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First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition. Dust jacket slows slightest shelf wear, and there is some yellowing of the pages around the edges, but the book binding is tight and clean. Signed and inscribed by author. Inscription reads, "To Richard Best Wishes." Book will be bubble wrapped upon shipping.At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised. In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments… Leer más

Fine, hardcover, first edition, and first printing book that is clean and tight. The book is inscribed and signed by the author. Inscription reads, "Richard, enjoy." Book will be bubble wrapped upon shipping.Unraveling the many myths and misconceptions surrounding America's most iconic spirit, Bourbon Empire traces a history that spans frontier rebellion, Gilded Age corruption, and the magic of Madison Avenue. Whiskey has profoundly influenced America's political, economic, and cultural destiny, just as those same factors have inspired the evolution and unique flavor of the whiskey itself.Taking readers behind the curtain of an enchanting—and sometimes exasperating—industry, the work of writer Reid Mitenbuler crackles with attitude and commentary about taste, choice, and history. Few products better embody the United States, or American business, than bourbon.

First edition, first printing, hardcover, which is inscribed and signed by the author. There is one small crease on the top right corner of the book from shelf wear (see photos), but binding is tight and clean. Seller will wrap book in bubble wrap prior to shipping.The first in a sweeping, multi-volume history of Abraham Lincoln—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, death, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War plan of reconciliation—"engaging and informative and…thought-provoking" (The Christian Science Monitor).From his youth as a voracious newspaper reader, Abraham Lincoln became a free thinker, reading Tom Paine, as well as Shakespeare and the Bible. In the "fascinating" (Booklist, starred review) A Self-Made Man, Sidney Blumenthal reveals how Lincoln's antislavery thinking began in his childhood in backwoods Kentucky and Indiana. Intensely ambitious, he held political aspirations from his earliest years. Yet he was a socially awkward suitor who had a nervous breakdown over his… Leer más

First edition hardcover, which is signed and inscribed by the author. Book and dust jacket shows slight signs of shelf wear, and there is a remainder mark on the bottom of the book (see photos). Binding is clean and tight other than that.The definitive biography of the internationally adored author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and A Perfect Spy—arguably one of the most important and influential writers of the post-World War II period—by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning biographer Adam Sisman.
In this definitive biography—blessed by John le Carré himself—Adam Sisman reveals the man behind the bestselling persona. In John le Carré, Sisman shines a spotlight on David Cornwell, an expert at hiding in plain sight—"born to lying," he wrote in 2002, "bred to it, trained to it by an industry that lies for a living, practiced in it as a novelist."
Of course, the pseudonym "John le Carré" has helped to keep the public at a distance. Sisman probes… Leer más

First edition hardcover, which is in fine condition as well as signed and inscribed by the author. Please see photos for condition. There is a tiny crease in a corner of the book and a couple of creases near the edges of the front of the dust jacket from shelf wear. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A page-turner masterpiece." —Jim LehrerIn a 2017 survey, presidential historians ranked Dwight D. Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents, behind the perennial top four: Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt. Historian William Hitchcock shows that this high ranking is justified. Eisenhower's accomplishments were enormous, and loom ever larger from the vantage point of our own tumultuous times.A former general, Ike kept the peace: he ended the Korean War, avoided a war in Vietnam, adroitly managed a potential confrontation with China, and soothed relations with the Soviet Union after Stalin's… Leer más

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (with minor signs of shelf wear - see photos). Whitney Museum of American Art, 2011. First edition, first printing. Out of print and rare. This copy is signed and dated by American Artist Glenn Ligon. Signed following a lecture at the National Gallery of Art, March, 2013. Very rare signed copy of the first printing. Out of print. Comes with pamphlet from event. Seller will bubble wrap book and ship it with tracking. Please note, this is an oversized book, and as such, shipping costs may be higher than standard rates.
American artist Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is best known for his landmark body of text-based paintings, made since the late 1980s, which draw on the writings and speech of diverse figures including Jean Genet, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesse Jackson, and Richard Pryor. Throughout his career, Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across a body of work that builds critically on the legacies of… Leer más

