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Place of Origin: Italian
I Mobili Italiani by Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, First Edition
By Alvar González-Palacios
Located in valatie, NY
I Mobili Italiani by Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios. Electra, Milano, 1997. 1st Ed hardcover with dust cover and slipcase. A great reference work on Italian furniture with 100's of photos i...
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1990s Italian Books

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La Ceramica in Italia
By Guido Gambone
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 Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Books

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Je Suis Le Cahier, the Sketchbooks of Picasso
Located in Bradenton, FL
Je Suis Le Cahier, The Sketchbooks of Picasso. Edited by Arnold Glimcher and Marc Glimcher. Stated first edition published in 1986 by The Atlantic Monthly Press. Hardcover book with ...
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1980s Vintage Italian Books

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Palladio, Veronese e Vittoria a Maser, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Palladio, Veronese and Vittoria at Maser. Milan: Aldo Martello Editore, 1960. First edition with dust jacket and slip case, Italian text. 214 pp. An exceptional book on Villa Barbaro...
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20th Century Italian Books

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Signori di Maremma, Elites Etrusche Fra Populonia E Il Vulcente, 1st Ed Exh. Cat
Located in valatie, NY
Signori di Maremma. Elites Etrusche Fra Populonia E Il Vulcente, 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket exhibition catalog. The catalog of the exhibition from 14 June to 31 October 2009 a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

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Facendo Mobili Con Poltrona
By Poltronova
Located in New York, NY
Second edition of this compendium of radical and post-modern design produced by the Tuscan-based firm Poltronova from its early collaborations with Ettore Sottsass, who became Art Director in 1958, through the heyday of 1960’s anti-design and to the mid-1970s. Features work by both Old Guard masters and emerging leaders of the Radical Movement including (in addition to Sottsass) Archizoom, Superstudio, Sergio Asti, Gae Aulenti, Angelo Mangiarotti, Allesandro Mendini, Massimo and Lella Vignelli, Gianni Ruffi, Giovanni Michelucchi, Gianfranco Fini, Mario Ceroli, Ugo Nespolo, Roberto Barni, Paolo Portoghesi, Gino Marotta, and the group De Pas, D’Urbino, and Lomazzi. Written by Pier Carlo Santini and published by Artigraf Edizioni in 1996, following its initial run in 1977. 4to, 181 pages with text in Italian; stiff printed wraps with printed brown paper dust jacket. Fully illustrated, primarily in black-and-white. Includes artist biographies. A scarce and significant resource chronicling the contribution of this avant-garde design firm. A crisp, collectible copy with only minor bumping to the dust jacket and extremities. From the estate of design guru Jim Walrod...
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1990s Mid-Century Modern Italian Books

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Rolo Banca 1473: Palazzo Magnani, by Pier Luigi Cervellati, 1st Ed in English
Located in valatie, NY
Rolo Banca 1473: Palazzo Magnani, by Pier Luigi Cervellati. Published by Cinisello Balsamo, Milan Italy, 1997. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Palazzo Magnani, the collection of a...
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1990s Italian Books

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Moderns by Gaston Diehl
Located in Bradenton, FL
The Moderns by Gaston Diehl, a treasury of painting throughout the world. Hardcover book with dustjacket. First edition published in 1978 by Crown Publishers, Inc. of New York. Print...
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1970s Vintage Italian Books

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Klee by Denys Chevalier
Located in Bradenton, FL
Klee by Denys Chevalier. Hardcover book with dustjacket. Published in 1979 by Crown Publishers Inc of New York. Printed in Italy. 51 Illustrations in color, 23 illustrations in black...
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1970s Vintage Italian Books

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Palermo La Splendente by Aurlio Pes and Melo Minnella
By Melo Minnella, Aurelio Pes
Located in valatie, NY
Palermo La Splendente by Aurlio Pes and Melo Minnella. Palermo: Promo Libri, 2006. Second edition hardcover with dust jacket, Italian text. 231 pp. A beautifully photographed book on art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

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Il Mobile Romano by Goffredo Lizzani
By Goffredo Lizzani
Located in valatie, NY
Il Mobile Romano by Goffredo Lizzani. Novara: Istituto Geografico De Agostini, 1997. Reprint from 1972 edition hardcover with dust jacket. 169 pp. Italian text. One in a series of se...
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20th Century Italian Books

