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Ainalov, D.V. Hellenistic Origins of Byzantine Art. New Brunswick.
Rutgers University Press. 1961. Cloth. Dust jacket has 1" chip off top
edge on spine, clean, good condition. 322 pp. Rutgers Byzantine
Series Out of print
Our price: $20.00.
Order #1497I.
Antreasian, Garo. Tamarind Book of Lithography: Art and
Techniques. New York. Abrams. 1976. Paperback. Fine condition.
464 pp. Current in print price: $30.00
Our price: $15.00.
Order #0109I.
Arnheim, Rudolf. Picasso's Guernica: The Genesis of a Painting.
Berkeley. University of California Pr. 1962. Cloth. Small closed tear
in dust jacket, otherwise very good. Dust jacket. 139 pp. Includes
large fold-out reproduction of Guernica in back of book
Our price: $40.00.
Order #2218I.
Baigell, Matthew. Concise History of American Painting and
Sculpture. New York. Harper and Row. 1984. Paperback. Very good
condition. 420 pp. Current in print price: $22.50
Our price: $11.00.
Order #0691I.
Bernard, Bruce, ed. Impressionist Revolution. Boston. New York
Graphic Society. 1986. Cloth. Mint condition. Dust jacket. 271 pp.
Out of print
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Order #2214I.
Boime, Albert. Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision. New Haven.
Yale University Press. 1980. Cloth. Fine condition. Dust jacket. 683
pp. Out of print
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Order #0248I.
Braider, Christopher. Refiguring the Real: Picture and Modernity in
Word and Image 1400-1700. Princeton. Princeton University Press.
1993. Cloth. Mint condition. Dust jacket. 314 pp. Current in print
price: $42.50
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Order #0632I.
Brandon, S.G.F. Man and God in Art and Ritual: A Study of
Iconography, Architecture, and Ritual Action. New York. Charles
Scribner's Sons. 1975. 1st edition. Cloth. Fine condition. Dust jacket.
514 pp. Out of print
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Order #2210I.
Breslin, James E.B. Mark Rothko: A Biography. Chicago. University
of Chicago Press. 1993. 1st edition. Cloth. Mint condition. Dust
jacket. 700 pp. Current in print price: $39.95
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Order #2212I.
Breton, Andre. Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism.
New York. Paragon House. 1993. Cloth. Mint condition. Dust jacket.
264 pp. Current in print price: $25.00
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Order #0872I.
Bronowski, J. Visionary Eye. Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press. 1978.
Cloth. Very good condition. Dust jacket. 185 pp
Our price: $10.00.
Order #1120I.
Chandra, Pramod. On the Study of Indian Art. Cambridge, Mass.
Harvard University Press. 1983. Cloth. Fine condition. Dust jacket.
134 pp. Current in print price: $25.00
Our price: $12.50.
Order #0182I.
Chu, Doris C.J. T'ang Yin: The Man and His Art. New York.
Highlight International Pub. 1985. Paperback. Fine condition. 180
pp. Large format
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Order #0132I.
Clark, T.J. Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-
1851. Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1988. Paperback. Fine
condition. 224 pp. Out of print
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Order #1533I.
Craig, James. Designing with Type: A Basic Course in Typography.
New York. Watson Guptill. 1992. 3rd rev. ed. Fine condition,
oversized spiral bound hardcover. 175 pp. Current in print price:
$24.95
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Order #0714I.
Crary, Jonathan and Sanford Kwinter. Incorporations (Zone 6). New
York. Zone. 1992. Cloth. Mint review copy, issued without dust
jacket. Profusely illustrated. 633 pp. Postmodern collection
encompassing critical theory, theory of the body, literature, film,
photography, architecture. Current in print price: $65.00
Our price: $32.50.
Order #0760I.
Croce, Benedetto. Aesthetic: As Science of Expression and General
Linguistic. New York. Noonday Press. 1953. Rev. edition. Cloth. Fine
condition. Dust jacket. 503 pp
Our price: $25.00.
Order #0481I.
de Tolnay, Charles. Hieronymus Bosch. Reynal. 1966. Cloth. Fine
condition. Dust jacket. Catalogue Raissone of both paintings and
drawings; owner's name and short inscription on flyleaf; otherwise
excellent condition
Our price: $150.00.
Order #0333I.
de Tolnay, Charles. Michelangelo: Sculptor, Painter, Architect.
