Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$20.00
Hastings, Selina
NANCY MITFORD : A Biography
NY: E.P. Dutton, 1986
First American edition. Octavo. xii, 274 pp; 16 pages of b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, previous owner name at top of front free endpaper.
Inventory number #008014
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Very Good+
Price:
$15.00
Downes, Kerry
SIR JOHN VANBRUGH: A Biography
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1987
First American edition. Octavo. 560 pp; 40 b/w photographs, 22 elevations, floor plans & drawings; chronology; genealogical tables; bibliography & references; glossary; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG+, unclipped jacket spine lightly sunned. The biography of a remarkably multitalented man whose life spanned the Restoration and the Early Georgian period. As an architect, he designed Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace; as a playwright, he wrote two of the Restoration's best comedies.
Inventory number #007958
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$10.00
Sarde, Michele
COLETTE
NY: William Morrow & Company, 1980
First edition. Octavo. 475 pp; numerous illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG in VG jacket.
Inventory number #007933
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$10.00
Francis, Claude
CREATING COLETTE: From Ingenue to Libertine 1873-1913
VT: Steerforth, 1998
First edition. Octavo. 367 pp; b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine..
Inventory number #007932
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$15.00
Phelps, Robert
BELLES SAISONS: A Colette Scrapbook
NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978
First edition. Square octavo. 302 pp; illustrated chapter titles and b/w photographs throughout. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG. Jacket has light soiling & a closed tear on back panel.
Inventory number #007931
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$10.00
Williams, Tennessee & Maria St. Just
FIVE O'CLOCK ANGEL: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just, 1948-1982
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990
First edition. Octavo. xix, 407 pp; b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Letters written over the course of three decades shed light on Williams' works, his friends and colleagues, and his dependency on alcohol and drugs.
Inventory number #007923
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$6.00
Nicolson, Nigel
VIRGINIA WOOLF
NY: Viking, 2000
First American edition. Small octavo. 195 pp; 10 b/w illustrations. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. The author, son of British writers Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, threads his personal reminiscences through the narrative of her life. His biography probes her stance on women's issues and the nature of war.
Inventory number #007905
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$20.00
Bell, Quentin
BLOOMSBURY RECALLED
NY: Columbia University Press, 1995
First American edition, first printing. Octavo. 234 pp; 18 b/w illustrations; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. A memoir of the circle of intellectuals in early 20th-century London known as the Bloomsbury group. The author writes candid portraits of his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell (Virginia Woolf's sister), Vanessa's lover Duncan Grant, and of Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry, Ottoline Morrell, and others who frequented Gordon Square in Bloomsbury and Charleston, the Bells' country place in Sussex.
Inventory number #007904
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$15.00
Jullian, Philippe
EDWARD AND THE EDWARDIANS
NY: Viking Press, 1967
First American edition. Octavo. 312 pp; illustrations by William Nicholson; bibliography; index. Burgundy cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, old dampstain near top of fore edge, only visible on 3 pp, else a bright, clean copy; jacket lightly chipped at spine ends.
Inventory number #007406
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: New
Jacket: New
Price:
$80.00
Zamperini, Alessandra
ORNAMENT AND THE GROTESQUE: Fantastical Decoration from Antiquity to Art Nouveau
NY: Thames & Hudson, 2008
First English edition. Small folio. 308 pp; 242 color illustrations; glossary; bilbiography; indices. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a new, unused copy. A lavish survey of the grotesque style in European painting and decoration, from Roman times to the late 19th century. Grotesques consist of loosely connected motifs, often incorporating human figures, birds, animals, and monsters, and arranged around medallions filled with painted scenes. They were a fashionable form of ornamentation in ancient Rome; in the 17th and 18th centuries grotesque decoration was transformed into arabesque, chinoiserie, and singeries, and how it continued in the nineteenth century, leading eventually to Art Nouveau.
Inventory number #007078
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$85.00
Blaser, Werner
MIES VAN DER ROHE The Art of Structure
NY: Whitney Library of Design, 1994
First printing. Square quarto. 238 pp; color and b/w photos and drawings; short biography; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, one short tear at top edge of front panel, else a crisp, clean copy. Expanded edition of Mies' epochal work, first published in 1965.