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Il Mobile Umbro by Giuseppe Cantelli
By Giuseppe Cantelli
Located in valatie, NY
Il Mobile Umbro by Giuseppe Cantelli. Novara: Istituto Geografico De Agostini, 1997. Reprint from 1972 edition hardcover with dust jacket. 174 pp. Italian text. One in a series of se...
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20th Century Italian Books

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Splendors of Hard Stones, The Court Art in Florence of the Grand Dukes
By Annamarie Giusti
Located in valatie, NY
Splendors of Hard Stones, The Court Art in Florence of the Grand Dukes by Annamarie Giusti. Florence: Giunti Publishing. 1st Edition paper back with text in Italian, 1988. 278 pp. An...
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20th Century Italian Books

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Tiffany Windows by Alastair Duncan
Located in Bradenton, FL
Tiffany Windows by Alastair Duncan. Hardcover book with dustjacket, published in 1982 by Simon and Schuster of New York. Printed and bound in Italy by ...
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1980s Vintage Italian Books

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Sebastião Salgado "GENESIS" Signed, Limited Edition SUMO Book, with stand
By Sebastião Salgado
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Collector's Edition Book measures: 18.4 x 27.6 in. Total weight: 130 lb. The Collector’s Edition is limited to 2,500 copies (No. 501-3,000), numbered and signed by Sebastião Salg...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

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Cherry, Paper

Gli Arredi Francesi by Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, First Edition
By Alvar González-Palacios
Located in valatie, NY
Gli Arredi Francesi by Gonzalez-Palacios. Electa, Milan, 1996. First edition hardcover with dust jacket and slip-case. Profusely illustrated in color and in black and white. 404 page...
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1990s Italian Books

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Le Ville Del Brenta da Lizza Fusina Alla Città Di Padova, First Edition
By Clauco B. Tiozzo
Located in valatie, NY
Le Ville Del Brenta da Lizza Fusina alla città di Padova (The Brenta Villas from Lizza Fusina to the city of Padova) by Clauco B. Tiozzo. Venice: Cavallino, 1977. First edition hardc...
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20th Century Italian Books

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Beat and Pieces: A Complete Story of the Beat Generation by F. Pivano Limited Ed
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Beat Bible. Contains: Beat Books; Beat & Pieces: A Complete Story of the Beat Generation in the Words of Fernanda Pivano with Photographs by Allen Ginsberg 2 volume Books...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Italian Books

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Wood, Paper

Bao
Located in New York, NY
The first cookbook from London’s cult favorite restaurant BAO offers a taste of Taiwanese food culture with 100 signature recipes for steamed buns, noodles, xiao chi, fried chicken...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

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Bao
Bao
$40 / item
Sebastião Salgado "GENESIS" Art Edition
By Sebastião Salgado
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Salgado’s masterpiece: GENESIS — Earth eternal. A photographic homage to our planet in its natural state. Two volumes bound in full leather, limited to five editions of 100 numbered and signed sets. Every set comes with a gelatin silver print, signed by Sebastião Salgado and printed under his personal supervision. “My love letter to the planet.” — Sebastião Salgado. Art Edition A - No. 1-100. Two Mursi women, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, 2007. Gelatin silver print. Measure: 25 x 34.5 cm/10 x 14 in. (image), 30 x 40 cm/12 x 16 in. (sheet). (Frame not included). The Art Edition comes with a book Stand designed by Tadao Ando. The GENESIS book Stand was conceived by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the only living person to have won architecture’s four most prestigious prizes. Ando’s simple and innovative design consists of two “twin” pieces of wood, bound together with leather, into which a third piece of wood can be slotted to form a sturdy, elegant display. Fine print: GENESIS is printed on a traditional coated 250 gsm art paper from the German paper mill Scheufelen that is no longer available on the market and was produced specially for Taschen. The black and white pictures are reproduced in a four-color separation process, with two blacks and two shades of grey; the density of the blacks achieved rivals that of the finest silver gelatin prints. GENESIS was printed and bound in an Italian workshop utilizing traditional craftsmanship techniques that are unique worldwide in this field, using Italian Cialinen fabric for the cover. The Ando book Stand was hand made in Spain, and the leather originates from Britain. Precious cargo: The two volumes come carefully packaged along with the Stand in a robust custom-made wooden crate to preserve and protect them. Attention: total weight is 59 kg (130 lb)! Art Edition limited to 100 numbered and signed sets. Two volumes bound in full leather. Every set includes a book Stand in cherrywood veneer designed by Tadao Ando. Also included is a cloth-bound caption book. Every set comes with a gelatin silver print, signed by Sebastião Salgado and printed under his personal supervision. Delivered in a wooden cargo box...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

