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The House and Home, A Practical Book - Vols. I & II

By: Abbott, Lyman, Dr.; L.W. Betts; Elizabeth Bisland; H.C. Candee; ]et al]

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1896

Seller ID: 004485

ISBN: no

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

pp. 400; 397. 400 illustrations, color and b&w. Two volumes that aspire to cover all knowledge an adult may need for the beginning of the twentieth century: home; social life; garden; dress; education; books and reading; house building; furnishing; rugs; hygeine; housekeeping; children; china; occupations; outside opportunities; business affairs. Chapter One is "Occupations for Women" of which of which Art, Architect; Physician, Lawyer, Dressmaking, the Stage are some that are considered. Clean text block; tissue guards on most color illustrations; tight binding. Removal of bookplates...
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The Craftsman in America

By: Anderson, Clay; [et al.]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washiington, D.C., National Geographic Society: 1975

Seller ID: 002369

ISBN: 0-87044-176-0

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

200 pages; thoroughly illustrated in color. An appreciation for the artists commonly called craftsmen. They work with wood, metal, glass, fiber, clay, etc.
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Community Murals: The People's Art

By: Barnett, Alan W.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Art Alliance Press: 1984

Seller ID: 001610

ISBN: 0-87982-030-6

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

516 pages; numerous illustrations in color and in b&w. A history and a study of the urban wall art that emerged in the 1960s. The study includes the artists' social expressions as well as its place in the broad history of art. The jacket is rubbed on its face and torn at the head of the spine with a small loss of material on the back panel.
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Image for Orpheus, Modern Culture and the 1913 Renaissance [ Painting & Sculpture, Architecture & Crafts, Music-The Novel, Poetry & Drama, Cinema-Radio-TV, Education-History] A Panoramic Survey, Commemorative Edition-1960

Orpheus, Modern Culture and the 1913 Renaissance [ Painting & Sculpture, Architecture & Crafts, Music-The Novel, Poetry & Drama, Cinema-Radio-TV, Education-History] A Panoramic Survey, Commemorative Edition-1960

By: Barzun, Henri Martin

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Henri Martin Barzun: 1960

Seller ID: 004572

ISBN: no

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

148 pages. Dr. Barzun was a poet and a founder-director of arts groups in France and the United States. Here he offers analysis and opinion on the several areas mentioned within the title. Orpheus. "As a Commemorative Book not meant for the public, it also intends to express the author's indebtedness and gratitude to the Institutions which sponsored his cultural labors in France and America over the years, as well as the many co-workers, artists, writers, educators, critics and patrons, whose invaluable contributions are gathered or recorded in the very pages of the Survey. To all of them,...
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Modern Art and Society: An Anthololgy of Social and Multicultural Readings

By: Berger, Maurice

Price: $13.00

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins Publishers (harper collins): 1994

Seller ID: 002132

ISBN: 0-06-4302288

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

310 pagesb&w illustrations. 15 essays from such as Cornel West; Linda Nochlin; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Ann Gibson. Clean and tight, nearly fine.
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China: The Land, the Cities, the People, the Culture, the Present

By: Bernstein, Richard; Nigel Cameron;; David Bonavia; [et al].

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Exeter: 1982

Seller ID: 001782

ISBN: 0-89673-106-5

Binding: Hard Cover - Paper Boards

Condition: Very Good

382 pages; illustrated throughout with color photography. Ten essays by ten authors with intimate familiarity of the "new" China. Essays cover such as, tourism, minorities, sports, politics, cookery. Book and jacket are nearly fine save for a small gift inscription on the half-title page.
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Cultural Atlas of the Renaissance

By: Black, C.F.; Mark Greengrass; David Howarth; [et al.]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Prentice Hall: 1993

Seller ID: 001999

ISBN: 0-671-86523-4

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

240 pages; densely illustrated in color with photographs, artworks, maps. Not ignoring the art, the book aims to inform about the social, political and intellectual environment of the time.
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City of Promise: Aspects of Jewish Life in New York 1654-1970

By: Black, Mary

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The New-York Historical Society:

Seller ID: 003927

ISBN: no

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

c. 1970. 48 pages; more than 50 b&w and color illustrations. There are 322 catalgued items. Sponsored by the Central Synagogue to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Laying of its Cornerstone. Clean throughout; small tape repair to the head of the spine.
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The Maya Civilization

By: Brainerd, George

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Southwest Museum: 1954

Seller ID: 000305

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

93 pages; b&w illustrations; foldout maps of Mesoamerican archeological sites and a perspective drawing of the monument at Tikal. Previous owner's name on front pastedown; ghost of blue pencil writing on the front free endpaper ( about 1 sq. in.)
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North of the Danube

