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American Art from American Collections, Numbered #199/455 Signed by James Biddle
Located in valatie, NY
American Art from American Collections, Numbered #199/455, Signed by James Biddle Associate Curator in Charge of the American Wing. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1963, 1st Ed...
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1960s Vintage New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Leather, Paper
The Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García by Tomas Llorens, 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
The Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García by Tomas Llorens, Abigail McEwan and Frederic Tuten. Publisher Rizzoli International Publications, 2018. 1st Ed hard...
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21st Century and Contemporary American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Fine Jewels and Watches. Sotheby's Sale 7312, Los Angeles, May 4, 1999
Located in valatie, NY
Fine Jewels and Watches. Sotheby's Sale 7312, Los Angeles, May 4, 1999. Sotheby's, LA, 1999. First Edition soft cover. 208pp, 495 lots photographed in color, with results. Includes t...
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1990s American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Poems for Alan Hancox, Whittington Press, Limited Edition
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely Whittington Press edition of POEMS by Seamus Heaney, Melvyn Bragg, D. J. Enright, U A. Fanthorpe, Michael Foot, Duncan Forbes, John Fuller, Seamus Heanery, Michael Horovitz, Ted Hughes, Adrian Mitchell, Jenny Joseph, P J Kavanagh, Laurei Lee, Ptere Levi, Brian Patten, Lawrence Sail, Jon Silkin, Jon Stallworthy, Charles Tomlinson.
POEMS FOR ALAN HANCOX
Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1993. First, Limited Edition.
Royal 8vo, 11 x 7 7/8 in. (280 x 200mm); pp. 41; Two wood engravings by Miriam Macgregor. Number XXXVIII of 50 specially-bound, signed opposite the title-page by each of the 19 contributors, with signed proofs of the two engravings on Zerkall cream wove paper (265 x 190 mm) in a pocket at the back. Set in Goudy Modern and printed in black, the wood-engravings in brown, on Zerkall cream smooth laid paper on the Heidelberg press. Quarter-bound at the fine Bindery in brown Oasis and Whittington printed paper-covered boards, gilt spine titling, headbands, top edge gilt, mauve Hahnenühle endpapers; matching paper-covered slipcase, reinforced in brown buckram at the head and foot. A fine copy in a fine slipcase.
[Butcher 118]
Condition: fine.
An elegant tribute to Alan Hancox was assembled by Alan Tucker...
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Late 20th Century English New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper, Leather
Cast Iron & Tin Toys of Yesterday with a Price Guide Don Cranmer, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Cast Iron & Tin Toys of Yesterday with a Price Guide Don Cranmer. Published by L-W Promotions, Sharon Center, OH, 1974. 1st Ed softcover, 108 pages with 100's of illustrations and an...
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1970s American Vintage New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Art at Auction: the Year at Sotheby Parke Bernet 1976-77, Edited by Anne Jackson
By Sotheby Parke Bernet
Located in valatie, NY
Art At Auction: The Year At Sotheby Parke Bernet 1976-77, Edited by Anne Jackson. Sotheby Park Bernet Publication, London, 1976. 1st Ed hardcover with dus...
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1970s English Vintage New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection by John Ayers, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Chinese ceramics: The Koger Collection by John Ayers. Sotheby's Publications, New York London, 1985. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. In 1973 Mr and...
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1980s English Vintage New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Luigi Ghirri It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It... by Luigi Ghirri, Stated 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Luigi Ghirri: It's Beautiful Here, Isn't It... by Luigi Ghirri. Published by Aperture, NY, 2008. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Ghirri was an extraordinary photographer, as well as a writer and curator whose career was so rich and varied that it seems like a lesson in the contemporary history of the medium. Although well known in his native Italy, Ghirri does not yet have the international audience his work merits--perhaps because he died so young. This is the first book published on Ghirri in the U.S. It will establish him as the seminal artist he was. Uncannily prescient, Ghirri shared the sensibility of what became known in the U.S. as the New Color and the New Topographics...
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21st Century and Contemporary American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Architecture of William McCall, Jr., Designer in the Classical Tradition
Located in valatie, NY
The Architecture of Wm. Frank McCall, Jr., FAIA: A Complete Designer in the Classical Tradition. Stated 1st Ed and 1st printing hardcover with dust jacket. By William Robert Mitchell, Jr., and photographed by Van Jones Martin. Frank McCall Jr., FAIA was a noted architect who like his colleagues, Edward Vason Jones, James Means, Philip Shutze, et al. practiced in the classical tradition. Born April 14, 1916, in Gainesville, Florida, McCall later lived briefly in Albany, Georgia, and moved to Moultrie...
