Arthur M. Schlesinger

Metropolitan Museum of Art, The

Hamish Bowles

Rachael Lambert Mellon

Light tear on jacket. Beautiful timeless book

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

California

Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum

This illustrated volume celebrates the 40th anniversary of Jacqueline Kennedy's emergence as America's First Lady and explores her enduring global influence on style and fashion.

Jacqueline Kennedy: the White House Years

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Photo in acrylic case with artist information on obverse- discontinued - rare

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

The Studio Guild - Frank Morgan (1999)

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Pencil Drawing w/ Author Biography

Frances Mayes

Edward Mayes

Steven Rothfeld

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Sensuous Style from the Heart of Italy

I always imagine each of the signoras who lived in this house--where she shelled peas, rocked the grandchild, placed a vase of the pink roses. Now I would like to take one of these women back to my house in California to show her how Bramasole traveled to America and took root, how the doors there are open to the breeze from San Pablo bay and to the distant view of Mount Tamalpais, how the table has expanded and the garden has burgeoned...


The "bard of Tuscany" (New York Times) now offers a lavishly illustrated book for everyone who dreams of integrating the Tuscan lifestyle--from home decoration and cooking, to eating and drinking, to gardening, socializing, and celebrating--into their own lives.

When Frances Mayes fell in love with Tuscany and Bramasole, millions of readers basked in the experience through her three bestselling memoirs. Now Frances and her husband, In Tuscany coauthor Edward, share the essence of Tuscan life as they have lived it, with specific ideas and inspiration for readers stateside to bring the beauty and spirit of Tuscany into their own home decor, meals, gardens, entertaining and, most important, outlook on life. In her inimitable warm and evocative tone, Frances helps readers develop an eye for authentic Tuscan style, with advice on how to:

* Choose a Tuscan color palette for the home, from earthy apricot tones to invigorating shades of antique blue.

* Personalize a room with fanciful door frames, unique painted furniture, and fresco murals.

* Cultivate a Tuscan garden, adding fountains, vine-covered pergolas, and terra-cotta urns among the herbs and flowers

* Select the best Italian vino. (Frances describes lunches at regional vineyards and imparts tips for pairing food and wine.)

* Create an atmosphere of irresistible, anytime hospitality--a casa aperta (open home).

* Make primo finds at local antiques markets. (And to help truly bring Tuscany home, shipping advice and market days for several Tuscan towns are included.)

* Set an imaginative Tuscan table using majolica and vintage linens.

* Enjoy the abundant flavors and easy simplicity of the Tuscan kitchen, with details on everything from olive oil and vino santo to pici and gnocchi, plus special homegrown menus and recipes.

* Make the most of a trip to Tuscany, visiting Frances's favorite hill towns, restaurants, small museums, and other soothing places.


With more than 100 photos by acclaimed photographer Steven Rothfeld (including several of the Mayes's California home and its Tuscan accents), twenty-five all-new recipes, and lists of resources for travelers and shoppers, Bringing Tuscany Home is a treasure trove of practical advice and memorable images.

Bringing Tuscany Home

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Marilyn Stokstad

Good condition except for small tear in the upper right hand side of the front cover

Virginia

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Intended for one semester art history courses, over 600 illustrations, tells the many sides story of art

Based upon the widely acclaimed Art Historyby renowned author Marilyn Stokstad, Art: A Brief Historycombines a richly illustrated survey of Western art with extensive coverage of other continents including Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. Its animated yet clear narrative tells the many-sided story of all the arts.

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Rosaline Ormiston

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Alphonse Mucha Masterworks

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Signed collectible! Look at the photos above.

Where can I find the book?" has been a constant request since the WOMEN OF A NEW TRIBE exhibition premiered in Charlotte NC in June 2002. 

This exhibition which has been called a "stunning" and "spectacular" collection of black and white photography is the source of a book that is destined to become a collector's item. This book is more than a homage to the physical and spiritual beauty of the black woman it is an experience. An experience in seeing in a new way and in a new light. Blue Greenberg of the Durham Herald-Sun wrote, "Taliaferro turns our ideas of stereotypical beauty upside down...". 

