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FACING BEAUTY : PAINTED WOMEN & COSMETIC ARTby: Ribeiro, Aileen

FACING BEAUTY : PAINTED WOMEN & COSMETIC ART
by: Ribeiro, Aileen

Hardcover. New Haven , Yale University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. Examines concepts of female beauty in terms of the ideal and the real, investigating paradigms of beauty as represented in art and literature and how beauty has been enhanced by cosmetics and hairstyles. Images of some of the most beautiful women in history, both real and ideal, accompanied by illustrations from costume books, fashion plates, advertisements, caricatures, etc. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 351015

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Fallen Glory - The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildingsby: Crawford, James

Fallen Glory - The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings
by: Crawford, James

Hardcover. New York, Picador, 1st Edition, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 566 pages. Hardcover. Full page, full color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with graphic illustration in very good condition. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750347

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False Dawn: Paul Rosenfeld and Art in America 1916-1946by: Hugh M. Potter

False Dawn: Paul Rosenfeld and Art in America 1916-1946
by: Hugh M. Potter

Softcover. Ann Arbor, MI, Published for U. New Hampshire by University Microfilms International, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages. Biographical history of Paul Rosenfeld, his artistic, musical, and literary criticisms and his contemporaries. Slight bumping to corners, otherwise a tight and clean copy.

Record # 387555

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Families of Fortune: Life in the Gilded Ageby: Gregory, Alexis

Families of Fortune: Life in the Gilded Age
by: Gregory, Alexis

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 224 pages illustrated in color and b&w throughout. Foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith. Folio. Brown leatherette. Like new, in original shrinkwrap.

Record # 605156

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Fashion Illustration in Britain: Society & the Seasonsby: Butchart, Amber Jane

Fashion Illustration in Britain: Society & the Seasons
by: Butchart, Amber Jane

Hardcover. London, British Library Publishing, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy with color illustrations throughout.

Record # 353536

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Fashion of Film, The: Fashion Design Inspired By Cinemaby: Butchart, Amber Jane

Fashion of Film, The: Fashion Design Inspired By Cinema
by: Butchart, Amber Jane

Hardcover. London, Mitchell Beazley, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color photographs throughout. The Fashion of Film is the perfect book for the fashion fan. In it, fashion historian Amber Butchart takes a journey through the last 100 years of cinema style and its influence on the catwalks. With beautiful imagery and thoroughly-researched text, she looks at how our most iconic movies have transformed the world of high fashion. Karl Lagerfeld was influenced by the dystopian vision of Metropolis, the picture-perfect world of Wes Anderson's films are echoed in the collections of Miuccia Prada, and Audrey Hepburn was key to Hubert de Givenchy's work. Fashion designers have long taken their inspiration from silver screen idols, and continue to do so today.

Record # 353334

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Fashion Show: Paris Styleby: Ward, Susan

Fashion Show: Paris Style
by: Ward, Susan

Hardcover. Boston , MFA Publications, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 223 pages, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 145 illustrations. Both a historical overview and an up-to-the-minute spectacular, "Fashion Show" explores the ever-fascinating world of Paris couture-the history of the Paris fashion industry from its beginnings through the mid-twentieth century.

Record # 350395

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Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartschby: Steele, Valerie

Fashion Underground: The World of Susanne Bartsch
by: Steele, Valerie

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A lavishly illustrated tribute to one of the most remarkable self-invented personalities on the New York fashion scene. Featuring approximately 80 looks from Bartsch's personal collection of clothing and accessories, including designs by Rachel Auburn, Body Map, Leigh Bowery, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, Mr. Pearl, Vivienne Westwood, Zaldy, and many others. Dazzling color photographs allow readers to witness the incredible art of transformation.

Record # 353304

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Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005by: Sarah D. Coffin, Ellen Lupton, et al.

Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005
by: Sarah D. Coffin, Ellen Lupton, et al.

Hardcover. NY, Assouline, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. From contemporary food design to the spectacle of eighteenth-century aristocratic feasts, this book examines the history of cutlery and dining ritual. A broad offering of great, beautiful pictures and collection of texts that explore the social meanings and fascinating forms of table settings. A truly fascinating book.

