Wetzsteon, Ross
REPUBLIC OF DREAMS : Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960
NY: Simon & Schuster, 2002

First edition. Octavo. xvii, 617 pp; 24 pages of b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards wirh dj. Near fine/Near fine.
Inventory number #002857

Ward, Barbara McLean & Gerald W.R. Ward, eds.
SILVER IN AMERICAN LIFE Selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University
NY: The American Federation of the Arts, 1979

Quarto. 193 pp; 196 objects described and illustrated, some in color plus 39 b/w text illustrations; bibliography; index of silversmiths, designers, manufacturers and retailers. Paperback. VG.
Inventory number #002449

Swan, Susan Burrows
PLAIN & FANCY American Women and Their Needlework, 1700-1850
NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977

First printing. Octavo. 240 pp; profusely illustrated with 42 color & 123 b/w photographs from the collection of the Winterthur Museum. Publisher's red cloth with black-lettered cover & spine in dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a crisp, tight, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with minor edgewear. Review slip laid in.
Inventory number #002171

Kirk, John T.
AMERICAN FURNITURE & THE BRITISH TRADITION TO 1830
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982

First edition. Quarto. xiv, 397 pp; 1508 b/w & color illustrations; notes; indexes. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #001978

Strohl, Mike
NEW AMERICAN STYLE
Glen Cove, NY: PBC International, 1997

First edition. Quarto. 175 pp; color photographs. Cloth with dj. VG+/VG+. Foreword by Suzanne Slesin. Very nicely presented, a wide selection of styles, from folk art to modern.
Inventory number #001732

Gere, Charlotte
AMERICAN & EUROPEAN JEWELRY 1830-1914
NY: Crown Publishers, 1975

Quarto. 240 pp; 227 illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Edges of pages age toned, else very good in very good jacket.
Inventory number #001294

Davidson, Marshall B. & Elizabeth Stillinger
THE AMERICAN WING at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985

First edition. Quarto. 352 pp; profusely illustrated with 524 color & b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG. A well-illustrated survey of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum, home of America's most important collection of painting, sculpture and decorative arts, dating from 1630. Separate chapters on the Period Rooms, furniture, silver, pewter, ceramics, glass, paintings, prints, drawings and watercolors, and sculpture.
Inventory number #000905

Haldane, Jack & James Hawkins
AMERICAN APPROACH TO ANTIQUE CARPETS Vol. 2
NY: Stark Carpet, 1993

Quarto. 314 pp; 126 full-page color plates of carpets plus several color photos of interiors of houses in the Britain and the U.S. Black cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. VG/VG, jacket lightly rubbed. The book presents the 1993 Y & B Bolour Collection of primarily 19th and early 20th century carpets. Vol. 2 shows color plates of 6 Savonnerie, 38 Aubusson, 6 Axminster, 10 Arts & Crafts, 4 Bessarabian, 17 Indian, and 27 Persian carpets. Also color plates of 11 needlework and 7 tapestry -- mid & late 19th C.
Inventory number #000506