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PAUL SIGNAC: A COLLECTION OF WATERCOLORS AND DRAWINGS
Written by Marina Ferretti Bocquillon; Charles Cachin. Illustrated by Paul Signac.
Stock no. 1827099
Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. 1st 2000. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Exhibition catalogue presenting, for the first time ever, Signac's graphic ouevre in its entirety. Oblong format. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles. Colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0810943662. Minor foxing to top edge of text block else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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PORTRAITS: A HISTORY
Written by Andreas Beyer.
Stock no. 1825477
Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. Circa 2003. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A fascinating overview of portraiture in all its manifestations: individual and group portraits; official and casual settings; sitters ranging from the famous to the anonymous; renderings of lovers, friends, and family; artists' powerful depictions of themselves; idealized visions along with warts-and-all realism. Large format. Red cloth boards, blind titles. Colour illustrations throughout. A hefty volume. ISBN: 0810945398. 2nd printing. A lovely copy in a pictorial dustwrapper which is lightly faded in places.

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MEDIEVAL ART: PAINTING, SCULPTURE, ARCHITECTURE 4TH - 14TH CENTURY
Written by James Snyder.
Stock no. 2138986
Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. Circa 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Red cloth with gilt title to spine; gilt border to front cover. B/w illustrations. B/w photos. ISBN: 0810915324. Page edge browning. Wrapper is faded to spine; edge-creased.

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PAUL KLEE: THE BERGGRUEN KLEE COLLECTION IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Written by Sabine Rewald. Illustrated by Paul Klee.
Stock no. 1822332
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. 1997. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Klee is one of today's most popular artists. Ninety works by Klee have been given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by one of the postwar era's leading art dealers and collectors, Heinz Berggruen, and are published together in this volume. Also contains a candid interview with the artist's only son, Felix, which took place in Bern in February 1986. Large format. White cloth boards, navy blue titles. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0810912155. Third printing. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is faded at spine & top front edge and lightly scuffed.

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FLORA DOMESTICA: A HISTORY OF BRITISH FLOWER ARRANGING 1500-1930
Written by Mary Rose Blacker.
Stock no. 1822017
Published by The National Trust; Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. 1st USA 2000. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The history of floral decoration from the delicate bouquets of the sixteenth century to the extravagant displays of the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Includes a useful guide to historic plant and flower varieties available today. Red cloth boards, silver title to spine. Colour & b/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0707803802. Top edge of spine lightly worn with tiny nibble. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and scuffed to rear panel.

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WINSOR MCCAY HIS LIFE AND ART
Written by John Canemaker; Maurice Sendak. Illustrated by Winsor McCay.
Stock no. 2122440
Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. 1st thus 2005. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour & b/w illustrations. Revised and Expanded edition. Foreword by Sendak. This the only biography of one of America's greatest and most influential cartoonists, Winsor McCay (1867-1934), the universally acknowledged first master of both the comic strip and the animated cartoon. Although invented by others, both genres were developed into enduring popular art of highest imagination through McCay's innovative genius. He attributed his considerable success to "an absolute craving to draw pictures all the time." ISBN: 0810959410. Wrapper is a little edge-creased with small nick to edge of rear panel.

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THE ART OF MAURICE SENDAK 1980 TO THE PRESENT
Written by Tony Kushner. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Stock no. 1608927
Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. c. 2003. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Large format. Dark blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 0810944480. Wrapper is edge creased with small closed tear at base of spine.

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