Christie's
THE HUMPHREY WHITBREAD COLLECTION. Thursday, 5 April 2001
London: Christie's, 2001

Quarto. 149 pp; illustrated throughout in color. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; Price Results List stapled to front free endpaper. Many full-page plates.
Inventory number #008599

Peacock, Carlos
RICHARD PARKES BONINGTON
NY: Taplinger, 1980

First American edition, first printing. Quarto. 107 pp; illustrations in color & b/w; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near fine in very good to near fine jacket.
Inventory number #008591

Stillman, Damie
THE DECORATIVE WORK OF ROBERT ADAM
London / NY: Academy Editions / St. Martin's Press, 1973

Octavo. viii, 119 pp; color frontispiece plus 173 b/w plates; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG- jacket spine and top edge sunned.
Inventory number #008589

Clarke, Moma
FRENCH CAMEOS
London: A.M. Philpot, n.d.

First UK edition. n.d. (c.1925). Octavo. 229 pp; 90 b/w illustrations by Pecoud. Cloth-backed boards with checkerboard design and gilt rules, top edge gilt. VG, former owner simple script bookplate on front free endpaper. Collected articles by the author of Paris Waits.
Inventory number #008581

Cecil, Mirabel & David Mlinaric
MLINARIC ON DECORATING
London: Frances Lincoln Ltd, 2008

First edition, first printing. Large Quarto. 320 pp; lavishly illustrated in color, many full-page plates; index; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. A new, unused copy. David Mlinaric's designs are featured in buildings world-wide, including London's National Gallery, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Spencer House, and the Primary Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He's also done embassies in Washington, DC, Paris, and Brussels, and houses for the Rothschilds, Mick Jagger, Jerry Hall, and other private clients.
Inventory number #008580

Bouffard, Pierre
FOUNTAINS: Mirrors of Switzerland
Paudex, Switzerland: Bonvent & Fontainemore, 1973

Quarto. 336 pp; illustrated in color and b/w; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG to near fine in VG to near fine unclipped jacket. Nicely presented survey of public fountains in Switzerland, that were, in the past, a source of water and the social hub of town life.
Inventory number #008576

Gregory, Jamee
NEW YORK APARTMENTS: Private Views
NY: Rizzoli, 2004

Quarto. 208 pp; color photographs throughout. Hardcover with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a new unused copy with no internal marks; jacket crisp & unblemished. This book offers a rare glimpse into the opulent world of the Manhattan elite, this book features the interiors of 25 of the most elegant NYC apartments by such renowned designers as Mario Buatta, David Easton, Charles Gwathmey, Albert Hadley, Mark Hampton, Bunny Williams, and many others.
Inventory number #008568

Montgomery, Charles F
BOOKS ABOUT THE ARTS OF AMERICA
Pocopson, PA: The Font, n.d.

ca. 1960. Book catalog. Octavo. 39 pp. Paperback. Out of stock list and return envelope laid in. VG. About 6 of the items are checked off in the margin with pen, otherwise a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #008567

Klesse, Brigitte
WILHELM WAGENFELD: 50 Jahre Mitarbeit in Fabriken
Koln: Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln, 1973

First edition. 11.75" high x 8.25" wide. 134 pp; b/w illustrations of 581 objects in the exhibition; bibliography. Text in German. Original pictorial wraps. VG+, bookplate on inside front cover, else a clean, unmarked copy; light wear to top & bottom of spine and corners. Errata slip inserted. catalogue of the exhibition held in 1973 at the Overstolzenhaus in Cologne; it then travelled to Darmstadt, Hannover, and Munich in 1974. Uncommon.
Inventory number #008518

Schroll, Herman T.
HAROLD PINTER: A Study of his Reputation (1958-1969) and a Check List
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1971

First edition. Twelvemo. 151 pp. Cloth binding. numerous strokes in the checklist margins. VG-
Inventory number #008517

Goodwin, John
THE AVENGER
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926

