Recent arrivals and highlights

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Listed below are some of our recent arrivals and featured books. Check back regularly for updates.

If you do not find what you are looking for, please inquire: gerald@gwcbooks.com

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Half a century of Parisian fashion and graphic design: the High Life Tailor advertising collection, more than 50 items.

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Offered here are two lots of documents related to the staples of life: Bread and Wine.

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Establishing color standardization in the textile industry by the leading firms of St-Etienne

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Walt Whitman's LEAVES OF GRASS by Atelier Mutel

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Passenger Guide for US Troops & Civilians returning from the Philippines after WWII aboard the USAT General C.G. Morton, June 1947

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The Birds of Acid

Author:

Didier Mutel

Book Artist:

Atelier Mutel

The Birds of Acid is a response to John J. Audubon’s extraordinary Birds of America. In this work Didier Mutel reinterprets, in his own way, this monument in the history of engraving and printmaking.

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Inscribed by Robert Graves to Jean Fayard

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Le Feste d'Imeneo : the wedding festival of Joseph, Archduke of Austria & Isabella Maria, Princess of Parma Parma, 1760

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An unpublished vaudeville play with street vendors on Boulevard du Temple near Madame Tussaud’s wax museum

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A sales catalog for a Parisian women’s clothing designer displaying 150 different designs (1904-06), for dresses, coats, hats, furs, parasols, etc. for different seasons—complemented by 8 photographs of dresses.