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Adams, Douglas
MOSTLY HARMLESS
NY: Harmony Books, 1992
First edition. Octavo. 277 pp. Cloth backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. The fifth book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
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Annesley, Maude
MY PARISIAN YEAR : A Woman's Point of View
NY: James Pott & Co., 1912
First edition. Octavo. xv, 293 pp; several b/w photographs. Pictorial cloth, top edge gilt. VG, scattered foxing on fore edge. Cover and spine clean and bright.
Inventory number #002282
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Authors Club
MANUAL OF THE AUTHORS CLUB 1921-1922
NY: The Authors Club, 1922
Octavo; 175 pp. Quarter-cloth and paper covered boards with spine label and raised bands. VG- Cloth slightly soiled. Includes a program for an Authors Club New Year's Eve event 1923/1924, a Proxy request from the board of the AC and a note about proposed ammendments to the AC constitution.
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Baird, Rosemary
MISTRESS OF THE HOUSE: Great Ladies and Grand Houses 1670-1830
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003
First edition. Octavo. xvi, 320 pp; numerous color & b/w illustrations; notes; bibliography; index. Green cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, ex-library copy - the only marking is small label on copyright page. Looks unread. A fascinating social history of the wealthy British women who became Mistress of the House.
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Beaton, Cecil [Inscribed]
MY BOLIVIAN AUNT: A Memoir
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971
First edition. Octavo. [12], 172 pp. Illustrated with 16 pp b/w photographs. Original cloth in dustjacket. VG/VG, small chip & tear to top edge of front panel & rear panel. Inscribed on front free endpaper, "To Eugenie/With devotion/ & affection/Cecil". Beaton's affectionately told memoir featuring his Aunt Jessie, who was the "fount of so much of Mr. Beaton's inspiration." Set in the Lake District, Edwardian Hampstead, and the lush jungles and exotic cities of South America. Dustjacket illustrated by author.
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Bellow, Saul
MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET
NY: Viking Press, 1970
First edition. Octavo. 313 pp. Cloth-backed boards with embossed "SB" on face, in unclipped dustjacket. VG/VG-, top & bottom of jacket spine chipped, a few short edge tears. Jacket spine darkened, light wrinkling on upper portion of front jacket panel. Photo of author on rear panel of jacket.
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Bemelmans, Ludwig
MY LIFE IN ART
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1958
First edition. Quarto. 63 pp text, including 2 tipped-in color plates and numerous b/w drawings, followed by many color plates. Cloth with dustjacket, illustrated endpapers. VG/VG, jacket price-clipped. Charming book of Bemelman's gouaches & oils from 1954 to 1958. Bemelmans recounts his early years growing up in Austria, and then how, living in a place called Ville-d'Avray, he came to paint in oil.
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Bernstein, Aline
MASTERPIECES OF WOMEN'S COSTUME of the 18th and 19th Centuries
NY: Crown Publishers, 1959
Small folio. xxii, 32 color plates of period costumes & 51 correlated line drawings of appropriate accessories -- shoes, undergarments, gloves, headgear -- as well as pattern plates. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG. Written and illustrated by noted theatrical designer Aline Bernstein.
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Blaser, Werner
MIES VAN DER ROHE The Art of Structure
NY: Whitney Library of Design, 1994
Square quarto. 238 pp; color and b/w photos and drawings; short biography; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, one short tear at top edge of front panel. Expanded edition of Mies' epochal work, first published in 1965.
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Bloch-Dano, Evelyne
MADAME PROUST: A Biography
Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, 2007
First edition. Octavo. 310 pp; b/w photo plates. Cloth with dustjacket. Near fine in near fine jacket.
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Bradbury, Dominic
MEDITERRANEAN MODERN
London: Thames & Hudson, 2006
First edition. Octavo. 255 pp; profusely illustrated in color. Hardcover with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. This book presents twenty-five new houses from around the Mediterranean Sea. Whether in Bergamo, Mykonos, the Balearics or Barcelona, they all feature clean lines, open floor plans, and seamless indoor-outdoor living.
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Brenneman, David A.
MONET: A View from the River
Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2001
Oblong octavo; 46 pp; 11 plates and 20 figures in color; notes. Paperback. Near fine. Claude Monet exhibition at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, October 6, 2001-January 6, 2002
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Brunhammer, Yvonne & Monique de Fayet
MEUBLES ET ENSEMBLES EPOQUE DIRECTOIRE ET EMPIRE
Paris: Charles Massin, 1965
Quarto. 76 pp; 8 color & 88 b/w illustrations. Text in French. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG. Book clean & tight, jacket has tiny nick to top edge at spine. Features furniture from the French directoire and empire periods. Well illustrated.
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Burollet, Therese
MUSEE COGNACQ-JAY PORCELAINES
Paris: Musee Cognacq-Jay, 1983
Quarto; unpaginated; numerous color and b&w plates; index. Text in French. Paperback. VG+ Minor wear to covers.
