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100 Affiches de Paul Colin $90.00 - sold	100 Posters of Paul Colin $60.00 - sold	20 Centuries of Mexican Art/20 Siglos de Arte Mexicano $75.00 - sold
40 Dessins de Picasso en Marge du Buffon $750.00 - sold	50 Anos de Arte Mexicano $40.00 - sold	50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship $35.00 - sold
50 Years Bauhaus $150.00 - sold	A Century of Artists Books $100.00	A Joseph Cornell Album $125.00
A Little Yes and A Big No $95.00	A Primer of Modern Art $22.00 - sold	A Salute to Alexander Calder $7.50 - sold
A Shoal of Fishes $75.00 - sold	A Shoal of Fishes $75.00	A Vision of Paris: the Photographs of Eugene Atget, the Words of Marcel Proust $200.00 - sold
A. M. Cassandre $175.00	Abstract Art: Patterns & Designs $55.00 - sold	Abstract Art: Patterns and Designs $35.00 - sold
After the Hunt: William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters 1870-1900 $85.00	Alexander Rodchenko, Photography 1924-1954 $150.00 - sold	All Color Book of Art Deco $25.00 - sold
America and Alfred Steiglitz $40.00 - sold	America and Alfred Steiglitz $55.00 - sold	American Art of the 1960s $28.00 - sold
American Self-Taught: Paintings and Drawings by Outsider Artists $125.00 - sold	Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States $48.00 - sold	Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States $55.00 - sold
An Atlas of Anatomy for Artists $35.00	Anatomy & Drawing $45.00 - sold	Anatomy & Drawing $45.00 - sold
Andrew Wyeth $25.00 - sold	Andy Warhol's Exposures $850.00	Andy Warhol: Social Observer $45.00 - sold
Ansel Adams $45.00	Anthony Caro $20.00	Anyone Can Draw! $75.00 - sold
Anyone Can Paint! $18.00 - sold	Applied Art $95.00	Are Clothes Modern? $145.00 - sold
Are Clothes Modern? An Essay on Contemporary Apparel $135.00 - sold	Are Clothes Modern? An Essay on Contemporary Apparel $95.00 - sold	Are Clothes Modern? An Essay on Contemporary Apparel $85.00 - sold
Arp $35.00 - sold	Arp $35.00 - sold	Arshile Gorky $20.00 - sold
Art and "The Life": A Book on the Human Figure and its Drawing and Design $48.00	Art and Fashion $40.00 - sold	Art and Fashion $85.00 - sold
Art and the Stage in the 20th Century: Painters and Sculptors Work for the Theater $150.00 - sold	Art in Progress $40.00	Art in Progress, Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibition $40.00
Art News, Vol. 52, No. 7 $75.00	Art Nouveau: Art and Design at the Turn of the Century $25.00 - sold	Art of Tomorrow: Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection of Non-Objective Paintings $125.00 - sold
Art Students' Anatomy $20.00	Art Today: An Introduction to the Visual Arts $95.00 - sold	Art USA Now (Volumes I & II) $75.00 - sold
Artist's Model $110.00 - sold	Artists at Curwen $30.00 - sold	Artists' Cookbook $55.00 - sold
Atget, Life in Paris $14.00 - sold	Auction No. 59, Selected Works $28.00	Auction No. 60, 19th and 20th Century $28.00
Audubon's Butterflies, Moths & Other Studies $40.00 - sold	Avant Garde Photography in Germany 1919-1939 $35.00 - sold	Avant-Garde of Non-Objective Art, Vol. I $35.00
Avant-Garde Photography in Germany, 1919-1939 $55.00	Bauhaus 1919-1928 $125.00 - sold	Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980 $25.00
Blue Movie $145.00 - sold	Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century $45.00	Boucheron: Four Generations of a World-Renowned Jeweler $95.00 - sold
Braque $15.00	Brassai $95.00	Britain at War $55.00 - sold
Calder $30.00	Calder: An Autobiography and Pictures $35.00 - sold	Calder: Animobiles--Recent Gouaches $24.00 - sold
Castellani & Giuliano: Revivalist Jewellers of the Nineteenth Century $150.00 - sold	Circle. International Survey of Constructive Art $85.00 - sold	Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art $200.00 - sold
Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques $28.00	Concerning the Spiritual in Art $30.00	Concerning the Spiritual in Art $28.00
Contemporary Art Applied to the Store and its Display $485.00 - sold	Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art 1910-1980 $75.00	Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage $48.00 - sold
Dada: Monograph of a Movement $100.00 - sold	Dali By Dali $40.00 - sold	Dali...Dali...Dali $28.00