Record # 362299

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Fernand Legerby: Francia, Peter de

Fernand Leger
by: Francia, Peter de

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Yellowing to dust jacket edges and spine. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with wear to dust jacket edges. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy. Explores Leger's writings and works in a variety of media including painting, film, theatre, decor, ceramic sculpture, and mosaic.

Record # 471468

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Fifty Dresses That Changed the World by: Design Museum

Fifty Dresses That Changed the World
by: Design Museum

Hardcover. London, Conrad/Octopus, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. Join the Design Museum, the world's leading museum in contemporary design, on a guided tour of the 50 most important dresses in social history and design. Filled with pages of beautiful clothes, and the famous faces (and bodies) that put them on the world stage -including Wallis Simpson, Jackie Kennedy, Twiggy and Cher and, of course, Princess Di-this fun volume shares fascinating appraisals of what gave the 50 most important garments their iconic status.

Record # 369416

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Fine Art of Fashion Illustration, The by: Robinson, Julian and Gracie Calvey

Fine Art of Fashion Illustration, The
by: Robinson, Julian and Gracie Calvey

Hardcover. London, Frances Lincoln, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 10 x 12", 304 pages. Over 300 color plates. A comprehensive document of the talent and artistry that went into the design and making of European fashion images from the second half of the sixteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 353215

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Firenze e gli antichi Paesi Bassi 1430-1530. dialoghi tra artisti: da Jan Van Eyck a Ghirlandaio, da Memling a Raffaelloby: Meijer, Bert W.

Firenze e gli antichi Paesi Bassi 1430-1530. dialoghi tra artisti: da Jan Van Eyck a Ghirlandaio, da Memling a Raffaello
by: Meijer, Bert W.

Firenze IT, Sillabe, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 269 pages in color and b&w. ITALIAN TEXT. Light bump to top outer corner, otherwise bright and clean.

Record # 384489

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First Ladies of the Poster: The Gold Collectionby: Gold, Laura

First Ladies of the Poster: The Gold Collection
by: Gold, Laura

Softcover. Poster Auctions International, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 148 pages. Nowhere are we given a more profound glimpse into the dawning stages of women's emancipation than in turn-of-the-century posters. In this revealing book with 206 full-color posterswe are presented with women stepping out of the confining traditional roles which they were cast and exercising their new-found liberation. We see them taking to the roads on bicycles, getting behind the wheel of automobiles, hoisting an aperatif, attending a ball unescorted and we are provided with glimpses into women's burgeoning, nascent sexual freedom. This volume features all the top artists of the period: Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Grasset, Chret, Mucha, De Feure, Cappiello, Steinlen, Grn, Pal, Bradley, Penfield and others. These lively images not only reflected their time, but did much to inspire this new-found freedom.

Record # 351416

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Flemish Painting, from the 16th to the 18th Century: Relaying Ideas from Erasmus to Diderot by: Voldere. Florence De & Maxime Hennequet (Contributor) & Daphne Dorel (

Flemish Painting, from the 16th to the 18th Century: Relaying Ideas from Erasmus to Diderot
by: Voldere. Florence De & Maxime Hennequet (Contributor) & Daphne Dorel (

Hardcover. Turin, Umberto Allemandi & Co., Revised Ed., 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages, Illustrated throughout in color. Real 'honest men', the Brueghels took part in the intellectual epic of their day which, from humanism to the spirit of the Enlightenment, brought about a renewal in thought and laid the foundations of Modernity. Through the human adventure of the Brueghel dynasty, progressing from obscure beginnings to recognition by the very greatest, Florence de Voldere introduces us to the genius of these men who created the Flemish aesthetic identity. Voldere takes us through the Renaissance in Flanders in the form of a story in pictures. Through this approach based on a dynamic reading of the paintings, this book shows the crucial role of art at one moment of civilization, and opens up some decidedly novel perspectives for interpreting Flemish art. Clean, like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 396853

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Flight of Fancy - The Banishment and Return of Ornamentby: Brolin, Brent C.

Flight of Fancy - The Banishment and Return of Ornament
by: Brolin, Brent C.

Hardcover. New York, St. Martins Press, 1st Edition, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket with only minor wear. Light foxing to edges. Otherwise clean unmarked copy.

