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The World of Comets; by Amedee Guillemin, Edited by James Glaisher, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The World of Comets; by Amedee Guillemin, Translated and Edited by James Glaisher. Published in London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877. 1st Ed leather hardcover. Wit...
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Antique 1870s Books
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Paper
The Chop Suey Club (Signed)
By Bruce Weber
Located in New York, NY
First edition of of this collection of photographs by American fashion photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber, whose ad campaigns include projects with Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Revlon, Armani, Louis Vuitton, and Versace and whose editorial work has appeared in Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Elle, Life, Interview, and Rolling Stone magazines. Published in 1999 by Arena Editions. 8vo (6.75” x 8.5”), 284 pages, hardcover with photographic dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with full-page photography in color and b/w on matte paper. Snippets of text by James Agee, Robert Frost, T.E. Lawrence, Shel Silverstein...
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1990s American Modern Books
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Paper
KENDALL, Augustus. Burford Cottage
Its Robin Red Breast. FIRST EDITION - 1835
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: KENDALL, Edward Augustus.
TITLE: Burford Cottage And Its Robin Red Breast.
PUBLISHER: London: for many, 1835.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., 7-7/8" x 4-7/8", frontis...
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Antique 1830s British Books
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Fabric
1 Vol. Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book. First Trade Edition
Located in New York, NY
1 Vol. Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book. First Trade Edition. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 23 plates included throughout. Illustrated portrait frontispiece. Marbled endpapers. Al...
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20th Century English Books
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Leather
Quality Street by J. M. Barri - FIRST EDITION, DELUXE, illustr. by Hugh Thompson
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913.
Illustrated by Hugh Thompson. First, Limited Edition.
4to, Deluxe Edition, 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (312 x 242 mm); pp. viii + 198 + 2. Twenty-two ...
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Early 20th Century American Books
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Gold Leaf
American Arts
Crafts Virtue in Design Book by Leslie Greene Bowman
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design. soft cover.
by Leslie Greene Bowman, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990 - Design - 255 pages
Influenced...
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Late 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Books
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Paper
"The Big Nude" Sumo Book with Stand Helmut Newton Taschen New Dust Jacket
By Helmut Newton, TASCHEN
Located in Atlanta, GA
Helmut Newton's Sumo book. The first Sumo and also the most exciting and collectible one ever published by Taschen. The book comes with two dust jackets. The outer one has some heavy...
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1990s German Modern Books
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Chrome
Christie
s The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Christie's hardback auction catalogue Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th October 1999 New York.
In October of 1999, Anna Strasberg sourced Christie’s, the renowned auction company, to ...
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20th Century Books
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Paper
1848 History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution
By Archibald Alison
Located in Bath, GB
A wonderful copy of the seventh edition of Alison's exhaustive study of the French Revolution, from 1789 to 1815. In lovely half calf bindings.
A complete twenty volume 1848 seventh...
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Antique 1840s British Books
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Paper
Vintage Collection of “Global Interior” Design Publications- set of 7
Located in Cordova, SC
Nearly a complete set of the Global Interior publication that was produced for the Japanese market. Missing three of the ten volumes, numbers 2, 4, and 10. The photos are what speak ...
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Vintage 1970s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Andy Warhol a Retrospective Hard-Cover Coffee Table Book, 1989
By Andy Warhol, MOMA Museum New York
Located in New York, NY
An '80s Late-20th century 'Andy Warhol A Retrospective' hard-cover library or coffee table book by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1989...
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Vintage 1980s American Expressionist Books
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Paper
American Fashion: The Life
Lines of Many Designers 1st Ed Signed 2x by Trigere
Located in valatie, NY
American Fashion: The Life and Lines of Adrian, Mainbocher, McCardell, Norell, and Trigere by Robert Riley; Dale McConathy; Sally Kirkland; Bernadine Morris; and Eleni Sakes Epstein....
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Vintage 1970s American Books
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Paper
1847 The Plays of William Shakespeare
By William Shakespeare
Located in Bath, GB
A beautifully bound complete eight volume edition of the dramatic works of William Shakespeare.
A charming eight volume edition of Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies, ...
