Wickman, Kerstin
BJORN DAHLSTROM: Designer
Stockholm: Arvinius, 2001

First edition. 9.5" x 7". [124] pp; full of color & b/w illustrations. Text in Swedish and English. Black cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. Bjorn Dahlstrom (b. 1957), a Swedish furniture and industrial designer, is well known internationally and has designed a wide variety of products - bicycles, carpets, cookware, furniture, toys - for companies such as Cbi, Magis, Atlas Copco, Iittala, and Marimekko. This book showcases close to forty examples of Dahlstrom designs, everything from cutlery and furniture to a pneumatic drill for Atlas Copco and an advanced bike for Skeppshult. The concept of this book originated in an exhibition of Bjorn Dahlstrom's work held at the Nordic embassies' "Felleshus" in Berlin in the autumn of 2000. From Berlin, the exhibition transferred to the Form/Design Center in Malmo in the spring of 2001, and then an expanded version was held at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm.
Inventory number #010216

Berger, Molly W, ed.
The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 25: THE AMERICAN HOTEL
Miami Beach, FL: The Wolfsonian - Florida Intl Univ, 2005

Octavo. 315 pp; full of color & b/w illustrations. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. Ten illustrated essays look at the architects, designers, and social forces that created the large American hotel from Gilded-Age New York to 1950s Miami Beach. Includes an article on the many hotels designed by Dorothy Draper.
Inventory number #010198

Peluzzi, Giulio
TENDAGGI MODERNI E DI STILE: Motivi Decorativi per L'arredamento
Milan: Gorlich, 1967

Quarto. 232 pp; 73 color & 259 b/w illustrations. Text in Italian. Cloth with dustjacket. Good/VG, binding starting to split at title page, bottom corners bumped, else a clean, unmarked copy; jacket edge-chipped with some loss. A well-illustrated book on curtains and drapery.
Inventory number #010193

Boydell, Christine et al
THE MODERN HOUSE REVISITED. Twentieth Century Architecture 2
London: Twentieth Century Society, 1996

Quarto. 128 pp; color & b/w illustrations. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; top corner on rear cover gently bumped. The second in the 20th Century Society Journal series features essays on modern houses open to the public - Harbour Meadow in Sussex, Dorich House in Kingston, Villa Savoye, essays on patrons, textiles and plastics of the modern house, an interview with Elisabeth Benjamin, and a discussion on F.R.S. Yorke.
Inventory number #010187

O'Brien, Liz
ULTRAMODERN: Samuel Marx Architect
NY: Pointed Leaf Press, 2007

First edition. Large quarto. 216 pp; over 200 illustrations, most in color. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a clean, unmarked copy in fine jacket. This is the first monograph on American architect and furniture designer Samuel A. Marx 1885-1964). 20th-century decorative arts dealer and Marx expert Liz O'Brien reveals many of Marx's undiscovered projects, including houses that have been razed despite preservationist protests, as well as his range of furniture designs.
Inventory number #010180

Crosland, Margaret
JEAN COCTEAU. A Biography
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956

First American edition. Octavo. x, 238 pp; b/w photographs; 4 drawings by the author; extracts from letters; bibliography; some books consulted; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG-, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket with moderate wear - 1-in. x 1-in. chip at top edge of front panel, spine ends lightly chipped, small loss at top edge of back panel, a few short edge tears, rubbing & two tears at front flap fold. Biography of novelist, poet, essayist, critic, playwright, cinematographer, and artist Jean Cocteau, which includes a critical history of his creative work. His friends included Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Satie, Picasso, Raymond Radiguet, and the Six.
Inventory number #010118

Ringgold, Gene
THE FILMS OF BETTE DAVIS
NY: Citadel Press, 1971

Second paperback edition. Quarto. 191 pp; fully illustrated with b/w photographs. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. This book features stills from all of Bette Davis's movie career, starting in 1931 with Bad Sister and ending in 1965 with The Nanny.
Inventory number #010105

Barr, Elaine
GEORGE WICKES, 1698-1761, Royal Goldsmith
NY: Rizzoli / Christie's, 1980

Quarto. xiii, 210 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, previous owner name on back of front free endpaper, else a bright, unmarked copy; jacket intact with no tears.
Inventory number #010092

Wills, Geoffrey
CANDLESTICKS
NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1974

