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Item #100206 The Life of Samuel Johnson. James Boswell

The Life of Samuel Johnson

Single-volume edition of one of the greatest English biographies, printed in two columns. Boswell follows Dr. Johnson through the arduous production of his major works, including his massive Dictionary of the English Language and his critical editions of Shakespeare and the English poets, and documents his friendships with Joshua Reynolds.....

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Item #10052 Redoute: The Man Who Painted Flowers. Carolyn Croll

Redoute: The Man Who Painted Flowers

First edition of this picture book devoted to the life and work of French painter Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), whose flower paintings remain high spots of botanical illustration. Croll depicts Redoute's encounters with Marie Antoinette, Napoleon and Josephine, and John James Audubon: "Painting flowers may be something small, but it is.....

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Item #10058 The White Album. Joan Didion

The White Album

First edition of Didion's classic collection of essays on the American 1970s, reflections on Jim Morrison, the Black Panthers, the women's movement, Nancy Reagan, Charles Manson, college activism, and the new role of the shopping center in American life. "I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew.....

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Item #100108 The George Eliot Letters. George Eliot, Gordon Haight, Graham Greene

The George Eliot Letters

Graham Greene's annotated copy of the first American edition of George Eliot's collected letters, in seven volumes, with his signature to the front free endpaper of each volume. Greene clearly read this comprehensive collection with care, neatly marking the text throughout, and drawing up a handwritten index to key passages.....

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Item #100205 A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Architects, and Engravers, Containing...

A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Architects, and Engravers, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Most Celebrated Artists, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

A very handsome first edition of this traveler's guide to the art of Europe: "though this work is presented to the Public in the compact and portable size of a pocket volume, yet it will be found to contain a greater variety of matter, and more useful information, than is.....

Price: $250.00

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Item #10032 Autobiography. Helmut Newton

Autobiography

First American edition of controversial fashion photographer Newton's autobiography, divided into two sections: "The Biography" and "The Photographs." "I am not a movie director. Fashion pictures rarely have any logic; each one is a moment without a beginning or end." Fine condition.

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Item #10041 A.L.T. Andre Leon Talley

A.L.T.

First edition of fashion writer Talley's moving memoir of the two women who shaped his life: Bennie Frances Davis, the grandmother who raised him in North Carolina, and Diana Vreeland, the editor who inspired and mentored his rise at Vogue. "I will get to evenings with Mrs. Vreeland eventually, and.....

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Item #10093 Painting Illustrated in Three Dialogues, Containing Some Choice Observations Upon the...

Painting Illustrated in Three Dialogues, Containing Some Choice Observations Upon the Art. Together with the Lives of The Most Eminent Painters, From Cimabue, to the Time of Raphael, and Michael Angelo, with an Explanation of the Difficult Terms

Three critical dialogues by Aglionby are accompanied here by the first appearance in English of eleven of Vasari's Lives: Cimabue, Giotto, Leonardo, Andrea del Sarto, Raphael, Giorgione, Michelangelo, Giulio Romano, Perino del Vaga, Titian, and Donato. Of Leonardo's Mona Lisa, Vasari writes: "this Piece was finished at a Rate, to.....

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Item #10071 I Wanted To Write A Poem. William Carlos Williams, Edith Heal

I Wanted To Write A Poem

First edition of this "autobiography of the works of a poet," signed by William Carlos Williams in his erratic post-stroke hand, additionally inscribed by editor Edith Heal to critic and scholar William York Tindall at Columbia University: "For W.Y. Tindall, from a student who appreciated and has used what he.....

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