Cummings, Abbott Lowell
ARCHITECTURE IN EARLY NEW ENGLAND
Sturbridge. MA: Old Sturbridge Village, 1968

Octavo. unpaginated [32] pp; b/w photos and illustrations. Stapled wraps. Near Fine. Part of the Old Sturbridge Village booklet series.
Inventory number #008803

AMERICAN FABRICS Number Ten, 2nd Quarter, 1949
NY: Reporter Publications, 1949

Folio. 124 pp; color & illustrations; fabric samples tipped in; advertisers index. Paperback. VG. may be missing a swatch or two. Included articles: portfolio of authentic district checks, portfolio of fabric fashions, loom hand-weaving part III
Inventory number #008778

AMERICAN FABRICS Number Eight, 4th Quarter 1948
NY: Reporter Publications, 1948

Folio. 155 pp; color & b/w illustrations; fabric samples tipped in; advertisers index. Paperback. VG Trade periodical. Articles in this issue include: the MMA collection of textiles, using apparel woolens in interior design, chinchilla, Christopher Marlowe, moths, block-printed cottons of Jouy, hand-weaving part I of III.
Inventory number #008776

de Groer, Leon
DECORATIVE ARTS IN EUROPE 1790-1850
NY: Rizzoli, 1986

Quarto. 357 pp; 640 illustrations, some in color; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG. A comprehensive and well-illustrated study devoted to the neoclassic style -- French Empire, English Regency, American Federal, German Biedermeier. The author, curator-in-chief of objets d'art at the Louvre, looks at furniture, interior decoration, lighting, bronzes, pendulum clocks, vases, curtains, wallpaper, and carpets.
Inventory number #008760

Darling, F. Fraser
WILD LIFE OF BRITAIN
London: Collins, 1947

Third printing. Octavo. 47 pp; 8 color plates & 28 b/w illustrations. Green pictorial boards with matching dustjacket. VG/VG, top of spine chipped w/corresponding chip in jacket, white lettering on jacket spine tanned & edges of spine rubbed, light foxing on inside of jacket. One volume in the 'Britain in Pictures' series.
Inventory number #008736

Rothstein, Natalie
THE VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM'S TEXTILE COLLECTION: Woven Textile Design in Britain to 1750
NY: Canopy Press, 1994

First U.S. edition. Quarto. 128 pp; 130 color illustrations; glossary; biographical notes. Paperback. Near Fine, former owner's blind stamp on title page & small ink stamp on front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy. This well illustrated book shows the beauty and diversity of British design for woven textles from the later 17th to the mid-18th century. The fifth in a series of seven books showing the visual history of British textile design from the middle ages to 1994.
Inventory number #008719

Waite, Diana S.
ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS: The Technological Revolution
NY: Bonanza, 1976

Quarto. Unpaginated; full of b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, former owner's ink stamp on front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy; short tears at top of jacket spine. A reproduction of six 19th-century trade catalogues of American architectural details. Manufacturers include Marshall Lefferts & Brother, 1854; Buffalo Eagle Iron Works, 1859; Morris, Tasker & Co, 1860; Philadelphia Architectural Iron Co, 1872; Keystone Mantel & Slate Works, 1872, and George O. Stevens, 1879.
Inventory number #008717

Fein, Albert
FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED and the American Environmental Tradition
NY: George Braziller, 1972

Octavo. 180 pp; 105 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, ink lines in margin on 2 pages, else a clean copy; price-clipped jacket with a few short edge tears. The author provides a comprehensive analysis of the principles and theories that motivated Olmsted, along with illustrated examples of his many works throughout the U.S.
Inventory number #008713

Gere, Charlotte
NINETEENTH-CENTURY DECORATION: The Art of the Interior
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1989

Large square quarto. 408 pp; profusely illustrated; biographical index; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. The author, a noted expert on 19th-century decorative arts, takes a detailed look at the design and decoration of domestic interiors in Europe and America.
Inventory number #008710

Hunter-Stiebel, Penelope & Odile Nouvel-Kammerer
MATIERES DE REVES: Stuff of Dreams From the Paris Musee des Arts Decoratifs
Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 2002

Quarto. 174 pp; over 100 color photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. This exhibition features 100 objects from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
Inventory number #008707

Miller, J. Jefferson
ENGLISH YELLOW-GLAZED EARTHENWARE
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974

First edition. Quarto. 125 pp; 64 color & 74 b/w illustrations; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, previous owner's blind stamp on title page, small ink stamp at top of front flyleaf; lamination lifted at fold of front jacket flap, light edgewear. The first major study of English yellow-glazed earthenware, based on the large collection formed by Jack & Eleanor Leon, in the Smithsonian Institution.
Inventory number #008706