"Bruce Nauman The True Artist" Book
Located in New York, NY
Bruce Nauman: The True Artist offers the fullest survey yet of this protean artist's work. [Peter Plagens's] first person journalistic tack is a welcome approach to an artist who oft...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

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Sebastião Salgado, Genesis, Art Edition D
By Sebastião Salgado
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Salgado’s masterpiece: Genesis, Earth eternal. A photographic homage to our planet in its natural state. Two volumes bound in full leather, limited to five editions of 100 numbered and signed sets. Every set comes with a gelatin silver print, signed by Sebastião Salgado and printed under his personal supervision. “My love letter to the planet.” Sebastião Salgado. Art edition D-No. 301-400. Marine iguana, Gala´pagos, Ecuador, 2004. Gelatin silver print. Measures: 33.5 x 25 cm/13 x 10 in. (image), 40 x 30 cm/16 x 12 in. (sheet). (Frame not included). The art edition comes with a book Stand designed by Tadao Ando. The Genesis book stand was conceived by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the only living person to have won architecture’s four most prestigious prizes. Ando’s simple and innovative design consists of two “twin” pieces of wood, bound together with leather, into which a third piece of wood can be slotted to form a sturdy, elegant display. Fine print: Genesis is printed on a traditional coated 250 gsm art paper from the German paper mill Scheufelen that is no longer available on the market and was produced specially for Taschen. The black and white pictures are reproduced in a four-color separation process, with two blacks and two shades of grey; the density of the blacks achieved rivals that of the finest silver gelatin prints. GENESIS was printed and bound in an Italian workshop utilizing traditional craftsmanship techniques that are unique worldwide in this field, using Italian Cialinen fabric for the cover. The Ando book Stand was hand made in Spain, and the leather originates from Britain. Precious cargo: The two volumes come carefully packaged along with the stand in a robust custom-made wooden crate to preserve and protect them. Attention: total weight is 59 kg (130 lb)! Art Edition limited to 100 numbered and signed sets. Two volumes bound in full leather. Every set includes a book stand in cherrywood veneer designed by Tadao Ando. Also included is a cloth-bound caption book. Every set comes with a gelatin silver print, signed by Sebastia~o Salgado and printed under his personal supervision. Delivered in a wooden cargo box...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

Book "Logos Volume 1, Arduino Panaro Method" and Wooden Rappelling, 1940s
Located in taranto, IT
Extremely rare book Arduino Panaro Bari "logos" method, volume 1, 1930s / 40s, over 400 illustrated pages, signed by the author, equipped with a wooden rappelling team Spignese il...
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1940s Vintage Italian Books

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Robert Alice, TASCHEN, On NFTs. Limited & Numbered Collector's Edition Book
By TASCHEN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
TASCHEN’s Guide to the Digital Art Revolution. Robert Alice’s On NFTs is the first major art historical survey text on the most compelling, disruptive area of contemporary art today. A rigorous and critical examination of all facets of the NFT ecosystem, On NFTs takes a multidimensional, artist-led approach, leaving its readers with a richer understanding of a topic often shrouded in misconception and pixelated mystery. The book, presented in TASCHEN’s iconic grand-scale BABY SUMO...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

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Robert Crumb, Sketchbooks 1982-2011
By Robert Crumb
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Collector's edition book: 8.1 x 10.6 in. Pigment print: 10 x 7.9 in. The set includes a hand-written introduction by Robert Crumb. Each set of this 1,000-copy limited edition al...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

