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All About Amos 'n' Andy and Their Creators, by Correll & Gosden
Located in valatie, NY
All About Amos 'n' Andy and Their Creators, by Correll & Gosden. Rand McNally, Chicago, 1930. 2nd Ed hardcover, no dust jacket. This is the inside story of the creation of one of the...
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1930s Vintage 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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George Krause-1 First Edition
By George Krause
Located in valatie, NY
George Krause-1. Haverford: Toll & Armstron, Publishers, 1972. Stated first edition hardcover with dust jacket. 60 pp. A handsome book on art American phot...
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20th Century American Books
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Old Country House by Richard Legallienne, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
An Old Country House by Richard LeGallienne. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905. First edition hard cover with no dust jacket. 143 pp. An antique book with five stories of romantic th...
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Early 20th Century Arts and Crafts American Books
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Set of 3 Books on Grigory Efimovitch "Rasputin, " First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
1. Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs by Colin Wilson. Farrar, Straus & Company, New York, 1964. 1st Ed and Printing hardcover with no dust jacket. 2. ...
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1990s American Books
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Guide to American Pewter by Carl Jacobs, First Edition
By Carl Jacobs
Located in valatie, NY
A Guide to American Pewter by Carl Jacobs. NY: The McBride Company, 1957. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 216 pp. A guide to pewter for the c...
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20th Century American Books
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The Book of Costumes by Millia Davenport
By Millia Davenport
Located in valatie, NY
The Book of Costumes by Millia Davenport. New York: Crown Publishers, 1956. First edition fourth printing hardcover with no dust jacket, volume 1 of 2. 958 pp. A large chronological ...
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20th Century American Books
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Town and Country by Mark Girouard, First Edition
By Mark Girouard
Located in valatie, NY
Town and country by Mark Girouard. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 274 pp. A fascinating collection of essays and articles on places visited by the architectural historian Mark Girouard with insights into both the buildings and its inhabitants. He tells of the houses he visited as a boy and how he became interested in architecture and he provides his interpretation of the origins of English Rococo art, analyses the formation of an English seaside...
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20th Century American 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 Vintage American Books
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Domestic Architecture of H.T. Lindeberg, Ltd 1st Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Domestic Architecture of H.T. Lindeberg by H. T. Lindeberg. NY: Wm Helburn, 1940. Limited (1/1000) first edition hardcover, 1/4 maroon morocco over red cloth, no dust jacket as issued. Illustrated from photographs, drawings, plans, and elevations, including six plates in color; with a list of clients. The introduction by Royal Cortissoz. He designed for the rich and famous of the first half of the 20th century, Astor, DuPont, Morgan, Vanderbilt. Having worked at McKim, Meade & White, and as an assistant to Stanford White he learned the art of the selling his plans. A remarkable architectural monograph. Old owner's stamp (Franklin Adams...
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20th Century American Books
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Three Books by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Located in valatie, NY
Three Books by Edna St. Vincent Millay. 1.) The King's Henchman, A Play in Three Acts by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1927. (L-B date code for Nov...
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20th Century American Books
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The History Of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 1964
Located in North Hollywood, CA
The History Of Tom Jones By Henry Fielding
New York: Random House, 1964.
Slip Case.
Lawrence Beall Smith.
Copyright date is 1964, maroon and black cov...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist 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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Suppressed Books a History of the Conception of Literary Obscenity First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Suppressed books a history of the conception of literary obscenity by Alec Craig. The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York, 1963. Stated first edition hardcover with dust...
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1960s Vintage American Books
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"Charles Burchfield", the Architecture of Painting, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
"Charles Burchfield", the architecture of painting. New York: DC Moore Gallery, 2009. First Edition hardcover with no dust jacket as issued. 111 pp. Exhi...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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2 Books Decorating Shops, Hotels, Restaurants, Bars, & Other Retail Spaces, 1st
Located in valatie, NY
The Interiors Book of Shops and Restaurants by Pilar Viladas. Whitney Library Of Design, 1981. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. "Enticing a customer to enter and then buy is the pr...
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1980s Vintage American Books
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Meissen, Organized by the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami 1977, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Meissen, organized by the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 1977. 1st Ed softcover. A museum exhibition that started with a core donation from ...
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1970s Vintage American Books
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Lorser Feitelson The Kinetic Series–Works From 1916-1923, Ltd 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Lorser Feitelson The Kinetic Series–Works From 1916-1923. West Hollywood: Louis Stern Fine Arts, 2005. Limited first edition of 6000 hardcovers with n...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Piero Della Francesca by Alessandro Angelini
Located in valatie, NY
Piero Della Francesca by Alessandro Angelini. Florence: Scala, 1999. Softcover. 79 pp. A catalogue of works by the Early Renaissance painter Pier...
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20th Century American Books
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Art of William Christenberry, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
The Art of William Christenberry. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 207 pp. A comprehensive surv...
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Late 20th Century American Books
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American Neo-Classic Sculpture: The Marble Resurrection, 1st Edition
By William H. Gerdts
Located in valatie, NY
American neoclassic sculpture, the Marble Resurrection by William H. Gerdts. New York: The Viking Press, 1973. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 160 pp. Overview of American neoclas...
