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E. BENEZIT - Dictionnaire Critique Et Documentaire Des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs Et Graveurs 8 Volume Set. The Bible of artists references. The Benezit Dictionary of Artists...

Fundamentals of Philately by L.N. Williams. Published by American Philatelic Society, 1990. 1st Ed hardcover. The book includes 2 chapters on general collecting and the remaining 13 ...

The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center Series.) by Carolyn J. Weekley, and Laura Pass Barry. 254 pp. with 173 illustrations, including 131 plates in f...

George Stubbs, Painter. Catalogue Raisonné by Judy Egerton. Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art, Published by Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2007. 1st Ed hardco...

Sotheby's Important Jewelry, NY, December 5th & 6th, 1984. First edition softcover catalog. 501 lots photographed in color and b&w.  

Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs by Fred Herzog. Signed Edition exhibition catalog (Vancouver Art Gallery January 25-May 13, 2007). 160 pages with numerous color photographs throughout. "Iconic and influential color images of Vancouver street life from a master photographer who has spent the past fifty years documenting the city, published to coincide with a major exhibition of his work. His eye dwells on the raw urban underbelly of the city: second-hand shops, vacant lots, barber shops and greasy spoons, crowded with people and their stuttering dreams. Since he arrived in Vancouver from Germany in 1953, Fred Herzog has roamed the city's back streets with his camera. Herzog draws upon documentary traditions while incorporating an outsider's sensitivity to a new environment. His color images of street life in the 1950s and '60s prefigure the "New Color" of photographers such as Stephen Shore and William Eggleston. The text includes essays by Grant Arnold...

Sotheby's Important Americana - Collection of Adolph Henry Meyer, 1st ed hardcover. New York: Sotheby's, 1996. With 222 lots illustrated (mostly in color) and annotated. A one of a k...

Discovering the secrets of soft-paste porcelain at The Saint-Cloud Manufactory ca 1690-1766. North Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 303 p...

Beaux-Arts Estates, A Guide to the Architecture of Long Island by Liisa and Donald Sclare. New York: Viking Press, 1980. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 274 pp. A tour of t...

The first book to focus exclusively on Harland Miller’s popular series of Letter Paintings Infused with irreverent wit and shaped by his love of language, Harland Miller’s playful a...

American Wicker: Woven Furniture from 1850 to 1930 by Jeremy Adamson. Rizzoli International Publications, 1993. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket. 176 pp. Beautifully illustra...

X Years Of COLL & CORTÉS. Published by Coll & Cortes, 2014, Spain. 1st Ed exhibit catalog. "To our surprise, it dawned on us that Coll & Cortes was rapidly approaching its tenth birthday. In ten years, a small office staffed by Nicolas, myself, and his six dogs, became prominent premises in the heart of Madrid and London, fourteen employees and - despite all the pessimists saying that the market in Spanish old masters...

David Hicks on bathrooms. Britwell Salome: Britwell Books Limited, 1970. First American edition hardcover with dust jacket. 151 pp. The third in a series of books on decorating by the famous English decorator David Hicks. He was known for his use of bold color, mixing antique and modern furnishings, and contemporary art for his famous clientele. He did projects for Vidal Sassoon...

Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945 by James Stourton. Publisher; Scala Books, London, 2008. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. "Great Collectors of Our Time" is the first major survey of contemporary collecting and collectors since Douglas Cooper's "Great Private Collections," published in 1963. It examines many of the greatest collectors of our time in Europe, North America and the Far East, and follows their tastes - whether in the Old Masters or the avant garde - from the 20th century into the 21st. In 1945, Paris was still the cultural capital of the world, but its culture was being increasingly challenged by America. American collecting was soon to pull up its European anchor and move across the Atlantic, in growing acceptance of America's own art, the decline in the domination of three European schools of art - Italian Renaissance, English 18th century and French 19th...

"The Journal des Dames et des Modes was an expression "of the most refined Parisian elegance, and illustrated by the most gifted designe...

Scaasi, A CUT ABOVE, Arnold Scaasi, New York: Rizzoli, 1996. Signed First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 190 pp. A beautiful fashion retrospective of the highly successful career of designer Arnold Scaasi with a look at the private, social and theatrical worlds of New York, Palm Beach and Hollywood. It tells of his rise from an apprentice to the world's top couturier. Some of his clients Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Mary Tyler Moore...

Valentin de Boulogne - Beyond Caravaggio by Annick Lemoine, Keith Christiansen and Sebastian Allard. Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New ...

The Cyril Humphris Collection of European sculpture and Works of Art, Part I and II. Tuesday, January 10, 1995. Sotheby's New York. Sotheby's, Humphris, the London dealer...

