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THE DINNER PARTY. A SYMBOL OF OUR HERITAGE
by Written and illustrated by Judy Chicago. Designed by Sheila de Bretteville
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Edition
- first edition
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- 1979
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$95.00
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Garden City, New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1979. first edition. hardcover . Fine/very good +. Judy Chicago. Quarto (approx. 8 1/2" wide by 11 1/8" tall) black cloth covers with gilt spine titles. 255 [1] pages. Illustrations both in color and black and white. Unclipped dust jacket has printed price of $24.95; some light rubbing, toning… Read more about this item Item Price
$95.00
A HANDBOOK OF ORNAMENT.
by Meyer, Franz Sales. Revised by Hugh Stannus
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- Used - near very good
- Edition
- 3rd English edition
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- 1896
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$24.00
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London: B. T. Batsford, 1896. 3rd English edition. hardcover. near very good. With 300 plates, containing about 3000 illustrations of the elements, and the application of decoration to objects. Octavo, olive green cloth covers, stamped in black and gilt, top edge gilt. xvi [2] 518 pages. Some abrasion where a bookplate was removed from the front paste-down endpaper;… Read more about this item Item Price
$24.00
CELTIC ART, The Methods of Construction. 6 volumes
by Bain, George
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- Used - near fine
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- 2nd and 3rd printings
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- 1955-1959
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- Softcover
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- 1
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$225.00
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Glasgow: William MacClellan, 1955-1959. 2nd and 3rd printings. softcover. near fine. Bain, George. Six Elementary Text Books on the Methods of Construction of the Pictish School of Celtic Art. Softcover booklets measure approximately 9" wide by 5 5/8" tall. Each booklet has between 11 -13 pages of text and14 black and white plates. They are housed in a… Read more about this item Item Price
$225.00
MARY CASSATT: PAINTINGS AND PRINTS.
by Getlein, Frank
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 6th printing
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- (1980)
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780896591813
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- 1
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$12.00
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New York: Abbeville Press, (1980). 6th printing. hardcover. Fine/Fine. Quarto (approx. 9" wide by 11 1/4"tall) green cloth cover with gilt spine titles. 72 large full color plates, 154 [3] pages. Includes a short bibliography. Book and dust jacket are in fine conition. 092717E
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$12.00
OLD MASTER, TOPOGRAPHICAL, NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY PRINTS. Thursday 27th October 1988 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
by Sotheby's
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- Used - Very good
- Published
- 1988
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- Softcover
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$14.00
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London: Sotheby's London, 1988. softcover. Very good. Quarto (approx. 8 1/4" wide by 10 1/2" tall). Auction catalogue (Moore sale). Color card covers. 659 entries. 111 pages plus index. Black and white illustrations. 021210A
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$14.00
ON MY WAY. Poetry and Essays 1912-1947
by Arp, [Jean / Hans]
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- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1948
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$30.00
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New York: Wittenborn, Schutz, Inc., 1948. First Edition. hardcover. Fair. Arp. Small quarto (approx. 7 1/4" wide by 9 3/4" tall), red cloth covers. 147[1] pages. The Sixth in the series The Documents of Modern Art, Director, Robert Motherwell. Prefatory Note by Robert Motherwell. Includes original French texts of Poems and Essays by Arp, with translations into English by Ralph… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
THE LIBERTY STYLE. All Colour Paperback.
by Arwas, Victor, Introduction by
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- Used - Very good
- Published
- 1979
- Binding
- Softcover
- ISBN
- 9780847802081
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$5.00
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New York: Rizzoli, 1979. softcover. Very good. Trade paperback. Black and white frontis. + 48 pages of full color plates. Former owner inscription on half-title page. Top cover sl. sunned. 061507C
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$5.00
WISCONSIN'S NEW DEAL ART
by Foreword by Karel Yasko. Introduction by Mary Michie
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- Used - near fine.
- Edition
- first edition
- Published
- (c. 1980)
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- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$40.00
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Wasau WI: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, (c. 1980). first edition. softcover. near fine.. Oblong stapled booklet (approx. 8 1/2" wide by 5 1/2" tall) with glossy illustrated covers. Catalogue of an exhibition. 32 pages, with 9 color reproductions, including top cover, and 19 black and white images. Fifty-four short biographies of artists in the exhibition. Also includes: Listing of… Read more about this item Item Price
$40.00
THE SERIGRAPHS OF DOUG WEST.
by Dispenza, Joseph
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- Used - Fine
- Published
- (1995)
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- Softcover
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$25.00
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Santa Fe: New Mexico Magazine, (1995). softcover. Fine. West, Doug. Oblong softcover (approx. 10 1/2" wide by 8 1/2" tall), 67 pages. Includes many color reproductions of the artist's works, as well as a Vita. Fine condition. New Mexico. Studio
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$25.00
STUBBS & THE HORSE.
