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Item Ships From: Continental US
John Holland Rose, the Life of Napoleon I, Third Edition, 1903, 2 Volumes
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Rose, John Holland
Title: The Life of Napoleon I Including New Materials From The British Official Records.
Publisher: London: George Bell & Sons, 1903.
Description:...
Category
Early 1900s British Antique Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Original Eames Giant House of Cards
By Charles and Ray Eames
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Highly collectible, 1950s Eames Giant House of Cards for Tigrett Enterprises. This scarce first-edition deck contains the original 20 large cards ...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
A Ballad Upon a Wedding – Eric Ravilious engravings / Golden Cokerell Press
Located in Middletown, NY
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS
Suckling, Sir John
A Ballad Upon a Wedding; With Engravings by Eric Ravilious
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Pr...
Category
Early 20th Century English Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper, Parchment Paper
A&C Manual Turntable Cabinet "LAKE SIDE Shops" Wisconsin Stickley era SALE
Located in Shamokin Dam, PA
Antique Arts & Crafts Manual Turntable Cabinet by "Lake side Shops" Wisconsin
We purchased this item and found that it had a number of "Roycroft" 78 RPM records with it. It may hav...
Category
Early 20th Century Arts and Crafts Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Felt, Oak
$937 Sale Price
25% Off
Christies May 2005, 20th Century Decorative Arts, Paris, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Christies May 2005, 20th Century Decorative Arts, Paris, 1st Ed. 66 lots on 88 pages photographed in color and described. With results.
NPT Books, a division of Trent Antiques, has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Exotic - A Fetish for the Foreign
Located in New York, NY
A fascinating survey of the enduring human love affair with the exotic and the strange in art, architecture and design, and its impact on Western culture
Exotic explores our obsessio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$60 / item
"The Art of the Surfboard" Book Signed by Surfer Greg Noll - First Edition
By Greg Noll
Located in San Diego, CA
"The Art of the Surfboard" first edition book signed by legendary surfer Greg Noll (As well as author Drew Kampion and Jed Noll, Greg's son), circa 2007. The book, written by longtim...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
French Wooden Hat Form, circa 1910
s
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Early 20th Century French wood hat form, turban shape. The French hat form would make a wonderful hat rack, vanity accessory, or sitting high and mighty on a bookshelf. A conversatio...
Category
Early 20th Century French Victorian Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Anatomical Eye Model by New York Scientific Supply Co.
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Anatomical, composition, organ model of the eye by New York Scientific Co., Inc disassembles into six pieces deconstructing the eye and its nerves. Th...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Industrial Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Composition
Art Nouveau by Klaus-Jurgen Sembach
By TASCHEN
Located in Bradenton, FL
Art Nouveau by Klaus-Jurgen Sembach. Softcover book, published in 2002 by Taschen. Printed in Italy, illustrated, 240 pages.
Category
Early 2000s Italian Art Nouveau Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
18th Century Italian Gilded Boiserie Fragment
Located in Round Top, TX
A stunning 18th century boiseries fragment from the Veneto region of Italy. Beautifully crafted from carved wood, polychromed and gilded. the motif is of a delightful Putto or Angel ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Spielmann
Jerrold, Hugh Thomson His Art, First Edition 1931 in a Fine Binding!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: SPIELMANN, M. H. & Walter Jerrold.
Title: Hugh Thomson His Art His Letters His Humour And His Charm.
Publisher: London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1931.
Description: Firs...
Category
1930s British Vintage Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
American Victorian Scale and Height Measure
Located in Queens, NY
American Victorian standing scale with mahogany center post and brass weight and height measure with platform base on wheels (signed FAIRBANKS)
Category
Late 19th Century American Victorian Antique Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Scott Mitchell Houses
By Rizzoli International Publications, Calvin Klein
Located in New York, NY
A stunning volume that gathers the California designer's most impressive works to date, from coastal sanctuaries to modern country farms.
