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Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$15.00

Niagara Falls Chamber of Commerce
THE COMPLETE BOOK OF NIAGARA
Niagara Falls, NY: Official City Information Bureau, 1950

Octavo. 48 pp; b/w & duotone illustrations & b/w photographs. Color pictorial wraps. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine shows light wear & one small nick. The cover title is "Immortal Niagara. Official Guide Book".
Inventory number #009731



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$40.00

Hill, Janet McKenzie
BALANCED DAILY DIET
Cincinnati, OH: Procter & Gamble Co., 1916

Octavo. 96 pp; color illustrations; index. Paperback with pictorial gilt-decorated cover. Near Fine
Inventory number #009730



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$10.00

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
THE METROPOLITAN LIFE COOK BOOK
NY: Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 1930

Octavo. 64 pp. Illustrated card covers, staple bound. VG, bit of wear at spine, 2-in. split at bottom.
Inventory number #009728



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$10.00

Buckle, Richard
IN THE WAKE OF DIAGHILEV
NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1982

First printing. Octavo. 367 pp; b/w photographs; index. Gilt-lettered cloth with dustjacket, illustrated endpapers. Near Fine/VG, a crisp, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has sunned spine else Near Fine. Ballet memoirs.
Inventory number #009716



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$15.00

Panov, Valery & George Feifer
TO DANCE
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978

Book Club edition. Octavo. xiv, 397 pp; b/w photographs; index. Black cloth with silver lettering in dustjacket. VG/VG. Four photos that appear in book laid in. A clean, unmarked copy; light ink stain on bottom edge, jacket shows moderate rubbing, with light chipping at top & bottom of spine.
Inventory number #009711



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$15.00

Walker, kathrine Sorley
DANCE AND ITS CREATORS: Choreographers at Work
NY: John Day Company, 1972

Octavo. x, 214 pp; full of b/w photographs; biographies; bibliography; filmography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. A clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket shows light edgewear, mostly at top & bottom of spine.
Inventory number #009710



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine


Price:
$25.00

Garey, Carol Cooper
HOUSE BEAUTIFUL DECORATING STYLE
NY: Hearst Books, 1992

First edition. Quarto. 223 pp; full of color photographs; directory of designers & architects. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine
Inventory number #009704



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$25.00

Sotheby's
THE COLLECTION OF BARRY FRIEDMAN LTD. Friday, December 17, 2004
NY: Sotheby's, 2004

Quarto. 146 pp; 212 lots, all described & illustrated in color; index of makers. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. A first-rate collection of Austrian, Swedish and French decorative arts and design, including superb examples of furniture & objects by Josef Hoffman and his contemporaries; important pieces of furniture by the masters of prewar Swedish design, including Carl Malmsten, Carl Bergsten,, Gustav Bergstrom, Axel Einar Hjort, and textile designer Marta Maas-Fjetterstrom. The many examples of French decorative arts from the 1920s to the 1950s include furniture & objects by Andre Arbus, Ramsay and Raphael, and Poillerat.
Inventory number #009687



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$125.00

Prince, Richard & John McWhinnie
RICHARD PRINCE: Good Life
East Hampton, NY: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2003

First printing. Quarto. Unpaginated. Full of color photographs by Richard Prince. Essay by John McWhinnie. Illustrated paperback. Near Fine, except for scratch on front cover, bottom of spine lightly bumped. A crisp, unused copy. Artist's book featuring Prince's photographs of his own collection of first editions, pulp fiction, art and design books and ephemera. Published in an edition of 1,000 on the occasion of an exhibition at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller.
Inventory number #009684



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: New
Jacket: New


Price:
$42.50

Hewitt, Mark Alan & Gordon Bock
THE VINTAGE HOUSE: A Guide to Successful Renovations and Additions
NY: W.W. Norton, 2011

Oblong quarto. 304 pp; color photographs, floor plans, drawings throughout; list of resources for vintage house owners, glossary; index. Cloth with dustjacket. A fine copy in fine jacket. A must-have primer for homeowners and professionals, this book presents the first comprehensive survey of its kind on how to achieve truly compatible, stylistically resonant additions and renovations. Richly illustrated with more than 200 color photographs, plans, and drawings from nationally recognized architects, this book offers invaluable analysis and nuts-and-bolts guidance that will help any old-house homeowner or professional preserve the essence of a vintage treasure.
Inventory number #009656



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine


Price:
$15.00

Gould, Mary Earle
EARLY AMERICAN WOODEN WARE & Other Kitchen Utensils
Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1962

Revised edition. Octavo. 243 pp; over 200 b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. A crisp, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket shows occasional light soil on back panel, else near fine, with no tears.
Inventory number #009638