by Warner, Malcolm, and Robin Blake
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- first paperback printing
- Published
- (c. 2004)
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- Softcover
- ISBN
- 9780912804422
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- 1
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$15.00
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New Haven and Fort Worth: Yale University Press in association with Kimball Art Museum , (c. 2004). first paperback printing. softcover. Fine. Catalogue of an exhibition. With an essay by Lane Mayer and Gay Myers. Former owner name on half-title page. Small quarto, (approx. 9 5//8" wide by 10 1/2" tall). xvii + 229 pages. Includes color illustrations, bibliography, index.… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
20th (Twentieth) CENTURY ART From the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, October 20 to December 18 1949
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- Used - Very good
- Published
- (1949)
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- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$15.00
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Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, (1949). softcover. Very good. Softcover (approx. 7 1/2 " wide by 10" tall) 103 [1] pages. Black and white illustrations. Some tanning on spine and rear cover. Typed notes from former owner attached to inside of rear covers. 092715C
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$15.00
THE ORIGINS OF ART
by Weltfish, Gene
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- Used - Good +
- Edition
- first edition, as stated
- Published
- (1953)
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$15.00
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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co Inc., (1953). first edition, as stated. hardcover. Good +. Octavo, green cloth covers with gilt titles. Spine faded. 300 pages with many illustrations and diagrams. Includes bibliography, notes, and sources for plates. No dust jacket. Weltfish was a cultural anthropologist and student of Franz Boas who did an extensive study of the Pawnee tribe. Most of… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
S. M. IUnovich (Russian Edition)
by Vlasova, R. I.
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Published
- 1988
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9785737002084
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- 1
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$85.00
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Pub. by Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1988. hardcover. Fine/very good. Quarto, beige cloth covers, 200 pages. Includes both color and black and white illustrations; index. Book is in fine condition; dust jacket has some wrinkling on rear panel, else very good. Text is in Russian 122615C
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$85.00
VISUAL SIMULATION. A User's Guide for Architects, Engineers, and Planners.
by Sheppard, Stephen R. J.
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- Used - near fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Edition
- first edition
- Published
- (1989)
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780442278274
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- 1
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$25.00
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New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, (1989). first edition. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Lavishly illustrated. Includes glossary, bibliography, index. Quarto,brown cloth covers. vii [1] 215 pages. Book and dust jacket are in near fine condition. 012204A Extra postage will be requested for shipping htis oversizr book outside of the U.S.
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$25.00
JOSEF ALBERS: GLASS, COLOR, LIGHT.
by Albers, Josef; Fred Licht, Nicholas Fox Weber, et al. Poject Editor: Laura L.Morris
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- Used - Fine
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- fine
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Published
- (1994)
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780810968646
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$30.00
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New York: Guggenheim Museum, (1994). 2nd edition. hardcover. Fine/fine. Albers, Josef. Catalogue of an exhibition, organized by the Peggy Guggenheim collection, Venice, and the Josef Albers Foundation, Orange, Connecticut. 152 pages with 50 full color plates and 19 black and white illustrations. Quarto (approx. 9 5/8" wide by 11 1/4" tall), black loth covers. Includes appendices, chronology, exhibitions, and select… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
RES ET SIGNA
by Mortensen, Richard. Texts by Jacques Lassaigne, Michel Seuphot, Albrecht Fabri, Jean Arp.
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- Used - Very good
- Edition
- first edition
- Published
- 1961
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- Softcover
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$20.00
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Paris: Galerie denise rene, 1961. first edition. softcover. Very good. Catalogue of an exhibition, fevrier mars 1961. 14 works reproduced in this catalogue, plus photo portrait of the artist on the inside rear cover. Blue card covers (approx. 8" wide by 9 3/8" tall). Covers has slight wear, one corner lightly creased. Text in French. One of 2,500 copies. 051705A… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
WILDBIRD DREAMING. Aboriginal Art from the Central Deserts of Australia
by Amadio, Nadine, and Richard Kimber
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Edition
- first edition
- Published
- (1988)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780864361080
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- 1
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$35.00
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Melbourne: Greenhouse Publications, (1988). first edition. hardcover. Fine/very good. Photography by Barry Skipsey. Includes select bibliograpy. Quarto (approx. 8 1/2" wide by 11 1/4" tall), brown cloth covers, 144 pages. Dust jacket spine a tad sunned, else very good. 010608A
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$35.00
ETTORE SOTTSASS. A Critical Biography
by Radice, Barbara
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- Used - Fine
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- fine
- Edition
- first edition
- Published
- 1993
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780847816811
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- 1
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$60.00
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New York: Rizzoli, International, 1993. first edition. hardcover. Fine/fine. Sottsass, Ettore. Quarto (approx. 9" by 11 1/4") black cloth covers, 261 pages. Lavishly illustrated. Includes bibliography, exhibitions, index. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. 092717F
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$60.00
LA GRANDE PARADE / Hoogtepunten Van De Schilderkunst na 1940 / Highlights in Painting after 1940.
by Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
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- Used - near fine
- Edition
- first edition
- Published
- 1984
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- Softcover
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$15.00
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Amsterdam: Stedelijt Museum Amsterda,, 1984. first edition. softcover. near fine. Catalogue of an exhibition: 15-12-1984 to 15-4-1985. Wrappers. Text in Dutch, German, and English Quarto (approx. 8 3/16" wide by 10 3/4" tall). 351 pages. Lavishly illustrated in color. " We have aimed at confronting the works of the most prominent painters of these last 45 years. Their visions make… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
THE SWEET GRASS LIVES ON. 50 (FIFTY) Contemporary North American Indian Artists
by Highwater, Jamake
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- first edition, as stated
- Published
- (c. 1980)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780690019254
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- 1
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Deerfield, Illinois, USA
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$15.00
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New York: Lippincott & Crowell, (c. 1980). first edition, as stated. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Quarto (approx. 9 1/8" wide by 12 14" tall) black cloth covers, 192 pages. Includes many color and black and white illustrations, as well as a selected bibliography. 092717F Art, Native American, Indian
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$15.00
