D'Harnoncourt, Anne & Kynaston McShine
MARCEL DUCHAMP
NY / Philadelphia: Museum of Modern Art / Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973

Quarto. 345 pp; illustrated in b/w and 4 color plates. Paperback. VG in slightly chipped mylar over wrap.
Inventory number #011454

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 110
Fort Worth, TX: Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, 2002

Quarto. 328 pp; illustrated throughout in color; commentaries on the artists by Michael Auping, Andrea Karnes, and Mark Thistlethwaite. Illustrated flexi covers. VG to near fine, slight corner bumps and a little bit of wrinkling of the cover lamination, mostly to rear cover. Catalog for the inaugural exhibition at the newly constructed Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, designed by Tadao Ando.
Inventory number #011453

Palmer, Susan
THE SOANES AT HOME: Domestic Life at Lincoln's Inn Fields
London: Sir John Soane's Museum, 1997

Quarto. 83 pp; 89 color & b/w illustrations; suggested reading. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. Written by the Museum's Archivist, Susan Palmer, this book gives a detailed picture of the Soane's houses at Nos. 12 & 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields - how the buildings were heated, the servants' daily duties, what meals were cooked, wines purchased and teas drunk - even the fate of the family's pet dog. The family life with their two children is brought vividly to life and the below-stairs relationships of the servants are poignantly recorded. The evening whirl of visits to theaters and supper parties is chronicled, and the description of seaside holidays on the Kentish coast, when Margate was in vogue, depicts the social niceties of promenades and dances. Eighty-nine illustrations, mostly in color, from the extensive Museum archive produce an enthralling view of this London family's life and surroundings.
Inventory number #011434

Buckle, Richard
IN SEARCH OF DIAGHILEV
NY: Thomas Nelson & Son, 1956

Quarto. 127 pp; color frontispiece, [7] color and 177 b/w illustrations. Black cloth with gilt-lettered spine with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket lightly chipped at spine ends & corners, spine & top inch of jacket age toned, one short edge tear.
Inventory number #011416

Baschet, Roger & Rene Briat
STYLES REGIONAUX: Architecture, Mobilier, Decoration. Vol. 3: Lorraine, Luxeuil-Montbeliard, Franche-Comte, Bresse-Bugey, Savoie, Dauphine
Paris: Baschet & Cie., 1967

Quarto. 200 pp; profuse b/w & color illustrations. Text in French. Tan boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, top corners bumped; jacket has two short edge tears, minor wear to two corners. Architecture, furniture and decoration of the following regions: Lorraine, Luxeuil-Montbeliard, Franche-Comte, Bresse-Bugey, Savoie, Dauphine.
Inventory number #011411

Ray, Cyril
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF SPIRITS AND LIQUEURS
NY: Macmillan, 1977

Quarto. 139 pp; full of color & b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket not price clipped.
Inventory number #011365

Conrad, Barnaby
ABSINTHE: History in a Bottle
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988

Quarto. 160 pp; more than 60 color & 50 b/w illustrations throughout; bibliography; index. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. The illustrated history of absinthe
Inventory number #011364

Errazuriz, Sebastian
BEAUTIFUL PREMONITIONS
NY: Cristina Grajales Gallery, 2011

Oblong octavo [8 x 10 in.]. Unpaginated; full of color & b/w photographs. Illustrated boards, no jacket as issued. A fine, unmarked copy. Published in conjunction with Sebastian Errazuriz's second solo exhibition at Cristina Grajales Gallery. A collection of twenty-one pieces by the Chilean-born, New York-based designer, whose work includes both furniture and conceptual, Surrealist-influenced objects.
Inventory number #011352

Christie's South Kensington
THE BARRY JONES COLLECTION OF CLARICE CLIFF. Friday, 25 February 2000
London: Christie's, 2000

Quarto. 45 pp, 388 lots, all illustrated with color photographs; index. Paperback. Fine, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #011347

Phillips, Son and Neale S.A.
FINE JEWELS, WATCHES, SILVER AND RUSSIAN WORKS OF ART. 11 May 1982
Geneva: Phillips, 1982

Octavo. 85 pp; 350 lots, many illustrated with b/w & color photographs. Paperback, previous owner name on front flyleaf, else a clean, unmarked copy; edges of spine lightly rubbed. Estimate list laid in.
Inventory number #011332

Campbell, Joan
Der Deutsche Werkbund. 1907 - 1934
Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1981

First German edition. Octavo. 428 pp; b/w photographs. Text in German. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine in Fine jacket, a fine, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #011321

Oppenheim, E. Phillips
THE BATTLE OF BASINGHALL STREET
NY: A.L. Burt Company, 1935

