Collins Hardware Company
COLLINS HARDWARE COMPANY INCORPORATED: Builders Hardware Catalog
Lynn, MA: Collins Hardware Co. Inc., 1908

Quarto. 16 pp; b/w illustrations. Paperback. G+ to VG-, cover edges a bit brittle, covers soiled. Excellent original illustrated catalog of door knobs, drawer pulls and other items.
Inventory number #011800

Tanigawa, Masami; edited & photographed by Yukio Futagawa
GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE 15: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: Taliesin East, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1925 - Taliesin West, Paradise Valley, Arizona, 1938
Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1975

Second edition. Folio. 48 pp; illustrated with full page color and b/w plates of photographs by Futagawa. Intro and closing text in Japanese, list of images on front fold-over are in English. Paperback. Near Fine.
Inventory number #011794

Townsend, Chris
RAPTURE: Art's Seduction by Fashion Since 1970
London: Thames & Hudson, 2002

Quarto. 176 pp; illustrated throughout with color photographs. Paperback in as new unread condition.
Inventory number #011776

Marshall Field & Co.
RUGS OF THE ORIENT
Chicago: Marshall Field & Co., n.d.

8.25" x 5.5". 31 pp; numerous color & b/w photographs. Stapled paper wraps. VG, light vertical crease near spine of front cover, small chip at top corner of back cover.
Inventory number #011763

Early, Eleanor
AND THIS IS BOSTON (and Seashore and Country Too)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938

Second edition. Octavo. 256 pp. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket, map on endpapers. VG in VG- jacket. Small chip at top outer corner & crown of jacket, jacket split at edge of spine with no loss; former owner name on half title page. Chapters on Old Boston, Beacon Hill, Marblehead and Salem, Gloucester and Cape Ann, Cambridge, Lexington & Concord, Harvard and Sudbury, Plymouth and the South Shore, and Nantucket and the Cape. "Nobody writes better guide books than Eleanor Early - better, more interesting, more charming." [NYTimes review]
Inventory number #011753

Roussel, J.
MONOGRAPHIE DES PALAIS & PARCS DE VERSAILLES ET DES TRIANONS
Paris: Armand Guerinet, n.d.

Folio. viii pp text; 181 photographic plates of interiors, exteriors, sculpture, outbuildings, and ironwork. Text in French. Half dark blue morocco with marbled boards. Rebound in half leather with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration on the spine and marbled endpapers. VG. light rubs to leather. A couple small stains to title page, plates clean and bright. An unusual leather-bound version of this classic French portfolio.
Inventory number #011719

Cuvillies, Francois
MORCEAUX DE CAPRICES A DIVERS USAGES = Entwurfe und Skizzen zu verschiedenem Gebrauch
Munich: Battenberg, 1981

Folio. [4] pp; 48 black & white plates. Text in German. Vellum-backed decorated boards in protective cardboard slipcase. As new, a fine, unmarked copy. Fine reproductions of designs by Bavarian rococo architect and designer Francois Cuvillies (1695-1768).
Inventory number #011718

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

Lewis, Tom
THE HUDSON: A History
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005

Third printing. Octavo. 340 pp; 2 maps; b/w illustrations; index. Hardcover with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy. Inscribed by the author on half title page. A vivid history of the Hudson River through four centuries, it includes the stories of Benedict Arnold, Alexander Hamilton, Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt, the Astors and the Vanderbilts, and the artist Thomas Cole of the Hudson River School. Also many less famous individuals such as the surveyor who found the source of the Hudson.
Inventory number #011711

Sougez, Marie-Loup et al
IMAGES IN TIME: A Century of Photography at the Alhambra, 1840-1940
Granada: Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife, 2003

Quarto. 205 pp; full of photographs; index of authors. Paperback with flaps. Near Fine, former owner name at top of ttle page, else clean & unmarked. A 2003 exhibition of a century of photographs of the Alhambra, including photographs taken by the British photographer Charles Clifford.
Inventory number #011710

Bussagli, Mario
La Seta in Italia
Rome: Editalia, 1986

Large quarto. 303 pp; 32 color plates; b/w photographs & illustrations in the text; index of text illustrations; index of plates. Text in Italian. Paper-covered boards in unclipped dustjacket, publisher slipcase. Near Fine in VG jacket, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket has small closed tear at base of spine. The entire text of Trattato dell seta was re edited as an appendix.
Inventory number #011692

Hammel, Otto
Ornamentale Motive des Barock und Rokokostils mit Rucksicht auf die praktische Verwendung
Leipzig: Seemann, 1893

