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At the Edge of History
William Irwin Thompson
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Atonement
Ian McEwan
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The Atrocity Exhibition
J. G. Ballard
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Au Revoir to All That
Michael Sternberger
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August Sander
John von Hartz et al.
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Ausgewählte Aufsätze über Fragen der Gestalt des Buches und der Typographie (The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design)
Jan Tschichold
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Austerlitz
W. G. Sebald
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Authentic Décor: The Domestic Interior 1620–1920
Peter Thornton
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Autobiografia scientifica (A Scientific Autobiography)
Aldo Rossi
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Autobiography of a Yogi
Parmahansa Yogananda
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini
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The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
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Avedon: Photographs, 1947–1977
Richard Avedon
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The Aviator (L’Aviateur)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Avision
Anthony Lunt
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Axel Vervoordt
Meredith Etherington-Smith
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Axel Vervoordt: Timeless Interiors
Armelle Baron
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Backstage Dior
Roxanne Lowit
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Baedeker’s Rome and Central Italy
Karl Baedeker
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Bag of Toys
David France
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Balenciaga
Lesley Ellis Miller
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Balenciaga and Spain
Hamish Bowles
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Balfour: The Last Grandee
R.J.Q. Adams
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Ball Four
Jim Bouton
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Barcelona
Robert Hughes
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Barcelona Gráfica
América Sánchez
On Louise Fili’s Book List
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Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks et al.
On Stephen Burrows’s Book List
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Barnbrook Bible
Jonathan Barnbrook
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Bart van der Leck
Toos van Kooten
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Bartleby, the Scrivener
Herman Melville
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Basho
Matsuo Basho et al.
On Peter Mendelsund’s Book List
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Basin and Range
John McPhee
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Basquiat
Marc Mayer, ed.
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Frank Miller et al.
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The Battle for God
Karen Armstrong
On Alan Balfour’s Book List
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The Bauhaus Reassessed: Sources and Design Theory
Gillian Naylor
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Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago
Hans Wingler
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