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Print Price Index 92: 1990-1991 Auction Season by Peter Falk
Located in valatie, NY
Print price index 92: 1990-1991 auction season by Peter Falk. Sound view press, Ct., 1991. Hardcover no dust cover. 1,024pp. In addition to art prints there...
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American 20th Century Books
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Table Talk of W.H. Auden by Alan Ansen, Limited Ed 1/150, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Table Talk of W.H. Auden by Alan Ansen. New York: Sea Cliff Press, 1989. Limited Ed 1/150, 1st Ed softcover bound in Bemboka Cotton. 119 pp. In New York, between 1946 and 1948, the scholar and poet Alan Ansen made rapid notes of Auden's inimitable conversations. This book is a record of Auden's private, offhand and sometimes wayward remarks and opinions about art, literature, music, politics, religion and sexuality. With tipped-in sepia photo...
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American 20th Century Books
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Moments Preserved by Irving Penn (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book - "Moments Preserved" is photographer Irving Penn's first book, it is an overview of of a very busy career which began when he was hired to be an assistant to the art direc...
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20th Century Books
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English Furniture With Furniture of Other Countries in the Untermeyer Collection
Located in valatie, NY
English Furniture With Some Furniture of Other Countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection by John Gloat. London: Thames & Hudson, 1958. First edition hardcover, no dust jacket. 358+...
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English 20th Century Books
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Paper
Historical book "Die Frau als Hausärztin" from 1918 - a unique collector's item
Located in Praha, CZ
I am offering for sale a rare copy of the book "Die Frau als Hausärztin" by Dr. med. Anna Fischer-Dückelmann, published in 1918. This historical medical handbook for women provides v...
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German Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Books
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Adam Silver 1765-1795 by Robert Rowe, 1st Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Adam Silver 1765-1795 by Robert Rowe. New York: Tapliger Publishing Co., Inc. 1965. First American edition hardcover with no dust jacket. 94 pages of text and additional pages with 9...
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American 20th Century Books
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Paper
Large Book Box in a French Binding Style C. 1950s
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Large book box in the style of a French binding, 2-3/4" x 8-3/4" x 13-1/8". internally lined in a maroon suede. Internal dimensions are 2-1/8" x 7-1/2" x 11-3/8".
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20th Century Books
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Art of the 20th Century Vol. I Hardcover Taschen 2012
By TASCHEN
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Art of the 20th Century. Published by TASCHEN, 2012.Art of the 20th Century, Vol. I, is a comprehensive guide to art of the 20th century.Hardback with dust cover. Beautiful hardcover...
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German Expressionist 20th Century Books
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Paper
Fernand Léger, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1st Ed
By Carolyn Lanchner
Located in valatie, NY
Fernand Léger by Carolyn Lachner. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1998. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 303 pp. A book on the works of Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (1881-...
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American 20th Century Books
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Paper
"Wrought Iron and It's Decorative Use" by Maxwell Ayrton & Arnold Silcock
By Maxwell Ayrton, Arnold Silcock
Located in valatie, NY
Wrought iron and its decorative use by Maxwell Ayrton and Arnold Silcock. New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1929. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 196 pp. An informative reference book...
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American 20th Century Books
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Paper
Gino Sarfatti by Frederic Leibovitz (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Published in 2008, this is an exhibition catalogue from the Galerie Christine Diegoni which illustrates many of his most famous lighting designs....
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20th Century Books
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Great Gardens of Britain by Peter Coats
By Peter Coats
Located in valatie, NY
Great Gardens of Britain by Peter Coats. London: Spring Books, 1970. Hardcover with dust jacket. 287 pp. A handsome book on the diversity and quality of British gardens. The book showcases thirty-eight great gardens including natural gardens, wild gardens, formal and historical gardens, terraced gardens, and rhododendron gardens. Included are Newby Hall, Mereworth, Pusey, Sezincote, Powis, Logan, Great Dixter...
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English 20th Century Books
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Paper
Rockwell's Complete Guide to Successful Gardening
By Frederick F. Rockwell, Esther C. Grayson
Located in valatie, NY
The Rockwell's Complete Guide to Successful Gardening. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. First edition second printing hardcover with dust jacket....
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American 20th Century Books
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Paper
Parke-Bernet Galleries: the Walter Chrysler Jr. Collection of English Furniture
Located in valatie, NY
Parke Berner Galleries: The Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Collection of English Furniture Part One. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1960. First edition hardcover with no dust jacket...
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American 20th Century Books
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Paper
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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Italian 20th Century Books
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Paper
Drawings and Digressions by Larry Rivers, First Edition
By Larry Rivers
Located in valatie, NY
Drawings and Digressions by Larry Rivers. Clarkson N. Potter, New York, 1979. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 263 pp. Foreword by John Ashbery with 285 illustrations and ph...
