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Product Description: At once an important social history of tobacco and smoking and a beautiful coffee table book, A Token of Elegance is ideal for art and design historians, history students, museum professionals, and collectorsOf great interest to jewelry historians as many cigarette holders were made for their international clientele by the major jewelry firms and this is the first book where so many cigarette holders are catalogued and photographedThe book offers an unprecedented look at cigarette holders through a selection of approximately 125 pieces from the collection of Carolyn Hsu-Balcer...read more
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9788897737629 | Officina Libraria S R L, November 12, 2015, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: At once an important social history of tobacco and smoking and a beautiful coffee table book, A Token of Elegance is ideal for art and design historians, history students, museum professionals, and collectorsOf great interest to jewelry historians as many cigarette holders were made for their international clientele by the major jewelry firms and this is the first book where so many cigarette holders are catalogued and photographedThe book offers an unprecedented look at cigarette holders through a selection of approximately 125 pieces from the collection of Carolyn Hsu-Balcer.
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9781851495931 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, November 30, 2009, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This book celebrates some of the most fantastic and desirable handbags of the 1950s and 60s.
The author introduces readers to the Aesthetic Movement through words and images, carrying readers back more than a century to an era when British woodcarvers where offering classes that were filled mainly by enthusiastic housewives hoping to learn how to carve beautiful furniture. (Antiques & Collectibles)
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9780821415115 | Ohio Univ Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The author introduces readers to the Aesthetic Movement through words and images, carrying readers back more than a century to an era when British woodcarvers where offering classes that were filled mainly by enthusiastic housewives hoping to learn how to carve beautiful furniture.
Product Description: Casa Asia, established in 2000 by the Spanish government to foster cultural and educational exchange between Asia and Spain, celebrates its inaugural exhibition entitled "Divine Presence: Arts of India and the Himalayas". The exhibition brings together over 60 of the world's finest examples of Indian and Himalayan art, drawn from 26 leading private and public collections in Europe and North America...read more
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9788874390229 | 5 Continents Editions, August 1, 2003, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: Casa Asia, established in 2000 by the Spanish government to foster cultural and educational exchange between Asia and Spain, celebrates its inaugural exhibition entitled "Divine Presence: Arts of India and the Himalayas".
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9780743236645 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 2002, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Profiles the film star's collection of jewelry, providing descriptions of her most noteworthy pieces and describing their representation of particular relationships and events in her life.
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9780743254380 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, December 1, 2003), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Profiles the film star's collection of jewelry, providing descriptions of her most noteworthy pieces and describing their representation of particular relationships and events in her life.
Product Description: Illustrated with historical material and specially commissioned photographs, this volume provides a portrait of the manor and its inhabitants, its architecture and interior decor, its romantic gardens, and its renowned collections of English portraits, Dutch old masters, furniture and textiles...read more
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9780810932395 | Harry N Abrams Inc, May 1, 2002, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Illustrated with historical material and specially commissioned photographs, this volume provides a portrait of the manor and its inhabitants, its architecture and interior decor, its romantic gardens, and its renowned collections of English portraits, Dutch old masters, furniture and textiles.
9780810905078 | Harry N Abrams Inc, May 1, 2002, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: More than 125 years ago, Baron Ferdinand Rothschild transformed a barren hill in the countryside outside London into the setting for an astonishing French Renaissance–style chateau that remains one of the most extraordinary houses in all of England.
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9780810929937 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 2001, cover price $34.95
Product Description: Illustrates, explains and celebrates 241 examples of Tibetan sacred art of the 9th to 12th centuries. The authors discuss the religious meaning and use of tangkas, Buddhist iconography and the aesthetics of tangka paintings, sculpture and mandalas. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780810982048 | Expanded edition (Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 2000), cover price $34.98 | About this edition: Illustrates, explains and celebrates 241 examples of Tibetan sacred art of the 9th to 12th centuries.
Product Description: Meyer Schapiro, legendary art historian, multidisciplinary critic, and inspiring teacher, was a leading figure in the intellectual and artistic life of New York from the early days of his association with Columbia University in the 1930s as a lecturer and then a professor, until his death in 1996 at the age of 91...read more
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9780810943926 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 2000, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: Meyer Schapiro, legendary art historian, multidisciplinary critic, and inspiring teacher, was a leading figure in the intellectual and artistic life of New York from the early days of his association with Columbia University in the 1930s as a lecturer and then a professor, until his death in 1996 at the age of 91.
