Recent Arrivals from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera
Recent Arrivals from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera
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Uncle Ray's Magazine – Adventures in Fascinating Facts / Lot of 37 issues, 1944-50
by [Frank Papé, illustrator]
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- 1944
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£199.08
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Lot of 37 issues
Size: 7.5" x 10.5". Stapled wrappers. 32 pages. Children's educational magazine with art direction and abundant b/w an dcolor illustrations by Frank C. Pape and others.
Frank C. Papė [1878-1972) was an English artist and illustrator whose career spanned 64 years, from 1898 to 1962. Papé illustrated many books and magazines, including such varied writers as Homer, Suetonius,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Magazine /A Journal of Contemporary Writing
by Robert Penn Warren, Isaac Babel, Kenneth Patchen, et al [John McAllister, et al. eds.]
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1934
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£67.69
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The Magazine /A Journal of Contemporary Writing
July-August 1934. The Magazine Corporation, Beverly Hills. Vol II No. 1. 4to, pale blue wrappers, edges untrimmed.
A literary journal with original stories and poetry by Robert Penn Warren, Isaac Babel, Kenneth Patchen, William Carlos Williams, and 7 others. The first bi-monthly issue, preceded by six monthly issues.
Condition. VG; a few minor edge nicks, penciled… Read more about this item Item Price
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Co-operation in a University Town
by Ronald Searle [illustrator] Brown, W. Henry
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- 1939
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£147.32
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1st ed. 8vo, blue boards, 114 pp.
Searle's first book publication, while a nineteen year-old art student at the Cambridge Art School and part-time cartoonist for the Cambridge Daily News.. ]
Ten black and white line drawings. Searle worked as a packer and clerk with the Cambridge Cooperative Society, for which this book is a brief history. "[T]he book will never be… Read more about this item Item Price
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What America Thinks/Editorials and Cartoons/Munich Crisis and World War II.
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- 1941
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£51.76
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A Huge Tome of Editorial Opinion and Art
What America Thinks/Editorials and Cartoons/Munich Crisis and World War II.
Chicago: What America Thinks, Inc., 1941. 4to, simulated leather. 1,496 pp.
A fascinating glimpse of American thought on the eve of its entry into the second world war. Half of the pages in this impressive volume contain an editorial cartoon concerning some aspect of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Life of Christ in Woodcuts
by Reid, James
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- 1st edition
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- 1930
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£47.78
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The life of Jesus told in 71 wood-engraved plates, in a style similar to that of Lynd Ward.
First Edition, 8vo, ¼ cloth, paper covered boards. Gilt rulings and a black wing design on the front board.
James Reid's first published work was a critical and commercial success, regarded as highly sophisticated and emotive. His second work, illustrating the Song of… Read more about this item Item Price
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La Nuit De Haschich Et D’opium / The Night Of Haschish And Opium
by MAGRE [Maurice] & AHU [Illustrator]
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- 1st thus
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- 1929
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£155.28
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A beautifully illustrated edition with 5 original woodblocks in colors by Ahü, seven b/w vignettes in text. Limited to 890 numbered copies; this copy inscribed from the author to Mr. Hubert A. Guillard.
1st thus, small 4to. [2 ff..] 74 pp… [3 ff]. Published in softcover but rebound here in contemporary ½ black morocco and decorated cloth, gilt titles – the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Vintage Photograph Album: Methodist Missions in Africa: Angola, Congo, Rhodesia, 1921-33
by Robert Shields & Family
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- 1923
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£1,990.75
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Family photograph album documenting the missions established by Robert Shields & Family, mostly in East Africa, 1921-1933.
Approximately 375 photos, various sizes [2x3" to 6x8"] and condition. Mounted in tattered family album; many photos faded. Best to follow this link to all the photos in situ:
Laid in is a hand-colored poster/drawing: "Those People are Dying of Sin in Africa" SIZE
Reverend Robert… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Light Side of Egypt.
by Thackery, Lance.
