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David N. Ebner: Studio Furniture
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Product Description: Today's American, hand-crafted furniture is bristling with originality. Blending art and functionality, David Ebner creates unique benches, tables, and chairs. This designer-craftsman's work subtly surpasses the limits of the furniture world and often crosses over into the realm of sculpture...read more
By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764344145 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, February 28, 2014, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Today's American, hand-crafted furniture is bristling with originality.

Robert Engman: Structural Sculpture
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By Josef Albers (illustrator) and Nancy N. Schiffer (editor)
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9780764342295 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, March 28, 2013, cover price $50.00

Harry Bertoia Monoprints
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Product Description: American sculptor, designer, print artist Harry Bertoia (1915-1978) made thousands of monoprints on rice paper to record his shape ideas. Many ultimately became the basis of sculptures during his forty-year career. Here over 1500 of his fascinating monoprints are presented with their identifying numbers and dimensions...read more
By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764338502 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, December 28, 2011, cover price $89.99 | About this edition: American sculptor, designer, print artist Harry Bertoia (1915-1978) made thousands of monoprints on rice paper to record his shape ideas.

Masters of Contemporary Indian Jewelry
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Product Description: The artist-makers represented here come from every region of the United States, making this book a compilation of many native traditions as well as modern styles. Exciting background ideas are expressed in the details of these works, so their study and appreciation is quite fascinating...read more
By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764332456 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, April 28, 2009, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The artist-makers represented here come from every region of the United States, making this book a compilation of many native traditions as well as modern styles.

Jensen Silver: The American Designs
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By Douglas Congdon-Martin (photographer), Janet Drucker and Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764327384 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, March 1, 2008, cover price $49.95

Kenneth Jay Lane Fabulous Jewelry & Accessories
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Product Description: Kenneth Jay Lane, "the hottest costume jewelry designer around" according to Elle Magazine, has created high-fashion styles for over forty years for royalty, first ladies, celebrities, socialites, movie stars, and fashionable women...read more
By Douglas Congdon-Martin (photographer) and Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764327360, titled "Kenneth Jay Lane Fabulous Jewelry & Accessories: Jewelry & Accessories from Kenneth Jay Lane" | Schiffer Pub Ltd, September 15, 2007, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Kenneth Jay Lane, "the hottest costume jewelry designer around" according to Elle Magazine, has created high-fashion styles for over forty years for royalty, first ladies, celebrities, socialites, movie stars, and fashionable women.

Star Spangled Jewelry
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Product Description: Since the early decades of the 20th century, American patriotic jewelry has proclaimed national pride for all who wear and admire it. Flags, eagles, Victory themes, political mascots, and Uncle Sam parade across these pages proclaiming allegiance to the United States...read more
By Nancy N. Schiffer and Sandra J. Whitson
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9780125476607, titled "Encyclopedia of Fishes" | Academic Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $34.99 | also contains Encyclopedia of Fishes | About this edition: Magnificently illustrated with more than 200 color photos and 150 original illustrations, diagrams, and maps, this encyclopedia reveals the fascinating world of fish in an authoritative and stimulating way.

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9780764326486 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, June 30, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Since the early decades of the 20th century, American patriotic jewelry has proclaimed national pride for all who wear and admire it.

Turquoise Jewelry
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This book displays a wide variety of Southwest Indian-made jewelry with many different colors and types of turquoise, presented according to origin and dating from over a hundred years ago up to the present with innovative designs. Men's and women's jewelry is included in belts, bracelets, bolo ties, necklaces, and many other beautiful pieces.
By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764323492 | 3 rev exp edition (Schiffer Pub Ltd, October 1, 2006), cover price $9.95
9780764320330 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, August 30, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This book displays a wide variety of Southwest Indian-made jewelry with many different colors and types of turquoise, presented according to origin and dating from over a hundred years ago up to the present with innovative designs.
9780887402623 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, March 1, 1990, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This book presents a wide variety of Southwest Indian-made jewelry that features many different types and colors of turquoise, according to origin.