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9780811823074 | Chronicle Books Llc, July 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Shows examples of sketches and pages from the artist's journal in which she documented her existence with objects that she found
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9780815681274 | Munson Williams Proctor Inst, July 1, 1999, cover price $50.00
Product Description: FAn exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 195 pages; Physical desc. : 195 p. : ill. (some col. ) , col. Map ; 31 cm...read more
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9780810963863 | Ill edition (Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1999), cover price $49.50 | About this edition: FAn exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw.
In a terrifying near future in which the wasteland Earth can no longer support all its human population, a seventeen-year-old is endangered by a new edict calling for the relocation of one child from every two-progeny household.
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9780810940185 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1998, cover price $65.00
9780060203641, titled "Smart Rats: A Novel" | Harpercollins Childrens Books, October 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | also contains Smart Rats: A Novel | About this edition: In a terrifying near future in which the wasteland Earth can no longer support all its human population, a seventeen-year-old is endangered by a new edict calling for the relocation of one child from every two-progeny household.
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9780810939394 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1998, cover price $39.95
Product Description: A century and more ago, the vast majority of Americans lived and worked on farms. From that era date the barn of one Abel Bristol, photographed in this book, and the diary of his contemporary and neighbor, Philo Blinn, also printed here...read more
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9780810942868 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A century and more ago, the vast majority of Americans lived and worked on farms.
Product Description: With 180 of his works illustrated in colour, as well as photographs showing the preparation and assembly of the pieces, this is a study of the glass art of Paul J. Stankard, who is known especially for his paperweights. Stankard paperweights are all unique, encasing roses, lilacs, orchids and fantasy flowers created from spun filaments...read more
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9780810944732 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 1996, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: With 180 of his works illustrated in colour, as well as photographs showing the preparation and assembly of the pieces, this is a study of the glass art of Paul J.
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9780030282324, titled "Interplay: The Process of Interpersonal Communication/Instructors Manual and Test Bank" | 4th edition (Harcourt School, March 1, 1989), cover price $22.75 | also contains Interplay: The Process of Interpersonal Communication/Instructors Manual and Test Bank
Product Description: Contemporary Mathematics for Business and Consumers is an adventure into today's business world of the new millennium and it's associated mathematical procedures. The book is designed to provide solid mathematical preparation and foundation for students going on to courses and careers in accounting, marketing, retailing, banking, office administration, finance, insurance, real estate, and business administration...read more
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9780030260742, titled "Contemporary Mathematics for Business and Consumers: Brief" | Harcourt College Pub, June 1, 1999, cover price $56.00 | also contains Contemporary Mathematics for Business and Consumers: Brief | About this edition: Contemporary Mathematics for Business and Consumers is an adventure into today's business world of the new millennium and it's associated mathematical procedures.
9780810926660 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Showcases art made from found objects while exploring Americans' concepts of thrift and wastefulness and the materialistic orientations of Western society
Explores the life and career of the jeweler known for the imaginative costume jewelry he created for first ladies and Hollywood stars
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9780810935792 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Explores the life and career of the jeweler known for the imaginative costume jewelry he created for first ladies and Hollywood stars
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9780810963115 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 30, 1996, cover price $75.00
An introduction to the Buddhist way of life explains the Kalachakra ceremony and initiation, the meaning of the sand mandala and its symbols, and other cultural information.
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9780525450634 | Dutton Childrens Books, October 1, 1995, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Introduces Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, the Kalachakra ceremony, and the sand mandala
Product Description: Eugene and Clare Thaw's outstanding collection of Native American art includes superb objects from nearly all the important American tribes. This book, the first on the Thaw Collection, presents 100 of its finest works, ranging from Northwest Coast masks to Southwestern pueblo pottery to Plains and Woodland Indian headdresses, peace pipes, and shields...read more
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9780810926288 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Eugene and Clare Thaw's outstanding collection of Native American art includes superb objects from nearly all the important American tribes.
Product Description: Michael W. Monroe, Curator-in-Charge of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art, selected this collection of fine contemporary crafts specifically for the interiors of the White House, to be viewed and admired alongside the works of the past...read more
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9780810940352 | Harry N Abrams Inc, April 1, 1995, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Michael W.
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9780810944541 | Harry N Abrams Inc, April 1, 1995, cover price $39.95
Product Description: Renowned as the worlds foremost contemporary designer of fine handbags, Judith Leiber brings together the realms of art and fashion in her astonishing creations. Coveted by many, collected by celebrities and socialites, affordable by only a few, Judith Leiber bags are a wearable art form, appearing in the permanent collections of some of America" trop museums and galleries...read more
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9780810935716 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1995, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Renowned as the worlds foremost contemporary designer of fine handbags, Judith Leiber brings together the realms of art and fashion in her astonishing creations.
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9780810944534 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1994, cover price $75.00
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