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- 1st thus
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- 1928
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£43.80
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1st ed. thus.First published in 1908 in a different format.
Thackeray's account of a trip to Egypt consists of 24 tipped-in color plates, each with a humorous tale; seven b&w text illustrations. Preface by George Ade.
Lot "Lance" Thackeray (1869 - 1916) was an English illustrator, known primarily for comic sporting illustrations and humorous postcards.
CONDITION: Very Good. Light foxing on outer… Read more about this item Item Price
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The EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL SALAD BOOK
by Shircliffe, Arnold
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st edition
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- 1929
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£139.35
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Small 4to, decorated/embossed green cloth. 1st ed, second printing, in d/w and scarce publisher's box. Flat-signed by the author on FEP. 16 color plates. xxi, 265 pp
CONDITION: A VG-NF copy. Light foxing to fore and top edges; rear endpaper creased. Jacket: moderately foxed/stained with several closed tears up to 1". Box: Poor, lower half intact but with one corner split,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Destiny / A Novel in Pictures
by Nuckel, Otto
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- Used - Good
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- 1st US edition
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- 1930
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- Pictorial Cloth
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£79.63
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1st Edition.8vo, pictorial red cloth.
In nearly 200 wordless images the graphic story follows an unnamed woman whose life of poverty and misfortune drives her to infanticide, prostitution, and murder. Delphin-Verlag.
Destiny was the first graphic novel with leadcut images instead of the more common woodcuts used by artists such as Frans Masereel. The process allowed a greater depth of… Read more about this item Item Price
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![SUITE OF TEN ENGRAVINGS: Untitled [Bremen Town Musicians; The Brothers Grimm, etc.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/305/573/1603573305.0.m.jpg)
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SUITE OF TEN ENGRAVINGS: Untitled [Bremen Town Musicians; The Brothers Grimm, etc.]
by Sarah Chamberlain
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- 1st edition
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- 1978
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- Loose sheets in chemise
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£398.15
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7"x7.5", ten loose sheets in burgundy cloth portfolio #24/25 copies. Signed and numbered in pencil.
Sarah Chamberlain [The Chamberlain Press] published several collections of fables and fairy tales, illustrated with her engravings. E.g., "The Bremen Town Musicians", "A Grimm Fairytale", "Mother Goose", "A Frog Goes a'Courtin", "Pied Piper of Hamelin", Fables of Aesop. This small suite is a small… Read more about this item Item Price
£398.15
A Survey
by Beerbohm, Max
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- 1st edition, limited edition
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- 1921
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- Purple cloth
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£159.26
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1st ed., Small 4to, Limited to 275 signed/numbered copies. Beveled purple cloth, with bright gilt-titling to the front panel; a.e.g . Dustjacket.
52 tipped-in color and duotone plates with tissue guards. Caricatures of the famous and celebrated, many of whom were among the literati, with a few politicians thrown in, as well as a few with no known personage but… Read more about this item Item Price
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Babylon / Limited to 120 numbered/signed copies
by UNGERER Tomi
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- Used - Fine
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- 1st
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- 1979
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- Marbled boards in slipcase
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£398.15
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1st ed. 4to. ¼ leather, marbled/batiked boards, publisher's black cardboard slipcase. 111 pp. Limited to 120 signed copies, this being no. 26. [Numbers 1-20 contained an original drawing. Another 25 lettered copies were published for distribution to the author.] Introductory essay in German; captions in English
110 b/w full-page drawingson a variety of themes concerning society, culture, sex and subjugation.
Familiar to… Read more about this item Item Price
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![Leut’ und Viecher [People and Critters] – Album von Heinrich Kley](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/301/438/1595438301.0.m.jpg)
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Leut’ und Viecher [People and Critters] – Album von Heinrich Kley
by Kley, Heinrich.
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- 1912
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£238.89
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1st ed. Folio. 40x30cm, 64 pp. illustrated cloth, with gilt caricature and titling.
Heinrich Kley (1863 – 1945) was a German painter, illustrator and editorial cartoonist.
