Wickman, Kerstin
BJORN DAHLSTROM: Designer
Stockholm: Arvinius, 2001

First edition. 9.5" x 7". [124] pp; full of color & b/w illustrations. Text in Swedish and English. Black cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. Bjorn Dahlstrom (b. 1957), a Swedish furniture and industrial designer, is well known internationally and has designed a wide variety of products - bicycles, carpets, cookware, furniture, toys - for companies such as Cbi, Magis, Atlas Copco, Iittala, and Marimekko. This book showcases close to forty examples of Dahlstrom designs, everything from cutlery and furniture to a pneumatic drill for Atlas Copco and an advanced bike for Skeppshult. The concept of this book originated in an exhibition of Bjorn Dahlstrom's work held at the Nordic embassies' "Felleshus" in Berlin in the autumn of 2000. From Berlin, the exhibition transferred to the Form/Design Center in Malmo in the spring of 2001, and then an expanded version was held at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm.
Inventory number #010216

O'Brien, Liz
ULTRAMODERN: Samuel Marx Architect
NY: Pointed Leaf Press, 2007

First edition. Large quarto. 216 pp; over 200 illustrations, most in color. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a clean, unmarked copy in fine jacket. This is the first monograph on American architect and furniture designer Samuel A. Marx 1885-1964). 20th-century decorative arts dealer and Marx expert Liz O'Brien reveals many of Marx's undiscovered projects, including houses that have been razed despite preservationist protests, as well as his range of furniture designs.
Inventory number #010180

Bosoni, Giampiero
DANTE BENINI: Architetture e Progetti 1970-1987
Milan: Mondadori, 1988

First edition. Quarto. 167 pp; color and b/w photographs, illustrations, drawings and plans throughout. Text in Italian. Cloth in dustjacket in slipcase. As new in original shrinkwrap. Many nice examples of modernist residential, commercial, civic and industrial architecture.
Inventory number #009868

Hood, Graham
AMERICAN SILVER: A History of Style, 1650-1900
NY: Praeger, 1971

First edition. Octavo. 255 pp; 286 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, former owner name on front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy; jacket shows light edgewear.
Inventory number #009788

Hurd, Charles
WHEN THE NEW DEAL WAS YOUNG AND GAY
NY: Hawthorn Books, 1965

First edition. Octavo. 288 pp; illustrated with b/w photographs. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. VG in VG- jacket. Minor rubs and minor soiling, a couple small closed tears to top edge. An account of the first four years of F.D.R.'s controversial presidency - F.D.R. and his circle.
Inventory number #009742

Garey, Carol Cooper
HOUSE BEAUTIFUL DECORATING STYLE
NY: Hearst Books, 1992

First edition. Quarto. 223 pp; full of color photographs; directory of designers & architects. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine
Inventory number #009704

Prince, Richard & John McWhinnie
RICHARD PRINCE: Good Life
East Hampton, NY: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2003

First printing. Quarto. Unpaginated. Full of color photographs by Richard Prince. Essay by John McWhinnie. Illustrated paperback. Near Fine, except for scratch on front cover, bottom of spine lightly bumped. A crisp, unused copy. Artist's book featuring Prince's photographs of his own collection of first editions, pulp fiction, art and design books and ephemera. Published in an edition of 1,000 on the occasion of an exhibition at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller.
Inventory number #009684

Wiebenson, Dora
THE PICTURESQUE GARDEN IN FRANCE
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978

First edition. Quarto. xiii, 137 pp plus 173 b/w illustrations; extensive bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a small bookplate on front pastedown, else a clean, unmarked copy; light creasing at base of jacket spine. A scholarly work on French picturesque gardens, including Ermenonville, Monceau, Mereville, Chantilly, and others.
Inventory number #009620

Eidelberg, Martin, ed.
EVA ZEISEL: Designer for Industry
Montreal: Musee des Arts Decoratifs de Montreal, 1984

First edition. 12" x 9". 119 pp; 154 color & b/w illustrations; checklist of 32 objects, list of marks; bibliography of articles written by Zeisel. Paperback. Near Fine, minor wear along edge of backstrip, else a crisp, unmarked copy. Catalogue for the fifty-year retrospective exhibition of the work of Eva Zeisel, organized by Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. It traveled through the U.S., Europe, and Russia.
Inventory number #009604

Dutton, Ralph
THE ENGLISH INTERIOR 1500 to 1900
London: B.T. Batsford, 1948

First edition. Octavo. viii, 192 pp; 171 color & b/w illustrations, plans & drawings in the text; index. Cloth. VG. Lacking dustjacket. Small pull to crown of spine. Dutton denotes the four centuries covered as Continental Influence (1500-1625), Florescence of Design (1625-1710), Age of Splendour (1710-1820), and the Decay of Taste (1820-1900)
Inventory number #009458

