Gallet, Michel
CLAUDE-NICOLAS LEDOUX Vu par Holger Trulzsch
Paris: Musee Carnavalet, 1985

Quarto. 59 pp; full of b/w photographs. Text in English & French. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, edges of cover & page edges lightly yellowed or toned; no wear to covers. Charles-Nicolas Ledoux was the most prolific French architect between 1762 and 1788, yet by the publication of this catalogue, only 6 or 7 of the 80 Paris buildings that Ledoux conceived remain.
Inventory number #010000

Clouston, Adella Octavia
THE LADY OF THE ROBINS: A Romance of Some of New York's 400
Boston: American Humane Education Society, 1910

Twelvemo. 194 pp + (8) pp of advts for the publisher. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover. VG, light fraying to spine ends, spine a bit darkened, else a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #009995

Ashford, Daisy
THE YOUNG VISITERS or Mr. Salteena's Plan
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1952

Twelvemo. 92 pp; illus by William Pene du Bois. Illustrated paper-covered boards, no jacket. VG, spine lightly soiled, light wear to cover extremities, back cover lightly rubbed. Interior clean, with a few light smudges.
Inventory number #009994

Saroyan, Aram
TRIO: Oona Chaplin, Carol Matthau, Gloria Vanderbilt: Portrait of an Intimate Friendship
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1985

First printing. Octavo. 256 pp. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has light toning at top & bottom edges of flaps.
Inventory number #009990

Arslan, Edoardo
GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN VENICE
London: Phaidon, 1971

First American edition. Quarto. 409 pp; 288 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, solid copy; jacket chipped at top of spine & one corner, small tear at base of spine, light wear to corners, overall lightly rubbed.
Inventory number #009972

Hansen, Hans Jurgen
ARCHITECTURE IN WOOD: A History of Wood Building and Its Techniques in Europe and North America
NY: Viking Press, 1971

Quarto. 288 pp; numerous color & b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has 2 closed tears at spine ends, edge tear on back panel, jacket edges a bit yellowed.
Inventory number #009962

Liddell, Jill & Yuko Watanabe
JAPANESE QUILTS
NY: E.P. Dutton, 1988

Quarto. 142 pp; 135 color photographs. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, tiny crease to one corner.
Inventory number #009949

Jackson, Charles James
ENGLISH GOLDSMITHS AND THEIR MARKS
NY: Dover Publications, 1964

Second edition, revised & enlarged. Quarto. xv, 747 pp; over 13,000 marks; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, previous name on front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket shows no wear. A history of the goldsmiths and plate workers of England, Scotland, and Ireland with over 13,000 marks.
Inventory number #009948

Clark, Sally
HOUSE BEAUTIFUL: Details
NY: Hearst Books, 1996

Quarto. 144 pp; profuse color photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has small loss at base of spine.
Inventory number #009945

Davis, Frank
FRENCH SILVER 1450-1825
NY: Praeger Publishers, 1970

Octavo. 104 pp; 183 b/w illustrations; appendix, makers' marks, list of Paris silversmiths, bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, prior owner name on front free endpaper & half-title page, else a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has one edge tear on front panel. Comprehensive survey of French 18th century silver illustrates and describes many brilliant examples of the period, beginning with its roots in medieval times. Included are fine examples for public and private collections in Leningrad, Munich, Amsterdam, Lisbon, London, and New York.
Inventory number #009936

Herbert, William
HOUSES FOR TOWN OR COUNTRY
NY: Duffield & Company, 1907

Octavo. 249 pp; b/w photographs, a few floor plans. Pictorial green cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, top edge gilt. VG, a solid, unmarked copy; light wear at top & bottom of spine, edges of backstrip
Inventory number #009887

Bosoni, Giampiero
DANTE BENINI: Architetture e Progetti 1970-1987
Milan: Mondadori, 1988

