Parissien, Steven
THE GEORGIAN HOUSE in Britain and America
NY: Rizzoli, 1995

First edition. Quarto. 240 pp; full of color plates; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. This book enables the reader to understand the craftsmanship and context of the Georgian house. The first part describes the development of the Georgian style; the second part focuses on each element of the house itself.
Inventory number #006672

Baird, Rosemary
MISTRESS OF THE HOUSE: Great Ladies and Grand Houses 1670-1830
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003

First edition. Octavo. xvi, 320 pp; numerous color & b/w illustrations; notes; bibliography; index. Green cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, ex-library copy - the only marking is small label on copyright page. Looks unread. A fascinating social history of the wealthy British women who became Mistress of the House.
Inventory number #006647

Ypma, Herbert
MOROCCO MODERN
NY: Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1996

First edition. Quarto. 157 pp; full of color photographs. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. The author traces the origins of the great artisan traditions that still inform modern design in Morocco. The book concludes with the work of Charles Boccara, a contemporary architect whose designs reinterpret these influences to create work that is strikingly modern.
Inventory number #006614

Davies, Karen
AT HOME IN MANHATTAN - Modern Decorative Arts, 1925 to the Depression
New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983

First edition. Quarto. 123 pp catalogue of 81 household items produced over a 12 year period. Includes photographs of the pieces and some architectural sketches. Paperback. Near Fine. Well-documented exhibition catalogue.
Inventory number #006533

Richards, J.M. & Nikolaus Pevsner, Ed.
THE ANTI-RATIONALISTS
London: Architectural Press, 1973

First edition. Quarto. 208 pp; b/w illustrations throughout. Wine cloth with silver decorative design on front cover & lettering on spine, in dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, jacket spine slightly sunned, along with top two in. on back cover. Previous owner's blind stamp at bottom of front flyleaf. A collection of 19 essays on architecture and Art Nouveau.
Inventory number #006296

Cochran, Charles B. [Inscribed to Collin Brooks]
SHOWMAN LOOKS ON
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1945

First edition. Octavo. viii, 323 pp; color frontispiece [Moulin Rouge by Toulouse-Lautrec], 32 pages of b/w plates from photographs and drawings; index. Original purple cloth with gilt-lettered spine, in dustjacket. VG/VG, top rear corner bumped; head of jacket spine chipped, small chips at corners, short tear at base of jacket spine, pp 303/304 has short tear. Inscribed by author on the title page: "To Collin Brooks, With the friendliest regards of Charles B. Cochran, Nov. 22 '45". This is Cochran's second book of reminiscences, full of tales of his fifty years in the theatrical world.
Inventory number #006275

Hers, Francois
A TALE
London: Thames and Hudson, 1983

First edition. Quarto. 167 pp; 7 color & 114 duotone photographs. Black cloth with white-lettered spine in dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, jacket chipped at top of spine, extending one inch along top edge, small chip at bottom edge of back cover. Remainder mark on bottom edge.
Inventory number #006267

Hartop, Christopher & Ellenor Alcorn
BRITISH AND IRISH SILVER in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007

First edition. Quarto. 263 pp; more than 750 duotone & 8 color illustrations; catalogue, bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. The Fogg Art Museum's silver collection is one of the most significant in America and includes objects that range from Elizabethan cups to works by such renowned artists as Paul de Lamerie. This book features over 300 pieces from the collection, that together offer a survey of silverware across three centuries.
Inventory number #006048

Roberts, Jane
ROYAL TREASURES: A Golden Jubilee Celebration
London: The Royal Collection, 2002

First edition. Folio. 496 pp; 437 color illustrations; 22 color & b/w figures; bibliography; index; royal genealogy. Blue cloth with gilt lettering in dustjacket. Fine/Fine, an unmarked, crisp copy. This book brings together over 450 of the most precious and unusual paintings, drawings, and works of art from the unparalleled Royal Collection of Queen Elizabeth II.
Inventory number #006047

Braybrooks, Neville
LONDON GREEN: The Story of Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Green Park & St. James's Park
London: Victor Gollancz, 1959