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American 20th Century Books
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Paper
"Helen Hayes On Reflection An Autobiography, " Signed
By Hellen Hayes
Located in valatie, NY
Helen Hayes on Reflection An Autobiography. New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1968. Signed third printing hardcover with dust jacket. The autobiography of Helen Hayes that was wr...
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American 20th Century Books
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Paper
Faberge In America, Exhibition Publication 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Faberge In America by Geza Von Habsburg. Thames and Hudson, New York, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1996. First edition paperback published for the exhibition organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and made possible by Faberge Co. with the exhibition opening at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art from February 16 to April 28, 1996 and traveling to the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and concluding at the Cleveland Museum of Art on May 11, 1997. 366 pp. 368 color plates. The story of the most important American Faberge clients and collectors, that also places the social history of American collecting...
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American 20th Century Books
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Paper
Gli Arredi Francesi by Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, First Edition
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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Italian 20th Century Books
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Paper
"Stone Echoes" A Catalogue Raisonne Book of Francoise Gilot's Original Prints
Located in San Diego, CA
"Stone Echoes" A catalogue raisonne book of Francoise Gilot's original prints signed by author, Mel Yoakum, circa 1995. The book is in good con...
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American 20th Century Books
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Paper
Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Color-Prints by Basil Stewart
By Basil Stewart
Located in valatie, NY
Subjects Portrayed in Japanese color-prints by Basil Stewart. London: Degan Paul, Trench, Turner and Co. Ltd., 1922. Second edition hardcover with no dust jacket as issued. 380 pp. A...
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British 20th Century Books
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Paper
George N. Barnard: Photographer of Sherman's Campaign First Edition
By Keith F. Davis
Located in valatie, NY
George N. Barnard: Photographer of Sherman's Campaign by Keith F. Davis and George N. Barnard. Univ of New Mexico, 1990. First edition paperback with dust jac...
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American 20th Century Books
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Paper
Extremely Rare Bauhaus Book BYT by Václav Petr, Ladislav Sutnar, 1934
Located in Praha, CZ
- 1934
- ilustrated by L.Sutnar
- Václav Petr
- Pavel Janák, A. Heythum, L. Žák, K. Honzík, F. Zelenka, H.Kucerová
- 80 pages
- few drawings by penci...
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Bauhaus Vintage 20th Century Books
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Paper
Machine Age in America: 1918-1941 by Richard Guy Wilson, 1st Edition
By Richard Guy Wilson
Located in valatie, NY
The Machine Age in America: 1918-1941 by Richard Guy Wilson. The Brooklyn Museum in association with Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1986. 1st edition hardcover with dust jacket. Publishe...
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American Vintage 20th Century Books
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Paper
New England Past, First Edition by Norman Kotker
By Norman Kotker
Located in valatie, NY
New England Past by Norman Kotker and Jane Sugden. Harry N. Abrams, NY, 1981. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 258 pp., with over 200 gravure reproductions. This collection ...
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American Vintage 20th Century Books
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Paper
Reginald Marsh, Etchings, Engravings, Lithographs, First Edition
By Norman Sasowsky
Located in valatie, NY
Reginald Marsh, etchings, engravings, lithographs by Norman Sasowsky. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1956. First edition hardcover no dust jacket. 62 pp. An exhibition catalogue fro...
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American 20th Century Books
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Paper
American Frontier Life, Early Western Painting and Prints
Located in valatie, NY
American Frontier Life, Early Western Painting and Prints. New York: Portland House, 1989. Hardcover with dust jacket. 202 pp. A coffee table book...
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American 20th Century Books
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Paper
Sienese Painting, From Its Origins to the Fifteenth Century, First Edition Book
By Bruce Cole
Located in valatie, NY
Sienes Painting, From Its Origins to the Fifteenth Century by Bruce Cole. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1980. Stated first edition hardcover with dust jacket. 243 pp. The history of painting in Siena from its beginnings of the 13th century to the 15th century. The Sienese style was an artistic language of power, inventiveness and beauty. It featured a highly decorative use of color, the construction of complex space and a particular emotional expression. Artist's include Simone Martini...
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American 20th Century Books
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Paper
Uncommon Clay: The Life and Works of Augustus Saint Gardens 1st Ed
By Burke Wilkinson
Located in valatie, NY
Uncommon Clay: The Life and Works of Augustus Saint Gardens by Burke Wilkinson. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, San Diego, CA, 1985. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. ...
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American Vintage 20th Century Books
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Paper
Art Pottery of America by Lucile Henske, First Edition
By Lucile Henzke
Located in valatie, NY
Art Pottery of America by Lucile Henske. Exton: Schiffer Publishing Limited, 1982. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 368 pp. A study of American art pottery produced from the...
