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		<title>FEATURED: JOHN JAMES AUDUBON</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John James Audubon was renowned for his adventurous nature, artistic genius, and his obsessive interest in birds. His Magnum opus  Birds of America consists of 435 hand-colored, life-size prints of 497 bird species, made from engraved copper plates. The pages were organized for artistic effect and contrasting interest, as if the reader were taking a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: REM KOOLHAAS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Third revised edition (This volume combines two previous issues of El Croquis, #53 &#38; #79) Profusely illustrated throughout with color plates, drawings, renderings, plans, sketches, and models. A very nice overview of the work of the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Text in Spanish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: CHUCK CLOSE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chuck Close is one of the most important contemporary artists in America. His drawings, paintings, photographs and prints have been the focus of more than one hundred and forty solo exhibitions in over twenty countries. Chuck Close first made a name for himself for his skillful brushwork, and his very large portraits based on photographs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: HERZOG &amp; DE MEURON</title>
		<link>http://blackcatbooks.com/archives/featured-herzog-de-meuron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bcb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackcatbooks.com/?p=9354</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. 415 pages. Profusely illustrated throughout with color plates, drawings, renderings, plans, sketches, and models. Text in Spanish and English. A very nice overview of the Herzog &#38; de Meuron Architekten, a Swiss architecture firm founded in 1978 and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. Minor shelf wear to dust jacket, otherwise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: SUSAN MEISELAS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan Meiselas is best known for her documentation of political upheaval and human rights issues in Latin America. She first gained recognition for her work in El Salvador. During the civil war there she photographed the uncovered graves of four murdered American nuns. The circulation of these images prompted a Congressional investigation into El Salvador&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: THOMAS MERTON</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk, poet, social activist and is widely recognized as the most important 20th century Catholic mystic. In 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood and given the name Father Louis. He wrote more than 70 books, mostly on spirituality, social justice and a quiet pacifism. The Seven Storey Mountain (1948) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: HUBERT DE GIVENCHY</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy (born February 20, 1927) is a French aristocrat and fashion designer who founded The House of Givenchy in 1952. He is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn, as well as clothing for clients such as Jacqueline Kennedy. Description: Hard bound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PERFUME LEGENDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Black cloth boards with fuchsia titles. Published by Michael Edwards in association with HM Editions, France. 295 pages. Foreword by Edmond Roudnitska. An exhaustive work, starting with the birth of modern perfumery in the late 1880&#8242;s, and extending into the late 1990&#8242;s. A scarce and sought after work on [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://blackcatbooks.com/archives/5658/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 17:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black Cat Books just purchased a huge pile of new Architecture &#38; Design books&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>TESS SLESINGER</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tess Slesinger wrote fiction that combined jazzy, up-to-the-minute reports on the state of marriage, sexuality, political culture, and work in 1930s America with a biting, yet emotionally revealing style typical of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker where she published frequently. Slesinger moved in the same circles as Lionel Trilling, Clifton Fadiman and other famed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GEORGE ORWELL</title>
		<link>http://blackcatbooks.com/archives/george-orwell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackcatbooks.com/?p=8934</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Second Edition, first printed August 1945, reprinted August of the same year. Dust jacket has Second Edition printed below the blurb on the inner flap. Green cloth boards with white titles on spine edge. Wear to corners and edges of boards, and previous owners stamp to front free endpage. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EDITH WHARTON</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature. She was born Edith Newbold Jones to a wealthy New York family, and first gained attention for several influential design books including her first published work, The Decoration of Houses (1897). In  1901 she built The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts. There she wrote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Beard</title>
		<link>http://blackcatbooks.com/archives/peter-beard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackcatbooks.com/?p=8506</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Description: Hard bound with Brown &#8216;leatherette&#8217; covered boards and tipped-in plate on the front board, no dust jacket as issued. Published on the occasion of the 1999 exhibition Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits, curated by Peter T. Tunney, at the Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles. 205 pages profusely illustrated. RARE &#38; SOUGHT AFTER. Bookseller Inventory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Featured: T. D. A Cockerell</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866-1948) was an American Zoologist. He was author of more than 2200 articles in scientific publications, and some 1700 additional authored works, including treatises on social reform and education. He was one of the most prolific taxonomists in history, publishing descriptions of over 9,000 species and genera of insects alone, some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 recent acquisitions</title>
		<link>http://blackcatbooks.com/archives/8-great-items/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackcatbooks.com/?p=7755</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[8 great items-  V. Woolf first ed on Hogarth press, a signed Fleur Cowles, A.J.Liebling Chicago first ed ,Winnie the Pooh first ed, a signed Christian Dior, Flann O&#8217;brian first ed, Bemelmans first ed &#38; N.Y the wonder city]]></description>
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		<title>FEATURED: JOHN IRVING</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackcatbooks.com/?p=4427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have recently purchased a small collection of signed John Irving titles. The Cider House Rules &#8211; Signed first edition The World According to Garp - Signed U.K. edition Setting Free the Bears - First edition A Prayer For Owen Meany - Signed first edition The Water Method Man - German edition inscribed by Irving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A SMALL COLLECTION &#8211; ALL INSCRIBED</title>
		<link>http://blackcatbooks.com/archives/featured-the-fumi-komatsu-collection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bcb</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blackcatbooks.com/?p=4288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We offer for sale several Inscribed copies from the collection of the visual artist, printmaker and illustrator; Fumi Komatsu. For many years she lived and worked in Greenwich Village. She is probably best known within the literary world for her book illustration, most notable the U.S. editions of Yukio Mishama&#8217;s novels, including The Temple of [...]]]></description>
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