FRIGIDAIRE RECIPES
Dayton, OH: Frigidaire Corporation, 1932

Octavo. 47 pp; several b/w photos. Tan wraps with Frigidaire logo on front cover. VG, small stains on 2 pages. A selection of recipes for salads and desserts, all tested and approved by Miss Verna L. Miller, the company's home economist.
Inventory number #001040

Gibbings, Robert
TRUMPETS FROM MONTPARNASSE
NY: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1955

First edition. Octavo. 200 pp; 8 color plates & 40 wood engravings by the author. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, back cover of jacket lightly soiled, top & bottom of jacket spine lightly chipped.
Inventory number #001026

Batchelder, Ann
NEW DELINEATOR RECIPES, Including Ten Exclusive Recipes
NY: Butterick Pub. Co., 1930

Octavo. 222 pp; illustrated with b/w photos. Green cloth with black image of a boiling tea kettle. VG. Recipes from the Delineator Magazine.
Inventory number #000980

Allen, Ida Bailey
WHEN YOU ENTERTAIN: What to Do and How
Atlanta: The Coca-Cola Company, 1932

Twelvemo. 124 pp; numerous b/w photos and illustrations throughout. Hardcover. VG- some wear to spine. Numerous recipes for entertaining, all involving Coca-Cola, presented by radio personality Ida Bailey Allen of Ask Ida fame. The table settings in the photographs were provided by Marshall Field & Company.
Inventory number #000979

Conway, J. Gregory
FLOWERS: Their Arrangement
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940

First edition. Octavo. 139 pp; 107 gravure plates. Orange cloth with black stamped lettering & decoration in dj. VG/VG-, dj lightly soiled, a couple short edge tears. Laid in is a blank 1943 order sheet from Conard-Pyle Co., West Grove, PA - Star Rose Growers.
Inventory number #000966

Massingham, Betty
A CENTURY OF GARDENERS
London: Faber and Faber, 1982

First edition. Octavo. 256 pp; 38 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG.
Inventory number #000938

Dunthorne, Gordon
FLOWER AND FRUIT PRINTS OF THE 18TH AND EARLY 19TH CENTURIES : Their History, Makers and Uses, with a Catalogue Raisonne of the Works in Which They are Found
Washington, DC: Privately published, 1938

Limited edition of 2500 copies. Quarto. 275 pp; illustrated in color and b&w; index. Cloth in slipcase, both in near fine condition. An important reference work.
Inventory number #000925

Davidson, Marshall B. & Elizabeth Stillinger
THE AMERICAN WING at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985

First edition. Quarto. 352 pp; profusely illustrated with 524 color & b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG. A well-illustrated survey of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum, home of America's most important collection of painting, sculpture and decorative arts, dating from 1630. Separate chapters on the Period Rooms, furniture, silver, pewter, ceramics, glass, paintings, prints, drawings and watercolors, and sculpture.
Inventory number #000905

Dana, Mrs. William Starr
ACCORDING TO SEASON: A Celebration of Nature
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990

Octavo. xii, 175 pp; 16 color plates by Elsie Louise Shaw. Green cloth with gilt decoration & lettering in cardboard slipcase with color plate affixed. VG/VG-, a few spots of light soiling on slipcase.
Inventory number #000901

Howarth, Patrick
THE YEAR IS 1851
London: Collins, 1951

First edition. Octavo. 256 pp; over 80 b/w illustrations; index. Green cloth with black spine lettering in dj. Faint 1" stain on fore-edge; dj has red (wine?) stain near right edge of front cover & foxing on back cover. An entertaining account of Britain in 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition, and of its personalities and their way of life. It was an era of amazing ebullience and startling contrasts.
Inventory number #000869

Croutier, Alev Lytle
TAKING THE WATERS : Spirit, Art, Sensuality
NY: Abbeville Press, 1992

First edition. Octavo. 224 pp; numerous color & b/w illustrations; guide to the world's most exclusive spas; bibliography; index. Light blue cloth with blind stamped title on cover & gilt spine lettering, in dj. VG/VG.
Inventory number #000852

Hillerin, Jean de & Alfred Marie
STYLES DE FRANCE: Objets et Collections de 1610 a 1920
Paris: Le Rayonnement Francais, n.d.

Quarto. 218 pp; several color & many b/w illustrations. Text in French. Hardcover in slipcase. Slipcase is worn along edges, with splits at corners & along top edge; book is very good. A well-illustrated survey of bronzes, hardware, clocks, lighting, silver, ceramics, glass, and mirrors.
Inventory number #000770

Marbury, Elisabeth
MY CRYSTAL BALL Reminiscences
NY: Boni and Liveright, 1924

Third printing. Octavo. 355 pp; 20 illustrations from photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG-. Rare in jacket
Inventory number #000738

Richter, Anne
ARTS AND CRAFTS OF INDONESIA
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994

First edition. Square octavo. 160 pp; profusely illustrated in color & b/w; map; glossary; bibliography. Paperback with flaps. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. This book features the diversity of Indonesian decorative arts - textiles and beading, wood and horn carvings, pottery ranging from simple cooking pots to elaborate terracotta modeling, jewelry and metalwork, masks and puppets, and baskets.
Inventory number #000717

Boston, Richard
OSBERT A Portrait of Osbert Lancaster
London: Collins, 1989

First edition. Octavo. 256 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; appendices; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket not price clipped. Biography of Osbert Lancaster (1908-86), one of the great English comic artists of the 20th century. For 40 years a "Daily Express" cartoonist, he designed many theatrical productions and wrote two volumes of autobiography, as well as several other books.
Inventory number #000688

Cerwinske, Laura
MIAMI Hot & Cool
NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1990

First edition. Square quarto. 232 pp; profusely illustrated in color; directory; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, jacket not price-clipped. A look inside residences, from bungalows, deco & modern interiors to Mediterranean style, and seven gardens. They include Vizcaya, the 70-room villa on Biscayne Bay; the Pink House, bungalows of salvaged wood in Coconut Grove, and contemporary homes with the Deco curves of Miami Beach.
Inventory number #000681

Parker, Gilbert & Claude G. Bryan
OLD QUEBEC The Fortress of New France
NY: Macmillan Company, 1903

Second printing. Octavo. xxiv, 486 pp; numerous b/w illustrations. Publisher's red cloth with gilt decoration & lettering on cover & spine, top edge gilt. VG, previous owner name on front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy, a bit of residual glue on front pastedown from removed bookplate; light wear to cover extremities.
Inventory number #000642

Cobb, Irvin S.
"SPEAKING OF OPERATIONS--"
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1915

Twelvemo. 64 pp; frontispiece & 3 illustrations by Tony Sarg. Paper-covered boards in dj. VG/Good. Dj lightly soiled, edges have a few chips & short tears.
Inventory number #000633

Cobb, Irvin S.
EATING IN TWO OR THREE LANGUAGES
NY: George H. Doran Company, 1919

Twelvemo. 64 pp; 3 illustrations by Herbert Johnson. Tan pictorial boards illustrated in green and black, missing jacket. VG, spine darkened with wear along backstrip & small chip at top of spine, covers lightly soiled, top corner of back cover creased, all corners rubbed. Title page and pages opposite illustrations are lightly foxed.
Inventory number #000632

[Boston]
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF METROPOLITAN PARK COMMISSIONERS, January 1905
Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1905

First edition. Octavo. 115 pages, illustrated with folding maps, diagrams, and 7 full-page photographic plates. Brown cloth, title in gilt to cover and spine. Book is in very good, clean, bright and tight condition.
Inventory number #000601