Knoll Home & Office Furniture
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Product Description: The name Knoll is synonymous worldwide with the best in modern furniture design. Visually exciting, comprehensive in content, this new book documents the modern furniture sold and produced by Knoll from 1938 to 2005. A detailed timeline organizes the history of Knoll furniture with illustrations, from its roots at the Bauhaus, to New York City, through Knoll International...read more
By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764323959 | 1 edition (Schiffer Pub Ltd, March 1, 2006), cover price $79.95 | About this edition: The name Knoll is synonymous worldwide with the best in modern furniture design.

Hawaiian Shirts: Dress Right For Paradise
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Product Description: If you plan to enter paradise, youll want to dress for it. Here are over 1000 glorious color photgraphs of Hawaiian-inspired textile designs on shirts that will thrust wide the pearly gates. Fantastic florals, heavenly Hawaiian designs, gorgeous geometrics, beautiful birds, special surfing scenes, jumping Japanese prints, fabulous fish, luscious landscapes, favorite foods, compulsory cocktails, and plenty of styling details will motivate your journey...read more
By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764321436 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, December 4, 2004, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: If you plan to enter paradise, youll want to dress for it.

Evolving Southwest Indian Jewelry
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Product Description: This new book is a classic study of Southwest Native American jewelry that documents the fascinating story of evolving designs and techniques from early traders and artists up to the present. The concise yet highly informative text accompanies over 500 color photographs of silver, turquoise, shell, and gold jewelry...read more
By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764317231 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, August 30, 2003, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This new book is a classic study of Southwest Native American jewelry that documents the fascinating story of evolving designs and techniques from early traders and artists up to the present.

The World of Bertoia
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Product Description: Italian-born Bertoia (d.1978) studied at Cranbrook Academy in Michigan and went on to set up a studio for sculpture and furniture in Pennsylvania. This heavily illustrated volume with photos of his parents, youth, family, and color plates of his works of art describes Bertoia's life and career in detail, with separate chapters on the different media in which he worked these include jewelry, chairs, sculpture, and fountains...read more
By Val O. Bertoia and Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764317989 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, July 1, 2003, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Italian-born Bertoia (d.

Contemporary Hopi Kachina Dolls
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Product Description: Beautifully carved and painted wooden kachina dolls represent the many spirits and dancers in Southwest Indian Hopi ceremonies that appeal to higher forces for rain, fertile crops, and the goodness of life. Learn the identities of 275 kachinas made by important contemporary Hopi artists and on the market today...read more
By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764318481 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, July 1, 2003, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Beautifully carved and painted wooden kachina dolls represent the many spirits and dancers in Southwest Indian Hopi ceremonies that appeal to higher forces for rain, fertile crops, and the goodness of life.

Shape & Decoration in Japanese Export Ceramics
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Product Description: Ceramics, made in Japan for export in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, are fascinating collectibles, possessing an almost endless variety of shape and diversity of decoration. In fact, it is rare to fine two pieces matching...read more
By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764316494 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, December 1, 2002, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Ceramics, made in Japan for export in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, are fascinating collectibles, possessing an almost endless variety of shape and diversity of decoration.

Figural Japanese Export Ceramics
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By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764315039 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, March 1, 2002, cover price $49.95

Rhinestones!: A Collector's Handbook & Price Guide
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Product Description: Rhinestones (colored glass imitation gemstones) comprise the most popular form of jewelry. High-fashion as well as costume designers produce rhinestone jewelry, which has been an important fashion accessory in the West since the late 19th century...read more
By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764317514, titled "Rhinestones!: A Collector's Handbook And Price Guide" | 4 revised edition (Schiffer Pub Ltd, August 30, 2001), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Rhinestones (colored glass imitation gemstones) comprise the most popular form of jewelry.
9780764302695, titled "Rhinestones!: A Collector's Handbook & Price Guide" | Schiffer Pub Ltd, February 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The rise of rhinestone and glass beads from the glass industry in Bohemia and Austria is traced as a clamor grew in the mid-twentieth century for more costume jewelry.
9780887404573, titled "Rhinestones!: A Collector's Handbook & Price Guide" | Schiffer Pub Ltd, February 1, 1993, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Book by Schiffer, Nancy N.