A Connoisseur's Guide to Antique Pottery & Porcelain by Ronald Pearsall. London: Tiger Books International, 1997. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 128 pp. Illustrated guide detailing the vast and varied types of pottery and porcelain with information on their history. More than 100 color photos and essential information for beginners and expert collectors of antique pottery and porcelain...

1 Volume. John Skelton. Mary Stuart.Bound in full green morocco by Tapley. Top edges gilt, raised bands, ornate floral gilt on covers and spines, limited...

Paris Porcelains in the New Orleans Museum of Art, by John W Keefe. New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, 1998. Printed in a limited edition of 2,000 copi...

Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America: A Centennial Retrospective 1912-2012 Charlotte Linvald, Janet Rauscher, Leth Ritzau, and Patricia and Edward Gallagher. The American-Scandinavian Foundation 2011. 1st Ed softcover. Published to commemorate the centennial of The American-Scandinavian Foundation, Luminous Modernism accompanies the exhibition at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America that sought to reflect on and update the Foundation's first-ever exhibition, the highly influential Exhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Art, held in 1912-1913. The original exhibition comprised 150 works by many of the leading artists working in Denmark, Norway and Sweden at the turn of the 20th c. Luminous Modernism brings together 48 works by Harriet Backer, Richard Bergh, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Vilhelm Hammershøi...

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...

BAM: (Brooklyn Academy of Music) The Complete Works by Steven Serafin. Brooklyn Academy of Music in Association with The Quantuck Lane Press, 2011. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. A lush and profusely illustrated history of the country's oldest performing arts center. BAM is at once the oldest performing arts center in the country and a renowned nexus for contemporary global and local culture. From its opening night in 1861, BAM has forged an unparalleled artistic legacy, emerging in the latter part of 20th c as the preeminent stage for the most visionary performers of the age. Its standard of excellence has defined and supported the institution through times of triumph as well as turmoil. This strikingly illustrated overview of BAM provides a narrative and visual chronicle of the institution's history and the countless artists integral to its identity, including Enrico Caruso, Isadora Duncan, Sarah Bernhardt, Merce Cunningham, Philip Glass, Pina Bausch, Robert Wilson, Bill T. Jones, Steve Reich, Laurie Anderson, Robert Lepage, William Christie, Mark Morris...

Sotheby's; Important English Furniture, European ceramics and decorations. New York: Sotheby's, 1998. Softcover. 260 pp. A Sotheby's auction catalogue of important English furniture, European ceramics and decorations. Pieces include a Wedgwood black and white jasper 'Pegasus' vase and cover, a George III inlaid mahogany wine cooler on stand, a rare Regency painted wooden doll house...

Une Autre Langue; Matisse et la Gravure by Claude Duthuit. Paris, France / New York, New York: Mona Bismarck Foundation, 2010. 1st Ed softcover exhibition catalog. 165 pp. Profusely ...

In Perfect Picture + Frame Harmony, 1850-1920 by Eva Mendgen. Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 1995. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 277 pp. A catalogue published to correspond with a ...

The Adventures of Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens. 1st Ed Thus hardcover with slip case. Oliver Twist, or the Parish Boy's Progress, Charles Dickens' 2nd...

Christie's December 2010 Important 20th Century Decorative Art & Design Collection of Max Palevsky. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog 426 lots illustrated in color and fully described...

Bonhams Sale, The Contents of Great Brampton House Sold by Order of Sir John and Lady Pidgeon. Wednesday 1 October 2008 Great Brampton House, Madley, Herefordshire. Over 700 lots of ...

Christie's: Palazzo Dal Pozzo Arredi e Dipinti Dalla, September 1998. Softcover auction catalogue 857 lots on 107 pages, all in color. Italian furniture, painting and accessories. NP...

Parrots of the World by Joseph Forshaw. Published by Doubleday & Co., New York, 1973. 1st U.S. Edition hardcover. From the macaws of South America to the cockatoos of Australia, parrots are among the most beautiful and exotic birds in the world--and also among the most endangered. This stunningly illustrated, easy-to-use field guide...

The long-awaited first career survey from photographer Amos Badertscher, who comprehensively documented a uniquely American queer underworld Across s...

Wallace Nutting General Catalogue, Supreme Edition. Exton: Schiffer Limited, 1977. A reprinted edition soft cover. A catalogue of Wallace Nutting's furniture originally published in ...

Long Island Modernism, 1930-1980, by Caroline Rob Zaleski. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. An essential reference for architectural followers, historians, and everyone who ...

Masters of Colour: Derain to Kandinsky - Masterpieces from Merzbacher Collection. Published by Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2002. 1st Ed paperback Exhibition Catalog at the Royal A...

