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Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Old Masters, New World" is the story of beauty, aesthetics, and taste; money, trade, and power. It is a backstage look at the part played in American collecting by experts like Bernard Berenson and dealers like Colnaghi, Knoedler, and Duveena who raced around Europe to negotiate purchases and sales of the rarest and most costly masterpieces"--From publisher description.
63) Anna's table
Author
Language
English
Description
Anna describes the collection of natural things she keeps on the table in her bedroom.
Author
Series
Three Cousins Detective Club volume 16
Language
English
Description
The mysterious appearance of a Tedy Roosevelt campaign button on Tim's base ball cap attracts the attention of an unscrupulous collector.
65) Don't Look Back
Author
Series
Lavinia Lake and Tobias March series volume 2
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
When Julie finds a shiny quartz crystal, her dad shows her how to dig for minerals--like a "rockhound." Combining clever wordplay with earth science, young readers learn about Earth's most abundant mineral `treasure." The "For Creative Minds" section extends the learning with quartz and mineral fun facts and easy science activities. Ages 5-9.
Author
Series
Masterpiece adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Marvin the beetle is going collecting with his family. All is good and well until Uncle Albert gets hurt. Marvin needs his human friend James's help to save Uncle Albert before it's too late"--
75) Desert winter
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
After 30 some odd years of success as a director on Broadway, Claire Gray has accepted her first academic position, that of a theatrical director at the richly funded Desert Arts College in Palm Springs. Having lived a largely peaceful life in Manhattan, she is stunned to find herself in the midst of the second murder, and murder investigation, in a matter of months in Palm Springs. This time it's a local aged and ailing collector, who frequently...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett, a synesthetic art critic for The New York Times whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound, magical ways, and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Nicholas Kilmer's Harmony in Flesh and Black exposes a deep knowledge of the sometimes tricky and treacherous haut monde of art dealers, collectors, and curators. Smartly tailored, well-to-do Beacon Hill collector Clayton Reed has habits so refined that he doesn't even venture out to pick up his own acquisitions. He leaves that sort of work to Fred Taylor, a veteran of clandestine action in Southeast Asia who is presently working as Reed's factotum....
Author
Series
Vinyl detective novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
He is a record collector -- a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the "Vinyl Detective" and some people take this more literally than others. Like the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording -- on behalf of an extremely wealthy (and rather sinister) shadowy client. Given that he's just about to run out of cat biscuits, this gets...
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