A master of his genre, Scott Mitchell is celebrated for his warm approach to connecting the built and natural environment. Sought after for their minimalist, material-driven aesthetic, Mitchell's houses are studies in space, materiality, and light. Emphasizing an elegant spatial order, his projects respond to the natural appeal of their locations, be they bucolic retreats on Long Island or resplendent beach houses overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
The first volume on his work, Scott Mitchell Houses is a sublime exploration of the architectural designer's impressive portfolio of projects. Dynamic compositions of light and shadow with a masterful use of concrete, Mitchell's monolithic forms draw on the surrounding environment via floor-to-ceiling windows that open onto vistas so cinematic that Tom Ford utilized one of Mitchell's homes in his neo-noir film Nocturnal Animals.
Through previously unpublished photographs, readers are given an exclusive view into eight pivotal projects that span the globe from the Hamptons to Melbourne, featuring images by Ross Bleckner, Scott Frances, Trevor Mein, and Steve Shaw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$65 / item
Vintage Illuminated Magnifying Glass Eagle Hong Kong
By Eagle Tool and Metal Mfg.
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Eagle Magnifying Glass Hong Kong
2.75 h x 4.5 diameter x 9.5 long
reading magnifying glass with light by EAGLE
stamped by maker
Preowned vintage condition
Refer to images
Category
Late 20th Century Hong Kong Mid-Century Modern Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
18th Century Giacomo Guardi Old Master Painting of Venetian Lagoon, Provenance
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Vero Beach, FL
18th century Giacomo Guardi old master painting of Venetian Lagoon. Provenance.
Old master painting in oil on canvas by the artist Giacomo Guardi (1764...
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Canvas
1965 Danish Language Bo Bedre Magazines Scandinavian Home Style Design 12 issues
Located in Miami, FL
Twelve issues 1965 Year of Bo Bedre (Live Better) Danish language vintage magazines of Scandinavian Home Style and Design. First published in March 1961. The magazines are in the Da...
Category
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$180 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Dunlaps
Their Furniture, First Edition
By The Currier Art Gallery
Located in valatie, NY
“The Dunlaps and Their Furniture”. Manchester: The Currior Gallery of Art, 1970. First edition softcover. 310 pp. An exhibition catalogue of Dunlap furniture...
Category
20th Century American Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
English Brass Nautical Ship Wheel Mounted with Yacht Binnacle on Rope Base, 1870
Located in Charleston, SC
English Brass Nautical ship wheel mounted on a solid brass pedestal with an yacht binnacle having a gimballed signed compass, circular six spoke w...
Category
1870s English William IV Antique Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Early 20th C Cast Iron Toy Sedan by A C Williams Original Red with Nickel Wheels
By A. C. Williams Company
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous and classic cast iron toy from the early thirties. In what looks like to the original Red with Nickel Wheels and the right amount of wear to th...
Category
1930s American Industrial Vintage Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron, Nickel
Tadao Ando Light and Space
Located in New York, NY
A stunning portfolio of work by Japan’s leading contemporary architect, showcasing exquisite photography of 28 extraordinary projects selected by Ando
Following the acclaimed first volume in Tadao Ando’s monograph series with Phaidon, Tadao Ando: The Colours of Light (1996), this new volume showcases the continual collaboration between Ando and photographer Richard Pare...
Category
2010s Chinese Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$150 / item
Windows on the past: Four Centuries of New England Homes by Jane Nylander 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Windows on the Past: Four Centuries of New England Homes by Jane Nylander. Published by Bulfinch Press/ Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2000. Stated 1st Ed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Treasures of the Qing Court, a Personal Perspective London 7 Nov. 2012 Sotheby
s
Located in valatie, NY
Treasures of The Qing Court, A Personal Perspective London 7 November 2012
by Sotheby's. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog. The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was the last ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
18th Century French Louis XVI Giltwood Barometer
Located in Sheffield, MA
A stunningly beautiful 18th century French gold gilt barometer is a weather instrument with mercury-filled glass thermometer still in working order...