Inventory number #006193
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$26.00
Isaacs, Julius
OATH OF DEVOTION
NY: E.P. Dutton, 1949
First edition. Octavo. 337 pp; index. Blue cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, light wear to corners, small chip at top of jacket spine & top rear corner.
Inventory number #005496
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$23.00
Gallup, Donald, ed.
THE FLOWERS OF FRIENDSHIP: Letters written to Gertrude Stein
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953
First edition. Octavo. 403 pp; b/w illus. Blue cloth with gilt decoration on cover in dustjacket. VG/VG, bottom corner chipped, light edgewear.
Inventory number #004868
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$12.00
Bowen, Croswell
THE ELEGANT OAKEY
NY: Oxford University Press, 1956
First edition. Octavo. 292 pp, several b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Black cloth with silver-stamped spine lettering with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has small loss at head of spine & slight wear to corners, inked price next to printed price on front jacket flap. The biography of A. Oakey Hall, who served as mayor of New York City from 1869 to 1872. A lawyer, he was the prosecutor in the notorious Burdell murder case, and a chief defender of August Belmont when Belmont sued the Evening Post for libel.
Inventory number #004754
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$25.00
Brown, Jane
BEATRIX: The Gardening Life of Beatrix Jones Farrand 1872-1959
NY: Viking Press, 1995
First edition. Quarto. 252 pp; numerous color & b/w illustrations; appendices; index. Cloth with dj. Near fine/VG. Garden historian Jane Brown's biography conveys both the privileged social world in which Farrand grew up and the genius of her work at such places as Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., and the Eyrie, the Rockefeller garden at Seal Harbor, Maine.
Inventory number #004282
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$10.00
Suleiman, Susan Rubin
BUDAPEST DIARY: In Search of the Motherbook
Lincoln, NE: Univ of Nebraska Press, 1996
First edition. Octavo. 232 pp. Hardcover with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine. A clean, unmarked copy; jacket has light edgewear with minor wear to spine ends & bottom corner. The author left Budapest in 1949 as a young child with her parents, fleeing communism. This is the diary of her return 35 years later and her search for personal history.
Inventory number #004165
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Price:
$25.00
Miller, Nory
HELMUT JAHN
NY: Rizzoli, 1986
Quarto. 263 pp; numerous color and b&w photos and illustrations of projects; biography; completed buildings; projects; awards; collaborators; reviews. Paperback. Near Fine.
Inventory number #003916
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$30.00
St. John, Charles
A SCOTTISH NATURALIST The Sketches and Notes of Charles St. John 1809-1856
London: Andre Deutsch, 1982
First edition. Quarto, 191 pp; numerous color plates, many b/w sketches in the text. Cloth with dust jacket. VG+/VG+ to near fine, jacket price-clipped. A great copy.
Inventory number #003876
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$26.00
Whistler, Laurence
THE INITIALS IN THE HEART
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964
First U.S. edition. Octavo. 248 pp, illustrated with b/w photographs. Cloth with dj. VG/VG-, dj lightly rubbed, price-clipped. Laurence Whistler, British poet and glass engraver, and the younger brother of Rex Whistler, tells the story of his life with the actress Jill Furse.
Inventory number #003190
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$65.00
Armitage, Merle [Inscribed to Ruth & Charles Duell]
ACCENT ON AMERICA
NY: E. Weyhe, 1944
Limited edition of 1675 copies. Octavo. 403 pp; illustrated by the author. Dark blue cloth with red lettering in dustjacket. VG/VG, jacket spine sunned & light edge wear. Inscribed by the author "For Ruth & Charles Duell, remembering their hospitality. Looking forward. 1949." Charles Halliwell Duell (1905-1970) was an American publisher who in 1939 founded Duell, Sloan & Pearce with Samuel Sloan and Charles A. Pearce. The author's autobiography, filled with tales of his friendships with well-known writers, dancers, opera singers, and musicians. A drawing of an eagle adorns the head of the 21 chapters and title page, each contributed for this book by a well-known artist.
Inventory number #002949