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$50.00

Christie's
DESIGNED BY ARCHITECTS. Important Works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Others From an International Private Collection
London: Christie's, 2002

Quarto. 161 pp; 71 lots, all with color photographs, including 4 fold-out pages. Paperback. VG+, a clean copy, minor edge wear, back cover has a couple of light scratches. Auction results laid in. Important works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh - silver candle holder, bronze & glass hanging lamp, flatware, inlaid cabinet, two inlaid gesso panels - Opera of the Wind, Opera of the Sea; carved & inlaid oak settle, cypress display cabinet, cypress double bookcase, stained oak cabinet, white painted oak washstand for Dunglass Castle, metal & leaded glass hanging shade, white painted oak bedroom table for 120 Mains St, Glasgow, 1900; chairs, armchairs & tables for the Argyle Street Tea Room, Glasgow, 1898; ebonised mahogany writing cabinet for Walter W. Blackie Esq, Hill House, Helensburgh, 1904; dark stained Sycamore side chair, designs & drawings, design for a clock face, inlaid and ebonised mantel clock, yellow painted settle for the Willow Tea Room, Glasgow, 1917; fabric designs, bedroom furniture designed for W.J. Bassett-Lowke, and others.
Inventory number #009626



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: None


Price:
$45.00

MacDougall, Elisabeth B.
JOHN CLAUDIUS LOUDON AND THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY IN GREAT BRITAIN
Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1980

Large octavo. 133 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; list of Loudon's publications. Gilt-lettered green cloth, no jacket as issued. Near Fine, discreet bookplate on front pastedown, else a clean, unmarked copy. Six essays on the life and work of. J.C. Loudon (1783-1843), outstanding landscape gardener and horticultural writer.
Inventory number #009621



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine


Price:
$75.00

Wiebenson, Dora
THE PICTURESQUE GARDEN IN FRANCE
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978

First edition. Quarto. xiii, 137 pp plus 173 b/w illustrations; extensive bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a small bookplate on front pastedown, else a clean, unmarked copy; light creasing at base of jacket spine. A scholarly work on French picturesque gardens, including Ermenonville, Monceau, Mereville, Chantilly, and others.
Inventory number #009620



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$30.00

Rorschach, Kimerly
THE EARLY GEORGIAN LANDSCAPE GARDEN
New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 1983

Quarto. 107 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine, except for discreet bookplate on inside front cover, a crisp, clean copy. Exhibition catalogue with 85 entries.
Inventory number #009619



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$75.00

Eidelberg, Martin, ed.
EVA ZEISEL: Designer for Industry
Montreal: Musee des Arts Decoratifs de Montreal, 1984

First edition. 12" x 9". 119 pp; 154 color & b/w illustrations; checklist of 32 objects, list of marks; bibliography of articles written by Zeisel. Paperback. Near Fine, minor wear along edge of backstrip, else a crisp, unmarked copy. Catalogue for the fifty-year retrospective exhibition of the work of Eva Zeisel, organized by Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. It traveled through the U.S., Europe, and Russia.
Inventory number #009604



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine


Price:
$15.00

Gill, Brendan
LINDBERGH ALONE
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977

First printing. Quarto. 216 pp; b/w illustrations; erattum slip laid in. Gilt decorated cloth with illustrated endpapers in unclipped dustjacket. Near fine in near fine dustjacket. New Yorker writer Brendan Gill documents Lindy's historic trans-atlantic flight and the events that brought him to this important juncture in his life.
Inventory number #009587



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$30.00

Koues, Helen
HOW TO BE YOUR OWN DECORATOR
NY: Tudor Publishing Company, 1941

New edition. Large octavo. 120 pp; 152 b/w photographs and several floor plans. Cloth with stamped titles in unclipped dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket, endpapers toned, jacket has a rub or two and some light edgewear, small chunk missing from lower edge of back panel. Koues was the director of Good Housekeeping Studio.
Inventory number #009586



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$20.00

Davis, Elmer Holmes
FRIENDS OF MR. SWEENEY
NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926

Third printing. Octavo. 282 pp. Cloth with stamped titles in dustjacket. Very good in very good- dustjacket. Jacket age toned and has a fair amount of shallow chipping to front panel lower edge and also at top and bottom of spine. Great art deco jacket design. A story of the riotous evening spent by two men who revert 20 years and become the wildcats of the class of 1905.
Inventory number #009576



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine


Price:
$40.00

Wilson, H. Weber
GREAT GLASS IN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE: Decorative Windows and Doors Before 1920
NY: E.P. Dutton, 1986

Quarto. vi, 122 pp; 172 color & b/w illustrations; glossary; bibliography; index. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket.
Inventory number #009575