Abbeville Press
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Moxie: The Daring Women of Classic Hollywood
$49.95 Add to cartLauren Bacall, Louise Brooks, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Kay Francis, Lillian Gish, Gloria Grahame, Katharine Hepburn, Veronica Lake, Carole Lombard, Myrna Loy, Ida Lupino, Barb… [more below]
- Author: Resnick, Ira M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0789214938
- Language: English
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Cathedrals of Industry: Exploring the Factories and Infrastructure That Made America
$65.00 Add to cart“This book . . . documents better than any economic historian could some of the enormous changes our economy and our society have been going through.”
–From the foreword by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nob
- Author: Horowitz, Michael L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0789214989
- Language: English
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Women in the Middle Ages: Illuminating the World of Peasants, Nuns, and Queens
$45.00 Add to cartMedieval women ruled over kingdoms, abbeys, and households; produced stunning works of art and craft; and did the hard work that kept ordinary families fed and clothed. Though women’s contributions we
- Author: Hollman, Gemma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0789214962
- Language: English
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Paul Landacre: California Hills, Hollywood, and the World Beyond: A Catalogue Raisonn?
$150.00 Add to cartWith his virtuosic prints of rolling California hills, classically inspired nudes, and natural and manmade forms–from a seashell to his own printing press–Paul Landacre elevated wood engraving to a … [more below]
- Author: Wien, Jake Milgram
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 078921492X
- Language: English
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Rome Antics
$19.95 Add to cartA pigeon carrying an important message takes the reader on a unique tour through Rome. As we follow the path of this somewhat wayward bird, we discover that Rome is a place where past and present live… [more below]
- Author: Macaulay, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 789215136
- Language: English
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Audubon’s Birds of America: The Tiny Folio
$13.95 Add to cartJohn James Audubon’s Birds of America (originally published 1827-1838) is one of the landmarks of American art, and of natural history illustration. This miniature book presents exquisite reproduction… [more below]
- Series: Tiny Folio
- Author: Editors of Abbeville Press
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0789215098
- Language: English
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Haiku: Japanese Poems for the Four Seasons
$25.00 Add to cartPerhaps no poetic form evokes nature so effectively as the haiku. Made up of just seventeen syllables, it conveys an impression with almost the same immediacy as our own senses–it can be as ephemeral… [more below]
- Author: Civardi, Ornella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 789215063
- Language: English
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New York Bars at Dawn
$40.00 Add to cartDaniel Root’s photos of New York bars at dawn are a perfect blend of beauty and melancholia. Everything about them is just right. —Roz Chast, New Yorker cartoonist
Nearly every day, Daniel Root sets
- Author: Root, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0789214776
- Language: English
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Pictures of the Floating World: An Introduction to Japanese Prints
$36.00 Add to cartIn Edo Japan, woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e (“pictures of the Floating World”) captured the entertainment culture of the urban elite and eventually many other subjects as well. These beautiful pri
- Author: Thompson, Sarah E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0789214393
- Language: English
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Video Games: From Pong to the Ps5
$29.95 Add to cartOver the past five decades, video games have evolved from primitive computer-lab experiments into one of the world’s most popular forms of entertainment and–many would say–an important new art form…. [more below]
- Author: Marcello, Nicol? Mulas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0789214857
- Language: English
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An Almanac of New York City for the Year 2025
$12.95 Add to cartThis attractive little volume offers a day-by-day guide to the coming year in New York City: cultural events, holidays, historical anniversaries, and much more. Each week gets its own page, with enoug… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Susan Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0789254719
- Language: English
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African Textiles
$150.00 Read moreThe African continent is home to numerous outstanding textile traditions, many dating to antiquity and all playing a multifaceted role in their respective societies: these eye-catching fabrics proclai
- Author: Clarke, Duncan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0789214504
- Language: English
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Norman Rockwell: Drawings, 1911-1976
$40.00 Read moreBefore Norman Rockwell put paintbrush to canvas, he had a precise idea of what he wanted to create. A perfectionist and analytical thinker, Rockwell completed numerous preparatory drawings in the proc
- Author: Plunkett, Stephanie Haboush
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0789214105
- Language: English
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Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration
$45.00 Read moreFor hundreds of years, artists have been inspired by the imaginative potential of fantasy. Unlike science fiction, which is based on fact, fantasy presents an impossible reality–a universe where drag
- Author: Kowalski, Jesse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0789213702
- Language: English
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A History of American Tonalism, 1880-1920: Crucible of American Modernism
$135.00 Read moreThis magnificent volume, featuring more than 750 illustrations, is the first definitive account of the Tonalist movement. Based on original research, it tells how the progressive Tonalist landscape de… [more below]
- Author: Cleveland, David A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0789214113
- Language: English
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Norman Rockwell: 332 Magazine Covers
$79.95 Read moreNorman Rockwell gave us a picture of America that was familiar–astonishingly so–and at the same time unique, because only he could bring it to life with such authority.
Rockwell best expressed this … [more below]
- Author: Finch, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0789211440
- Language: English
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New York: Treasures of the Museum of the City of New York
$12.95 Read moreThis Tiny Folio takes readers on a fascinating tour of New York City history–from the land of the Lenape to today’s metropolis–as illustrated by some 250 diverse items from the incomparable collecti… [more below]
- Series: Tiny Folio
- Author: Jaffe, Steven H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0789213613
- Language: English
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John Singer Sargent: Oversize Edition
$125.00 Read moreIn the early work of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Henry James saw “the slightly ‘uncanny’ spectacle of a talent which on the threshold of its career has nothing more to learn.” Sargent’s talent, n
- Author: Ratcliff, Carter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0789214407
- Language: English
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Fruit: From the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
$12.95 Read moreBetween 1886 and 1942, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Pomology Division–pomology being the study of fruit growing–commissioned an illustrated register of fruits, most of which were painted by
- Series: Tiny Folio
- Author: Reich, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 078921427X
- Language: English
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The Trees of North America: Michaux and Redouté’s American Masterpiece (Tiny Folio)
$12.95 Read moreThis Tiny Folio(TM) presents, in modern taxonomic order, all 277 of the hand-colored plates from Fran?ois-Andr? Michaux’s classic North American Sylva, as well as the supplemental volumes by Thomas Nu
- Series: Tiny Folio #0
- Author: Sibley, David Allen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0789214024
- Language: English
