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New Orleans: What Can't Be Lost (Hardcover)

By Lee Barclay, Christopher Porche West
$30.00
ISBN-13: 9781935754008
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 8/2010

Statuesque New Orleans (Hardcover)

By Ashley Merlin
$45.00
ISBN-13: 9780615320250
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Ashley Merlin, 4/2010

WHO DAT NATION AT VAUGHAN'S LOUNGE: Photos by David Rae Morris

WHO DAT NATION AT VAUGHAN'S LOUNGE: Photos by David Rae Morris

$24.95
Model: WHODAT

A Pattern Book of New Orleans Architecture (Hardcover)

By Roulhac B. Toledano
$35.00
ISBN-13: 9781589806948
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Pelican Publishing Company, 2/2010
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Creole Houses: Traditional Homes of Old Louisiana (Hardcover)

By Steve Gross, Sue Daley
$37.50
ISBN-13: 9780810954953
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harry N. Abrams, 4/2007

New Orleans 1867 (Hardcover)

By Gary A. Van Zante, Theodore Lilienthal
$75.00
ISBN-13: 9781858942100
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Merrell, 2/2008

C. C. Lockwood's Atchafalaya (Hardcover)

By C. C. Lockwood
$39.95
ISBN-13: 9780807132593
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Louisiana State University Press, 9/2007

Historic Photos of New Orleans (Hardcover)

By Melissa Lee Smith
$39.95
ISBN-13: 9781596524057
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Turner, 11/2007

Holding Out and Hanging On: Surviving Hurricane Katrina (Hardcover)

By Thomas Neff, Thomas Neff
$34.95
ISBN-13: 9780826217745
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: University of Missouri, 2/2009

After the Flood (Hardcover)

By Robert Polidori, Jeff L. Rosenheim
$90.00
ISBN-13: 9783865212771
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Steidl Publishing, 11/2006

New Orleans 1960 (Hardcover)

By William Claxton
$29.99
ISBN-13: 9783822811801
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Taschen, 9/2006

Creole Thrift: Premium Southern Living Without Spending a Mint (Hardcover)

By Angele Parlange
$29.95
ISBN-13: 9780060788063
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harper Design, 11/2006
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Printmaking in New Orleans (Hardcover)

By Jessie J. Poesch
$50.00
ISBN-13: 9781578067688
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: University Press of Mississippi, 8/2006
A lavishly illustrated chronicle of graphic artistry from colonial time through the twentieth century. A visually stunning book, spanning cultural strata from highbrow to pop, Printmaking in New Orleans offers the first in-depth examination of the printmaker's art in Louisiana, from colonial times to the present day. Co-published by The Historic New Orleans Collection and the University Press of Mississippi.

Printmaking in New Orleans contains a wealth of information about the graphic arts in New Orleans. A visually stunning book, spanning cultural strata from highbrow to pop, it is the first publication to examine Louisiana printmaking in depth. Edited and with an introduction by Jessie J. Poesch, Printmaking in New Orleans takes its place among the definitive works of southern cultural history.


Canal Street: New Orleans' Great Wide Way (Hardcover)

By Peggy Scott Laborde, John Magill
$39.95
ISBN-13: 9781589803374
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Pelican Publishing Company, 10/2006
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The Art of Walter Anderson (Paperback)

By Patricia Pinson, Colin Eisler, Susan C. Larsen
$45.00
ISBN-13: 9781578066018
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: University Press of Mississippi, 10/2003
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New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence (Hardcover)

By Randolph Delehanty, Richard Sexton, Richard Sexton
$40.00
ISBN-13: 9780811841313
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Chronicle Books, 9/2003

New Orleans Then and Now (Hardcover)

By Richard Campanella, Marina Campanella
$39.95
ISBN-13: 9781565543478
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Pelican Publishing Company, 7/1999
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Nearly 400 photographs of New Orleans dating from 1847 to the modern day, presented as a side-by-side comparison of the city's architecture and how it has evolved over the last 150+ years.

Very New Orleans: A Celebration of History, Culture, and Cajun Country Charm (Hardcover)

By Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9781565124479
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 12/2005

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