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Antique 1840s British Books
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Paper
Irving Penn: Photographs in Platinum Metals--Images 1947-1975 (Doubly Inscribed)
By Irving Penn
Located in New York, NY
Catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition of Irving Penn’s experimental platinum-emulsion photographs held at New York City’s Marlborough Gallery from September 8-October 1...
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Vintage 1970s American Modern Books
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Paper
From Marseille to New York 1940-1945, French/English Book, by Bernard Noel, 1985
By Modern History
Located in Atlanta, GA
Marseille - New York. 1940-1945, une liaison surrealiste (Marseille - New York. 1940-1945, a surrealistic link), French/English book by Bernard Noel, 1985.
Through archival photograp...
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Vintage 1980s French Modern Books
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Paper
Leonardo Da Vinci, French Book by Jean-Claude Frere, 1994
By Leonardo da Vinci
Located in Atlanta, GA
Leonard de Vinci (Leonardo Da Vinci), French book by Jean-Claude, Frere, 1994.
Leonardo da Vinci is often regarded as the greatest artist of all time. This book retraces his career a...
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1990s French Beaux Arts Books
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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...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Expressionist Books
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Paper
Charles Baudelaire: Souvenirs, Correspondances, Bibliographie, pièces inédites
Located in Middletown, NY
Charles Baudelaire: Souvenirs, Correspondances, Bibliographie, suivie de pièces inédites
Paris: René Pincebourde, 1872.
First, Limited Edition, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED.
Small 8vo 8 12 x...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Books
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Gold Leaf
Italian Light 1960-1980 by Paolo Palma
Carlo Vannicola (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
One hundred lamps from the Cortopassi collection
A collection of lamps designed by various designers such as Gino Sarfatti, E Sottsass Jr, Tobia Scarpa, Sergio Asti, Giorgio Reggior...
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20th Century Books
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Paper
c1920 Jane Austen
s Works
Located in Bath, GB
The complete published novels by Jane Austen, a lovely set published by Riviere, complete with a colour frontispiece to each volume.
The scarce Robert Riviere & Son edition of Jane ...
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Vintage 1920s British Books
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Paper
Alphonse Mucha
s Documents Decoratifs (Complete in Four Portfolios)
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in New York, NY
Suite of 72 lithographic plates on wove paper, many in color, plus expository pages (title page, half-title page, preface) and four covers. Published in Paris in 1902 by Librairie Ce...
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Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Books
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Paper
All_vellum Copy of R. L. Stevenson
s Virginibus Puerisque
Located in Middletown, NY
Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers.
London: Chatto & Windus for the FLORENCE PRESS, 1910. Limited Edition.
4to, 10 x 7 1/2 in. (253 x 189 mm); [6] leaves, including 1 blank + 120 pp + [2] leaves, including 1 blank. 12 chromolithographed plates by Norman Wilkinson, printed on plate paper and not included in the pagination, legends on tissue guards printed in red. This is COPY no. 4 OF 12 COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM, as noted on the limitation page, on verso of second leaf: «Of this edition of Virginibus Puerisque / have been printed on Aldwych hand- / made paper 250 copies, of which 235 are / for sale; on vellum 12 copies, of which 10 / are for sale. / Vellum Copy No. 4». Limp vellum binding with four green ties; gilt lettering on spine and upper cover, t.e.g. Very faint spotting to front free endpaper, slight offsetting of ties. Otherwise a pristine copy.
Provenance: William Russell Flint (from the family, by descent).
[Beinecke, Stevenson 79; Ransom 278:6; Tomkinson 85:6; Prideaux 13] Fine.
A splendid edition of Stevenson's first collection of essays which promote a spirit of playfulness in defiance of both the hardships of human life and the restrictions imposed by bourgeois callowness. The volume brought together essays that had been previously published in the Cornhill Magazine and Macmillan’s: “Virginibus Puerisque i” (1876); “ ii” (1881); “iii: On Falling in Love” (1877); “iv: The Truth of Intercourse” (1879); “Crabbed Age and Youth” (1878); “An Apology for Idlers” (1877); “Ordered South” (1874); “Aes Triplex” (1878); “El Dorado” (1878); “The English Admirals” (1878); “Some Portraits by Raeburn” (previously unpublished); “Child’s Play” (1878); “Walking Tours” (1876); “Pan’s Pipes” (1878); “A Plea for Gas Lamps” (1878)
The essays inspired Norman WILKINSON (1878 – 1971) to create the 12 striking and lyrical images that accompany the texts. Wilkinson was a British artist, renowned for his poster work and honored by the British Admiralty for coming up with the idea and design for “dazzle camouflage...
