Lyall, Sarah
THE ANGLO-FILES: A Field Guide to the British
NY: W.W. Norton, 2008

First edition. Octavo. 289 pp. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. Sarah Lyall, a reporter for the NY Times, moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for her amusing and incisive dispatches on her adopted country. As she came to terms with its eccentric inhabitants, she found that she had a ringside seat at a singular transitional era in British life.
Inventory number #007752

Dean, Jan
THE GARDENER'S READING GUIDE
NY: Facts on File, 1993

First edition. Octavo. 250 pp. Hardcover with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. This is the first popular bibliography of gardening literature. More than 3000 annotated entries describe all types of gardening books, from gardening anthologies and personal narratives to the vast array of how-to titles.
Inventory number #007744

Tierney, Tom
MOVIE STAR VAMPS AND SCAMPS: Paper Dolls
Mineola, NY: Dover, 2003

First edition. Quarto. 32 pp; 12 dolls and 32 costumes on 16 color plates. Paperback. A fine copy. This paper doll collection focuses on 12 femmes fatales who dominated the silver screen from the silent era through the 1930s, accompanied by costumes from their most popular films. The actresses are: Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Barbara La Marr, Myrna Loy, Mae Murray, Nita Naldi, Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Mae West.
Inventory number #007725

Gregory, Rob
KEY CONTEMPORARY BUILDINGS Plans, Sections and Elevations
NY: W.W. Norton, 2008

Quarto. 240 pp; 650 illustrations, 150 in color. Paperback with CD-ROM. New, still in publishers shrinkwrap. Ninety-five of the most important buildings of the early 21st century. including works by architects such as Renzo Piano, Norman Foster, OMA and Frank Gehry, Jamie Fobert and Sou Fujimoto.
Inventory number #007720

Grimshaw, Chloe
NEW LONDON STYLE
NY: Thames & Hudson, 2009

First American edition. Quarto. 222 pp; over 350 photographs by Ingred Rasmussen. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine.
Inventory number #007718

Workman, Liz
DR. JOHNSON'S DOORKNOB and Other Significant Parts of Great Men's Houses
NY: Rizzoli, 2007

First edition. Square octavo. 207 pp; color illustrations & photographs throughout. Cloth with dustjacket in slipcase. A new, unused copy This small book of Liz Workman's photographs doesn't stop at doorknobs. It shows us other unexpected details from eminent homes -- George Washington's mantelpiece, for example, Thomas Jefferson's bed, Charles Darwin's soup tureen, Victor Hugo's skirting board, and Sigmund Freud's mirror. The book features 103 items in ten chapters - doorknobs, crockery, mantelpieces, chairs, desks, books, banisters, mirrors, skirting boards and beds. There is no text, just brief captions and an index of addresses.
Inventory number #007717

Mackay, Donald A.
THE BUILDING OF MANHATTAN
NY: Harper & Row, 1987

First edition. Quarto. 150 pp; hundreds of line drawings by the author. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, head & tail of jacket spine lightly chipped. Filled with hundreds of carefully researched line drawings, Donald Mackay shows us how Manhattan was constructed above ground and below. The book details the growth of New York from the Dutch settlements to the initial build-up of downtown to the gradual expansion uptown.
Inventory number #007713

Beukers, Alan, introduction by Paul Theroux
EXOTIC POSTCARDS : The Lure of Distant Lands
NY: Thames & Hudson, 2007

Square quarto. 208 pp; 200 coilor illustrations; notes on the postcards. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. A collection of antique postcard images from the non-Western world features representations from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Inventory number #007682

Middleton, Robin, Gerald Beasley & Nicholas Savage, et al
THE MARK J. MILLARD ARCHITECTURAL COLLECTION. Volume II, British Books, Seventeenth Through Nineteenth Centuries
NY: George Braziller, 1998

Large quarto. xv, 392 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine. The nearly 100 titles catalogued here trace the origins and development of architectural illustration in Britain. The Millard collection is particularly rich in the 18th century, and includes almost all of the great folio albums recording the archaeological investigations of antiquity.
Inventory number #007620