Lynn Goldsmith. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. Signed, Limited Ed Book
By Lynn Goldsmith, TASCHEN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
“By the end of Darkness, I had found my adult voice.” In 1977, dismissed by the press as a one-hit wonder, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band entered the studio to record the album that transformed a “kid from New Jersey” into America’s poet laureate of life’s underdogs. The tour that followed would come to be regarded as one of the most legendary in rock ‘n’ roll history, propelled by the nervous intensity of a group determined to prove itself. Present throughout the recording, release, and tour of Darkness on the Edge of Town, Lynn Goldsmith tracks these memorable steps in Springsteen’s journey to becoming an American icon. With illuminating forewords from both artists, the book gathers hundreds of photographs—classic, rare, and previously unseen—that bring to life a star at his hungriest. In Springsteen’s words, “These photos remain a record of a time when I truly played for my life, night after night.” It was a standard matched by the E Street Band, seen here in its historic lineup of Roy Bittan, Clarence Clemons, Danny Federici, Garry Tallent, Steven Van...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

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Fabric, Paper

Stupinigi, a Masterpiece of 17th Century Europe Between Baroque and Classicism
Located in New York, NY
Stupinigi, a masterpiece of 17th century Europe between Baroque and classicism. The story and photos of the magnificent hunting palace of the kings of Italy. First edition hardcover,...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Books

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Set of Two Bvlgari Brand Book Catalogue Jewellery and Watches 2013
By Bulgari
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Set of two Bvlgari catalogues, jewelry and watches. Collection of 2013. Hardcover black cloth catalogues of one of the most famous Luxury Jewellery maker in the world. Sotirio Bulgar...
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2010s Expressionist Italian Books

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Lawrence Schiller Marilyn & Me a Memoir, Signed, Limited Edition Book
By Lawrence Schiller
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In the flesh. Just months before her death, Marilyn Monroe gave a young photographer his big break, and this is his story. “You’re already famous, now you’re going to make me f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

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Neo Rauch. Signed Limited Edition Monograph Book
By Neo Rauch
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bursting with radiant and unsettling juxtapositions, Neo Rauch’s paintings are wormholes into worlds of startling psychological power and cultural collisions. His scenes involve the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

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LEONARDO DA VINCI By Patrice Boussel Hardcover
Located in North Hollywood, CA
LEONARDO DA VINCI By Patrice Boussel Hardcover.Discusses Leonardo the man and painter, provides an analysis of his thinking as revealed in his notebooks, and includes reproductions o...
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1980s Baroque Vintage Italian Books

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"Alex Steinweiss, The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover" Limited Edition Book
By Alex Steinweiss, Kevin Reagan, Steven Heller
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Music for the eyes. The man who launched the Golden Age of album cover design. No. 101-1,600, Collector’s Edition: Limited to 1,500 numbered copies, each signed by the artist. Also...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

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"Greatest of All Time - A Tribute to Muhammad Ali" Book
Located in Los Angeles, CA
GOAT: Greatest Of All Time - A tribute to Muhammad Ali is a book with the power, courage, depth, creativity and dazzling energy of its extraordinary subject. With thousands of images...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

Romanesque Architecture Sculpture Painting Hardcover Toman Rolf.
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Romanesque Architecture Sculpture Painting Large Heavy Hardcover Toman Rolf. The Romanesque period was during the high Middle Ages, and is so ca...
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21st Century and Contemporary Baroque Italian Books

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Paper

Jacques Jarrige
By Jacques Jarrige
Located in New York, NY
ISBN 979-8-9853078-0-1 Art book 328 pages This mid-career survey of the works of Jacques Jarrige marks the 12th anniversary of my fruitful collaboration with him. At the heart of...
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2010s Italian Books

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Pirelli Calendar 2008 "Pearls of the Orient" by Patrick Demarchelier
By Pirelli Tyres, Patrick Demarchelier
Located in Linkebeek, BE
Collectible - Pirelli - Demarchelier Measures : ~44cmx60cm Patrick Demarchelier in Shanghai, China. (in original shipping carton) Burgo Group S.p.A / numbered
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Books

