Ahlin, Janne
SIGURD LEWERENTZ ARCHITECT, 1885-1975
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987

First edition. Folio. 191 pp; 16 color & numerous b/w photographs, drawings, plans & elevations; index. Red-lettered black cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket lightly chipped at top & bottom of spine, 1/2-in. tear at top corner fold, several tiny edge tears, edges of spine lightly rubbed.
Inventory number #012857

Robicsek, Francis [Inscribed]
THE SMOKING GODS: Tobacco in Maya Art, History, and Religion
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978

First edition. Quarto. xxv, 233 pp; illustrated with 234 color & b/w photographs & drawings; notes; references; index. Black cloth with silver-lettered spine & silver-stamped image on cover in dustjacket. VG/VG, a crisp, unmarked copy; jacket lightly chipped on top edge, minor wear at base of spine, top edge toned. Inscribed by author on title page.
Inventory number #012847

Diamant, Gertrude
THE DAYS OF OFELIA
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942

Octavo. 226 pp; illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Publisher's orange cloth with black lettering on cover & spine in dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket toned, especially the spine. Book club edition. The author's recollections of Mexican life and everyday happenings during a sojourn in Mexico.
Inventory number #012819

Beaton, Cecil
THE GLASS OF FASHION
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1954

Early printing of first edition. Octavo. 397 pp; numerous pen and ink drawings by the author; index. Publisher's black cloth, lacks jacket. VG+, a tight, solid copy, old gift inscription dated Dec 25, 1956 on half title page.
Inventory number #012818

INDEX OF WOLFF BOOK AND DISPLAY TYPE FACES
NY: H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company, 1942

First edition. Octavo. 29 pp. illustrated. Blue cloth with gilt-lettered cover. VG, page edges toned, else clean & unmarked, top of spine lightly rubbed. Published to fill the gap while the company's new type specimen book was in preparation. This compact Index of Type Faces contains 593 different faces and sizes.
Inventory number #012808

Eyre, Frank & Charles Hadfield
ENGLISH RIVERS AND CANALS
London: Collins, 1947

Second impression. Octavo. 47 pp; 8 color & 19 b/w illustrations. Illustrated boards in dustjacket with identical image. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, front & rear endpapers foxed; jacket spine toned with moderate wear - lightly chipped ends & small nicks & scratches.
Inventory number #012798

Settle, Alison
ENGLISH FASHION
London: Collins, 1948

First edition. Octavo. 47 pp; 8 color & 23 b/w illustrations. Illustrated boards in dustjacket with identical image. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket has light wear to toned spine with tiny nicks to backstrip.
Inventory number #012797

Rattray, Jeannette Edwards
THREE CENTURIES IN EAST HAMPTON, LONG ISLAND, NY
East Hampton, NY: East Hampton Star Press, 1937

Octavo. 43 pp; illustrated after photographs and etchings, fold-out map tipped to inside back cover. Stapled stiff card wrappers with beveled edges, embossed title on cover. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; covers clean with no visible wear. Includes original mailing envelope. The illustrations include one etching by Childe Hassam and two by W. St. John Harper.
Inventory number #012749

Christ, Robert B.; Heman, Peter
ZAUBER DER BASLER BRUNNEN
Basel: Birkhauser, 1967

Octavo. Unpaginated; b/w photographs throughout; list of 49 fountains with map. Text in German. Photo illustrated boards. Very good to near fine, top edge dusty. A survey of public fountains in Basil. A beautiful copy.
Inventory number #012728

Canaan, Gershon
REBUILDING THE LAND OF ISRAEL
NY: Architectural Book Publishing, 1954

First edition. Quarto. 205 pp; well-illustrated with b/w photographs, drawings, diagrams & floor plans; chronology; bibliography; index. Original silver-lettered blue cloth, no jacket (rear panel laid in). VG, except for architect rubber stamp on ffep an unmarked copy, spine slightly faded, light fraying to spine ends.
Inventory number #012712

