Baird, Rosemary
MISTRESS OF THE HOUSE: Great Ladies and Grand Houses 1670-1830
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003

First edition. Octavo. xvi, 320 pp; numerous color & b/w illustrations; notes; bibliography; index. Green cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, ex-library copy - the only marking is small label on copyright page. Looks unread. A fascinating social history of the wealthy British women who became Mistress of the House.
Inventory number #006647

Stangerup, Helle [Signed]
THE NORDIC TABLE - Over Time
Copenhagen: Host & Son, 2002

Quarto. 187 pp; color & b/w illustrations; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by author on front free endpaper. The cultural history of the dining table from the year 1500 to the present. Richly illustrated with paiintings and objects, the focus is Scandinavia.
Inventory number #006633

Ypma, Herbert
MOROCCO MODERN
NY: Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1996

First edition. Quarto. 157 pp; full of color photographs. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. The author traces the origins of the great artisan traditions that still inform modern design in Morocco. The book concludes with the work of Charles Boccara, a contemporary architect whose designs reinterpret these influences to create work that is strikingly modern.
Inventory number #006614

Leopold, Allison Kyle
VICTORIAN SPLENDOR: Re-Creating America's 19th-Century Interiors
NY: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1986

Quarto. ix, 272 pp, color photographs throughout. bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. More than 150 color photos show the range of the 20th-century revival of the Victorian interior. The author focuses on the historic significance of each room in the house.
Inventory number #006558

Summerson, John
JOHN SOANE
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1983

Quarto. 123 pp; 6 color gatefold plates and many color & b/w illustrations; list of buildings; selected bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Architectural Monographs series
Inventory number #006545

Davies, Karen
AT HOME IN MANHATTAN - Modern Decorative Arts, 1925 to the Depression
New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983

First edition. Quarto. 123 pp catalogue of 81 household items produced over a 12 year period. Includes photographs of the pieces and some architectural sketches. Paperback. Near Fine. Well-documented exhibition catalogue.
Inventory number #006533

Frey, Gilbert
THE MODERN CHAIR: 1850 to Today / Le Siege Moderne de 1850 a Aujourd'hui / Das Moderne Sitzmobel von 1850 bis Heute
Sulgen: Arthur Niggli Ltd, 1992

Oblong quarto. 231 pp; numerous line drawings; bibliography. Text in English, French & German. Black cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG+, short tear at head of jacket spine, jacket edges lightly rubbed in places. First published in 1970, this revised edition extends the trends of chair evolution from 1972 to 1990. A total of 118 chair designs presented chronologically from 1850 to 1990, along with biographies of the designers and manufacturers.
Inventory number #006499

Christie, Manson & Woods
The Archive of Warners of Braintree Limited. Silk Weavers of Spitalfields and Braintree
London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1972

Octavo. 37 pp; 4 b/w photographs. 177 lots. Stiff blue card covers. VG-, small abraded area on front cover due to label removal. Sale of 18th and early 19th century designs and sample pattern books collected by Mr. Benjamin Warner and production records of the Warner Silk Weaving Mills. Sale held Monday, July 10, 1972.
Inventory number #006451

Fried, Frederick
THE FRIEDA SCHIFF WARBURG MEMORIAL SCULPTURE GARDEN
NY: The Brooklyn Museum, 1966

First printing. Octavo. 31 pp; b/w photographs. Stapled covers. VG.
Inventory number #006380

Grizzard, Lewis
I Haven't Understood Anything Since 1962 and Other Nekkid Truths
NY: Villard Books, 1992

Second printing. Octavo. 288 pp. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, bottom corner gently bumped; jacket not price clipped.
Inventory number #006304

Richards, J.M. & Nikolaus Pevsner, Ed.
THE ANTI-RATIONALISTS
London: Architectural Press, 1973

First edition. Quarto. 208 pp; b/w illustrations throughout. Wine cloth with silver decorative design on front cover & lettering on spine, in dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, jacket spine slightly sunned, along with top two in. on back cover. Previous owner's blind stamp at bottom of front flyleaf. A collection of 19 essays on architecture and Art Nouveau.
Inventory number #006296

Campana, D.M.
BOOK OF DESIGNING AND HISTORICAL ORNAMENTS. Book No. 5
Chicago: D.M. Campana, n.d.

