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Period: 20th Century
Important Collection of the Late Emil Winter, Parke-Bernet, 1st Ed, 1/15, 1942
Located in valatie, NY
Collection of the Late Emil Winter: Important Barbizon and Other Paintings, Bronzes By Rodin and Barye, French and Italian Furniture, Tapestries, Rugs, Silver, Auction Sale, January ...
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14 Rue du Centre: Neuilly Sur Seine (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This rare book was privately published in 1961 by the then owner of the property Arturo Lopez-Willshaw, only 300 were published to be given to friends. This copy which is number 36, which was a gift to Salvador Dali and his wife.. The Lopez-Willshaw's were member of the cafe society centred around Paris, they were fabulously wealthy and furnished the house with museum quality pieces of furniture and art. He was a particular friend of one of the other members of the cafe society - Baron Alexis de Rede...
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Early American Bottles & Flasks & Other Rare American Glass Collected, Maclay
Located in valatie, NY
Early American Bottles & Flasks and Other Rare American Glass Collected by the Late Alfred B. Maclay. Parke-Bernet NY softcover auction catalog....
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Diego Giacometti by Christian Boutonnet & Rafael Ortiz (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A very good hardback book about the life and work of Diego Giacometti and the works that he did in collaboration with his brother Alberto - much of which was done for Jean-Michel Fra...
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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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American 20th Century Books

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Presenting Stefano Della Bella Stefano Della Bella, by Phyllis Massar, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Presenting Stefano Della Bella by Stefano Della Bella, by Phyllis Dearborn Massar. Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 141 pp. Profusely...
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El gran llibre del Liceu Hardcover Book by Roger Alier
Located in North Hollywood, CA
El gran llibre del Liceu by Roger Alier. Publisher ‏ : ‎ Carroggio (January 1, 1999). Language ‏ : ‎ Spanish/ Catalan. Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 367 pages. The Gran Teatre del Liceu (Catalan:...
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Spanish Baroque 20th Century Books

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The Borzoi Poe, Two Volume Boxed Set
Located in Bradenton, FL
The Borzoi Poe, two volume boxed set. The complete poems and stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Published in 1982 by Alfred A. Knopf of New York.
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Gods Delight, the Human Figure in Classical Bronze, First Edition
By David Gordon Mitten, Arielle P. Kozloff
Located in valatie, NY
The Gods delight, the Human figure in Classical bronze. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art and Indiana University Press, 1988. First edition paper back. 373 pp. An extensive cata...
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American 20th Century Books

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Ida, A Novel by Gertrude Stein, Stated 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Ida A Novel by Gertrude Stein. New York: Random House, 1941. Stated 1st Ed hardcover. Gertrude Stein wanted Ida to be known in two ways: as a novel about a woman in the age of celebr...
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At Auction Charles & Ray Eames (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
The catalogue was produced to market Wright's Eames design auction on April 8, 2010. The catalogue captures the spirit of playfulness for which the Eames are renowned. Integrating Ho...
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Major-General Abner Doubleday & Major-General John Robinson in the Civil War
Located in valatie, NY
Major-General Abner Doubleday and Brevet Major-General John C. Robinson in the Civil War [In Memoriam: Abner Doubleday 1819-1893 and John Cleveland Robinson 1817-1897]. Published by the State of New York, J.B. Lyon Co. Albany NY, 1918. In many of the world's military establishments, a brevet was a warrant giving a commissioned officer a higher rank title as a reward for gallantry or meritorious conduct but may not confer the authority, precedence, or pay of real rank. An officer so promoted was referred to as being brevetted. Abner Doubleday 1819-1893 was a career United States Army officer and Union major general in the American Civil War. He fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter...
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Meubles et Ensembles Bretons by Stany Gauthier, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Meubles et Ensembles Bretons by Stany Gauthier. Ch. Massin Paris, 1950. 40 b&w plates. 12 page introduction followed by b/w photo plate section of 36 pages. Part of 'Collection de l'...
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French Vintage 20th Century Books