Reprint. 314 pp. Cloth with dustjacket, no price on jacket. VG/Good, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket has strip at top edge from former library-style jacket protector, jacket flaps pasted to inside of covers, spine moderately rubbed with some small nicks. Ex-bookshop/library copy - "Semiat's Library & Bookshop, Bronx, New York" rubber stamp on front & back inside covers. Great jacket artwork.
Inventory number #011317

Fowler, Gene
BEAU JAMES
NY: Viking Press, 1949

Octavo. x, 389 pp, illustrated with 16 pp of b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near fine/VG; jacket has small chip to top of front panel and near the heel and a couple of small closed tears and light edgewear. The chronicle of James J. Walker, New York City's 100th mayor, known to millions as "Jimmy".
Inventory number #011315

Massie, Suzanne
PAVLOVSK: The Life of a Russian Palace
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1990

First edition. Octavo. xx, 394 pp; illustrated with numerous color & b/w photographs; list of those who restored the palace, plans; extensive bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket crisp & bright. Created by Catherine the Great's son and his wife, Maria Feodorovna, in the late 18th century, Pavlovsk remained a residence of the Russiam Imperial family until 1915. After its destruction in World War II, hundreds of people volunteered to help rebuild Pavlovsk.
Inventory number #011309

Alcouffe, Daniel
UN TEMPS D'EXUBERANCE: Les Arts Decoratifs Sous Louis XIII et Anne d'Autriche
Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 2002

Large quarto. 479 pp; full of color & b/w illustrations; index; extensive bibliography; list of exhibitions. Text in French. Hardcover, no jacket, as issued. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; a couple of abrasions on back cover, else near fine. This catalogue, published to coincide with an exhibition at the Grand Palais, presents nearly 350 examples of bronzes, enamels, furniture, watches, weapons, liturgical objects, tapestries, and more from the reign of Louis XIII and his wife, Anne of Austria. This is one of the few books covering the decorative arts of this period.
Inventory number #011293

Gonzalez-Palacios, Alvar & Roberto Valeriani
I MOBILI ITALIANI: Il Patrimonio Artistico del Quirinale
Rome: BNL Edizioni, 1996

First edition. Quarto. 381 pp; more than 200 color & b/w illustrations; bibliography. Text in Italian. White cloth with dustjacket in matching slipcase. Fine/Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, pristine in pristine jacket; slipcase has small crack at top of spine, else unworn. A fully illustrated catalogue of the Italian furniture in the Presidential Palace, Rome, with detailed descriptions of the 147 pieces.
Inventory number #011292

Natori, Josie Cruz [Signed]
THE ART OF NATORI
NY: Glitterati Inc, 2007

First printing. Quarto. unpaginated; full page color photographs and illustrations. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. Near Fine in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on title page. Josie Natori is an American fashion designer.
Inventory number #011256

Potter, Stephen
ONE-UPMANSHIP
NY: Henry Holt, 1958

Third printing. Small octavo. 177 pp; b/w drawings by Lt. Col. Frank Wilson. Blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with light chipping at head of toned spine. The hilarious classic of creative intimidation.
Inventory number #011237

Salter, George, Marshall Lee et al
THE TRIAL OF 6 DESIGNERS: Designs for Kafka's The Trial by George Salter, P.J. Conkwrite, Merle Armitage, Carl Zahn, Joseph Blumenthal & Marshall Lee
Lock Haven, PA: Hammermill Paper Company, Lock Haven Division, 1968

Limited edition. Octavo. Six 24-pp sections, in each of which a designer has presented his version of Kafka's The Trial plus an essay by Kenneth Rexroth; Kafka chronology; designers' biographies. Cloth-backed boards with gilt titles. VG, former owner name and date on front free endpaper, edges of covers a bit toned. Each designer was given 24 pages to present their own print version of The Trial complete with endpapers, title page, illustrations and chapter heads. The result is a comparative study of book design, starting with George Salter's original layout for the American edition of The Trial, published in 1937 by Alfred A. Knopf. #266/2500 copies.
Inventory number #011230

Vassalo, Isabelle. signed by Alexandre Bailhache, photographer
RODIN: Le Festin d'une Vie
Paris: Editions du Chene, 1997

Quarto. 191 pp; profuse color photographs & b/w illustrations; bibliography. Text in French. Hardcover with dustjacket, ribbon marker. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket with no rips or tears. SIGNED by photographer on half-title page. This book focuses on Auguste Rodin, the man: his childhood in Paris, learning the trade and his years in Brussels, attending artistic and literary circles, meeting with Camille Claudel, but also life in the villa with Rose Beuret, his girlfriend, and finally his life at the Hotel Biron, which became the Museum Rodin. By revealing aspects of both more intimate and anecdotal nature, we discover good living at family meals, lunches with friends at Meudon, his villa and lavish banquets offered in his honor. Rodin's correspondence, his notes and drafts, documents and testimonies abound with gastronomic allusions and tell us about his tastes and eating habits. Includes many recipes.
Inventory number #011207