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Sotheby
s NY Important English Furniture
Related Decorative Arts, 1995
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's NY Important English Furniture and Related Decorative Arts, A Private Collection, April 22, 1995. Sotheby's NY, 1995. 1st Ed hard...
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1990s American Books
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Paper
Contemporary Glass by Susanne K. Franz
Located in Bradenton, FL
Contemporary Glass by Susanne K. Franz. Hardcover book with dustjacket, published in 1989 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. of New York. Printed and bound in Japan. 400 plates in full color, ...
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1980s Japanese Vintage Books
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Paper
Venetian Villas Michelangelo Muraro by Paolo Marton
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Venetian Villas Hardcover by Michelangelo Muraro (Author), Paolo Marton (Photographer).
Large heavy beautiful hardcover coffee table book.
A meticulously detailed survey of nearly 80...
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Late 20th Century Italian Classical Roman Books
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Paper
MALORY, (Arthur Rackham). The Romance Of King Arthur - SIGNED LIMITED EDITION
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: MALORY, Thomas, (Arthur Rackham).
TITLE: The Romance Of King Arthur And His Knights Of The Round Table.
PUBLISHER: London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1917.
DESCRIPTION: SIG...
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1910s British Vintage Books
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Leather
Izaak WALTON. The Compleat Angler. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham FIRST TRADE ED
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: WALTON, Izaak.
TITLE: The Compleat Angler.
PUBLISHER: London: George C. Harrap & Co., 1931.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST TRADE EDITION. 1 vol., 9-3/4" - 7-9/16", illustrated by Art...
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1930s British Vintage Books
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Leather
From the Land Backen, Gillam,
Kroeger Architects Hardcover Book
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
From the Land: Backen, Gillam, & Kroeger Architects Hardcover Book.
October 8, 2013 by Erhard Pfeiffer (Photographer), Stanley Abercrombie (Afterword), Diane Keaton.
Elegant rustic...
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21st Century and Contemporary American American Classical Books
Materials
Paper
1966 Italian Cinema Today by Gian Luigi Rondi First Edition
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
1966 Italian Cinema Today by Rondi Gian Luigi First Edition.
Collectible rare 1st Edition large hardcover book.
Printed in Italy, first edition of « Italian cinema today » written by Rondi, Gian Luigi, Text By Foreword By Bosley Crowther.
A Fine, rare and out of print film books from the silents to the present, this book includes posters, stills and other film memorabilia.
This book, printed in Italy in its english version, shows the classic pictorial on Italian movies arranged by 22 directors both famous and unknown.
Italian Cinema Today is a book by Gian Luigi Rondi published in 1966. It is a study of the history of Italian cinema from 1952 to 1965, with biographies and analyses of the works of 22 directors, including Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Roberto Rossellini...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Expressionist Books
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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 Books
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Paper
Post-Impressionism, Royal Academy of Arts 1979-80
Located in Bradenton, FL
Post-Impressionism, published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1979-80. Softcover book, printed in England and Italy, illustrated, 303 pages.
Category
1970s English Vintage Books
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Paper
Andy Warhol
s Index First Edition 1967
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This original 1967 first printing of Andy Warhol’s Index (Book) is a landmark of Pop Art publishing. Beneath its striking metallic softcover lies a playful world of pop-up brilliance...
Category
1960s Vintage Books
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Paper
Architecture of Robert
James Adam
1758-1794
; 2 Volumes, 1st Ed, c1922
Located in valatie, NY
The Architecture of Robert & James Adam (1758-1794); Two Volumes, by Arthur T. Bolton. Published by Country Life, London, 1922. 1st Ed hardcovers no dust ja...
Category
1920s Vintage Books
Materials
Paper
Art and the Machine Book by Sheldon and Martha Cheney
Located in New York, NY
Seminal early consideration of Machine Age design and architecture in America, tracking the rise of the industrial design profession, written by Sheldon and Martha Cheney and publish...
Category
1930s American Machine Age Vintage Books
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Paper
The Little White Bird by J. M. Barrie - creator of PETER PAN
Located in Middletown, NY
PETER PAN makes his first appearance in this 1902 novel by J. M. Barrie.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1902.
FIRST EDITION / FIRST ISSUE
Small 8vo., 7 3/8 x 5 inches (188 x 127 mm)...
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Early 20th Century English Books
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Gold Leaf
An Edinburgh Eleven by J. M. Barrie - creator of PETER PAN
Located in Middletown, NY
FIRST EDITION / FIRST ISSUE
An Edinburgh Eleven; Pencil Portraits from College — "British Weekly" Extras, No. III.
