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A HISTORY OF WESTERN ART | Antony Mason

Title: A History of Western Art From Prehistory to the 20th Century
Author: Antony Mason, Edited by John T. Spike
Year: 2007
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pages: 128
Price: Not Currently Available
ISBN: 978-0-8109-9421-8
Description: Fully illustrated
Labels: ARTS, Arts Painting, Arts Sculpture
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THE HANDY ART HISTORY ANSWER BOOK | Madelynn Dickerson

Title: The Handy Art History Answer Book
Author: Madelynn Dickerson
Year: 2015
Publisher: Visible Ink
Pages: 294
Price: $
ISBN:
Description: Not available at this time.
Labels: ARTS, Arts Painting
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THE ITALIAN PAINTERS OF THE RENAISSANCE | Bernard Berenson

Title: The Italian Painters of the Renaissance

Author: Bernard Berenson
Year: 1959
Publisher: Phaidon
Pages: 488
Price: $14.99
ISBN:
Description: LN/VG Puckered wrappers Bookplate
Labels: ARTS, Arts Painting, Bernard Berenson
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THE RARE ART TRADITIONS | Joseph Alsop

Title: The Rare Art Traditions The History of Art Collecting and its Linked Phenomena

Author: Joseph Alsop
Year: 1982
Publisher: Harper & Row
Pages: 692
Price: $19.99
ISBN:006-010091-5
Description: LN/LN Bookplate
Labels: ARTS, Arts Painting, Arts Sculpture, Alsop Joseph
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LEGER|Anna Vallye, Editor

Title: Leger: Modern Art and the Metropolis
Author: Anna Vallye, Editor
Year: 2014
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pages: 276
Price: $29.99
ISBN:
Description: N/NW Hardback
Label: ARTS, Arts Painting, Philadelphia Museum of Art
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THE HORSE IN ART|John Baskett

Title: The Horse in Art
Author: John Baskett
Year: 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages: 192
Price: $24.99
ISBN:
Description: LN/LN Bookplate
Label: ARTS, Arts Painting, EQUESTRIANISM
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BRITISH PAINTING|Richard Dorment

Title: British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Author: Richard Dorment
Year: 1986
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pages: 468
Price: $24.99
ISBN:
Description: LN/NW Paper Bookplate
Label: ARTS, Arts Painting, Philadelphia Museum of Art, United Kingdom
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THE ART OF GEORGE STUBBS|Venetia Morrison

Title: The Art of George Stubbs
Author: Venetia Morrison
Year: 2001
Publisher: The Wellington Press
Pages: 192
Price: $24.99
ISBN:
Description: LN/LN Bookplate Fully illustrated
Label: ARTS, Arts Painting, George Stubbs, EQUESTRIANISM
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STUBBS|Basil Taylor

Title: Stubbs

Author: Basil Taylor
Year: 1971
Publisher: Harper & Row
Pages: 220
Price: $24.99
ISBN:
Description: G/G Bookplate Ex libris Library markings Fully illustrated
Label: ARTS, Arts Painting, George Stubbs, EQUESTRIANISM
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BRITISH SPORTING PAINTINGS|Judy Egerton

Title: British Sporting Paintings, The Paul Mellon Collection in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Author: Judy Egerton
Year: 1985
Publisher: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Pages: 88Price: $9.99
ISBN:
Description: LN/NW Paper Bookplate Fully illustrated
Label: ARTS, Arts Painting, EQUESTRIANISM, George Stubbs
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GRANT WOOD | Kate F. Jennings

Title: Grant Wood
Author: Kate F. Jennings
Year: 2005
Publisher: World Publications Group
Pages: 112
Price: $ 9.99
ISBN: 1-57215-357-1
Label: ARTS, Arts Painting
Description: LN/LN Bookplate Fully illustrated
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THE ART IN PAINTING | Albert C. Barnes

Title: The Art in Painting
Author: Albert C. Barnes
Year: 1976 4th printing
Publisher: Barnes Foundation
Pages: 522
Price: $24.99
ISBN:
Label: ARTS, Arts Painting, Barnes Albert C., Barnes Foundation
Description: LN/LN Plastic wrapped
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GAUGUIN CEZANNE MATISSE: VISIONS OF ARCADIA

Title:  Gauguin Cézanne Matisse: Visions of Arcadia
Author: Joseph J. Rishel, editor
Year: 2012
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pages: 244
Price: $19.99
ISBN:
Label: ARTS, Arts Painting, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Description: LN/LN Bookplate
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ITALIAN PAINTINGS 1250-1450: JOHN G. JOHNSON COLLECTION AND THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART