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Byers, Charles Alma et al
MODERN PRISCILLA HOME FURNISHING BOOK
Boston: Priscilla Publishing Company, 1925
Twelvemo. x, 340 pp; 4 color and 16 half-tones & numerous line drawings. Floral cloth with dj. VG/VG. "The combined work of thirty experts ... . It is a complete encyclopedia of how to furnish and decorate the home in a sane, saving and satisfactory manner..."
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C.M. Moseman and Brother
MOSEMANS' ILLUSTRATED GUIDE For Purchasers of Horse Furnishing Goods, Novelties and Stable Appointments
NY: Arco Publishing, 1985
Facsimile edition, second printing. Quarto; 303 pp; b&w illustrations. Cloth with dj. VG-/VG- Spine slightly sunned, inscription on ffep from someone who worked at Kopf Mfg., the horse racing equipment company that purchased Mosemans. Reprint of the 1892 edition published by Moseman, with new introduction.
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Camard, Florence
MICHEL DUFET: Architecte, Decorateur
Paris: Editions de l'Amateur, 1988
Quarto. 236 pp, 100 color & 200 b/w photos & illustrations. Text in French. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. The major monograph on Michel Dufet (1888-1985) French architect and interior designer.
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Carlson, Peter & William Wilson
MANSTYLE: The GQ Guide to Fashion, Fitness, and Grooming
NY: Clarkson Potter, 1977
First edition, stated. Quarto. 150 pp; color illustrations throughout; index. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. VG in VG jacket. Great look at menswear styles of the 1970s.
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Cecil, Mirabel & David Mlinaric
MLINARIC ON DECORATING
London: Frances Lincoln Ltd, 2008
First edition, first printing. Large Quarto. 320 pp; lavishly illustrated in color, many full-page plates; index; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine in fine jacket, unread. From his small London practice started 45 years ago, David Mlinaric has become one of the most acclaimed of contemporary interior designers, with thriving offices in Paris & New York.
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Cecil, Victoria
MINTON MAJOLICA: An Historical Survey and Exhibition Catalogue
London: Jeremy Cooper Ltd, 1982
Octavo. 80 pp; full of color & b/w illustrations. Paperback. Near Fine, previous owner's blind stamp on title page, small ink stamp at top of inside front cover. Exhibition catalogue contains 140 pieces of Minton majolica.
Inventory number #008698
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Cetto, Max L.
MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN MEXICO
NY: Frederick A. Praeger, 1961
First edition. Quarto. 224 pp; numerous b/w photographs, plans, and scale drawings; index of architect & their buildings. Text in English & Spanish. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, light wear to edge of jacket spine, jacket back cover lightly soiled. A well-illustrated survey of 1950's Mexican architecture. Includes residences, housing developments, apartment houses & hotels, office buildings, airport terminals, recreational & sports centers, restaurants, schools, hospitals, and churches.
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Changdong, Tang
Magnificent Frescos from the Great Tang Dynasty
Shaanxi, China: Shaanxi Tourism Publishing House, 1996
Quarto. 147 pp; numerous color illustrations throughout. Text in Chinese and English. Paperback with dustjacket (overwrap) Very Good in very good dustjacket.
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Christie's
Mobilier et Objets d'Art Provenant de La Villa La Vigie
Monaco: Christie's, 2000
Quarto. 216 pp; 419 lots, each with numerous color photographs. Paperback. VG.
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Christie's. NY
MAGNIFICENT REGENCY SILVER AND SILVER-GILT. The Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman. NY, 20 October 1999
NY: Christie's, 1999
Quarto. 140 pp; about 35 lots, all illustrated in color. Hardcover. Near Fine. Some of the finest examples of Regency silver from such master silversmiths as John Bridge, Robert Garrard II, Philip Rundell, Digby Scott and Benjamin Smith II, and Paul Storr.
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Clarkson, Rosetta E.
MAGIC GARDENS : A Modern Chronicle of Herbs and Savory Seeds
NY: Macmillan Company, 1939
First printing. Octavo. xviii, 369 pp; illustrated from old herbals and ancient gardening books; tables; index to books and authors; index to herbs. Green cloth with white-stamped lettering, no dj. A very good copy.
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Clary, Martin
MID-MANHATTAN That Section of the Greater City of New York Between Washington Square and Central Park and the East and North Rivers in the Borough of Manhattan
NY: Forty-Second Street Property Owners and, 1929
Quarto. 215 pp; numerous b/w photographs & drawings; unnumbered section of pages about the 42nd Street Property Owners & Merchants Assoc. Dark blue silk moire with gilt medallion on front board. This book was planned as a permanent record of the past and present life of this section of the city, in words and pictures, for the use of libraries, newspapers, institutiions, business executives, etc.
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Cockburn, Lord
MEMORIALS OF HIS TIME
Edinburgh: Robert Grant & Son, Ltd, 1946
Octavo. xv, 279 pp; frontispiece & 5 color illustrations; index. Green cloth with gilt lettering. VG. folded dj laid in. Scottish Classics No. 1.