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American 20th Century Books
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Paper
The Traditional Arts of Japan by H. Boger, First Edititon
Located in valatie, NY
The Traditional Arts of Japan by H. Boger. Garden City: Doubleday and Co., 1964. First edititon hardcover lacking slipcase. With 369 black and white photographs, 26 color reproductio...
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American 20th Century Books
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Paper
Victorian Furniture by Simon Jervis
By Simon Jervis
Located in valatie, NY
Victorian Furniture by Simon Jervis. London: Ward Lock and Company, 1968. 96 pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Includes works by William Morris, as w...
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English 20th Century Books
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Paper
Candleholders in America by Joseph T. Butler 1650-1900, 1st Edition
By Joseph T. Butler
Located in valatie, NY
Candleholders in America, 1650-1900 by Joseph T. Butler. NY: Bonanza Books, 1967. First edition thus hardcover with dust jacket. 178 pp. 136 full-page photos of candlesticks, candela...
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American 20th Century Books
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English Furniture from Charles II to George II, Ltd First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
English Furniture from Charles II to George II: A full account of the design, material and quality of workmanship of walnut and mahogany furniture of this period; and of how spurious...
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English 20th Century Books
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Chinese Trade Porcelain, First Edition by Michel Beurdeley
Located in valatie, NY
Chinese Trade Porcelain, 1st Ed by Michel Beurdeley. Charles E. Turtle Company, Rutland, Vermont, 1962. Tipped-in color frontispiece and 24 tipped-in color plates, 100 monochrome text figures, 244 monochrome figures in the appendix. A through explanation of Chinese export porcelain and its debt to the west; historical surveys of the Far Eastern connections to al of the countries named...
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American Vintage 20th Century Books
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Paper
Chinese Export Porcelain in North America by Jean McClure Mudge, 1st Ed
By Jean McClure Mudge
Located in valatie, NY
Chinese Export Porcelain in North America by Jean McClure Mudge. Stated first edition hardcover with dust jacket. Clarkson Potter, 1986, NY. 417 photos 250 in color. Extensively rese...
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American Vintage 20th Century Books
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Paper
Anish Kapoor, (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Anish Kapoor RA is one of the foremost artists of his generation.Hismajestic, beguiling sculptures, awesome in their size and simple beauty, at once demand a physical response and su...
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20th Century Books
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Luci E Trasparenze, Fontana Arte, 1930-1950 (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a soft covered 95 page catalogue which was published to accompany an exhibition at a private Italian Gallery which showed a collection of some 60 works made by this celebrate...
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20th Century Books
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Antique Antiphonarium Cisterciense, Par Hiemalis, Choir Book for Winter, 1903
Located in San Francisco, CA
Published by Westmalle of Belgium in 1903, this elaborate hardcover choir book is black morocco over board with metal fore edge clamps, large metal holy cros...
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Belgian Antique 20th Century Books
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Brass
Eternal India by Indira Gandhi, Jean Louis Nou Hardcover Table Book
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Eternal India by Indira Gandhi, Jean Louis Nou hardcover table book
New York, NY: Vendome Press, 1980.
First English Edition.
An exceptional copy; fin...
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Indian Anglo Raj Vintage 20th Century Books
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Paper
Garry Winogrand, Winogrand 1964 Book 2002
By Garry Winogrand
Located in CA, CA
First edition, hard cover, published by Arena Editions, New Mexico, 2002.
In 1964 Garry Winogrand spent four months travelling America and taking photographs and spent the remainder...
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American Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Books
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Robert de Balkany & Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
These two separate sales were for the sales of Robert de Balkany which was in the hands of Sothebys in 2016 and The Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy, who was the daughter of the last King of Italy...
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20th Century Books
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Gilbert Poillerat 1902-1988 (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a loose leaf Binder which includes 13 original photographs of works and designs by Poillerat, who was one of the most pre eminent French designers in metal ware of the 20th c...
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20th Century Books
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Givenchy: 40 Years of Creation (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This book was published in 1991 to coincide with an exhibition which marked Hubert de Givenchy's 40 years in fashion. It is dividing into three sections; it presents a portrait of Gi...
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20th Century Books
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Saara Hopea-Untracht: Life and Work
Located in New York, NY
Monograph on renowned and prolific mid-century Finnish designer Saara Hopea-Untracht, written by her husband, the American metalsmith, educator, and writer...
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Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 20th Century Books
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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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Italian Other Vintage 20th Century Books
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Glass
Francis Bacon: Triptychs (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This publication which is housed in an orange clamshell box was published for an exhibition held in 2006 at the Gagosian Gallery. It contains two sewn booklets: Francis Bacon letters to Michel Leiris 1966-1989 and Francis Bacon Paintings...
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20th Century Books
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Collaborations: Andy Warhol Jean-Michel Basquiat. 1988
Located in CA, CA
Published by London: Mayor Rowan Gallery, 1988 First Edition
Scarce copy of the catalogue published on the occasion of a multi-gallery London exhibition between Warhol and Basquiat ...
