Robsjohn-Gibbings, T.H. [Signed]
GOOD-BYE, MR. CHIPPENDALE
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947

Second edition, enlarged. Octavo. 119 pp; drawings by Mary Petty. Publisher's cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, covers clean & bright, a bit of toning at the front pastedown gutter; price-clipped jacket with closed tear at front flap fold & at top of front spine fold, 0.5 in. tear at edge of slightly darkened spine. Inscribed by author on front flyleaf, "For Robert Lukcso, With kind regards, T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings"
Inventory number #013590

Ross, John
VENICE SAVED FROM THE SEA
NY: High Tide Press, 1995

Limited to 15 numbered copies and signed by Ross. Quarto. One sheet (56 cm. x 117 cm.), printed on both sides, folded in two (top to bottom), then folded again accordion style and pasted to the lower board. Turquoise cloth boards with a wave pattern, lined in blue slubbed silk, matching silk slipcase with recessed paper title label. Near Fine, a crisp, clean copy, with no markings. Slipcase shows light sunning where a smaller book rested on top. #11 of 15 copies. Conceived, designed, illustrated and printed by John Ross in the High Tide Press workshop on Rives BFK; set in Janson and printed on a Vandercook proofing press. Printed Accordion fold. Collagraph images of Venice with two three-page fold outs. When open the pages can be unfolded to show a pull-out soft ground etching of very large proportion with hand coloring. Prints done on a Brand etching press. The binding is by James Di Marcantonio.
Inventory number #013582

Ballot, Marie-Juliette
La Ceramique Francaise : Bernard Palissy et les Fabriques du XVIe Siecle
Pairs: Albert Morance, 1924

Octavo. 37 pp; 48 plates, both color & b/w; bibliography. Text in French. Brown cloth with gilt-titled spine. VG, blind stamp on title page, bookplate on front pastedown, plates are clean & unmarked; covers show light wear to extremities, remnants of gilt-stamped leather label over gilt-lettered spine. Originally issued as a portfolio, it has been skillfully bound in cloth using tabs to attach the pages and plates.
Inventory number #013575

Rykwert, Joseph
THE PALLADIAN IDEAL
NY: Rizzoli, 1999

Quarto. 226 pp; full of color photographs. Gilt-lettered brown cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine in same jacket. A clean, unmarked copy; bright jacket with no tears. This volume celebrates Palladio's architectural achievements and his lasting influence on subsequent centuries of design.
Inventory number #013564

Seeler, Katherine & Edgar
NANTUCKET LIGHTSHIP BASKETS
Nantucket, MA: Deermouse Press, 1972

Second edition. Octavo. 124 pp; 1 full-page color photograph, 52 b/w plates. Illustrated white cloth. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers lightly soiled.
Inventory number #013562

Lanz, Bernhard, Sabine-Daniele Schmid & Werner Strahalm
Silber der Osterreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie = Silver from the Austro-Hungarian monarch = Objets en argent de la monarchie austro-hongroise = Gli oggetti d'argento della monarchia Austro-Ungarica
Strahalm: Graz, 1987

Quarto. 212 pp; color & b/w photographs; appendix includes assay marks and official hallmarks. Text in German, French, Italian & English. Illustrated paper-covered boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; top & bottom edges of jacket lightly toned.
Inventory number #013558

Rosenthal, Mark
ANSELM KIEFER
Munich: Prestel, 1987

Quarto. 171 pp; 85 color plates & numerous b/w illustrations; list of exhibitions; bibliography; index. Paperback. A fine, unused copy with no writing or marks, tight binding, covers glossy with no wear.
Inventory number #013553

Nelson, Christina H.
Directly from China: Export Goods for the American Market, 1784-1930
Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 1985

Octavo. 120 pp; b/w photographs throughout; bibliography. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; Slight wave to top 2-in. of covers and pages due to the way book was stored, edges lightly rubbed, old price stick on back cover & inside of front cover. Errata sheet laid in.
Inventory number #013548

Batterberry, Ariane & Michael
The Bloomingdale's Book of Entertaining
NY: Random House, 1976

Second printing. Octavo. viii, 208 pp; 5 color & numerous b/w photographs. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, top & bottom of spine a bit sunned; unclipped jacket has narrow sunned strip on both sides of spine, short slit in center of front panel.
Inventory number #013546

Christie's
Jewellery and Silver by Bulgari. St. Moritz, Feb 17 & 18, 1993
Geneva: Christie's, 1993