Daumier: The Man and the Artist $120.00	David Hockney: Poster Art $25.00 - sold	De Danske Kronjuveler $48.00 - sold
De Meyer $60.00	De Meyer $60.00	De Moderne Grafiek in Nederland en Vlaanderen $125.00
De Stijl: 1917-1931, Visions of Utopia $60.00 - sold	Degenerate Art: the Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany $200.00	Der Kus (The Kiss) $24.00 - sold
Desnoyer, Walch, Tal-Coat, Pignon, Gruber, Fougeron $28.00	Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles $55.00 - sold	Disegni di Marino Marini $45.00 - sold
Donati $60.00 - sold	Ecce Homo $100.00 - sold	Elements of Pen-and-Ink Rendering, Rendering with Pen and Brush, Elements of Water-Color Rendering, Rendering in Water Color, Drawing from Nature, Drawing from Cast, Elements of Figure Drawing, Drawing from the Figure, #6 $85.00
Erte at Ninety: the Complete Graphics $175.00	Exempla Graphica $150.00 - sold	Fabrications: Staged, Altered and Appropriated Photographs $150.00
Famous Small Bronzes: a Representative Exhibit Selected from the Works of Noted Contemporary Sculptors $145.00 - sold	Fantastic Architecture $200.00 - sold	Fantastic Architecture $250.00 - sold
Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism $50.00 - sold	Five Centuries of Jewellery National Museum of Art Lisbon $30.00 - sold	Foundations of Modern Art $100.00 - sold
Four Americans in Paris: the Collections of Gertrude Stein and her Family $24.00 - sold	Functional Graphic Design in the 20's $60.00 - sold	Futurism $50.00
Futurism $50.00 - sold	Gabo: Constructions, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings $125.00 - sold	Georgia O'Keeffe $16.00
German Art of the Twentieth Century $38.00 - sold	Gio Ponti Una Collezione $65.00 - sold	Gio Ponti: The Complete Work, 1923-1978 $450.00 - sold
Good Medicine: Memories of the Real West $65.00	Gothic Painting $50.00	Great Ideas $95.00 - sold
Great Ideas $145.00 - sold	Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1954-55-56 $75.00 - sold	Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1958-59-60 $75.00 - sold
Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1958-59-60 $75.00 - sold	Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1950-51-52 $75.00 - sold	Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1950-51-52 $8.00
Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1952-53-54 $75.00 - sold	Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1952-53-54 (Loose plates) $8.00 - sold	Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1954-55-56 $65.00 - sold
Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1954-55-56 $85.00 - sold	Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1956-57-58 $75.00 - sold	Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1956-57-58 $50.00 - sold
Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1960-61-62-63 $75.00 - sold	Greenwich Village Gourmet Studio Cookery $175.00	Hands and Their Construction $45.00
Harry Callahan $50.00 - sold	Henri Laurens $20.00	Henry Hornbostel, Michael Graves: An Exhibition of Architectural Drawings, Photographs and Models $15.00 - sold
Henry Moore $48.00	Henry Moore $30.00	Herbert Bayer: Collection and Archive at the Denver Art Museum $65.00
Herbert Bayer: Painter, Designer, Architect $70.00 - sold	Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work $175.00 - sold	Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work $175.00 - sold
Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work $175.00	Ho, Ho, Ho! $35.00 - sold	Hockney Paints the Stage $90.00
Hommage a Raoul Dufy $40.00 - sold	How to Draw and Print Lithographs $55.00	I Dipinti Ghiribizzosi di Giuseppe Arcimboldi Pittore Illusionista del Cinquecento 1527 - 1593 $60.00 - sold
Images of Deception: The Art of Trompe-l' Oeil $35.00 - sold	Industrial and Applied Art Books, No. 8 $48.00	It's All Mental $150.00 - sold
Jacques Callot ou La Gravure Francaise de 1617 a 1635 $30.00	Jamie Wyeth $30.00	Jazz $35.00 - sold
Jazz $38.00 - sold	Je Suis le Cahier: the Sketchbooks of Picasso $75.00 - sold	Jean Dunand: His Life and Works $95.00 - sold
Jewellery Gallery Summary Catalogue $55.00	Jewellery Through 7000 Years $30.00 - sold	Joan Miró $40.00
Joan Miró $50.00	Josef + Anni Albers: Designs for Living $60.00 - sold	Juan Gris $24.00