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English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection, First Edition
By Anthony Ray
Located in valatie, NY
English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection Ashmolean Museum Oxford by Anthony Ray. Boston: Boston Book and Art Shop, 1968. Stated first American edition hardcover...
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English 20th Century Books

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Pair of Catalogs of Highly Important English Silver, Property of Fay Plohn, NY
Located in valatie, NY
Pair of catalogs of highly important English Silver, the Property of Mrs. Fay Plohn. Parts One and Two, by Sotheby's & Co. Includes two separate catalogs, parts 1 and 2. 1st Ed hardc...
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"Meubles Modernes en Metal" Folio Presented by Pierre Pinsard
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A small hardboard folio in original covers, measuring 9.5" x 6.5". Title page plus six pages of text and two page list of plates, which is still uncut. There are 24 plates in black a...
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Sotheby's the Jewels & Objects of Vertu of Clare Boothe Luce, 1st Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's the jewels and objects of Vertu of The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce New York, 4/19/88. 1st Edition hardcover with dust jacket. With 117 lots...
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American Vintage 20th Century Books

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Pewter in America, Its Makers and Their Marks, Three Volumes in One
By Ledlie Irwin Laughlin
Located in valatie, NY
Pewter in America, Its makers and their marks, three volumes in one by Ledlie Irwin Laughlin, New York: American Legacy Press, 1981. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 276 pp....
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Carlo Scarpa: Visions in Glass, 1926-1962 Christie's (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A Private European Collection New York 4th May 2017 Before Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) began designing some of Italy’s most celebrated modernist buildings, he spent more than 20 years ...
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Sotheby's: Property from the Collection of the Late Gilbert Verney, 1979
Located in valatie, NY
Property from the Collection of the Late Gilbert Verney: At Bennington, New Hampshire, Including Property Removed from His Residence on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Softcover first edition. American, English and Continental Furniture, Decorations and Clocks, Prints, Watercolors and Paintings of Sporting and Marine Interest, Including a Rare Complete Set of Federal Migratory Bird Duck Stamp Prints...
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SYMONDS - The Life Of Benvenuto Cellini - 2 vols. - IN A FINE FULL CALF BINDING
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: SYMONDS, John Addington - translator. TITLE: The Life Of Benvenuto Cellini Written By Himself. PUBLISHER: NY: Brentano's, 1929. DESCRIPTION: 2 vols, 9-1/16" x 6-1/8", num...
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The New Pewter Marks and Old Pewter Ware by Major C.A. Markham, 2nd Ed 1928
Located in valatie, NY
The New Pewter Marks and Old Pewter Ware by Major C.A. Markham. Published by Reeves and Turner, London, 1928. 2nd Ed hardcover with protective mylar cover. Profusely illustrated with...
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Russian Furniture: The Golden Age 1780-1840 1st Ed by Antoine Chenevière
By Antoine Cheneviere
Located in valatie, NY
Russian Furniture: The Golden Age, 1780-1840 by Antoine Chenevière. New York: Vendome Press, 1988. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 312 pp. This beautiful book is a comprehensive and chronological study of the development of Russian furniture style during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. During the late 18th century there was a burst of palace and grandiose apartment construction that were filled with magnificent furniture...
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Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, Robert v. Rozelle, Stated 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, Edited by Robert V. Rozelle. Published by The Dallas Museum of Arts, 1985, University of Texas. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. A cata...
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Vasily Kandinsky, from Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus, 1910-1925 (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This catalogue accompanies a major exhibition devoted to Vasily Kandinsky. It explores the evolution of his work from the Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus year...
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Sotheby's Art at Auction-1988-89 by Sally Liddell, 'Editor', Jasper Johns Cover
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's Art at Auction-1988-89 by Sally Liddell, (editor), Jasper Johns Cover. Harper & Row, NY. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Several hundred be...
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Country House Remembered, Recollections of Life Between the Wars, 1st Ed
By Merlin Waterson
Located in valatie, NY
The Country House Remembered, Recollections of Life Between the Wars by Merlin Waterson. London: Rutledge & Kegan Paul. First edition hardcover with dust jacket, 1985. 256 pp. The bo...
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English 20th Century Books