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Colby, Reginald
MAYFAIR: A Town within London
NY: A.S. Barnes, 1966
First edition. Octavo. 178 pp; 47 b/w illustrations; index. Green cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, jacket spine sunned.
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Coward, Noel
MIDDLE EAST DIARY
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1944
First edition. Octavo. 155 pp. Green cloth with black-lettered cloth in dustjacket. VG/G, worn jacket - tears & chips to spine & flap folds, top & bottom of spine chipped, back cover lightly soiled.
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Deans, Marjorie
MEETING AT THE SPHINX Gabriel Pascal's Production of Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra
London: Macdonald & Co., n.d.
Octavo. 114 pp + numerous full-page color & b/w photographs. Cloth with dj. VG/VG.
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Demornex, Jacqueline
MADELEINE VIONNET
NY: Rizzoli, 1991
First American edition. Large quarto. 305 pp; 100 color & 250 b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a faint scratch on front of jacket, else a clean, crisp copy. Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975)
Inventory number #007308
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Derval, Paul
M. PAUL DERVAL a le plaisir de vous presenter Folies en Fetes. Le super spectacle en 2 actes et 40 tableaux de Michel Gyarmathy
Paris: A.E. Whily-Tell, n.d.
(ca. 1930's). Quarto. 32 pp; 4 color & 23 b/w illustrations. Text in French. Red velvet stapled wraps with gilt illustration. Souvenir program for Folies Bergere. VG.
Inventory number #000272
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Donaldson, Katy
MAGIC OF ARABIA, Volume 1
Dubai: North55, 2003
Quarto. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with b/w photographs. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a few short edge tears. Inscribed by Olivier P. Louis, general manager of the One&Only Royal Mirage resort, Dubai. Photographs of the
Inventory number #006074
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Emmerling, Mary & Carol Sama Sheehan
Mary Emmerling's AMERICAN COUNTRY COTTAGES
NY: Clarkson Potter, 1993
Octavo. 208 pp; profuse color photographs. Cloth with dust jacket. VG/VG. Informal charm, ease of maintenance, and simple living are the hallmarks of the cottage style. This book features twenty-three cottages that show a variety of styles - seaside, town, simple, eccentric, from New England classic to Tropical Paradise.
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Engel, Gerrit. Foreword by Terence Riley
MANHATTAN NEW YORK
Berlin: Schirmer/Mosel, 2006
Quarto. 343 pp; 162 full-page color plates of individual buildings, presented in chronological order from 1765 to 2006; map section. Hardcover with dustjacket. Fine/Fine.
Inventory number #004545
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Esten, John & Rose Bennett Gilbert
MANHATTAN STYLE
NY: Little, Brown, 1990
First edition. Quarto. vii; 215 pp; fully illustrated with color photographs by George Chinsee; bibliography, index. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. This book profiles the interiors of Elsie de Wolfe, Rose Cumming, Sister Parish, William Odom, Van Day Truex, Billy Baldwin, David Easton, and many other Manhattan designers.
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Eudes, Georges
MODERN FRENCH INTERIORS
NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1958
First American edition. Quarto. 136 pp; 24 color plates & 200 b/w illustrations. Grey cloth, lacks dustjacket. Full of photos of 50's interiors.
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Ewing, William A.
MAX BAUR: In the Bauhaus Spirit. Photographs 1925-1960
Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 2001
First edition. Quarto. 135 pp; fully illustrated with b/w photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine.
Inventory number #006268
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Fairbrother, Nan
MEN AND GARDENS
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956
Second printing. Octavo. 269 pp; numerous b/w illustrations. Quarter cloth with pictorial boards and dustjacket. vg in vg- jacket. minor wear to jacket. A history of gardening and why men have been so drawn to it through the ages....monastic, romantic, Tudor, Les Jardins de l'Intelligence, country seats.
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Freres, Pauquet
MODES ET COSTUMES HISTORIQUES
Paris: Aux Bureaux des Modes et Costumes Histor, n.d.
(ca.1864) First edition. Quarto; unpaginated; 96 hand colored plates. Half bound in green cape levant with marbled boards and gilt rules on cuts & backing edge. Spine has raised bands, six compartments with delicate gilt scrollwork & flower design, the flower petals are dyed red. VG. Some wear and minor loss to spine tips, some rubbing to hinges, shelfwear to bottom edge, occasional foxing spot(s). A very nice copy.
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Gaddis, Eugene R., ed.
MAGIC FACADE: The Austin House
Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum, 2007
Oblong quarto. 128 pp; nearly 200 color & b/w illustrations; index. Dark blue cloth with dustjacket. Fine/FIne. The story of a house that combines the theatrical fantasy of the baroque with the arresting elegance of the Machine Age, and insights into the dazzling modernist who created it. Built in 1930 on one of the grandest streets in Hartford, CT, it was the home of Wadsworth Atheneum director Chick Austin and his wife, Helen Goodwin, and was a gathering place for leading figures in the international art world.