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Vintage 20th Century Books
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"Jiang - Father of the Yunnan School" Catalogue Raisonne Book Tiefeng's Signed
Located in San Diego, CA
"Jiang - Father of the Yunnan School" A catalogue raisonne book of Jiang Tiefeng's original works signed by the Chinese artist, circa 1998. The book is in excellent, like new condition with no torn or missing pages and the original dust jacket. The book covers both Jiang's paintings and sculptures from 1982 to 1998. Gorgeous photography and lay-out. 126 pages. #3961
Jiang is the founder of the Yunnan School of Painting, one of the most important contemporary movements of abstract art in China. His works are richly colored and his imagery contains figurative elements with contrasting patterns. Considered to be at the forefront of contemporary Chinese art, Jiang paints as if creating stained glass windows, concentrating on women, horses, birds, and flowers through brightly colored ink and calligraphic lines.
Jiang attended the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He studied with the renowned Chinese artist, Huang Yong-Yu. During the 1960s and early 1970s, Jiang was assigned to produce propaganda posters during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. At night Jiang secretly worked on his own style.
He works primarily in watercolor and serigraphy and his works have been actively collected worldwide since the early 1980s. From 1976 to 1983, Jiang served on the board of directors for the Yunnan branch of the Chinese National Art Association. He was also a member of the Chinese Woodblock...
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American Chinese Export 20th Century Books
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Alta Moda: Eternal Elegance of 1960s buy M Kumakiri (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Published in 1990 in Japan in a limited edition of 1,000, this book is a beautifully illustrated retrospective showing 1960s psychedelic patterns and prints with bold floral and pais...
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Vintage 20th Century Books
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Paper
Rudyard KIPLING. La Guerre Sur Mer. 1919 - FIRST FRENCH EDITION - SIGNED !
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: KIPLING, Rudyard.
TITLE: La Guerre Sur Mer.
PUBLISHER: Paris: Payot et Cie, 1919.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST FRENCH EDITION SIGNED. 1 vol., signed by Kipling above his name on th...
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British Vintage 20th Century Books
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Fabric
Correct Woodwork for the Colonial Home (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A very useful and interesting pamphlet dating from 1930 which was produced by the Morgan Woodwork Organization to show the designs for Colonial style of Woodwork and how it should be...
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20th Century Books
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Paper
Frank Lloyd Wright by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Hardcover Book
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Frank Lloyd Wright by Bruce-brooks-pfeiffer. Hardcover book.
Published by Barnes Noble Books (1994).
A building by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is at once unmistakably individual...
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American Organic Modern 20th Century Books
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Sandoz: Sculpteur Figuriste et Animalier, 1881-1971 by Felix Marcilhac (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a very scarce hardback copy of the book on the sculpture and work of Edouard Marcel Sandoz, which includes the catalogue raisonne of his work in the rear section, having over...
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20th Century Books
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Bill Blass: an American Designer by H O'hagan, K Rowold & M Vollbracht (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Published to accompany a major retrospective exhibition of Blass's career at the Indiana University Art Museum, this lavish presentation presents more than 250 of his most important ensembles, beginning with his earliest work for Anna Miller...
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20th Century Books
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Richard Meier Architect 1992/1999 by Richard Meier
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Richard Meier Architect 1992/1999 by Richard Meier.Richard Meier, Architect, Vol. 3: 1992-1998 Paperback – June 12, 1999.The third in a series of Rizzoli monographs on Richard Meier, this volume comprehensively documents the numerous and varied works created since 1992 by one of America's most important architects and a winner of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture.
This extensively illustrated presentation, designed by Massimo Vignelli, conveys the purity and power of Meier's celebrated work. Twenty-three projects in all are featured, including federal buildings and courthouses in Islip, New York, and Phoenix, Arizona; the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art; the Museum of Television and Radio in Beverly Hills; the Church of the Year 2000 in Rome; and the widely acclaimed Getty Center in Los Angeles.The development and significance of Richard Meier's work is discussed in two essays by the distinguished architectural historians and critics Kenneth Frampton and Joseph Rykwert...
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American Modern 20th Century Books
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Paper
Biedermeier Hardcover Oversized Book by Angus Wilkie 1987
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Biedermeier Hardcover Oversized Book by Angus Wilkie 1st edition 1987.
Biedermeier, the style prized by the avant-garde of central Europe in the 19th century and in America today.
An...
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American Biedermeier Vintage 20th Century Books
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Fontana Arte: Una Storia Trasparente by Laura Falconi (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Hardback book with dust jacket in good condition. 239 pages with text in English and Italian, this book discusses the history of Fontana Arte the company which was famous for the cou...
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Italian 20th Century Books
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