Category
1790s French Louis XVI Antique Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Rings for the Finger Signed by the Author to the Publisher Frank Doubleday
Located in valatie, NY
Rings For The Finger : From The Earliest Known Times To The Present, With Full Descriptions Of The Origin, Early Making, Materials, The Archaeology, History, For Affection, For Love,...
Category
1910s American Vintage Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
1990s Vintage Dale Velzy balsawood longboard
By Dale Velzy
Located in Haleiwa, HI
Mid-1990s Velzy balsawood longboard shaped by the late Dale Velzy (1927-2005). Features a 5-stringer design with gorgeous wood fin and tail-block. A superb example of Dale Velzy shaped balsa surfboard and beautiful functional art piece.
Velzy is credited with conceptualizing many of the promotional techniques now considered a standard in the surfing world. This includes being the very first surfboard maker to form a surfing team, a practice which would became very popular in the future. Dale ‘Hawk’ Velzy made numerous contributions to the world of surfing and as a result was one of the first individuals to be inducted into the Hermosa Beach Surfers Walk of Fame in 2003, two years before passing away.
Velzy began shaping surfboards in the 1940's in Manhattan Beach, California. Board of the day were hard to ride and transport due to the size and weight. Velzy saw this as an opportunity and started to shape surfboards using lightweight balsawood which made the boards easier to ride and transport. He soon outgrew his first board shop in Manhattan Beach which was opened in 1950, this shop would later be credited as the first commercial surfboard factory.
Velzy later formed a partnership with the legendary board maker Hap Jacobs...
Category
1990s American Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fiberglass, Hardwood, Softwood
Inside New York, Discovering New York
s Classic Interiors, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Inside New York, Discovering New York's Classic interiors by Joe Friedman. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992. Stated first US edition hardcover with dust jacket. 128 pp. An o...
Category
20th Century American Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Pair of Painted Leather Giraffe Sculptures
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Charming pair of hand painted leather giraffe sculptures featuring a geometric pattern body and life like heads. Beautifully hand-crafted with expressi...
Category
20th Century Indian Mid-Century Modern Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
$1,200 / set
Large Taxidermy Blue and Gold or Blue-and-Yellow Macaw
Located in New York, NY
Taxidermy Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna)
The blue-and-yellow macaw, also known as the blue-and-gold macaw, is a stunning Neotropical parrot. This taxidermy specimen showcases ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Victorian Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Feathers
20th Century French Iron, Walnut Spotlight, Cinema Floor Spot Lamp by Clémançon
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A grey-black, vintage Mid-Century Modern French spotlight made of handcrafted lacquered iron, designed and produced by Clémançon in good condition. Th...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Brass, Iron
Grinling Gibbons, His Work as Carver by David Green, First Edition
By David Green 1
Located in valatie, NY
Grinling Gibbons, his work as carver and statuary by David Green. London: Country Life Ltd., 1964. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 207 pp. Illustrated throughout with black...
Category
20th Century English Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
M. Tinnayre, La Maison Du Péché, with H. Jourdain Etchings, Mylander Binding
Located in Middletown, NY
This enriched, Extra Illustrated, exquisitely-bound copy of Marcelle Tinayre’s La Maison du péché, illustrated by Henri Jordan, is further enhanced by its esteemed provenance. It will make a distinctive addition to the library of a discerning collector.
Marcelle Tinayre, La Maison du péché.
Paris: Société du Livre d’Art. Imprimerie Nationale, 1909. Limited Edition.
4to, 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. ( 266 x 197 mm); pp. [6], iv, 355, ii, [6]; 67 colored etchings by Henri Jourdain...