London: British Weekly Office, 1889.
12mo, 7 x 4 1/2 inches (178...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Books
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Gold Leaf
Vintage Soviet Book: Poetry of the Great Patriotic War and the Post-War, 1J58
Located in Bordeaux, FR
Step back in time and immerse yourself in the poignant verses of the Soviet era with this vintage book from the USSR. Published circa 1983, this captivating collection titled "Poetry...
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1980s Vintage Books
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Paper
Harper
s Bazaar First in Fashion
Located in New York, NY
Written by Marianne Le Galliard and Éric Pujalet-Plaà, Foreword by Olivier Gabet and Glenda Bailey
A fascinating look at one of the most groundbreaking publications in the world, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Paper
$75 / item
Antique Leather Spine 6 Volumes National Geographic Magazine 1924 1925 and 1926
Located in Miami, FL
Set of antique 1924/1925 and 1926 National Geographic Magazines. 6 Well bound leather-spine & corners and dark cloth books, 2 volumes per year, January-June and July-December. A ti...
Category
1920s American International Style Vintage Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Set of 4 Antique Distressed Books for Decoration, C.1800
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderfully distressed books with a lovely color of boards and equally beautiful fore edges.
They are random volumes of The Encyclopedia Britannica...
Category
Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Books
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Paper
100 Designers
Favorite Rooms Projects of the World
s Finest Designers 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
100 Designers' Favorite Rooms: Selected Projects of the World's Finest Designers and Architects by John L. Pellam. Barons Who's Who, 1993. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This book shows landmark projects from North America, Asia, Europe, and other regions, and residential projects in private estates, penthouses, and vacation villas around the world. Each featured room is accompanied by color photos, with background on the projects and the designers, plus photos of each of the designers. Includes a photographers' index and an index of featured designers...
Category
1990s American Books
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Paper
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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20th Century English Books
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Paper
Urban Architecture European Masters/3 Hardcover in Slipcase 1991
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Urban Architecture European Masters/3 Hardcover in Slipcase 1991.
First Edition. Hardback.
Fine copy in the original color printed boards.
Complete with a fine, color printed slipcas...
Category
Late 20th Century Spanish Post-Modern Books
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Paper
Hudson River Journey Images from Lake Tear of the Clouds Signed 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Hudson River Journey Images from Lake Tear of the Clouds to New York Harbor by Hardie Truesdale and Joanne Michaels. Signed Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket by Countryman Pre...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Paper
Great Houses of N. England by Roderic Blackburn
Geoffrey Gross, Signed 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Great Houses of New England by Roderic Blackburn, Text and Geoffrey Gross, Photography. Rizzoli, NY, 2008. Signed by the author 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. In the tradition of Rizzoli's Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley and The Houses of McKim, Mead & White, Great Houses of New England features a stunning array of newly photographed houses that range over four centuries and are distinctive examples of the architecture of the region--from the mid-17th-c New England Colonial Judge Corwin House (Witches...
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Early 2000s American Books
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Paper
Architectural Treasures of Early America Complete 8 Volume Set, by Robert Milner
Located in valatie, NY
Architectural Treasures of Early America Complete 8 Volume Set, by Robert Milner. Arno Press, 1977. Complete set of 8 volumes:
Vol. 1 Early Homes of Massachusetts
Vol. 2 Colonial Ar...
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1970s American Vintage Books
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Paper
The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors by Eileen Harris, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors by Eileen Harris. Published by Paul Mellon Centre BA, 2001. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in b & w and color. "Rob...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Paper
Cookbook Book
Located in New York, NY
Featuring 125 seminal cookbooks from the last 100 years, Cookbook Book is a celebration of the world's most beautiful, influential and informative cookbooks.
From the tried-and-tr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Books
Materials
Paper
$60 / item
Mansions To Dream, to Live, to Feel Hardcover Designer Book
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Mansions To Dream, to Live, to Feel Hardcover.Form, symmetry, and proportion unite to form the unique style of the mansions of Mexico. The shape of Mexican mansions is an experience ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Spanish Colonial Books
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Paper
Thomas Chippendale
s, the Gentleman and Cabinet Makers Director, Facsimile
Located in valatie, NY
Thomas Chippendale's, The Gentleman and cabinet makers Director. Published by The Chippendale Society, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2005. 1st Ed thus hardcover with dust jacket. A beautifu...
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21st Century and Contemporary English Books
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Paper
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, E. Fitzgerald translation, Club Bindery
Located in Middletown, NY
From the library of John A. Spoor an elegantly bound Rubáiyát by Club Bindery.
Omar Khayyám, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald.
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám; The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1872. Third Edition.
