Stoneman, Vernon C.
JOHN AND THOMAS SEYMOUR Cabinetmakers in Boston 1794-1816
Boston: Special Publications, 1959

First edition. Quarto. 393 pp; descriptive catalogue of over 250 desks, secretaries, sideboards, tables, and bureaux, all illustrated with photographs, including 9 in color; references and bibliography. Cloth. Limited edition of 2000 copies. Ex-library copy - stamp on all 3 edges, glue stain on rear pastedown where pocket was removed. Head & tail of spine starting to fray, backstrip & all corners rubbed, front cover has a few scratches, spine & top inch of covers sunned. A good reference copy.
Inventory number #004378

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

Gassner, Hubertus
KRIEG UND FRIEDEN: Eine Deutsche Zarin in Schloss Pawlowsk
Hamburg: Dolling & Galitz, 2001

First edition. Quarto. 459 pp; illustrated with numerous color & b/w illustrations; bibliography. Text in German. Powder blue boards with blue velour cut outs. Slight bump to two corners, else a fresh new copy. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Haus der Kunst Munchen, November 9, 2001-February 10, 2002. Includes some letters of Maria Feodorovna.
Inventory number #004218

Montgomery, Charles
AMERICAN FURNITURE The Federal Period in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum
NY: Viking Press, 1966

First edition. Quarto. 497 pp; 491 b/w photographs; 127 illustrations of inlays in color; 21 room settings (11 in color; 46 cabinetmakers' labels and 39 furniture details for regional identification; cabinetmakers' biographies; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG, light chipping at top & bottom of dj spine & bottom corner, dj price clipped. The important reference book on American Federal furniture; and an essential work for the serious student of American decorative arts. Arntzen P218, Franklin 2300
Inventory number #004216

Reeh, Henrik
ORNAMENTS OF THE METROPOLIS: Siegfried Kracauer and Modern Urban Culture
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005

First edition, review copy. Quarto. 248 pp; 36 b/w photographs by Reeh; notes; index. Cloth with unclipped jacket. Fine in near fine jacket. Includes MIT Press promotional sheet and bookmark. Variations on the theme of ornament in Siegfried Kracauer's urban writings, suggesting ways in which the subjective can reappropriate urban life.
Inventory number #004210

Seebohm, Caroline & Christopher Simon Sykes
PRIVATE LANDSCAPES: Creating Form, Vistas, and Mystery in the Garden
NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1989

First edition. Square octavo. xi, 251 pp; profusely illustrated with photographs & plans; appendix; source guide; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj, VG/VG. A compendium of 19 gardens in England and America that have been designed for lasting appeal -- the shapes, views, vistas and surprises that landscape architects speak of.
Inventory number #004202

Cooper, Guy & Gordon Taylor
THE CURIOUS GARDENERS: Obsession and Diversity in 45 British Gardens
London: Headline Book, 2001

First edition. Quarto. 192 pp; color photos throughout; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj. Near fine/Near fine. A very personal tour throughout Britain by these two innovative landscape designers. They categorize the gardens as either traditional, eccentric, or contemporary.
Inventory number #004198

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

Bowe, Patrick & Michael George
THE GARDENS OF IRELAND
NY: New York Graphic Society, 1986

First edition. Quarto. 189 pp; profusely illustrated in color; horticultural index. Cloth with dj. Near fine in near fine jacket. Twenty-one gardens in the English country house tradition.
Inventory number #004125

Osler, Mirabel
THE SECRET GARDENS OF FRANCE
NY: Prentice Hall Press, 1993

First edition. Octavo. 158 pp; illustrated in color throughout; index. Cloth in unclipped dust jacket. Near fine / VG, slight edgewear to jacket.
Inventory number #004124

Lovatt-Smith, Lisa
NEW YORK LIVING
NY: Whitney Library of Design, 1999

First edition. Quarto. 214 pp; color illustrations throughout; bibliography. Cloth in unclipped jacket. Near fine in near fine jacket.
Inventory number #004109

Radice, Judi
MENU DESIGN: Marketing the Restaurant Through Menu Graphics
NY: PBC International, 1985

First edition, second printing. Quarto. 250 pp; illustrated in color; appendix; list of designers; list of printers; index. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. Near fine in VG jacket, minor edgewear to dj.
Inventory number #004106

Miller, Danielle & Richard Powers
TROPICAL MINIMAL
NY: Thames & Hudson, 2006

First edition. Quarto. 192 pp, illustrated with nearly 300 color photographs; list of architects and designers. Black hardcover cloth binding with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. A new, unused copy. The authors have selected the best examples from around the globe -- from Florida to Brazil, from New Zealand to Singapore.
Inventory number #004003

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

Furneaux, Rupert
THE MEDICAL MURDERER
London: Elek Books, 1957

First edition. Octavo, 159 pp; some b/w illustrations. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. VG+/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has light soil, spine toned.
Inventory number #003731

Gorman, Michael John
BUCKMINSTER FULLER: Designing for Mobility
Milan: Skira/Rizzoli, 2005

First edition. Quarto. 207 pp; profuse b/w & color illustrations; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. A new, unused copy with no markings. A complete panorama of the activity of Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), the original and talented exponent of post-war architectural culture, illustrated through unpublished material from his archives acquired by Stanford University Libraries.
Inventory number #003544

Greenlaw, Barry A.
NEW ENGLAND FURNITURE AT WILLIAMSBURG
Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1974

First edition. Quarto. 195 pp; several color plates, 164 b/w illustrations; index. Paperback. VG.
Inventory number #003481

Church, Richard
SMALL MOMENTS
NY: E.P. Dutton, 1958

First edition. Octavo. 182 pp, illustrated with wood engravings by Joan Hassall. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, endpapers are browned from glue & remnants of tape, bookplate on pastedown.
Inventory number #003325

Fletcher, H.L.V.
THE FEATURE GARDEN
London: Phoenix House, 1960

First edition. Twelvemo. viii, 142 pp; 24 b/w photographs & 14 line drawings. Turquoise cloth with gilt-lettered spine in dustjacket. VG/VG, light rubbing to jacket extremities, jacket not price clipped; former owner name of front flyleaf, else an unmarked copy. Many examples of features which can add character to a garden - ponds, seats, summer houses, paths, walls, pergolas, sundials and bird baths, steps, and many more.
Inventory number #003177

Sinclair, Upton
ANOTHER PAMELA or, Virtue Still Rewarded
NY: Viking Press, 1950

First edition. Octavo. viii, 314 pp. Cloth with dj. NF/VG, bottom of dj spine and corners lightly chipped.
Inventory number #003132