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Gaxotte, Pierre
MERVEILLES DES CHATEAUX ROYAUX
Paris: Realites/Hachette, 1976
Quarto. 255 pp; fully illustrated in color & b/w. Text in French. Cloth in dustjacket. Near Fine (top corners gently bumped) in Near Fine jacket.
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Gilliatt, Mary
MARY GILLIATT'S SHORTCUTS TO GREAT DECORATING : Simple Solutions to Classic Problems
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1991
Quarto. 160 pp; profusely illustrated with color photographs; index. Paperback. Light shelf wear, top corner on back cover bent; overall a good+ copy.
Inventory number #001062
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Gloag, John
MR. LOUDON'S ENGLAND: The Life and Work of John Claudius Loudon, and His Influence on Architecture and furniture Design
Newcastle upon Tyne: Oriel Press, 1970
First edition. Octavo. 224 pp; numerous b/w photographs, drawings & elevations; appendix of published works; index. Red cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG. John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843) was a talented architect, as well as landscape gardener. His semi-detached houses were the prototypes of Victorian suburbia, and his published works had a big influence on the design of houses and furniture, helping to change taste in England between the end of the Georgian age and the beginning of the Victorian period.
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Greene, Graham
MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1982
First printing. Octavo. 221 pp. Black-cloth backed boards with silver-lettered spine in dustjacket. VG/VG, faint crease to front flap of jacket. The author has created a hauntingly comic and penetrating work of fiction which is at once a retelling of Cervantes' masterpiece in modern terms and a profound statement about the nature of faith and morality.
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Halfpenny, William
MAGNUM IN PARVO: or, The Marrow of Architecture
NY: Benjamin Blom, 1968
Quarto. 19 pp + 15 plates. Green cloth with white spine lettering & architectural drawing of column. Near Fine. Spine lightly sunned, two minor blemishes on back cover. Reprint of the London, 1728 edition,
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Halliday, Nigel Vaux
MORE THAN A BOOKSHOP Zwemmer's and Art in the 20th Century
London: I. B. Tauris & Company, 2003
Octavo. 325 pp; illustrated with b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dj. VG+/VG+, -almost near fine-. Zwemmer's was a meeting place for a cross-section of the art world - artists, collectors, academics and laymen - attracted by a range of books covering all arts of all periods. Anton Zwemmer was a friend and patron of many leading artists, from Picasso to Wyndham Lewis.
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Hamburger, Philip
MATTERS OF STATE: A Political Excursion
Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 2000
First edition. Octavo. 166 pp. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. A solid, unread copy. Inscribed by the author's nephew. This collection of essays was chosen by the author from 60 years of writing for The New Yorker (and elsewhere). They chronicle people and places in politics with an emphasis on our presidential inaugurations, including those of Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon (both elections), Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. Also political figures such as NY mayors LaGuardia, O'Dwyer, and Wagner, Judge Learned Hand, and Dean Acheson.
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Harling, Robert, ed.
MODERN FURNITURE AND DECORATION
NY: Galahad Books, 1971
Quarto. 205 pp; hundreds of color photographs. Hardcover with dustjacket. VG/VG. This book is filled with the work of many 60's & 70's interior designers including Max Clendinning, Pierre Delbee, Francois Catroux, Guy Chansioux, Alexander Girard, Jack Larsen, Isobelle Hebey, Olive Sullivan, Valerian Rybar, Martine Dufour, John Siddeley, Carla Venosta, Charles Sevigny, Francois-Xavier Lalanne, and many others.
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Helfand, Margaret
MARGARET HELFAND ARCHITECTS: Essential Architecture
NY: Monacelli Press, 1999
Quarto. 192 pp, illustrated with color photographs. Paperback. Near fine. In a collection of projects developed during the 1990s, Margaret Helfand Architects argues for an architecture of logic, simplicity, and sensuality. Presented chronologically, nineteen projects ranging from showrooms, residences, academic buildings, parks, and functional objects are examined in photographs and texts along the three axes fundamental to the firm's work: geometry, structure, and materials. Basic materials such as steel, wood, glass, and stone are used with a minimum of transformation.
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Heller, Steven & Teresa Fernandes
MAGAZINES: Inside and Out
NY: PBC International, 1996
Quarto. 160 pp; profuse color illustrations; directory; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG. This book represents the diverse visual approach practiced in the '90s. It shows how then current styles were reinterpreted by different designers.
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Hinckley, F. Lewis
Metropolitan Furniture of the Georgian Years
NY: Washington Mews, 1988
Quarto. 203 pp; 322 documentary examples; index. Cloth with dj. Near fine/VG. Hinckley identifies as Dublin furniture thousands of pieces that had been misrepresented as English.
Inventory number #003028
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Holme, C.G.
MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY 1937-8
London: The Studio Limited, 1938
Small quarto. Color frontispiece, 7 tipped-in color & 104 b/w plates; index of photographers and plates, with technical data, 12 pp of ads. Brown cloth with cream lettering. A near fine copy. Photographs by Ansel Adams, Margaret Bourke-White, Brassai, Philippe Halsmann, Lotte Jacobi, Ergy Landau, Jan Lukas, Edward Steichen, Lajos Szabo, and many others.
Inventory number #002115
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Hopkins, Alfred
MODERN FARM BUILDINGS
NY: Robert M. McBride, 1916
Second printing. Quarto. 206 pp; numerous b/w plates, 77 text figures, mostly line drawings & floor plans. Original dark green cloth with gilt-stamped lettering on cover and spine, in dustjacket. VG+/VG, book is clean & tight; jacket has short edge tears. First published in 1913. An architect specializing in country houses and particularly in farm group architecture, Alfred Hopkins presents the most approved ways of designing the various barns and other buildings from an artistic as well as practical viewpoint. He covers every phase of scientific stable building - planning, materials and constructive details of cow barns, horse stables, garages, hay barns, silos, corn cribs, dairies, chicken houses, root cellars, ice houses, etc. Included are farm buildings for Louis C. Tiffany in Oyster Bay, and for Otto Kahn in Morristown, NJ.
Inventory number #008150
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Huddleston, Sisley
MEDITERRANEAN BLUE
London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1950
Later printing. Octavo. 132 pp plus many b/w photographs. Cloth with dj, endpapers decorated with map. VG/VG. Huddleston describes a region he knows well -- Provence, the Cote d'Azur and its extension into Italy. Part of the "Windows on the World" series.
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Hunt, Mary
MARY HUNT'S PASTRY AND SWEETS DIARY
NY: M. Barrows & Company, 1939
First edition. Octavo. 253 pp. Red cloth with dustjacket. Near fine/VG, small tape repair to fore edge of one page, top & bottom of jacket spine chipped, with small triangular chip on back cover. Pictorial jacket shows a table set with two tall white candles and a large bowl of fruit.
Inventory number #005084
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Hunter-Stiebel, Penelope & Odile Nouvel-Kammerer
MATIERES DE REVES: Stuff of Dreams From the Paris Musee des Arts Decoratifs
Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 2002
Quarto. 174 pp; over 100 color photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. This exhibition features 100 objects from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
Inventory number #008707
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James, Dayton & Edith Sheldon
MISTER & MISTRESS Being a Guide to Etiquette in Off-the-Record Romance
NY: Knight Publishers, 1938
First edition. Small octavo. xiv, 121 pp; drawings by Steinberg. Yellow cloth with purple lettering in dustjacket. VG/VG, jacket lightly chipped at top of spine; price intact
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Kincaid, Jamaica
MY GARDEN (BOOK) :
NY: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1999
First edition. Octavo. 229 pp; drawings by Jill Fox. Cloth with dj. Fine/Fine.
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Klesse, Brigitte
MUSEUM FUR ANGEWANDTE KUNST Querschnitt Durch Die Sammlungen
Koln: Museum Fur Angewandte Kunst, 1989
Quarto. 184 pp; profuse color photographs. Text in German. Paperback. VG. A well-illustrated survey of the collections of the Museum of Applied Art, Cologne from the Middle Ages to Post modern.
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Lasswell, Mary
MRS. RASMUSSEN'S BOOK OF ONE-ARM COOKERY
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946
Octavo. ix, 101 pp. Gold cloth with black lettering in dustjacket. Jacket and endpapers designed by George Price
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Lerner, Alan Jay
MY FAIR LADY: A Musical Play in Two Acts based on Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
London: Max Reinhardt / Constable, 1958
First English edition. Octavo. 156 pp; b/w drawings by Cecil Beaton. White cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, spine & top 3/4-in. of covers tanned, price-clipped jacket reinforced at top & bottom edges w/ brown packing tape. The first edition with Beaton illustrations.
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Liberman, Alexander
MARLENE: An Intimate Photographic Memoir
NY: Random House, 1992
Tall quarto. 120 pp; fully illustrated with b/w photographs. Includes sealed CD "The Best of Marlene Dietrich". Red cloth with dustjacket. VG-/VG-, small dampstain at bottom of rear cover, barely noticeable, which has 'bled' onto inside of jacket.
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Lieberman, William S.
MAX ERNST
NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1961
Square octavo. 63 pp; tipped-in color frontispiece, numerous b/w photographs; catalogue of the exhibition of 240 pieces; bibliography. Paperback. VG. Catalogue of an exhibition of Ernst's paintings, sculpture and reliefs; watercolors, drawings, gouaches, collages; portfolios and illustrated books.
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Lockwood, Charles
MANHATTAN MOVES UPTOWN An Illustrated History
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976
First edition. Octavo. xxi, 343 pp; numerous b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG
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Luft, Lorna
ME AND MY SHADOWS: A Family Memoir
NY: Pocket Books, 1999
First paperback edition. Octavo. 417 pp; b/w photographs; index. Paperback. Near Fine.
