Melly, George
PARIS AND THE SURREALISTS
NY: Thames and Hudson, 1991

First edition. Quarto. 159 pp; 104 duotone illustrations; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. The author offers a narrative history of Surrealism, and also analysis of the major works of Surrealist literature, all of which are imbued with the essence of Paris.
Inventory number #007796

Asensio Cerver, Francisco
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
NY: Whitney Library of Design, 1997

First edition. Large quarto. 207 pp; color photographs, elevations, floor plans throughout. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket has light edgewear.
Inventory number #007782

Lyall, Sarah
THE ANGLO-FILES: A Field Guide to the British
NY: W.W. Norton, 2008

First edition. Octavo. 289 pp. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. Sarah Lyall, a reporter for the NY Times, moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for her amusing and incisive dispatches on her adopted country. As she came to terms with its eccentric inhabitants, she found that she had a ringside seat at a singular transitional era in British life.
Inventory number #007752

Dean, Jan
THE GARDENER'S READING GUIDE
NY: Facts on File, 1993

First edition. Octavo. 250 pp. Hardcover with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. This is the first popular bibliography of gardening literature. More than 3000 annotated entries describe all types of gardening books, from gardening anthologies and personal narratives to the vast array of how-to titles.
Inventory number #007744

Tierney, Tom
MOVIE STAR VAMPS AND SCAMPS: Paper Dolls
Mineola, NY: Dover, 2003

First edition. Quarto. 32 pp; 12 dolls and 32 costumes on 16 color plates. Paperback. A fine copy. This paper doll collection focuses on 12 femmes fatales who dominated the silver screen from the silent era through the 1930s, accompanied by costumes from their most popular films. The actresses are: Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Barbara La Marr, Myrna Loy, Mae Murray, Nita Naldi, Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Mae West.
Inventory number #007725

Workman, Liz
DR. JOHNSON'S DOORKNOB and Other Significant Parts of Great Men's Houses
NY: Rizzoli, 2007

First edition. Square octavo. 207 pp; color illustrations & photographs throughout. Cloth with dustjacket in slipcase. A new, unused copy This small book of Liz Workman's photographs doesn't stop at doorknobs. It shows us other unexpected details from eminent homes -- George Washington's mantelpiece, for example, Thomas Jefferson's bed, Charles Darwin's soup tureen, Victor Hugo's skirting board, and Sigmund Freud's mirror. The book features 103 items in ten chapters - doorknobs, crockery, mantelpieces, chairs, desks, books, banisters, mirrors, skirting boards and beds. There is no text, just brief captions and an index of addresses.
Inventory number #007717

Mackay, Donald A.
THE BUILDING OF MANHATTAN
NY: Harper & Row, 1987

First edition. Quarto. 150 pp; hundreds of line drawings by the author. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, head & tail of jacket spine lightly chipped. Filled with hundreds of carefully researched line drawings, Donald Mackay shows us how Manhattan was constructed above ground and below. The book details the growth of New York from the Dutch settlements to the initial build-up of downtown to the gradual expansion uptown.
Inventory number #007713

Shvidkovsky, Dimitri
THE EMPRESS AND THE ARCHITECT: British Architecture and Gardens at the Court of Catherine the Great
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996

First edition. Quarto. 282 pp; 100 color plates & 190 b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Inventory number #007595

Racine, Guillemette
ART ET DECORATION: 1946-1959, Les Annees "Nostalgie"
Paris: Charles Massin, 1996

First edition. Quarto. 155 pp; full of color & b/w illustrations. Text in French. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Inventory number #007552

Atkinson, Alex & Ronald Searle
THE BIG CITY or the New Mayhew
NY: George Braziller, 1959

First edition. Quarto. 110 pp; illustrations by Ronald Searle. Cloth-backed boards with gilt-lettered spine in dustjacket. VG+/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket - spine & fore edge toned, neatly repaired two-in. tear at top of spine.
Inventory number #007533

Tabori, Paul
THE ART OF FOLLY
Philadelphia: Chilton, 1961

First edition. Octavo. 259 pp. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, jacket spine sunned as well as 1" at top edge and fore edge; not price clipped.
Inventory number #007508

