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Place of Origin: American
Art in the White House, A Nation's Pride by William Kloss
Located in valatie, NY
Art in the White House, A Nation's Pride by William Kloss. Washington D.C: White House Historical Association, 2008. Hardcover with dust jacket. A beautiful coffee table book showcas...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Sotheby's the Collections of Hanns and Elisabeth Weinberg & the Antique Company
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's the collections of Hanns and Elisabeth Weinberg & the Antique Company of New York, November 2006. 468 pages, 738 lots of important Europe...
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Late 20th Century American Books
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Partridge: Christie’s New York May 17, 2006
Located in valatie, NY
Partridge: Christie’s New York May 17, 2006. Partridge, a sale of select property from the renowned Partridge gallery in London, took place in New York. A leader in the field of 18th...
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Early 2000s American Books
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Christies: European Furniture Including Property from Turbuence Antiques
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's: New York, European Furniture, Sculpture, Works of Art and Tapestries Including Property from Turbuence Antiques, March 2007. 456 lots in color on 365 pages, with results. The owner Moe (Maurice Margules) is a well known and colorful NY dealer...
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Early 2000s American Books
Thomas Tompion His Life & Work by R.W. Symonds, First Edition
By R.W. Symonds
Located in valatie, NY
Thomas Tompion His Life and Work by R.W. Symonds. New York: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1951. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 320 pp. Thomas Tompion (...
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20th Century American Books
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Art:21, Art in the 21st Century
Located in valatie, NY
Art:21, art in the 21st century. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001. Hardcover with dust jacket. 216 pp. A companion volume to a PBS series which introduced 21 artists working in ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Brassai, the Secret Paris of the 1930s, Signed
By Brassaï
Located in London, GB
A beautifully signed copy of Brassai's "The Secret Paris of The 30's".
1st edition 1976, published by Pantheon books New York.
A discreet view of the forbidden Paris of the 1930s...
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1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage American Books
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Art Across America Two Centuries of Regional Painting 1710-1920, 3 Vols
Located in valatie, NY
Art across America: Two centuries of Regional Painting, 1710-1920, Three Volumes: The East and the Mid-Atlantic, The South and the Midwest, The Pl...
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1990s American Books
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Christie's, French and Company Magnificent French and English Furniture 11/1998
Located in valatie, NY
French and company magnificent French and English furniture auction Tuesday 24 November 1998?. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket. Includes: The Rothschild 'Palmes Et Fleurs' Cressent commode, the Balfour desk, Japanese Laquer commodes, Louis XV Ormolu-Mounted commode by J. Schmitz JME and many more one of a kind lots. This auction catalog consists of 81 lots, all illustrated in color, and described. French and company was founded in 1840 and is the oldest antiques...
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1990s American Books
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Pair of Sotheby's Catalogues on European Works of Art, Furniture and Tapestries
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's: New York: European works of art, arms and armour, furniture and tapestries, January 29, 1998. 222 pages of 481 lots with results. Sotheby's:...
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Late 20th Century American Books
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Treasure Rooms of America's Mansions Manors and Houses by Rita Reif, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Treasure Rooms of America's Mansions Manors and Houses by Rita Reif. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1970. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 297 pp. Survey of the nation's most beaut...
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20th Century American Books
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Sotheby's: Fine English Furniture, Decorations and Carpets, Perry Ellis, 1987
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby’s fine English furniture decorations and carpets including property of the Late Perry Ellis, New York, June 1987. 234 lots in color and b & w.
NPT Books a division of N.P. Tr...
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1980s Vintage American Books
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Sotheby's, Tom Devenish Collection of Important English Furniture, 2008
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's: Tom Devenish Collection of Important English Furniture New York April 2008. First edition softcover. Tom Devenish, was a New Yor...
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Early 2000s American Books
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John Addington Symonds: A Biography, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
John Addington Symonds: A Biography, by Horatio F. Brown. Smith, Elder, & Co., London, 1903. 1st Ed Moroccan leather and cloth hardcover. Symonds was an English poet and literary cri...
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Early 20th Century American Books
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Illustrated Guide to Antique Writing Instruments by George Fischler, 1st Edition
Located in valatie, NY
The Illustrated Guide to Antique Writing Instruments by Stuart & George Fischler. 1st Edition softcover. 160 pages. This book has become th...