Title: Italian Paintings 1250-1450: John G. Johnson Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Author: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Year: 2004
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pages: 556
Price: $14.99
ISBN:
Label: ARTS, Arts Painting, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Description: LN/NW Paper Bookplate Catalogue
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Embarrassment of Riches | Simon Schama

Title: Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpetation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Author: Simon Schama
Year: 1988
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages: 698
Price: $9.99
ISBN: 0-520-06147-0
Label: ARTS, Arts Painting, Schama Simon
Description: 1. LN/NW Paper Bookplate $9.99
                   2. LN/NW Paper $9.99
                   3. VG/NW Paper $4.99
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Pinakothek der Moderne Munich

Title: Pinakothek der Moderne Munich: Guide to the Collections
Author: Melanie Klier
Year: 2003
Publisher: Prestel
Pages: 104
Price: $9.99
ISBN:

Label: ARTS, Arts Painting, Arts Museums, Germany

Description: LN/NW Paper Bookplate

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Boston Modern | Judith Bookbinder

Title: Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism
Author: Judith Bookbinder
Year: 2005
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press
Pages: 372
Price: $4.99

ISBN:

Label: ARTS, Arts Painting

Description: LN/LN Index Bookplate

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The Romantic Rebellion | Kenneth Clark

Title: The Romantic Rebellion: Romantic versus Classic Art
Author: Kenneth Clark
Year: 1973
Publisher: Harper & Row
Pages: 366

Price: $ .99

ISBN: 0060108029

Label: ARTS, Arts Painting, Kenneth Clark

Description: LN/LN Bookplate FIRST US Inscribed by prev owner
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George Bellows and Urban America | Marianne Doezema

Title: George Bellows and Urban America
Author: Marianne Doezema
Year: 1992
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages: 244

Price: $14.99

ISBN: 0300050437

Label: ARTS, Arts Painting, George Bellows

Description: LN/LN Bookplate Fully illustrated
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REMBRANDT | Peter Schatborn

Title: Rembrandt
Author: Peter Schatborn
Year: 2006
Publisher: Musée du Louvre
Pages: 84

Price: $4.99

ISBN:

Label: ARTS, Arts Painting

Description: LN/NW Paper Prints

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Lord of Hosts: The Life of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon

CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING'
Lord of Hosts: The Life of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon
Author: Richard Carreño
Publisher: PhilabooksPress
ISBN: 978-1-257-37529-5Hardcover 178 pp $29.99
Publication: April 2011
Press Contact: Philabooks@yahoo.com
Website: www.LORDofHOSTSChipsChannon.webs.com

HE WAS A friend of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Fabulously rich. Married to a beautiful Guinness heiress. A Member of Parliament, an Oxford grad, a knight who owned London's most luxurious townhouse where he reigned as 'Lord of Hosts.'
Sir Henry Channon III, pre-war Britain's most eminent and outrageous pre-war politician and Society doyen, was also American-born and gay -- with lovers ranging from playwright Terrence Rattigan to the Duke of Kent, King George VI's brother.
Remembered as the irreverent 'Chips,' Channon is best known as a diarist, the proverbial 'fly on the wall.' The 'wall,' in Chips' case, being the halls of Parliament, the apartments of the rich and powerful, and his own pleasure dome at No. 5 Belgrave Square. Channon's memoirs, compiled in a single volume more than 40 years ago as Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, offer a compelling view of the tumultuous period from the 1930s through War World II. At least, for historians.
For most of the rest of us, Chips, whose preposterous adventure starts in Chicago en route to Paris, Oxford, and finally to London where he died in 1958, has just been a footnote. Quite literally. In scores of period histories. To be sure, a tantalising footnote. But a footnote, nonetheless.
It was a tale never fully fleshed out. Until now.
American author Richard Carreño takes the Chips saga to another dimension in a first-ever, full-length biography of Britain's 'last' courtier. Especially so, since Carreño's Lord of Hosts: The Life of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon makes it plain that some of the best and most scandalous bits of Channon's life were censored from the posthumous, official diaries. The result, thanks to Carreño, is Chips' unofficial joyride, a reckoning of power, sex, drugs, and wealth -- and even skulduggery regarding the very publication of the diaries themselves.
Carreño researched Lord of Hosts, over several years, in Chicago, New York, and in Paris, as well as in Britain. Based in Philadelphia, he is a free-lance writer, academic, and bookseller. His other books include Clotheshorse: A History and Guide to Riding Apparel, also published by PhilabooksPress. The author's website is www.RichardCarreno.blogspot.com.

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