First edition. Octavo. 200 pp; color frontispiece & 48 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket, map on endpapers. Jacket lightly soiled and price clipped. The author tells the stories of the four royal parks that make up "London Green", and attempts to show why each park with its own character, has attracted a particular kind of person.
Inventory number #005994

Hearsey, John E.N.
BRIDGE, CHURCH AND PALACE in Old London
London: John Murray, 1961

First edition. Octavo. 282 pp; contemporary illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. This is an account of London's three greatest vanished buildings - Old London Bridge, Old St Paul's, and Old Whitehall Palace.
Inventory number #005993

Schleuning, Sarah & Marianne Lamonica
MODERNE: Fashioning the French Interior
Miami / NY: Wolfsonian / Princeton Architectural Press, 2007

First edition. Quarto. 384 pp; 175 color & 150 b/w illustrations; notes, index. Cloth with dustjacket Fine/Fine, a fresh, unmarked copy. Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, Pierre Chareau, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Eileen Gray: together these designers and their contemporaries pioneered the look of the modern French interior during the 1920s. This book presents the finest examples of this work in more than two hundred plates, selected by Sarah Schleuning, a curator of the Wolfsonian Museum, and faithfully reproduced to preserve their original color palettes.
Inventory number #005933

Lasdun, Susan
VICTORIANS AT HOME
NY: Viking Press, 1981

First edition. Oblong octavo. 160 pp; numerous illustrations, some in color; index. Cloth with dj. near fine in near fine dust jacket. This book traces the changing character of English homes from Queen Victoria's birth in 1819 to her death in 1901. Lasdun includes the homes of families from widely different backgrounds
Inventory number #005886

Carswell, John
THE SAVING OF KENWOOD AND THE NORTHERN HEIGHTS
Henley-on-Thames: Aidan Ellis, 1992

First edition. Octavo. 150 pp; 12 b/w photographs; sources; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. The account of how Kenwood, one of London's finest open spaces, was saved for public use, along with the house.
Inventory number #005843

Reynolds, James
SOVEREIGN BRITAIN
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1955

First edition. Octavo. xvi, 368 pp; many b/w illustrations, color endpapers & jacket by the author; index; map on rear pastedown. Cloth with fully illustrated dustjacket. VG/VG, top of jacket spine & corners chipped, light wear to bottom of pine & edges, residue of removed bookplate on reverse of front flyleaf.
Inventory number #005698

Jacobs, Karrie
THE PERFECT $100,000 HOUSE: A Trip Across America and Back in Pursuit of a Place to Call Home
NY: Viking, 2006

First edition. Octavo. 291 pp; b/w drawings by Gary Panter; bibliography; web sites; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. An architecture and design critic's coast-to-coast search for an ideal American home that is both aesthetically pleasing and affordable cites the challenges facing prospective homeowners today, describing the author's meetings with architects and builders who are revolutionizing the ways people think about homes, construction techniques, and community.
Inventory number #005555

Isaacs, Julius
OATH OF DEVOTION
NY: E.P. Dutton, 1949

First edition. Octavo. 337 pp; index. Blue cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, light wear to corners, small chip at top of jacket spine & top rear corner.
Inventory number #005496

Niles, Bo & Veronica McNiff
THE NEW YORK BOOK OF COFFEE AND CAKE
NY: City & Company, 1995

First edition. 12mo. 127 pp; drawings by Susan Colgan. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. This book profiles over 150 of the best venues - places where you can linger over a cup of coffee and fresh baked goods.
Inventory number #005316

Gable, Sally & Carl I. [Signed]
PALLADIAN DAYS: Finding a New Life in a Venetian Country House
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005

First edition. Octavo. 266 pp; b/w illustrations. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by authors. An American couple, Sally and Carl Gable, purchased the Villa Cornaro, built by Andrea Palladio in 1532. This is the story of how they came to own this great Renaissance villa outside of Venice, and what they have learned about its history during their six-month stay every year.
Inventory number #005305

Carlson, Raymond
THE FLOWERING CACTUS: An Informative Guide, Illustrated in Full-Color Photography, to one of the miracles of America's Southwest
NY: McGraw Hill, 1954

First edition. Quarto. 96 pp; profuse color & b/w photographs; list of flowering cactus, with common & botanical names, growing range, and best months for flowers. Cloth with dustjacket.
Inventory number #005244