By: Caldwell, Erskine; Margaret Bourke-White

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1939

Seller ID: 002338

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

128 pages; b&w photo reproductions. In 1939, a tour through Czechoslovakia, east to west, stopping along the way breaking bread with locals, conversing with them, understanding the threat of Germany, observing and taking pictures.
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Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life

By: Carlson, Richard, Ph.D.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Hyperion: 1997

Seller ID: 004942

ISBN: 0786863218

Binding: quarter-cloth / paper boards

Condition: Fine

223 pages. Strategies for organizing life and making good choices. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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Informing Judgment: Case Studies of Health Policy and Research in Six Countries

By: Clarke, Mike; Daniel M. Fox; Peter Langhorne

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Milbank Memorial Fund: 2001

Seller ID: 005056

ISBN: 1887748474

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

200 pages. Collaborative case studies. "The proper purpose of collaboration between researchers and policymakers is to use evidence from research to inform judgments for which policymakers are accountable." Clean throughout; tight binding.
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Harem: The World Behind the Veil

By: Croutier, Alev Lytle

Price: $13.00

Publisher: New York, Abbeville: 1989

Seller ID: 001801

ISBN: 1-55859-159-1

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

224 pages; illustrated throughout in color and in b&w.
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To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism

By: Douthat, Ross

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2018

Seller ID: 004983

ISBN: 1501146920

Binding: Black cloth

Condition: Fine

234 pages. Liberal or conservative. Orthodoxy or change. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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The Gay Picture Book

By: Emory, Michael (Edited by); Carl Barile (Designed by); Dennis Sanders (Introduction)

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Chicago, Contemporary Books: 1978

Seller ID: 005085

ISBN: 0809276496

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Good

not paginated. Numerous photos color and b&w. The early text pages (8) are wrinkled; pictorial pages are flat and clean. Binding tight; spine worn at edges.
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Japanese Arts and the Tea Ceremony

By: Hayashiya, Tatsusaburo; Masao Nakamura; Seizo Hayashiya; (Joseph P. Macadam, translated and adapted by)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York / Tokyo, Weatherhill / Heibonsha: 1980

Seller ID: 003890

ISBN: 0834810255

Binding: Decorated paper-covered boards

Condition: Very Good

186 pages; 200 illustrations color and b&w; 3 foldouts. Foldouts 1 and 2 are the verso and recto of the same sheet; foldout 3 is a stand-up model of a teahouse, which may be removed and assembled though it would destroy the book. Volume 15 of The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art. Light foxing to the top edge; clean throughout; both book and jacket are nearly fine.
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The World of Hogarth: Lichtenberg's Commentaries on Hogarth's Engravings

By: Herdan, Innes and Gustav (translated from the German and introduction)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cambridge, The Riverside Press: 1966

Seller ID: 002247

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

297 pages; 26 b&w full-page illustrations. "A Harlot's Progress"; "Marriage-à-la-Mode": "Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn"; "A Midnight Modern Conversation or The Bacchanalians"; "A Rake's Progress"; "The Four Times of the Day". Boards lightlly soiled; clean within; tight binding.
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Cities and Civilizations

By: Hibbert, Christopher

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1986

Seller ID: 001337

ISBN: 1-55584-017-5

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

256 pages; 35 color and 170 b&w illustrations. The Ancient City; The Developing City; The Modern City: this is Hibbert's general outline. Recommended.
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The Civilization of Ancient Egypt

By: Johnson, Paul

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Atheneum: 1978

Seller ID: 001696

ISBN: 0-689-10921-0

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

240 pages. Well illustrated in color and in b&w, including the Hieroglyphic alphabet, Determinatives, heiroglyphs for Numerals, Weights and Measures, and Pharaohs.
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Revivals ! Diverse Traditions, 1920-1945: The History of Twentieth-Century American Craft

By: Kardon, Janet (Editor); essays by Ralph T. Coe, Harvey Green, Janet Kardon, Jane Kessler [et al]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New Y1994, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.: 1994

Seller ID: 004720

ISBN: 0810919559

Binding: Embossed Cloth Boards

Condition: Fine

303 pages; 275 illustrations, 98 color. An enormous range of crafts: African-American quilts, baskets, pottery; Hispanic shrines, painted chests, lacework, textiles; Appalachain pottery, baskets, coverlets, love seats, pewter bowls, earthenware jugs; Native American jewelry and beadwork; Colonial Revival furniture, glass silver, ironwork. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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Category: Sociology & Culture