Zweig, Arnold
EDUCATION BEFORE VERDUN
NY: Viking Press, 1936

First edition. Octavo. 447 pp. Cloth with gilt titles in unclipped dust jacket. VG in VG- dj. Jacket has small v-shaped chip to top edge above title, 2 very small closed tears and mild wear to spine tips. German writer Arnold Zweig, a veteran of the German army, spins a tale of intrigue in the trenches. When Sergent Christoph Kroysing discovers his superiors selling army rations, he reports his discovery to the courts marshal, but before he can testify, the hearing is postponed and the private is reassigned to a dangerous post, only to be killed by a french artillary shell. However, just before his death, he enlists the help of Werner Bertin, a bookish private in a labor battalion. Bertin, in turn, draws into the investigation Kroysing's estranged elder brother, Lieutenant Eberhard Kroysing. These two characters engage in a war of wills with the criminal officers, all while simultaneously trying to stay alive in the vast waste of the battle of Verdun.
Inventory number #008701

Sotheby's
Collection de Ceramiques Francaises, Verreries et Documentations Provenant de la Villa Clara Schumann a Francfort. 16 Decembre 2005
Paris: Sotheby's, 2005

Quarto. 275 pp; 523 lots, each illustrated in color. Text in French & English. Paperback. Near Fine, a fresh, unmarked copy; light crease to top corner of front cover. A superb collection of French Art Nouveau and Art Deco ceramics and glass by the leading artists of the period. Remarkable for the high quality of the pieces and the large number of designers represented.
Inventory number #008700

Davis, Elmer
TWO MINUTES TILL MIDNIGHT
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1955

First edition. Octavo. 208 pp. Cloth with gilt titles in unclipped dust jacket. Near fine in vg dj. slight sunning to jacket spine. Citing the current time of the doomsday clock featured on the cover of the American Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Davis warns not of the possibility of thermonuclear war, but of the prospect that the US could lose such a war. The former NY Times reporter and nationally known WWII newscaster outlines what we can do to survive and keep the torch of freedom & liberty burning after the impending global conflict. Not your typical atomic war book.
Inventory number #008699

Carlisle, Lilian Baker
HAT BOXES AND BANDBOXES AT SHELBURNE MUSEUM
Shelburne, VT: Shelburne Museum, 1960

First edition. Octavo. 196 pp; hundreds of b/w illustrations and color frontispiece. Paperback. Near Fine. Former owner stamp on front free endpaper & same owner blindstamp on title page. Museum Pamphlet Series, number 4
Inventory number #008647

Madigan, Mary Jean, et al
NINETEENTH CENTURY FURNITURE Innovation, Revival and Reform
NY: Arts & Antiques Book, 1982

First printing. Quarto. 160 pp; 100 color plates; 150 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dj. Some closed tears and wear to corners & spine tips of dj. Very good in a VG- dustjacket. Former owner stamp on ffep and same owner blindstamp on title page. Survey of American furniture design of the 19th century. Contributions by David Hanks, Katharine Morrison McClinton, Marian Page, Christopher Wilk, Craig Gilborn
Inventory number #008636

Parsons, Frank Alvah
INTERIOR DECORATION: Its Principles and Practice
NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915

First edition. Octavo. xiv, 284 pp; numerous b/w photographs; index. Original dark green cloth, top edge gilt. VG, minor wear to cloth binding, gilt spine title dulled, back hinge cracked but holding. In 1904, arts educator Frank Alvah Parsons joined the New York School of Art. Six years later, he became its sole director. Recognizing Parson's profound impact on American life, the school was renamed Parsons School of Design in 1941.
Inventory number #008628

Patterson, Jerry E.
ANTIQUES OF SPORT
NY: Crown Publishers, 1975

Octavo. 150 pp; numerous 250 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. VG/VG. A clean, tight copy; no wear to jacket; First American edition. Large octavo. 144 pp; many color and a few b/w illustrations; brief chronology; index. Cloth with dustjacket. NF/NF, previous owner's blind stamp on title page, small ink stamp at top of front free endpaper. This book features the antiques of a wide range of sports, including the more common hunting, shooting, and fishing artifacts; trophies, autographs & old photographs; and the antiques of fencing, falconry, football, and many others.
Inventory number #008625

Brentjens, Yvonne
K.P.C. DE BAZEL (1869-1923) Ontwerpen Voor het Interieur
Zwolle: Waanders, 2006

Quarto. 239 pp; 215 color & b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Text in Dutch. Softcover. Fine, a new, unused copy. Published in connection with an exhibition held March 25-June 11, 2006, Gemeentemuseum, Hague, and July 4-October 15, 2006, Drents Museum, Assen. This book is the first to feature the furniture of Dutch architect K.P.C. de Bazel whose work rivaled that of H.P. Berlage.
Inventory number #008615

Girouard, Mark
THE VICTORIAN COUNTRY HOUSE
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979

Revised and enlarged edition. Quarto. 467 pp, including 33 color and 427 b/w illustrations. Cloth with dj. VG/VG-. 3 inch long strip of de-lamination on top edge of jacket.
Inventory number #008603