Ramuz, C.F.
PAYS DE VAUD
Lausanne: Editions J. Marguerat, 1943

First edition. Quarto. 102 pp; 81 gravure photographs by Maurice Blanc. Text in French. Tan cloth with title on cover & spine with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a crisp, unmarked copy; jacket lightly chipped at top of spine with several short edge tear, minor wear at base of spine & corners. Photographs of the architecture, landscape, and people of Vaud, Switzerland by Maurice Blanc. Part of the series: "Merveilles de la Suisse."
Inventory number #012220

Pennoyer, Peter & Anne Walker
THE ARCHITECTURE OF WARREN & WETMORE
NY: W. W. Norton, 2006

First edition. Quarto. 256 pp; 40 color & 300 duotone photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. A new, unused copy. At the turn of the 20th century, Beaux-Arts-trained Whitney Warren and lawyer Charles D. Wetmore put their stamp on New York City with Grand Central Terminal. Their mansions, clubs, hotels, apartment houses, and office buildings were powerful emblems of the era.
Inventory number #012172

Crispolti, Enrico
Mobili di Fabio de Sanctis e Ugo Sterpini
Rome: Officina Undici, 1963

First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Full of color photographs and b/w drawings. Text in Italian, English, French & German. Illustrated boards. VG, lamination on boards lightly crazed, edges rubbed. A bit musty. Limited edition - #1788/2000 copies. Catalogo n. 1, 1963-64
Inventory number #012102

Bacon, Leonard
THE LEGEND OF QUINCIBALD
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1928

First Edition. Limited. Octavo. 76 pp. Linen-backed boards with paper spine labels. Signed and inscribed and outside numbered by the author. VG- Call number on spine in ink, plc bookplate on pastedown. call number on corner of front free endpaper, several small plc blindstamps in the text, catalog card affixed to back board with paper strap. Author dedication to the plc collection on ffep, signed and numbered 0/0 on limitation page by author. Ex library Philadelphia Library Company research library and deaccessioned in the 1930s.
Inventory number #012093

Massie, Robert K.
CATHERINE THE GREAT: Portrait of a Woman
NY: Random House, 2011

First edition. Octavo. 625 pp; 16 pp color photographs; select bibliography; index. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket bright, slight creasing at head of spine.
Inventory number #011714

Heckscher, August
ALIVE IN THE CITY: Memoir of an Ex-Commissioner
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974

First edition. Octavo. 294 pp; b/w photographs; index; map endpapers. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, clean, unmarked copy, thin strip at top & bottom edge sunned; price-clipped jacket spine sunned from green to blue.
Inventory number #011506

Strunsky, Simeon
NO MEAN CITY
NY: E.P. Dutton, 1944

First edition. Octavo. 285 pp. Original blue cloth, no jacket. VG, former owner name on front free endpaper, spine lightly faded, front pastedown tanned. Simeon Strunsky (1879-1948), a Russian-born essayist, was on the staff of the New York Evening Post and then the New York Times. His most notable contributions to the Times were his editorial-page essays titled "Topics of the Times." His columns also appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Bookman, Collier's, and Harper's Weekly.
Inventory number #011505

Massie, Suzanne
PAVLOVSK: The Life of a Russian Palace
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1990

First edition. Octavo. xx, 394 pp; illustrated with numerous color & b/w photographs; list of those who restored the palace, plans; extensive bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket crisp & bright. Created by Catherine the Great's son and his wife, Maria Feodorovna, in the late 18th century, Pavlovsk remained a residence of the Russiam Imperial family until 1915. After its destruction in World War II, hundreds of people volunteered to help rebuild Pavlovsk.
Inventory number #011309

Gonzalez-Palacios, Alvar & Roberto Valeriani
I MOBILI ITALIANI: Il Patrimonio Artistico del Quirinale
Rome: BNL Edizioni, 1996

First edition. Quarto. 381 pp; more than 200 color & b/w illustrations; bibliography. Text in Italian. White cloth with dustjacket in matching slipcase. Fine/Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, pristine in pristine jacket; slipcase has small crack at top of spine, else unworn. A fully illustrated catalogue of the Italian furniture in the Presidential Palace, Rome, with detailed descriptions of the 147 pieces.
Inventory number #011292

Mercer, Judy [Signed]
FAST FORWARD
NY: Pocket Books, 1995

First edition. Octavo. 336 pp. Black cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, spine slightly cocked; unclipped jacket has minor edgewear. Signed by author and dated (7-20-95) by author on title page.
Inventory number #011169

L'ARCHITECTE. Recueil mensuel de l'art architectural publie avec le concours de la Societe des Architectes Diplomes par le Gouvernement. Nouvelle serie. Septieme annee 1930
Paris: Editions Albert Levy, 1930

First edition. Quarto. 104 pp plus 72 plates of b/w photos & drawings, also b/w photos & plans in the text. Text in French, 1/4 leather binding with marbled boards, gilt spine lettering with rules. VG condition. Leather shows light wear & soiling. A clean, unmarked copy. Monthly Architectural art review published with the support of government licensed architects. New series for 1930. Large plates of everything from domestic to civic to recreational, interiors & exteriors. Handsome examples of art deco architecture.
Inventory number #011144

Nouvel, Odile
PAPIERS PEINTS FRANCAIS 1800-1850
Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1981