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Marbury, Elisabeth
MY CRYSTAL BALL Reminiscences
NY: Boni and Liveright, 1924
Third printing. Octavo. 355 pp; 20 illustrations from photographs. Cloth with dj. VG/VG-. Rare in dj.
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Matheson, Susan B. & Derek D. Churchill
MODERN GOTHIC: The Revival of Medieval Art
New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 2000
Quarto. 95 pp; color & b/w illustrations; suggested reading. Paperback. Fine, a new unused copy. Catalogue of exhibition shown at the Yale University Art Gallery April 4 - July 30, 2000.
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McMurtrie, Douglas C.
MODERN TYPOGRAPHY & LAYOUT
Chicago: Eyncourt Press, 1929
Limited edition. Folio. 189 pp; illustrated throughout. Original black cloth with white lettering.. VG limited to 2000 copies. Douglas Crawford McMurtrie (1888-1944) was an American typeface designer, graphic designer and historian and bibliographer of printing.
Inventory number #006809
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Menzies, Elizabeth G.C.
MILLSTONE VALLEY
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1969
Quarto. 308 pp; illustrated throughout in b/w; notes. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. Very good in Very good jacket; one small closed tear to top edge of back panel.
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Merrill, Todd & Julie V. Iovine, eds.
MODERN AMERICANA: Studio Furniture from High Craft to High Glam
NY: Rizzoli, 2008
Quarto. 271 pp; profuse color & b/w illustrations; bibliography. Hardcover with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. A full survey of the furniture designs of the prolific 1940's-1990's period of American studio design. It includes the work of Vladimir Kagan, Billy Haines, Wendell Castle, Robsjohn-Gibbings, Edward Wormley and many others.
Inventory number #007195
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Morris, Jan
MANHATTAN '45
NY: Oxford University Press, 1987
Second printing. Octavo. 273 pp; several b/w photographs. Cloth with dj. VG/VG, jacket price-clipped. This book recreates New York City as it appeared to the returning GI's in 1945. The author looks at the city's government, policemen, firemen, education, transportation, and architecture and its master builder, Robert Moses. She examines race, class, entertainment, commerce, and radio.
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Muirhead, Findlay and Marcel Monmarche
MUIRHEAD'S NORTH-WESTERN FRANCE
London: Macmillan & Co., 1926
Second impression. 16mo; 392 pp; numerous color illustrations & maps, many folding. Cloth with gilt titles. G++ some loss to spine tips, joints rubbed. a couple of minor closed tears to maps and one more severe that has been repaired. Former property of author Faith Dennis
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Muirhead, Findlay and Marcel Monmarche
MUIRHEAD'S SOUTHERN FRANCE WITH CORSICA
London: Macmillan & Co., 1926
Second impression. 16mo; 488 pp; numerous color illustrations & maps, many folding. Cloth with gilt titles. G++ some loss to spine tips, joints rubbed. a couple of minor closed tears to maps and one more severe that has been repaired. Former property of author Faith Dennis
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Pawley, Martin, photos by Yukio Futagawa
MIES VAN DER ROHE
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1970
Quarto. 134 pp; 11 color & 49 b/w photos, 26 plans and sections. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG. This book deals with Mies's "second career", i.e. after his emigration to the U.S. in 1938. Photographs by Yukio Futagawa.
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Putnam, Wallace B.
MANHATTAN MANNERS
NY: W.B. Putnam, 1935
First edition. Octavo. unpaginated; b&w illustrations by Wallace Putnam. Spiral bound paperback. G+ to VG- covers soiled and moderately stained. Crease to lower edge of front cover. Rare limited facsimile of the notebook of artist Wallace Putnam (1899-1989), who burst upon the New York art scene in 1936 with a large assemblage provocatively entitled Agog, prominently displayed in the entrance to a major exhibition of Dadaist and Surrealist art at The Museum of Modern Art.
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Radice, Judi
MENU DESIGN: Marketing the Restaurant Through Menu Graphics
NY: PBC International, 1985
First edition, second printing. Quarto. 250 pp; illustrated in color; appendix; list of designers; list of printers; index. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. Near fine in VG jacket, minor edgewear to dj.
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Richardson, A.E.
MONUMENTAL CLASSIC ARCHITECTURE IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
NY: Norton, 1982
Quarto. xxxiv, 123 pp; 60 b/w plates; 135 b/w figures; bibliography; index. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. VG, spine sunned. This book features Neo-Classical masterpieces by John Soane, William Chambers, James Pennethorne and others, including the Customs House, Dublin; the British Museum, the Bank of England and Somerset House, London; and St. George's Hall, Liverpool.
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Robsjohn-Gibbings, T.H.
MONA LISA'S MUSTACHE: A Dissection of Modern Art
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947
First edition. Octavo. 265 pp; 10 full-page b/w photographs. Green cloth with gilt-lettered spine, lacking dustjacket. VG.
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Roth, Leland M.