Record # 750351

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Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographersby: Gross, Michael

Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers
by: Gross, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Atria Books, 1st Hardcover, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark to bottom edge of textblock. Otherwise a very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Tracing the highs and lows of fashion photography from the late 1940s to today, Gross vividly chronicles the fierce rivalries between photographers, fashion editors, and publishers like Conde Nast and Hearst, weaving together candid interviews, never-before-told insider anecdotes and insights born of his three decades of front-row and backstage reporting on modern fashion. An unprecedented look at an eccentric and seductive profession and the men and women who practice it on the treacherous shifting sands of pop and fashion culture, Focus depicts--perhaps most importantly--the rewards and cost, both terribly high, of translating an artist's vision of beauty for an often cold and cruel commercial reality.

Record # 353335

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Folk Art in the Soviet Unionby: Razina, T. M. (Tat?eiiana Mikhaaeilovna)

Folk Art in the Soviet Union
by: Razina, T. M. (Tat?eiiana Mikhaaeilovna)

Hardcover. New York, Aurora, 1st, Aurora, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 459 pages, 1430 illustrations, including 705 plates in full color. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with small scratch to front cover. Excellent reference copy.

Record # 460605

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Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsburyby: Burke, Carolyn

Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
by: Burke, Carolyn

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, A captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities, passionate feelings, and aesthetic ideals drew them together, pulled them apart, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art. Rear of dj has a crimp at top and a short trar at spine edge.

Record # 371135

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Francesco II Gonzaga: The soldier-prince as patronby: Bourne, Molly

Francesco II Gonzaga: The soldier-prince as patron
by: Bourne, Molly

Softcover. Rome, Bulzoni Editore, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 700 pages, Color plates in rear section. Very good condition. Card wraps. Appendices appear to have original text from letters in Italian. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 379511

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Frederic Edwin Church: The Icebergsby: Carr, Gerald R.

Frederic Edwin Church: The Icebergs
by: Carr, Gerald R.

Softcover. Dallas, TX, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 109 pages. Exhibition catalog. Black-and-white illustrations. Pencil markings throughout, with one pen underlining. Light stain on title page. Good, tight copy.

Record # 856452

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Frederic Remington - A Biographyby: Samuels, Peggy/Harold Samuels

Frederic Remington - A Biography
by: Samuels, Peggy/Harold Samuels

Hardcover. Garden City, Duobleday & Company Inc., First Edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 537 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with white titles to spine. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light, marginal wear, now protected with a plastic cover. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751118

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French Painting - From Le Nain to Fragonardby: Chatelet, Albert & Jacques Thuilliere

French Painting - From Le Nain to Fragonard
by: Chatelet, Albert & Jacques Thuilliere

Hardcover. Geneva, Skira, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 106 tipped-in color plates, 271 pages, very good dust jacket, slipcase.

Record # 27928

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French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry - The Late XIV Century and the Patronage of the Duke (Two Volume Set)by: Meiss, Millard

French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry - The Late XIV Century and the Patronage of the Duke (Two Volume Set)
by: Meiss, Millard

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press Limited, 1st Edition, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Text Volume - 450 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles & gilt decorations to cover, spine. Frontis illustration, Parement Master and Workshop: Annunciation, Paris, in full color, tipped-in. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Dust jacket with foxing, toning, now protected with plastic cover. Light foxing to edges. Otherwise very good, clean condition. Plate Volume - Hardcover, blue cloth boards with gilt titles & decorations. 845 plates, 12 full page, full color, tipped-in & beautifully presented. Dust jacket with light foxing, now protected with plastic cover. Light foxing to edges. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 750255

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French Sculpture During the Reign of Saint Louis: 1226-1270 by: Vitry, Paul

French Sculpture During the Reign of Saint Louis: 1226-1270
by: Vitry, Paul

Hardcover. NY, Hacker Art Books, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 98 pages of text followed by 90 b&w plates with captions on opposite page. Clean copy.

Record # 372736

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French Styleby: Vila, Berenice

French Style
by: Vila, Berenice

Hardcover. New York, Assouline Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 124 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A tight copy. 165 color illustrations. With rich and dynamic photographs juxtaposing concepts from haute couture and scientific advancements to pop stars and popular culture, French Style is as sophisticated and chic as the nation it celebrates. This lavishly illustrated, fun and informal yet surprisingly informative compendium brings to life the savoir faire and joie de vivre that is French Style.