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1990s American Books
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Garden Ornament, Five Hundred Years of Nature, Art, and Artifice, 1st Ed
By George Plumptre
Located in valatie, NY
Garden Ornament: Five Hundred Years of Nature, Art, and Artifice by George Plumptre. New York: Doubleday, 1990. Stated first U.S. edition hardcover with dust jacket. 256 pp. A book o...
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20th Century American Books
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Signs of Our Times by John Margolies, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Signs of our times by John Margolies. Abbeville press, 1993. First Edition hardcover, no dust jacket as released. This is an illustrated, survey of the ...
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1990s American Books
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Christie's, Estate of Doris Merrill Magowan, May, 2002
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's, Estate of Doris Merrill Magowan May, 2002 in New York. 1st Ed softcover auction catalogue. 195 pp and 225 lots all photographed in color and full...
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Early 2000s American Books
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Art of Structural Design, a Swiss Legacy, Pre-Publication First Edition
By David P. Billington
Located in valatie, NY
The Art of Structural Design, a Swiss Legacy by David P. Billington. Princeton University Art Museum, 2003. Pre-publication first edition with publisher's lett...
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Early 2000s American Books
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Sotheby's: The Collection of Jerome C. Neuhoff, January 25, 1986
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's: The Collection of Jerome C. Neuhoff. Including Chinese works of art, porcelain, silver, paintings, English furniture, decorations and carpets. Auction: Saturday, January 25...
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1980s Vintage American Books
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Jonas Lie, by William H. and Carol Lowrey Gerdts, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Jonas Lie (1880-1940), by William H. and Carol Lowrey Gerdts. Spanierman gallery, 2005. First Edition hardcover. 120 page exhibition catalog, in color with some fold-out examples of ...
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Early 2000s American Books
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The Best of Aubrey Beardsley by Kenneth Clark, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
The Best of Aubrey Beardsley by Kenneth Clark. New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1978. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 173 pp. An overview of Aub...
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20th Century American Books
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Sargent Paintings Out-of-doors 1st Edition
By John Esten
Located in valatie, NY
Sargent paintings out-of-doors by John Esten. New York: Universe Publishing, 2000. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 79 pp. A portfolio of work done by John Singer Sargent du...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Property of the Robert Young Foundation, Estate of Anita O'Keeffe Young
Located in valatie, NY
The property of the Robert R. Young Foundation from the Estate of Anita O'Keeffe Young, NY October 1985. Softcover auction catalog with 733 lots of fine French furniture, porcelain, ...
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1980s Vintage American Books
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19th Century America Furniture and Other Decorative Arts by Marvin D. Schwartz
Located in valatie, NY
19th century America furniture and other decorative arts, by Berry B. Tracy (Introduction), Marilynn Johnson (Author), Marvin D. Schwa...
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1970s Vintage American Books
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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...
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1930s Vintage American Books
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Only a Promise for Happiness the Place of Beauty in a World of Art First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Only a promise for happiness, the place of beauty in a World of Art by Alexander Nehamas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pre-publication, marke...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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American Victorian, 1st Ed
By Lawrence Grow and Dina Von zweck 1
Located in valatie, NY
American Victorian by Lawrence Grow and Dina Von Aweck. NY: Harper and Row, publishers, 1984. First edition hardcover, no dust jacket. 223 pp. A fully-illustrated source book of the ...
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20th Century American Books
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1877 "Geological and Geographical Atlas of Colorado" by F. V. Hayden
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is F. V. Hayden's Geological and Geographical Atlas of Colorado and Portions of Adjacent Territory, an unmatched geological record for its time. Published by the Department of the Interior in 1877, the Atlas of Colorado consists of twenty double elephant sized sheets, divided into two series. The first series, four sheets, embrace the entire area on a scale of twelve miles to an inch, and include Triangulations, Drainage, an Economic Map, and a General Geological map...
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1870s Antique American Books
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Christie's: 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Carpets from the Corcoran Gallery
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's: 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe including carpets from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, November 2009. Softcover auction catalogue with 474 lots all in color on 303 pages, ...
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Early 2000s American Books
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Sulphides, The Art of Cameo Incrustation, First Edition
By Paul Jokelson
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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"Cape Furniture" Book by M. G. Atmore
By M.G. Atmore
Located in valatie, NY
Cape Furniture by M. G. Atmore. Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1965. Hardcover with dust jacket. 244 pp. A comprehensive study of antique furniture made in Cape Cod Massachusetts. It includes chapters on chairs, seated furniture, tables and sideboards, cupboards and cabinets, armoires and wardrobes...
