Hidden Treasures: Searching for Masterpieces of American Furniture by Keno, Leigh; Keno, Leslie; Freund, Joan Barzilay (Contributor) - 2000

New York: Warner Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Marfree, acidfree 1stEd; not written-in, underlined, club, remainder or ex-library. Lower cor dent & minor rubbing of r on unclipped shiny DJ. Mail SAMEDAY! ; 0.99 x 10.30 x 7.32; 303 pages; Leigh and Leslie Keno are twins with a single passion--the pursuit of American antiques. One (Leigh) is an antiques dealer in New York. The other (Leslie) is a director at Sotheby's, New York. Together with Joan Barzilay Freund--a New York-based freelance writer who specializes in American antiques--they tell tales of the hunt. Some of the stories come from the twins' childhood in upstate New York (they started keeping antiques dealer diaries when they were 12) ; one riveting anecdote is set more recently in the auction room of Sotheby's, circa January 1999. But all of the treasure-hunting episodes are imbued with the drama and thrill of the chase as well as the bliss of aesthetic appreciation. It doesn't matter whether you, yourself, have swapped bids in tense auction rooms for million-dollar furnishings, or traipsed through small-to .