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Period: Mid-20th Century
3 Volumes. William Shakespeare, The Works of Shakespeare.
Located in New York, NY
3 Volumes. William Shakespeare, The Comedies of Shakespeare. Bound in 3/4 red calf and linen boards. Raised band spine with panels displaying gilt floral detailing and gilt lettering...
Category
English Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
2 Volumes. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
Located in New York, NY
2 Volumes. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. Bound in 3/4 blue morocco and linen boards. Raised band spine with gilt title panels. Top edge gilt with marbled endpapers. Included 42...
Category
English Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume, H.R.H, the Duke of Windsor, a King's Story
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor, A King's Story. Signed Limited Edition. Bound in full green morocco with the front cover displaying a royal crest in gilt. Raised band spine wit...
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English Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
2 Volumes. Harvey Cushing, The Life of Sir William Osler.
Located in New York, NY
2 Volumes. Harvey Cushing, The Life of Sir William Osler. First edition. Bound in full red calf by Bayntun. The covers display gilt bordering with a small floral detail in each corne...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
4 Volumes. Winston S. Churchill. A History of the English Speaking Peoples
Located in New York, NY
4 Volumes. Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. Bound in full red calf. Raised band spine gilt with panels displaying ornate gilt detailing. Labels on the...
Category
English Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Philip Guedalla, The Duke.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Philip Guedalla, The Duke. A Cosway-style binding by Bayntun. Bound in full red morocco with the front board displaying an insert portrait in color, bordered in a wreath of...
Category
English Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Jules Leleu, Mobel der Art Deco 1924-1934 'Book'
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a beautifully produced and photographed catalogue of an exhibition of the work of Jules Leleu which took place in the Galerie Claude in Cologne in April and May 2010. There a...
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Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Italian Walnut and Embossed Leather Lectern
Located in Garnerville, NY
Italian walnut and gold embossed leather lectern. Circa 1970. This wonderful book stand/lectern brings a certain refinement to any room. The angled surface, which would retain a book...
Category
Italian Renaissance Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Mid-Century French Leather Bound Gilt Embossed Books Complete Work, Set of 24
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a study bookcase or a library with this elegant set of French books; published circa 1975 across Europe in places like Geneva, Switzerland and Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, eac...
Category
French Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
La Ceramica in Italia
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 s...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Beautiful Homes and Gardens in California
Located in New York, NY
Important and lavishly produced survey of postwar California domestic architecture, written by Frank Lloyd Wright-trained California architect Herbert Weisskamp and published by Abra...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Wrightsman Collection, 1st Ed. signed by Charles and Jane Wrightsman, 1966-1973
Located in San Francisco, CA
The Wrightsman collection, Vols.I-V, New York, The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, 1966-1973. First Edition, hardcovers with dust jackets. Inscribed by
the Wrightsmans, incl. a Christ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
A: A Novel - Andy Warhol - First Edition, Grove Press, New York, 1968
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
First Edition, published by Grove Press, New York, 1968.
This first edition, first printing of Andy Warhol's knowing and avant-garde experimental text, 'a, A Novel', was released by...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Milo Baughman for Thayer Coggin Portfolio Book
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A very cool catalog showing available Milo Baughman designs for Thayer Coggin as part of the Environment 70 line of furniture. Includes photos of pieces, configurations of sectionals...
Category
Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Lonsdale Library Equestrian Book
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Horsemanship - The Way Of A Man With A Horse, Lonsdale Library Book.
One of the volumes from Lonsdale Library, Horsemanship - The Way Of A Man With A Horse. The book with over ninety...
Category
British Sporting Art Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Letters of James Agee to Father Flye & Agee's Manuscript Notes
Located in Seguin, TX
Letters of James Agee to Father Flye. New York: George Braziller, 1962. 1st Edition signed and inscribed by Father Flye. Blue cloth binding, dust jacket. Shelf wear, chips and spots ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
BIG Art Deco Original Advertising Promotional Poster SIDOL, 1930s
Located in Praha, CZ
- 1930s
- framed
- original, no reprint
- good original condition ,see the pictures
- jr.
Category
Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Soleri, Paolo. Visionary Cities: the Arcology of Paolo Soleri Hardcover Book
By Paolo Soleri
Located in Ferndale, MI
Praeger Publishers Inc., New York, Washington, London. A lively black & white typography rich volume exploring the theories and designs for the cities of the future by architect, urb...
Category
Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Lonsdale Library Boxing Book
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Boxing, Lonsdale Library Book.
One of the volumes from Lonsdale Library, Boxing. The book with over fifty illustrations.
The Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games & Pastimes, Editors The...
Category
English Sporting Art Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Lonsdale Library, Fishing Book
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Fine Angling For Coarse Fish, Lonsdale Library Book.
