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Vanity Fair: The Portraits.

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Photography Books, Celebrities & Famous People: Description: Eleven photography books featuring depictions of celebrities and famous people, including Vanity Fair Portraits, photographs from Rolling Stone magazine, and photographs by Alfred Eisenst

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12 Coffee Table Books Contemporary Art, Photography: 13 Contemporary Art Photography Coffee Table Books. Includes the titles Annie Leibowitz Women, Julian Schnabel, Japanese Wood Block Prints, Picasso and Photography, Oscar Night by Vanity Fair, and mor

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1881 William Makepeace Thackeray Works Virginians: 1881 William Makepeace Thackeray Works Virginians Vanity Fair Catherine 9v William Makepeace Thackeray was a 19th-century English novelist best known for his works ‘The Virginians’ and ‘Vanity F

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1847 Illustrated London News HUGE Ireland Famine: 1847 Illustrated London News HUGE Ireland Famine Wuthering Heights Vanity Fair A rare mid-19th-century issue of ‘The Illustrated London News’ world's first illustrated weekly news magazine. It was

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Worlds Greatest Literature Books- 8 of Set: 8 count of the Worlds Greatest Literature Books including Vanity Fair, Thackeray; Best Loved Plays, Shakespeare; Scarlet Letter, Hawthorn; Last of the Mohicans, Cooper; EmersonÂ’s Essays, R.W. Emer

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1534 ROMAN EMPERORS 268 PORTRAITS antique 16th c. IMPERATORUM ET CAESARUM VITAE: IMPERATORUM ET CAESARUM VITAE cum imaginibus ad vivam expressis. Libellus auctus cum elencho & Iconiis Consulum ab Authore. M.D. XXXIIII by humanist and traveler Huttich, Johann (1480-1544) [Lives of

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1893 1st ed Chicago Columbia Exposition World’s Fair: 1893 1st ed Chicago Columbia Exposition World’s Fair Illustrated Architecture The World's Columbian Exposition was the name of 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. To commemorate the event, Rand McNally

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Hardy, Sylvester, "The Biographical Mirrour" 1795 Vol. I-3 Ancient and Modern English Portraits: S. and E. Harding, London, Pal-Mall, 1795. Illustrated by Sylvester Hardy, (England 1745-1809), A Well Known Painter and Miniaturist of the Period.

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1864 National Portrait Gallery Illustrated Portraits: 1864 National Portrait Gallery Illustrated Portraits Lincoln Adams Grant Kane Famous Eminent Americans Alonzo Chappel Art Alonzo Chappel’s illustrated portraits of famous Americans are some of the m

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1860 William Shakespeare Tragedies Illustrated Portrait: 1860 William Shakespeare Tragedies Illustrated Portraits Large 6v Leather “The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good - in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

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1702 ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF GERMANY antique WITH MAP & 23 PORTRAITS in ENGLISH: A Compleat History of Germany comprehending the Lives and Reigns of All Emperors... London, 1702 With 1 map and 23 copper engravings portraits of German emperors and rulers. Original leather binding,

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1878 Portrait Gallery Illustrated Lincoln Grant Dickens: 1878 Portrait Gallery Illustrated Lincoln Grant Dickens Bronte Alonzo Chappel 2v A rare first edition of Evert Duyckinck’s famous ‘Portrait Gallery’ featuring illustrated portraits and biographi

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1893 1ed Chicago World’s Fair Columbia Exposition: 1893 1ed Chicago World’s Fair Columbia Exposition Architecture Ives Dream City In 1893, the Chicago World’s Fair was held to honor the 400 year anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s New World di

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1873 1ed Portrait Gallery Illustrated Lincoln Grant: 1873 1ed Portrait Gallery Illustrated Lincoln Grant Bronte Dickens Washington 2v A rare first edition of Evert Duyckinck’s famous ‘Portrait Gallery’ featuring illustrated portraits and biographi

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1877 1ed American Portrait Gallery Buttre Lincoln Grant: 1877 1ed American Portrait Gallery Buttre Lincoln Grant EA Poe Custer Jackson A rare first edition of Lillian Buttre’s famous ‘American Portrait Gallery’ featuring illustrated portraits and biog

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1823 Portraits of Illustrious Personages Great Britain: 1823 Portraits of Illustrious Personages Great Britain Bacon Cromwell Raleigh Edmund Lodge was a long-serving English officer of arms, a writer on heraldic subjects, and a compiler of short biographie

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First edition. 2008. By Graydon Carter and The Editors of Vanity Fair, hand-signed by Graydon Carter (extremely rare) at first page, with dust jacket and original linen-covered hard slipcase. Large folio: (17' x 11"). The linen slipcase shows sun fading and some shelf wear. Otherwise, all clean and complete, with like-new binding, edges, and cover. A collection of over 300 images of the leading international celebrities of the 20th century, as captured by Vanity Fair photographers: Edward Steichen, Cecil Beaton, Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino, et al.

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