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Hudson River And Its Painters by John K. Howat
Located in valatie, NY
Hudson River And Its Painters by John K. Howat. Published by American Legacy Press, 1983. Hardcover with dust jacket. Foreword by Carl Carmer, preface by James Biddle. Contains works...
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The Stars, The Personalities Who Made The Movies By Richard Schickel, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Stars, The Personalities Who Made The Movies By Richard Schickel, Designed by Allen Hurlburt. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket. Bonanza Books, New York, 1962. With 400 b&...
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Collecting Antique Metalware by Evan Perry
Located in valatie, NY
Collecting antique metalware by Evan Perry. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, USA, 1974. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. With...
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Les Bronzes Dores Francais du Xviii Siecle by Pierre Verlet
Located in valatie, NY
Les Bronzes Dores Francais du Xviii Siecle by Pierre Verlet. Grands Manuels Picard, Paris, 1999. Second edition hardcover with dust jacket. A great book on a previously little publis...
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French 20th Century Books

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White Pillars Early Life & Architecture Of The Lower Mississippi Valley, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
White Pillars: Early Life & Architecture Of The Lower Mississippi Valley Written by and Illustrated by J. Frazer Smith. New York: William Helburn, 1941. 2...
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Goodbye Baby & Amen: A Saraband for the Sixties (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
by David Bailey & Peter Evans Bailey and Evan's biographical portraits of the cultural figures that defined the swinging sixties, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Marianne Faithfull, Brigitte Bardot, Andy Warhol, Michael Caine, Terence Stamp, Peter Sellers, Julie Driscoll, Twiggy and Mary Quant. Portraits of the artists, writers, fashion designers & models, actors & actresses, directors, musicians & pop-stars in London (and some New York) in the Swinging '60s, including The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Brigitte Bardot, Twiggy, Julie Christie, Catherine Deneuve, Julie Driscoll, Marianne Faithfull, Mia Farrow, Raquel Welch, Christine Keeler, David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Bill Brandt, Jane Birkin, Jeanne Moreau, Mary Quant, Michael Caine, Penelope Tree...
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Catalogue of Commodes by Lucy Wood, First Edition
By Lucy Wood
Located in valatie, NY
Catalogue of Commodes by Lucy Wood. London: HMSO Publications, 1994. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 367 pp. An outstanding book of forty-three commodes in The Lady Lever A...
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English 20th Century 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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A. G. Rizzoli, Architect of Visions
Located in Bradenton, FL
A. G. Rizzoli - Architect of Magnificent Visions by Jo Farb Hernandez, John Beardsley and Roger Cardinal. Hardcover with dustjacket. 94 illustrations with 36 plates in full color. 13...
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John Marin by John Marin, 1st Ed
By John Marin 1
Located in valatie, NY
John Marin by John Marin. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1970. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. A look at this important American artist. Edited by Cleve Gray. Includes numero...
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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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Italian Vintage 20th Century 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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Kitchens by Chris Casson Madden
By Chris Casson Madden
Located in valatie, NY
Kitchens: Information and Inspiration for Making Kitchens the Heart of the Home. New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 1993. Hardcover with dust jack...
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Colonial Williamsburg by Phillip Kopper, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Colonial Williamsburg by Phillip Kopper. Harry N. Abrams/The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, New York, NY, 1986. Philip Kopper follows the history of the magnificent restoration of...
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Paintings Drawings and Sculpture in the Phoenix Art Museum Collection, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Paintings drawings and sculpture in the Phoenix Art Museum collection by James Harithas, Compiler. Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 1965. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 226 pages. Of...
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Albrecht Dürer's La Passione, by Officina Bodoni Press
Located in Middletown, NY
A lush LIMITED EDITION of Albrech Dürer's woodcuts illustrating the Passion of Christ, printed by OFFICINA BODONI in Verona. Albrecht Dürer. La Passione. Verona: Officina Bodoni...
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Italian 20th Century Books