Kandinsky $24.00 - sold	Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 $70.00 - sold	Kiki: Souvenirs $300.00 - sold
Klee (Second Volume) $15.00	Kurt Schwitters $30.00 - sold	Kurt Schwitters: A Retrospective Exhibition $25.00 - sold
L'Amerique de la Depression Artistes Engages des Annees 30 $175.00 - sold	L'Art d'Aujourd'hui $85.00 - sold	La Nature Morte de L'Antiquite a Nos Jours $85.00
Lalique $35.00 - sold	Le Cadavre Exquis, Son Exaltation (The Exquisite Corpse, Its Exaltation) $65.00 - sold	Le Spectacle Est Dans la Rue $600.00 - sold
Leger $35.00 - sold	Leonor Fini et son Oeuvre $75.00 - sold	Les Affiches de Toulouse-Lautrec $265.00 - sold
Les Affiches Originales Des Maitres De L'Ecole De Paris $1,600.00	Les Diners de Gala $350.00 - sold	Les Diners de Gala $350.00 - sold
Les Diners de Gala $350.00 - sold	Letters to an Artist: From Vincent van Gogh to Anton Ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885 $125.00 - sold	Louise Bourgeois $20.00 - sold
Louise Nevelson $50.00 - sold	Ludwig Hohlwein $950.00	Ludwig Hohlwein $950.00
Lyonel Feininger: City at the Edge of the World $45.00 - sold	Magritte $45.00 - sold	Magritte $30.00
Magritte $25.00	Maitres Allemands Contemporains $500.00	Man Ray in America: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture & Photographs $28.00 - sold
Marc Chagall $28.00	Marcel Duchamp $40.00 - sold	Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction $85.00 - sold
Masters of Photography $175.00 - sold	Matisse: Fauve Period $7.50 - sold	Max Beckmann $30.00
Max Ernst $75.00	Max Ernst: Life and Work $140.00	Modern American Painting $25.00 - sold
Modern Art in Your Life $75.00	Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection $28.00	Moholy-Nagy $50.00
Moholy-Nagy $150.00	Moments Preserved $350.00 - sold	Montage: John Heartfield $35.00
Montmarte $15.00	Museum of Modern Art Bulletin: The Poster Collection $25.00	My Life and Times $70.00 - sold
New Horizons in American Art $25.00 - sold	New Images of Man $23.00	New York, New York $55.00 - sold
Noir Animal $250.00 - sold	Objects of Desire: Design and Society 1750-1980 $30.00	Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Rodolphe Bresdin $25.00 - sold
Op Art $175.00 - sold	Optical Illusions and the Visual Arts $25.00 - sold	Paintings, Drawing and Prints by Paul Klee $25.00
Passionate Journey, a Novel in Woodcuts $45.00 - sold	Paul Klee $40.00	Paul Klee $60.00 - sold
Paul Klee $20.00 - sold	Paul Klee $250.00	Paul Klee, Pedagogical Sketchbook $55.00 - sold
Penguin Modern Painters Series: Ben Shahn $24.00	Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray $75.00 - sold	Photographie und Bauhaus $135.00
Photographs Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990 $195.00 - sold	Picasso $95.00 - sold	Picasso at Work $175.00 - sold
Picasso's Picassos $100.00 - sold	Picasso: An American Tribute $35.00 - sold	Picasso: Forty Nine Lithographs together with Honore Balzac's The Hidden Masterpiece $50.00 - sold
Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art $48.00	Point and Line to Plane $95.00	Prints from Blocks $15.00
Raw Creation: Outsider Art and Beyond $45.00	Reginald Marsh's New York: Paintings, Drawing, Prints and Photographs $15.00 - sold	Rene Magritte $45.00
Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters $70.00 - sold	Revue Cenpa, No. 4 $60.00 - sold	Richard Haas: An Architecture of Illusion $34.00
Rockwell Kent $45.00 - sold	Rockwellkentiana: Few Words and Many Pictures $95.00 - sold	Rockwellkentiana: Few Words and Many Pictures $110.00
Roman Cieslewicz $25.00	Romanesque Painting from the 11th to the 13th Century $50.00	Sculpture of the Twentieth Century $48.00
Silkscreen Stenciling as a Fine Art $20.00 - sold	Surrealism $20.00 - sold	Tchelitchew $12.00 - sold
Text Books of Art Education, Book V $28.00	Text Books of Art Education, Book VI $35.00	The Alphabet Makers $14.00
The Anatomical Works of George Stubbs $110.00 - sold	The Art of Assemblage $55.00 - sold	The Art of Assemblage $55.00 - sold
The Art of Celebration: 20th Cent. Painting, Literature, Sculpture, Photography, & Jazz $45.00 - sold	The Art of Color $165.00	The Art of Gustav Vigeland in 48 Pictures $45.00