Rarely has the black woman been protrayed in such a manner, WOMEN OF A NEW TRIBE presents its subjects in way normally reserved for the great icons of feminine beauty like Garbo and Crawford. Through the use of large format black and white photography and a style that harkens back to the great glamour photography of 1930's and 1940's Hollywood the beauty of black women is lain bare. 

The meticulously "built" images echos the works of such photographers as George Hurrell, Sinclair Bull and Laszlo Wilinger. 

If the book I DREAM A WORLD celebrated black women who changed America then WOMEN OF A NEW TRIBE honors the black women we see around us everyday. It is a magnificant tribute to our mothers, sisters, wives, daughters and friends.

Autographed Copy from Author. Collectible art book.

Women Of A New Tribe

It’s a bit beaten up from the outside but all papers and everything inside are intact and have everything. There is nothing written inside either…basically new on the inside.

I got it for my Art history class 2 semesters ago for the full price of $250 so I’m trying to get at least half of it back cause I barely got to use it as my teacher did everything online…-.-

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

A Concise Global History

GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: A CONCISE GLOBAL HISTORY, 4th Edition has been written from the ground up to create a one-semester, student-friendly introduction to art history while retaining the impeccable reliability and scholarship of GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES. This beautifully illustrated fourth edition has been updated to make it easier than ever for students to master the material. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Gardner's Art Through the Ages

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Christopher Hart

Art-Drawing book
No rips, no yellowing etc on the pages 
Little wear on the book side top (see last picture)

Pennsylvania

Everything You Need to Start Drawing Right Away!

A comprehensive tutorial for the aspiring manga artist uses a step-by-step format to take readers through the entire drawing process, from basic head and figure work to dynamic action poses, fashion, special effects, lighting and shading, perspective, and popular manga types and characters. Original. 35,000 first printing.

Manga for the Beginner

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Leah Gallo

Tim Burton

Ransom Riggs

Witness the genesis of peculiardom! This visual tour of the movie world of Miss Peregrine s Home for Peculiar Children, created by iconic filmmaker Tim Burton, is sure to be a must-have for fans of the series. A companion book to the film, it features behind-the-scenes images and set information from two of Burton s long-time collaborators, including details on costume design, cinematography, set design, concept art, and more. The beautiful hardback edition makes a perfect gift or collector's item.--

The Art of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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Great Drawings of the Louvre Museum: The German, Flemish, and Dutch Drawings

Gail Dexter Lord

Kate Markert

This is a former college textbook which has a fair amount of writing and highlighting inside. The cover and pages are intact with no tears. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Mexico

Social Studies

A Guide for Museums, Performing Arts, Science Centers, Public Gardens, Heritage Sites, Libraries, Archives and Zoos

This revision of The Manual of Strategic Planning for Museums has been expanded to be relevant to a broader group of cultural organizations. This approach responds to the reality of blurred boundaries among institutional types and job fluidity meaning the purchasers of the new Manual will benefit from a book that is "whole career" orientated.

The Manual of Strategic Planning for Cultural Organizations

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Rockwell

Outstanding reproductions of more than six hundred of Rockwell's finest illustrations and paintings highlight a close-up look at the artist and his graphic record of nearly sixty years of American social history. This is a first edition, 1970 copy with normal wear from age - in good shape but definitely not perfect. 

This book is HUGE - approximately 17" x 13" and ~2" thick. It's pretty hefty (for a book) too. I'll ship this in its original shipping package as it came when first ordered - that box has some writing on it but is still great to have. 

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Michigan

Artist and Illustrator

"'Normal Rockwell's subject is average America'...These words from the text by Thomas S. Buechner, distinguished director of the Brooklyn Museum, explain Rockwell's enduring charm. And this volume, with is superb reproductions, including two, three, and even four-page spreads and foldouts in full color, finally does justice to an artist whose works have most often been seen only in the impermanent mediums of magazines and calendars. The author discusses Rockwell's life and career, from his early training, through the development of his mature style, to his recent interest in the major social issues of our time...Thanks to his exhaustive study of Rockwell and his work, Buechner is able to draw a lively word-picture of an extraordinarily interesting personality -- who also happens to be a unique phenomenon in the history of art -- and places him in the great tradition of the story-telling artists of the past...This rich collection provides an unparalleled panorama of nearly sixty years of American social history, seen from Rockwell's enormously popular point of view. A full index of the works by category helps to make the volume an invaluable addition to the history of American illustration." -- Book jacket.

