Connolly, Cyril & Peter Levi
SHADE THOSE LAURELS
NY: Pantheon, 1991

First American edition. Octavo. 174 pp. Cloth backed boards in dustjacket. Jacket has light edgewear and closed tear on top edge of back panel. NF/VG. This literary whodunit, set in postwar Britain and replete with literary and gastronomic allusions, was left unfinished by Connolly at his death in 1974 and was completed by Oxford scholar and poet Peter Levi, to whom he divulged the denouement. An aristocratic cast of suspects has gathered at the country estate of famed author Sir Mortimer Gussage to celebrate his birthday and knighthood. When Sir Mortimer succumbs later that evening to an untimely death, it falls to his young admirer and protege, Stephen Kemble, to piece together the parts of this intriguing puzzle. Kemble makes his way through drawing rooms, greenhouses, and garden mazes to arrive at a genuinely surprising ending. Levi succeeds in bringing Connolly's stylish mystery to a seamless conclusion. [Barbara Love, St. Lawrence College]
Inventory number #007930

Powell, Anthony
THE FISHER KING
London: Heinemann, 1986

Second printing. Octavo. 255 pp. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering in dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, jacket price clipped, else a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #007927

Williams, Tennessee & Maria St. Just
FIVE O'CLOCK ANGEL: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just, 1948-1982
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990

First edition. Octavo. xix, 407 pp; b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Letters written over the course of three decades shed light on Williams' works, his friends and colleagues, and his dependency on alcohol and drugs.
Inventory number #007923

Cooper, Artemis, ed.
The Letters of EVELYN WAUGH AND DIANA COOPER
NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1992

First printing, first American edition. Octavo. 344 pp; b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, tiny tear to jacket along spine on back cover; jacket not price clipped. A collection of newly recovered letters examines the enduring friendship between Evelyn Waugh and Lady Diana Cooper.
Inventory number #007910

Nicolson, Nigel
VIRGINIA WOOLF
NY: Viking, 2000

First American edition. Small octavo. 195 pp; 10 b/w illustrations. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. The author, son of British writers Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, threads his personal reminiscences through the narrative of her life. His biography probes her stance on women's issues and the nature of war.
Inventory number #007905

Bell, Quentin
BLOOMSBURY RECALLED
NY: Columbia University Press, 1995

First American edition, first printing. Octavo. 234 pp; 18 b/w illustrations; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. A memoir of the circle of intellectuals in early 20th-century London known as the Bloomsbury group. The author writes candid portraits of his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell (Virginia Woolf's sister), Vanessa's lover Duncan Grant, and of Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry, Ottoline Morrell, and others who frequented Gordon Square in Bloomsbury and Charleston, the Bells' country place in Sussex.
Inventory number #007904

Lovegrove, Keith
PAGEANT: The Beauty Contest
NY: Te Neues, 2002

Quarto. 142 pp; 100 color & 60 b/w illustrations. Paperback. A Near Fine copy. The author celebrates the culture of the beauty contest, from the well-known spectacles of Miss World and Mr. and Miss Universe to the flamboyance of Alternative Miss World. He looks at international and national beauty pageants alike.
Inventory number #007897

Renzi, Jen
THE ART OF THE TILE: Designing With Time-Honored and New Tiles
NY: Clarkson Potter, 2009

Octavo. 319 pp; heavily illustrated with color photographs. Hardcover with dustjacket. A new, unused copy. With inspiring photographs of tile installations from Montauk to Morocco, an extensive resource guide, and expert advice from architects, designers, homeowners, and tile manufacturers, the book is an indispensable and comprehensive resource.
Inventory number #007896

Koyama, Ori
INSPIRED SHAPES: Contemporary Designs for Japan's Ancient Crafts
NY: Kodansha International, 2005

First edition. Quarto. 111 pp; color photographs, artist biographies. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Inventory number #007895

Davis, Evangeline
CHARLESTON HOUSES & GARDENS
Charleston, SC: Preservation Society of Charleston, 1975

Quarto. Unpaginated, full of color photographs by N. Jane Iseley. Paperback. A fine, unused copy.
Inventory number #007872

