Deans, Marjorie
MEETING AT THE SPHINX: Gabriel Pascal's Production of Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra
London: Macdonald & Co., 1946

First British edition. Octavo. 114 pp. Illustrated with 32 color photos & 32 photogravure stills, along with some of Oliver Messel's costume sketches reproduced in the margins of the text. Red gilt-lettered cloth with tipped-on illustration of Michelangelo's head of Cleopatra* on cover with dustjacket. VG+/VG+, a clean, unmarked copy, gilt lettering bright; jacket price clipped with light wear at spine ends, small loss at bottom corner of front cover; light rubbing at edges; tiny puncture in fold of spine.
Inventory number #002547

Du Boulay, Shirley
THE GARDENERS
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985

Small quarto. 158 pp; numerous color photographs; biographical notes. Cloth with dj. VG/VG-. The author visits with and interviews twelve well-known gardeners across England, including Roy Lancaster, Geoffrey Smith, Frances Perry, Alan Titchmarsh, Alan Gemmell, John Brookes, and Stefan Buczacki.
Inventory number #002489

Ward, Barbara McLean & Gerald W.R. Ward, eds.
SILVER IN AMERICAN LIFE Selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University
NY: The American Federation of the Arts, 1979

Quarto. 193 pp; 196 objects described and illustrated, some in color plus 39 b/w text illustrations; bibliography; index of silversmiths, designers, manufacturers and retailers. Paperback. VG.
Inventory number #002449

Fowler, Marian
BLENHEIM: Biography of a Palace
NY: Viking, 1989

First edition. Octavo. 272 pp; a number of b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Blue cloth with dj. VG/VG.
Inventory number #002399

Madden, Chris Casson
A ROOM OF HER OWN : Women's Personal Spaces
NY: Clarkson Potter, 1997

Second printing. Quarto. 224 pp; profusely illustrated with color photographs; index. Illustrated boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG+. Women from all walks of life show us the sanctuaries they have created in their own homes.
Inventory number #002398

Kliczkowski, H., ed.
COUNTRY HOMES
Madrid: Asppan, 2002

Quarto. 216 pp; fully illustrated with color photographs. Boards with dustjacket. CG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy. Over 300 color photographs, drawings, watercolors, and sketches of a wide range of renovated rural homes. They show mansions and country houses that have been renovated retaining original materials, textures and colors.
Inventory number #002357

Ojeda, Oscar Riera
40 HOUSES
San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2003

Square octavo. 349 pp; profuse color photographs. Illustrated boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG. Featuring 40 majestic homes from New England to California to South America designed by ten international architects, this collection includes 400 full-color photographs, detailed architectural drawings, and sketches. Architects include Enrique Browne, Christian de Groote, Alfredo DeVido, and Gwathmey Siegel.
Inventory number #002355

Girling, Richard, ed.
THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH GARDEN
London: Macmillan, 1988

Quarto. 224 pp; color illustrations throughout; supplement of 100 historic gardens to visit; index; bibliography. Cloth with dj. VG/VG. Contributions by Richard Mabney, Hugh Johnson, Penelope Hobhouse, Brian Jackman, John Brookes, and Christopher Thacker.
Inventory number #002353

Knight, Charles Brunton. Signed by Illustrator Alfred Gill
THIS IS YORK: A Personally-Conducted Tour
York & London: Herald Printing Works, 1954

Second printing. Octavo. xxiv, 244 pp; 7 color plates & numerous b/w drawings by Alfred Gill; index. Maroon cloth with gilt lettered spine in dustjacket, map of York on endpapers. VG/VG, chip at top of jacket spine and small tears on rear panel. SIGNED by illustrator Alfred Gill.
Inventory number #002284

Reynolds, James
FABULOUS SPAIN
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1953

First edition. Octavo. xvi, 319 pp; drawings by the author. Cloth with dustjacket, colorful illustrated endpapers. VG/VG-, chip missing at top of jacket spine, light edgewear.
Inventory number #002283

Moldoveanu, Mihail
BARCELONA: Architectures of Exuberance
Barcelona: Lunwerg, 1996

Small folio. Unpaginated; loaded with color photographs, many full page; bibliography. Text in Spanish and English. Cloth with dj in pictorial slipcase. Fine/Fine/VG+.
Inventory number #002258

McMillan, Patricia Hart & Rose Bennett Gilbert
DECORATING COUNTRY-STYLE : The Look and How to Have It
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1980

Small quarto. 224 pp; b/w photographs throughout. Cloth-backed boards with dj. VG/VG.
Inventory number #002220

Dickey, Page
DOGS IN THEIR GARDENS
NY: Stewart Tabori & Chang, 2001

Octavo. 96 pp, color photographs throughout. Cloth with dj. VG/VG.
Inventory number #002212

Swan, Susan Burrows
PLAIN & FANCY American Women and Their Needlework, 1700-1850
NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977

First printing. Octavo. 240 pp; profusely illustrated with 42 color & 123 b/w photographs from the collection of the Winterthur Museum. Publisher's red cloth with black-lettered cover & spine in dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a crisp, tight, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with minor edgewear. Review slip laid in.
Inventory number #002171

Guignard, V.
LA TOURAINE Jardin de la France
Tours: Maison Alfred Mame et Fils, 1910

Quarto. 25 pp; 10 photogravures & 10 drawings. Text in French. Paper covers. Light wear to covers, random foxing.
Inventory number #002149

Rowe, Vivian
RETURN TO NORMANDY
London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1951

First edition. Octavo. 191 pp; frontispiece & 16 b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dustjacket; map on endpapers. VG/VG-, scattered foxing on fore edges. Part of the "Windows on the World" series.
Inventory number #002142

Patmore, Derek
ITALIAN PAGEANT: A Tour Through the Cities of Tuscany and Umbria
London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1950

Later printing. Octavo. 136 pp; frointispiece & 16 b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket; map on endpapers. VG/VG. Part of the "Windows on the World" series.
Inventory number #002140

Monory, Jacques. Text: Gilbert Lascault
DERRIERE LE MIROIR No. 217: Monory. Opera Glaces
Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1976

Folio (15" x 11"). 30 pp; with 1 serigraph (covers), 13 b/w & color illustrations, including 3 double page and 1 triple page. Loose as issued in original pictorial wrappers. VG, a clean, unmarked copy internally; covers show light rubbing, a few gentle creases along spine edge on back cover.
Inventory number #002123

Gilmartin, Gregory F.
SHAPING THE CITY : New York and the Municipal Art Society
NY: Clarkson Potter, 1995

First edition. Octavo. xii, 532 pp; illustrated with b/w photographs; notes; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG, light waterstain at top corner of last 200 pp.
Inventory number #002096

Sotheby & Co
THE RENE FRIBOURG COLLECTION:I. CATALOGUE OF EUROPEAN PORCELAIN PART I
London: Sotheby & Co., 1963

Sale June 25, 1963, lots 1-68. Quarto; 80 pp; 58 plates, 13 in color. Paper covered boards with dj. VG-/G+. Small closed tears and minor chipping to top edge of dj, crown bumped, short tear to top of dj back. List of prices and buyers tipped in with yellowing cello tape on ffep.
Inventory number #002088