Thurber, James
FURTHER FABLES FOR OUR TIME
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1956

Special printing. Octavo. 174 pp; b/w drawings by the author. Off-white cloth with red spine lettering in slipcase. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine is darkened;
Inventory number #010942

Salter, Elizabeth
THE LAST YEARS OF A REBEL A Memoir of Edith Sitwell
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967

Second printing. Octavo. 208 pp; frontispiece & 11 b/w photographs; index. Green cloth with gilt lettering in dj. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket has light edgewear. Dame Edith Sitwell was 69 when she invited Elizabeth Salter, a young Australian, to be her secretary. Over the next eight years she became friend, confidante and aide-de-camp, in the thick of the crises, the controversy and the celebrity that surrounded the British poet and critic.
Inventory number #010907

Skinner, Cornelia Otis
MADAME SARAH
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966

First printing (stated). Octavo. 356 pp; b/w photogarphs; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, top corner bumped; unclipped jacket has one short edge tear, minor wear to spine ends, price in ink next to printed price on jacket flap. Biography of the French stage and early film actress, who made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, and then in Europe and America. Jacket poster by Alphonse Mucha shows Ms. Bernhardt in one of her most famous roles in La Dame aux Camelias.
Inventory number #010878

Gadd, David
GEORGIAN SUMMER: Bath in the Eighteenth Century
Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, 1972

First U.S. edition. Octavo. 195 pp; frontispiece & 61 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Original cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has minor wear at top of spine, light creasing at top edge of back panel.
Inventory number #010825

Hurlimann, Martin & Paul Valery
ETERNAL FRANCE: 216 Pictures in Photogravure
NY: Studio Publications, 1952

Quarto. xviii, 244 pp; 216 b/w photographs; historical notes; index. Original blue cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, text pages age toned, bottom corners starting to fray; price-clipped jacket has minor rubbing and edge wear, spine toned. With an appreciation by the French poet Paul Valery.
Inventory number #010821

[1939 World's Fair] Flannagan, Roy C.
THE STORY OF LUCKY STRIKE
Richmond, VA: Richmond News Leader, 1938

New York World's Fair Edition. Small octavo. 94 pp; sepia photographs. Light brown-paper covered boards with blind stamp of 1939 NY World's Fair logo & off-white paper label on cover with title & author. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. The history of the tobacco industry. This book was sold at the Lucky Strike Building at the 1939 World's Fair.
Inventory number #010817

Waetzoldt, Wilhelm
Einfuhrung in die Bildenden Kunste. Zweiter Band
Leipzig: Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn, 1912

Octavo. 116 pp; 194 b/w illustrations. Tan cloth with red lettering. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine & edges of covers toned. Volume 2, the plate volume of two-volume overview of the arts - architecture, sculpture, painting, graphic arts, and decorative arts.
Inventory number #010806

Cunard Line
ABSTRACT OF LOG OF THE CUNARD R.M.S. SAMARIA
Southampton: Cunard Line, 1932

Single card with color illustration on front and abstract of the log for November 5-14, 1932 with positions and weather for each day. Totals indicate a passage of 8 days 12 hours and 57 minutes with an average speed of 15.11 knots. Some light transfer of text to image, else Near Fine.
Inventory number #010802

Title Guarantee & Trust Company
Early Days of the Island of Manhattan and its Environs 1626-1776
NY: Title Guarantee & Trust Company, n.d.

(ca 1927). Oblong octavo. 74 pp; illustrated with halftones of paintings by John Ward Dunsmore, and Edward Henry. Illustrated card covers. Near Fine with very light bumps to corners of oversized covers.
Inventory number #010799

Wall, Joseph F.
Andrew Carnegie's Hogmanay or A Child's New Year in Calvinist Scotland
NY: Oxford University Press, 1970

First edition. 6" x 4.25". 25 pp; color illustrations by Tim Gaydos. Stapled wraps. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; minor wear to extremities. The text was adapted from Chapter III of the author's biography of Andrew Carnegie.
Inventory number #010797

Wilhide, Elizabeth
WILLIAM MORRIS DECOR AND DESIGN
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1991

