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Historical Color Guide: Primitive to Modern Times with Thirty Plates in Color
Elizabeth Burris-Meyer
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The Historian as Detective
Robert W. Winks, ed.
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Histoire du costume en occident
François Boucher
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Histoire du costume
Henny Harald Hansen
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Hirschfeld: Art and Recollections from Eight Decades
Al Hirschfeld
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The Highway and the City
Lewis Mumford
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High-Rise
J. G. Ballard
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High Fidelity
Nick Hornby
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High & Low
Kirk Varnedoe et al.
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The Hidden Order of Art
Anton Ehrenzweig
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The Hidden Injuries of Class
Richard Sennett et al.
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Hidden Forms
Franco Clivio
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The Hidden Dimension
Edward T. Hall
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Herzog
Saul Bellow
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A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov
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Here is New York
E. B. White
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Here Comes Everybody
Clay Shirky
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Heraldry
Ottfried Neubecker
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Heavenly Mansions and Other Essays on Architecture
John Summerson
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Hats: An Anthology
Stephen Jones et al.
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Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book
Harvey Penick
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The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping
Rem Koolhaas et al.
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
J. K. Rowling
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Harpo Speaks . . . about New York
Harpo Marx
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
Crockett Johnson
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Happy Times
Brendan Gill et al.
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Happy Days
Samuel Beckett
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The Happiness Hypothesis
Jonathan Haidt
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Hans Richter, New Living
Andres Janser et al.
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Hans J. Wegner
Jens Bernsen
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The Handy Book of Artistic Printing
Doug Clouse et al.
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Handbook of Early Advertising Art
Clarence Hornung
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The Hand
Frank Wilson
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Gypsy Ballads
Federico García Lorca
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Gypset Travel
Julia Chaplin
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
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Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift
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The Guide for the Perplexed
Moses Maimonides
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Guerre à la tristesse (Fiesta in Pamplona)
Dominique Aubier
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Greek Gold
Dyfri Williams et al.
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