Art Deco Bakelite Jewelry & Boxes: Cubism for Everyone
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Product Description: The Art Deco style of the early 1930s can be seen as domesticated Cubism. As with cubist paintings, the elements of design were reduced to their minimal essence and applied to everyday items for public consumption. Here Bakelite plastic jewelry and boxes are studied as reflections of this style...read more
By Deborah Keresztury, Peter Keresztury and Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764313479 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, August 30, 2001, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The Art Deco style of the early 1930s can be seen as domesticated Cubism.

Silver Jewelry Treasures
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Product Description: A virtual treasury of European, American Indian, Mexican, and popular modern designs is brought together here through more than 250 dynamic color photographs, the supporting text, and newly updated values guide. The book presents filigree, openwork, engraving, repousse, and inlay techniques...read more
By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764313653 | 2 revised edition (Schiffer Pub Ltd, August 30, 2001), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A virtual treasury of European, American Indian, Mexican, and popular modern designs is brought together here through more than 250 dynamic color photographs, the supporting text, and newly updated values guide.
9780887404580 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, March 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A virtual treasury of European, American Indian, Mexican, and popular modern designs is brought together here through more than 250 dynamic color photographs, the supporting text and values guide.

The Best of Golden Oak Furniture: With Details and Prices
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Product Description: Fine details of carving and construction are highlighted to demonstrate the best golden oak furniture from American makers at the end of the nineteenth century. China cabinets, bookcases, chairs, tables, and accent forms are shown in various styles with detailed descriptions and price ranges to reflect their values in the furniture market today...read more
By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764311475 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, July 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Fine details of carving and construction are highlighted to demonstrate the best golden oak furniture from American makers at the end of the nineteenth century.

Imari, Satsuma, and Other Japanese Export Ceramics
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By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764309908, titled "Imari, Satsuma and Other Japanese Export Ceramics" | 2 rev upd edition (Schiffer Pub Ltd, May 1, 2000), cover price $49.99
9780887409448 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, November 1, 1997, cover price $49.95

Japanese Export Ceramics: 1860-1920
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Product Description: The world now applauds the exquisite ornamental ceramics made in Japan in the late 19th century for export to Europe and America. They dazzle the public today as they originally did when introduced at the International Fairs in Philadelphia, London, Paris, Chicago, and St...read more
By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764310430 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, March 1, 2000, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The world now applauds the exquisite ornamental ceramics made in Japan in the late 19th century for export to Europe and America.

Japanese Porcelain 1800-1950
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Product Description: Hundreds of beautiful color pictures and recently-discovered, important information give this new study of 19th and 20th century Japanese porcelain a most refreshing approach. Visual comparisons of the major styles can be made even by the beginning student because there are so many fine color pictures of the examples...read more
By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764308994 | 2 expanded edition (Schiffer Pub Ltd, August 1, 1999), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Hundreds of beautiful color pictures and recently-discovered, important information give this new study of 19th and 20th century Japanese porcelain a most refreshing approach.
9780887400742 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, March 1, 1997, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Profusely illustrated, primarily in color.

Before You Buy an Engagement Ring: With a 4-Step Guide for Making the Right Choice
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Provides advice on choosing an engagement ring with information on how to judge a diamond's cut, color, clarity, and weight
By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764306112 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, March 1, 1999, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Provides advice on choosing an engagement ring with information on how to judge a diamond's cut, color, clarity, and weight

Pine Furniture: The Country Look
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Product Description: The pine furniture and tools gathered in this book have come from distant places in Europe, the United Kingdom, and Scandinavia. Painted with cheerful colors, they served every practical function in a home. Over 280 beautiful color photographs in this book show construction details and furniture design of great variety...read more
By Nancy N. Schiffer and Bruce M. Waters (photographer)
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9780764307423 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, January 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The pine furniture and tools gathered in this book have come from distant places in Europe, the United Kingdom, and Scandinavia.

Surfing, Surfing, Surfing
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Product Description: Over 400 dynamic color photos and a concise text rich in facts show important developments in surfing over the last century. The ancient Polynesian heritage of surfing is presented through its introduction to the modern world by Hawaiians such as Duke Kahanamoku in the early 1900s...read more
By Nancy N. Schiffer
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9780764306556 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, October 1, 1998, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Over 400 dynamic color photos and a concise text rich in facts show important developments in surfing over the last century.

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