Record # 353257

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From a Mighty Fortress: Prints, Drawings, and Books in the Age of Luther 1483-1546by: Andersson, Christiane

From a Mighty Fortress: Prints, Drawings, and Books in the Age of Luther 1483-1546
by: Andersson, Christiane

Softcover. Detroit MI, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 411 pages. Color frontispiece and b&w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Light soiling and wear to cover. Small sticker on spine. Else a tight copy.

Record # 454965

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From Rail-Splitter to Icon: Lincoln's Image in Illustrated Periodicals, 1860-1865by: Bunker, Gary L.

From Rail-Splitter to Icon: Lincoln's Image in Illustrated Periodicals, 1860-1865
by: Bunker, Gary L.

Hardcover. Kent OH, Kent State University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 387 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked in a bright dust jacket. The Lincoln images, originally appearing in such publications as Budget of Fun, Comic Monthly, New York Illustrated News, Phunny Phellow, Southern Punch, and Yankee Notions, significantly expand our understanding of the evolution of public opinion toward Lincoln, the complex dynamics of Civil War, popular art and culture, the media, political caricature, and presidential politics. Lincoln, appealed to illustrators because of his distinctive physical features. (One could scarcely conceive of a similar book on James Buchanan, his immediate predecessor.) Despite ever-improving techniques, Lincoln pictorial prominence competed favorably with any succeeding president in the nineteenth century.

Record # 351736

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Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashionby: Fukai, Akiko

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion
by: Fukai, Akiko

Hardcover. London, Merrell Publishers, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Illustrated with over 250 photographs and sketches. Future Beauty is the first comprehensive survey of Japanese avant-garde fashion of the last 30 years. Such designers as Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo made an enormous impact on the world fashion scene in the late twentieth century, challenging established notions of beauty and turning fashion into art.

Record # 353058

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Futures of Surrealism Myth, Science Fiction and Fantastic Art in France 1936-1969 by: Parkinson, Gavin

Futures of Surrealism Myth, Science Fiction and Fantastic Art in France 1936-1969
by: Parkinson, Gavin

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 282 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Although Surrealism is usually associated with the 1920s and 1930s, it remained a vital force in Paris throughout the postwar period. This important book offers the first detailed account in English of the trajectory of the French Surrealists in the 1950s and 1960s, giving particular emphasis to the significance of myth for the group in its reception of science fiction and its engagement with fantastic art. Offering new readings of the art and writings of the later generation of Surrealists, Gavin Parkinson demonstrates how they were connected to the larger cultural and political debates of the time. Whereas earlier Surrealist art and writing drew on psychoanalytic practices, younger Surrealists engaged with contemporary issues, ideas, and themes of the period of the Cold War and Algerian War such as parapsychology, space travel, fantastic art, increasing consumerism in Europe, emerging avant-gardes such as Nouveau Realisme, and the rise of the whole genre of conspiracy theory, from Nazi occultism to flying saucers. Futures of Surrealism offers a unique perspective on this brave new world. Clean copy.

Record # 379155

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Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifestoby: Miren Arzalluz

Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto
by: Miren Arzalluz

Hardcover. Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Epoque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair, put them in bathing suits and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced the little black dress; trousers for women; costume jewelry; the exquisitely comfortable suit that became her trademark. Early in the Roaring Twenties, Chanel made the first ever couture perfume - No. 5 - presenting it in the famous little square-cut flagon that, inspired by Picasso and Cubism, became the arch symbol of the Art Deco style. No. 5 remains the most popular scent ever created. This volume, published to accompany a landmark exhibition in Paris, traces the birth and evolution of Chanel's timeless style. Specially commissioned photographs by Julien T. Hamon showcase the clothing, while essays by fashion historians illuminate a period, an event or a theme. Rare archival documents, including portraits of Gabrielle Chanel herself, round out the book. Remainder line on bottom edge otherwise clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 387942

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Gentry Man, The: A Guide for the Civilized Maleby: Rubenstein, Hal

Gentry Man, The: A Guide for the Civilized Male
by: Rubenstein, Hal

Softcover. New York, Harper Design, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 352110

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George Caleb Bingham: The Evolution of an Artist + A Catalogue Raisonneby: Bloch, E. Maurice

George Caleb Bingham: The Evolution of an Artist + A Catalogue Raisonne
by: Bloch, E. Maurice

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Two hardcover volumes. 339 pages+ plates, 238 pages. 197 illustrations in b&w and color throughout. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spines. Small sealed up tears to front cover of Evolution of an Artist, small chip missing from back dust jacket cover of Catalogue Raisonne. Price clipped. Clean and tight set.