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20th Century American Books
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Geometry of Greek Vases by L.D. Caskey, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Geometry of Greek Vases, Attic Vases in the Museum of Fine Arts Analysed According to the Principles of Proportion Discovered by Jay Hambidge. Boston: Museu...
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20th Century American Books
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"White Towers" Book by Paul Hirshorn and Steven Izenour, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
White Towers by Paul Hirshorn and Steven Izenour. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1979. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 189 pp. A photographic essay of the iconic designs for the White Tower Hamburger Restaurants. The chain was founded in 1926 by John E. Saxe and Thomas E. Saxe in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It peaked in popularity during the 1950s when the company achieved 230 store locations...
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20th Century American Books
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Unbroken Circles The Campground of Martha's Vineyard by Mary-Jean Miner, Signed
Located in valatie, NY
Unbroken Circles: The Campground of Martha's Vineyard by Mary-Jean Miner. David R Godine, 2000. Signed 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 122pp. 120 photographs of the people and the...
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Early 2000s American Books
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Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s -R. Kaneko, I. Vartanian- 1st Ed, 2009
By Ivan Vartanian, Ryuichi Kaneko
Located in London, GB
First Edition, published by Aperture, New York, 2009.
A comprehensive survey of some of the greatest and most iconic Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and 1970s; an era of major cult...
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Late 20th Century American Books
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Chinese Export Porcelain: An Historical Survey by Elinor Gordon First Edition
By Elinor Gordon
Located in valatie, NY
Chinese Export Porcelain: An Historical Survey by Elinor Gordon. Stated first edition hardcover. Main Street / Universe Books, New York, 1975. By the doyen of export porcelain. A col...
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1970s Vintage American Books
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Sotheby's: The Garbisch Collection, Volume Two, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's: The Garbisch Collection, Vol. 2, May 17, 1980, important French furniture, European porcelain Vertu, and rugs. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 588 lots of import...
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1980s Vintage American Books
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Sotheby's Furniture, Ceramics, Decorations, Estate of George Parker, Jr.
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's 19th Century Furniture, Ceramics, Decorations and Carpets including the Property from the Estate of George Parker, Jr. Texas and the Haussner Family Limited Partnership, Ne...
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1990s American Books
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Fine Porcelain & Pottery by Stanley W. Fisher
Located in valatie, NY
Fine Porcelain & Pottery, The Best of the World's Beautiful China by Stanley W. Fisher. New York: Galahad Books, 1974. Hardcover and dust jacket with a protective glassine wrap. A pi...
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20th Century American Books
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The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture by Herbert Cescinsky
By Herbert Cescinsky
Located in valatie, NY
The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture by Herbert Cescinsky. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1967. Unabridged and unaltered re-publication edition from original published in 1931, so...
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20th Century American Books
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Sotheby's, English Porcelain and Furniture Mr. and Mrs John Treleaven Oct, 1990
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's, English porcelain and furniture Mr. and Mrs John Treleaven October, 1990. 260 lots, illustrated in black and white and color. Treleavan was an expert on English furniture ...
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Late 20th Century American Books
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The Clockwork Universe, German Clocks and Automata, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
The Clockwork Universe, German Clocks and Automata. NY: Neale Watson Arcademic Publications, Inc., 1980. First edition hardcover with no dust jacket. 321 pp. ...
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20th Century American Books
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Lost London by Hermoine Hothouse, 1st Ed
By Hermoine Hobhouse
Located in valatie, NY
Lost London by Hermoine Hobhouse. New York: Weathervane Books, 1974. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 250 pp. A chronicle of the lost architecture of London due to fire, ene...
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20th Century American 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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Christie's The Collection of the Late André Meyer, New York, Oct 2001
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's: The Collection of the Late André Meyer, New York, Oct 2001. An extensive collection of French furniture, paintings and accessories. 129 lots in color on 177 pages. With r...
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Early 2000s American Books
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Sotheby's the Jerome Rapoport Collection of American Aesthetic Silver
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's; The Jerome Rapoport Collection of American Aesthetic Silver. New York: Sotheby's, 1996. Unpaginated softcover. In the 1870's the American Aesthetic Movement broke from Tra...