Folio. Title page and 34 of 38 plates present. Quarter leather. G+ to VG-. All plates with owner stamp on verso. all plates with 2 circular library perf stamps, plates on tabs and have assorted light edgewear, one plate has grid penciled over by original owner. pocket scars on endpaper and overlapping bookplates. Former property of silver designer Gustav F. Kolb of the Mauser Mfg. Company. A rare set of plates with Baroque and Rococo designs by Otto Hammel. One edition published in 1893 in German and held by 2 libraries worldwide.
Inventory number #011691

Dumonthier, Ernest
Etoffes et Tapisseries d'Ameublement des XVIIe et XVIIIe Siecles
Paris: Ch. Massin, n.d.

ca. 1910. Folio. 15 pp; 80 plates, loose as issued. Text in French. Original maroon portfolio, portfolio folds stained, affecting half title upper edge. former owner's firm rubber stamp.
Inventory number #011689

de Groot, Roy Andries
REVOLUTIONIZING FRENCH COOKING
NY: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1976

Quarto. 402 pp; illustrated with b/w drawings; index of sources; index. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. VG in VG- jacket, jacket has some edge chips mostly at the spine, text block has some small stains on edge.
Inventory number #011657

Arnold, Sam
FRYINGPANS WEST
Morrison, Co: Self Published, 1969

5th edition. Octavo. 50 pp; b/w illustrations; index. Paperback. VG light rubbing to spine side of covers. The cookbook from the national TV series that ran from 1968-1983 and was hosted by Sam Arnold, the owner of The Fort restaurant.
Inventory number #011655

Hill, Heywood & Anne. Edited by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
A BOOKSELLER'S WAR
Norwich: Michael Russell, 1997

Octavo. 208 pp; 8 pp of b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, small gift inscription on front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy. The wartime letters between Heywood Hill, who had opened his bookshop in Curzon Street in 1936, and his wife Anne. He was suddenly called up in December 1942, and Anne, already four months pregnant, was left to cope, much helped by Nancy Mitford. The book is edited by Anne's nephew Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
Inventory number #011650

HOMES OF DOUBLEDAY, DORAN AND COMPANY, INC. Garden City, London, Kingswood, Surrey, Toronto
Garden City, NY: Privately Printed, 1930

Octavo. unpaginated. Fold-out frontispiece by Chester Price, b/w plates throughout; list of offices and bookstores. Original blue cloth with gilt rules and titles on cover. VG, minor wear to corners, crown bumped. Views of Country Life Press in Garden City, NY; Windmill Press in Kingswood, Surrey, England; 99 Great Russell St in London; and Amen House in Toronto, Canada.
Inventory number #011649

Cooper, Dan
INSIDE YOUR HOME
NY: Dan Cooper Publication, 1951

8vo. 127 pp; illustrated w/color frontis photo, b/w photos & drawings by Teresa Kilham. Spiral bound. Interior design from the 50s.
Inventory number #011635

Sotheby Parke Bernet
20TH CENTURY DECORATIVE ARTS Including Property from the Collection of Fifty/50 Gallery. June 10 & 11, 1993
NY: Sotheby's, 1993

4to. 701 lots; color & b/w photographs. Paperback. ["20th Century Decorative Arts Including Property from the collection of Fifty/50 Gallery, Sotheby's, New York, June 10 and 11, 1993 By Sotheby's 6/10/93 English 210 Pages, 37 R.Lalique Items in Photos Very Good Condition Softcover 20th Century Decorative Arts Auction Catalogue from Sotheby's, New York, contains 38 RLalique items with Hoffmann, Deskey, Rohde, Weber, Drerup, Steuben, Orrefores, Kosta, Rorstrand, Venini, Gambone, Silvestre, Wiener, Kramer, Eames, Nelson, Natzler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jensen, Werkstatte, Daum Nancy, Galle, G. Argy-Rousseau, Loetz, Goldschieder, Mucha, Chiparus, Preiss, Leleu, Cheuret, Freres, Majorelle, Pairpoint, Steuben, Tiffany(over 100 lots) and various other items. All items photographed."]
Inventory number #011624

Kirsch Window & Door Draping Manual. Vol. 1, No. 9
Sturgis, MI: Kirsch Manufacturing Company, 1925

Quarto. 12 pp; full of b/w illustrations. Stapled wraps. VG, vertical crease in center, bottom front corner creased, tiny nick in fore edge, well thumbed. This is the French Door issue.
Inventory number #011623