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1975. Cloth. Very good
condition. 385 black and white plates D. Current in print price:
$90.00
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Order #0731I.
Dijkstra, Bram. Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in
Fin-de- Siecle Culture. New York. Oxford University Press. 1986.
Cloth. Fine condition. Dust jacket. 453 pp. Current in print price:
$50.00
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Order #0907I.
Egbert, Donald Drew. Social Radicalism and the Arts: Western
Europe. New York. Knopf. 1970. Cloth. Fine condition. Dust jacket.
821 pp
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Order #0116I.
Fairbank, Alfred. Handwriting Manual. London. Faber and Faber.
1944. Cloth. Small stain on dust jacket, slightly discolored flyleaf,
otherwise good $11.00.
Order #0969I.
Ferguson, John C. Chinese Painting. Chicago. University of Chicago
Press. 1927. First. Box. Boxed vol. Good w/ wear to the corners and
edges of the box. 198 pp. Out of print
Our price: $45.00.
Order #1609I.
Ferguson, Russell, et al. Out There: Marginalization and
Contemporary Cultures. Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press. 1990. First
edition. Cloth. Mint, review copy. Dust jacket. 446 pp. Includes
essays by Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, Cornel West, bell hooks,
Helene Cixous, Gilles Deleuze, and Edward Said
Our price: $18. 00.
Order #0287I.
Fischer, Ernst. An Opposing Man: The Autobiography of a Romantic
Revolutionary. New York. Liveright. 1974. Cloth. Very good
condition. Dust jacket. 418 pp. Out of print
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Order #1604I.
Fliedl, Gottfried. Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918: The World in Female
Form. Germany. Taschen. 1991. Paperback. Fine condition. 239 pp
Our price: $16.00.
Order #2215I.
Fry, Roger. Last Lectures. Cambridge, England. Macmillan. 1939.
First edition. Cloth. 346 black and white plates. 370 pp. Dust jacket
taped and worn; binding in very good condition
Our price: $50.00.
Order #0378I.
Fryd, Vivien Green. Art and Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the
U.S. Capitol, 1815-1860. New Haven. Yale University Press. 1992.
1st. Cloth. Mint condition. Dust jacket. 273 pp. Examines the art of
the Capitol and how it related to Indian removal, westward expansion,
slavery, states' rights, seces. Current in print price: $50.00
Our price: $25.00.
Order #0342I.
Giedion, Siegfried. Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution
to Anonymous History. New York. Oxford University Press. 1948.
Cloth. Good condition, no dust jacket. 743 pp
Our price: $30.00.
Order #0535I.
Gombrich, E.H. Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of
Pictorial Representation. New York. Pantheon. 1965. Second edition.
Cloth. Very good condition. Dust jacket. 466 pp. Current in print
price: $89.00
Our price: $45.00.
Order #2418I.
Grabar, Oleg. Formation of Islamic Art. New Haven. Yale University
Press. 1973. First edition. Cloth. Very good condition. Dust jacket.
233 pp
Our price: $35.00.
Order #0291I.
Haftmann, Werner. Mind and Work of Paul Klee. Great Britain.
Praeger. 1967. Cloth. Book plate, otherwise very good. Dust jacket.
213 pp. Out of print
Our price: $20. 00.
Order #2358I.
Hamilton, G. H. Art and Architecture of Russia. Baltimore. Penguin
Books. 1954. First edition. Cloth. Fine condition. Dust jacket. 320
pp. Pelican History of Art Series. Current in print price: $50.00
Our price: $25.00.
Order #0230I.
Hauser, Arnold. Mannerism: The Crisis of the Renaissance and the
Origin of Modern Art. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press.
1986. Paperback. Very good condition. 426 pp. Current in print
price: $25.00
Our price: $12.50.
Order #0348I.
Heller, Steven and Seymour Chwast. Jackets Required: An Illustrated
History of American Book Jacket Design, 1920-1950. San Francisco.
Chronicle Books. 1995. Paperback. Fine condition. 143 pp. Current
in print price: $19.95
Our price: $10.00.
Order #0919I.
Herbert, James. Fauve Painting: The Making of Cultural Politics.
New Haven. Yale University Press. 1992. Cloth. Profusely illustrated
Dust j. 221 pp. Mint condition review copy. Explores the paintings of
Matisse, Derain, and Vlaminck and their cultural and political con.
