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Um Teatro Sem Teatro

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Fine. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Spine uncreased, binding firm. Text in Catalan and Portuguese. This catalog was prepared to accompany the large scale survey of modernist theater and performance art mounted at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona and the Museu Coleccio Berardo in 2007. It contains hundreds of vintage photographs of the important avant garde theater artists and groups. Lots of illustrations of programs, graphic ...


Russian Furniture in the Collection of the Hermitage used book

Russian Furniture in the Collection of the Hermitage

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$252.00

Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Printed in Soviet Union Date published: 1973

Description: Fine in Fine jacket. This is a fine hardcover copy in a near fine dustjacket and very good slipcase. Text in English and Russian. Introduction in English as well as descriptions of plates at end in English. 195 plates in black & white and color. All the furniture is 18th through late 19th century Russian work. Most photographs show the furniture in room settings, but close-ups of individual pieces. The book is organized into sections: 18th century, 19th century, to give the reader a sense of ... Read More

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Book: Fine/Like New

 

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Die Anderen Nürnberger. Technisches Spielzeug Aus Der "Guten Alten Zeit" Band 2 used book

Die Anderen Nürnberger. Technisches Spielzeug Aus Der "Guten Alten Zeit" Band 2

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$257.00

Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Hobby Haas, Frankfurt A.M., Germany Date published: 1973

Description: Very Good. This is a very good hardcover copy with just light wear. Bound in the original publisher's orange boards printed in black and white. Completely clean outside. Very clean inside, page edges darkening a little. Text in German. Preface in German and English. This is Band 2 only of this monumental multi-volume survey of old German toys reproducing many old catalogs by the Nurnberger toy manufacturers. Thousands of fine black & white illustrations of German toys, mostly metal toys, ... Read More

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Book: Very Good

 

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Naifs Espanoles Contemporaneos and El Ingenuismo En Espana used book

Naifs Espanoles Contemporaneos and El Ingenuismo En Espana

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$502.00

Binding: Hardcover Date published: 1975

Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Signed by Author These are very good hardcover copies in very good dust jackets of Vallejo-Nagera's two books on Spanish primitive or naive painters. Completely clean inside and out. Dust jackets have a little wear to the corners. Text in Spanish. Both volumes belonged to Eduardo Abril Lamarque, the Cuban artist and illustrator. The first volume, 'Naifs Espanoles Contemporaneos' is inscribed by Vallejo-Nagera to Eduardo and Milagro Lamarque on the half title page ... Read More

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Book: Very Good

 

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Gli Anni Di Plastica used book

Gli Anni Di Plastica

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Binding: Cloth Publisher: Electa Editrice, Milan, Italy Date published: 1983 ISBN-13: 9788843509836 ISBN: 8843509837

Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with almost no wear. No tears, chips or marks to the jacket. Completely clean inside. Text in English and Italian. Well illustrated sudy of early plastic, bakelite and other substances such as celluloid, phenolyic resin and the like. 139 objects in the catalog, many of them shown in color plates. Lots of jewelry, eyeglasses, purses, clocks, lamps, tableware and other things. Chronology. Bibliography. ... Read More

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Book: Very Good

 

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Chuck Close Recent Works used book

Chuck Close Recent Works

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Binding: Softcover Publisher: The Pace Gallery, New York Date published: 1993 ISBN-13: 9781878283351 ISBN: 1878283359

Description: Good. This is a good only reference copy with a faint moisture splash on the back cover upper corner slightly affecting the corners of all pages (have to hold up to light to see the stain), else very good. Illustrated mostly in color, some black & white. 12 page essay by art critic Arthur Danto. 12" high X 10" wide, 44 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. Read More

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Book: Good

 

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Edo-Zoshi Image of Ukiyoe, Now used book

Edo-Zoshi Image of Ukiyoe, Now

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Edition: First Edition Binding: Softcover Publisher: Kyoto Shoin Co., Ltd., Kyoto Date published: 1987 ISBN-13: 9784763630636 ISBN: 4763630636

Description: Very Good. This is a very good softcover copy, with only light cover wear, very clean inside. Brief text in Japanese. This book is the record of Nobuo's work re-creating the Ukiyoe women of the late Edo period. With exacting attention to all the details of costume, he has presented us with an updated version of Ukiyoe. Printed in lush full color in a small folio size book. Biographical sketch. 12" high X 9" wide, 93 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. Read More

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Book: Very Good

 

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Old Plantation Houses in Louisiana used book

Old Plantation Houses in Louisiana

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$132.00

Binding: Cloth Publisher: William Helburn Inc., New York Date published: 1927

Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. This is a hardcover copy in a very nice pink dust jacket, that is not price-clipped ($5.00) that is also printed with a woodcut illustration of the fabled "Oak Alley". The book itself is in very good condition, as the light brown cloth covers are very clean and unmarked, even the tipped-on title on pink paper (the same paper as the jacket) looks as fresh as the day it was published. Inside the book there is some offsetting on the printed pink paper paste-down, ... Read More

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Book: Very Good

 

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Die Baukunst Der Neuesten Zeit used book

Die Baukunst Der Neuesten Zeit

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$257.00

Binding: Half-Leather Publisher: Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin Date published: 1927

Description: Very Good. This is a very good hardcover copy in the familiar green paper-covered boards with gilt device to the front cover, and black leather spine with red panel printed with gilt titles. Text in German. This is one of the best one volume surveys of European architecture at the beginning of the 20th century. The work of over 100 architects is surveyed and classified by building types and styles. Profusely illustrated with 25 tipped-in color plates mounted on stiff black paper, and hundreds ... Read More

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Book: Very Good

 

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Eric Mendelsohn used book

Eric Mendelsohn

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Edition: First Edition Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Faber & Faber Limited, London Date published: 1940

Description: Very Good. This is a very good cloth copy with just light wear. Occasional tiny brown marks to covers and endpapers, but inside is fresh and clean. This is the first edition of this classic biography of one of the giants of the modern movement, Eric Mendelsohn. Filled with interesting material about Mendelsohn's complex and very accomplished life it is also illustrated beautifully with many of his drawings and black & white photos of his built work. 52 plates and 103 figures (drawings) in the ... Read More

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Book: Very Good

 

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