Norman Rockwell

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SIGNED first edition of this performance artist’s guide to approaching life and art. Unread copy (i read the paperback lol). White wrap is showing a little aging but the binding is still fresh as new. See photos. A good deal! #signed #autographed #gaiman #palmer #art

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience to support her as she surfed the crowd (and slept on their couches while touring). And when she left her record label to strike out on her own, she asked her fans to support her in making an album, leading to the world's most successful music Kickstarter.

Even while Amanda is both celebrated and attacked for her fearlessness in asking for help, she finds that there are important things she cannot ask for-as a musician, as a friend, and as a wife. She learns that she isn't alone in this, that so many people are afraid to ask for help, and it paralyzes their lives and relationships. In this groundbreaking book, she explores these barriers in her own life and in the lives of those around her, and discovers the emotional, philosophical, and practical aspects of The Art of Asking.

Part manifesto, part revelation, this is the story of an artist struggling with the new rules of exchange in the twenty-first century, both on and off the Internet. The Art of Asking will inspire readers to rethink their own ideas about asking, giving, art, and love.

The Art of Asking (Signed Edition)

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

Tracking the New York Art World from Soho to the Bowery, Bushwick and Beyond

A fascinating tour of the last five decades of contemporary art in New York City, showing how artists are catalysts of gentrification and how neighborhoods in turn shape their art--with special insights into the work of artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, and Jeff Koons

Stories of New York City's fabled art scene conjure up artists' lofts in SoHo, studios in Brooklyn, and block after block of galleries in Chelsea. But today, no artist can afford a SoHo loft, Brooklyn has long gentrified, and even the galleries of Chelsea are beginning to move on.Art on the Blocktakes the reader on a journey through the neighborhoods that shape, and are shaped by, New York's ever-evolving art world. Based on interviews with over 150 gallery directors, as well as the artists themselves, art historian and cultural commentator Ann Fensterstock explores the genesis, expansion, maturation and ultimate restless migration of the New York art world from one initially undiscovered neighborhood to the next.

Opening with the colonization of the desolate South Houston Industrial District in the late 1960s, the book follows the art world's subsequent elopements to the East Village in the '80s, Brooklyn in the mid-90s, Chelsea at the beginning of the new millennium and, most recently, to the Lower East Side. With a look to the newest neighborhoods that artists are just now beginning to occupy, this is a must-read for both art enthusiasts as well as anyone with a passion for New York City.

Art on the Block

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#paperback #art #arthistory #nonfiction #taxtbook

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Kansas

A Global History, Volume I (with CourseMate Printed Access Card)

The 14TH EDITION of GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES provides you with a comprehensive, beautifully-illustrated tour of the world's great artistic traditions! Easy to read and understand, the fourteenth edition of the most widely-read art history book in the English language continues to evolve, providing a rich cultural backdrop for each of the covered periods and geographical locations, and incorporating new artists and art forms -- all reproduced according to the highest standards of clarity and color fidelity. A complete online environment, including all images and an eBook, is also available. The unique Scale feature will help you better visualize the actual size of the artworks shown in the book. A new timeline within each chapter, along with "The Big Picture" overviews at the end of every chapter, will help you review for exams.

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#hardcover #art #currierandIVES #Vintage 
First printing Vintage 1950.. Pages look as if never turned.. Small separation on binding because of the unique cover and just jacket in one material. But is a Beautiful historic piece.

The American Arts Library/First Printing

Currier & Ives

Mississippi

World Famous Paintings

David Cote

Connecticut

The Grimmerie, a Behind-The-Scenes Look at the Hit Broadway Musical

A companion volume to the hit Broadway musical set in Oz recounts the exploits of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda, the good witch, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the musical and its creation, profiles of cast and crew, anecdotes, the show's libretto, full-color photographs, and more. 60,000 first printing.