Current in print price: $45. 00
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Order #0341I.
Holmes, George. Florence, Rome and the Origins of the Renaissance.
Oxford. Oxford University Press. 1989. Paperback. Stripe on bottom
edge of book else very good. 273 pp. Current in print price: $26.00
Our price: $11.00.
Order #1850I.
Holtzapffel, John Jacob. Hand or Simple Turning: Principles and
Practice. New York. Dover. 1976. Cloth. Fine condition. Dust jacket.
592 pp
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Order #0850I.
Houser, Caroline. Dionysos and His Circle: Ancient through Modern.
Cambridge, Mass. Fogg Art Museum. 1979. Paperback. Fine
condition. 109 pp. Art catalog for the exhibition in 1979, oversize
format
Our price: $15.00.
Order #0761I.
Kandinsky, Wassily. Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art. New
York. Da Capo. 1994. Paperback. Previous owner's bookplate,
otherwise very good. 924 pp. Current in print price: $24.95
Our price: $12.50.
Order #1545I.
Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta. Mastery of Nature: Aspects of Art,
Science, and Humanism in the Renaissance. Princeton. Princeton
University Press. 1993. Cloth. Fine condition. Dust jacket. 325 pp.
Current in print price: $39.95
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Order #1977I.
Lucic, Karen. Charles Sheeler and the Cult of the Machine.
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 1991. Paperback. Very
good condition. 167 pp. Current in print price: $18.95
Our price: $9.50.
Order #2222I.
Mayor, A. Hyatt. Prints and People: A Social History of Printed
Pictures. New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1971. Cloth. Fine
condition. Dust jacket
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Order #2209I.
McMullen, Roy. Degas: His Life, Times, and Work. Boston.
Houghton Mifflin. 1984. Cloth. Very good condition. Dust jacket.
517 pp
Our price: $28.00.
Order #0746I.
Miles, Margaret. Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western
Christianity and Secular Culture. Boston. Beacon Press. 1985. Cloth.
Fine condition. Dust jacket. 200 pp. Shows how art and architecture
shaped the religious understanding of early, medieval, and
Reformation Christianity
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Order #0292I.
Miles, Margaret. Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western
Christianity and Secular Culture. Boston. Beacon Press. 1985.
Paperback. Fine condition. 200 pp. Current in print price: $17.00
Our price: $8.50.
Order #0139I.
Miles, Margaret R. Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious
Meaning in the Christian West. Boston. Beacon Press. 1989. Cloth.
Very good; with publisher overstock stamp on flyleaf. Dust jacket.
254 pp
Our price: $13.50.
Order #0832I.
Mitchell, W.J.T, ed. Landscape and Power. Chicago. University of
Chicago Press. 1994. Paperback. Mint, review copy. 248 pp. Current
in print price: $13.95
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Order #0871I.
Mitchell, W.J.T. Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual
Representation. Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1994. Cloth.
Mint condition. Dust jacket. 445 pp. Current in print price: $35.00
Our price: $16.50.
Order #0628I.
Moholy Nagy, Laszlo. Painting, Photography, Film. MIT Press.
1969. Cloth. 150 pp. First edition of this translation. Dust jacket has
small chips and closed tears, otherwise very good. Offers a facsimile
treatment of the typography of the original
Our price: $50.00.
Order #1793I.
Murdoch, John, et al. English Miniature. New Haven. Yale University
Press. 1981. 1st edition. Cloth. Very good condition. Dust jacket. 230
pp. Traces the development of English portrait miniatures from their
origin in illuminated manuscripts through the 19th cent
Our price: $60.00.
Order #0293I.
Nutting, Wallace. Furniture Treasury, Mostly of American Origin,
Vol. 3. New York. Macmillan. 1933. Cloth. Some wear to cloth edges,
owner's name & bookplate, else good
Our price: $30.00.
Order #0756I.
Nutting, Wallace. Furniture Treasury, Mostly of American Origin, 2
volumes. New York. Macmillan. 1948. Cloth. Slight pull to top of
spines, owner's name and bookplate, otherwise very good condition
Our price: $55.00.
Order #0755I.
Ogg, Oscar. Twenty Six Letters. New York. Thomas Crowell. 1962.
Cloth. Good; book club edition. Dust jacket. 262 pp
Our price: $7.00.
