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By: (Whitney Museum)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Whitney Museum of American Art: 1987
Seller ID: 000706
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
534 pages; b&w illustrations. Clean and tight. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Minneapolis / Lausanne / New York, Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography and the Musee de l'Elysee with W.W. Norton and Company: 2008
Edition: First U.S Edition
Seller ID: 004836
336 pages; 243 illustrations. Chronology; Selected Bibliography; Gossary of Photographic Processes Used by Steichen; Works in the Exhibition (includes the process used for each photo) ; Index. Published to accompany the frist posthumous European retrospective of Steichen's work: Jeu de Paume, Musee de l'Elysee, Palazzo Magnani, Museo Ntional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
By: Bridge, Antony
Price: $18.00
Publisher: New York, Dorset Press: 1966
Seller ID: 001420
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
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
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 Items in the exhibition include historical documents, some illuminated.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. Otherwi... View more info
By: Colacello, Bob
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, HarperCollins Publishers (harper collins): 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002148
514 pages; b&w illustrations. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper, otherwise clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Viking: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004785
686 pages; illustrated woth photographs. Remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise the book is as new. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, The Orion Press: 1959
Seller ID: 004938
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
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
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
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
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: Faÿ, Bernard; Patrick O'Brian (Translated by)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, W.H. Allen: 1968
Edition: First English Translation
Seller ID: 004940
414 pages; b&w illustrations. "Both a biography of a man and a portrait of a revolutionary age, its ideas, and its personalities." Clean throughout; tight binding; jacket price-clipped. 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
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 owne... View more info
By: Gill, Anton
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, Perennial: 2003
Seller ID: 003994
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
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
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
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
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