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1980s American Vintage New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
POEMS by Stephen Phillips in a lovely Zahensdorf binding, 1898
Located in Middletown, NY
Phillips, Stephen
Poems
London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1898. Sixth Edition. 8vo, 7 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches (187 x 118 mm), (8), 108 pp, printed on cream laid paper, evenly toned. F...
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19th Century English Antique New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Leather, Paper
Henri Rousseau dit Le Douanier by Jean-Marie Lo Duca, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Henri Rousseau dit Le Douanier by Jean-Marie Lo Duca, Paris. Paris: Syndicat de la Propriété Artistique, 1951. 1 first edition softcover portfolio. Unpaginated. Portfolio of work by ...
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20th Century English New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Christie's Magnificent Jewels Geneva May 27, 1993 First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's Magnificent Jewels Geneva May 27, 1993. First edition softcover. The 491 lot catalog on 181 pp. Color photographs throughout.
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1990s Swiss New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain 1783-1840 by Henry Sandon
Located in valatie, NY
Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain 1783-1840 by Henry Sandon. Woodbridge: The Antique Collectors' Club, 1992. Hardcover and dust jacket with glassine ...
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20th Century English New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
2 Books Decorating Shops, Hotels, Restaurants, Bars, & Other Retail Spaces, 1st
Located in valatie, NY
The Interiors Book of Shops and Restaurants by Pilar Viladas. Whitney Library Of Design, 1981. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. "Enticing a customer to enter and then buy is the pr...
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1980s American Vintage New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard SHAW
Located in Middletown, NY
Rare first issue of the first edition for Bernard Shaw’s first published novel.
Shaw, George Bernard. An Unsocial Socialist.
London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowery & Co., 1887.
First Edition, First Issue.
Crown 8vo, 7 3/8 x 5 inches (188 x 126 mm); [4] 256 pp.; original red cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and covers, a little rubbed and soiled, spine slightly faded, hinges weak; dark brown endpapers; foxing on first 2 and last 2 sheets. First edition, first issue with "Author of The Confessions of Byron Cashel's Profession etc. etc." to title and no appendix. Ink inscription of Mrs Walter Crane on half title.
[Broad, p. 87; Magill p. 965]
This is Shaw's first published novel. It had been serialized in "To-Day, A Monthly Magazine of Scientific Socialism" between March and December of 1884. This printing was promptly canceled, and supposedly only samples for booksellers and travelers had been sent out with this title-page.
Having attended a meeting by political economist Henry George in September 1882, Shaw became fascinated with Socialism, read Marx and became a member of the Fabian Society in September 1884, writing their first manifesto later that year. He believed in a more moderate, non-violent form of socialism and believed that socialist ideals could best be achieved by infiltration of people and ideas into existing political parties. In the early 1880s Shaw also began his literary career by writing music and art criticism and began writing novels, of which An Unsocial Socialist was the first published. But as his career as a playwright started taking off in the latter part of that decade, his political activities also decreased.
Shaw later explained that he had intended An Unsocial Socialist as the first section of a monumental depiction of the downfall of capitalism. Gareth Griffith, in a study of Shaw's political thought, sees the novel as an interesting record of conditions, both in society at large and in the nascent socialist movement of the 1880s. [Griffith, Gareth. Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of George Bernard Shaw. London: Routledge, 1993].
The story centers on Sidney Trefusis, a millionaire socialist, who leaves his bride on their wedding day because he fears his passion for her will get in the way of his plans to overthrow the British government. Sidney vanished "underground"--Disguises himself as a common laborer called "Mengels"--and infiltrates Alton College, a girl's school where well-bred young women are "fitted and fatted to be put on the marriage market". His plan: take over the school and plant the seed of radical socialism into the fertile brains of the future consorts of cabinet ministers and kings. What he doesn't plan on is the presence of one Agatha Wylie, a sixth-form rabble-rouser, who falls hopelessly in love with both Sidney and his politics, and just happens to be his deserted wife's cousin. Love triangles, mistaken identities, Marx, Engels, pistols and the proletariat jostle for position. (via LibraryThing)
An unusual ASSOCIATION COPY with ink inscription and address of "Mrs Walter Crane" [ie Mary Crane] on the half title. Walter Crane married Mary Andrews in 1871 and after a sojourn in Rome returned to London in 1873 living first in Wood End and then at Beaumont Lodge, Shepherd's Bush (the address she has written in this book). In 1914 Mary...