Category
Early 20th Century French Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
Scultura III Tomasso by Brothers Fine Art, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Scultura III Tomasso by Brothers Fine Art. Published by Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, 2010. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. 80 pages. The Tomasso Brothers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
18 Vol. William Shakespeare, The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of Wi
Located in New York, NY
18 Vol. William Shakespeare, The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakespeare with Memoir, Introductions, and Notes by Richard Grant White. The Old Stratford Edit...
Category
20th Century English Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
19th C Grand Tour Painting on Porcelain View of Vatican/St. Peter
s Basilica
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th century Grand Tour Painting on Porcelain View of Vatican/St. Peter's Basilica
Italy, circa 1880s
Standing in rectangular gilt bronze engraved frame with applied stylized flo...
Category
Late 19th Century Grand Tour Antique Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
$1,960 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage "Paul Klee" Art Book by Metropolitan Museum of Art
By Alexander Calder
Located in San Diego, CA
A vintage "Paul Klee" art book by Metropolitan Museum of Art, circa 1987. This hard to find paperback book is in good vintage condition and measures 9.5"W x 12"H. Beautiful book lar...
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Premier Quality Shoulder Mount Taxidermy Burchell
s Zebra
Located in New York, NY
Premier quality shoulder mount taxidermy Burchell's zebra, a southern subspecies of the plains zebra, from South Africa. This exquisite piece of art measures 33” x 16” x 30”, making it a rare and unique find for collectors and nature enthusiasts alike. The Burchell's zebra is named after the British explorer and naturalist William John Burchell and is also known as the bontequagga, Damaraland zebra, or Zululand zebra.
This zebra specimen boasts distinctive brown and white stripes that are particularly wide, creating a striking contrast against its coat. Moreover, each individual's stripe pattern is unique, which acts as an identifying characteristic similar to fingerprints in human beings. This shoulder mount taxidermy specimen is an excellent representation of the natural beauty and diversity of Burchell's zebra, which inhabits open savannas, woodlands, and scrublands of southeastern Africa.
This mount is not only visually appealing, but it also adds a touch of versatility to any living space. It can be easily mounted on a wall or as a table mount, making it an ideal focal point in a variety of settings. Whether it's displayed in a dinning room, office, living room or library this zebra mount...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary African Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Zebra Hide
Three Books on Violins and Violin Makers
By Willibaldd Leo Frh-v-Lütgendorff, John H. Fairfield, Dirk J. Balfoort
Located in valatie, NY
Three books on Violins and Violin Makers. Known Violin Makers by John H. Fairfield. New York: The Bradford Press, Inc. 1942. Stated first edition hardcove...
Category
Early 20th Century German Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
$395 / set
Two Chinese Antique Cinnabar Brooches Ric#JD012-1&2
Located in Norton, MA
Two Chinese Antique Cinnabar Brooches Ric#JD012-1&2
depicting floral patterns on both.
Dimensions:
Large: 2" x 1 3/4" x 1/4"
Small: 1 1/4" x 1" x 1/4"
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Other Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver
Thai Mandalay Style Large 41" Tall Carved Wood Buddha
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A large carved wood standing Buddha likely from Burma in the Mandalay style. The wooden statue is gilded and decorated with colorful inset mosaic glass stones. It features characteri...
Category
20th Century Thai Anglo-Indian Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
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...
Category
1990s American Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Great Houses of Britain by Nigel Nicholson, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Great Houses of Britain by Nigel Nicholson. Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1965. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Houses typify all the main architectural styles from t...
Category
1960s American Vintage Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Cinq-Mars; ou une conjuration sous Louis XIII - by Alfred de Vigny
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Urbain Canel, Editeur, 1826. First Edition. 2 VOLUMES
8vo.; 8 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches (213 x 130 mm), Vol. 1: [4], 4, 411, 1 [4]; Vol. 2: [4], 4, 494, 1, [4]. Binding signed LORTIC...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Leaf
John Smibert Colonial America
s First Portrait Artist, First Edition
By Richard H. Saunders
Located in valatie, NY
John Smibert Colonial America's first portrait artist by Richard H. Saunders. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. First edition hardcover with dus...
