Roberts, Mary Fanton, ed.
ARTS & DECORATION, Vol. 46, No. 3, May 1937
NY & Boston: Arts & Decoration Publishing, 1937

Folio (14" x 10"). 48 pp, incl ads; full of b/w photographs. Paperback. VG, moderate wear to spine, light edgewear. Cover from a painting by Frederick C. Frieseke, "Knitting.". Articles by Elsie de Wolfe
Inventory number #010707

Rowe, Vivian
THE LOIRE
Washington, DC: Robert B. Luce, 1970

First American edition. Octavo. 376 pp; 8 color plates, numerous b/w plates, line drawings; 11 maps; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG
Inventory number #010698

Kelen, Betty
THE MISTRESSES: Domestic Scandals of Nineteenth-Century Monarchs
NY: Random House, 1966

Octavo. 341 pp; 17 b/w illustrations; notes; bibliography. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket show light edgewear.
Inventory number #010696

Pakenham, Simona
IN THE ABSENCE OF THE EMPEROR: London-Paris 1814-15
London: Cresset Press, 1968

Octavo. 192 pp; b/w illustrations. Original blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine
Inventory number #010695

Darroch, Sandra Jobson
OTTOLINE: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell
NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975

First American edition. Octavo. 317 pp; b/w photographs; notes; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket has lightly sunned spine, small nick at top of spine.
Inventory number #010688

de La Fayette, Madame
THE PRINCESS OF CLEVES. A Novel
London: Nonesuch Press, 1943

Octavo. 150 pp; color illustrations by Hermine David. One-quarter cloth with patterned boards, no slipcase. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, spine gilt lettering dulled. Translated from the French by H. Ashton. Introduction by Jean Cocteau.
Inventory number #010680

Burstein, Chaya M.
RIFKA BANGS THE TEAKETTLE
NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970

First edition (stated). Octavo. 191 pp; illustrated by the author. Original yellow cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket, short closed tear to top edge, jacket spine toned.
Inventory number #010679

Sotheby's
IMPORTANT CHINESE CERAMIC SCULPTURE. Selected Masterpieces from the Schloss Collection. December 3, 1984
NY: Sotheby's, 1984

Quarto. 50 lots, all illustrated in color. Paperback with dust jacket. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. Sotheby's sale catalogue of 50 pieces from this important collection of early tomb sculpture.
Inventory number #010677

Bauhaus Dessau
BEL ETAGE: Bel Etage Gallery exhibiting at the European Fine Art Fair TEFAF 2011 in Maastricht, 18-27 March 2011
Vienna & Leipzig: Galerie Bel Etage, 2011

Quarto. 64 pp; catalogue of 27 objects, all described and illustrated in color. Text in English & German. Hardcover. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. In addition to 7 objects by Josef Hoffmann, designers include Leopold Bauer, Bothe & Ehrmann, Franz Hagenauer, Emil Holzinger, Marcel Kammerer, Alfred Keller, J&J Kohn, Pavel Janak, Adolf Loos, Koloman Moser, Olbrich, Otto Prutscher, Schenzel & Son, Friedrich Otto Schmidt, Gustav Siegel, H. Sumetsberger, Thonet, Josef Urban, Otto Wagner, and Karl Witzmann.
Inventory number #010676

Grisel, Laurent
LES JARDINS DE RENE PECHERE
Bruxelles: Archives d'Architecture Modern, 2002

Large quarto. 286 pp; color photographs throughout, plans. Text in French. Silver-lettered gray cloth with dustjacket. NF/NF, attractive 4" x 6" bookplate affixed to front free endpaper, else a crisp, unmarked copy, top of spine gently bumped. Rene Pechere (1908-2002), Belgian landscape architect, became known by the garden of four seasons and the Congolese garden he conceived for the Exhibition of Brussels in 1958. He created gardens for castles or simple houses in Belgium, France, Germany and Holland. The labyrinth and the garden of the heart he drew for Mr and Mrs Van Buuren in Uccle insured him an international fame. Sylvie Desauw photographed the gardens during the different seasons.
Inventory number #010662

Postgate, Sarah, Introduction
PATTERNS FOR PAPERS. The Victoria and Albert Colour Books
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1987

Octavo. 13 pp plus 32 color plates; bibliography; key to plates. Illustrated hardcover, no jacket, as issued. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. This book presents a selection of pattern papers from the Curwen Press, dating from the early 1920s to the early 1950s, by English artists and designers such as Paul Nash, Lovat Fraser, Albert Rutherston, Edward Bawden, and Enid Marx.
Inventory number #010661

McCarty, Cara
MARIO BELLINI, Designer
NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1987

Small quarto. 79 pp; profuse color & b/w illustrations; exhibition checklist. Paperback. Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy, minor crease to bottom corner of front cover.
Inventory number #010649

O'Connor, Francis V.
JACKSON POLLOCK
NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1967

Octavo. 148 pp; color fold-out plate & profuse b/w illustrations; catalogue of the exhibition; bibliography; index. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; light rubbing to extremities, back cover lightly soiled.
Inventory number #010642

Bernardo, D. Joseph Di
PAINTING AND DECORATING. A Handbook of Tools, Materials, Methods, and Decorations
NY: D. Van Nostrand, 1945

Octavo. 98 pp; 32 b/w figures; index. Brown hardcover with black spine lettering. Good, spine ends & corners rubbed, 1-in. split at top of backstrip, front cover scratched.
Inventory number #010636

Vanderwalker, F.N.
INTERIOR WALL DECORATION: Practical Working Methods for Plain and Decorative Finishes, New and Standard Treatments
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co., 1938

Octavo. 491 pp; 128 b/w plates; index. Red cloth with lettering on cover & spine. Good, a clean, unmarked copy internally; covers lightly soiled, spine darkened with short tear in cloth under spine title, cover gilt worn off
Inventory number #010635

Morley, Christopher
SWISS FAMILY MANHATTAN
NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1932

Small octavo. 208 pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering & cover outline of the Empire State building, no jacket. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine a bit faded,
Inventory number #010634

Scully, Vincent
ARCHITECTURE: The Natural and the Manmade
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1991

Quarto. xiii, 388 pp; 507 color & b/w illustrations; index. White cloth with copper lettering & drawing of columns in dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a fresh, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has 2 short edge tears, light soil.
Inventory number #010630

Sotheby's
GARDEN, ARCHITECTURAL AND NATURAL HISTORY. Tuesday 23 September 2003
Sussex: Sotheby's, 2003

Quarto. 171 pp; 675 lots, all illustrated in color and black & white. Paperback. VG, covers lightly scuffed, vertical bend to back cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #010628

Christie's
INTERIORS. Tuesday, November 14, 1995
London: Christie's, 1995

Quarto. 146 pp; a total of 201 lots, illustrated in color & b/w; artists index. Paperback. VG, light edge wear, several pages dog eared.
Inventory number #010618

Galloway, Francesca
ARTS & CRAFTS TEXTILES IN BRITAIN
London: Fine Art Society, 1999

Quarto. 50 [8] pp; fully illustrated in color, many full-page; biographies of 28 designers & firms; index. Stiff card covers with spiral binding. VG, a clean, unmarked copy. Catalogue of an exhibition held 4-29 October 1999. Includes items from the Frank Edgar Chadwick Archive; Chadwick worked at Morris & Co. from 1921-1940.
Inventory number #010617