The periodically controversial signs which sometimes adorns the bookshop door
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Victorian gift book c. 1850s-1860s with inlaid mother of pearl.
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HORAE SUCCESSIVAE by Henshaw (1632)
Beautiful book cover of white satin with a floral design edged in gold cord, featured in Cyril Davenport’s English Embroidered Book-bindings (1899).
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Ukrainian embroidery is a type of Ukrainian folk decorative art; an ornamental or thematic image on fabric or leather made with various hand or machine stitches; one of the most common types of handicrafts by Ukrainian women, and girls in particular.
Ukrainian folk embroidery. State publishing house "Mystetstvo", Kharkiv, 1936. Presents embroidery from Podillia and Kyiv region, which was selected from the materials of the first exhibition of Ukrainian folk art in Kyiv. The album consists of 20 pages of illustrations.
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Recent visit to my favorite used bookstore in NYC, Westsider Books on the Upper West Side. They sell antique, rare, vintage, and newer used books. I bought some vintage Freud, Stendhal, and Balzac.
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