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Fine Points of Furniture - Iconic "Good, Better, Best"
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Pre 1980 item# 914866
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Richards Antiques
207-563-1964
$15 with free shipping
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This is a classic reference work on American antique furniture, referred to in the trade as "Good, Better, Best" because of the classifications used in it by the author, Albert Sack, one of the most famous dealers in American antiques. With more than 800 illustrations, it has gone through zillions of printings and revisions. This is the 14h printing from 1971 (Not much 18th century furniture has been made since then) and it is in virtually mint condition. The only fault I can find, a v ...click for details
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Gaming, V & A Booklet on Playing Cards, Board Games ++
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Pre 1990 item# 909312
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207-563-1964
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Interesting small publication by Edward T. Joy from the Victoria & Albert Museum in London with information and many illustrations on playing cards,card tables, board games, backgammon and chess tables, shovel boards, and billiard tables. Book, published in 1982, is 7 1/4 by 4 3/4 inches with card covers, part of a series called “The Arts and Living. Condition is very good to like new. ISBN: 0 11 290301 0. Shipping by Media Mail within the USA will be $3.00.
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Anathema, Litanies of Negation, Eugene O'Neill Foreword
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Pre 1930 item# 909139
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207-563-1964
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Anathema, Litanies of Negation by Benjamin DeCasseres, was published in in 1928 by the legendary Gotham Book Mart. It was a limited edition of 1,250 autographed copies of which this is number 488. There is a foreword by Eugene O'Neill, possibly America's greatest playwright, the winner of three Pulitzer Prizes for drama and the Nobel Prize for literature. The book has a glassine cover and a black slipcase. The glassine cover here is chipped at the top and bottom and there is a piece miss ...click for details
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Eugene O'Neill First Edition: Hughie, A One-Act Play
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Pre 1960 item# 906855
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207-563-1964
$125
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First Edition, First Printing of this remarkable one-act play, written in 1941 but not performed until 1958 in Sweden and first published in 1959. Jason Robards played the lead when the play was first performed in New York City in 1964. This is a mint condition copy in dust wrapper (dust wrapper protected by mylar cover). O'Neill, considered by many to be America's greatest dramatist, won three Pulitzer Prizes and is the only American to have won the Nobel Prize for literature.
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English Delftware in Bristol Collection, Frank Britton
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Pre 1990 item# 906353
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207-563-1964
$250
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"The 800 pieces of English delftware in the Bristol City Art Gallery form what is believed to be the largest such public collection in the world. They have never before been catalogued but now Frank Britton has devoted eight years to this task, opening up to collectors and historians of ceramics a wealth of invaluable comparative material," from the dustwrapper flap. This is an important an beautiful volume, in mint condition. It was published in 1982 by Sotheby Publications. Shipment ...click for details
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