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Paper

Fabrics The Decorative Art of Textiles Coffee Table Hardcover Book
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Fabrics The Decorative Art of Textiles Spectacularly illustrated with richly colorful, sumptuously textured photographs, Fabrics is an enthusiastic trip through the history, technol...
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1990s American Classical Italian Books

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Venetian Villas Michelangelo Muraro by Paolo Marton
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Venetian Villas Hardcover by Michelangelo Muraro (Author), Paolo Marton (Photographer). Large heavy beautiful hardcover coffee table book. A meticulously detailed survey of nearly 80...
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Late 20th Century Classical Roman Italian Books

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Albert Oehlen Book
By Hans Werner Holzwarth
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The definitive monograph of Oehlen's work to date. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, each signed by Albert Oehlen. Also available: An Art Edition limited to 100 copies, each signed by the artist and accompanied by an original artwork. Often wryly funny and just as smart, Albert Oehlen’s paintings play the medium for all it’s worth and then some. After realizing that the so-called death of painting freed him to explore "the number of aspects through which one could expand painting," Oehlen started work on a wide variety of figurative and non-objective offerings, in what he has called his "post-non-figurative" art. The artist continuously challenges himself, setting up rules that force him to overcome convention and his own routine in order to arrive at a satisfying image. During his career he has chosen to paint in primary colors only or in gray, to integrate mirrors into his canvases, or to start on computer paintings when the first PCs became available. In his most recent work Oehlen expands painting through the use of advertising posters whose in-your-face aesthetics he transforms with subtle brushwork. Never without a touch of tongue-in-cheek humour, his work seems to be winking at us as it dares us to change the way we perceive an image. This XL monograph covers the entire Scope of Oehlen’s oeuvre: Roberto Ohrt discusses the early years, when Oehlen came into his own alongside Kippenberger, Bu¨ttner, and others, part of a scene that broke rules in art and rock music. Klaus Kertess examines the years from 1988 onwards, when Oehlen saw himself more self-consciously as a painter and started his first abstract works, then continued to probe the limits of the medium. Martin Prinzhorn and John Corbett...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

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Albert Oehlen Book
Albert Oehlen Book
$2,500 / item
Tuscany Interiors Hardcover Book by Paolo Rinaldi
By Angelika Taschen
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Tuscany Interiors large hardcover coffee table book By Paolo Rinaldi and Taschen. Nestling in the gentle hills and brushed with the hazy sfumato of the air, the homes of Tuscany hav...
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21st Century and Contemporary Country Italian Books

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Paper

The Glory of Byzantium and Early Christendom
Located in New York, NY
Byzantine art established the images of the Christian religion that are still current today: the appearance, dress and attributes of Biblical figures all owe their invention to these early artists. The Byzantine Empire spanned the fourth to the fifteenth century, bridging the Middle Ages from the late Roman Empire to the early Renaissance, and of all the world's empires, it is most clearly defined by its art. Presenting 300 artworks from the years 240 to 1453, The Glory of Byzantium and Early Christendom encapsulates the development of art in eastern Europe and eastern Mediterranean from the very early days of Christianity to the fall of Constantinople. Even when a more secular art developed during the early Renaissance, Byzantine art lived on as the dominant style for religious art, particularly in the Orthodox East. Nevertheless, a perception of Byzantine art as purely religious is misleading: while it included the production of glorious icons, it also encompassed metalwork, architecture, sculpture, wall painting and mosaics, but secular and Christian. From architecture to jewellery, from coins to paintings, from mosaics to book illuminations, the book explores Byzantine art in all its forms. Unique not only for its extensive variety of art forms, the book also has a vast geographic Scope, including art from Britain to Syria, from Spain to Turkey, from Egypt to Georgia. An introductory essay by Antony Eastmond summarizes the essence of Byzantine and early Christian art...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

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Paper

Norman Mailer/Bert Stern, Marilyn Monroe
By Bert Stern, Norman Mailer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Three legends. Monroe by Mailer and Stern. We have paired Mailer’s original text (his 1973 biography Marilyn) with Bert Stern’s extraordinary photographs, widely considered the m...
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Late 20th Century Italian Books