One of the volumes from Lonsdale Library, Fine Angling For Coarse Fish, with original dust cover. The book with one hundred and f...
Category
English Sporting Art Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Winston Churchill, Maxims and Reflections, First Edition - 1947 - Leather Bound
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: CHURCHILL, Winston.
TITLE: Maxims And Reflections.
PUBLISHER: London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., 8-1/16" x 5-5/8", introduction ...
Category
British Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Julia Child Mastering the Art of French Cooking Book 1964
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Julia Child MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING VOL. ONE
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. First Publishing 1961; Sixth Printing 1964. Hardcover.
Autographed from Maitland Martinez to Bob ...
Category
American French Provincial Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Lonsdale Library Book, Hounds and Dogs
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Hounds & Dogs, Lonsdale Library Book.
One of the volumes from Lonsdale Library, Hounds & Dogs, their care, training & working. The book with over one hundred illustrations.
The Lonsd...
Category
English Sporting Art Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Collection of 6 Vintage Issues of Masters of World of Architecture, 1960
Located in San Diego, CA
Great collection of 6 issues of Masters of World of Architecture. These issues date back to 1960 and each focuses on a particular architecture icon that is discussed and analyzed wit...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Thousand Islands of the Adriatic Hardcover Book 1965 1st Edition
Located in North Hollywood, CA
The Thousand Islands of the Adriatic Hardcover Book 1965.
Text by Antun Soljan
Published by Yugoslavija 1st edition 1965.
Category
European Folk Art Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Kenneth Grahame, Wind in the Willows, Limited Edition, in Spectacular Binding
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: GRAHAME, Kenneth.
TITLE: The Wind In The Willows.
PUBLISHER: London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1951.
DESCRIPTION: LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION. 1 vol., 11-15/16" x 9-7/8", i...
Category
Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
Softbound Program "The Art of Alexander Calder" Long Beach Museum of Art 1970
Located in San Diego, CA
A nice softbound program from Alexander Calder's 1970 exhibition at the Long Beach Museum of Art in Long Beach, CA from January 11, 1970 to February 8, 1970.
The program is in go...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
“The Machine – Museum of Modern Art New York” Book by K.G. Pontus Hulten 1968
Located in San Diego, CA
A very rare and cool book, “The Machine – As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age'" by K.G. Pontus Hulten for the Museum of Modern Art New York, circa 1968. The book is in its orig...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Aluminum
Parke-Bernet NY Sale "The Estate of Sophie Tucker," May-5-7, 1966
Located in valatie, NY
Parke-Bernet NY, Sale Code "2437" Sophie Tucker French & English Furniture, Porcelain, Silver, Glass, Rugs, May-5-7, 1966. Sophie Tucker was an American singer, comedian, actress, an...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Bauhaus Book Holders in Grey Lacquered Metal
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Bauhaus metal book holders, manufactured in Germany, circa 1940.
In great original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful patina.
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Metal
Spanish Hand Carved Wooden Bookstand
Located in Marbella, ES
Spanish hand carved wooden bookstand.
Category
Spanish Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Wood
Jean Puiforcat, 'Book' on famous Art Deco Silversmith
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A now out of print book which is the catalogue raisonne of the great deco silversmith Jean Puiforcat. 339 pages with bilingual text in French and English and illustrated throughout w...
Category
Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Other
The Windsor Style by Suzy Menkes (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
The Windsor Style is the first book to look at the luxurious post-war life of the Duke and Duchess at home in their Paris mansion and at play at their converted mill-house in the Fre...
Category
Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Behind the Picture Window by Bernard Rudofsky
Located in New York, NY
First edition of Bernard Rudofsky’s idiosyncratic and iconoclastic discussion of modern living conditions in postwar America, published by Oxford University Press in 1955. 201 pages,...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
English & Other Silver in the Irwin Untermeyer Collection by Yvonne Hackenbroch
Located in valatie, NY
English & Other Silver in the Irwin Untermeyer Collection by Yvonne Hackenbroch. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1963. This book is limited to English silver from the middle of...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Chelsea & Other English Porcelain Pottery & Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Coll
Located in valatie, NY
Chelsea and Other English Porcelain Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection by Yvonne Hackenbroch. Published in London for The Metropolitan Museum of History and Art by ...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
"Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson" Signed by Herbert Hoover, Sixth Printing, 1958
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Hoover, Herbert. The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958. Signed and inscribed by Herbert Hoover. Sixth printing. Original dust jacket and housed in a custom slipca...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Alone, Signed by Richard E. Byrd, First Edition, Second Impression, 1938
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Byrd, Richard E, Alone. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. First edition, stated second impression. Signed by Byrd on free end paper. Octavo. Presented in quarter blue Moroccan lea...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Little America by Richard E. Byrd, First Edition, 1930
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Byrd, Richard E., Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, The Flight to the South Pole. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Octavo. Presented in quarter r...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, First Edition, 1943
By Ayn Rand
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. First edition printing. Octavo. Rebound in modern half red Moroccan leather and marbled boards, with gilt tool...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, Illust. by N. C. Wyeth, 1947
By James Fenimore Cooper
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. In original hardcover boards with illustrat...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Discovery: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition, Signed by Byrd
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Byrd, Richard E. Discovery: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1935. Signed, stated first edition. Octavo. In original boards and dustja...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Skyward by Richard E. Bryd, First Edition, 1931
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Byrd, Richard E. Skyward. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1931. Octavo. First edition, eleventh printing. In original hardcover boards and original pictorial dust jacket. Presented in a...
