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Flora Whitney Miller: Her Life, Her World

By: (Whitney Museum)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Whitney Museum of American Art: 1987

Seller ID: 000706

ISBN: 0-87427-054-5

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

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.
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Warhol

By: Bockris, Victor

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Da Capo Press: 1989

Seller ID: 002105

ISBN: 0-306-80795-5

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

534 pages; b&w illustrations. Clean and tight.
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Suleiman the Magnificent - Scourge of Heaven

By: Bridge, Antony

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Dorset Press: 1966

Seller ID: 001420

ISBN: 0-88029-169-9

Binding: quarter-cloth and paper boards

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.
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Lives and Letters: A.R. Orage, Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, S.S. Koteliansky - 1906-1957

By: Carswell, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, A New Directions Book: 1978

Seller ID: 005013

ISBN: 0811206815

Binding: Brown cloth

Condition: Fine

307 pages; b&w illustrations. Memoir of a literary freelancer and of freelancers with whom he kept company. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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Compostela and Europe: The Story of Diego Gelmirez

By: Castineiras, Manuel Quitterie Cazes; Annaig Chatain; et al. (Essays) Manuel Castineiras; Fatima Diez; Emmanuel Garland; et al. (Text of the Catalog Entries)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Milan, Skira: 2010

Seller ID: 004841

ISBN: 8857204936

Binding: Pictorial Paper Boards

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.
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Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close up

By: Colacello, Bob

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins Publishers (harper collins): 1990

Seller ID: 002148

ISBN: 0-06-016419-0

Binding: quarter-cloth and paper boards

Condition: Very Good

514 pages; b&w illustrations. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper, otherwise clean throughout; tight binding.
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Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte

By: Da Ponte, Lorenzo; Elisabeth Abbott (Translated from the Italian); Arthur Livingston (Edited and Annotated); Thomas G. Bergin (Preface)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Orion Press: 1959

Seller ID: 004938

ISBN: no

Binding: Embossed Quarter Cloth

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.
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Savage Messiah

By: Ede, H.S.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Literary Guild: 1931

Seller ID: 004462

ISBN: no

Binding: Cloth

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.
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The First Romantics

By: Elwin, Malcolm

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1948

Seller ID: 000870

Binding: Cloth

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.
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Pepys Himself

By: Emden, Cecil S.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1963

Seller ID: 004508

ISBN: no

Binding: Cloth

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.
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Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall, An Artist's Country Estate

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

Binding: Cloth

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.
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Art Lover, a biography of Peggy Guggenheim

By: Gill, Anton

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Perennial: 2003

Seller ID: 003994

ISBN: 006095681x

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

480 pages; b&w illustrations. Clean within; tight binding; remainder mark on bottom edge.
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Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright

By: Gill, Brendan

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, G.P Putnam's Sons: 1987

Seller ID: 002169

ISBN: 0-399-13232-5

Binding: quarter cloth / paper boards

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.
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Eric Gill, Autobiography

By: Gill, Eric

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Devin-Adair Company: 1945

Seller ID: 004981

ISBN: no

Binding: Cloth

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.
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Misia

By: Gold, Arthur; Robert Fizdale

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Morrow Quill Paperbacks: 1981

Seller ID: 004418

ISBN: 0688003951

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

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.
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Henry Clay Frick, The Man

By: Harvey, George

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Privately Printed: 1936

Seller ID: 002274

Binding: Cloth

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.
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Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life

By: Hobsbawn, Eric

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, The New Press: 2005

Seller ID: 005226

ISBN: 1565849655

Binding: Pictorial Wrappers (softcover)

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.
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Paris Salons, Cafés, Studios

By: Huddleston, Sisley

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Blue Ribbon Books: 1928

Seller ID: 005149

ISBN: no

Binding: Orange cloth

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.
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The Wider Sea, A Life of John Ruskin

By: Hunt, John Dixon

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1982

Seller ID: 005122

ISBN: 0670765783

Binding: quarter-cloth / paper boards

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.
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Sky Hooks, The Autobiography of John Kane

By: Kane, John; Frank Crowninshield (foreword) (Marie McSwigan)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1938

Seller ID: 004151

ISBN: no

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

196 pages; color frontispiece (self portrait), 22 b&w reproductions, 4 photographs. Autobiography but "as told to" Marie McSwigan, who has no credit on the title page. A man whose life wasa hardscrabble affair the great majority of its time rises to prominence as a painter. Clean within, tight binding; boards worn at the edges and corners; front board discolored and marred by a seies of small pointed depressions. The jacket worn with losses of material at edges and corners.
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