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Three Oversize Art Photography Books: Three large coffee table format Art Books, Including A Day in the Life of America (May 2, 1986), Face of an Island, black 7 white photos of African Americans on St. Helena Island in the early 20th Cen

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Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment 1933-1957: Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment 1933-1957. 2nd Edition by Spector Books / Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2019. Printed in Germany. by Hortensia Völckers,; Alexander Far

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J. B. Priestley: Autobiography Essays, 1937-39. 1st Ed.: J. B. Priestley. Autobiographical Essays in two books, both First Editions, first printing. 1. Midnight on the Desert. Being an Excursion into Autobiography During a Winter in America, 1935-36 2. Rai

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Jessie McDonald: Lalique. 1995, NY, Crescent Books: Jessie McDonald. Lalique. 1995. New York. Crescent Books, 1995. Coffee table Folio. 14 1/2 x 10 1/2. Black boards stamped in silver on spine. 112 pages. More than 80 full color plates. Dust jacket. A

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Art Of Black America, History Of Art Books

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(5) five books in this lot. 1987 Harlem Renaissance Art Of Black America , illustrated Dictionary of Art & Artists Edited By David Piper , 1988 An American Vision Three Generations Of Wyeth Art , 1987 Womens Artists An Illustraded History book by Nancy G Heller and 1986 History Of Art By H. W . Janson Book

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