First American edition. Quarto. 120 pp; 9 color & 117 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with gilt-lettered spine in dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean copy in unclipped jacket; previous owner name on front free endpaper.
Inventory number #010091

Waldman, Diane
MARK ROTHKO, 1903-1970. A Retrospective
NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1978

First printing. Quarto. 296 pp; 96 color & 102 b/w illustrations; chronology; list of exhibitions & selected reviews; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, top 2" of cover a bit yellowed, pages are bright. Based on the retrospective presented at the Guggenheim Museum in 1978.
Inventory number #010084

Browner, Jesse
THE DUCHESS WHO WOULDN'T SIT DOWN: An Informal History of Hospitality
NY: Bloomsbury, 2003

First printing. Octavo. 198 pp; bibliography. Cloth with gilt-lettered spine with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has tiny tear at head of jacket spine, else fine.
Inventory number #010080

Gallos, Philip L.
CURE COTTAGES OF SARANAC LAKE: Architecture and History of a Pioneer Health Resort
Saranac Lake, NY: Historic Saranac Lake, 1985

Quarto. 186 pp; b/w photographs; bibliography; map; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; top of jacket spine lightly chipped, two closed tears at top edge of front panel; several edge tears & corresponding creasing on back panel. Limited edition of 2000 copies.
Inventory number #010067

Cooper Hewitt Museum
THE ROYAL PAVILION AT BRIGHTON
NY: Cooper Hewitt Museum, 1977

Quarto. 48 pp; color & b/w illustrations; catalogue. Stapled wraps. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; top front edge has been trimmed 1/4-in., minor edge wear.
Inventory number #010062

Siena, James [Signed]
JAMES SIENA. March 28-April 26, 2008
NY: Pace Wildenstein, 2008

Quarto. 95 pp; illustrated throughout in color; exhibition checklist. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. Inscribed by Siena in 2009 on the last page. Catalog for the Pace Wildenstein exhibition of works by James Siena from March 28 to April 26 2008
Inventory number #010056

LONDON CITY. London - the Little Village - Home, or the 'big smoke' as fancy wills, but always London City - the Magnet
London & Tunbridge Wells: Photochrom Co. Ltd., n.d.

Oblong quarto. [26] leaves of sepia photographs. Stiff card covers with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, jacket has light edgewear.
Inventory number #010047

Watkin, David, Antony Ratcliff, Nicholas Thompson & John Mills
A HOUSE IN TOWN: 22 Arlington St, Its Owners and Builders
London: Batsford, 1984

Quarto. 201 pp; 35 color & 248 b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy. This book tells the story of 22 Arlington Street, the great town house designed by William Kent for Henry Pelham in the 1740s. Prints, drawings, plans and photographs enhance the book's documentary value.
Inventory number #010023

Devenish, Dorothy
A WILTSHIRE HOME: A Study of Little Durnford
London: Batsford, 1948

Octavo. x, 115 pp; color frontis, 60 b/w photographs. Light brown cloth with gilt-lettered spine in dustjacket. A clean, unmarked copy. price-clipped jacket with loss of top 2-in. of spine & bottom chipped, all corners chipped, with 3/4-in. x 1/4 in. chip at upper corner, couple of short edge tears, moderate wear to flaps & edges of backstrip. The story of the Wiltshire country house - Little Durnford, where the author spent her childhood. Introduction by Edith Olivier.
Inventory number #010018

Grimes, William
APPETITE CITY: A Culinary History of New York
NY: North Point Press, 2009

First printing. Octavo. 368 pp; numerous b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Paper-covered boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, bottom of spine lightly bumped; unclipped jacket a bit creased at bottom spine is only visible wear. Former NY Times restaurant critic William Grimes has written a fascinating history of New York city dining from the early 19th century to the present.
Inventory number #010016

Dalley, Jan
DIANA MOSLEY
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000

First American edition. Octavo. xvi, 318 pp; b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket lightly soiled. A biography of Diana Mitford, the Mitford sister who married Oswald Mosley, the leader of Britain's fascists.
Inventory number #010012

Pickford, Ian
ANTIQUE SILVER. Starting to Collect Series
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1998

Octavo. 190 pp; full of color & b/w photographs; bibliography; index of names & makers; general index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine. A tiny nick to corner on front panel of jacket, else a crisp, unused copy.
Inventory number #010005