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Joaquin Torres-Garcia Artist's Book "Raison et Nature"
Located in New York, NY
"Raison et Nature," an illustrated book in folio format by renowned Uruguayan modernist artist Joaquin Torres-Garcia. Published by Editions Iman in Paris in 1932. 45 loose pages insi...
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French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Burlap, Paper
Frantisek Kupka Quatre Histoires de Blanc et Noir
Located in New York, NY
Quatre Histoires de Blanc et Noir, a book by Frantisek Kupka comprising title page with small woodcut, two leaves of text (one in English, one in French), 25 woodcuts on wove paper n...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Francisco Artigas, Amazing Large Format Book on Mexican Modern Architecture
Located in Mexico, DF
A hugely interesting and rare large-format book showcasing the work of Francisco Artigas (1916-1999), a self-taught Mexican architect, designer and constructor of private urban and v...
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Mexican Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Books
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Other
Anon, Secret Memoirs of The Courts of Europe
Located in New York, NY
24 volumes.
From the 16th-19th century.
Bound in full blue Morocco with leather and silk doublers, all edges gilt, gilt on covers and Spines, printed on Japanese Vellum, limited ...
Category
20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Charles Dickens, The Cricket On The Hearth
Located in New York, NY
A tale of home. With colored illustrations by C.E. Brock, Bound in full vellum and hand-painted on front cover and spine by Cedric Chivers, Top edges gilt.
Published: London: J.M...
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Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
French Art Books, 2 Volumes, 1932
Located in Austin, TX
L'Art des origins a Nos Jours are two beautiful French leather bound books published by Editions Larousse, Paris 1932, relating the history of the arts. Hundreds of engravings and il...
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French Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Paper, Leather
Edward Fitzgerald, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Located in New York, NY
1 volume.
Colored illustrations by Gilbert James.
Bound in full blue calf by Riviere, all edges gilt, raised bands, gilt on covers and spine.
Published: London, A.& C. Black, 1...
Category
Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Mid-20th Century Siddur with Silver Book Binding by Bezalel School Jerusalem
Located in New York, NY
Sterling Silver book binding with the original Siddur by Bezalel school, Jerusalem, Israel, circa 1950.
On the front binding is a medallion showing Moses carrying the Tablets of the ...
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Israeli 20th Century Books
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Silver
A.J. Munnings, R.A. Pictures of Horses and English Life
Located in New York, NY
1 volume.
A.J. Munnings, R.A. Pictures Of Horses and English Life.
Limited to 250 copies, this is #149. Signed by Munnings. Bound in full vellum, top edges gilt, gilt letteri...
Category
Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Edward Fitzgerald, Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam
Located in New York, NY
1 volume.
Bound in full red Morocco with elaborate floral gilt on covers and spine, top edges gilt, limited to 88 copies on paper, this is #71.
Published: London: Essex House...
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20th Century Books
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Leather
Charles Dickens, The Chimes
Located in New York, NY
1 volume.
A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Range an Old Year Out And a New Year In.
With colored illustrations by C.E. Brock. Bound in full vellum and hand-painted on
Front...
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Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln
Located in New York, NY
4 volumes.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1858) with illustrations.
“Manuscript Edition”. Volumes one with a manuscript by Beveridge. Bound in 3/4 red Morocco, cloth boards, top edges gil...
Category
20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
Located in New York, NY
7 volumes.
Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Rebound in Full purple Morocco by Temple Bookbinders, smooth back, vellum title/author label on spine small vellum date label to foot, t...
Category
20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
"Crusade in Europe" Signed by Dwight Eisenhower, First Edition, 1948
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. New York: Doubleday, 1948. State first trade edition, in original dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by General Eisenhower. Presented in custo...
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American Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
How to Construct Rietveld Furniture Book
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rietveld Meubels om zelf te maken - How to construct Rietveld Furniture, 1986.
First Edition. Published by Academia Bruylant.
Book with facsimile reproductions of work-drawings...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Set of Six Midcentury Leather Bound Swedish Books of Knowledge, Dated 1949
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a library or office with this elegant set of 6 antique books; printed in Sweden, circa 1950, each book titled "Book of Knowledge" is embellished with leather bound and gilt ...
Category
French 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Two 1966 Volumes of Original Water Color Painting of Birds by John James Audubon
Located in Atlanta, GA
20th century Audubon 2 volume hardcover book set in slipcase, published in 1966 by American Heritage Publishing Co., New York, "The Original Water Color Paintings by John James Audub...
Category
American Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Paint, Paper
Vintage Tom Wesselmann Avant Garde ‘Magazine’, 1968
Located in New York, NY
Vintage 1968 issue of Avant Garde Magazine with a superb, highly frameable cover illustration by American pop art icon, Tom Wesselmann. Celebrated within this issue is the artists we...
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Post-Modern Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Eames Design Hardcover Book
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Eames design hardcover book
The work of the office of Charles and Ray Eames.