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Early 20th Century English Books
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Gold Leaf
La Plume, Special Issue Devoted to Alphonse Mucha
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in New York, NY
Re-bound set of six consecutive issues of the renowned French magazine La Plume devoted to the work of Art Nouveau artist and graphic designer Alphonse Mucha. Founded in 1889 by Leon...
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Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Books
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Paper
New Furniture 4 1956/1958 Edited by Gerd Hatje Text by Wolfgang Clasen (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is the Fourth Volume of New Furniture, the International Annual devoted to the field of furniture design. Like its predecessors, this selection should be considered a report, ra...
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20th Century Books
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Paper
The Art of Bev Doolittle
Located in Bradenton, FL
The Art of Bev Doolittle, text and poems by Elise Maclay. Hardcover book with dustjacket, published in 1990 by Bantum Books. Printed in Italy, illustrated, 160 pages.
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Late 20th Century Italian Books
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Paper
La Poterie Marocaine by André Boukobza The Moroccan Pottery French Ed Hardcover
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
The Moroccan Pottery, french edition. Hardcover large book 1st edition 1974.
La Poterie Marocaine André Boukobza.
1974, 160 pages André Boukobza Photos with Artifacts.
The work of An...
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Late 20th Century Moroccan Islamic Books
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Paper
Jean Dubuffet Painted sculptures catalog 1968
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Jean Dubuffet Painted sculptures catalog 1968:
Published on the occasion of a 1968 Dubuffet exhibition at Pace Gallery New York.
Softcover; 50 pages.
Color & Black & White illustra...
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
Carolina Rice Plantation of the 50
s Signed by the Illustrator, Publisher
s Copy
Located in valatie, NY
A CAROLINA RICE PLANTATION OF THE FIFTIES: Narrative By Herbert Ravenel Sass, With Chapters From The Unpublished Memoirs Of D.E. Huger Smith. Publisher, New York: William Morrow, 1936. Signed 1st Ed hardcover with book plate of Ellen Doubleday, this was publishers personal copy. Illustrated with reproductions of 30 paintings in watercolor by and signed by Alice R. Huger Smith. The magic of the Low Country, the rice coast of South Carolina and Georgia has been captured with rare beauty and fidelity in the paintings of Alice R. Huger Smith. Her water-colors of sea-island beaches, of sea marshes, of black waters in cypress swamps...
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Vintage 1930s American Books
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Paper
1925 The Memory Years, French Book by Editions Larousse, 1988
By Modern History
Located in Atlanta, GA
1925, Les Années-Mémoire (1925, The Memory Years), French book by Editions Larousse, 1988.
Relive the year 1925 as if you were there. This volume will make you relive, with emotion, ...
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Vintage 1980s French Modern Books
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Paper
1 Vol. Rev. Henry Stebbing, The Pictorial Edition of the Book of Common Prayer
Located in New York, NY
1 Vol. Rev. Henry Stebbing, The Pictorial Edition of the Book of Common Prayer. According to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland; together with the form and manner of...
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20th Century English Books
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Leather
Featherston Chairs
By Grant Featherston
Located in New York, NY
Catalog accompanying an exhibition of modernist chairs by Australia’s pre-eminent postwar furniture designer Grant Featherston (1922-1995), held at the National Gallery of Victoria f...
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Vintage 1980s Australian Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
8 Theological Leather Bound Books, by Franz Volkmar Reinhard, Published 1808
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
8 Theological Leather Bound Books, by Franz Volkmar Reinhard,
Germany, published in 1808
We are pleased to offer a rare and historical find with this exquisite collection of eight ...