McKIM, MEAD & WHITE, ARCHITECTS
NY: Harper & Row, 1983
First edition. Octavo. 441 pp; 369 illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG. This comprehensive volume traces one of the great architectural partnerships from their early lives and training, through the formation of the firm, the atmosphere in which it arose and thrived, and its vast body of work and profound impact.
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Rothschild, Deborah, ed.
MAKING IT NEW: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007
Third printing. Quarto. 237 pp; color & b/w illustrations throughout; exhibition checklist; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Red cloth with yellow-lettered spine in dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Accompanying an exhibition organized by the Williams College Museum of Art, this book is a collection of essays examining through images and text the Murphys' influence on a remarkable constellation of artists. The book also explores Gerald Murphy's abbreviated career as a painter, his artistic legacy, and the complex nature of his motivation and vision.
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Rubinstein, Helena
MY LIFE FOR BEAUTY
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1966
First edition, second printing. Octavo. 251 pp; two sections of b/w photographs. Cloth with dj. VG+/VG, top corners gently bumped, 2 tiny stains at bottom corner of cover; price-clipped jacket has light edgewear. Portrait of Mme. Rubinstein on jacket cover by Graham Sutherland.
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Runyon, Damon
MORE GUYS AND DOLLS
Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1951
Octavo. ix, 401 pp. Yellow cloth with black-lettered spine in dustjacket. Text block & cover fresh & bright, price-clipped jacket a bit soiled but no tears. Thirty-four tough-and-tender tales by the bard of Broadway - six never before published in book form. Including the delightful story on which the hit musical "Guys and Dolls" was based.
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Russell, John
MATISSE: Father & Son (Signed)
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1999
Octavo. 415 pp; 48 color & 48 b/w illustrations; index. Cloth with dustjacket. A fine, unmarked copy in fine, price intact jacket. Signed by Russell on title page, dated June 1999. The story of Pierre Matisse, his father, Henri Matisse, his gallery in New York, and the artists that he introduced to America - among them, Joan Miro, Alberto Giacometti, Bathus, and Jean Dubuffet. Based on unpublished correspondence.
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Ruttenbaum, Steven
MANSIONS IN THE CLOUDS: The Skyscraper Palazzi of Emery Roth
NY: Balsam Press, 1986
First edition. Quarto. 223 pp; profusely illustrated with b/w photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Emery Roth's great buildings include the Beresford, the San Remo, the Ritz Tower, the St. Moritz Hotel, and over 200 other romantic, classically-ornamented towers. This book traces his remarkable career from penniless Hungarian immigrant to designer of flamboyant buildings in New York City between 1989 and 1948.
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Salny, Stephen
MICHAEL TAYLOR: Interior Design
NY: W.W. Norton, 2009
First edition. Quarto. 325 pp; profuse color photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. A new, unused copy. The life and work of Michael Taylor (1927-1986), the groundbreaking interior designer and the inventor of the "California Look."
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Sargent, Charles Sprague
MANUAL OF THE TREES OF NORTH AMERICA (Exclusive of Mexico) 2 Volumes
NY: Dover Publications, 1961
Second, corrected edition. Two volumes. Octavo. xxvi, xxiv, 910 pp; 783 illustrations by Charles Edward Faxon and Mary W. Gill; glossary of technical terms; index. Paperback. Spines faded, else VG.
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Sassoon, Siegfried
MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN
London: The Folio Society, 1973
Second impression. Octavo. 290 pp; drawings by Lynton Lamb; introduction by Sir Alan Lascelles. Decorated cloth. near fine. First published in 1928. It won the Hawthornden Prize and was immediately recognised as a classic of English literature. In the years since its first appearance, it has regularly been a set text for British schoolchildren.
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Sassoon, Siegfried
MEMOIRS OF A FOX-HUNTING MAN
NY: Coward, McCann, 1929
First American unillustrated edition. Small octavo. 376 pp., bound in red cloth, lettering to spine & top cover in black, pictorial red & white endpapers. Front & back covers clean & bright, spine darkened; pages overall age toned.
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Shipway, Verna Cook & Warren Shipway
MEXICAN INTERIORS
Stamford, CT: Architectural Book Publishing, 1988
Ninth printing. Quarto. 257 pp; full of b/w photographs; list of photo locations; glossary. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. NF/NF. This heavily illustrated book is arranged by type of furniture and architectural detail, including ceilings, fireplaces, tiles & frescoes, lattice, screens, cabinets & desks, chests & their hadware, chairs & benches, lighting fixtures, mirrors, ceramics, pre-conquest designs, masks, ironwork, and garden ornaments and paving.