First edition. Quarto. 130 pp; profusely illustrated in color; indices. Text in French, English & German. Cloth with dj. Fine/Near Fine.
Inventory number #011096

Wall, Joseph F.
Andrew Carnegie's Hogmanay or A Child's New Year in Calvinist Scotland
NY: Oxford University Press, 1970

First edition. 6" x 4.25". 25 pp; color illustrations by Tim Gaydos. Stapled wraps. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; minor wear to extremities. The text was adapted from Chapter III of the author's biography of Andrew Carnegie.
Inventory number #010797

SMALL WARES: Being Marked-down Remnants of Comment and Criticism, Together with a Few Lengths of Shopworn Anecdotes and Some Odds and Ends of Cheap Yarns
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925

First edition. Sixteenmo. 134 pp; illustrated by Decie Merwin. Floral-printed boards. VG, small rubbed line on front cover. Some of the stories in this volume first appeared in the "Contributor's Club" of the Atlantic Monthly, and in the "Woman's Home Companion". By the author of "The Notion-Counter, A Farrago of Foibles, Being Notes About Nothing," published in 1922.
Inventory number #010724

Burstein, Chaya M.
RIFKA BANGS THE TEAKETTLE
NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970

First edition (stated). Octavo. 191 pp; illustrated by the author. Original yellow cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket, short closed tear to top edge, jacket spine toned.
Inventory number #010679

Scherer, Kees
THIS IS NEW YORK
London: Bruna/Deutsch, 1961

First edition. 7" x 4.5". 121 b/w photogravure plates. Original stiff photographic wrappers. VG, laminate over spine is lifting but intact, binding tight and clean, light edge wear, preliminary pages moderately spotted with very fine pin-point spots but not affecting any of the photographs. Photos of by renowned Dutch photographer Kees Scherer, who was one of the Netherlands' most popular and respected photographers. This distinctive photobook looks at early 1960s New York City with European eyes and fully conveys Scherer's fascination with the dynamics of light. With text in English by Dutch journalist Max Tak, featuring 121 captioned b/w photographs. Preceded by a 1960 Dutch edition.
Inventory number #010551

Booth, Charles
MODERN SURFACE ORNAMENT
NY: J. Sabin & Sons, 1877

First edition. 15" high x 12" wide. 24 plates illustrating designs by stained glass craftsmen, illustrators and architects, including Charles Booth. Three-post cloth binding (not original) has been re-covered. The plates are on tabs for the binding holes. VG+, Plates are clean; there are some stray pencil marks & smudges in the margins of some plates, not affecting the images. Originally issued in six parts, this book features 24 Anglo-Japanesque designs by Booth (Plate 1) and several other ornamentalists, including W.H. Wood, Arthur Halliday, Charles R. Lamb, O.S. Teale, H.E. Ficken, Charles M. Jenckes, Milton See, Otto Heinigle, George E. Harney, Louis D. Berg, and publisher J. O'Kane. "This work contains a great variety of detail ornament, such as panel and corner filling, borders, centers, diapers, etc., all of original design by artists of undoubted standing, and mostly prepared specially for this work." [Building Age. Vol. 5, No. 2, Feb. 1883] Charles Booth (1844-1893), a stained-glass artist from Liverpool, came to work in the United States by 1875, bringing with him the English aesthetic design principles espoused by Christopher Dresser and thereby adding a certain abstraction, a totally different dimension, to the window form. Booth adhered remarkably closely to Dresser's advice, his work dominated by Dresser's principles governing two-dimensionality of design and simplification of ornamental forms. Scarce
Inventory number #010498

Sharp, Dennis
THE PICTURE PALACE and other Buildings for the Movies
NY: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969

First edition. Quarto. 224 pp; 5 color & profuse b/w illustrations; selected list of cinemas in Great Britain and the United States; bibliography; index. Cloth with gilt-lettered spine in dustjacket. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has 1 3/4" closed tear at top of spine, spine & back panel lightly soiled. This is an entertaining and well-researched history of the movie house - from nickelodeons and Kinetoscope parlors to drive-ins, from the picture palace to the art theater - in America, England, and continental Europe. It features the colorful 1920's, the depression years of the 1930's, and the post-World War II era, with the trend toward small, intimate, simply decorated theaters. The author treats problems of sight lines, ventilation, acoustics, projection, and decoration; discusses the styles and innovations of important theater architects such as Thomas W. Lamb, John Eberson, and Ben Schlanger.
Inventory number #010437

Lee, Sherman E. Cunningham, Michael R.
REFLECTIONS OF REALITY IN JAPANESE ART
Cleveland,: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1983

First edition. Quarto. xii, 292 pp; 16 color plates, numerous b/w illustrations; catalogue; bibliography. Gilt-stamped red cloth with dustjacket. Eight-pp stapled index & errata pamphlet laid in. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket bright, with minor wear at top of spine & light rub at front edge of spine.
Inventory number #010280

Mavor, James W., Jr.
VOYAGE TO ATLANTIS
NY: G.P. Putnam, 1969

First edition. Octavo. 320 pp; 32 pp of b/w photographs; 42 maps, charts & diagrams; bibliography; index. Gilt-stamped blue cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, tight, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket shows minor wear at top & bottom of spine, 1/4 in. slit in rear flap fold, small inked price next to printed price on front flap.
Inventory number #010249