Lancaster, Osbert
WITH AN EYE TO THE FUTURE
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967

First printing of American edition. Octavo. 156 pp; 2 full-page color illustrations & numerous line drawings by the author. Original yellow cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has edge tear at top edge on each side of spine with tape repair on reverse, jacket surface lightly rubbed. "A dazzling social history of the British upper-middle class world between the wars."
Inventory number #012070

Brown, Jane
LUTYENS AND THE EDWARDIANS: An English Architect and His Clients
NY: Viking Press, 1996

First printing. Quarto. xii, 276 pp; 26 color & numerous b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket crisp and clean. A profile of Sir Edwin Lutyens' clients.
Inventory number #011920

Lutyens, Mary
EDWIN LUTYENS by his Daughter
London: John Murray, 1980

First edition. Octavo. x, 294 pp; 39 b/w illustrations and drawings; appendix; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine in VG+ dustjacket. Biography of Sir Edwin Lutyens written by his daughter. Uncommon.
Inventory number #011917

Lutyens, Mary
EDWIN LUTYENS by his Daughter
London: Black Swan, 1991

Twelvemo. 335 pp; b/w photographs & drawings; appendix; index. Paperback. VG, light edgewear. Biography of Sir Edwin Lutyens written by his daughter. Uncommon.
Inventory number #011916

Massie, Robert K.
CATHERINE THE GREAT: Portrait of a Woman
NY: Random House, 2011

First edition. Octavo. 625 pp; 16 pp color photographs; select bibliography; index. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket bright, slight creasing at head of spine.
Inventory number #011714

Monro, Jean [signed]
11 MONTPELIER STREET: Memoirs of an Interior Decorator
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988

First edition. Octavo. xiii, 178 pp; color & b/w photos; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine in price-clipped near fine dj. SIGNED by author on title page.
Inventory number #011360

Fowler, Gene
BEAU JAMES
NY: Viking Press, 1949

Octavo. x, 389 pp, illustrated with 16 pp of b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near fine/VG; jacket has small chip to top of front panel and near the heel and a couple of small closed tears and light edgewear. The chronicle of James J. Walker, New York City's 100th mayor, known to millions as "Jimmy".
Inventory number #011315

Staggs, Sam
INVENTING ELSA MAXWELL: How an Irrepressible Nobody Conquered High Society, Hollywood, the Press, and the World
NY: St. Martin's Press, 2012

First printing. Octavo. 340 pp; 32 pp of b/w photography; extensive bibliography; index. Hardcover with dustjacket. A new, unused copy. A clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket glossy & bright with no wear. The first biography of Elsa Maxwell who rose from the San Francisco middle class to the heights of society in New York, London, Paris, Venice, and Monte Carlo.
Inventory number #011304

Gruen, John
ERIK BRUHN: Danseur Noble
NY: Viking Press, 1979

First edition. Octavo. 252 pp; b/w photographs; appendix - roles danced, productions; filmography; bibliography; index. Hardcover with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket. The biography of Erik Bruhn (1928-1986), Danish ballet dancer noted for his outstanding classical technique, who appeared mainly as a guest artist with North American and European companies.
Inventory number #011196

Salter, Elizabeth
THE LAST YEARS OF A REBEL A Memoir of Edith Sitwell
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967

Second printing. Octavo. 208 pp; frontispiece & 11 b/w photographs; index. Green cloth with gilt lettering in dj. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket has light edgewear. Dame Edith Sitwell was 69 when she invited Elizabeth Salter, a young Australian, to be her secretary. Over the next eight years she became friend, confidante and aide-de-camp, in the thick of the crises, the controversy and the celebrity that surrounded the British poet and critic.
Inventory number #010907

Skinner, Cornelia Otis
MADAME SARAH
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966