Quarto. 177 pp; profuse color photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, minor wear to jacket. This auction featured 16 lots of silver by Bulgari, and 211 lots of jewelry. Introductory essay by Diana Scarisbrick. The auction was held at St. Moritz, Geneva, on February 17 &18, 1993.
Inventory number #013545

Sotheby's
Venetian Glass 1910-1960 an Important Private Collection Geneva November 10th 1990
Geneva: Sotheby's, 1990

Quarto. Contains 141 lots, all illustrated with color photographs. Essays by Rosa Barovier-Mentasti & Roberto Pedrina. Silver-lettered blue cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #013543

Gilborn, Craig
DURANT: The Fortunes and Woodland Camps of a Family in the Adirondacks
Blue Mountain Lake, NY: Adirondack Museum, 1986

Second printing. Quarto. 170 pp; 101 b/w photographs; fold-out map; sources; appendices; index. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers have minor soiling, spine slightly sunned. This book tells of a prominent New York family and of the "grand camps" that were built by members of the family in the Adirondacks during the last quarter of the 19th century.
Inventory number #013537

Hulten, Pontus, Editor
Paris 1937-Paris 1957: Creations en France : [exposition], Centre Georges Pompidou, 28 mai-2 novembre 1981
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1981

Quarto. 527 pp; profuse b/w & color photographs; biographies & bibliographies. Text in French. Paperback. Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Centre Georges Pompidou from 28 may to 2 november 1981.
Inventory number #013523

Ciardi, John
AN ALPHABESTIARY
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1966

Quarto. Unpaginated, illustrations by Milton Hebald. Green cloth with gilt-lettered spine, embossed image of zebra on cover, paper-covered slipcase with paper label. VG, gift inscription on first blank page, else a crisp, unmarked copy; slipcase intact with minor wear, spine sl. sunned.
Inventory number #013509

Mengel, Willi
Ottmar Mergenthaler and the Printing Revolution
Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Co, 1954

Octavo. 63 pp; color tipped-in portrait of Mergenthaler on blank page between half and title page; numerous line drawings. Hardcover. VG, a crisp, unmarked copy; gilt lettering on spine mostly rubbed off, corner tips gently bumped & rubbed, tiny nick to bottom edge. Published on the centenary of the birth of Ottmar Mergenthaler, inventor of the linotype machine.
Inventory number #013508

Knopf, Alfred A.
Some Random Recollections: An Informal Talk Made at the Grolier Club, New York. 21 October 1948
NY: Typophiles, 1949

Limited to 1250 copies. Twelvemo. 41 pp. Red cloth with gilt-lettered cover & spine. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine sl. darkened. Book designed by W.A. Dwiggins and printed & bound by The Plimpton Press, Norwood, MA. The type is Arcadia, designed by Dwiggins and used here in a book for the first time. Typophile Chapbook no. 22
Inventory number #013506

Vreeland, Diana & Stella Blum
AMERICAN WOMEN OF STYLE An Exhibition Organized by Diana Vreeland
NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975

Oblong octavo. [36] pp; numerous b/w illustrations. Paperback. Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; covers with no wear. Catalogue of an exhibition organized by Diana Vreeland for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan. "This is not a dress show. This is an exhibition to project, through the beholder's imagination, a vision of ten American women of style." DV. The women are Elsie de Wolfe, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough, Mrs. John W. Garrett, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Isadora Duncan, Mercedes de Acosta, Irene Castle, Millicent Rogers, and Josephine Baker.
Inventory number #013497

Decorative Arts Program of the American Federation of Arts.
Threads of History: the romance of fibers, natural and man-made, and the art of their use in decorative Textiles
NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1965

Square quarto. 53 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; light wear to spine ends & corners.
Inventory number #013494

Kurtze, Henry & Mark Kurtze (photos)
On your bike : a graffiti tour of East End London
Adelaide: South Australia Newstyle Media, 2016

Square octavo. 60 pp; profuse color & b/w photographs. Paperback. An unused, new copy.
Inventory number #013491

Rose, Philip S. editor
The Country Gentleman. Vol. 94, No. 10. October 1929
Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Co., 1929

Small folio. 164 pp; profuse b/w & color illustrations. Stapled wraps. VG, an unmarked copy, old mailing label on front cover, one staple with rust stains, light edge wear including short tear to fore edge of last 24 pp & cover; , overall light cover soil.
Inventory number #013490