8vo, 8 1/4 x 6 inches (210 x 153 mm); xxiv, 36, (xiv) pp. Beautiful dark maroon morocco binding by Club Bindery 1892 (gold stamped on bottom of inside cover), gilt titling and gilt fillets on turn-ins and board edges, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Pictorial bookplate of John A. Spoor 1921 on inside front cover by Emery Walker. Elegantly printed with text within decorative frames on each page. Spine lightly rubbed, small tear to the inside front endpaper.
[Potter, 137]
Condition: Near Fine
Edward Fitzgerald continually revised and rearranged his version of the Rubáiyát, which was first published privately by the author in 1859, through four distinct editions during his lifetime. This third edition settled on 101 quatrains (as opposed to 75 in the first edition and 110 in the second), which is how it solidified. 500 copies were printed. A RARITY.
In this third edition the translator is not credited on the title page, nor is the introductory text. Fitzgerald said of his Persian translations that they were "All very well, but very little affairs..." (from the Bibliographical Note in the 1926 Shakespeare Head Press edition, which we are offering, inventory #416)
This copy bears the bookplate of Chicago business mogul John A. Spoor. An avid book collector, he assembled a notable and impressive book collection during the late 19th and early 20th century, which was auctioned in 1939 by Parke-Bernet New York over the course of 6 days. The Morgan Library holds a number of books with the Spoor bookplate in its collections. This bookplate was engraved by Emery Walker (1851 – 1933), an engraver, publisher and photographer active in the Arts and Crafts movement, whose work in type design inspired the evolution of private presses in the UK, among them William Morris' Kelmscott...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Roughing It by Mark Twain, First American Edition, Later State, 1872
By Mark Twain
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Twain, Mark, Roughing It. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1872. First American Edition, Later State. Illustrated throughout, with plates and in-text. In publisher’s black clo...
Category
1870s American Antique Books
Materials
Fabric, Paper
Avedon/Baldwin: Nothing Personal (Signed by Richard Avedon)
Located in New York, NY
First edition of Richard Avedon’s provocative second book, a collaboration with the writer James Baldwin (a friend and former classmate) who provided the text accompanying Avedon’s i...
Category
1960s American Modern Vintage Books
Materials
Paper
Justice Warren Shepro Collection of Clocks: Sotheby
s NY, April 26, 2001, 1st Ed
By Sotheby
s
Located in valatie, NY
Justice Warren Shepro Collection of Clocks: Sotheby's NY, April 26, 2001. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. The catalogue of a famous collection sold in New York. Shepro collected e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Paper
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 Books
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Paper
Great Escapes: Italy Angelika Taschen and Christiane Reiter Hardcover Book
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Great Escapes: Italy Angelika Taschen and Christiane Reiter Hardcover Book.
To travel through Italy is as close as one gets to being in paradise. For centuries, writers, artists, architects, and merchants have been drawn here, inspired by the beauty of Venice, Florence, Naples, and Rome. Countless books, paintings, poems, and sculptures are evidence of its undying appeal, and over the past 60 years, the country has become one of the world’s top travel and holiday destinations. The loveliness of Italy—its architecture, landscapes, culture and food (some of the world’s finest!)—if not eternal, is certainly enduring, and the easygoing and relaxed Italian lifestyle, il dolce far niente, is still unrivaled.
Here, some of Italy’s most amazing landscapes are brought to life, like Lake Como (residence of George Clooney), Venice, Florence and Tuscany, the Amalfi Coast, and no less magical, the Aeolian Islands off the coast of Sicily. In these mythical surroundings are legendary hotels full of atmosphere, where novels are set, movies are made, weddings are celebrated, and famous love stories consummated: Villa d’Este on Lake Como, the Hotel Splendido...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Country Books
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Paper
Art Now From Abstract Expressionism to Superrealism by Edward Smith, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Art Now: From Abstract Expressionism to Superrealism by Edward Smith. Published by William Morrow & Co, 1977. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. "The author as noted in the introduct...
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1970s American Vintage Books
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Paper
Art:21, Art in the 21st Century
Located in valatie, NY
Art:21, art in the 21st century. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001. Hardcover with dust jacket. 216 pp. A companion volume to a PBS series which introduced 21 artists working in ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Paper
Koichi Takada: Architecture, Nature, and Design
Located in New York, NY
Author Koichi Takada, Text by Philip Jodidio
The first monograph on the Japanese-born, Sydney-based architect, celebrated for his innovative holistic approach to design, nature, and urbanism.