The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany $36.00	The Arts of David Levine $100.00 - sold	The Arts of Denmark: Viking to Modern $20.00
The Arts of Japan Late Medieval to Modern Vol. 2 $80.00 - sold	The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas $40.00 - sold	The Ballets Russes and Its World $48.00 - sold
The Bauhaus $350.00	The Bauhaus: Masters and Students by Themselves $150.00 - sold	The Book of A Hundred Hands $65.00 - sold
The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz: Fifty Pioneers of Modern Photography $150.00 - sold	The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology $250.00	The Decisive Moment $2,500.00 - sold
The Definitively Unfinished Marcel Duchamp $35.00	The Discovery of America $100.00	The Expressionists, A Survey of Their Graphic Art $75.00 - sold
The Fauvist Painters $45.00	The Female Figure in Movement $75.00 - sold	The Flag Paintings of Childe Hassam $30.00
The Future Is Our Only Goal $65.00	The History of Surrealist Painting $195.00	The Human Form in Art $70.00 - sold
The Human Form in Art $70.00	The Isms of Art/ Die Kunstismen/ Les Ismes de l'Art $85.00 - sold	The Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art $48.00
The Lives of Lee Miller $60.00 - sold	The Machine As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age $110.00 - sold	The Machine As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age $150.00 - sold
The Machine As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age $150.00 - sold	The Machine As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age $135.00	The Most of John Held Jr. $30.00 - sold
The Museum of Modern Art Artists' Cookbook $55.00 - sold	The Museum of Modern Art Artists' Cookbook $65.00 - sold	The National Archives of the United States $48.00
The New Vision and Abstract of an Artist $55.00 - sold	The New Vision: Fundamentals of Design Painting Sculpture Architecture $200.00 - sold	The Paris Salons 1895-1914: Jewellery (Volumes I & II) $100.00 - sold
The Photographer's Eye $95.00 - sold	The Photomontages of Hannah Hoch $75.00 - sold	The Photomontages of Hannah Hoch $65.00 - sold
The Photomontages of Hannah Hoch $175.00 - sold	The Prints of Rockwell Kent: A Catalogue Raisonné $160.00 - sold	The Prints of Rockwell Kent: A Catalogue Raisonné $150.00 - sold
The Real World of the Surrealists $60.00	The Story of the Armory Show $45.00 - sold	The Story of the Armory Show $75.00 - sold
The Story of the Armory Show $75.00	The Theater of the Bauhaus $50.00 - sold	The Unfashionable Human Body $85.00 - sold
The Way Beyond "Art": the Work of Herbert Bayer $40.00	The Weimar Years: A Culture Cut Short $28.00	The Wines of Gala $350.00 - sold
The Wines of Gala $350.00 - sold	The Woodcut of Today, At Home and Abroad $300.00 - sold	The World of Donald Evans $60.00 - sold
The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson $175.00 - sold	The World of Marcel Duchamp 1887- $35.00 - sold	Thirties: British Art and Design Before the War $150.00 - sold
Tokyo: Form and Spirit $150.00	Transition, No. 25, Fall 1936 $140.00 - sold	Transition, Number 25, Fall, 1936 $150.00 - sold
Typewriter Art $60.00 - sold	Ukiyo-e to Shinhanga, The Art of Japanese Woodblock Prints $125.00	Une Semaine de Bonté: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage $20.00 - sold
Une Semaine de Bonté: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage $48.00 - sold	Unit One: the Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture $250.00 - sold	Urformen der Kunst $70.00
Variations by Vertes $125.00 - sold	Veruschka: Trans-Figurations $350.00	Veruschka: Trans-Figurations $400.00
Vision + Value Series $225.00 - sold	Vision + Value Series $250.00 - sold	Walt Kuhn 1877-1949 $24.00
Wassily Kandinsky Retrospective $50.00 - sold	What Is Modern Painting? Introductory Series to the Modern Arts Vol. 2 $30.00	What Is Surrealism? $30.00 - sold
What Shall We Do without Us? The Voice and Vision of Kenneth Patchen $45.00 - sold	Wilhelm Kåge, Konstnar och Hantverkare $250.00 - sold	Willem de Kooning $48.00 - sold
Woodcuts U.S.A. $65.00 - sold	Woodcuts U.S.A. $200.00	Wunder in der Natur $1,250.00 - sold
XX Century Italian Art $75.00	Yves Tanguy $12.00 - sold

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