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Late 19th Century English Antique New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Art at Auction 1971 - 1972 the Year at Sotheby's & Parke-Bernet 1st Ed
By Sotheby Parke Bernet
Located in valatie, NY
Art at Auction 1971 - 1972, The Year at Sotheby's Parke-Bernet. Viking Press, NY. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Numerous color photos of important lots from all of Sotheby's departments and locations.
Trent Antiques has been a respected name in antiques for over 30 years with a large collection of period furniture...
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1970s American Vintage New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Important Italian Glass: the Collection of Frank Toskan, 1/1, 2012 by Wright
Located in valatie, NY
Important Italian Glass: The Collection of Frank Toskan, January 1, 2012
by Wright Auctions. 254 lots photoed in color and fully described.
NPT Books, a division of Trent Antiques,...
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21st Century and Contemporary American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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On Wall Street: Architectural Photographs of Lower Manhattan, 1980-2000. 1st Ed
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On Wall Street: Architectural Photographs of Lower Manhattan, 1980-2000 by David Anderson. Published by George F Thompson Publishing, 2012. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Kurt Schwitters by John Elderfield, First Edition
By John Elderfield
Located in valatie, NY
Kurt Schwitters by John Elderfield. Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1985. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 355 color and b/w illustrations by Kurt Schwit...
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1980s American Vintage New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Sotheby's New York Important Jewelry #6254 December 11, 1991, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's New York: Important Jewelry: 6254: December 11, 1991. 380 lots all photoed in color and fully described with results.
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1990s American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Merchant Ivory's English Landscape by John Pym, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Merchant Ivory's English Landscape Rooms, Views, and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
by John Pym. Published by Harry N Abrams, 1995. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. In Merchant Ivory's English Landscape author John Pym's engaging text gives a refreshing account of Merchant Ivory's four English movies (and some of the partnership's earlier works as well), taking the reader behind the scenes of the making of the films, revealing how aspects of the English people and culture were researched and portrayed, locations chosen, and scenes executed. Nearly 100 beautiful film stills and production shots - most are in color and never before seen...
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1990s American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Diego Rivera, Murals for the Museum of Modern Art, by Leah Dickerman, 1st Ed
By MOMA Museum New York
Located in valatie, NY
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art by Leah Dickerman and Anna Indych-Lopez. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2011. 1st Ed hardcover with no dust jacket as published. From the personal library of Herbert Kasper. Herbert Kasper was an American fashion designer known as "Kasper." He studied English and advertising at New York University and fashion at The Parsons School of Design in New York from 1951–53 and l'Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in 1953. He left NYU to serve in the US Army in Europe. After WW II he enrolled at Parsons, where he became a protégé of milliner Fred Frederics. After graduating, he returned to Paris for two years developing his skills in design while working for Jacques Fath, Christian Dior, and Marcel Rochas. When he returned to the US, he worked for Frederics at Mr. John. He was an avid art collector with a famous art collection, and in 2011, the Morgan Library and Museum devoted an exhibition, called “Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs,” to the designer.
In 1931, Diego Rivera was the subject of The Museum of Modern Art's second monographic exhibition, which set new attendance records in its five-week run. The Museum brought Rivera to New York six weeks before the show's opening and gave him on-site studio space. There he produced five “portable murals” --large blocks of frescoed plaster...
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21st Century and Contemporary American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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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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1980s American Vintage New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
After Strange Gods; A Primer of Modern Heresy, by T. S. Eliot – FIRST EDITION
Located in Middletown, NY
After Strange Gods; A Primer of Modern Heresy. The Page-Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia.
London: Faber and Faber, 1934.
First Edition.
8vo, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches (22...
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Early 20th Century American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Finishing the Hat Collected Lyrics '1954-1981' Comments, by Stephen Sondheim
Located in valatie, NY
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim (March 22, 1930 -November 26, 2021). Published by Knopf, 2010. Hardcover with dust jacket. The winner of seven Tonys, an Academy Award, seven Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize and more, Stephen Sondheim's career has spanned more than half a century; his lyrics have become synonymous with musical theater and popular culture. In Finishing the Hat--titled after perhaps his most autobiographical song, from Sunday in the Park with George, Sondheim has not only collected his lyrics for the first time, he is giving readers a rare personal look into his life as well as his remarkable productions. Along with the lyrics for all of his musicals from 1954 to 1981 including: West Side Story, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd, Sondheim treats us to never-before-published songs from each show, songs that were cut or discarded before seeing the light of day. He discusses his relationship with his mentor, Oscar Hammerstein II, and his collaborations with extraordinary talents such as: Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Ethel Merman, Richard Rodgers...