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History of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry by Charles H. Kirk
Located in valatie, NY
History of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry Which Was Recruited and Known as the Anderson Cavalry in the Rebellion of 1861-1865 by Charles H. Kirk. Reprint of the 1906 or...
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Exteriors by Inger McCabe Elliott, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Exteriors by Inger McCabe Elliott. Published by Clarkson Potter, 1993. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Interior decoration is only one way of expressing a personal sense of...
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Intimate Visions the Photography of Dorothy Norman, by Miles Barth First Edition
By Miles Barth Norman
Located in valatie, NY
Intimate Visions: The Photography of Dorothy Norman by Miles Barth. Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1993. She was best known for her long association wi...
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Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of East Asian Art from New York Private Collections
Located in valatie, NY
Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of East Asian Art from New York Private Collections, with contributions by Richard M. Barnhart and Christine M.E. Guth Photography by Amy G. Poster. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket and a personal note from the author. Some of the finest private collections of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean art are found in New York City. This illustrated book explores the riches found in these collections, which include some of the world's finest and most important paintings, calligraphy...
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Anatomy for Interior Designers and How to Talk to a Client by Francis Schroeder
Located in valatie, NY
‘Anatomy for Interior Designers’ and ‘How to Talk to a Client’, by Francis de N. Schroeder. Whitney Publications Inc, New York, 1954. 2nd Ed, 2nd printing hardcover no dust jacket. A...
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North American Vintage 20th Century Books

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Williamsburg before and After, the Rebirth of Virginia's Colonial Capital
Located in Bradenton, FL
Williamsburg Before and After: The Rebirth of Virginia's Colonial Capital by George Humphrey Yetter. Hardcover book with dustjacket. Published in 1994 by The Colonial Williamsburg Fo...
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American Colonial 20th Century Books

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Quest for the Future by A. E. Van Vogt, First Edition BCE
Located in valatie, NY
Quest for the Future by A. E. Van Vogt. Ace Books, New York, 1970. First edtion hardcover BCE with dust jacket. He was one of the most popular and prolifi...
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Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
By R.A. Skelton, George D. Painter, Thomas E. Marston
Located in valatie, NY
The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. First edition third printing hardcover with dust jacket. 291 pp. A historical cartography of the Vinl...
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Illustrated Letters - Artists and Writers Correspond
Located in Bradenton, FL
Illustrated Letters - Artists and Writers Correspond. Edited by Roselyne De Ayala and Jean-Pierre Gueno, foreword by Francine Prose. Hardcover book with dustjacket, published in 1999...
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French 20th Century Books

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Compilation of Works of Art and Other Objects, United States Capitol, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Compilation of Works of Art and other Objects in the United States Capitol by Joint Committee on the Library. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1965. 1st Ed hardcover no d...
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Impressionist Masterpieces by John House
Located in Bradenton, FL
Impressionist Masterpieces, National Gallery of Art, Washington by John House. Hardcover book with dustjacket. First edition, published in 1985 by Hugh Lau...
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Japanese 20th Century Books

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Horn of Africa by Philip Caputo Signed Numbered Limited Edition, Specially Bound
Located in valatie, NY
Horn of Africa by Philip Caputo, signed, numbered, limited edition, specially bound #167/250. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1980. Oatmeal cloth ...
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Kazak Carpets of the Caucasus by Raoul Tschebull
Located in valatie, NY
Kazak: Carpets of the Caucasus by Raoul Tschebull. Near Eastern Art Research Center, 1971. 1st Ed paperback. Illustrated with 23 color plates and 17 b/w. With an introduction by Jose...
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Picasso and the Age of Iron by Carmen Gimenez, Curator, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Picasso and the Age of Iron by Carmen Gimenez, Curator; Essays by Dore Ashton and Francisco Calvo Serraller. Published by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1993. 1st Ed Exhibit...
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Sotheby's, Important American Furniture of Doris and Richard M. Seidlitz
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's; Important American Furniture, The Collection of Doris and Richard M. Seidlitz. Sotheby's: New York, 1988. Unpaginated softcover. The single-owner sale includes a group of rare 18th century Newport furniture...
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