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Antique Early 19th Century Neoclassical Books
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Leather, Paper, Parchment Paper
Frank Stella Abstract Artist Metropolitan Museum of Art Book, 1970, New York
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
A hard-cover book with dust-jacket on abstract American artist Frank Stella, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970, New York, NY. This book presents a decade of Sella's work from 1959 - 1...
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Vintage 1970s American Books
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Paper
Set of Four Sotheby
s Catalogs of Mr.
Mrs. John Hay Whitney, 1999 and 2004
Located in valatie, NY
Set of Four Sotheby's Catalogs of Mr. & Mrs. John Hay Whitney, 1999 and 2004. John Hay Whitney (August 17, 1904 – February 8, 1982) was a U.S. Ambassador to t...
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1990s Books
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Paper
The Christopher Robin Birthday Book – A. A. Milne (owned by Tolkien
s daughter)
Located in Middletown, NY
A unique and charming piece of Tolkieniana.
The Christopher Robin Birthday Book, Priscilla Tolkien’s copy with names of family members and friends f...
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Early 20th Century English Books
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Paper
1863 The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
By Charles Kingsley
Located in Bath, GB
A beautifully bound, first edition of Charles Kingsley's celebrated piece of children's literature, bound by Bayntun-Riviere in half crushed morocco.
Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in an ...
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Antique 1860s British Books
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Paper
GRIBBLE. Rousseau
The Women He Loved. 1ST ED EXTRA ILLUSTRATED COSWAY BINDING!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: GRIBBLE, Francis.
TITLE: Rousseau And The Women He Loved.
PUBLISHER: London: Eveleigh Nash, 1908.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION EXTRA ILLUSTRATED COSWAY BINDING. 1 vol., 8-1...
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Antique Early 1900s British Books
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Leather
Jewelry By Architects
By Cleto Munari, Barbara Radice
Located in New York, NY
First American edition monograph on jewelry designed by a who's who of Postmodern architects from the collection of design impresario Cleto Munari, who commissioned the pieces featured in the book. Includes work by Mario Bellini, Michele De Lucchi, Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Hans Hollein, Arata Isozaki, Richard Meier, Allesandro Mendini...
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Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Books
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Paper
Living the Modern Way: Form and Colour in Interior Decoration (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Edited by Giulio Peluzzi & Rivista Dell'Arredamento
With today's many new designs in furniture, the development of new fabrics and the imaginative use of construction materials, ther...
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20th Century Books
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Paper
English Enamel Boxes From the 18th to the 2oth C. Susan Benjamin Hardcover
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
English Enamel Boxes From the 18th to the 2oth C. Susan Benjamin Hardcover Book, 1st Edition Published by Orbis Publishing, 1978.
Synopsis:
Small an...
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Late 20th Century English Victorian Books
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Paper
The Essays of Francis Bacon in an elegant binding
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907.
12mo.; 6 3/8 x 4 3/4 in. (160 x 122 mm); pp. vii, 323, [6], rubricated title. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (stamped in gold at the bottom of fro...
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Early 20th Century English Books
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Gold Leaf
Garden Ornament, Five Hundred Years of Nature, Art, and Artifice, 1st Ed
By George Plumptre
Located in valatie, NY
Garden Ornament: Five Hundred Years of Nature, Art, and Artifice by George Plumptre. New York: Doubleday, 1990. Stated first U.S. edition hardcover with dust jacket. 256 pp. A book o...
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20th Century American Books
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Paper
Ettore Sottsass: Minimum Design by Patrizia Ranzo (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Ettore Sottsass was an Italian architect and designer. His work included furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting and office machine design. His work was unique, much of it influenced b...
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20th Century Books
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Paper
Fallingwater A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House by Edgar Kaufmann Book, 1986
By Edgar Kaufmann
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Fallingwater, A Frank lloyd Wright Country House, Edgar K. Kaufmann, 1986
" Fallingwater - a Frank Lloyd Wright Country House " Vintage 1986 1st Edition Modernism Architecture Large...
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Books
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Paper
GUERLAIN - Colette Fellous - 1st English Edition, Paris, 1989
Located in CA, CA
Published by Denoël, 1st English edition, Paris, 1989. Hardback with English text, translated from French by Elizabeth Thomas.
