Poiret, Paul
KING OF FASHION: The Autobiography of Paul Poiret
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1931

Octavo. 331 pp; 16 b/w illustrations. Cloth with gilt titles and designs in dust jacket. VG in VG- dustjacket. Dj has some crumpling and closed tears to top edge and is missing about half an inch from the top of the jacket spine, back panel has a couple small chips and edgewear. Front endpaper has some toning from bookplate on pastedown. Contents clean, ribbon bookmark present. Poiret's autobiography as translated by Stephen Haden Guest. This book has the elusive original art deco dust jacket by Samuel Bernard Schaeffer as well as an armorial bookplate of William Henry and Katherine French Burnham by Will E. Chapin on the front pastedown. Scarce in dj.
Inventory number #011729

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. VG/VG
Inventory number #011714

Vickers, Hugo, editor
ALEXIS: The Memoirs of the Baron de Rede
Wimborne Manor, Dorset: Dovecote Press, 2005

First edition, first printing. Octavo. 174 pp; profusely illustrated. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, jacket shows light wear. This book features photographs from the baron's own collection and watercolors by Alexandre Serebriakoff; the endpapers feature illustrations by Yves Saint Laurent for the Bal des Tetes. The memoirs of Alexis de Rede, a man who lived his life at the heart of the beau monde. He dictated his memoirs to Hugo Vickers before his death in July 2004. Sotheby's Paris auctioned the contents of his apartment in the Hotel Lambert in March 2005.
Inventory number #011492

Christ-Janer, Albert
ELIEL SAARINEN: Finnish-American Architect and Educator
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984

Revised edition. Small folio. xviii, 169 pp; 192 b/w photographs; drawings, plans; chronology; chronological catalogue; bibliography; Saarinen's bibliography; index. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, white portion of covers yellowed. First published in 1948, this is the revised edition of the definitive biography of Eliel Saarinen.
Inventory number #011407

Allwood, John
THE GREAT EXHIBITIONS
London: Studio Vista, 1977

Quarto. 192 pp; 11 color plates & over 150 b/w illustrations; appendices; bilbiography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, small remainder dot on bottom edge; unclipped jacket has no wear except tiny nick at top edge of back panel. This book tells the story of exhibitions from 1851 to the abortive plans for a Bicentennial in Philadelphia in 1976. The emphasis is on the architecture of the pavilions and the design of their contents, with fascinating accounts of the finances, the personalities and some of the more bizarre exhibits.
Inventory number #011406

Loos, Anita
CAST OF THOUSANDS
NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1977

First printing. Quarto. 280 pp; full of b/w illustrations; list of works by Loos; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket shows minor wear to spine ends. A pictorial memoir of the most famous and glittering personalities of the stage and screen, including Carol Channing, Helen Hayes, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, Harpo Marx, Clark Gable, and many more.
Inventory number #011379

Monro, Jean [signed]
11 MONTPELIER STREET: Memoirs of an Interior Decorator
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988

First edition. Octavo. xiii, 178 pp; color & b/w photos; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine in price-clipped near fine dj. SIGNED by author on title page.
Inventory number #011360

Fowler, Gene
BEAU JAMES
NY: Viking Press, 1949

Octavo. x, 389 pp, illustrated with 16 pp of b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near fine/VG; jacket has small chip to top of front panel and near the heel and a couple of small closed tears and light edgewear. The chronicle of James J. Walker, New York City's 100th mayor, known to millions as 'Jimmy'.
Inventory number #011315

Salewicz, Chris & Adrian Boot
FIREFLY: Noel Coward in Jamaica
London: Victor Gollancz, 1999

First printing. Octavo. 127 pp; many color & b/w photographs, paintings and drawings from Coward's private albums, many previously unpublished. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with no wear. Noel Coward made a home for himself on Jamaica, named Firefly, where he would paint, write and relax with his closest friends and companions, including Audrey Hepburn, Gladys Cooper, Alec Guinness, Charlie Chaplin, Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, and Maggie Smith.
Inventory number #011302

Vreeland, Diana
D.V.
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984

First edition. Octavo. 195 pp. Red cloth with D.V. blind stamped on cover & silver lettering on spine, in dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with no visible wear.
Inventory number #011245

Danilova, Alexandra
CHOURA: The Memoirs of Alexandra Danilova
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986

First edition. Octavo. 213 pp; numerous b/w photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket.
Inventory number #011197

Gruen, John
ERIK BRUHN: Danseur Noble
NY: Viking Press, 1979

First edition. Octavo. 252 pp; b/w photographs; appendix - roles danced, productions; filmography; bibliography; index. Hardcover with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket. The biography of Erik Bruhn (1928-1986), Danish ballet dancer noted for his outstanding classical technique, who appeared mainly as a guest artist with North American and European companies.
Inventory number #011196

Salter, Elizabeth
THE LAST YEARS OF A REBEL A Memoir of Edith Sitwell
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967

Second printing. Octavo. 208 pp; frontispiece & 11 b/w photographs; index. Green cloth with gilt lettering in dj. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket has light edgewear. Dame Edith Sitwell was 69 when she invited Elizabeth Salter, a young Australian, to be her secretary. Over the next eight years she became friend, confidante and aide-de-camp, in the thick of the crises, the controversy and the celebrity that surrounded the British poet and critic.
Inventory number #010907

Isherwood, Christopher
LOST YEARS: A Memoir, 1945-1951
NY: HarperCollins, 2000

Octavo. xxxvii, 388 pp; chronology; glossary; index. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, minor soiling on front endpaper & couple spots on fore edge, else unmarked; unclipped jacket bright with no tears.
Inventory number #010694

Masson, Georgina
QUEEN CHRISTINA
NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969

First American edition. Octavo. 405 pp; b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Burgundy cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket shows light wear at spine ends.
Inventory number #010692

Brough, James
CONSUELO: Portrait of an American Heiress
NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979

First American edition. Octavo. 266 pp; b/w photographs; index. Burgundy cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has sunned spine, small loss to jacket at base of spine with corresponding faded spot on cloth.
Inventory number #010687

Lewis, Adam
VAN DAY TRUEX: The Man Who Defined Twentieth Century Taste and Style
NY: Viking Press, 2001

First edition. Octavo. 288 pp, including 35 color and 50 b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. A crisp, new copy. The first biography of American designer Van Day Truex (1904-1979), who led Parsons School of Design to prominence, and later became design director at Tiffany & Co.
Inventory number #010623

Pochna, Marie-France
CHRISTIAN DIOR: The Man Who Made the World Look New
NY: Arcade Publishing, 1996

First printing. Octavo. 314 pp; illustrated. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine
Inventory number #010561

Brightwell, C.L.
PALISSY THE POTTER; or the Huguenot, Artist, and Martyr. A True Narrative
NY: Carlton & Lanahan, 1858

12mo. 235 pp; 18 b/w illustrations, incl. frontis; [6] pp list of publisher's books. Blind-stamped purple cloth with beveled edges, gilt-lettered & decorated spine. VG, half of front cover & spine sunned, top of spine starting to fray, short tear to bottom of spine.
Inventory number #010523

Vigee-Le brun, trans. by Gerard Shelley
THE MEMOIRS OF MME ELISABETH LOUISE VIGEE-LE BRUN, 1755-1789
NY: George H. Doran Company, 1927

No date. Octavo. 217 pp; numerous b/w illustration; list of illus; index. Maroon cloth spine with decorated paper-covered boards. VG, edges rubbed with 1/2 in. x 1/4 in. loss at fore edge, short tear at bottom of spine; a clean, unmarked copy internally.
Inventory number #010519