HOMES OF DOUBLEDAY, DORAN AND COMPANY, INC. Garden City, London, Kingswood, Surrey, Toronto
Garden City, NY: Privately Printed, 1930

Octavo. unpaginated. Fold-out frontispiece by Chester Price, b/w plates throughout; list of offices and bookstores. Original blue cloth with gilt rules and titles on cover. VG, minor wear to corners, crown bumped. Views of Country Life Press in Garden City, NY; Windmill Press in Kingswood, Surrey, England; 99 Great Russell St in London; and Amen House in Toronto, Canada.
Inventory number #011649

Ephemera - Visitors Guide
OLD WESTBURY GARDENS
Old Westbury, NY: Old Westbury Gardens, n.d.

9" x 6". [28] pp; b/w photographs; map. Stapled cream paper wraps with color photograph affixed to cover. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers lightly soiled.
Inventory number #011519

Hunt, John Dixon
THE PICTURESQUE GARDEN IN EUROPE
London: Thames & Hudson, 2002

Quarto. 208 pp; including 75 color & 100 b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. The "picturesque" or "natural" garden was the rage in eighteenth-century Europe. Largely created and crafted in England, it was exported to other countries, which strove to adapt its forms to local conditions. This is the first book about that famous episode in garden history to look at the larger, European map of landscape design.
Inventory number #011429

White, J. P.
GARDEN FURNITURE AND ORNAMENT
Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo Book, 1987

Quarto. 253 pp, illustrated with b/w photographs & drawings. Green cloth with gilt lettering on cover & spine with dustjacket, marbled endpapers. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket bright with no tears or chips. This is a reprint of the most complete catalogue of J.P. White's Pyghtle Works of Bedford, England, the foremost supplier of garden furniture and ornaments in the early part of the 20th century. They supplied.homeowners, businesses, institutions, and leading landscape architects, including Gertrude Jekyll, Edwin Lutyens, and Vita Sackville-West.
Inventory number #011425

Mawson, Timothy [Inscribed to Literary Editor Ray Roberts]
THE GARDEN ROOM: Bringing Nature Indoors
NY: Clarkson Potter, 1994

First edition. Small quarto. 176 pp; profusely illustrated with color photographs & illustrations by Ivan Terestchenko. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Presentation copy to editor Ray Roberts, inscribed, "To Ray, alas you were not my editor but I am glad you are a friend! Wamest wishes, Tim." Ray Roberts was a prominent literary editor at Macmillan, Doubleday, Little Brown, Henry Holt and most recently, at Viking until his retirement in 2005. His many distinguished authors include Thomas Pynchon, John Fowles, David Attenborough, and Ansel Adams.
Inventory number #011390

Batey, Mavis & Jan Woudstra
THE STORY OF THE PRIVY GARDEN AT HAMPTON COURT
London: Barn Elms, 1996

Reprint. Octavo. 35 pp; profuse color & b/w illustrations. Paperback. Near Fine. For well over 200 years, the outlines of King William's private garden at Hampton Court lay in secret under the soil. Today, after pioneering archaeology and exciting discoveries in the archives, an ambitious garden reconstruction has brought the magnificent ensemble back to view.
Inventory number #011001

Sotheby's
Garden, Architectural and Fossil Decoration. Sept. 26th 2006; Sale #B06821
West Sussex: Sotheby's Publications, 2006

Oblong quarto. 192 pp; illustrated throughout in color. Paperback. Near Fine.
Inventory number #010980

Desmond, Ray
KEW: The History of the Royal Botanic Gardens
London: Harvill Press, 1995

Quarto. 466 pp; 34 color plates & hundreds of b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy. This illustrated history of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew traces an evolution over more than two centuries from their origins in the reign of Queen Caroline as two royal gardens into the nation's premier botanic garden.
Inventory number #010976

Eaton, Walter Prichard
WILD GARDENS OF NEW ENGLAND
Boston: W.A. Wilde Co., 1936

Octavo. 124 pp; illustrated by b/w photographs; appendix on wild flower preservation. Dark blue cloth, no jacket. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, spine gilt dulled.
Inventory number #010726