Second printing. Octavo. 418 pp. Gilt-lettered black cloth with dustjacket, illustrated endpapers with same image as jacket. VG/VG-, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket spine chipped at top & bottom (see photo), edges of spine split with old tape repairs on back, moderate rubbing to folds. Still, it looks great and intact. Scarce in jacket. The basis of a 1933 movie with the same title starring Ralph Forbes and Adrienne Ames. An innocent man is convicted of selling his country's secrets to a foreign power and is sentenced to prison. This is the spellbinding story of how he walked forth from his cell a vindicated man, and of how he took his vengeance on the five men who had wronged him.
Inventory number #008489

Galsworthy, John
SWAN SONG
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928

First edition. Octavo. 360 pp. Publisher's purple cloth with unclipped dustjacket. VG in G+ to VG- jacket. Jacket has light edgewear and a 1/3 inch chip to top edge of front cover.
Inventory number #008488

Albrecht, Donald
PARIS / NEW YORK: Design, Fashion, Culture 1925-1940
NY: Monacelli Press, 2008

Tall quarto. 240 pp; over 250 color & b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. A new copy. Twelve essays by leading French and American scholars and 250 illustrations vividly recreate the contributions of the era's legendary figures, including Josephine Baker, Chanel, Salvador Dali, Raymond Hood, Ely Jacques Kahn, Raymond Loewy, Paul Poiret, Helena Rubinstein, and Henri Soule. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.
Inventory number #008457

Olson, Roberta J.M. & Margaret K. Hofer
SEAT OF EMPIRE
NY: New York Historical Society, 2002

Quarto. 39 pp; 18 color photographs; checklist. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. This catalogue was produced in conjunction with the exhibition 'Seat of Empire' held at the New-York Historical Society from October 8, 2002 to January 12, 2003.
Inventory number #008435

Christie's. London
BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL CERAMICS AND GLASS Including Paperweights. 11 December 2000
London: Christie's, 2000

Quarto. 245 pp; 489 lots, all illustrated in color. Paperback. Near Fine. The sale includes Georgian, Venetian, Bohemian, Baccarat, St. Louis, and Clichy glass, and Bristol, Liverpool, Worcester, Chelsea, Derby, Spode, Sevres, Frankenthal, Hochst, Meissen ceramics, plus Italian Majolica. Features the properties of the Late Sir Nigel Broakes, the Late 9th Earl of Guildford, the Late Mrs. B.J. Blackwell, a private European collector, and a European lady. Sale held December 11, 2000.
Inventory number #008421

Dufresne, Jean-Luc
CHRISTIAN DIOR: Man of the Century
Granville: Musee Christian Dior, 2005

Quarto. 245 pp; full of color & b/w photographs & drawings. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. Published to accompany the 100-year anniversary exhibition of Dior's birth, which was held at Dior's birthplace in Granville, Normandy.
Inventory number #008398

Christie's
Important Antique and Period Jewelry from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin
NY: Christie's, 1995

First edition. Quarto. 117 pp. 115 lots, illustrated in color. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; light edgewear.
Inventory number #008364

Fomin, Y.V.
THE ART OF MARQUETRY IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY RUSSIA
Moscow: Sovyetkaya Rossiya, 1989

Folio. 182 pp; 202 full-page color plates; annotated catalogue; glossary. Text in Russian, with English summary, and detailed captions. White laminated boards, no slipcase. Near Fine. Lavishly illustrated account of late 18th century Russian marquetry furniture, panelling, and flooring.
Inventory number #008362

Robinson, Annie
PEABODY & STEARNS: Country Houses and Seaside Cottages
NY: W.W. Norton, 2010

Quarto. 247 pp; 8 pp of color photographs, over 200 illustrations, archival photographs, plans, and drawings; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a new, unused copy. Robert Swain Peabody and John Goddard Stearns Jr. led one of the most prolific architectural design firms in the Northeast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This book focuses on the firm’s country house commissions, as well as other leisure-time buildings such as casinos, boathouses, stables, gentlemen’s farms, and cottages. It showcases more than 80 of the firm’s designs, from The Breakers in Newport, RI to Charles William Eliot’s house in Northeast Harbor, ME.
Inventory number #008353

Early, Eleanor [Signed]
AN ISLAND PATCHWORK
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941

Octavo. vii, 289 pp; b/w illustrations by Virginia Grilley. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, jacket lightly chipped at top & bottom of lightly sunned spine. Signed by author on special Nantucket Edition page - review taped to opposite page.
Inventory number #008277