Order #0964I.
Packard, Pamela M. and Paul A. Clement. Corpus Vasorum
Antiquorum: United States of America, Fascicule 18; The Los Angeles
County Museum ofArt, Fascicule 1. Berkeley. University of California
Pr. 1977. Cloth. Light usage shown on corners of page plates, else
very good. Folder. Contains all the Corinthian, Attic red and black
figured, and South Italian vases in the Los Angeles Museum of Art
collection. Current in print price: $85.00
Our price: $40.00.
Order #0639I.
Panofsky, Erwin. Life and Art of Albrecht Durer. Princeton.
Princeton University Press. 1955. Fourth edition. Cloth. Fine
condition. Dust jacket. 317 pp
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Order #0906I.
Paret, Peter. Art as History: Episodes in the Culture and Politics of
Nineteenth Century Germany. Princeton. Princeton University Press.
1988. Cloth. Mint condition. Dust jacket. 227 pp. Current in print
price: $35.00
Our price: $17.50.
Order #2213I.
Pilcher, Donald. Regency Style. London. Batsford. 1947. First
edition. Cloth. Very good; owner's name on front flyleaf. Dust jacket.
120 pp
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Order #0619I.
Price, Sally. Primitive Art in Civilized Places. Chicago. University of
Chicago Press. 1989. Cloth. Fine condition. Dust jacket. 145 pp
Our price: $10.00.
Order #0137I.
Priester, Mary, catalogued by. Inner Visions: German Prints from the
Age of Expressionism. Portland. Portland Art Museum. 1991.
Paperback. Very good condition. 165 pp. Out of print
Our price: $17.50.
Order #2217I.
Ragusa, Isa and Rosalie B. Green. Meditations on the Life of Christ:
An Illustrated Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century. Princeton.
Princeton University Press. 1977. Paperback. Slight bump to spine
and foxing to front page, otherwise good. 465 pp. Out of print
Our price: $15.00.
Order #2153I.
Richter, G.M.A. Greek Art: A Handbook. London. Phaidon Press.
1967. Cloth. Very good condition. 500 illustrations Dust jacke. 424
pp
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Order #0384I.
Rickey, George. Constructivism: Origins and Evolution. New York.
George Braziller. 1969. Cloth. Very good condition. Dust jacket. 306
pp
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Order #0910I.
Rosenberg, Harold. Discovering the Present: Three Decades in Art,
Culture, and Politics. Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1973.
Cloth. One corner of dust jacket has small chip, otherwise very good.
Dust jacket. 336 pp
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Order #2152I.
Rosenblum, Robert. Cubism and Twentieth Century Art. Japan.
Abrams. 1976. Cloth. Mint condition. Dust jacket. 346 pp. Out of
print
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Order #2211I.
Roskill, Mark. What is Art History?. New York. Harper and Row.
1976. Cloth. Very good condition. Dust jacket. 192 pp
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Order #1080I.
Rowley, George. Principles of Chinese Painting. Princeton.
Princeton University Press. 1959. Revised ed. Cloth. 132 pp. Dust
jacket has some wear to ends of spine and corners, internally the book
is in fine condition
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Order #2220I.
Ruskin, John. Lamp of Beauty: Writings on Art. London. Phaidon.
1959. Cloth. Fine condition. Dust jacket. 344 pp
Our price: $25.00.
Order #0138I.
San Lazzaro, G. Di. Klee: A Study of His Life and Work. New York.
Praeger. 1957. Cloth. Very good in lightly chipped dust jacket. 304
pp. Out of print
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Order #2351I.
Schacht, Joseph and C.E. Bosworth, eds. Legacy of Islam. Oxford.
Oxford University Press. 1974. Cloth. Previous owner's name
stamped on flyleaf, otherwise very good. Dust jacket. 530 pp. Out of
print Includes essays by Oleg Grabar, Bernard Lewis, Francesco
Gabrieli, Franz Rosenthal, and other leading Islamic scholars. Topics
include Islamic religious law and political philosophy; art,
architecture, and decorative arts; politics and war; the natural
sciences
and medicine; and mathematics, astronomy, and optics
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Order #1374I.
Schmalenbach, Fritz. Kokoschka. Germany. New York Graphic
Society. 1967. Cloth. Fine condition. Dust jacket. 80 pp
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Order #0757I.
