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By: (Whitney Museum)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Whitney Museum of American Art: 1987
Seller ID: 000706
ISBN: 0-87427-054-5
Condition: Very Good
128 pages, profusely illustrated; an "Album of Reminiscences and Photographs". Essay contributions by dozens of notables such as, John Baur, Lloyd Goodrich, Michael Graves, Benno Schmidt, James Michener, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Clean and tight; over wrapper worn along the top edge. View more info
By: Bockris, Victor
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Da Capo Press: 1989
Seller ID: 002105
ISBN: 0-306-80795-5
Condition: Very Good
534 pages; b&w illustrations. Clean and tight. View more info
By: Bridge, Antony
Price: $18.00
Publisher: New York, Dorset Press: 1966
Seller ID: 001420
ISBN: 0-88029-169-9
Condition: Fine
220 pages; b&w illustrations. By the author of The Crusades. Suleiman's rise to power and his threat to and wars with Europe: Islam's counter-crusade against western Christendom. A good read. View more info
By: Carswell, John
Price: $6.00
Publisher: New York, A New Directions Book: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 005013
ISBN: 0811206815
Condition: Fine
307 pages; b&w illustrations. Memoir of a literary freelancer and of freelancers with whom he kept company. Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Milan, Skira: 2010
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004841
ISBN: 8857204936
Condition: Fine
430 pages; numerous illustrations, most in color. Appendix includes Comparative Chronology (comparing Compstela progress and wors to Hispanic Kingdoms and Europe); Works in the Exhibition; Bibliography. Gelmirez, the first Archbishop of Compostela built it in the 11th and 12th centuries into a wider European power center some say equal to Rome and Jerusalem. Items in the exhibition include historical documents, some illuminated. Red remainder mark on bottom edge. Otherwise clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
By: Colacello, Bob
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, HarperCollins Publishers (harper collins): 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002148
ISBN: 0-06-016419-0
Condition: Very Good
514 pages; b&w illustrations. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper, otherwise clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, The Orion Press: 1959
Seller ID: 004938
ISBN: no
Condition: Very Good
277 pages; 25 b&w illustrations. "Mozart's librettist (and friend), Casanova's friend, the first Professor of Italian Literature at Columbia University." Reads like a novel with a stream of characters and places that the author encounters. Clean throughout; binding tight; boards darkened on edges. Jacket chipped with some material loss at extremities. View more info
By: Ede, H.S.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, The Literary Guild: 1931
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004462
ISBN: no
Condition: Very Good
260 pages; b&w illustrations. The life of the young French scupltor, Henri Gaudier. He took the surname of the woman who became his partner/confidant, Sophie Brezska. He died in WW I battle. Clean throughout; tightly bound. The spine is faded. View more info
By: Elwin, Malcolm
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1948
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 000870
Condition: Good
280 pages. A collective biography of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey. Contents clean and tight, nearly unblemished; boards are clean with gilt titles, one corner is lightly worn. Dustjacket is chipped along the edges and price-clipped. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Irvine, California, Severin Wunderman Museum Publications: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001429
Condition: Very Good
171 pages; numerous b&w photographs and illustrations, some in color. Well written biographical narrative woven among the many photgraphs of Bernhardt and illustrations of Bernhardt memorabilia.. View more info
By: Emden, Cecil S.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1963
Seller ID: 004508
ISBN: no
Condition: Fine
146 pages. A study of Pepys charcter - "the kind of man Pepys was" - with only light attention to biographical details. Much drawn form Pepys' Diaries. Clean throughout; no tears, flat pages. The dustjacket with small chips along the top edge. View more info
By: Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York / New Haven, The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press: 2006
Seller ID: 004824
ISBN: 0300117876
Condition: Fine
262 pages; 348 illustrations, color and b&w. Chronology; Works Cited; Works in the Exhibition (238); Index. Tiffany's estate in Oyster Bay, NY; built by Tiffany (1902-1905) who controlled details of the house, gardens, pools, etc., and , of course decoration.. The book is not a catalog of the exhibition, but is filled with color illustrations of decorative objects and glass as well as historical photos of Tiffany and the estate past the time of its burning. Previous owner's name on half-title psage. Otherwise, clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
By: Gill, Anton
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, Perennial: 2003
Seller ID: 003994
ISBN: 006095681x
Condition: Very Good
480 pages; b&w illustrations. Clean within; tight binding; remainder mark on bottom edge. View more info
By: Gill, Brendan
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, G.P Putnam's Sons: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002169
ISBN: 0-399-13232-5
Condition: Fine
544 pages; many b&w photographs. An excellent biography by the author a long-time writer for The New Yorker who covered architecture as well as writing poetry, fiction, memoir, other biographies. View more info
By: Gill, Eric
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, The Devin-Adair Company: 1945
Edition: Sixth Printing
Seller ID: 004981
ISBN: no
Condition: Good
300 pages followed by about 25 pages of illustrations. An Excellent read. A Life. Small punctures to pages 175-176, possibly a staple. Otherwise clean through the text. Old inked price on the front endpaper; attractively designed woman's bookplate on the pastedown. Boards lightly worn at corners and spine; lacking any original brightness, too much time out of the jacket. View more info
By: Gold, Arthur; Robert Fizdale
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Morrow Quill Paperbacks: 1981
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Seller ID: 004418
ISBN: 0688003951
Condition: Very Good
338 pages; well illustrated, color and b&w. The wife, muse, sponsor. Perhaps the personification of Art Nouveau. "Her greatest talent - she was a pianist - was the gift of inspiring and bringing together others." Clean throughout; lightly rubbed. View more info
By: Harvey, George
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Privately Printed: 1936
Seller ID: 002274
Condition: Fine
382 pages. "The early days of Frick and his frist steps in business; the Homestead Strike; attempt on his life; relationship with Carnegie, Mellons, other industrialists. An industrial history of the era as well as a portrait of a notable character." Dustjacket darkened unevenly. View more info
By: Hobsbawn, Eric
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, The New Press: 2005
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 005226
ISBN: 1565849655
Condition: Very Good
448 pages; b&w photo-illustrations. Autobiography. Hobsbawn (1917-2012) was considered by some the greatest historian of the twentieth-century. He was on the Left and was for most of his life a member of the Communist Party. He was very much admired by peers. Clean throughot; tight binding. View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, Blue Ribbon Books: 1928
Seller ID: 005149
ISBN: no
Condition: Good.
366 pages. Memoir post-World War I. First person narratives of luncheons, cocktails, time spent with every notable writer, painter, journalist who lived in or passed through Paris and other parts of France. Text pages clean throughout; boards and backing handworn. Suggested ready copy only. View more info
By: Hunt, John Dixon
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 005122
ISBN: 0670765783
Condition: Very Good
512 pages; b&w illustrations. A full biography of Ruskin, including life, work, works, friends, acquaintances, travel, ilness, etc. Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