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Late 20th Century American Books
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‘Friedman Collection Artists of Chicago’ Essay by Dr. William Gerdts 1st Edition
Located in valatie, NY
“The Friedman Collection: Artists of Chicago”; Essay by Dr. William Gerdts. Spanierman Gallery, New York, 2002. 1st Edition hardcover. 55 Impressionist and realist paintings from the...
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Early 2000s American Books
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Cyclops - Albert Watson - Signed First Edition, Callaway Editions, 1994
By Albert Watson
Located in London, GB
Signed First Edition, published by Bullfinch Press, Boston, 1994. Inscribed at Title Page, 'For Eileen & Jerry, Albert Watson, New York City '97'.
A collection of powerful, seductive and highly dramatic photographs, showcasing 25 years of exploration in the field of photography undertaken by Albert Watson. Having collaborated with a prestigious lists of names over the years, including fashion houses such as Dior and Chanel, as well as artists including Jeff Koons, who contributes a visual essay to the book, and Alfred Hitchcock, of whom Watson created...
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Late 20th Century American Books
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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 Vintage American Books
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Tina Modotti Photographs, Sarah Lowe, 1st Ed
By Sarah Lowe
Located in valatie, NY
Tina Modotti Photographs by Sarah Lowe. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995. Harry N Abrams, NY. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 160 pp., 119 plates and 29 text figures in duotone. T...
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1990s American Books
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'71 - NY - Daido Moriyama – Signed 1st Edition, PPP, 2002
By Daido Moriyama 1
Located in London, GB
First edition, limited to 3000 copies, published by PPP Editions, New York, 2002. Signed by Daido Moriyama at title page.
“In 1971, Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama took a trip to New York City with Tadanori Yokoo. He stayed at the Chelsea Hotel and spent his days in The Museum of Modern Art Photography Study Center looking at pictures taken by Weegee. He shot 100 rolls of film with a half-frame camera, yielding 70 images per roll. Some of those pictures are presented here.”
With hundreds of high quality black and white reproductions on heavy paper, and signed by Daido Moriyama at the title page, this classic photobook is immediately recognisable as Moriyama’s work, with his high-contrast, grainy and seemingly fleeting style. Including an interview with Moriyama, an essay by art writer and curator Neville Wakefield, and an appropriately chosen exact from James Baldwin’s Another Country, this is an involving record of Moriyama’s trip to a changing New York seen...
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Early 2000s American Books
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Christies New York, Roger Prigent's Malmaison, November 2002
Located in valatie, NY
Christies New York: Roger Prigent's Malmaison, November 2002. After the diagnosis of macular degeneration, Mr. Prigent reinvented himself as a dealer in ...
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Early 2000s American Books
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Tidewater Amelia by Jan H. Johannes
Located in valatie, NY
Tidewater Amelia by Jan H. Johannes. Fernandia Beach: Lexington Ventures, Inc., 2007. Hardcover with slip case, 188 pp. A beautiful book showcasing the interiors of historic homes and architecture on Amelia Island, Cumberland Island, St. Maries and Fort George...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Watch Repair, S/2
Located in valatie, NY
Complicated watches and their repair by Donald De Carle. NY: Bonanza Books, 1977. Second edition hardcover no dust jacket. Better Watch Repairing by L. M....
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20th Century American Books
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Color and Light Luminous Atmospheres for Painted Rooms, 1st Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Color and light: Luminous atmospheres for painted rooms by Donald Kaufman. Clarkson Potter, New York, New York, 1999. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket....
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1990s American Books
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Collecting American 19th Century Silver by Katherine Morrison McClinton
Located in valatie, NY
Collecting American 19th century silver by Katherine Morrison McClinton. New York: Bonanza Books, 1968. Hardcover with dust jacket, 280 pp. A survey of 19th century American silver...
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20th Century American Books
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Sotheby's; Important English Furniture, European Ceramics and Decorations
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's; Important English Furniture, European ceramics and decorations. New York: Sotheby's, 1998. Softcover. 260 pp. A Sotheby's auction catalogue of important English furniture, European ceramics and decorations. Pieces include a Wedgwood black and white jasper 'Pegasus' vase and cover, a George III inlaid mahogany wine cooler on stand, a rare Regency painted wooden doll house...
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20th Century American Books
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