Read, Anthony & David Fisher
BERLIN: The Biography of a City
London: Pimlico, 1994

Later printing. Octavo. 341 pp; 24 pages of b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Paperback. Near Fine, an unread copy, gift inscription on title page, price neatly blacked out on back cover. The authors tell how a dusty outpost on the remotest fringe of the Holy Roman Empire grew to become the biggest and most powerful city in continental Europe. A guide to Berlin's past, present and future.
Inventory number #007859

Sullivan, James
OVER THE MOAT: Love Among the Ruins of Imperial Vietnam
NY: Picador, 2004

Octavo. 354 pp. Paperback. A Near Fine copy - looks unread. The author went to Vietnam on a bicycle trip when he was 27, and fell in love with a Vietnamese woman named Thuy. His courtship of her forms the crux of this memoir, in which he describes his problems with cultural misconceptions, the local distrust of Americans, and a bevy of other boyfriends.
Inventory number #007854

Slater, Greg
CLARICE CLIFF FOR COLLECTORS
NY: Thames & Hudson, 2009

Octavo. 240 pp; illustrated with over 500 color photographs; bibliography; pattern index. Flexible binding. A fine, new, unused copy. A concise practical reference to building, displaying, and caring for a collection. Aimed at collectors from novices to experts, this new guide provides an identification guide with more than 500 pieces illustrated and identified, and organized by type of ware and by specific shape. Greg Slater is editor of the magazine for Clarice Cliff collectors, The Agora.
Inventory number #007832

Musgrave, Clifford
ROYAL PAVILION: An Episode in the Romantic
London: Leonard Hill Books, 1959

Revised, enlarged edition. Octavo. 172 pp; 8 color plates & 50 b/w illustrations, plus illustrations in text; appendices; bibliography; index. Cloth. Lacks dustjacket. VG.
Inventory number #007812

Colvin, Howard
ESSAYS IN ENGLISH ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999

First edition. Quarto. viii, 310 pp; 223 b/w illustrations, bibliographical references; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. This volume contains eighteen new and revised essays written throughout Howard Colvin's career.
Inventory number #007808

Le Gallienne, Eva [Inscribed]
AT 33
NY & Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1940

Reprint. Octavo. 262 pp; frontispiece portrait photo of Eva at 33, numerous b/w photographs in text. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Lacks dustjacket. VG-. Signed by author. The first of two memoirs (published 19 years apart) written by the London-born American stage actress. First published in 1934.
Inventory number #007804

Melly, George
PARIS AND THE SURREALISTS
NY: Thames and Hudson, 1991

First edition. Quarto. 159 pp; 104 duotone illustrations; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. The author offers a narrative history of Surrealism, and also analysis of the major works of Surrealist literature, all of which are imbued with the essence of Paris.
Inventory number #007796

Asensio Cerver, Francisco
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
NY: Whitney Library of Design, 1997

First edition. Large quarto. 207 pp; color photographs, elevations, floor plans throughout. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket has light edgewear.
Inventory number #007782

Bragdon, Lillian J. et al
COLOR GUIDE TO HOME DECORATION by 20 of America's Foremost Interior Decorators
NY: Sterling Publishing, 1956

Small folio. 191 pp; color illustrations throughout; index. Pictorial cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, top of jacket spine lacks 1/8 in. & light wear to bottom, one small edge chip, jacket price-clipped. This book shows how effective the blending of various periods of furnishings and the right use of color can be with the use of over 200 color photographs.
Inventory number #007770

Branzi, Andrea
ANDREA BRANZI: Open Enclosures
Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 2008

Oblong quarto. (112) pp; 65 color & b/w illustrations. Text in English & French. Paperback. Fine, unused copy. Andrea Branzi (b. 1938) is an architect, graphic designer, and theorist. Founding father of the Domus Academy in Milan and a former member of the legendary radical architecture group Archizoom, he has influenced a whole generation from Gehry to Libeskind, from Koolhaas to Tschumi. For his March-June 2008 exhibition in Paris, he wove together materials such as hemp and bamboo with glass and metal, creating fragile, poetic architectural structures that reconciled the natural with the man-made.
Inventory number #007762