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Acrylic, Paper

Mark Ryden Pinxit
By Mark Ryden
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fuzzy bunnies, big-eyed girls, meat, magic and mystery. Mark Ryden’s carnival of curiosities. Collector’s edition: No. 51–1,050. Limited to 1,000 individually numbered copies,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

Mark Ryden Pinxit
Mark Ryden Pinxit
$1,250 / item
Smart Apartments Simone Schleifer by Frechmann Kolon GmbH
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Smart Apartments Simone Schleifer Book by Frechmann Kolon GmbH.This book looks at a selection of apartments which show a wide variety of architectural and design solutions suitable f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Books

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Paper

Fontana Arte Blue Mirrored Glass and Wood Game Box, 1950, Italy
By Fontana Arte
Located in Milano, IT
Fontana Arte blue mirrored glass and wood game box, 1950, Italy.
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1950s Other Vintage Italian Books

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Glass

Barbra Streisand by Steve Schapiro and Lawrence Schiller
By Lawrence Schiller, Steve Schapiro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pitch perfect. From Funny Girl to a Star is Born, the meteoric rise of Barbra Streisand. In 1970 Barbra Streisand published a story in Life magazine titled "Who Am I Anyway?" It was the very question two leading photojournalists of the day—Steve Schapiro and Lawrence Schiller—were also asking as they photographed her during her first five years in Hollywood, working to get beneath the veneer and capture "the real Barbra." Brimming with photographs—over half of which have never been published before—and stories behind the shots from Schapiro and Schiller, this is a must-have collection for any Streisand fan. All the best movies of Streisand's first Hollywood decade are here: Funny Girl, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, The Way We Were, The Owl and the Pussycat...
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20th Century Italian Books

Limited Edition book Shoes A-Z. FIT. With 3 Hallmarked Manolo Blahnik Art Prints
By TASCHEN, Manolo Blahnik
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Exclusive access to the shoe collection at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Sky-high, ornate, and the pinnacle of glamour, both restrictive and liberating, art obj...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

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Foil

Antique Books circa 1696, The Life of Leopold I Hapsburg
Located in Opole, PL
We present you three volumes in Spanish which describe the life of Leopold I Hapsburg. Published in Milan in 1696. All the volumes are decorated with various graphics by Pieter Bal...
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Late 17th Century Antique Italian Books

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Leather, Paper

Yoshihiro Narisawa, Satoyama Cuisine. Gastronomy & Culinary Photography Book
By TASCHEN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sustainable Gastronomy Yoshihiro Narisawa’s manifesto on cuisine in harmony with the natural world Award-winning Japanese chef Yoshihiro Narisawa has turned to his homeland and nature to develop his innovative satoyama cuisine and culinary philosophy. Inspired by the Japanese tradition of foraging for ingredients on the land between mountains and villages, the area of satoyama, and by similar traditional methods for gathering food, Narisawa has created recipes and dining experiences based on the sustainable use of native ingredients. Also using foodstuffs from coastal waters and forests, from seaweed and sea snakes to wild flowers and even soil, the recipes are presented and shown in stunning photographs by world-renowned Brazilian food photographer Sergio Coimbra. But this is more than a book of recipes, it is a new kind of gastronomy book that explores the background of where the ingredients are sourced and also how the chef works with the craftsmen who makes his knives and tableware. This attention to every stage of the supply chain is another aspect of satoyama, and in the course of the journeys Narisawa and Coimbra made the book has also become a visual travel guide to Japan and its history and traditions. In this way it is not just the chef’s creations that are presented, but the food in its full context, including the processes involved, and a culinary perspective that combines tradition with modern ideas. Collector’s Edition of 1,000 copies, each signed by Yoshihiro Narisawa and Sergio Coimbra. The Artist: Yoshihiro Narisawa, born in Aichi prefecture in 1969 as the son of a baker of western recipes, moved to Europe at the age of 19 where he trained in France, Switzerland, and Italy, before returning to his homeland. Narisawa opened his first restaurant in Kanagawa in 1996, moving to Tokyo in 2003. After pursuing a connection with French cuisine, Narisawa went on to develop his “Satoyama” style. His restaurant has been listed for many years as one of the World’s 50 Best...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