(Eames Design is the definitive study of the work of the extraordinarily prolific husband-and-wife team...
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Japanese Mid-Century Modern Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
The Way We Lived Then Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper Hardcover Book
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper
(When Dominick Dunne lived and worked in Hollywood, he had it all: a beautiful family, a glamorous career, and the...
Category
American Hollywood Regency 20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
"The White House Years" by Henry Kissinger, Signed Easton Press Edition, 1996
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Kissinger, Henry. The White House Years. Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1996. Signed by Henry Kissinger. Special Easton Press Limited Edition numbered 1,490. Two-volumes. Housed in match...
Category
American 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Lord Macaulay, The Works
Located in New York, NY
12 volumes.
History of England, speeches and poems and essays. Bound in 3/4 tan calf by Hatchards, cloth boards, top edges gilt, raised bands, gilt panels. Frontispieces.
Publi...
Category
20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Located in New York, NY
Illustrated in color by W. Russell Flint.
Bound in full tree calf by Riviere, all edges gilt, raised bands, ornate gilt on spine.
Published: London: Jonathan Cape & The Medici So...
Category
Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Works
Located in New York, NY
Edited by James A. Harrison.
Bound in 3/4 red morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt, raised bands, gilt panels.
Frontispiece in each volume.
Category
Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Guy C. Lee & Francis N. Thorpe, The History of North America
Located in New York, NY
20 volumes
The History of North America: Titles included: Discovery and Exploration, The Indians In Historic Times, Colonization of the South, The Revolution, The Louisiana Purcha...
Category
Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
William H. Prescott, The Works
Located in New York, NY
22 volumes.
William H. Prescott, (1796-1859). Works. “Aztec Edition” Limited to 250 copies, this is #93
Titles included: Conquest of Mexico, Ferdinand and Isabella, Charles Th...
Category
Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
George Eliot, Works
Located in New York, NY
“Arbury Edition”
Bound in 3/4 slate grey morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt, raised bands, floral gilt on spines. Illustrated with numerous photogravure Plates, with George E...
Category
Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Richard Burton's Arabian Nights
Located in New York, NY
17 volumes.
The Book of The Thousand Nights and One.
“Connoisseur Edition” limited to 100 sets, this is #14. Bound in 3/4 green morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt, raised ...
Category
Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels
Located in New York, NY
26 vols
“The Connoisseurs Edition” limited to 180 sets, this is #27.
Bound in full green Morocco, all edges gilt, raised bands, ornate gilt of Thistles and Crown on covers and ...
Category
20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West
Located in New York, NY
4 volumes.
Limited to 200 sets, this is #181, in the first volume of each set is inserted a sheet of the Author’s Original Manuscript.
Bound in full dark green Morocco (Spines ...
Category
20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England
Located in New York, NY
Agnes Strickland (1796-1874) was an English historical writer and poet. She is particularly remembered for her Lives of the Queens of England.
16 volumes. Bound in full green moroc...
Category
American Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Charles Lamb, The Life and Works
Located in New York, NY
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his si...
Category
American Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
John Keats, The Poems
Located in New York, NY
2 volumes
Bound in full blue Morocco by Bayntun, all edges gilt, raised bands, gilt on covers
and spines.
Published: London: Chatto & Windus. Florence Press 1924.
Category
Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Dasent, A Collection of Popular Tales From The Norse And North German
Located in New York, NY
15 volumes.
(Norrcena) George W.Dasent. A Collection of Popular Tales From The Norse
And North German. Viking Edition, limited to 650 copies, this is #5.
Bound in full wine ...
Category
Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
James F. Cooper, Complete Works
Located in New York, NY
32 volumes.
“Red Rover Edition”.
Bound in 3/4 tan Morocco, cloth boards, top edges gilt, raised bands, gilt panels, Illustrated.
Published: New York & London: G.P. Putnam’s...
Category
20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
'Greek and Latin Classics' Antique Gems
Located in New York, NY
12 volumes
Titles included: Lucian Dialogues of Courtesans, Lucius The Ass, Ovid, Longus Daphne and Chloe, Theocritus, Idylis, Horace, Tatius etc.
Bound in full red Morocco wit...
Category
Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
T.W. Rolleston, The Tale Of Lohengrin
Located in New York, NY
1 volume.
T.W. Rolleston.
The Tale Of Lohengrin. Knight Of The Swan After The Drama of Richard Wagner.
Illustrated in color by Willy Pogany. Bound in full blue Morocco wit...
Category
Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Thomas Nelson Page's The Works
Located in New York, NY
18 volumes.
Thomas Nelson Page(Lawyer & American Author) 1853-1922. The Works. Limited to 230 sets with a portrait on Ruisdael Hand-Made Paper with extra illustrations in color. ...
Category
20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
The Works of Rudyard Kilping
Located in New York, NY
Thirty-one volumes.