Category
20th Century American Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
A Set of 19th c. Carpenter
s Molding Wood Planes
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
Antique wooden carpentry planes used to make trim and moldings. Stamped "Ohio Tool Co." on the side. Shown with life size hand mold for scale.
CREATOR Unknown.
DATE ...
Category
19th Century Industrial Antique Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Walnut
The Great Exhibition
Located in valatie, NY
The Great Exhibition. New York: Gramercy Books, 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket. 328 pp. A facsimile of the illustrated catalogue of London's 185...
Category
20th Century American Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Antique Asian Temple Stone Relief Carved Architectural Element
Located in Forney, TX
A magnificent, rare, one of a kind, ancient Asian temple stone architectural panel, likely frieze fragment. Born in Asia, pre-18th century, most likely mu...
Category
18th Century Asian Ming Antique Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Stone
Journey: The Life
Times of an American Architect by Alan Wanzenberg, Signed
Located in valatie, NY
Journey: The Life and Times of an American Architect by Alan Wanzenberg, Signed and inscribed Stated Pointed Leaf Press 2013. 1st Ed hardcover no dust jacket as published. With a preface by prominent philanthropist, art collector, curator, and Wanzenberg's friend, Beth Rudin DeWoody. Featuring stunning, never-before-published images of Wanzenberg's projects by world-renowned photographer William Abranowicz. This is the first-ever monograph to chronicle the trajectory, work, inspirations, and motivations of esteemed New York architect and interior designer Alan Wanzenberg. For Wanzenberg, designing is nothing short of an intellectual process. With sensitivity to place and a deep understanding of design history, Journey showcases his original takes on archetypical styles, including American Arts & Crafts, Shaker, French Art Deco, and American Farmhouse. The result is always a seamlessly developed, beautifully understated home that is a perfect amalgamation of the client's taste and the project's context. Become inspired by the integral influences and experiences that comprise Wanzenberg's journey, all of which have led him to become the distinctive, high-profile, and well-accomplished designer that he is today. Esteemed New York architect and interior designer Alan Wanzenberg shares his intimate story and brilliantly crafted projects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hellas, a Lyrical Drama, First Edition 1822 the Huth Copy
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.
Title: Hellas. A Lyrical Drama.
Publisher: London: Charles and James Ollier, 1822.
Description: first edition the Huth copy. 1 vol., a large ...
Category
1820s British Antique Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
English Style, First Edition
By Stafford Cliff, Suzanne Sleisin
Located in valatie, NY
English Style by Suzanne Slesin and Stafford Cliff. NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1984. Stated first edition hardcover with dust jacket. 288 pp. An intimate l...
Category
20th Century American Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
American Three Masted Clipper Ship Model Sovereign of the Seas Under Glass, 20th
Located in Charleston, SC
American three masted clipper ship model displayed in a mahogany glass case. She was the fastest ship ever built in 1852. California clipper ship mo...
Category
20th Century American American Empire Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass, Mahogany, Pine, Paint
The Dream Come True - Great Houses of Los Angeles
Located in Bradenton, FL
The Dream Come True - Great Houses of Los Angeles, text by Brendan Gill, photographs by Derry Moore. Hardcover book with dustjacket. Stated first U.S. edition. Published in 1980 by L...
Category
1980s Modern Vintage Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Parrots of the World by Joseph Forshaw, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
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...
Category
1970s American Vintage Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Charles II Carved Crest Of The Arms Of Westminster School
Located in Essex, MA
A large crest with shell and scroll carved frame enclosing an azure ground with gilded coat of arms featuring a cross with four birds over lions and fleur de lis and Tudor roses. Onl...