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20th Century American Books
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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 Vintage American Books
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In Good Hands, 25 Years of Art in the Life of a Dealer, by Achim Moeller, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
In Good Hands, 25 Years of Art in the Life of a Dealer, by Achim Moeller. Published by Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, 1997. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Achim Moeller is a German-American art dealer, adviser, art historian, scholar and curator. He is the founder and head of Moeller Fine Art and the Achim Moeller Art Advisory. Color and black and white plates, includes works by; Jackson Pollock, Paul Klee, Otto Mueller, Paul Gauguin, Feininger, Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Alexej von Jawlensky...
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1990s American Books
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Sotheby's Continental Furniture, Decorations and Carpets, Prince Giulio Di Monza
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's: Fine Continental Furniture, Decorations and Carpets Including Property from The Collection of Prince Giulio Durini Di Monza, October 1997. 416 lots on 173 pages Illustrate...
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1990s American Books
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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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Richard Parkes Bonington on the Pleasure of Painting Pre-Publication Review Copy
By Patrick Noon
Located in valatie, NY
Richard Parkes Bonington 'On the Pleasure of Painting' by Patrick Noon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 315 pp. A large book on the ...
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20th Century American Books
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Willard Metcalf, Yankee Impressionist, 1st Edition
By Willard LeRoy Metcalf
Located in valatie, NY
Willard Metcalf, Yankee Impressionist. New York: Spanierman Gallery, LLC, 2003. 1st Ed hardcover with no dust jacket as issued. 151 pp. Exhibition catalogue on the work of Willard Me...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Being There by Jerzy N. Kosinski, Stated 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Being There by Jerzy N. Kosinski. Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, NY, 1970. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 142 pages. hardcover. Dust ja...
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1970s Vintage American Books
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Modern Prints and Drawings by Paul J. Sachs, First Edition
By Paul J. Sachs
Located in valatie, NY
Modern Prints and Drawings, a guide to a better understanding of draughtsmanship, by Paul J. Sachs. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First edition hardcover with no dust jacket. 262 ...
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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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American Cinema, One Hundred Years of Filmmaking by Jeanie Basinger, 1st Edition
Located in valatie, NY
American Cinema, One Hundred Years of Filmmaking by Jeanie Basinger. New York: Rizzoli, 1994. 1st Ed hardcover published to commemorate the centennial celebration of the birth of American film and a 10-part PBS-TV series that aired in January of 1995. The book surveys the phenomenon of Hollywood, past and present while celebrating the best of American films. With more than 200 illustrations, 100 in full color, and including some never before published.
All About Dogs by Charles Henry Lane
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20th Century American Books
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Louisiana Architecture 1714-1830 by Fred Daspit, First Edition
By Fred Daspit
Located in valatie, NY
Louisiana Architecture 1714-1830 by Fred Daspit. Lafayette: The Center for Louisiana Studies, 1996. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 357 pp. An extensive study of architectu...
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20th Century American Books
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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 Books
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Woodner Collection Master Drawings, Exhibition Press Copy with Original Slides
Located in valatie, NY
Woodner Collection Master Drawings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Abaris Books, 1990. Exhibition press catalogue of the Ian Woodner's private c...
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Late 20th Century American Books
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Blue Chips Catalogue
Located in valatie, NY
Blue Chips from Jim's of Lambertville. 128 pp. A gallery catalogue from Jim's of Lambertville, an art dealer specializing in Pennsylvania impressionist and m...
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1990s American Books
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"Miniature Silver Toys" Book by Victor Houart
Located in valatie, NY
Miniature Silver Toys by Victor Houart. New York: Publishers of Fine Art Books, 1981. Hardcover with dust jacket. 237 pp. An extensive study of the art ...
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20th Century American Books
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Fiona Barratt-Campbell Elemental
By Rizzoli International Publications
Located in New York, NY
The first book to showcase the award-winning work of interior designer and entrepreneur Fiona Barratt-Campbell, whose interiors marry a sense of opulence with bold, material simplici...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Adventures with Old Houses by Richard Jenrette, First Edition
By Richard Jenrette
Located in valatie, NY
Adventures with Old Houses by Richard Jenrette. Wyrick and Company, Charleston, 2000. A beautifully illustrated account of the restoration of some of America's finest architectural t...
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Early 2000s American Books
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Vermont Clock & Watchmakers, Silversmiths, & Jewelers, 1778-1878, Signed Ltd Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Vermont Clock and Watchmakers, Silversmiths, and Jewelers, 1778-1878 by Lilian Baker Carlisle. L.B. Carlisle, Burlington VT, 1970. 1st, signed and numbered Ed (#601/1000) hardcover w...
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1970s Vintage American Books
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North Shore Long Island Country Houses, 1890-1950, 1st Ed by Paul J. Mateyunas
By Paul J. Mateyunas
Located in valatie, NY
North Shore Long Island Country Houses, 1890-1950 by Paul J. Mateyunas. New York: Acanthus Press. First edition hardcover with dust jacket, 2007. 365 pp. A tour of more than 40 histo...