Koichi Takada is part of a new generation of architects striving to bring nature back into the urban environment—an approach he developed after living in Tokyo, New York, and London. His architecture reconnects people to the natural environment, drawing inspiration from organic forms and local contexts.
This elegant volume showcases a series of Takada’s recent projects, illustrating the unique way his talent connects the natural and the designed, and how it has evolved over the last ten years. Beautiful photographs of buildings and interiors juxtapose against sketches and images of nature—illustrating the aesthetic inspirations behind the designs and the way they embody light, air, and even sound. Philip Jodidio’s texts guide readers through the range of spaces that span from the interiors of the award-winning National Museum of Qatar in Doha and Urban Forest in Brisbane, the “greenest residential building in Australia,” to striking buildings in Sydney, Melbourne, Los Angeles, China, and the construction of a new space in Tokyo. This unique architectural journey will inspire readers to see architecture with a new mindset.
About The Author
Koichi Takada graduated from AA School of Architecture, London, and established his own practice, Koichi Takada Architects, in 2008. Philip Jodidio is a specialist in contemporary architecture. As well as having been the editor in chief of the French art magazine Connaissance des Arts for more than twenty years, he is the author of over 100 books...
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21st Century and Contemporary Books
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Paper
20th Century French Pair of Wooden Bookstands in Clogs Shape
Located in Sofia, BG
Very stabile pair of wooden handmade book stands with nice decoration.
France, circa 1920.
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Early 20th Century French Books
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Wood
Andrew Lang, the Blue Poetry Book, Publisher
s Presention Copy, 1891
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Lang, Andrew.
Title: The Blue Poetry Book.
Publisher: London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891.
Description: publisher's presention copy. 1 vol., 7-3/16" x 5-1/4", blind stamped publisher's presentation to title page, illustrated by H. J. Ford & Lancelot Speed...
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1890s British Antique Books
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Leather
Modigliani and his Models by Emily Braun
Simonetta Fraquelli (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Drawing on the latest scholarship, some of the foremost authorities on the artist consider the sensual nudes that caused such a sensation at the time and the portraits and the figure...
Category
20th Century Books
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Paper
Pottery and Porcelain of All Times, First Edition
By William C. Prime 1
Located in valatie, NY
Pottery and porcelain of All Times and Nations by Wm. Prime. NY: Harper and Bro., 1878. First edition hardcover. One of the first references on pottery and porcelain collecting. What...
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19th Century American Antique Books
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Paper
Gloria in Excelsis Deo – exquisite pop up book by Vojtěch Kubašta
Located in Brønshøj, DK
Gloria in Excelsis Deo – A Masterpiece by Vojtěch Kubašta
Delight in the timeless artistry of Gloria in Excelsis Deo, a rare pop-up book created by the renowned Czech artist and pap...
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Mid-20th Century Czech Books
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Paper
Up, Down
Other Opposites with Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Ellsworth Kelly’s paintings and sculptures are the heroes of this visual exploration of opposites
Up, Down & Other Opposites pairs different combinations of Ellsworth Kelly’s painti...
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2010s Chinese Books
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Paper
English House Style from the Archives of Country Life
Located in New York, NY
An inspirational look at the most iconic interior styles of magnificent English country houses: a thousand years of decorating as told through famous and many never-published photographs, all culled from the incomparable archive of Country Life magazine.
This gorgeously illustrated tome is as indispensable as it is beautiful, a rich resource and a visual guide of quintessential British country house style for decorators, architects, designers, and the many armchair travelers who fantasize about revitalizing or re-creating their own castle on the hill.
English House...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Books
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Paper
Southern Interiors: A Celebration of Personal Style
Located in New York, NY
Visit the homes of designers, artists, and tastemakers across the southern United States in this celebration of gracious living and personal style
In Southern Interiors, the first b...
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2010s American Books
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Paper
Finden
s Illustrations for the Life and Works of Lord Byron
Located in Middletown, NY
Brockedon, William, William Finden, and George Gordon, Lord Byron
Finden's Illustrations for the Life and Works of Lord Byron; With Original and Selected Information on the Subjects ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Books
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Leather, Paint, Paper
The Painter
s Mind (Co-authored by Romare Bearden)
Located in New York, NY
First edition of an exposition on structure and space in painting co-authored by American artists Romare Bearden and Carl Holty. Published in 1969 by Crown Publishers. 8vo (6.5” x 9....
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1960s American Modern Vintage Books
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Paper
The Sculptures of Picasso Photographs by Brassaï 1949 1st Edition
By Brassaï, Pablo Picasso
Located in CA, CA
First edition, published by Rodney Phillips
Co, 1949.
A very important book of Picasso's sculptures beautifully photographed by the renowned French photographer Brassaï, a clo...