Category
1670s English Baroque Antique Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Antique Carved Polychrome Crocodile Puppet
Located in Savannah, GA
An antique carved and polychromed crocodile puppet. Unidentified; early Punch and Judy puppet or Yoruban mask possibly.
4 inches wide by 9 inches long by 2 ¾ inches deep
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Antique Christmas Sledge With Toys Dolls Teddy Bears
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Antique artisan made Christmas wagon brimming with dolls, toys, teddy bears. Unique Holiday collectible.
Category
1950s American American Classical Vintage Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, First Trade Edition, in Dust Jacket
By Ernest Hemingway
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First trade edition, first issue. In the original first-state dust jacket and publisher’s black cloth boards. Presented in a new archival ¼ leather and cloth clamshell case, with raised bands, gilt tooling, and titles to the spine.
Presented is a first trade edition, first issue of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. The book was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York, in September of 1929. This first printing is presented with its original first issue dust jacket. The dust jacket, as designed by Cleonike Damianakes Wilkins, is considered by many to be one of the greatest of the 20th century and rivals even The Great Gatsby in its collectibility.
Set during World War I, A Farewell to Arms tells the story of a young American Lieutenant serving as an ambulance driver in Italy struggling through love and war. The story is told through first person narration detailing many aspects of war that would have been very familiar to readers at the time, as the book was published only 11 years after the 1918 armistice. The simple, direct tone his character uses when giving his unromanticized account of the war later defined Hemingway’s writing style.
A Farewell to Arms is loosely based on Hemingway’s own experiences. The author briefly served overseas as an ambulance driver in the Italian Army, sustained injuries, and met a nurse who he eventually proposed marriage to but was declined. The novel’s post-war disillusionist subject assigned Hemingway to the “Lost Generation” of Modernist artists.
A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway’s most successful publishing venture to date. Charles Scribner's Sons issued seven impressions of the novel in the short time between September and December of 1929, with over 100,000 volumes sold. The novel secured Hemingway’s place as a popular American author and became his first bestselling book.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy of words and dry understatement, strongly influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and his public image. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime; a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are now considered classics of American literature.
The book’s striking dust jacket design was illustrated by the artist Cleonike Damianakes Wilkins, who worked under the pen name of Cleon. Wilkins was known for her distinctive fusion of Art Deco and Hellenistic styles. She designed the dust jackets for Hemingway’s earlier The Sun Also Rises in 1926 and his later publication In Our Time in 1930, as well as Conrad Aiken’s Great Circle, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s All the Sad Young Men,and Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz.
Wilkins was chosen by Hemingway’s celebrated editor at Scribner’s, Maxwell Perkins. In order to differentiate Hemingway’s tale from other, competing WWI novels on the bookshop shelves, Perkins sought to widen its appeal through the dust jacket. The resulting design was Wilkins’ interpretation of Sandro Botticelli’s epic oil painting “Venus...
Category
1920s American Modern Vintage Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Boutiques 1929 Book, Paris
By Robert Mallet-Stevens
Located in New York, NY
Portfolio of Art Deco and early modernist Paris shops and boutiques, showing both interiors and exteriors, edited by Roger Poulain and published by Vincent Freal et Cie (Paris) in 1929. 72 (of 72) loose plates plus checklist enclosed in graphically striking printed paper-covered boards with ribbon ties. Includes projects by Eugene Printz, Claude Levy...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Antique Wood Moulding Plane Wooden Carpenter
s Tool 1800
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration, an antique wood moulding plane wooden carpenter's tool. Circa the 1800s.
Dimensions: 9.38 W x 3.25 H x 1.5 D
Please visit take a look at our listings, we ha...
Category
1880s American American Classical Antique Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Massive Moose Taxidermy Mount
Located in Bridgeport, CT
This is a large and majestic moose shoulder taxidermy mount. It is posed with the head in an upright position looking straight forward out into the room...
Category
20th Century Rustic Continental US - Collectibles and Curiosities
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Other
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