First published in 25 volumes but eventually grew to 31 volumes as Kipling continued to write.
Signed by Ruyard Kipling in volume one on the front title p...
Category
20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
James R. Lowell, The Complete Writings
Located in New York, NY
James R. Lowell
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1904.
Sixteen volumes. Octavo, three-quarter dark green morocco, gilt spines, top edges gilt. Illustrated with steel portraits and phot...
Category
English 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Oscar Wilde, the Writings
Located in New York, NY
Uniform Edition
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him b...
Category
20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Alfred DeMusset's The Writings
Located in New York, NY
10 volumes
Bound in 3/4 wine Morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt
Raised bands, ornate floral gilt on spines, illustrated, colored frontispiece.
Published by Edwin D. Hill...
Category
Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Edward Fitzgerald, Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam
Located in New York, NY
1 volume.
Edward Fitzgerald. Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam. Bound in full red Morocco by
Riviere and Son, front cover with a central oval panel of Green Morocco with Eve, The serpent a...
Category
European Art Nouveau Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
"The Winning of the West" by Theodore Roosevelt, Signed, Four Volumes, 1908
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Roosevelt, Theodore, The Winning of the West. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1908. Signed by Theodore Roosevelt. Early Allegheny Edition. Four-volume set. Housed in custom slipca...
Category
American Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Black With Gold Decoration Cast Iron Book Press, circa 1900
Located in Hudson, NY
Black cast iron book press with gold decoration. Square base. Screw mechanism with ball shaped handles, circa 1900. Pressing plate holds 9" x 11.5" book or object to be flattened. Th...
Category
Unknown Aesthetic Movement Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Iron
Ferrari Collector's Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A production unparalleled in scale, this massive tome offers unrestricted access to hundreds of photographs from the Ferrari Archives and from private collectors, to reveal the full ...
Category
20th Century Books
Materials
Other
Antique Mexican Photo Album of Secretaria De Maniobras Y Guerra from Porfiriato
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Dated December 1901, we offer this rare antique Mexican photo album of Secretaria de Maniobras y Guerra from Porfiriato age, contain 16 plates of war maneuvers of Porfiriato period, ...
Category
Mexican Folk Art Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Weegee's New York Photographs, 1935-1960
Located in London, GB
Weegee's New York: Photographs, 1935-1960.
Published by Schirmer/Mosel, Germany, 1982. First Edition hardback in dust jacket.
335 pages of stark black and white photographs by le...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Francisco Hidalgo PARIS First Edition 1976
Located in London, GB
Paris by Francisco Hidalgo. Puplished AGEP, Paris, France, 1976. First Edition.
Sumptuous and stylish photo documentary of Paris by Spanish-born photographer Francisco Hidalgo, who ...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Benvenuto Cellini, The Life
Located in New York, NY
2 volumes.
Written by Himself. Translated by John Addington Symonds.
Illustrated. Bound in full orange Morocco by Brentano’s, top edges gilt, raised bands, ornate gilt on spines ...
Category
Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Edward Fitzgerald, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Located in New York, NY
1 volume.
Edward Fitzgerald. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Bound in full red Morocco with elaborate floral on covers, gilt spine, top edges gilt. Limited to 88 copies, this is #71.
...
Category
Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Claude H. Van Tyne, The Causes Of The War of Independence
Located in New York, NY
Extra illustrated.
Bound in 3/4 green Morocco by Root & Son, cloth boards, top edges gilt, raised bands, Gilt panels. Hand-colored frontispiece.
Published: Boston & New York: ...
Category
Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Music Score Holder, USA, 1912
Located in Milan, IT
A music score holder, made out of oak wood and iron, with tripod legs, USA, circa 1912.
Category
American Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Iron
G. Maspero, History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria
Located in New York, NY
13 volumes.
Containing over 1200 colored plates and illustrations. “Connoisseur Edition” Limited to 200 copies, This is #129. Printed on Japanese Vellum, Frontispiece in 2 states(...
Category
Antique 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, Easton Press Collector's First Edition, 1978
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. Norwalk: Easton Press, 1978. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, original leather bound with 22-karat gold accents and titles.
Presented is ...
Category
American Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad, Genuine Leather Bound Collector's Edition, 1987
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Conrad, Joseph. Lord Jim. Norwalk: Easton Press, 1978. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, original leather bound with 22-karat gold accents and titles.
Presented is the Ea...
Category
American Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Mona Lisa’s Mustache by T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings
Located in Stamford, CT
1947 First Edition hardcover Mona Lisa’s Mustache by T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings.
Hardcover with as found Mylar covering.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
"The Second World War," Chartwell Edition by Winston Churchill
Located in Austin, TX
The Second World War (Chartwell Edition-United States) by Winston Churchill from Houghton-Mifflin Company, Boston.
A deluxe edition of Winston Churchill's six-volume memoir, The S...
Category
American 20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
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