Record # 605291

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George Inness in Italyby: Mitchell, Mark D.

George Inness in Italy
by: Mitchell, Mark D.

Softcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A canonical figure in American painting, George Inness (1825-1894) is widely admired as the pioneer of the landscape aesthetic known as Tonalism, which is distinguished by soft focus and diaphanous layers of paint. This is the first book about the artist's two Italian sojourns (1851-52 and 1870-74) and their formative impact on his work. Italy--its art and its landscape--offered Inness a font of inspiration as he developed his unique artistic vision. This handsome book presents ten oil paintings surveying Inness's Italian subjects dating from 1850 to 1879, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art's recently restored Twilight on the Campagna, which has not been on view since 1952. This was the first of Inness's works completed in Italy, and its reemergence offers a unique opportunity to reconsider the career of a leading American artist.

Record # 350381

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George W. Bellows: His Lithographsby: Beer, Thomas, and others

George W. Bellows: His Lithographs
by: Beer, Thomas, and others

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, inc, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, First edition, small folio, 254 pages, [1]; frontis portrait, 195 illustrations; biographical note by Thomas Beer, introduction by Eugene Speicher, edited by Emma S. Bellows; original coarse buckram lettered in black on upper cover and spine; very good. The catalogue raisonne of Bellows' lithographs.

Record # 605068

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Georges Braque, Life and Workby: Zurcher, Bernard

Georges Braque, Life and Work
by: Zurcher, Bernard

Hardcover. US, Rizzoli, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 319 pages, illustrated throughout with 235 illustrations, including 150 in full color. Faint soil to fore edge. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Small tear on front end paper.

Record # 354020

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Giorgioneby: Anderson, Jaynie

Giorgione
by: Anderson, Jaynie

Hardcover. New York, Flammarion, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 392 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate and signature on end paper. Color pictures. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear and light tanning to dust jacket.

Record # 468782

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GIOVANNI DI PAOLO. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin Fall 1988by: John Pope-Hennessy

GIOVANNI DI PAOLO. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin Fall 1988
by: John Pope-Hennessy

Softcover. NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Record # 386486

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Giovanni Pisano Sculptorby: Ayrton, Michael/Henry Moore/Ilario Bessi

Giovanni Pisano Sculptor
by: Ayrton, Michael/Henry Moore/Ilario Bessi

Hardcover. New York, Weybright and Talley, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 370 black & white plates and a color frontispiece. Introduction by Henry Moore. Photographs by Ilario Bessi in collaboration with Henry Moore. Brown canvas, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover blocked in gilt with publishers' device, Dust jacket with light surface wear to back cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611838

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Gita Lenzby: Lenz/Gordon Stettinius, Gita

Gita Lenz
by: Lenz/Gordon Stettinius, Gita

Hardcover. Richmond, Va., Candela Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Tipped in plate on front cover. Small stain to front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy. Working primarily from the 1940s through the early 1960s, the American photographer Gita Lenz (1910-2011) made documents of New York street life that won her early recognition and inclusion in two group shows curated by Edward Steichen for The Museum of Modern Art, a three-person show at the Brooklyn Museum and numerous articles and features in photography magazines of the time. Equally given to inflecting her portraiture with hints of social realism one on hand, and surrealism on the other, and also influenced by her close friend Aaron Siskind, Lenz produced abstract compositions, city still lifes, surreal still lifes and intimate portraits. She receded from view in the 1960s as financial demands impeded her practice, but in 2002, a chance meeting with photographer Gordon Stettinius led to the retrieval of this small but charming body of work, and the publication of this superbly printed first monograph.