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21st Century and Contemporary American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Mobilier Savoyard et Dauphinois by Lucile Olivier, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Mobilier Savoyard et Dauphinois by Lucile Olivier. Paris: Èditions Ch. Massin, 1976, French text. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 80 pp. The book illustrates the beds, seat...
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Late 20th Century French New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
19th-Century European Paintings at the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute
Located in valatie, NY
Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, by Sarah Lees. Published by Clark Art Institute, 2013 2 Volume 1st Ed with dust jackets and sl...
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21st Century and Contemporary American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Meißen, Meissner Porzellan Des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, 1710-1750, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Meißen. Meissner Porzellan des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts. 1710 - 1750. Published by Verlag der Kunst., Dresden., 1956. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Large format book on 18th c Meissen Porcelain. With 120 B&W full page illustrations...
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1950s German Vintage New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Mr. Dooley at His Best, by Finley Peter Dunne Edited by Elmer Ellis
Located in valatie, NY
Mr. Dooley at His Best. Edited by Elmer Ellis at the University of Missouri. With a Foreword by Franklin P. Adams. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition, 1st printing, one of 520 copies with one page of the author's original manuscript. Frontispiece portrait. 291 pp. Buckram and decorated boards with a leather label. Finley Peter Dunne (1867- 1936) was an American humorist and writer from Chicago. In 1898 Dunne published Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, a collection of his nationally syndicated Mr. Dooley sketches. Speaking with the thick verbiage and accent of an Irish immigrant from County Roscommon, the fictional Mr. Dooley expounded upon political and social issues of the day from his South Side Chicago Irish pub...
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1930s American Vintage New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Industrial Sublime Modernism & the Transformation of NY's Rivers, 1900-1940
Located in valatie, NY
Industrial Sublime: Modernism and the Transformation of New York's Rivers, 1900-1940 by Kristen M. Jensen, Bartholomew F. Bland, Katherine E. Manthorne, Wendy Greenhouse, and Ellen E. Roberts. Fordham University Press, 2013. 1st Ed softcover. Co-published with the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers. The exhibition ran from October 12, 2013, through January 17, 2014. It was not until the first decade of the 20th century, as artists like Robert Henri and John Sloan turned their attention to the urban scene, that American art shifted its focus from bucolic landscapes to the cities, the towns, the crowds, especially the raucous urban scene of Manhattan, by then the nation's most important city. This movement away from painting the land to painting the life on the street is often seen as a clean break with the depiction of the landscape, and with landscape painting generally as a mainstay of American art in the face of European Modernism. However, artists continued to paint the Hudson River, as well as its tributaries, the Harlem and East rivers, and the great harbor of New York City. What was different was their approach. Giving way the romantic ideals of earlier painters, artists like Henri and Sloan, and later, Georgia O'Keeffe, George Ault, Edward Hopper, and Preston Dickinson...
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2010s American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Large Edwardian-Style Controlled Bubbles Crystal Match Striker By Webb
By Thomas Webb & Sons
Located in New York, NY
Large, Edwardian-Style, controlled bubbles crystal match striker, England, Ca. 1960's, Thomas Webb - maker. (The striker is signed by the maker on the underside of the striker - see ...
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1960s English Edwardian Vintage New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Crystal
Masterpieces of Glass by Robert J. Charleston, First Edition
By Robert J. Charleston
Located in valatie, NY
Masterpieces of Glass by Robert J. Charleston. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1980. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 239 pp. A book on the history of glass wit...
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20th Century American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture
Located in valatie, NY
Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, September 19, 1996, Sale 8468, Christie's. First Edition. 226 pages. Text in English and C...
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1990s American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Authentic Reproductions Sales Cat. of the H.C. Valentine & Co. with 10-Booklets
Located in valatie, NY
Antiques - Authentic Reproductions Sales Catalogue of the H.C. Valentine & Co., Antiques Co., East Franklin St., Richmond, Virginia VA, c1940. A hard-cased catalog containing 10-booklets: English Sheffield Silver, Lawn & Garden Furniture from Old Virginia...