First edition. Quarto. 167 pp; color and b/w photographs, illustrations, drawings and plans throughout. Text in Italian. Cloth in dustjacket in slipcase. As new in original shrinkwrap. Many nice examples of modernist residential, commercial, civic and industrial architecture.
Inventory number #009868

Sack, Albert
FINE POINTS OF FURNITURE: Early American
NY: Crown Publishers, 1978

27th printing. Small quarto. xvi, 303 pp; fully illustrated with b/w photographs of chairs, beds, bureaus, chests and cupboards, chests-on-chests, clocks, desks, secretaries, highboys, lowboys, mirrors, sideboards, sofas and tables. Cloth with dustjacket. VG in VG jacket.
Inventory number #009827

Horn, Rebecca, Sven Nykvist & Martin Mosebach [w/orig. signed, numbered drawing]
BUSTER'S BEDROOM. A Filmbook
Zurich: Parkett Publishers, 1991

Oblong quarto. [150] pp; color photographs throughout. Pictorial boards in matching dustjacket. #4/35 copies with original signed, numbered drawing on blank page preceding title page. A fine, unused copy in fine jacket. CD of film music by Sergey Kuryokhin in rear pocket. Buster's Bedroom is a 1990 independent German comedy film directed by Rebecca Horn. The film follows a young woman with an infatuation for Buster Keaton. The film was shown at the Marché du Film of the Cannes Film Festival in May 1990. Later that year it was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles together with Horn's exhibition. The objects of the exhibition were connected to the film, as themes, character references and props. The film was released in Germany on 9 May, 1991.The film stars Amanda Ooms, Donald Sutherland, and Geraldine Chaplin. The location is Nirvana House, south of Santa Barbara, which Keaton himself frequented over his alcohol problems and was even detained in a straightjacket in the villa. Just about everything that happens to the young woman has some link to Keaton's life.
Inventory number #009823

Haynes, Elizabeth
Chronicle of the Museum for the Arts of Decoration of the Cooper Union. Vol.1, No.9. Trimmings in the Museum's Collection by Elizabeth Haynes
NY: Cooper Union, 1942

Octavo. pp 327-351; 11 b/w illustrations. Stapled wraps. VG, minor soiling to covers, adhesive residue from price sticker on cover.
Inventory number #009809

Lancaster, Osbert
THE LITTLEHAMPTON BEQUEST
London: John Murray, 1973

Octavo. 94 pp; approx 40 b/w illustrations by Lancaster. Original gilt-lettered yellow cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy in price-clipped jacket. With a foreword by Roy Strong.
Inventory number #009800

Hood, Graham
AMERICAN SILVER: A History of Style, 1650-1900
NY: Praeger, 1971

First edition. Octavo. 255 pp; 286 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, former owner name on front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy; jacket shows light edgewear.
Inventory number #009788

Schroder, Timothy B. & J.F. Hayward
THE ART OF THE EUROPEAN GOLDSMITH: Silver from the Schroder Collection
NY: American Federation of Arts, 1983

Quarto. 208 pp; color & b/w photographs; marks; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy. The catalogue of the Schroder silver collection, containing the 79 objects in the exhibition, and an appendix of 15 objects too fragile to exhibit. The objects date from the 13th into the 19th centuries
Inventory number #009787

Harvey, John
THE GOTHIC WORLD 1100-1600. A Survey of Architecture and Art
London: B.T. Batsford, 1950

Quarto. xii, 160 pp; 295 b/w photographs, plans & line drawings; bibliography; index. Map on pastedowns. Blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine with dustjacket. VG/VG, inscription on reverse of front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket lightly chipped at head & tail of spine and corners, spine darkened.
Inventory number #009759

Hurd, Charles
WHEN THE NEW DEAL WAS YOUNG AND GAY
NY: Hawthorn Books, 1965

First edition. Octavo. 288 pp; illustrated with b/w photographs. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. VG in VG- jacket. Minor rubs and minor soiling, a couple small closed tears to top edge. An account of the first four years of F.D.R.'s controversial presidency - F.D.R. and his circle.
Inventory number #009742