatie, NY
Pour une Renaissance de la Peinture Français by Jacques Baschet. Paris: Édition S.N.E.P. Illustration, 1946. Soft cover with French text. 114 pp. An oversized art book on the rebirth...
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Mid-20th Century French Paper Books
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Paper
Paintings of the High Renaissance in Rome and Florence 2 Vol. Set, 1st Ed
By Sydney Freedberg
Located in valatie, NY
Paintings of the high Renaissance in Rome and Florence by Sydney Freedberg. Harvard University Press, 1961. two volume set 1st Ed hardcovers with dust jackets. Volume 1 is 644 pp. of text, all the 700 b/w illustrations are contained in volume 2 which has 514 pp. "These two volumes constitute a study of virtually the whole extent of painting of the High Renaissance in Rome and Florence the richest concentration in time and place of master accomplishments of Italian art. The author deals at length with the major figures: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Fra Bartolommeo...
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1960s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Paintings Drawings and Sculpture in the Phoenix Art Museum Collection, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Paintings drawings and sculpture in the Phoenix Art Museum collection by James Harithas, Compiler. Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 1965. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 226 pages. Of...
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1960s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Compilation of Works of Art and Other Objects, United States Capitol, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Compilation of Works of Art and other Objects in the United States Capitol by Joint Committee on the Library. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1965. 1st Ed hardcover no d...
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1960s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
"The New Museum, Architecture and Display - Michael Brawne, " 1965
By Michael Brawne
Located in London, GB
First edition, published by Praeger, New York in 1965.
A worldwide survey of museum design and architecture; Brawne offers 50 examples of seminal museum designs from New York's Gu...
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1960s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Helen Keller's Personal Braille Edition of "New Outlook for the Blind" 1960
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is Helen Keller’s personal reading copy of The New Outlook for the Blind, December 1960, Volume 54, Number 10. The periodical is inscribed in the upp...
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1960s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Comment Installer Son Interieur en Louis XIII ou Louis XIV, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Comment Installer Son Interieur en Louis XIII ou Louis XIV, by Colette Lehmann. Paris, Éditions Charles Massin, 1963. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. How to decorate with L...
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1960s French Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Chinese Trade Porcelain, First Edition by Michel Beurdeley
Located in valatie, NY
Chinese Trade Porcelain, First edition by Michel Beurdeley. Charles E. Turtle Company, Rutland, Vermont, 1962. Tipped-in color frontispiece and 24 tipped-in color plates, 100 monochrome text figures, 244 monochrome figures in the appendix. A through explanation of Chinese export porcelain and its debt to the west; historical surveys of the Far Eastern connections to al of the countries named...
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1960s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
1957-1962, Rare Georges Braque 'Au Vent d'Arles' Archive Books and Lithographs
Located in Paris, FR
Extremely rare set of Georges Braque archives maquettes books and lithographs created with the publisher 'Au Vent d'Arles', Paris.
The set is composed with:
- L'Ordre des Oiseaux (...
Category
1950s French Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
El Morocco's Family Album by Jerome Zerbe (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book which was privately published in 1937, therefore over 90 years old, is a photographic record of one of New York's most famous nightclubs of the inter war years where the gr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Paper Books
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Paper
Mobel & Wohnraum: Furniture & Rooms (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A hard back book published in 1946, about household furniture, its construction and room sets designed around it. As Europe was struggling to get back to some sort of normality the f...
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Mid-20th Century Paper Books
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Paper
Einzelmöbel und Neuzeitliche Raumkunst Book
By Ludwig Kozma
Located in New York, NY
Seminal 1930 survey of early modernist furniture and interior design projects by known German and other European designers. Approximately 200 different designs featuring about 70 designs by Ludwig Kozma, who designed the striking red and black cover of the hardbound volume. Designers include Augenfeld, Brehaus, Hoffmann, Jeanneret, an early Paul Laszlo in Budapest, Le Corbusier, Sobotka, and Josef Frank, along with a host of lesser-known names. 196 pages, most filled with black and white plates...
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1930s German Art Deco Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
American Historical Views on Staffordshire China, Signed First Edition
By Ellouise Baker Larsen
Located in valatie, NY
American historical views on Staffordshire China by Ellouise Baker Larsen. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., New York, 1950. Rare, signed, new revi...
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1950s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Ensembles Mobiliers, 6 Volumes ‘13 to 18’ (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a six folio volume run of the Ensembles Mobiliers series published by Editions Charles Moreau in the 1950s, each volume is complete and the ...
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1950s Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Le Belle Case Italiane by Doria Ludovica, First Edition
By Doria Ludovica
Located in valatie, NY
Le Belle Case Italiane by Doria Ludovica. Edizioni Di Grazia, Milano, 1964. 2nd edition hardcover with dust jacket. Great interior room settings with Italian furniture, paintings and...
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1960s Italian Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Christie's Since The War, by Denys Sutton First Edition
By Denys Sutton
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's Since the War, 1945-1958: An Essay on Taste, Patronage and Collecting, by Denys Sutton. London: Christie, Manson and Woods, Inc., 1959. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket. 168 pp. An essay accompanied by many beautiful illustrations describing the activities, collecting taste, and patronage for the years since World War II through 1958 written by the great British auction house, Christie's. Illustrations include: a Louis XIV silver gilt toilet service...