Like perfume itself, this book plays on a multitude of levels, quotations from articles, novels and handbooks on good manners are set out alongside 150 years of images - relating to the tenuous world of Guerlain perfume...
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Vintage 1980s Books
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Paper
Franco Albini by Marco Albini (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
Catalogue of the exhibition dedicated to the creations (armchairs, desks, shelves, lighting, etc.) of Franco Albini, Italian architect and designer (1905-1977).
Galerie du Passage (P...
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20th Century Books
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Paper
CHURCHILL The Second World War - 6 VOLS - ALL FIRST EDITIONS - WITH DUST JACKETS
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: CHURCHILL, Winston.
TITLE: The Second World War. (The Gathering Storm - Their Finest Hour - The Grand Alliance - The Hinge Of Fate - Closing The Ring - Triumph and Tragedy)...
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Vintage 1940s American Books
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Fabric
The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
6 of 13 Volumes An Incomplete Set
Located in valatie, NY
The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (6 of 13 Volumes An Incomplete Set), by Nathaniel Hawthorne with Introductory Notes By George Parsons Lathrop. Published by Houghton Mifflin...
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Antique 1880s American Books
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Leather, Paper
Reference Book - Soame Jenyns Japanese Porcelain, Arita Imari Kutani
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Standard work about Japanese Pottery. Great starter book to build knowledge about Japanese Pottery
Publisher: Faber & Faber; First Edition (January 1, 1971)
Language: English
Hardcover: 380 pages
Roger Soame Jenyns (24 April 1904 - 14 October 1976),[1][2][3] who usually wrote his name simply as Soame Jenyns was a British art historian, known as an expert on East Asian ceramics...
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20th Century Books
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Paper
$33 Sale Price
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The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, First Edition, 1922
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Beautiful and the Damned. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First edition, first state. Rebound in ¼ leather and cloth boards, with raised bands, gilt titles, and tooling to the spine. Gilded edges. New archival cloth slipcase.
Presented is a first edition, first state of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and the Damned. The book was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York in 1922. It is presented here, rebound, in gorgeous blue ¼ leather and cloth boards, with raised bands, gilt titles, and gilt tooling to the spine, and a new archival slipcase.
The Beautiful and the Damned was Fitzgerald’s second novel, following his debut This Side of Paradise. The book is an exploration of the nouveau riche, New York City nightlife in the 1920s, and the inner dynamics of two young and reckless newlyweds. Semi-autobigraphical, Fitzgerald modeled the characters of Anthony Patch and Gloria Gilbert on himself and his new spouse Zelda Fitzgerald and the story draws circumstantially upon the early years of Fitzgeralds' tempestuous marriage.
Fitzgerald started writing The Beautiful and the Damned in August of 1920, while in Westport Connecticut. Having reflected upon the criticisms of his debut novel This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald sought to improve upon the form and construction of his prose in this second book. He relied heavily on editorial suggestions from his friend Edmund Wilson...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Books
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Leather, Paper
Masterpieces from the House of Fabrege by Alexander von Solodkoff
Located in valatie, NY
Masterpieces from the House of Fabrege by Alexander von Solodkoff. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Iillustrated throughout in color with items most...
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Vintage 1980s American Books
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Paper
French Paintings Collectible Art Book
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
French Painting Hardcover collectible art book by Charles Stuckey– January 1, 1997
by Charles Stuckey (Author)
Hardcover · 320 page
Stuckey examines...
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20th Century French French Provincial Books
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Paper
Set of Old Bound Books 19th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Set of old books dating from the 19th century. From an old protestant library near Le Havre in France. These books are called « Disciple de Jésus Christ » (disciple of Jesus Christ)...
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Antique 19th Century French Books
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Leather, Paper
$172 Sale Price
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Book OF COMMON PRAYER - 1852 - IN A FINE BRASS MOUNTED BINDING !
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: (BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER).
TITLE: The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of The Sacraments, and Other Rites & Ceremonies of The Church,....
PUBLISHER: Oxford: The Uni...