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Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Seminal guide to the East and West Indies, with 42 coloured maps and plates
Located in ZWIJNDRECHT, NL
Seminal guide to the East and West Indies, with 42 double-page and folding plates, including 6 maps, all engravings beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand
LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygh...
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Early 17th Century Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique Books
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Paper
$267,466 Sale Price
25% Off
Squares
Other Shapes
Located in New York, NY
Learn the wonder of different shapes through the art of Josef Albers
Squares & Other Shapes uses the vivid artworks of Josef Albers to guide children through a wide range of geometr...
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2010s Chinese Books
Materials
Paper
$10 / item
The Antique Hunter
s Guide - Set of 3
Located in Bradenton, FL
The Antique Hunter's Guide to American Furniture (tables, chairs, sofas & Beds), American Furniture (chests, cupboards, desks & other pieces), and American Silver & Pewter. Published...
Category
Early 2000s Hong Kong Books
Materials
Paper
$355 / set
Jean Prouve by Enrico Navarra (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A scarce book of 270 pages packed with colour photographs and illustrations showing the works and furniture of this much sought after designer. What text there is, is in both French ...
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20th Century Books
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Paper
Winterthur by Jay E. Cantor
Located in Bradenton, FL
Winterthur by Jay E. Cantor, the foremost museum of American furniture and decorative arts. Hardcover book with dustjacket, published in 1986 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. of New York. 24...
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1980s Vintage Books
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Paper
HOUSE OF LORDS. Remembrances for Order. 1712 - WITH THE GILT ARMS OF QUEEN ANNE
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: HOUSE OF LORDS.
TITLE: Remembrances for Order and decency to be kept in the Upper house of Parliament by the Lords, when His Majesty is not there.
PUBLISHER: London, May 7...
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1710s English Antique Books
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Leather
History of the Discovery of America by Henry Trumbull, 1832
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Trumbull, Henry. History of the Discovery of America: Of the Landing of our Forefathers at Plymouth, and of Their Most Remarkable Engagements with the Indians in New-England, From Th...
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1830s American Early Victorian Antique Books
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Leather, Fabric, Paper
125 Years of Louis Vuitton (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Two books in soft covers housed in a brown cloth covered slip case with cream lettering. One volume illustrates Louis Vuitton products through the years, the second illustrates the "...
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20th Century Books
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Paper
$275 / set
Ladislav Sutnar Design (A-D Gallery, 1947)
Located in New York, NY
Small format catalog of Ladislav Sutnar’s first one-man exhibition in the United States, held from January 10-February 28, 1947 at New York City’s A-D Gallery. Sponsored by The Compo...
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1940s American Machine Age Vintage Books
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Paper
Vintage Book, By The Clock of St James
s, Percy Armytage, Literary Memoir, 1927
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage copy of By The Clock of St James's by Percy Armytage, published in 1927 and originally compiled during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. A bound and illustrated ...
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Mid-20th Century British Art Deco Books
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Paper
Original Ladislav Sutnar Catalog Design Progress
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Oblong Quarto. Unpaginated. Original spiral-bound cream boards with modern design in color on cover reverse white lettering on red label of spiral, in original tan dustjacket with cu...
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1950s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Books
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Paper
Large Set of Old Dutch Books about the Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1782
Located in Langweer, NL
Title: Vaderlandsche historie, vervattende de geschiedenissen der nu Vereenigde Nederlanden, inzonderheid die van Holland, van de vroegste tyden af [...].
21 vol., 8vo (1 sm. tear in map in vol. II; normal minor browning or spotting). - Reissue of the 2nd Tirion ed. (1770, 1st 1749-1759) of the account of the rise of the Dutch Republic with historical notes and references by the Dutch historian J. Wagenaar (1709-1773), until the year 1751. Engr. ill. by J. Folkema, P. Tanjé, J.C. Philips, J. Houbraken, S. Fokke, etc.: front. by J. Punt, 5 large folding maps (e.g. "Naaukeurige kaart van het Oude Nederland en eenige aangrenzende gewesten", "Oude kaart der nu Vereenigde Nederlanden", "Nieuwe kaart van het oostelijkste deel der weereld diendende tot aanwijzing van de scheepstogten der Nederlanderen naar Oostindië"), 1 city-plan of Leiden, 105 full-page portraits (e.g. of Erasmus, Philips of Marnix of St Aldegonde, Prince Maurice, Albert & Isabella, Kenau, Hugo De Groot, Piet Hein, Michiel de Ruyter...
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Late 18th Century European Antique Books
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Paper
$1,378 Sale Price / set
20% Off
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