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Exquisite cloth-bound edition of the Classic art-history text – the perfect gift for every art connoisseur and student For more than 60 years Ernst Gombrich's The Story of Art...

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The Thousand Islands of the Adriatic Hardcover Book 1965. Text by Antun Soljan Published by Yugoslavija 1st edition 1965.  

Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany's: A short novel and three stories. New York: Random House, 1958. First edition, first issue printing. Signed by Truman Capote. In the original publisher’s orange first issue dust jacket and yellow cloth binding. Presented with an archival clamshell case. This is a signed, first edition, first issue of Truman Capote's classic novella chronicling the adventures of the free-spirited Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's. In addition to the title novella, the book also includes three other short stories: House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory. The book is issued its first issue dust jacket with the 10/58 date code one the front flap. "First Printing" is stated on the copyright page and the book signed by the author “Truman Capote” on the front flyleaf. Capote originally sold his story Breakfast at Tiffany's to Harper's Bazaar for $2,000, with intended publication in its July 1958 issue. Shortly after the publication was scheduled, Harper's editor Carmel Snow was ousted by the magazine's publisher, the Hearst Corporation, and Hearst executives began asking for changes to the novella's language as there was concern that Tiffany's & Co., a major advertiser, would react negatively. The story was removed from the Harper’s Bazzar publication schedule but Capote soon resold the work to Esquire for $3,000. His novella appeared in Esquire’s November 1958 issue. A collection of the Breakfast at Tiffany’s novella and three short stories by Capote was published by Random House in the same year. The novella received glowing reviews. "If you want to capture a period in New York, no other book has done it so well. He could capture a period and place like few others" (Norman Mailer). The novella was quickly adapted for the 1961 hit film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard. Truman Capote was born in New Orleans and educated in New York and Connecticut. He worked in the Art Department of The New Yorker and as a writer on a television show before going on his own as a full-time writer. His first novel at age 24, Other Voices, Other Rooms, brought him literary fame and a strong following, which continued throughout his life, reaching a peak with the success of his "nonfiction” true...

The Paris Review No. 87 Spring 1983 Stories by James Baker Hall, Joyce Carol Oates, and Paul West. Poems by Stanislaw Baranczak, Czeslaw Milosz, and C. K. Williams. Feature include Timothy Tung "Literary Happenings: China: An Interview with Dong Leshan, Part Two." Artwork reproductions after Jean Michel Basquiat...

A collection of eleven volumes of the Country Life magazine, uniformly bound in an attractive Sangorski and Sutcliffe signed quarter morocco. A sumptuous...

Originally used in a church, this impressive French hand-forged iron music stand is designed so that a musician can stand on each side. Candleholders extend on the left and right to ...

Signed by Anne Walker Introduction by Peter Pennoyer Foreword by Mitchell Owens Photography by Eric Piasecki An art-filled, Cubism-inspired house ...

Sulphides The Art of Cameo Incrustation by Paul Jokelson. New York: Galahad Books, 1968. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 149 pp. A book on the art of cameo incrustation ca...

The acute observation, wit and color of Martin Parr's work since the mid-1980s has established him as one of the most successful and popular contemporary photographers and a leading ...

Monet: A Retrospective — Hardcover Art Book Beaux Arts Editions, 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover Coffee Table Art Book. Edited by Charles F. Stuckey Published by Hugh...

Vintage, 1955, first edition, Picasso, S.P.A.D.E.M. Paris, Boeck and Sabartes, Vintage, Pablo Picasso, First Edition, 1955. Pablo Picasso, Library or Coffee Table Book,. Description:...