Category
American Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, First Edition, 1936, with Signed Letter
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Mitchell, Margaret, Gone with the Wind. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Includes typed and signed March 14, 1939 letter and envelope, t...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway, First Edition, 1937
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Hemingway, Ernest, To Have and Have Not. New York: Charles Scriber’s Sons, 1937. First edition, first printing. Beautifully rebound in 1/4 gray Moroccan leather and cloth boards, wit...
Category
American Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, First Edition, First Printing, 1943
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943. First edition, first state. Octavo. Rebound in full Moroccan leather with Rand’s gilt stamped facsimile signature on t...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Liquidation of The Entire Stock of The NY Store of Yamanaka & Co., 1944, Cat. #1
Located in valatie, NY
Parke-Bernet Galleries Catalog, By Order of the Alien Property Custodian of the United States, Liquidation of The Entire Stock of The New York Store of Yamanaka & Co. Inc., Oriental ...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Softbound Program 1958 Film Francais by Bernard Buffet
Located in San Diego, CA
A very rare "Film Francais" softbound program featuring original artwork from Bernard Buffet, circa 1958. The program is in good vintage condition with no rips or tears and has nine ...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Bambi by Felix Salten, Illustrated by Kurt Wiese, Early American Printing, 1931
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Salten, Felix. Bambi: A Life in the Woods. New York: Grosset & Dunlay, 1931. Translated by Whitaker Chambers. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. In original green hardcover boards with embos...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Notable Paintings by Old Masters: from the Late Mr and Mrs Charles E. F. McCann
Located in valatie, NY
The Art Collection of the Late Mr and Mrs Charles E. F. McCann, Together With Property from The Daniel & Florence Guggenheim Foundation, Parke-Bernet Galleries. 91 lots some photogra...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Ico Parisi Vintage Wood and Brass Swivel Bookcase 'Attr.'
By Ico Parisi
Located in Milano, IT
Beautiful wooden revolving bookcase attributed to the fantastic designer Ico Parisi dating from around the 1960s.
The bookcase has a central black painted iron rod that serves as t...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Brass, Iron
Auction, Private Collection of Louis Myers, Featuring Duncan Phyfe Furniture
Located in valatie, NY
The Collection of Louis Guerineau Myers. Catalogue of the auction/exhibition held at American Art Association, April 2-9, 1932, featuring "Duncan Phyfe: Characteristic examples in hi...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Edith Rockefeller McCormick Auction Catalog, American Art Ass, 1/16/1934
Located in valatie, NY
Edith Rockefeller McCormick Auction Catalog, American Art Association 1/16/1934. Sale was on premises at 1000 Lake Shore Dr. Chicago, 1064 lots with many B&W photos. A prominent soci...
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Parke-Bernet, Property of Mildred B. Vanderbilt English & American Furniture
Located in valatie, NY
Parke Bernet NY, Mildred B. Vanderbilt English & American Furniture, Porcelain, Silver, Sheffield Plate, Mazers, Treen and Leather Ware, Paintings & Rugs, January 1955. 1st Ed softco...
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Paintings by 19th C & Contemporary American Artists, the Collection Samuel Shaw
Located in valatie, NY
Paintings by 19th century and Contemporary American Artists, from the Collection of The Late Samuel T. Shaw, NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Nov. 21, 1945. Softcover, 89 pp. 15 b&w plate...
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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
"Listen! The Wind" First Edition, Signed by Charles & Anne Lindbergh, 1938
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This is a 1938 first edition in its original dust jacket of Listen! The Wind by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. This remarkable printing is inscribed and signed by both Anne and her husband a...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
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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American Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Décors Ephéméres Ephemeral Decoration, French Book by André Granet, Edition 1948
Located in Atlanta, GA
Décors éphémères: les expositions Jeux d'Eau et de Lumière, (Ephemeral decorations: water and light games exhibitions,) French book by André Granet, Original edition 1948, Preface by...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
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