Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None
Price:
$28.00
Hatch, Harris B.
HOW TO KNOW VALUES IN ELECTROTYPES
Philadelphia: The Royal Electrotype Company, 1915
Twelvemo. 35 pp; 2 b/w photos. Cloth-backed boards. VG, corners worn, light wear at top & bottom of spine. Former owner name on front free flyleaf - Richard N. Moore, 1916, Providence, R.I."
Inventory number #006218
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good
Price:
$35.00
Gournay, Isabelle, ed.
ERNEST CORMIER and the Universite de Montreal
Cambridge, MA / Montreal: MIT/Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1990
Square quarto. 179 pp; 67 color & b/w plates; 67 text illustrations; chronology; bibliography. Paperback.
Inventory number #006162
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Jacket: None
Price:
$50.00
Butler & Tanner
150 B&T
London: Butler & Tanner, 2001
Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Quarto. 48 pp book includes 16 separate illustrated spreads - one for each decade plus one for the future - with artwork contributed by a host of cutting-edge creatives, including James Jarvis, Ewen Spencer and Pete Fowler. Dark grey cloth bound and includes tip-ins and wraparounds. The book was art directed by Ben Sansbury. #280 of 500 numbered copies. 150 B&T is a celebration of print and design brought together in a limited edition book launched at the Artomatic Gallery on 12th September 2001.
Inventory number #006087
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: New
Jacket: New
Price:
$85.00
Shinoyama, Kishin
Roppongi Hills
Tokyo: Gentosha, 2006
Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. Full ol color photographs. Text in Japanese & English. Hardcover with dustjacket. A removable wrap-around band in Japanese covers up the English title on the jacket. Fine/Fine. A crisp, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #006078
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: New
Jacket: New
Price:
$60.00
Hartop, Christopher & Ellenor Alcorn
BRITISH AND IRISH SILVER in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007
First edition. Quarto. 263 pp; more than 750 duotone & 8 color illustrations; catalogue, bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. The Fogg Art Museum's silver collection is one of the most significant in America and includes objects that range from Elizabethan cups to works by such renowned artists as Paul de Lamerie. This book features over 300 pieces from the collection, that together offer a survey of silverware across three centuries.
Inventory number #006048
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Jacket: Fine
Price:
$50.00
Roberts, Jane
ROYAL TREASURES: A Golden Jubilee Celebration
London: The Royal Collection, 2002
First edition. Folio. 496 pp; 437 color illustrations; 22 color & b/w figures; bibliography; index; royal genealogy. Blue cloth with gilt lettering in dustjacket. Fine/Fine, an unmarked, crisp copy. This book brings together over 450 of the most precious and unusual paintings, drawings, and works of art from the unparalleled Royal Collection of Queen Elizabeth II.
Inventory number #006047
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$40.00
Fastnedge, Ralph
SHERATON FURNITURE
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1983
Quarto. 224 pp; 4 color plates, 96 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG. The author examines in detail the various designs put forward by Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806) and places them in context against the work of other designers such as Shearer and Hepplewhite.
Inventory number #006045
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$20.00
Braybrooks, Neville
LONDON GREEN: The Story of Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Green Park & St. James's Park
London: Victor Gollancz, 1959
First edition. Octavo. 200 pp; color frontispiece & 48 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket, map on endpapers. Jacket lightly soiled and price clipped. The author tells the stories of the four royal parks that make up "London Green", and attempts to show why each park with its own character, has attracted a particular kind of person.
Inventory number #005994
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$15.00
Hearsey, John E.N.
BRIDGE, CHURCH AND PALACE in Old London
London: John Murray, 1961
First edition. Octavo. 282 pp; contemporary illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. This is an account of London's three greatest vanished buildings - Old London Bridge, Old St Paul's, and Old Whitehall Palace.
Inventory number #005993
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$45.00
Schoeser, Mary & Celia Rufey
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN TEXTILES from 1790 to the Present
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1989
Quarto. 256 pp; profusely illustrated in color and b/w; bibliography; appendix; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG, closed tear on front panel (not visible). Textiles for draperies, upholstery, floor coverings and other applications in homes ranging from palatial to spare. The authors chart the changing tastes and technical innovations of succeeding decades from 1790 to the present day.