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1940s American Vintage New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Mahogany, Paper
Die Möbel Der Residenz München, First Edition
By Alexander Herzog von Württemberg
Located in valatie, NY
Die deutschen Möbel des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Die MöBel der Residenz München by Brigitte Langer and Alexander Herzog von Württemberg. Prestel Verlag, Munich, 1997. First edition ...
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1990s German New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Shelley at Oxford – Early correspondence of P.B.Shelley – GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS
Located in Middletown, NY
Shelley, Percy Bysche
Shelley at Oxford; The early correspondence of P.B. Shelley with his friend T.J. Hogg together with letters of Mary Shelley and T. L. Peacock and hitherto unpub...
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Early 20th Century English New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Gold Leaf
The Genius of the Garden by Peter Verney and Michael Dunne, 1st Edition
By Peter Verney, Michael Dunne
Located in valatie, NY
The Genius of the Garden by Peter Verney and Michael Dunne. Exeter: Webb & Bower Publishers Limited, 1989. 1st Edition hardcover with dust jacket. 120 pp. A beautiful book on the ele...
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20th Century English New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Vintage 1980s Escada Poured Resin Blackened Silver Metal Flower Earrings
By Escada
Located in New York, NY
Stylish vintage 1980s Escada earrings in fine silvery tones, the poured resin of an elegant silvery grey hue and lovely depth, well detailed, in a beautifully made blackened silver m...
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20th Century French Organic Modern New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Resin
Jimmy DeSana: Submission, 1st Ed Exhibition by The Brooklyn Museum 11/22-4/23
Located in valatie, NY
Jimmy DeSana: Submission, Exhibition by The Brooklyn Museum 11/22-4/23. 1st Ed hardcover published by DelMonico Books and The Brooklyn Museum, 2022. immy DeSana: Submission is the first museum survey of work by a significant yet overlooked figure in the histories of photography, New York City, and LGBTQ artists. From his time photographing suburban landscapes in Atlanta, Georgia, to his role in the New York punk scenes, Jimmy DeSana (American, 1949–1990) conveyed the radical spirit of his era through an irreverent critique of the American Dream and its images. The exhibition traces his brief yet prolific career through nearly two hundred works on view (some for the first time) and over twenty years that bridged mail-art networks, New York’s 1970s and ’80s subcultures, the illuminating image-play of the “Pictures Generation,” and various responses to HIV/AIDS.
As part of punk aesthetics and its symbolic forms of resistance, DeSana and his peers sought to forge art communities outside of official institutions. The exhibition showcased his extensive involvement in zines, artist collectives, performance art, experimental film, and club culture. In his major series—101 Nudes (1972), Submission (1977–79), and Suburban (1979–84)—DeSana photographed himself and friends (often nude and faceless) in and around bland suburban homes, creating an interplay among sexual liberation, queer aesthetics, and consumerist conformity. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, DeSana was heavily involved in New York’s punk and No Wave scenes and photographed prominent creatives for album covers and alternative publications. This exhibition will be the first to feature his portraits of art and music luminaries such as Kathy Acker, Laurie Anderson, Kenneth Anger, Patti Astor, David Byrne, John Giorno, Debbie Harry, and Richard Hell. Accompanying these works are DeSana’s more abstract efforts from the late 1980s, after he contracted HIV, that show an artist who resisted dominant narratives about the body and sexuality in the early years of the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic. Some graphic nudes...
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21st Century and Contemporary American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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The Surgeon and the Photographer by Geoffrey Farmer, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
The Surgeon and the Photographer by Geoffrey Farmer. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2015. First Edition hardcover, no dust jacket as issued. Publish...
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2010s Canadian New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Art of Parmigianino by David Franklin, 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
Art of Parmigianino by David Franklin. Published by Yale University Press for National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 2003. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket Exhibition Catalog. Published...
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21st Century and Contemporary Canadian New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Italian Military Decoration
Located in New York, NY
Italian military decoration. Military ornament, reign of King Carlo Alberto of Piedmont-Sardinia, Italy, 1831-1849.
Dimension: 2.5" diameter x 1.25 D...
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Metallic Thread
A LOS TOROS by Daniel Perea
Located in valatie, NY
A LOS TOROS by Daniel Perea. Barcelona. Hermenegildo Miralles, 1900. Beautifully bound in a scarlet pictorial gilt decorated covers, with a large lace fan ...