Catalog accompanying an exhibition of Tom Wesselmann paintings held at New York’s Sidney Janis Gallery from October 15th to November 14th, 1992. Horizontal 8vo (10.25” x 8.25”), prin...

"The Arabesque Table is full to the brim with dishes which are rooted in tradition and at the same time creatively (and deliciously!) transcend it. It is wonderful!" - Yotam Ottolenghi "A dazzling set of recipes from Reem Kassis" – Nigel Slater "Reem Kassis's cookbooks tell of her Palestinian family, while giving a modern twist to such dishes as fatteh, lentil soup and pistaschio cake" - The Observer Food Monthly Acclaimed author Reem Kassis returns with a one-of-a-kind collection of original contemporary recipes tracing the rich history of Arab cuisine. The Arabesque Table takes inspiration from the traditional food of the Arab world, weaving Reem Kassis's historic research and cultural knowledge with her contemporary interpretations of an ancient, remarkably diverse cuisine. In her personal, engaging voice, Reem bridges past and present to open up the world of Arabic cooking today, showcasing a mosaic of 130 delicious, accessible home recipes. Organized by primary ingredient, the recipes and vivid photographs bring the dishes to life while her narrative offers not only a sense of taste, but a sense of time and place as well. More than just a compilation of modern Arabic recipes, The Arabesque Table celebrates the evolution of Arab cuisine and the stories of cross-cultural connection it recounts, paying tribute to the history and journey that have led to this point. With the past on full display in this heavily researched and exciting book, you will find dishes from the Golden Age of Islam: like Narjissiya (a fava bean and egg hash) and Makmoora (a layered chicken, onion and pine nut pot pie), as well as contemporary and globally inspired interpretations: like Tahini Cheesecake and Caramelized Butternut Squash Fatteh with Za'atar, revealing a cuisine that is vibrant, nourishing, and exciting, but above all, reminding us of how powerful food is in defining the relationship between people, place and identity. Specifications: Format: Hardback Size: 246 x 189 mm (9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in) Pages: 256 pp Illustrations: 129 illustrations Reem Kassis is the author of Phaidon's acclaimed cookbook The Palestinian Table, which won the Guild of Food Writers First Book award and a Gourmand World Cookbook award and was a James Beard Best International...

Sotheby's Ariane Dandois, October 2007, Volume II. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog. Sotheby’s New York presented a sale of property from the legendary Galerie Ariane Dandois in Pari...

The Ivory Hammer, The Year At Sotheby's 219th Season 1962 - 1963, by Sotheby's. With Ian Fleming's "The Property Of A Lady" insert, an original short stor...

‘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...

Sotheby's: The Wardington Library, Important Atlases and Geographies. Part One: A-K., London, 18 October 2005. 1st Ed hardcover catalog with 244 lots photographed in color and fully ...

Pleasures of the Porch by Daria Price Bowman & Maureen LaMarca. New York: Rizzoli, 1997. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 144 pp. Idea book for making the perfect porch no matter the style or location. The book discusses the history of the porch from ancient Greece, the outdoor sitting room of the Victorian era to modern times. Includes ideas for areas of solitude, outdoor rooms...

The Old World House: Its Furniture and Decoration, In two volumes, by Herbert Cescinsky. Published by The Macmillan Company, London, 1924. A pair of 1st ed hardcovers with gilded top edge. Herbert Cescinsky was an architect and writer active in the early 20th c. He was particularly interested in the development of English furniture and wrote profusely on the subject. This work is an interesting look at the furniture and decorations found in the interior designs in older houses in England. The author discusses oak chairs and tables, marqueterie furniture...

Ornamentalism: The New Decorativeness in Architecture and Design by Robert Jensen and Patricia Conway. Clarkson N. Potter, NY, 1982. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Forewor...

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...

The Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García by Tomas Llorens, Abigail McEwan and Frederic Tuten. Publisher Rizzoli International Publications, 2018. 1st Ed hard...

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...

Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain 1783-1840 by Henry Sandon. Woodbridge: The Antique Collectors' Club, 1992. Hardcover and dust jacket with glassine ...

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 ...

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...

The Loom of Art by Germain Bazin. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1962. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. In ten chapters of text and plates, Bazin,...

Christie's Magnificent Jewels Geneva May 27, 1993. First edition softcover. The 491 lot catalog on 181 pp. Color photographs throughout.  

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...

Kurt Schwitters by John Elderfield. Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1985. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 355 color and b/w illustrations by Kurt Schwit...

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...

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...

Promotional booklet advertising the Boda Glass Works and documenting the process of glass making at the Boda factory in southeastern Sweden. Published by Boda circa 1964. Showcases w...