First printing (stated). Octavo. 356 pp; b/w photogarphs; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, top corner bumped; unclipped jacket has one short edge tear, minor wear to spine ends, price in ink next to printed price on jacket flap. Biography of the French stage and early film actress, who made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, and then in Europe and America. Jacket poster by Alphonse Mucha shows Ms. Bernhardt in one of her most famous roles in La Dame aux Camelias.
Inventory number #010878

Wall, Joseph F.
Andrew Carnegie's Hogmanay or A Child's New Year in Calvinist Scotland
NY: Oxford University Press, 1970

6" x 4.25". 25 pp; color illustrations by Tim Gaydos. Stapled wraps. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; minor wear to extremities. The text was adapted from chapter III of the author's biography of Andrew Carnegie.
Inventory number #010797

Forge, Andrew
RAUSCHENBERG
NY: Harry N. Abrams / Meridian Books, 1978

Octavo. 87 pp; 25 color & 26 b/w plates; autobiography; bibliography. Paperback with French flaps. Good, covers soiled, a few edge tears. A condensation of the full-length monograph previously published in hard cover by Abrams in 1969.
Inventory number #010639

Crosland, Margaret
JEAN COCTEAU. A Biography
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956

First American edition. Octavo. x, 238 pp; b/w photographs; 4 drawings by the author; extracts from letters; bibliography; some books consulted; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG-, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket with moderate wear - 1-in. x 1-in. chip at top edge of front panel, spine ends lightly chipped, small loss at top edge of back panel, a few short edge tears, rubbing & two tears at front flap fold. Biography of novelist, poet, essayist, critic, playwright, cinematographer, and artist Jean Cocteau, which includes a critical history of his creative work. His friends included Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Satie, Picasso, Raymond Radiguet, and the Six.
Inventory number #010118

Dalley, Jan
DIANA MOSLEY
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000

First American edition. Octavo. xvi, 318 pp; b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket lightly soiled. A biography of Diana Mitford, the Mitford sister who married Oswald Mosley, the leader of Britain's fascists.
Inventory number #010012

Saroyan, Aram
TRIO: Oona Chaplin, Carol Matthau, Gloria Vanderbilt: Portrait of an Intimate Friendship
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1985

First printing. Octavo. 256 pp. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has light toning at top & bottom edges of flaps.
Inventory number #009990

McBride, Mary Margaret
A LONG WAY FROM MISSOURI [Signed]
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1959

Second impression. Octavo. 254 pp; drawings by Vasiliu. Two-tone cloth with dustjacket. Inscribed by the author. VG/VG, covers clean & bright, front free endpaper browned from newspaper clipping [NY Herald Tribune, July 10, 1960, now in plastic sleeve], old cello-tape residue on rear free endpaper; unclipped jacket bright with no chips or tears. Memoir of the radio personality's early days in New York City as a girl news reporter.
Inventory number #009744

Panov, Valery & George Feifer
TO DANCE
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978

Book Club edition. Octavo. xiv, 397 pp; b/w photographs; index. Black cloth with silver lettering in dustjacket. VG/VG. Four photos that appear in book laid in. A clean, unmarked copy; light ink stain on bottom edge, jacket shows moderate rubbing, with light chipping at top & bottom of spine.
Inventory number #009711

Tebbel, John
A CERTAIN CLUB: One Hundred Years of the Players
NY: The Players, 1989

Octavo. 348 pp; color & b/w photographs. Red cloth with gilt-lettered spine, all edges gilt in illustrated slipcase.
Inventory number #009526

Bush-Brown, Louise
MEN WITH GREEN PENS: Lives of the Great Writers on Plants in Early Times
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1964

Octavo. 161 pp; (12) b/w illustrations; bibliography. Gilt-lettered green cloth in dustjacket. VG/VG, clean, unmarked copy; small chip at top of jacket spine. The author traces the history of plant investigation from Theophrastus (372 B.C.) through the era of the great herbalists of the 16th century. Includes Dioscorides, Albertus Magnus, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Otto Brunfels, Leonhard Fuchs, William Turner, Nicolas Monardes, and John Gerard.
Inventory number #009495