Quarto. 192 pp; illustrated with more than 140 color photographs; pattern glossary; list of suppliers; bibliography; index. Hadcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. Morris (1834-96] was an amazing figure, a painter, poet, translator, weaver, typographer; designer of stained glass, tiles, carpets, furniture, and tapestries; and a socialist organizer. Wilhide focuses on Morris's zeal to ``Bring art back into people's lives'' via his stunning wallpapers and furnishings, which drastically changed late 19th-century English interiors. While the book is well written and researched, its special appeal is the inclusion of numerous lush photos of historic rooms decorated by Morris & Co., along with contemporary rooms decorated from current sources.
Inventory number #010786

Barrow, Andrew
ANIMAL MAGIC: A Brother's Story
London: Jonathan Cape, 2011

Octavo. 324 pp; illustrations by Jonathan Barrow. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy. The author's memoir of his youngest brother, Jonathan, who was killed in a car crash at age 22, along with his fiancee. Jonathan left behind the manuscript of a novel, "The Queue", in which, among other things, he prophesied his own death. Filled with fascinating and fantastical anecdotes, Animal Magic documents a heady and peripatetic childhood in Lancashire, the Lake District and Wiltshire, misadventures at home and school, and the early working life of the two brothers - on the lower rungs of show business, backstage at Claridge's, and finally in advertising.
Inventory number #010780

Mrs. Moneypenny [Signed]
CRUNCH TIME: Columns from the Financial Times 2008-2009
London: Masterley Publishing, 2009

Octavo. 151 pp. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, Inscribed by author on title page. Mrs. Moneypenny is a former investment banker with an MBA from the London Business School and a PhD from the University of Hong Kong. Mrs. M began writing for the Financial Times in 1999 while running an investment bank in Tokyo. This is the second volume published of her weekly columns in the Weekend Financial Times.
Inventory number #010779

Stowell, Kenneth K.
HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, October 1940
NY: Hearst Magazines, 1940

Vol. 82, No. 10. Folio (13 in. x 10 in.). 136 pp; full of color & b/w illustrations. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. Cover photograph by Leslie Gill.
Inventory number #010774

Gilder, Rodman
STATUE OF LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD
NY: The New York Trust Company, 1943

Octavo. 40 pp; illustrated with b/w photographs in the text. Blue boards with, illustrated endpapers, gilt titles, and illustration pasted on front board. VG, small scuff to cover illustration. Published during WW II, the story of the statue and bank logo for New York Trust was issued when 'The forces of liberty are struggling once more against the forces of oppression'
Inventory number #010772

Shaver, Peter & Preservation League of New York State
The National Register of Historic Places in New York State
NY: Rizzoli, 1993

Quarto. 248 pp; numerous b/w photographs; appendixes - historic districts; multiple property submissions; U.S. Post Offices; National Historic Landmarks; list of architects, landscape architects, builders & engineers; indexes. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; cover shows minor edge wear.
Inventory number #010767

Eaton, Walter Prichard
WILD GARDENS OF NEW ENGLAND
Boston: W.A. Wilde Co., 1936

Octavo. 124 pp; illustrated by b/w photographs; appendix on wild flower preservation. Dark blue cloth, no jacket. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, spine gilt dulled.
Inventory number #010726

Ottinger, Simon [Signed]
OLD SAWS RESHARPENED
Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1972

Octavo. 111 pp. Paper-covered boards with dj. NF/VG. Signed on title page " Merry X'mas" Simon
Inventory number #010725

SMALL WARES: Being Marked-down Remnants of Comment and Criticism, Together with a Few Lengths of Shopworn Anecdotes and Some Odds and Ends of Cheap Yarns
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925

First edition. Sixteenmo. 134 pp; illustrated by Decie Merwin. Floral-printed boards. VG, small rubbed line on front cover. Some of the stories in this volume first appeared in the "Contributor's Club" of the Atlantic Monthly, and in the "Woman's Home Companion". By the author of "The Notion-Counter, A Farrago of Foibles, Being Notes About Nothing," published in 1922.
Inventory number #010724

Maroney, James H., Jr.
The Elite and Popular Appeal of the Art of Charles Sheeler
NY: James Maroney, Inc., 1986

Quarto. 89 pp; 27 color plates, essay by Maroney; index. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #010710