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21st Century and Contemporary 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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American Furniture, Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in The Winterthur Museum
By Joseph Downs
Located in valatie, NY
American Furniture, Queen Anne and Chippendale periods in The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. New York: The Viking Press, 1952. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Unpaginated. A...
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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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Peggy Bacon, Personalities and Places by Peggy Bacon
Located in valatie, NY
Peggy Bacon, Personalities and Places: Exhibition at the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., ...
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1970s Vintage American Books
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Mark Hampton : An American Decorator, 1st Ed Signed by Hampton
By Duane Hampton
Located in valatie, NY
Mark Hampton : An American Decorator by Duane Hampton. Rizzoli Pub., US, 2010. Signed and inscribed 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Inscribed, "Hope you have fun with this! Duane ...
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2010s American Books
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Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto
Located in valatie, NY
Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1998. Second printing hardcover with dust jacket. 255 pp. An important book published by the United States Ho...
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20th Century American Books
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Garden Lover's Martha's Vineyard by C.L. Fornari, First Edition
By D.L. Fornari
Located in valatie, NY
A Garden Lover's Martha's Vineyard by C.L. Fornari. Beverly: Commonwealth Editions, 2008. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 132 pp. A beautiful guide to the challenges of gardening on Martha's Vineyard. With tours of the Vineyard's gardens large and small, from Edgartown to Oak Bluffs...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Steps & Stairways, First Edition
By Ib Melchior, Cleo Baldon
Located in valatie, NY
Steps and Stairways. New York: Rizzoli, 1989. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket. 264 pp. A beautifully photographed book on the history of steps ...
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20th Century American Books
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Floors, a Design Source Book by Elizabeth Wilhide, First Edition
By Elizabeth Wilhide
Located in valatie, NY
Floors, A Design Source Book by Elizabeth Wilhide. New York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 1997. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket. 192 pp. A source bo...
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20th Century American Books
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Check Points on How to Buy Oriental Rugs by Charles W. Jacobsen
By Charles W. Jacobsen
Located in valatie, NY
“Check Points on How to Buy Oriental Rugs” book by Charles W. Jacobsen. Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company: Publishers, 1972. Third printing hardcover with ...
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20th Century American Books
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Center 21 The Secret Life of Buildings, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Center 21: The Secret Life of Buildings by Michael Benedikt; Kory Bieg; Ian Bogost; Graham Harman; Craig Dykers; Patrik Schumacher; Levi Bryant; Keith Ra...
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2010s American Books
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New Orleans Architecture Vol. VII Jefferson City, First Edition
By Dorothy G. Schlesinger
Located in valatie, NY
New Orleans architecture vol. VII Jefferson City. Gretna: Pelican publishing company. First edition hardcover with dust jacket, 1989. 192 pp. ...
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20th Century American Books
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Monuments and Masterpieces Histories and Views of Public Sculpture in NYC 1st Ed
By Donald Martin Reynolds
Located in valatie, NY
Monuments and Masterpieces Histories and Views of Public Sculpture in New York City by Donald Martin Reynolds. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company,...
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20th Century American Books
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Architecture of John F. Staub, Houston and the South by Howard Barnstone
By Howard Barnstone
Located in valatie, NY
The Architecture of John F. Staub, Houston and the South by Howard Barnstone. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979. 2nd printing hardcover with dust jacket. 363 pp. A comprehensiv...
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20th Century American Books
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Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques
Located in valatie, NY
The Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques. New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1958. First edition, fifth printing, hardcover with dust jacket. 848 pp....
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20th Century American Books
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Elements of Style, The Art of Bronze Mounts in 18th & 19th c France, 1st Ed
By Penelope Hunter-Stiebel
Located in valatie, NY
Elements of Style, The Art of Bronze Mounts in 18th & 19th c France by Penelope Hunter-Stiebel. New York: Rosenberg and Stiebel Incorporated, 1984. First edition paper back. 69 pp. A catalogue of an exhibit held at Rosenburg and Stiebel gallery from April 13 to June 15, 1984. Rosenburg and Stiebel was an internationally known art gallery in New York that specialized in European old master...
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20th Century American Books
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Sotheby's New York Important Jewelry #6254 December 11, 1991, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's New York: Important Jewelry: 6254: December 11, 1991. 380 lots all photoed in color and fully described with results.
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1990s American Books
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History of the Nineteenth Army Corps by Richard B. Irwin
Located in valatie, NY
History of the Nineteenth Army Corps by Richard B. Irwin. Elliott's Book Shop Press, Baton Rouge, 1985. Reprint of the original 1892 Edition. 1st Ed thus hardcover with no dust jacket. The history of the famous 19th Corps, a unit in the Union Army famed for its successes and daring during the American Civil War. This edition includes the original battlefield maps. A series of daring victories swiftly established the special reputation of the 19th. At the height of their prowess, the company demonstrated great martial skill during the Siege of Port Hudson and in Shenandoah Valley. Notably, the 19th had a large contingent of black soldiers...
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1980s Vintage American Books
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