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Gold Leaf

Regulations for Artillery Inventories, Turin 1848
Located in Torino, IT
Regulations for the inventories of artillery material - Part I. Approved by General Villamarina, dedicated to Count Carlo Maffei di Boglio. F.lli Catellazzo typography. Turin, 184...
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19th Century Antique Italian Books

Italian Rare Edition of Historia Dell'Armi Imperiali from Venice 1687
Located in Sofia, BG
Rare antique Italian edition of HISTORIA DEGL'AVENIMENTI DELL'ARMI IMPERIALI CONTRO A'RIBELLI, ET OTTOMANI published in Venice at 1687. Italy
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Late 17th Century Antique Italian Books

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Paper

The Etruscans Hardcover Book by Mario Torelli 1st Ed. 2001 Rizzoli
Located in North Hollywood, CA
The Etruscans Hardcover First Edition Oversized Collectible Book.May 4, 2001 by Mario Torelli (Author).The Etruscans have long been a rich source of research and intellectual inquiry as the most significant ethnic group who resided in ancient Etruria, current-day Tuscany and Umbria in Italy. A well-defined polity, the Etruscans were an advanced people whose presence on the Italian peninsula from the 8th to 4th century B.C. had an enormous impact on Roman culture, whose rise of power saw the collapse of Etruscan civilization. * Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rizzoli; First Edition (May 4, 2001) * Language ‏ : ‎ English * Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 672 pages * Dimensions ‏ : ‎9 x 2 x 12.25 inches This book is extensive in its scope; it traces the rise of the Etruscans at the end of the Bronze Age; examines the economic structure of the society; explores the emergence of a powerful aristocracy in the period from 750-650 B.C.; and considers the religious and cultural life of the group. This knowledge has largely been gleaned from a wealth of monuments and material culture which the Etruscans left behind including architecture (the various forms of which indicate familial structure and socio-economic standing, not to mention the larger social structure of Etruscan society) and applied arts, such as bronze objects for both ceremonial use and everyday life, which were produced by an artisan class for a wealthy and demanding aristocracy.Etruscan contributions to the history of art are also of immense importance and are explored in depth in this volume. Etruscan wall...
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Early 20th Century Expressionist Italian Books

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1974 Songs from Shakespeare's Plays
By William Shakespeare
Located in Bath, GB
A fine limited edition work which presents the songs found in the plays of William Shakespeare, including verses found in all of his major works. An uncommon, limited edition work. ...
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1970s Vintage Italian Books

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1776 R.P. Vincentii Houdry, E Societate Jesu Bibliotheca (All 5 Vols Bound as 1)
Located in Victoria, BC
Bound in Vellum, here is a beautiful and oversized book by R.P. Vincentii Houdry entitled E Societate Jesu Bibliotheca Concionatoria Complectens Panegyricas Orationes Sanctorum. Roug...
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1770s Antique Italian Books

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Leather

Marvel Comics Library, X-Men Vol. 1. 1963–1966, Limited Collector's Edition
By TASCHEN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Strangest Super-Heroes of All. The foundation of a pop-culture phenomenon. When Marvel publisher Martin Goodman asked Stan Lee to deliver another new team book for his line of comics, he had no idea he’d be getting something like The X-Men. In fact, nobody could have imagined the extraordinary phenomenon the X-Men would eventually grow into—not Goodman, not Lee, not even the forward-thinking futurist Jack Kirby. What they started out as was a charming, ragtag team of misfits, devised by Lee and Kirby to be mutants—youngsters born with “X-tra” powers thrust upon them not by accidentally crossing paths with cosmic rays or a nuclear blast, but by the fate of birth—led by a no-nonsense professor who trained them to become heroes that could protect the world from menaces, mutant and otherwise. The first years of storytelling laid the foundation for much of what has put the X-Men at the crossroads of comics and popular culture: Hounded by a public that fears and misunderstands them, mutantkind find themselves at the heart of their own civil rights struggle; Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast, and Iceman found safety amongst themselves despite the challenges that set them apart from others in society; and Professor Xavier lined up against his ideological foe, Magneto, who had assembled a Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to take the fight for their self-preservation directly to humankind. Along the way, Lee and Kirby—who were on fire taking comics into the Marvel Age—introduced a menagerie of villains and supporting characters that would become mainstays of Marvel and its lore: the super-powered siblings Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch; the formidable Blob; the unstoppable Juggernaut; the jungle dweller from the Savage Land, Ka-Zar; the demigod from the stars, the Stranger; and Bolivar Trask and his army of mutant-hunting Sentinels. And as Lee and Kirby gave way to new talents so they could move on to new corners of the Marvel Universe, Atlas era art veteran Werner Roth teamed with writing newcomer and future X-Men legend Roy Thomas...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Books