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Shulman, Julius
MODERNISM REDISCOVERED
NY: Taschen, 2007
First edition, First printing. Three volumes. Folio. 1008 pp; Illustrated throughout in color & b/w. Text in English, French, and German. 3 Volumes, coarse cloth with illustrated pastedowns and color spine titles in slipcase. Near fine in near fine slipcase. Over 400 architectural works are represented, not just restricted to the West Coast, the images were taken all across the United States as well as in Mexico, Israel, and Hong Kong. Architects include Albert Frey, Frank Gehry, Bruce Goff, Herb Greene, Philip Johnson, Louis I. Kahn, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, Paul László, Le Corbusier, Charles Luckman, Oscar Niemeyer, Richard J. Neutra, William L. Pereira, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Raphael Soriano, Mies van der Rohe, Welton Becket Associates, Frank Lloyd Wright. Augmenting the photographs are an introduction by photography critic Owen Edwards, an extensive biography by University of Southern California historian Philip J. Ethington, captions on decorative elements by Los Angeles Modern Auctions founder Peter Loughrey, biographies of key architects, and personal reflections from the photographer himself. Julius Shulman's photography was instrumental in crafting the image of the midcentury Southern California lifestyle across the United States and around the world. His work keenly identifies the distinctive structural, functional, and design elements of a building, in the context of both its natural surroundings and the people who occupy the spaces. Oversize - 28 lbs.
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Sierra, Piero
MILANO, 96 Fotografie
Monza: Selezione d'Immagini, 1982
4to. 98 pp; 96 color and b/w photographs, many tipped in. Cloth with dustjacket. VG in VG jacket and slipcase.
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Sitwell, Osbert
MIRACLE ON SINAI: A Satirical Novel
London: Gerald Duckworth, 1948
New edition. Octavo. 255 pp. Orange cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, jacket spine darkened & chipped at ends, front & back panels a bit darkened.
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Souhami, Diana
MRS. KEPPEL AND HER DAUGHTER
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1997
First American edition. Octavo. 338 pp; b/w photo plates. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. Very good in very good dj. -An electrifying study of Mrs. Keppel --famously King Edward VII's mistress-- and of her daughter Violet Trefusis --notoriously Vita Sackville-West's lover- (London Daily Telegraph)
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Still, Bayrd
MIRROR FOR GOTHAM : New York as Seen By Contemporaries from Dutch Days to the Present
NY: New York University Press, 1956
First edition. Octavo. xix, 417 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; extensive notes; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dj. VG/G, 1" chip missing at top of jacket spine and short tears along top & bottom edges.
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Tanner, Louise
MISS BANNISTER'S GIRLS
NY: Farrar, Straus, 1963
First printing. Octavo. 239 pp. Orange paper-covered boards with black cloth spine with yellow, red & white lettering in dustjacket. Book is very good, with no writing, just small label "Property of Alumnae House, Poughkeepsie, NY"; NYTimes Book Review neatly taped to half title page. Price-intact jacket lightly chipped at head & tail of spine and corners; light soil.
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Tierney, Tom
MOVIE STAR VAMPS AND SCAMPS: Paper Dolls
Mineola, NY: Dover, 2003
First edition. Quarto. 32 pp; 12 dolls and 32 costumes on 16 color plates. Paperback. A fine copy. This paper doll collection focuses on 12 femmes fatales who dominated the silver screen from the silent era through the 1930s, accompanied by costumes from their most popular films. The actresses are: Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Barbara La Marr, Myrna Loy, Mae Murray, Nita Naldi, Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Mae West.
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Trade Catalogue
MISS MANHATTAN'S FASHIONS, Fall & Winter 1922-23
NY: Miss Manhattan Co., 1922
Octavo. 12 pp; fully illustrated. Stapled wraps. VG. The Miss Manhattan Co. was at 498 Seventh Ave in the Garment Center. From the cover "Creators and Makers of Youthful Coats, Suits and Dresses." The models are shown against a range of backgrounds, including Manhattan streets.
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Vogt, Elizabeth E
MONTECITO: California's Garden Paradise
Santa Barbara, CA: MIP Publishing, 1993
First edition. Quarto. 276 pp; numerous color photographs. Cloth with dj. VG/VG, dj spine sunned. Beautiful photographs taken by Steve Eltinge and Mario E. Quintana.
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Wattjes, J.G.
MODERNE VILLA'S EN LANDHUIZEN IN EUROPA EN AMERIKA
Amsterdam: Kosmos, 1930
First edition. Quarto. 200 pp; over 300 illustrations; index. Text in Dutch; captions in English, Dutch, French & German. Original cloth. VG+
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Wegman, William
MY TOWN
NY: Hyperion, 1998
First edition. Quarto. Full of color photographs. Illustrated boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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White, Samuel & Elizabeth White
MCKIM, MEAD & WHITE: The Masterworks (Signed)
NY: Rizzoli, 2003
First edition. Large quarto. 303 pp; numerous illustrations throughout; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near fine in near fine dj. Signed by both authors on the half title page.
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Ypma, Herbert
MOROCCO MODERN
NY: Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1996
First edition. Quarto. 157 pp; full of color photographs. Paperback. Near Fine. The author traces the origins of the great artisan traditions that still inform modern design in Morocco. The book concludes with the work of Charles Boccara, a contemporary architect whose designs reinterpret these infuences to create work that is strikingly modern.
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