Gernsheim, Alison
VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN FASHION: A Photographic Survey
NY: Dover, 1982

Octavo. 104 pp; b/w photographs throughout. Paperback. VG- tiny front cover tear at top edge near spine, & slight edge wear. This Dover edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and slightly corrected republication of the work originally published by Faber and Faber, London, in 1963 under the title Fashion and Reality (1840-1914)
Inventory number #009567

Asimov, Isaac
ROBOTS AND EMPIRE
NY: Doubleday, 1985

First printing. Octavo. 383 pp. Cloth-backed boards in unclipped dustjacket. Near fine in near fine jacket with trace of wear at very bottom of spine and lower folds, light scaling to front foldover from old sticker removal, Asimov's photo on rear panel.
Inventory number #009564

Wells, Patricia
PATRICIA WELLS AT HOME IN PROVENCE: Recipes Inspired by Her Farmhouse in France
NY: Scribner, 1996

First printing. Quarto. 349 pp; numerous color photographs by Robert Freson throughout. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. Fine in fine dustjacket.
Inventory number #009554

Allen, Shirley S.
SAMUEL PHELPS & Sadler's Wells Theatre
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971

Octavo. 354 pp; b/w photos and illustrations; chart of Shakesperian plays performed; list of non-Shakesperian plays performed; notes; select bibliography; index. Cloth in priceclipped dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket. small closed tear to top edge and minor soiling evident on lighter portions of jacket, spine darkened.
Inventory number #009546

Mackenzie, Edward;Karas, Phyllis;Muscato, Ross A.;Muscato, Ross
STREET SOLDIER: My Life as an Enforcer for Whitey Bulger and the Boston Irish Mob
South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 2003

First printing. Octavo. 241 pp. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with minimal wear.
Inventory number #009545

Robinson, Bill
A BERTH TO BERMUDA
Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1961

Quarto. 120 pp; full of b/w photographs. Cloth with dustjacket; illustrated endpapers. VG/VG. The story of the 1960 Bermuda Race in words and pictures, by yachtsman, photographer and writer Bill Robinson. Introduction by Alfred F. Loomis.
Inventory number #009535

Morris, Everett B. & Robert Coulson
RACING AT SEA
Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1959

Quarto. 194 pp; illustrated with b/w photos and maps. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, tight copy; jacket has two small chips at top edge & closed tear with crease at bottom edge.
Inventory number #009534

Tebbel, John
A CERTAIN CLUB: One Hundred Years of the Players
NY: The Players, 1989

Octavo. 348 pp; color & b/w photographs. Red cloth with gilt-lettered spine, all edges gilt in illustrated slipcase.
Inventory number #009526

Stewart, George Woodbridge, ed.
THE PLAYERS: After 75 Years
NY: The Players, 1968

Octavo. 267 pp; color frontispiece, b/w photos of club interior, drawings by Marshall Goodman; list of officers, list of players. Maroon cloth with gilt spine label. VG, minor rubbing to corners of spine. This seventy-fifth anniversary book of Gramercy Park's Players Club presents the nature and composition of the Club from 1938 to 1963 is full of reminiscences from members.
Inventory number #009525

Hamilton, G. Rostrevor (ed.)
THE LATIN PORTRAIT: An Anthology
London: Nonesuch Press, 1929

Limited edition. Twelvemo. xvi, 367 pp; copperplate engraved title page, headpiece and colophon by Stephen Gooden. Text in Latin & English. Polished buckram with gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt in marbled slipcase. Very good in good+ slipcase. Spine darkened, as usual, some pages uncut. Slipcase rubbed with some splitting to top and bottom seams, however still holding together firmly. Number 185 of 1050 numbered copies. The works of 21 poets translated from the original Latin by over 70 English poets.
Inventory number #009522

Fulton, Marianne, ed.
THE GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE AND GARDENS
Rochester, NY: Intl Museum of Photography, 1992

Octavo. 81 pp; numerous color & b/w photographs. Dark green cloth with gilt-lettering & border on cover. A near fine, unused copy, white flecks on back cover.
Inventory number #009518

Lipmann, Anthony
DIVINELY ELEGANT: The World of Ernst Dryden
London: Pavilion, 1989

First printing. Quarto. 192 pp; illustrated throughout in color and b/w; bibliography. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. Near fine in near fine jacket. former owner gift inscription on ffep.
Inventory number #009504

Palardy, Jean
THE EARLY FURNITURE OF FRENCH CANADA
Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1978

Revised edition. Quarto. 411 pp; over 600 b/w photographs, numerous pen and ink drawings, appendices, bibliography, glossary, index. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine lightly faded. The definitive work on traditional French-Canadian furniture by Palardy, who has devoted more than 40 years to the study of French-Canadian culture. A valuable sourcebook on the design and workmanship of French-Canadian furniture from the 17th to the first half of the 19th century. The catalogue raisonne includes armoires, buffets, chairs, commodes, beds, as well as spinning-wheels, chandeliers, mantelpieces, stoves, doors, locks, and latches. All are described and illustrated in detail. Includes lists of woodworkers' tools and descriptions of their working methods.
Inventory number #009497