Schmutzler, Robert. Art Nouveau. Japan. Abrams. 1962. Cloth. Very
good condition. Dust jacket. 322 pp. Tipped in plates
Our price: $75.00.
Order #0744I.
Schwarz, Arturo. Marcel Duchamp. Italy. Abrams. 1985. Cloth.
Slight wear to dust jacket at top of spine, otherwise very good. 210
pp. Out of print
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Order #2219I.
Seitz, William C. Abstract Expressionist Painting in America.
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 1983. Cloth. Mint
condition. Dust jacket. 490 pp. Includes Robert Motherwell's foreword
and his chronology of abstract expressionism. Current in print price:
$60.00
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Order #0961I.
Sekler, Eduard F. Josef Hoffmann: Das Architektonische Werk,
Monographie und Werkverzeichnis. Salzburg. Residenz Verlag. 1982.
1st ed. Cloth. Very good condition. Dust jacket. 539 pp. This
comprehensive monograph, written in German, examines both his
architecture and decorative arts. Profusely illustrat. Includes catalog
of all the sites he designed
Our price: $120.00.
Order #1514I.
Selz, Peter. German Expressionist Painting. Berkeley. Univ. of
California Press. 1974. Paperback. Very good condition. 180
illustrations. 379 pp. Current in print price: $18.00
Our price: $9.00.
Order #0286I.
Smith, Susan L. Power of Women: A Topos in Medieval Art and
Literature. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania. 1995. Cloth.
Mint, review copy. Dust jacket. 294 pp. Current in print price:
$44.95
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Order #0848I.
Tolnay, Charles de. Hieronymus Bosch. Reynal. 1966. Cloth. Very
good condition. Dust jacket. Catalogue Raissone of both paintings and
drawings; owner's name and short inscription on flyleaf; otherwise
excellent condition
Our price: $180.00.
Order #1022I.
Trendall, A.D. Red Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily. Thames
and Hudson. 1989. Cloth. Fine condition. Dust jacket. 288 pp
Our price: $15.00.
Order #0776I.
Van Zanten, David. Building Paris: Architectural Institutions and the
Transformation of the French Capital, 1830-1870. New York.
Cambridge University Press. 1994. Cloth. Dust jacket. 360 pp. Mint
condition reviewer's copy. Current in print price: $80.00
Our price: $40.00.
Order #0446I.
Vermeule, Cornelius. European Art and the Classical Past. Cambridge,
Mass. Harvard University Press. 1964. Cloth. Good condition. 128
black and white illus. D. 206 pp
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Order #0385I.
Von der Osten, Gert. Painting and Sculpture in Germany and the
Netherlands: 1500-1600. Baltimore. Penguin. 1969. Cloth. Fine
condition. Dust jacket. 403 pp
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Order #0094I.
von Simson, Otto G. Sacred Fortress: Byzantine Art and Statecraft in
Ravenna. Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1987. Paperback.
Very good condition. 150 pp. Current in print price: $16.00
Our price: $8.00.
Order #0345I.
Warnke, Martin. Political Landscape: The Art History of Nature.
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press. 1995. Cloth. Mint
condition. Dust jacket. 165 pp. Current in print price: $37.50
Our price: $18.00.
Order #0558I.
Wichmann, Hans. Armin Hofmann: His Work, Quest and
Philosophy. Basel. Birkhauser Verlag. 1989. Cloth. Very good
condition. 223 pp. Current in print price: $54. 00
Our price: $24.00.
Order #0280I.
Wittkower, Rudolf. Art and Architecture in Italy: 1600-1750. New
York. Penguin Books. 1986. 3rd edition. Paperback. Very good
condition. 664 pp. Current in print price: $27.50
Our price: $13.50.
Order #0278I.
Zeri, Federico. Behind the Image: The Art of Reading Paintings. New
York. St. Martin's Press. 1987. Cloth. Very good condition. Dust
jacket. 272 pp
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Order #0283I.
Zumthor, Paul. Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland. New York.
Macmillan. 1963. Cloth. Very good, some wear to dust jacket edges.
Dust jacket. 353 pp
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Order #0725I.
Modern Scribes and Lettering Artists. Boston. Godine. 1980. 1st.
Paperback. Mint oversized paperback. 160 pp. Current in print price:
$19.95
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Order #0727I.
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