Quarto. 64 pp; b/w illustrations throughout. Blue stapled card covers with red lettering. VG, small, light stain on fore edge. A collection of historical ornaments. Also teaches how to learn designing.
Inventory number #006287

Cochran, Charles B. [Inscribed to Collin Brooks]
SHOWMAN LOOKS ON
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1945

First edition. Octavo. viii, 323 pp; color frontispiece [Moulin Rouge by Toulouse-Lautrec], 32 pages of b/w plates from photographs and drawings; index. Original purple cloth with gilt-lettered spine, in dustjacket. VG/VG, top rear corner bumped; head of jacket spine chipped, small chips at corners, short tear at base of jacket spine, pp 303/304 has short tear. Inscribed by author on the title page: "To Collin Brooks, With the friendliest regards of Charles B. Cochran, Nov. 22 '45". This is Cochran's second book of reminiscences, full of tales of his fifty years in the theatrical world.
Inventory number #006275

Cate, Phillip Dennis & Samuel Hamilton Hitchings
THE COLOR REVOLUTION: Color Lithography in France 1890-1900
Santa Barbara, CA: Peregrine Smith, 1978

Small folio. 146 pp; over 100 color & b/w illustrations; biographies of artists; bibliography; index. Paperback. Near Fine. Exhibition and catalogue organized and published by Rutgers University Art Gallery, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in cooperation with The Boston Public Library.
Inventory number #006274

Shivers, Natalie
WALLS & MOLDING: How to Care for Old and Historic Wood and Plaster
Washington, DC / NY: Preservation Press / John Wiley, 1990

Octavo. 198 pp; 300 photographs & drawings, glossary; bibliography. Paperback. Fine. This is a detailed guide to caring for and reviving old wood and plaster walls and moldings.
Inventory number #006273

Hers, Francois
A TALE
London: Thames and Hudson, 1983

First edition. Quarto. 167 pp; 7 color & 114 duotone photographs. Black cloth with white-lettered spine in dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, jacket chipped at top of spine, extending one inch along top edge, small chip at bottom edge of back cover. Remainder mark on bottom edge.
Inventory number #006267

Milliken, Henry Oothout
TUILERIES BROCHURES: Some Minor Architecture of Normandy, March 1931
NY: Ludowici-Celadon Company, 1931

Vol 3, No 2, March 1931. Quarto. 15 pp; b/w photographs throughout. Stapled wraps. VG. A series of monographs on European architecture with special reference to tile roofs.
Inventory number #006258

Helm, W.H.
HOMES OF THE PAST: A Sketch of Domestic Buildings and Life in England from the Norman to the Georgian Age
NY: John Lane Company, 1921

First American edition. Quarto. xviii, 155 pp; 59 line drawings by Chappelow; appendices; bibliography; index. Original two-tone cloth, with gilt lettered spine & image of key on front cover. VG, corners rubbed through and slightly bumped. Front hinge a little loose. The author presents a proposal for preserving certain typical houses, each to be furnished as an example of its own time.
Inventory number #006245

American Institute of Graphic Arts
1964 DESIGN AND PRINTING FOR COMMERCE & FIFTY ADVERTISEMENTS OF THE YEAR
NY: AIGA, 1964

Quarto. unpaginated; b/w illustrations; index. Paperback. VG-
Inventory number #006231

Ciavarella, Angelo
BODONI MUSEUM
Parma: Bodoni Museo, 1979

Octavo. unpaginated; illustrated with examples of type and title pages. Text in Italian. Paperback with wrapper. VG
Inventory number #006230