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Antique 1850s British Books
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Fabric
Billy Baldwin: The Great American Decorator by Adam Lewis (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
The definitive book on the legendary decorator Billy Baldwin, known as the "Dean of American Decorating," famous for his classical taste, streamlined modernism, and brilliant use of colour. In the tradition of Rizzoli’s Albert Hadley and David Hicks, this is the first fully illustrated account of the career of Billy Baldwin (1903–1983), one of the most important decorators of the twentieth century, whose work has influenced contemporary designers from Bunny Williams to Jeffrey Bilhuber. A native of Baltimore, Baldwin’s work caught the eye of eminent New York decorator Ruby Ross Wood. She invited him to join her firm, saying his work stood out "like a beacon of light in the boredom of the houses around it." Baldwin’s style was a revelation—simultaneously classical and modernist, tailored and clean, yet dramatically coloured, and above all American. An enemy of clutter and conspicuous wealth, he favoured natural materials and comfortable furniture. The drama in his rooms often came from colour, as seen in the dark brown lacquered walls of Cole Porter’s library or the scarlet cotton print that covered Diana Vreeland’s apartment. Immensely charming, Baldwin was a popular addition to the high society of New York. His clients included Bill and Deeda Blair, Babe and Bill Paley...
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20th Century Books
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Paper
French Furniture of the 18th Century
By Pierre Verlet
Located in valatie, NY
French Furniture of the 18th century by Pierre Verlet and Penelope Hunter-Stiebel (Translator). University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1991. First edition thus hardcover ...
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1990s American Books
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Paper
1930s Deluxe Leather Suitcase or Business Case with Realistic Alligator Pattern
Located in Lisse, NL
Practical size and fine looking briefcase for the urban professionals.
This wonderful and slim design vintage briefcase is in very good condition. All hinges, clasps and also the lo...
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Mid-20th Century German Books
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Metal
Old World Masters in New World Collections by Esther Singleton 1929
Located in Bradenton, FL
Old World Masters in New World Collections by Esther Singleton. Hardcover book, first edition, published in 1929 by The Macmillan Company of New York. Printed in the United States of...
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Vintage 1920s American Books
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Paper
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor Auction Sothebys Books Catalogs in Slipcase Box
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Sotheby's "The Duke and Duchess of Windsor Auction" Book Catalogs.
This is a three volume boxed set of sale catalogues which were produced by Soth...
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Late 20th Century American Victorian Books
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Paper
1st US Edition of ‘Enquiry Concerning Political Justice’ by W Godwin 1796
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING AN EXTREMELY RARE FIRST US EDITION hardback copy of “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness by William Godwin, First American from ...
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Antique Late 18th Century American George III Books
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Leather, Paper
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Dickens Fan on Your List? This First Edition of ‘A Christmas Carol’ Is a Treasure
Produced in 1843, the well-preserved volume is evidence of the author's exacting specifications.
Pamela Shamshiri Shares the Secrets behind Her First-Ever Book and Its Effortlessly Cool Interiors
The sought-after designer worked with the team at Hoffman Creative to produce a monograph that beautifully showcases some of Studio Shamshiri's most inspiring projects.
Moroccan Artworks and Objects Take Center Stage in an Extraordinary Villa in Tangier
Italian writer and collector Umberto Pasti opens the doors to his remarkable cave of wonders in North Africa.
Montecito Has Drawn Royalty and Celebrities, and These Homes Are Proof of Its Allure
Hollywood A-listers, ex-pat aristocrats and art collectors and style setters of all stripes appreciate the allure of the coastal California hamlet — much on our minds after recent winter floods.
Whaam! Blam! Pow! — a New Book on Pop Art Packs a Punch
Publishing house Assouline and writer Julie Belcove have teamed up to trace the history of the genre, from Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Yayoi Kusama to Mickalene Thomas and Jeff Koons.
Tauba Auerbach’s Geometric Pop-Up Book Is Mighty Rare, Thanks to a Hurricane
This sculptural art book has an epic backstory of its own.
Step inside the Storied Mansions of Palm Beach’s Most Effervescent Architect
From Spanish-style courtyards to fanciful fountains, these acclaimed structures abound in surprising and elegant details.
A Heady Group of Industry Insiders Pick the World’s Top Interior Designers
With a vast range of styles and perspectives, this global roster of talents represents the best of design.