Sotheby's
GOLF, CRICKET, BOXING AND OTHER TRADITIONAL SPORTS. 10 July 1998
London: Sotheby's, 1998

Quarto. 89 pp; color & b/w photographs. Lots 700-1310. VG, light wear to covers, small crack to spine, internally clean and britght. Addenda sheet laid in.
Inventory number #012708

Rosen, Laura
TOP OF THE CITY: New York's Hidden Rooftop World
NY: Thames and Hudson, 1982

Quarto. 167 pp; fully illustrated with 27 color & 141 b/w photographs. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean copy with no markings, minimal shelf wear to covers.
Inventory number #012707

Vanderwalker, F.N.
PAINTING AND DECORATING WORKING METHODS: A Text book for Apprentice, Journeyman, Housepainter, Decorator
NY: Theo Audel, 1942

Second edition. Octavo. xii, 294 pp; one page with 20 tipped-on color chips; numerous b/w illustrations. Black pebble cloth with gilt-lettered spine. VG, a clean unmarked copy; light rubbing to spine gilt, light wear to extremities.
Inventory number #012685

Fox, James M.
THE WHEEL IS FIXED
Boston: Little, Brown, 1951

First printing. Octavo. 216 pp. Light green cloth with red-lettered spine in dustjacket. VG/VG, "Feb 51" in ink on front flyleaf, else a clean, unmarked copy, bookplate [Adrian Homer Goldstone] affixed to front pastedown; price-clipped jacket has light wear to extremities, rear cover is lightly toned. Jacket design by Paul Galdone.
Inventory number #012684

WHeatley, Dennis
THE RAPE OF VENICE
London: Hutchinson, 1959

First printing. Octavo. 446 pp. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, former owner label at bottom of half title page, else a clean ,unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket has minimal wear. Jacket design by Sax.
Inventory number #012680

Clark, Larry [Both copies inscribed to actor Vincent Kartheiser]
TEENAGE LUST [Together with] TULSA
NY: Larry Clark, n.d.

1979 and 1987. Quarto. Unpaginated. TULSA is the first hardcover edition (1979), there is no dustjacket and the covers are a little scuffed, internally near fine. TEENAGE LUST is the second revised edition (paperback, 1987) and is in very good condition except for a small rough chip on the lower corner of the front cover, wear to corners and some overall shelfwear and light soiling. Both copies are inscribed by Larry Clark to Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men). Both copies came from Clark's stock and were inscribed in 1997 and 1998 after shooting wrapped on the set of "Another Day in Paradise" (1998) in which a young Vincent plays the character "Bobby" alongside James Woods and Melanie Griffith. A great association set.
Inventory number #012673

Slater, John Rothwell
PRINTING AND THE RENAISSANCE: A Paper Read Before the Fortnightly Club of Rochester, New York
NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1921

Limited edition of 600 copies. Octavo. 35 pp a few b/w illustrations. Brown paper-covered boards. Good only, lacks paper spine covering, else a clean, unmarked copy. Designed by Bruce Rogers, it is one of 500 copies printed on Antique Wove Paper
Inventory number #012669

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF PUBLISHING 1837-1962
Boston: Little, Brown, 1962

First edition (stated). Twelvemo. 84 pp; numerous b/w photographs. Gilt-lettered cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; jacket has minor wear to spine ends & corners..
Inventory number #012665

Taber, Gladys
CONVERSATIONS WITH AMBER
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1978

Second printing. Octavo. 176 pp; drawings by Pamela Carroll. Cloth-backed boards with unclipped jacket. Near Fine/VG, a clearn, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket spine a little sunned, edge of spine light rubbed.
Inventory number #012661

Beilenson, Peter
THE STORY OF FREDERIC W. GOUDY
Mt. Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1965

Twelvemo. 68 pp. Brick cloth with gilt-lettered spine & gilt initials "FWG" on cover with glassine wrapper. Limited edition of 1,950 copies, 350 reserved for The Typophiles.
Inventory number #012660