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Early 1900s Spanish Antique New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Day in the Country Impression and French Landscape, Exhibition Catalog, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Day in the Country: Impression and French Landscape Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and Reunion Des Musees Nationaux (France). Published by Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984. 1st Ed softcover exhibition catalog. 375 pp. Numerous b/w and color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1984-1985 exhibition series of impressionistic art by 17 artists. With a variety of texts by Richard Brettel, Scott Schaefer, Sylvie Gache-Patin, and Francoise Heilbrun. The artists are: Frederic...
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1980s American Vintage New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Essays on the Study of Poetry & a Guide to English Literature by Matthew Arnold
Located in valatie, NY
Essays on the Study of Poetry and a Guide to English Literature By Matthew Arnold. Macmillan Company, 1903. 1st Ed Thus gilt decorated hardcover. "Matth...
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Early 1900s American Antique New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Guide to The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1910
Located in valatie, NY
Guide to The Victoria and Albert Museum. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1910. Moroccan leather and green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering and no dust jacket as issued. 62 pp. An antique guide to the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, England. The guide includes the museum's hours, a list of rooms and galleries. Departments include Architecture and Sculpture, Ceramics, Glass, and Enamels, Engraving, Illustration, and Design, Library and Book Production, Metal Work, Paintings, Textiles, Woodwork, Furniture, and Leather. With 30+ illustrations in black and white with four fold-out floor plan maps in color. The binding is labeled and by Jas. Truscott & Sons, Book Binders...
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Early 20th Century English New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Sotheby's: Property from the Collection of Josephine & Walter Buhl Ford II, 1st
By Sotheby's
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's: Property From the Collection of Josephine & Walter Buhl Ford II. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog. Walter Buhl Ford II married Josephine Clay ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Promotional Mini Up Chair by Gaetano Pesce 2005
By Gaetano Pesce
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A very cool and extraordinarily rare promotional item by Gaetano Pesce for the 2005 Milan Triennale and Macef, the International Home Show. With an included insert that reads "Lavia...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Plastic
Christie's: Parham Park Pulborough, West Sussex, May 1996
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's: Parham Park. Pulborough, West Sussex. May 1996. Auction catalogue. 184 pp. 1052 lots. Color photos. With results. Property from Parkham Park Tr...
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1990s English New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Pair of Sotheby's Catalogues on Antiquities and Islamic Art
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's New York: Antiquities and Islamic Art, 1990. Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Western Asiatic Antiquities and Islamic Works of Art. 230 l...
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Late 20th Century New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Masterpieces of Painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Masterpieces of Painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Published by J. Paul Getty Museum, 1980. 1st Ed softcover. Rooted in a passion for the Italian Renaissance as well as Dutch and ...
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1980s American Vintage New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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1930s German Black Forest Hand Carved Wood Pipe
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1930s German Black Forest Hand carved wood pipe with antler top.
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1930s Vintage New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Wood
DOVES PRESS - Lucrece - Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece - LIMITED EDITION
Located in Middletown, NY
Hammersmith, The Doves Press, 1915. LIMITED EDITION. Small 4to, 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches (235 x 166 mm); xii, 76, colophon, errata, xiv pp.; printed in black a...
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Early 20th Century English New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Leather, Paper
Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer by J.M.Nash, First Edition
By J.M. Nash
Located in valatie, NY
The Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 271 pp. An overview of Dutch painting in the 17th century. The...
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20th Century American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Christies 2012 Important American Furniture, Chinese Export, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Christie's Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver & Chinese Export, Date - 19th - 23rd January 2012, No. of lots - 447, No. of pages - 326, Illustrated in color.
NPT Books,...
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21st Century and Contemporary New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
The Sarah P. Duke Gardens, A Wonderful Wander, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
The Sarah P. Duke Gardens, A Wonderful Wander. Durham: Duke University, 2006. Hardcover with dust jacket. 142 pp. A book on The Sarah P. Duke Gardens a...
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21st Century and Contemporary American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Sotheby's, the Ralph Richardson Collection, April 2001
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's: The Ralph Richardson collection, April 2001. Softcover auction catalogue with 351 lots on 152 pages of the famous actor. With results.
NPT Books a division of N.P. Trent A...
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Early 2000s English New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Paper
Sotheby's Furniture, Ceramics, Decorations, Estate of George Parker, Jr.
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's 19th Century Furniture, Ceramics, Decorations and Carpets including the Property from the Estate of George Parker, Jr. Texas and the Haussner F...
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1990s American New York - Collectibles and Curiosities
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