Shvidkovsky, Dimitri
THE EMPRESS AND THE ARCHITECT: British Architecture and Gardens at the Court of Catherine the Great
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996

First edition. Quarto. 282 pp; 100 color plates & 190 b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Inventory number #007595

Downes, Kerry
HAWKSMOOR
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1980

First American edition, taken from the second English edition. Large octavo. xvi, 298 pp plus 96 pages of b/w plates, 46 plans, elevations & drawings; list of buildings & drawings; index. Red cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, light chipping at top & bottom of jacket spine & one chip at top edge of back panel. Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661-1736), a student and collaborator of Christopher Wren and John Vanbrugh, was of Britain's outstanding baroque architects. First published in 1959, this was the first major study of Nicholas Hawksmoor. In this new edition, many details have been revised in light of recent research
Inventory number #007571

Impey, Oliver
THE CECIL FAMILY COLLECTS: Four Centuries of Decorative Arts from Burghley House
Alexandria, VA: Art Services International, 1998

Quarto. 231 pp; 29 b/w illustrations; 12 floor plans of Burghley from 1623, 1688, 1738, 1770s, 1804, 1998; catalogue of 166 items, described & illustrated in color; glossary; bibliography; family tree. Paperback. Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; looks unread. The catalogue contains paintings, sculpture, and architectural drawings related to the Cecil family and Burghley House; miniatures; Virtu: the Countess’s jewels; other virtu; Grand Tour objects; sculpture; European ceramics; Chinese ceramics; Japanese ceramics; furniture & furnishings; and silver.
Inventory number #007569

Racine, Guillemette
ART ET DECORATION: 1946-1959, Les Annees "Nostalgie"
Paris: Charles Massin, 1996

First edition. Quarto. 155 pp; full of color & b/w illustrations. Text in French. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Inventory number #007552

Art & Decoration
COMMENT DECORER SA MAISON: Interieurs, Mobilier, Amenagement - 200 Realisations
Paris: Art & Decoration, n.d.

Quarto. Unpaginated, full of b/w & color photographs. Text in French. Quarter leather with light green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, no dustjacket. VG, light rubbing to corners, else a clean, tight copy. Contains hundreds of illustrations of interiors and furnishings from Art & Decoration magazine. Not dated, circa 1960.
Inventory number #007551

Atkinson, Alex & Ronald Searle
THE BIG CITY or the New Mayhew
NY: George Braziller, 1959

First edition. Quarto. 110 pp; illustrations by Ronald Searle. Cloth-backed boards with gilt-lettered spine in dustjacket. VG+/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket - spine & fore edge toned, neatly repaired two-in. tear at top of spine.
Inventory number #007533

Hudson, John Paul
SUPERSTAR MURDER?
NY: Insider Press, 1976

First printing. signed by author. Limited edition of 2500 copies. Octavo. 347 pp. Cloth with dustjacket. VG in VG jacket. Signed & inscribed limitation plate on ffp along with matching number stamp.
Inventory number #007517

Tabori, Paul
THE ART OF FOLLY
Philadelphia: Chilton, 1961

First edition. Octavo. 259 pp. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, jacket spine sunned as well as 1" at top edge and fore edge; not price clipped.
Inventory number #007508

Sitwell, Osbert
MIRACLE ON SINAI: A Satirical Novel
London: Gerald Duckworth, 1948

New edition. Octavo. 255 pp. Orange cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, jacket spine darkened & chipped at ends, front & back panels a bit darkened.
Inventory number #007460

Sagan, Francoise
A CERTAIN SMILE
NY: E.P. Dutton, 1956

Second printing. Small octavo. 128 pp. Blue green cloth with gilt lettered-spine in dustjacket. VG/VG, interior clean & tight, no marks; jacket has short edge tears & chipping at top & bottom of spine; not price-clipped.
Inventory number #007449

Minney, R.J.
THE EDWARDIAN AGE
Boston: Little, Brown, 1964

First American edition. Octavo. 224 pp, b/w photo frontispiece plus 24 b/w photographs. Light green cloth with gilt-lettered spine in dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, previous owner name on front free endpaper, binding tight; jacket price clipped.
Inventory number #007443