Field, Hays Reilly
THE GIFT OF TASTE
NY: Hennessy Cognac, n.d.

ca. 1950s. 7 x 4.75". [24] pp; 8 color illus. Perfect bound in blind stamped tan card covers with image on upper cover. VG. Promotional pamphlet from Hennessy Cognac that tells the story of the company through the eyes of the family who have been official tasters for over five generations
Inventory number #011620

Skrypzak, Joann
DESIGN VIENNA 1890s to 1930s
Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2003

Quarto. 103 pp; color and b/w illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine. Small scuff to front cover.
Inventory number #011607

Wright
IMPORTANT DESIGN. December 14th 2010
Chicago: Wright, 2010

Quarto. unpaginated; color photos of the 261 lots offered (lots 100-361); index. Paperback. Near Fine.
Inventory number #011606

Lowe, David
CHICAGO INTERIORS: Views of a Splendid World
Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1979

Quarto. 150 pp; b/w illustrations throughout; sources and notes for illustrations. index. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. Near fine in VG jacket. A couple of small edge tears to jacket. 250 illustrations, many of vanished places, gathered from Chicago's archives.
Inventory number #011596

Uecker, Wolf
Art Nouveau and Art Deco Lamps and Candlesticks
NY: Abbeville Press, 1986

First American edition. Quarto. 280 pp; illustrated with color and b/w photographs throughout; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Very good in VG jacket.
Inventory number #011593

Omond, George W. T.
LIEGE AND THE ARDENNES
London: A & C Black, n.d.

no date. Octavo. 125 pp; 20 color reproductions of paintings by A. Forestier. Decorated cloth with gilt titles on front cover and spine. VG, small pull on crown, light wear to heel. Internally clean and bright.
Inventory number #011581

Chester, Samuel Beach
ANOMALIES OF THE ENGLISH LAW
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1912

First American edition. Octavo. 287 pp. Blue cloth binding with gilt-lettered spine. VG, a clean, unmarked copy - previous owner name on front endpaper; minor wear to covers, spine gilt bright. This is a gossipy little book for the lawyer's vacation written by a Barrister at Law of the Middle Temple, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a companion of the Military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and a member of the United States Military Service Institution. It contains interesting chapters on Divorce; Death and Burial; Wills; Libel and Slander; Imprisonment for Debt; the Need for the Right of Property in Surnames; Literary Censorship; Capital Punishment; Murder and Suicide; Legitimation; Criminal Appeal and the Ball Case, Client, Solicitor and Counsel, the English Morality Bill, Accession and Coronation Oaths and Declarations.
Inventory number #011577

Warren, Garnet
THE ROMANCE OF DESIGN
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926

Quarto. 237 pp; illustrated throughout with b/w and the occasional color illustrations. Cloth-backed boards with label on cover. No jacket.
Inventory number #011576

Klapthor, Margaret Brown
THE FIRST LADIES COOK BOOK
NY: Parents' Magazine Press, 1969

Revised edition. Quarto. 228 pp; over 150 color illustrations including more than 70 portraits of our presidents and their first ladies. Illustrated hardcover with matching dustjacket. NF/NF in cardboard sleeve. A clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has light chipping at top & bottom of jacket & top corners.
Inventory number #011562

Hurok, S.
COMEDIE-FRANCAISE. Amerique du Nord - MCMLXI
NY: Sol Hurok, 1961

Quarto. unpaginated, approx. 50 pp. Paperback. Gold embossed image of Moliere on the front cover. This is a very good softcover copy with light wear. Very clean inside and lightly soiled covers. Text in English and French. Essays about the Comedie Francaise which Hurok had been bringing to the U.S. since the 1950's. This catalog was prepared for the 1961 season. Illustrated in color and black & white with costume and set designs, photographs of French actors, etc.
Inventory number #011543

Wells, Margaret E. & H. Mary Cushman
IN STORELAND. Book One, Clothing and Notions
NY: Silver, Burdett and Company, 1924

Octavo. 200 pp; numerous b/w photographs & drawings. Original light blue cloth. VG, gift inscription on front free endpaper, dated 1926. Minor wear to spine ends & corners, cover lightly & evenly soiled. Contains "A reference list for teachers and pupils": book 1, pp 192-195.
Inventory number #011524

Bantock, Nick
THE GOLDEN MEAN: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993

Second printing. Octavo. Unpaginated, color illustrations throughout. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with minor wear.
Inventory number #011512

Bantock, Nick
SABINE'S NOTEBOOK: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992

Second printing. Octavo. Unpaginated, color illustrations throughout. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with minor wear.
Inventory number #011511

Wolfe, Tom, Walter Kerr, Judith Crist et al
New York Herald Tribune Presents New York, New York
NY: Dial Press, 1964

First printing. Octavo. 190 pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on cover & spine, no jacket. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, light wear to joints at top & bottom of spine. A collection of essays about New York City in the 1960's.
Inventory number #011507

Heckscher, August
ALIVE IN THE CITY: Memoir of an Ex-Commissioner
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974

First edition. Octavo. 294 pp; b/w photographs; index; map endpapers. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, clean, unmarked copy, thin strip at top & bottom edge sunned; price-clipped jacket spine sunned from green to blue.
Inventory number #011506

Strunsky, Simeon
NO MEAN CITY
NY: E.P. Dutton, 1944

First edition. Octavo. 285 pp. Original blue cloth, no jacket. VG, former owner name on front free endpaper, spine lightly faded, front pastedown tanned. Simeon Strunsky (1879-1948), a Russian-born essayist, was on the staff of the New York Evening Post and then the New York Times. His most notable contributions to the Times were his editorial-page essays titled "Topics of the Times." His columns also appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Bookman, Collier's, and Harper's Weekly.
Inventory number #011505

Miller, Kenneth D. & Ethel Prince Miller
THE PEOPLE ARE THE CITY: 150 Years of Social and Religious Concern in New York City.
NY: Macmillan, 1962

octavo. 258 pp; b/w photographs; appendix; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket edges lightly chipped. History of the New York City Mission Society.
Inventory number #011502

Beerbohm, Max
AROUND THEATRES
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953

Octavo. 583 pp. Green cloth with gilt-lettered spine with dustjacket. VG/Good, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket spine toned with a few water stains, one side of spine taped on underside. This book contains a selection of Beerbohm's essays from his 12-year stint as dramatic critic of the Saturday Review, from 1898-1910. A lively decade of London theatre - playwrights including GB Shaw, Ibsen, Barrie, Yeats, Synge, Wilde; producers including Gordon Craig; the actresses including Bernhardt, Duse, Ellen Terry, and actors including Coquelin, Forbes-Robertson, George Alexander, Dan Leno and Charles Hawtrey.
Inventory number #011494

Dutch Treat Club
In Praise of Working Women: Florens Numquam Deflorata
NY: Dutch Treat Club, 1989

Small octavo. 79 pp; well illustrated. Tan cloth with gilt lettering on cover & spine. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, front cover has short black mark, else vg.
Inventory number #011493

Brohan, Torsten & Thomas Berg
AVANTGARDE DESIGN 1880-1930
Koln: Benedikt Taschen, 1994

Quarto. 176 pp; full of color & b/w photographs; biographies; bibliography; index. Text in English, French & German. Paperback. Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, no cover wear. This book features the earliest pioneers of 20th-century design, the development of avant-garde design from 1880 to 1930. It contains almost 200 originals from the collection of the Dusseldorf art dealer and collector, Torsten Brohan. They include the MT8 table-lamps by Wilhelm Wagenfeld and tubular steel furniture by Marcel Breuer.
Inventory number #011476