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Los Ambulantes: The Itinerant Photographers of Guatemala

Illustrated in color and in black and white. vii, 150 pages. Square 4to, brown cloth, d.w. (price clipped, lightly edgeworn). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982. First edition. Cloth sunned around the edges. A very good(+) copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. Photography of Guatemalans, most in richly ornamented clothing.

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The Nightingale’s Sonata: The Musical Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz

Illustrated. xx + 375 pages, 8vo, boards, d.w.; minor edgewear to dust wrapper. New York: Pegasus Books, (2019). First edition. A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. Signed by author on front free endpaper.

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Black Belt Korean Karate

Illustrated in black and white. 240 pages. 8vo, brown cloth, d.w. (torn at head). New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, (1983). Covers and text block dampstained on low edge. Very good(-) in a very good dust wrapper.

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Robert Frank: Moving Out

Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. 334 pages. 4to, glossy printed wrappers (shallow reading crease in spine). Washington: National Gallery of Art, (1994). Very good(+).

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The Trial and Death of Socrates Being the Euthyphron, Apology, Crito, abd Phaedo of Plato

12mo, beautifully rebound by Baynton in full burgundy morocco , ornately gilt floral design on spine and covers, inner dentelles, all edges gilt. London: Macmillan, 1920. Fine. Golden Treasury Series.

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Eyewitness on Omaha Beach: A Story about D-Day, June 6, 1944

Illustrated. 71 pages, thin 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. Jacksonville: Halrit, (1994). A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Presentation copy signed by the author.

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Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

Illustrated sparingly in black and white. 180 pages. Small 8vo, red and black boards, d.w. Tokyo: Kodansha, (2002). Fine in a near fine dust wrapper. Translated by William Scott Wilson.

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Fernand Leger, 1881-1955

Text in French. Black & white illustrations throughout, some in color. 414 pages. 8vo, tan pictorial wrappers. Paris: Musee des Arts Decoratifs, 1956. Lightly dust-soiled, scuffed. The front cover's hinge is slightly weakened. A very good copy.

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Lives of Master Swordsmen

Edited by Burritt Sabin. Illustrated. 257 pages, 8vo, blue cloth with silver gilt-lettering, d.w.; three very small stains on table of contents. Tokyo: The East Publications, (1996). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.

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Art and China’s Revolution

Illustrated with color photographs throughout. 259 pages. 4to, stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. New York: Asia Society, (2009). A fine copy.

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Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe

CAHILL, Thomas Color illustrations throughout. 343 pages. 8vo, cream cloth-backed boards with gilt lettering at the spine, pictorial d.w. (price-clipped, small tear at the spine). New York: Nan A. Talese, (2008). First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.

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Gso-Ba Rig-Pa: Le Systeme Medical Tibetain

MEYER, Fernand Text in French. Some black & white illustrations. 237 pages. Small 4to, glossy pictorial wrappers (scuffed, bumped at the rear). Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1983. Signed and inscribed by Meyer at the front endpaper. A very good(+) copy.

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The Amasis Painter and His World: Vase-Painting in Sixth-Century B.C. Athens

VON BOTHMER, Dietrich Introduction by Alan L. Boegehold. 353 duotone illustrations, 9 color plates. 246 pages. Small 4to, glossy pictorial wrappers. Malibu: The J. Paull Getty Museum, (1985). A near fine copy.

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The Other Side of the Picture: Olivier Theyskens

CLAESSENS, Julien (photog.); SINGER, Sally (intro.) Black & white and color photographic illustrations throughout. 180 pages. Folio, black pictorial cloth. New York: Assouline Publishing, (2009). A fine copy.

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Manierre Dawson: American Pioneer of Abstract Art

ADAMS, Henry, Dr.; PLOOG, Randy J., Dr Black & white and color reproductions throughout. 187 pages. Small 4to, matte pictorial wrappers. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1999. A fine copy. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, shown at the Hollis Taggart Galleries from October 1 - 30, 1999.

$30

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Get There First, Decide Promptly: The Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art

FARRELL, Jennifer Black & white and color illustrations throughout. 372 pages. Large 4to, matte pictorial boards. New Haven: Yale University Press/Art Gallery, (2011). First edition. A fine copy. With essays by Thomas Crow, Serge Guilbaut, Jan Howard, Robert Storr, and Judith Tannenbaum, as well as numerous contributions by others.

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Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design

ANTONELLI, Paola Many illustrations in color and black & white. 128 pages. 4to, thick cardboard boards with a unique green, red and yellow plastic resin casting, plain tan cloth spine. New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1995). First edition in a special binding. A fine copy.

$300

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Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg: The Smooke Collection

MILLARD, Charles Color photographic illustrations and reproductions throughout, some of which are fold-out. 271 pages. Small 4to, matte pictorial wrappers. New York: Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg, 2001. Wrappers are slightly scuffed, otherwise a fine copy.

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Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design

ANTONELLI, Paola Many illustrations in color and black & white. 128 pages. 4to, thick cardboard boards with a unique black, orange and red plastic resin casting, plain tan cloth spine. New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1995). First edition in a special binding. A fine copy.

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New Delhi New Wave

NEUTRES, Jerome (ed.); MARELLA, Primo; STRAZZER, Diego; RADHIKA, Jha (intro.) Text in Italian and English. Color photographic illustrations throughout, many full-page. 257 pages. Large 4to, glossy pictorial boards. Bologna: Damiani, (2007). Rear upper corner slightly bumped, otherwise a fine copy. English translations by Elisabetta Zoni.

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