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1950s English Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Chinese Trade Porcelain, First Edition by Michel Beurdeley
Located in valatie, NY
Chinese Trade Porcelain, 1st Ed by Michel Beurdeley. Charles E. Turtle Company, Rutland, Vermont, 1962. Tipped-in color frontispiece and 24 tipped-in color plates, 100 monochrome text figures, 244 monochrome figures in the appendix. A through explanation of Chinese export porcelain and its debt to the west; historical surveys of the Far Eastern connections to al of the countries named...
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1960s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
'With Fly, Plug & Bait' Signed Presentation Copy to Publisher, Leather Bound
By Ray Bergman
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
With Fly, Plug & Bait Signed Presentation Copy To Publisher Leather Bound Only One Copy Done for Publisher, Printed Presentation inside and pen signed fr...
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1940s American Country Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
American Art Nouveau Glass by Albert C Revi, First Edition
By Albert Christian Revi 1
Located in valatie, NY
American Art Nouveau glass by Albert C Revi. Nashville, Thomas Nelson, 1968. First Edition 476p hardcover with dust jacket. The closing years of the 19th century witnessed more radic...
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1960s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Nouvelles Devantures et Agencements de Magasins (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Designs for Shop Windows
An hardcovered ribbon tied portfolio with 60 photogravure reproductions showing examples of New Shop fronts and Shop fittings in the Art Deco style by some ...
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Mid-20th Century Paper Books
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Paper
London Scene – J. Suess, G. Dommermuth & H. Maier - 1st Edition, 1968
Located in London, GB
First edition, published by Büchergilde Gutenberg, Frankfurt, 1968-1969. Text in German.
From the same creators as ‘Beat in Liverpool’, this incredibly scarce first edition of London Scene...
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1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
French Eighteenth Century Furniture by Genevieve Souchal, First Edition
By Genevieve Souchal
Located in valatie, NY
French Eighteenth Century Furniture by Genevieve Souchal. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1961. 128 pp.; 127 illustrations, including thirty...
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1960s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Mademoiselle 1 + 1: Marcel Veronese & Jean-Claude Peretz First Edition 1968
Located in London, GB
First edition, The Bodley Head, 1968.
One of the seminal 1960s photo books. An illustrated narrative following a girl named Zoe who runs an inn frequented by mysterious 'horsemen', ...
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1960s Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Wire Sculpture
Located in Richmond, VA
Hardback coffee table book featuring ideas on wire sculpture and three-dimensional construction, by Gerald F. Brommer, published in 1968.
"This is the excitement for the latter half...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paper Books
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Paper
Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825 Collection of 200 Prints Ltd Edition Produced 1953
Located in Chicago, IL
Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825 was a well-known French artist who was awarded with the Prix of Rome and the Commander of the Legion of Honor. The Book titled; The Birth of a Genius is...
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1950s French Empire Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
New French Architecture by Maurice Besset 1st ed. 1967
Located in London, GB
Published by Architectural Press 1967- English and French text side-by-side.
Well-illustrated survey of the best in 1950s and 1960s French architecture. ...
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1960s Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Property The Estate of the Late J.P. Morgan, Complete Set of Catalogs from 1944
Located in valatie, NY
Property of the Estate of the Late J.P. Morgan, All 4 catalogs from the famous sale of J. P. Morgans estate from 1944 and they are bound into a hardcover book. The catalog lots have selling prices noted in pencil. Sale #1: Furniture and Objects of Art, Part 1, Sale Number 513, January 6,7, and 8, 1944. Sale #2: Color Plate Books...
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1940s Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Jean Dubuffet: Painted Sculptures - Pace Gallery, New York, 1968
Located in London, GB
First Edition, published by The Pace Gallery, New York, 1968.
Jean Dubuffet's paintings from the early 1940s were followed by a series of works in which ...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Table Settings, Entertaining and Etiquette A History and Guide
Located in valatie, NY
Table Settings, Entertaining and Etiquette: A History and Guide by Patricia E. Roberts. Viking Press, New York, NY, 1967. Third Edition hardcover with dust jacket. A concise history of good manners and utensils are displayed. It presents many pictures and diagrams explaining the Fine Art of entertaining and showcasing beautiful silverware, crystal ware...
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1960s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Petits Appartements by Michele Lenoir Editions Du Jour
Located in London, GB
Petits Appartements
By Michele Lenoir
Editions Du Jour, Paris, circa 1960. Hardback in color illustrated dust Jacket. First edition. Text in French. Illustrated with over 100 black & white photographs of interiors, furniture and objects. Designers include Bahut Troeds, Schneider, Mobilier International, M. Flachet, Cesam, Meubles Oscar...
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1960s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
Maxime Old Architecte-Decorateur
By Maxime Old
Located in London, GB
Maxime Old Architecte-Decorateur. Published by Norma Editions, Paris, 2000.
Maxime Old was one of the leading furniture makers and designers in France from the mid-1930s-the 1980s. He was born into a long line of cabinet makers and as a young man he joined the famed workshop of Jacques Emile...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paper Books
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Paper
Virginia House Tour Mainly in the Locale Known as Mr. Jefferson's Country 1st Ed
By William Stevens
Located in valatie, NY
Virginia House Tour: Mainly in the Locale Known as Mr. Jefferson's Country: Historical and Plantation Legends, First edition by William Stevens. Stevens...
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1960s American Vintage Paper Books
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Paper
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