Gotch, J. Alfred
INIGO JONES
London: Methuen & Co, 1928

First edition. Octavo. xi, 271 pp, 8-pp adv; 31 b/w plates; appendices; chronology; index. Original red cloth with dj. Very good in vg- dustjacket, edges of boards darkened, light foxing on fore edges and occasional outer margins, spine of dj darkened. 1946 gift inscription on front free endpaper.
Inventory number #009457

Raulet, Sylvie
SALON INDIEN: L'influence de l'Europe sur L'architecture
Paris: Hazan, 1996

First edition. Folio. 293 pp; profusely illustrated with color photographs; bibliography. Text in French. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, jacket has light wear at top edge. This book focuses on the influence Europe has had on Indian architecture, decorative arts, and the Indian way of life by featuring twenty of the Maharajas' palaces.
Inventory number #009391

Worden, Helen
ROUND MANHATTAN'S RIM
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1934

First edition. Octavo. 302 pp; illustrated by the author. Original blue cloth, maps on endpapers. No jacket. VG, spine lightly sunned, else a clean, unmarked copy. Helen Worden Erskine, 1896-1984, journalist and author of The Real New York, Here is New York, and Out of this World (about the Collyer Brothers and other hermits).
Inventory number #009314

Schoeser, Mary
SANDERSON: The Essence of English Decoration
NY: Thames & Hudson, 2010

First edition. Quarto. 200 pp, with over 200 color illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a new copy. For 150 years Sanderson has been at the vanguard of significant movements in European decorative arts, from Arts and Crafts and Art Deco to 1980's country-house style to the vibrant interiors of the twenty-first century. The book features over 200 patterns specially selected from the Sanderson archives and reproduced in color.
Inventory number #009268

Woods, May
VISIONS OF ARCADIA: European Gardens from Renaissance to Rococo
London: Aurum, 1996

First edition. Quarto. 224 pp; many color & b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Inventory number #009089

Kjellberg, Pierre
Le Mobilier du XXe Siecle: Dictionnaire des Createurs
Paris: Les Editions de L'Amateur, 1994

First edition. Stout quarto. 693 pp; 540 color & 410 b/w illustrations; bibliography. Text in French. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine in Fine jacket, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket bright, with no wear. The major reference book of twentieth-century furniture designers, listing more than 600, from Alvar Aalto to Charles Zublena.
Inventory number #008983

Miller, J. Jefferson
ENGLISH YELLOW-GLAZED EARTHENWARE
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974

First edition. Quarto. 125 pp; 64 color & 74 b/w illustrations; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, previous owner's blind stamp on title page, small ink stamp at top of front flyleaf; lamination lifted at fold of front jacket flap, light edgewear. The first major study of English yellow-glazed earthenware, based on the large collection formed by Jack & Eleanor Leon, in the Smithsonian Institution.
Inventory number #008706

Zweig, Arnold
EDUCATION BEFORE VERDUN
NY: Viking Press, 1936

First edition. Octavo. 447 pp. Cloth with gilt titles in unclipped dust jacket. VG in VG- dj. Jacket has small v-shaped chip to top edge above title, 2 very small closed tears and mild wear to spine tips. German writer Arnold Zweig, a veteran of the German army, spins a tale of intrigue in the trenches. When Sergent Christoph Kroysing discovers his superiors selling army rations, he reports his discovery to the courts marshal, but before he can testify, the hearing is postponed and the private is reassigned to a dangerous post, only to be killed by a french artillary shell. However, just before his death, he enlists the help of Werner Bertin, a bookish private in a labor battalion. Bertin, in turn, draws into the investigation Kroysing's estranged elder brother, Lieutenant Eberhard Kroysing. These two characters engage in a war of wills with the criminal officers, all while simultaneously trying to stay alive in the vast waste of the battle of Verdun.
Inventory number #008701

Davis, Elmer
TWO MINUTES TILL MIDNIGHT
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1955

First edition. Octavo. 208 pp. Cloth with gilt titles in unclipped dust jacket. Near fine in vg dj. slight sunning to jacket spine. Citing the current time of the doomsday clock featured on the cover of the American Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Davis warns not of the possibility of thermonuclear war, but of the prospect that the US could lose such a war. The former NY Times reporter and nationally known WWII newscaster outlines what we can do to survive and keep the torch of freedom & liberty burning after the impending global conflict. Not your typical atomic war book.
Inventory number #008699

Carlisle, Lilian Baker
HAT BOXES AND BANDBOXES AT SHELBURNE MUSEUM
Shelburne, VT: Shelburne Museum, 1960

First edition. Octavo. 196 pp; hundreds of b/w illustrations and color frontispiece. Paperback. Near Fine. Former owner stamp on front free endpaper & same owner blindstamp on title page. Museum Pamphlet Series, number 4
Inventory number #008647