Inventory number #005951
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None
Price:
$15.00
VanDerhoof, Jack
A Bibliography of Novels Related to American Frontier and Colonial History
Troy, NY: Whitston Publishing Co., 1971
Octavo. 501 pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering, no jacket as issued. VG, ex-library copy, a sound, lightly used copy, top corner of front flyleaf clipped, library stamp at base of title page.
Inventory number #005939
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: New
Jacket: New
Price:
$65.00
Schleuning, Sarah & Marianne Lamonica
MODERNE: Fashioning the French Interior
Miami / NY: Wolfsonian / Princeton Architectural Press, 2007
First edition. Quarto. 384 pp; 175 color & 150 b/w illustrations; notes, index. Cloth with dustjacket Fine/Fine, a fresh, unmarked copy. Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, Pierre Chareau, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Eileen Gray: together these designers and their contemporaries pioneered the look of the modern French interior during the 1920s. This book presents the finest examples of this work in more than two hundred plates, selected by Sarah Schleuning, a curator of the Wolfsonian Museum, and faithfully reproduced to preserve their original color palettes.
Inventory number #005933
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good
Price:
$25.00
Dean, David
ARCHITECTURE OF THE 1930s : Recalling the English Scene
NY: Rizzoli in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects Drawings Collection, 1983
Small square quarto. 24 color plates & 125 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Paperback. VG. One of a series of books on the RIBA Drawings Collection.
Inventory number #005915
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$15.00
Lasdun, Susan
VICTORIANS AT HOME
NY: Viking Press, 1981
First edition. Oblong octavo. 160 pp; numerous illustrations, some in color; index. Cloth with dj. near fine in near fine dust jacket. This book traces the changing character of English homes from Queen Victoria's birth in 1819 to her death in 1901. Lasdun includes the homes of families from widely different backgrounds
Inventory number #005886
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$20.00
Murray, Venetia
AN ELEGANT MADNESS: High Society in Regency England
NY: Viking, 1999
First American edition. Octavo. xvii, 316 pp; 28 b/w plates + b/w drawings in the text; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. A social history of the Regency, an era of lavish parties, ferocious gossip, relentless bed hopping, and notorious gambling that set a new standard for elegance and vulgarity.
Inventory number #005845
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Jacket: Fine
Price:
$30.00
Carswell, John
THE SAVING OF KENWOOD AND THE NORTHERN HEIGHTS
Henley-on-Thames: Aidan Ellis, 1992
First edition. Octavo. 150 pp; 12 b/w photographs; sources; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. The account of how Kenwood, one of London's finest open spaces, was saved for public use, along with the house.
Inventory number #005843
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Fine
Price:
$50.00
Ettesvold, Paul M.
THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WOMAN An Exhibition at the Costume Institute, December 12, 1981-September 5, 1982
NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982
Quarto. 64 pp; color & b/w illustrations; checklist of exhibition. Paperback. A fine copy. Introduction by Diana Vreeland
Inventory number #005830
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$30.00
Mitchell, William Robert, Jr.
CLASSIC SAVANNAH: History, Homes and Gardens
Savannah, GA: Martin-St. Martin Publishing, 1991
Third printing. Quarto. 142 pp; fully illustrated in color; appendices; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine
Inventory number #005787
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$60.00
Kirk, John T.
AMERICAN CHAIRS: Queen Anne and Chippendale
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972
Quarto. 208 pp; color frontispiece, 252 b/w illustrations; appendix; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG in VG- jacket, two closed tears to top rear edge of jacket, former owner signature on front flyleaf. An excellent guide to the art of chairmaking in 18th century America, clearly written and well illustrated. Arntzen P220.
Inventory number #005756
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$20.00
Reynolds, James
SOVEREIGN BRITAIN
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1955
First edition. Octavo. xvi, 368 pp; many b/w illustrations, color endpapers & jacket by the author; index; map on rear pastedown. Cloth with fully illustrated dustjacket. VG/VG, top of jacket spine & corners chipped, light wear to bottom of pine & edges, residue of removed bookplate on reverse of front flyleaf.
Inventory number #005698