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Aluminum, Foil

Il Mobile Impero in Italia 'Italian Empire Furniture', First Edition
By Enrico Colle
Located in valatie, NY
Il Mobile Impero in Italia, Arredi e Decorazioni d'Interni Dal 1800 al 1843 (Italian Empire Furniture and Interior Decoration from 1800 to 184...
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20th Century Italian Books

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1966 Italian Cinema Today by Gian Luigi Rondi First Edition
Located in North Hollywood, CA
1966 Italian Cinema Today by Rondi Gian Luigi First Edition. Collectible rare 1st Edition large hardcover book. Printed in Italy, first edition of « Italian cinema today » written by Rondi, Gian Luigi, Text By Foreword By Bosley Crowther. A Fine, rare and out of print film books from the silents to the present, this book includes posters, stills and other film memorabilia. This book, printed in Italy in its english version, shows the classic pictorial on Italian movies arranged by 22 directors both famous and unknown. Italian Cinema Today is a book by Gian Luigi Rondi published in 1966. It is a study of the history of Italian cinema from 1952 to 1965, with biographies and analyses of the works of 22 directors, including Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Roberto Rossellini...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Italian Books

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Kishin Shinoyama, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Double Fantasy, Signed Limited Edition
By Kishin Shinoyama, Yoko Ono 1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Partners in life and art. Intimate portraits of John and Yoko. Renowned for his sensual, provocative images, Kishin Shinoyama is one of Japan’s most controversial and acclaimed artists, at once hailed by critics and charged for public indecency. Photographing everything from antiques to porn stars, Shinoyama is particularly recognized for his work with pop icons and celebrities, and the rare, private moments he captures with very public personalities. Through his lens, world-famous faces often reveal an unexpected openness and vulnerability. This capacity for ease and intimacy is perhaps most poignantly expressed in his beautiful series of photographs of Yoko Ono and John Lennon, shot at Ono’s request for the cover and promotion of the couple’s celebrated 1980 album, Double Fantasy...
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Late 20th Century Italian Books

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L'Arte del Legno e del Mobile in Italia, First Edition
By Silvano Colombo
Located in valatie, NY
L'Arte del Legno e del Mobile in Italia, by Silvano Colombo. Busto Arsizio: Bramante Editrice, 1981. First edition hardcover with dust jacket and Brodart cover. 169 color and 440 b&w...
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1980s Vintage Italian Books

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Great Escapes: Italy Angelika Taschen and Christiane Reiter Hardcover Book
By Angelika Taschen, TASCHEN
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Great Escapes: Italy Angelika Taschen and Christiane Reiter Hardcover Book. To travel through Italy is as close as one gets to being in paradise. For centuries, writers, artists, architects, and merchants have been drawn here, inspired by the beauty of Venice, Florence, Naples, and Rome. Countless books, paintings, poems, and sculptures are evidence of its undying appeal, and over the past 60 years, the country has become one of the world’s top travel and holiday destinations. The loveliness of Italy—its architecture, landscapes, culture and food (some of the world’s finest!)—if not eternal, is certainly enduring, and the easygoing and relaxed Italian lifestyle, il dolce far niente, is still unrivaled. Here, some of Italy’s most amazing landscapes are brought to life, like Lake Como (residence of George Clooney), Venice, Florence and Tuscany, the Amalfi Coast, and no less magical, the Aeolian Islands off the coast of Sicily. In these mythical surroundings are legendary hotels full of atmosphere, where novels are set, movies are made, weddings are celebrated, and famous love stories consummated: Villa d’Este on Lake Como, the Hotel Splendido...
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21st Century and Contemporary Country Italian Books

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