Roberts, Cecil
AND SO TO ROME
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950

First edition. Octavo. 245 pp; b/w illustrations. Cloth with unclipped dustjacket. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket; a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #007422

O'Hagan, Helen, Kathleen Rowold & Michael Vollbracht
BILL BLASS: An American Designer
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2002

First edition. Quarto. 272 pp; color & b/w illustrations throughout. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, small black dot on bottom edge. Published to accompany a major retrospective of the designer's 50-year career, this volume features over 100 new photographs by such notables as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Horst, and Guy Bourdin, in addition to Blass's own sketches.
Inventory number #007311

Muthesius, Stefan
THE POETIC HOME: Designing the 19th-Century Domestic Interior
NY: Thames & Hudson, 2009

First edition. Quarto. 352 pp; 120 color & 276 b/w illustrations; bibliography; notes; index. Cloth with dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. This book traces significant changes in logic-based home design in America and Europe throughout the 19th century, outlining the practice of "poetic home" design through which a structure was built for atmosphere and character and embellished with new decorative materials and light-enhancing features.
Inventory number #007264

Murphy, Veronica & Rosemary Crill
TIE-DYED TEXTILES OF INDIA: Tradition and Trade
Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 1991

First edition. Quarto. 206 pp; approx 174 color & 14 b/w illustrations; map; appendices; glossary; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, short tear at top of jacket spine. This book illustrates 140 key pieces in the collection of Victoria & Albert Museum's Indian Dept. Rosemary Crill discusses the indigenous tradition of tie-dying; Veronica Murphy discusses her pioneering study of the Bengal export trade in tie-dyed handkerchiefs, and their Indian and European imitations.
Inventory number #007215

Esten, John & Rose Bennett Gilbert
MANHATTAN STYLE
NY: Little, Brown, 1990

First edition. Quarto. vii; 215 pp; fully illustrated with color photographs by George Chinsee; bibliography, index. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket has short crease at upper corner of back cover, two corners lightly rubbed. Also paper clip indentations at the top of several pages. This book profiles the interiors of Elsie de Wolfe, Rose Cumming, Sister Parish, Albert Hadley, William Odom, Van Day Truex, Billy Baldwin, David Easton, and many other Manhattan designers.
Inventory number #007152

Baltanas, Jose
WALKING THROUGH LE CORBUSIER: A Tour of His Masterworks
NY: Thames & Hudson, 2005

First edition. Oblong quarto. 191 pp; 247 color & 130 b/w illustrations. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. This book features some of Le Corbusier's most important European buildings, complemented by others that are less well known. The photographs, taken sequentially by the author, provide a narrative description of each building.
Inventory number #007141

Gillan, John, Leonardo Alvarez & Joseph Dillon Ford, eds.
PLACES IN TIME: Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Miami
Miami: Florida International University, School of Design, 1994

First edition. Octavo. ix, 181 pp; b/w photographs by John Gillan; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine, bit of edgewear to bottom front corner. The first publication to examine the historic architecture and landscapes of Dade County by juxtaposing art-quality photographs and authoritative texts written by experts in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, south Florida history, and environmental preservation.
Inventory number #006886

McCarthy, Mary. Foreword by Elizabeth Hardwick
INTELLECTUAL MEMOIRS: New York, 1936-1938
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992

First edition. Octavo. xxii, 114 pp. Blue cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, gift inscription on ffep, else an unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket bright with no wear. This slender sequel to How I Grew (1987), left unfinished at McCarthy's death in 1989, vibrates with the wicked wit and moral astringency that made the author a giant of American belles-lettres.
Inventory number #006827

Colby, Reginald
MAYFAIR: A Town within London
NY: A.S. Barnes, 1966

First edition. Small quarto. 178 pp; 47 b/w illustrations; index. Map of Mayfair on endpapers. Green cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket is lightly chipped at top & bottom of spine & corners, spine & part of back panel a bit sunned. The author has written an enlightening history of Mayfair's parks, squares, buildings, and people, past and present.
Inventory number #006690