Lieberman, William S.
MAX ERNST
NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1961

Square octavo. 63 pp; tipped-in color frontispiece, numerous b/w photographs; catalogue of the exhibition of 240 pieces; bibliography. Paperback. VG. Catalogue of an exhibition of Ernst's paintings, sculpture and reliefs; watercolors, drawings, gouaches, collages; portfolios and illustrated books.
Inventory number #002081

Honey, W. B.
FRENCH PORCELAIN OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
London: Faber & Faber, 1972

Second edition. Octavo. 78 pp; 8 color plates including frontispiece & 96 b/w plates; bibliography; index. Cloth with dust jacket. VG/VG. A clean, unmarked copy; Watson Guptill publisher sticker over Faber imprint on spine of price-clipped jacket, minor soiling to jacket. The authoritative study of the soft-paste wares of Saint-Cloud, Chantilly, Mennecy, Vincennes and Sevres. The author, who was Keeper of the Department of Ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum, combines detailed historical information about the factories and their wares with a deep aesthetic appreciation of their rare qualities. First published in 1950, this edition includes four new color plates and the bibliography has been brought up to date. Includes a comprehensive chapter on marks and a short chapter on forgeries.
Inventory number #002045

Ballu, Nicole
LA PORCELAINE FRANCAISE
Paris: Editions Charles Massin, n.d.

n.d. (1950s). Quarto. 16 pp; 37 plates some in color. Text in French. Cloth with dj. VG/VG- some soil and wear to dj.
Inventory number #002043

Meister, Peter Wilhelm & Horst Reber
EUROPEAN PORCELAIN OF THE 18TH CENTURY
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983

First edition. Quarto. 320 pp; illustrated in color and b/w; notes; bibliography; maps and chronological tables; index. White cloth with black titles. Lacking dj. VG. minor soiling to covers.
Inventory number #002022

Peter Pauper Press
THE ABC OF CHAFING DISH COOKERY
Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1956

Slim octavo; 61 pp; color page decorations by Ruth McCrea. Decorated boards with dj. NF-/NF. Previous owners address sticker on ffep, else near fine.
Inventory number #002017

Kirk, John T.
AMERICAN FURNITURE & THE BRITISH TRADITION TO 1830
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982

First edition. Quarto. xiv, 397 pp; 1508 b/w & color illustrations; notes; indexes. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #001978

Van Dyke, Henry
THE GRAND CANYON and Other Poems
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914

First edition. Octavo. 78 pp, with 23 poems. Cloth with gilt titles on face and spine. VG, slight wear to spine ends, front free endpaper removed.
Inventory number #001963

Sanchez-Pacheco, Trinidad, Maria Dolors Giral, et al
CERAMICA ESMALTADA ESPANOLA
Barcelona: Labor, 1981

Quarto. 207 pp; profuse color photographs; bibliography; index. Text in Spanish. Blue cloth with gilt lettering in dustjacket.VG/VG, jacket shows light edgewear, small dampstain on inside of jacket near bottom of rear panel, not visible on exterior. Former owner name on front free endpaper.
Inventory number #001933

Peirce, Donald C.
ENGLISH CERAMICS The Frances and Emory Cocke Collection
Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1988

Quarto. 255 pp; 235 objects described and illustrated in color; bibliography; index. Paperback. VG. A well-rounded collection of 18th-century English porcelain and pottery.
Inventory number #001932

Strachey, Lytton
EMINENT VICTORIANS: The Illustrated Edition
NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989

First U.S. edition. Small quarto. 192 pp; numerous color & b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Front free endpaper has vertical crease, top corner gently bumped, else VG/VG. Biographies of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon.
Inventory number #001923

Corbitt, Helen
HELEN CORBITT COOKS FOR LOOKS An Adventure in Low-Calorie Eating
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967

Third printing. Octavo. 115 pp; occasional b/w illustration in the text; index. Cloth with unclipped dj. VG+/VG- mild wear to dj, previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. A treasury of deliciously slimming recipes by the director of the Neiman-Marcus Restaurants.
Inventory number #001895

Crawford, Mary Caroline
OLD NEW ENGLAND INNS
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1924

New edition. 8" x 5.5" x 1.5". xiii, 381 pp; 48 photographs. Original pictorial cloth with gilt lettering & rules, with color illustration pasted on front cover, in dustjacket with identical image. Near Fine copy - cover and spine are as bright as the day it was printed; jacket has two small edge chips & a small edge tear on the back panel. Former owner name on front pastedown (under jacket flap). The first edition was published 1907 under the title: Among old New England inns. This is a volume in the series "Little Pilgrimages." Uncommon in jacket.
Inventory number #001864

Scott-James, Anne
GARDENING LETTERS TO MY DAUGHTER With Some Replies from Clare Hastings
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1991

First U.S. edition. Octavo. 184 pp; illustrated by Virginia Powell. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, binding tight; unclipped jacket is crisp & bright. The author and her daughter, Claire Hastings, lived next door to each other in a village on England's Berkshire Downs.
Inventory number #001809

Cooper, James Fenimore
CHAPTERS from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper
NY: Westvaco, 1986

Limited edition. Octavo. 343 pp; 44 reproductions of sleel engravings by F.O.C. Darley. Dark green cloth in illustrated slipcase. Top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers. VG/VG. Privately published by Westvaco, Christmas 1986.
Inventory number #001767

Bemelmans, Ludwig
THE EYE OF GOD
NY: Viking Press, 1949

First edition. Octavo. vi, 312 pp. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG-, bottom of jacket spine lightly chipped. Novel set in Bemelman's native Tyrol. Color illustration by Bemelmans on endpapers.
Inventory number #001747

Strohl, Mike
NEW AMERICAN STYLE
Glen Cove, NY: PBC International, 1997

First edition. Quarto. 175 pp; color photographs. Cloth with dj. VG+/VG+. Foreword by Suzanne Slesin. Very nicely presented, a wide selection of styles, from folk art to modern.
Inventory number #001732

Hurst, A.
A CATALOGUE OF THE BOYNTON COLLECTION OF YORKSHIRE POTTERY
: Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 1922

Octavo. 71 pp; 36 b/w illustrations. Wraps. VG. The collection presented to the Yorkshire Museum 1916 and 1920 together with notes on some of the Yorkshire Potteries and the marks used by them.
Inventory number #001703

Bailey, Liberty Hyde et al
Botany: Plants and Gardening: A Selection of Articles from the New 14th Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
NY: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1933

Quarto. xvii, 239 pp; 7 color & 30 halftone plates. Green cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, offsetting from jacket flaps on front & rear endpapers, cloth covers clean & bright; price clipped jacket has light wear, spine lightly toned.
Inventory number #001643

Sitwell, Sacheverell & Wilfrid Blunt
GREAT FLOWER BOOKS, 1700-1900 : A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books
NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990

First printing. Quarto. xi, 189 pp; 50 full-page color plates; comprehensive bibliography; appendix to the new edition; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #001640

Wolsey, S. W. & R. W. P. Luff
FURNITURE IN ENGLAND The Age of the Joiner
NY: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969

Octavo. xiv, 104 pp; frontispiece + 123 b/w illustrations; glossary; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG-. The period from the end of the reign of Henry VIII to the last days of the Commonwealth was the heyday of the joiner.
Inventory number #001603