Wicked The Grimmerie

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Third book in a series of three. In French. ￼~450 pp & black and white illustrations/drawings. RARE. Antique. Ex Liberia on inside front cover. Red cotton cover has black leather title tag with hold embossing. VG

Historic exposition, 1830-1880

Catalogue Illustre

Part two of a three book collection. This rare antique has 314 pages with hundreds of illustrations. The red cloth cover has a black label title in embossed gold leaf. ￼

VG. Tight. Ex Libras on inside cover. 

Catalog illustrations of the national expedition, 1883

Annuaire illustre des Besux Arts

Edmund Burke Feldman

Vintagey but quality..free of markings..with pages that are already turning yellowy.

New Jersey

Unique features: criticism as a sequential process; forming an interpretation; separating interpretation from judging; critical errors; the critics ethics; criteria for judging greatness.

Practical Art Criticism

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Jalâl Al-Din Rumi

Coleman Barks

Michael Green

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings...

In the mid-thirteenth century, in a dusty marketplace in Konya, Turkey, a city where Muslim, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist travelers mingled, Jelaluddin Rumi, a popular philosopher and scholar, met Shams of Tabriz, a wandering dervish.nbsp;nbsp;Their meeting forever altered the course of Rumi's life and influenced the mystical evolution of the planet.nbsp;nbsp;The bond they formed was everlasting--a powerful transcendent friendship that would flow through Rumi as some of the world's best-loved ecstatic poetry.

Rumi's passionate, playful poems find and celebrate sacred life in everyday existence.nbsp;nbsp;They speak across all traditions, to all peoples, and today his relevance and popularity continue to grow.nbsp;nbsp;In The Illuminated Rumi, Coleman Barks, widely regarded as the world's premier translator of Rumi's writings, presents some of his most brilliant work, including many new translations.nbsp;nbsp;To complement Rumi's universal vision, Michael Green has worked the ancient art of illumination into a new, visually stunning form that joins typography, original art, old masters, photographs, and prints with sacred images from around the world.

The Illuminated Rumi is a truly groundbreaking collaboration that interweaves word and image: a magnificent meeting of ancient tradition and modern interpretation that uniquely captures the spiritual wealth of Rumi's teachings.nbsp;nbsp;Coleman Barks's wise and witty commentary, together with Michael Green's art, makes this a classic guide to the life of the soul for a whole new generation of seekers.

The Illuminated Rumi

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Nick Bantock

Includes 48-page book, souvenir stamp sheet, 15 postcards. Contents completely intact and were never touched. 

North Carolina

Travels of a Vagabond Country

When the Capolanian government wanted commemorative stamps and postcards created in honor of their 650th anniversary, they turned, quite naturally, to artist and writer Nick Bantock. Who better to capture the mythical nation's enigmatic spirit? The result is a sumptuous treasure box of history, legend, and fantasy. Inside, the curious will find the very postcards and stamps Mr. Bantock created for this commission, along with a book -- not much larger than a passport -- in which he introduces the history, philosophy, customs, and traditions of this mysterious nomadic tribe. Visit griffinandsabine.com!

Capolan Artbox

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Portraits of Black Women and Their Fabulous Hair

Crowns photographer Michael Cunningham and author and journalist George Alexander have captured the marvelous trinity of black women, hair, and beauty salons in the glorious Queens: Portraits of Black Women and Their Fabulous Hair. Angela Garner says that “The beauty salon is the one great thing we get to share as African American women. It’s therapeutic.” Tisch Sims says that wearing fantasy hair makes her feel “like a goddess, a queen.” From the afro to the ponytail to dreadlocks to braids to relaxed hair to fantasy hair; from “good hair” to bad hair days, in this stunningly designed book black women from the United States, Africa, and London explore the fascination with hair and beauty that has long been a cherished part of African American culture. In fifty gorgeous photographs accompanied by vivid, personal narratives, Queens, by turns moving and funny, is the ultimate all-occasion gift book, perfect for Christmas, Kwanzaa, Mother’s Day, and birthdays.

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Bringing Tuscany Home

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