Wright, Richardson, ed.
HOUSE & GARDEN, June 1948
NY: Conde Nast, 1948

Small folio. 194 pp; profusely illustrated. Paperback. VG, spine shows light wear, with small loss at top. Cover photograph by Tom Leonard of summer on a New England porch at the Bar Harbor home of Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer. The 1948 movie "Mr. Blandings builds his Dream House" inspired a game, an article, rooms, and a kitchen, all in this issue. Also travel articles on Canada by Dofy Munger Skaith, on Italy by Frederic Prokosch, and on Bermuda by Thomas Tileston Waterman. Also examples of four vacation houses - beach house, boat house at Lake Cazenovia, cabin on Lake Superior, and cottage at Malibu Beach. Photos of the New York Flower Show.
Inventory number #010720

Wright, Richardson, ed.
HOUSE & GARDEN, February 1948
NY: Conde Nast, 1948

Small folio. 156 pp; profusely illustrated. Paperback. VG, spine has several tears, with small loss at top. Cover photography by Shulman.
Inventory number #010719

Wright, Richardson, ed.
HOUSE & GARDEN, November 1931
NY: Conde Nast, 1931

Small folio. 116 pp; profusely illustrated. Paperback. VG. Cover design by Pierre Brissaud.
Inventory number #010716

Wright, Richardson, ed.
HOUSE & GARDEN, June 1928
NY: Conde Nast, 1928

Small folio. 176 pp; profusely illustrated. Paperback. VG. Cover design by Sue Williams
Inventory number #010715

Roberts, Mary Fanton, ed.
ARTS & DECORATION, Vol. 46, No. 3, May 1937
NY & Boston: Arts & Decoration Publishing, 1937

Folio (14" x 10"). 48 pp, incl ads; full of b/w photographs. Paperback. VG, moderate wear to spine, light edgewear. Cover from a painting by Frederick C. Frieseke, "Knitting.". Articles by Elsie de Wolfe
Inventory number #010707

Wright, Richardson, ed.
HOUSE & GARDEN, October 1930
NY: Conde Nast, 1930

Small folio. 164 pp; profusely illustrated. Paperback. VG, small loss at top & bottom of spine, light edgewear. Cover design by Pierre Mourgue
Inventory number #010706

Grisel, Laurent
LES JARDINS DE RENE PECHERE
Bruxelles: Archives d'Architecture Modern, 2002

Large quarto. 286 pp; color photographs throughout, plans. Text in French. Silver-lettered gray cloth with dustjacket. NF/NF, attractive 4" x 6" bookplate affixed to front free endpaper, else a crisp, unmarked copy, top of spine gently bumped. Rene Pechere (1908-2002), Belgian landscape architect, became known by the garden of four seasons and the Congolese garden he conceived for the Exhibition of Brussels in 1958. He created gardens for castles or simple houses in Belgium, France, Germany and Holland. The labyrinth and the garden of the heart he drew for Mr and Mrs Van Buuren in Uccle insured him an international fame. Sylvie Desauw photographed the gardens during the different seasons.
Inventory number #010662

Clements, Julia
FUN WITH FLOWERS. A Treatise on the Art of Flower Arrangement
London: C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., 1950

Quarto. 144 pp; profuse b/w photographs; appendix. Yellow cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket extremities lightly worn, spine & back cover lightly soiled.
Inventory number #010637

Sotheby's
GARDEN, ARCHITECTURAL AND NATURAL HISTORY. Tuesday 23 September 2003
Sussex: Sotheby's, 2003

Quarto. 171 pp; 675 lots, all illustrated in color and black & white. Paperback. VG, covers lightly scuffed, vertical bend to back cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #010628

Keen, Mary
THE GLORY OF THE ENGLISH GARDEN
Boston: Little, Brown, 1989

Quarto. 255 pp; approximately 250 color photographs by Clay Perry; list of gardens featured; bibliography; index. Original green gilt-lettered cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. A well-illustrated historical account of the development of the English garden from medieval times to the present.
Inventory number #010177

Shelton, Louise
BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915

First edition. Quarto. xv, 341 pp; 8 color plates, 176 b/w photographs. Original green cloth with gilt lettering & decoration. A very good, clean copy. Louise Shelton was one of the premier garden writers of the early 20th century. This, her last and perhaps most popular book, depicts numerous gardens in period photographs.
Inventory number #010031