Record # 352336

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Gods of Greece, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Stassinopoulos, Arianna; Beny, Roloff

Gods of Greece, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Stassinopoulos, Arianna; Beny, Roloff

Hardcover. New York, Harry Abrams, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 354013

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Golden Age of Travel 1880-1939by: Gregory, Alexis

Golden Age of Travel 1880-1939
by: Gregory, Alexis

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and tanning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Covers the rise of travel thanks to the development of roadways, railways, luxury ocean liners and trains, and eventually the airliner. Wonderfully illustrated with photos, travel posters, luggage tags, and more.

Record # 464475

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Good-Bye To All Thatby: Harris Lewine /Alan Peckolick

Good-Bye To All That
by: Harris Lewine /Alan Peckolick

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 127 pages. Gold, red, green and black (old Lucky Strike colors) boards, no dust jacket. A history of cigarette smoking. Great photos of smoking in films, antique ads and packages, etc. Laid in are publicity photos of author and designer. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 387308

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Good-Bye To All Thatby: Harris Lewine

Good-Bye To All That
by: Harris Lewine

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 127 pages. Gold, red, green and black (old Lucky Strike colors) boards, no dust jacket. A history of cigarette smoking. Great photos of smoking in films, antique ads and packages, etc.

Record # 362283

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Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550by: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550
by: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 499 pages, profusely illustrated throughout with 562 plates, including 148 in full color. Previous owner's blind stamp on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460357

Price: $70.00 
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Gothic Sculpture in France 1140-1270by: Sauerlander, Willibald/Max Hirmer

Gothic Sculpture in France 1140-1270
by: Sauerlander, Willibald/Max Hirmer

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st English, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 527 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name and brief inscription on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611836

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Grand Avenues: The Story of the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C.by: Scott W. Berg

Grand Avenues: The Story of the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C.
by: Scott W. Berg

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Grand Avenues tells the riveting story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant and the creation of Washington D.C.--from the seeds of his inspiration to the fulfillment of his extraordinary vision. L'Enfant's story is one of consuming passion, high emotion, artistic genius, and human frailty. As a boy he studied drawing at the most prestigious art institute in the world. As a young man he left his home in Paris to volunteer in the army of the American colonies, where he served under George Washington. There he would also meet many of the people who would have a profound impact on his life, including Alexander Hamilton and James Monroe. And it was Washington himself who, in 1791, entrusted L'Enfant with the planning of the nation's capital--and reluctantly allowed him to be dismissed from the project eleven months later. The plan for the city was published under another name, and for the remainder of his life L'Enfant fought for recognition of his achievement. But he would not live to see that day, and a century would pass before L'Enfant would be given credit for his brilliant design. Scott W. Berg recounts this tale, richly evocative of time and place, with the narrative verve of a novel and with a cast of characters that ranges from Thomas Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers to the surveyor who took credit for L'Enfant's plans, the assistant who spent a week in jail for his loyalty to L'Enfant, and the men who finally restored L'Enfant's reputation at the beginning of the twentienth century.

Record # 378045

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Granite: Artists and Their Workby: N/A

Granite: Artists and Their Work
by: N/A

Softcover. Barre VT, Barre Ethnic Heritage Studies Project, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong 16-page brochure, stapled, 9 X 8". B&w photos throughout. Mild tanning to paper otherwise very good, clean.

Record # 359826

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Great American Bars and Saloons, Theby: Weiser, Kathy

Great American Bars and Saloons, The
by: Weiser, Kathy

Hardcover. London, Chartwell Books, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Slight edge wear, otherwise clean, tight copy. Many photos of old saloons, both interior and exterior shots. From Alaska, Arizona, California, Minnesota, Texas, and all over the country.

Record # 352032

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Great American Billboards: 100 Years of History by the Side of the Road by: Basten, Fred E.

Great American Billboards: 100 Years of History by the Side of the Road
by: Basten, Fred E.

Softcover. San Francisco, Ten Speed Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Early in the 20th century, as Americans climbed into their Model-Ts and took to the open road, American manufacturers and retailers discovered miles and miles of new advertising space, and the audaciously oversized billboard was born. For a century, billboards have recruited, congratulated, teased, sold, and seduced us, promoting everything under the sun, from hosiery to war bonds, presidential candidates to rock shows. GREAT AMERICAN BILLBOARDS not only offers a lively look back at changing styles, products, and tastes, but is also an important visual record of this largely unheralded yet ubiquitous American art form.

Record # 361487

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