First edition hardcover which is in fine condition (except for minor signs of shelf wear in top corner of book and duct jacket - see photos) and is signed by two of the authors and one of the contributors. This book is rare and out of print. Seller will carefully wrap book and ship it mail with tracking. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-19th-century art world. Effectively Britain's first modern art movement, the Brotherhood combined rebellion and revivalism, scientific precision, and imaginative grandeur. Today, the works of the Pre-Raphaelites are among the best known of all English paintings, and yet they have often been dismissed or misunderstood as Victoriana or escapism. This fascinating book convincingly corrects that view, examining works in a wide variety of media and demonstrating the broad scope of the movement's revolutionary ideas about art, design, and society.
Led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais, the Pre-Raphaelites' unflinchingly… Leer más

First English edition hardcover, which is signed by one of the curators at the National Gallery of Art who signed it on April 9, 2017 during the exhibition Frederic Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism. There is the slightest sign of shelf wear on the corners of the book (see photos), but it is in fine condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking. Please note, book may require additional postage because it is oversized.The paintings of Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870) were rediscovered after the turn of the nineteenth-century by art critics and curators who credited the artist as an important pioneer in the development of Impressionism. Tracing his artistic career from its inception—including his links to Manet, Monet, Renoir, and Cézanne—this book unveils Bazille's complete painted works.Organized both thematically and chronologically, this monograph also features facsimiles of the artist's personal letters interspersed throughout the book on… Leer más

First edition, second printing hardcover, which is in fine condition and signed and inscribed by the author. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.Drawings by the great Italian Mannerist painter and poet Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) are extremely rare. This important and beautiful publication brings together for the first time nearly all of the sixty drawings attributed to this leading draftsman of the 16th century.
Each drawing is illustrated in color, discussed in detail, and shown with many comparative photographs. Bronzino's technical virtuosity as a draftsman and his mastery of anatomy and perspective are vividly apparent in each stroke of the chalk, pen, or brush. The younger generations of Florentine artists particularly admired Bronzino for his technical virtuosity as a painter, and Giorgio Vasari praised him for his powers as a disegnatore (designer and draftsman).

EXTREMELY RARE first edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition and signed by the authors. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking. A much-anticipated harbinger of spring, the cherry blossom is also exemplary of the Japanese artistic aesthetic? A delight in simple, natural beauty and an attentiveness to the changing seasons. This spring will mark the centennial of Japan's gift of three thousand cherry trees to Washington, DC, and this sumptuously illustrated catalogue is the companion to a celebratory exhibition at the National Gallery of Art featuring the work of Ito Jakuchu.Jakuchu (1716–1800), a wealthy wholesaler and talented painter, is, in Japan, the most recognized artist of the premodern era. His thirty-scroll set of bird-and-flower paintings titled Colorful Realm of Living Beings is a renowned cultural treasure, one of the most beautiful and skilled examples of how the natural world is depicted… Leer más

Extremely rare and out of print first edition, first printing hardcover, which is in as new condition. Dust jacket is fine condition. Please see photos. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.
The complete history of the S.S. United States with special focus on her designer, William Francis Gibbs, and her first master, Capt. Harry Manning. More than 100 photographs.

First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition and signed and inscribed by all of four authors. There is an indentation on the front of the book, and the dust jacket has a tear along the edge. Please see photos . Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.A celebrity for his heroics in the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812, Commodore Stephen Decatur built his home in 1818 within sight of the President's House with prize money awarded to him by Congress for his military victories. He commissioned Benjamin Henry Latrobe, America's first professional architect, to create a home "fit for fine entertaining" and the resulting three-story square townhouse constructed with red brick in the Federal fashion is known as Decatur House today. Stephen Decatur's time in the fine house was cut short in 1820 when he was mortally wounded in a famous duel in nearby Bladensburg. After his death, his widow Susan Decatur rented the house to such prominent figures… Leer más