After a variety of commercial and industrial engagements, Kley attained notoriety with darkly satirical pen and ink drawings, published in the satirical magzines Jugend and Simplicissimus.
This is his first album, with several hundred pen and… Read more about this item Item Price
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3 signed/inscribed photographs of Golden Age opera singers, 1927-28.
by Armand Tokatyan / Anne Roselle / Maria Jeritza
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- 1927
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£139.35
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Armand Tokatyan / Anne Roselle / Maria Jeritza
3 signed/inscribed photographs of Golden Age opera singers, 1927-28.
One 6.5x9.5", two 3.5x5.5" b/w photos, one signed two inscribed.
Armand Tokatyan (Tenor, 1894 –1960). 6.5x9.5" b/w, inscribed in black ink to Rudolph Pauw. As a young man, Tokatyan travelled to Egypt with his parents where he sang in cafés to favorable response. He was then… Read more about this item Item Price
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Playboy: A Portfolio of Art and Satire, 1919-1923
by [Avant Garde Art]
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- 1st
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- 1919
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£597.22
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A nearly complete run
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New York: Egmont Arens at the Washington Square Bookshop, 1919 -20. Periodical. Small folio, pictorial wrappers.
Avante-garde art periodical devoted to the exposition of contempary literary and artistic expression. Playboywas an important magazine for many of the early artists and writers of American Modernism. It featured prose, poetry and artwork by both NY residents and artists abroad, including… Read more about this item Item Price
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Annual Report of the Chief of Ordnance to the Secretary of War for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1879
by Ordnance Department. United States Army. Benet, S. V. [Stephen Vincent]
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- 1st
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- 1879
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£119.45
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1st ed., 8vo, red cloth 400 pp. Illus. with more than 175 b/w plates, many folding. Includes numerous appendices, containing reports on guns, ordnance, construction of an 11-inch muzzle-loading rifle and an 3.16-inch muzzle-loading rifle; hydraulics, revolving cannons and gatlings, other weapons and fuses
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"Compliments of Brig. Gen. S. V. Benet' label on front pastedown
CONDITION: Good; corners lightly bumped; spine darkened… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Baker Street Journal (11 issues)
by [Sherlock Holmes]
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- Used - Good
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- 1st
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- 1946
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- Softcover
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£119.45
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Smith, Edgar W. (Editor)
Published by Ben Abramson, Publisher 1946/1947/1948, New York, 1946
Founded in 1946, The Baker Street Journal is a quarterly digest for Sherlock Holmes fans with Investigations and essays on all things Sherlockian. This collection consists of eleven issues of the first twelve issues. Includes volume 1, nos. 1-4 (pub. 1946) and volume 2, nos. 1-4 (1947), Vol 3… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ken magazine – First 18 Issues, 1938.
by [Ernest Hemingway]
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- Used
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- 1st
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- 1938
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- Blue cloth library bindings
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£398.15
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Ken magazine – First 18 Issues, 1938.
Chicago: Ken, Inc, 1938, approx.13.x10" stapled wrappers, 36-138pp each issue; BOUND IN TWO HARDBOUND VOLUMES, original covers retained, blue cloth, gilt titles on spine. Apr-June 1938 and July-Dec 1938. [Containing in all, Vol 1 No. 1 through Volume 2 No. 11]
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Ken was a short-lived news and feature magazine founded, in part, to convince Americans… Read more about this item Item Price
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ot of 100 original landscape architecture studies and drawings, 1940s
by James R. Drayer 1927-2017
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- Used
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- 1947
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- Loose sheets
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£199.08
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In 1951, James Drayer [1927-2017] graduated from Ohio State's School of Architecture with a degree in Landscape Architecture. These 100 drawings, from 1947-49, reflect the quality of his student work.
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A combination of pen and ink, crayon, and watercolor – each approximately 8x11" in size.
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About a third are landscape scenes – parks, trees, and parkways. The rest depict a wide variety… Read more about this item Item Price
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