Bush-Brown, Louise
MEN WITH GREEN PENS: Lives of the Great Writers on Plants in Early Times
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1964

Octavo. 161 pp; (12) b/w illustrations; bibliography. Gilt-lettered green cloth in dustjacket. VG/VG, clean, unmarked copy; small chip at top of jacket spine. The author traces the history of plant investigation from Theophrastus (372 B.C.) through the era of the great herbalists of the 16th century. Includes Dioscorides, Albertus Magnus, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Otto Brunfels, Leonhard Fuchs, William Turner, Nicolas Monardes, and John Gerard.
Inventory number #009495

Plymat, Wm., Jr.
THE VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE OF IOWA
Des Moines, IA: Elephant's Eye, 1976

Oblong quarto. 98 pp; b/w photographs throughout. VG, bottom corner of rear panel creased, else a fresh, clean copy. The author, a photographer, spent four months in 1975 traveling around Iowa taking photographs of Victorian buildings. This book is the result, and it is rich in architectural detail. It focuses on homes and commercial buildings, and is organized around the most common styles of the period - Italianate, Second Empire, and Gothic Revival. It's the best visual record of Victorian architecture that I have seen.
Inventory number #009484

Gromort, Georges & Augustin Bernard
PETITS EDIFICES. Normandie. Deuxieme Serie, Constructions Urbaines en Pans de Bois
Paris: A. Vincent, 1927

Quarto. 9 pp text in French; 56 plates of b/w photographs; 8 plates (incl. frontispiece) of pencil drawings by Augustin Bernard. Loose plates, as issued, in portfolio boards with ties. VG, plates are clean & bright, text pp have random foxing, heavy on some pp. Photographs and drawings feature small houses in the Normandy towns of Rouen and Lisieux.
Inventory number #009476

Thurley, Simon
HAMPTON COURT PALACE Souvenir Guide Book
London: No Publisher, 1992

Quarto. Second edition. 47 pp; illustrated throughout with color photographs and images. Paperback. Very good to near fine. This illustrated guidebook by Simon Thurley has a short history of the palace and features 7 self-guided tour routes; The Tudor royal lodgings; the Queen's apartments; the Georgian rooms; the King's apartments; the Wolsey rooms & the Renaissance picture gallery; the Tudor kitchens; and the palace gardens.
Inventory number #009472

Dutton, Ralph
THE ENGLISH INTERIOR 1500 to 1900
London: B.T. Batsford, 1948

First edition. Octavo. viii, 192 pp; 171 color & b/w illustrations, plans & drawings in the text; index. Cloth. VG. Lacking dustjacket. Small pull to crown of spine. Dutton denotes the four centuries covered as Continental Influence (1500-1625), Florescence of Design (1625-1710), Age of Splendour (1710-1820), and the Decay of Taste (1820-1900)
Inventory number #009458

Gotch, J. Alfred
INIGO JONES
London: Methuen & Co, 1928

First edition. Octavo. xi, 271 pp, 8-pp adv; 31 b/w plates; appendices; chronology; index. Original red cloth with dj. Very good in vg- dustjacket, edges of boards darkened, light foxing on fore edges and occasional outer margins, spine of dj darkened. 1946 gift inscription on front free endpaper.
Inventory number #009457

Osmont
RECUEIL DE DRAPERIES D'HALLAVANT: 4eme Cahier
Paris: Osmont et Dezon, n.d.

n.d. (ca. 1820-1825). Volume 4 of seven stand-alone volumes. Oblong quarto. Title page followed by 48 (of 50) hand-colored engravings. Quarter calf and marbled boards with gilt title on spine. Existing examples of this book do not appear to have a title except for the first cahier, with the following volumes designated only by their number (2eme cahier, 3eme cahier...). A French bookseller list from 1819 shows the title as - Recueil de draperies d'Hallavant, a l'usage des marchands de meubles, tapissiers, decorateurs, mis au jour et augmente par Osmond et Dezon -, with a publication date of 1818. Two versions were available, one in black & white for 18 francs, and one in color for 25 francs. Volumes in the series also lack any dates except for the 7eme cahier, which was issued by Pinsonniere in 1839. The accepted date range of this series is 1810-1839 as based on internal evidence of drapery styles [Cf. Gail Caskey Winkler], and this volume falls into the 1820-1825 date range. Many bibliographic resources cite the first cahier where the name Osmont appears as Osmond (i.e. Berlin: 1278), however in the following volumes the name is correctly presented as Osmont. One of a series of 7 cahiers issued in Paris by Hallavant, Osmont and Pinsonniere between 1810 and 1839 with measured drawings of Empire style draperies for window treatments and beds; many of the bed designs include a plan outlining the proper geometry of the design. This is a widely referenced authentic notebook of designs for practicing designers of the Empire period and is extremely rare. A handful of major institutions in the world own assorted volumes from this series; we were unable to find a copy of the 4th cahier in OCLC. Very good- condition, restoration work done in the past - the front hinge and gutter have been repaired with japan and the title page has also been professionally restored where there was loss. The plates are mostly clean except for the occasional smudge or spot of foxing; several have 3 or 4 pin holes near the upper margins, not affecting the plates.
Inventory number #009451