Constantine, Mildred & Arthur Drexler
THE PACKAGE
NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1959

Octavo. 39 pp; full of b/w photgraphs. Stapled illustrated wraps. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers have light rubbing & edge wear, 1" slit at base of spine, which has small nick. An early exhibition of package design, both re-usable and disposable. Checklist of 142 objects, with 53 objects, each described & illustrated with b/w photo.
Inventory number #013937

Galtier-Boissiere, Jean
Le Crapouillot, Numero Special 12 &13 - Paris-Guide. Double Issue
Paris: Crapouillot, 1951

Two volumes. Small folio. 160 pp; numerous b/w illustrations. Text in French. Paper covers, each with large color illustration laid on cover, in glassine. VG or better condition with no internal markings, Volume 1 pp uncut; covers bright as new, well protected by the glassine. Each cover with a large watercolor by Dignimont laid on.
Inventory number #013936

Jackson, Charles James
An Illustrated History of English Plate, Ecclesiastical and Secular - Two Volumes
NY: Dover Publications, 1969

Reprint of the original 1911 edition. Two volumes. Quarto. xxxviii, x, 1085 pp; color frontispiece; 76 b/w plates & 1506 b/w illustrations; index. Cloth with dustjackets. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jackets have light edgewear, spine of Volume 1 slightly faded, small chip at top. A comprehensive study of ecclesiastical and secular English plate describing the development of form and decoration in the silver and gold work of the British Isles, from the earliest known examples to the latest of the Georgian Period.
Inventory number #013934

Lowry, Bates
Muse or Ego : Salon and Independent Artists of the 1880's : 75th anniversary Exhibition
Claremont, CA: Pomona College Gallery, 1963

Second printing. Small quarto. 51 pp; [27] b/w illustrations. Stiff pictorial wraps. VG, faint scattered foxing on rear free endpaper & inside rear cover, light edgewear. Exhibition catalogue with 71 works.
Inventory number #013928

Marshall, F.H.
Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum
London: British Museum, 1969

Reprint of original 1911 edition. Quarto. lxii, 400 pp with 97 figures in-text plus 73 b/w plates printed on recto only; indices, table of the relative weights of English grains & French grammes. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket has light wear at spine ends, tiny tear at one corner, white spine text toned.
Inventory number #013923

Montgomery, Florence M. [Signed]
Printed Textiles : English and American Cottons and Linens 1700-1850
NY: Viking Press, 1970

First edition. Quarto. 379 pp; 30 color & 428 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, remains of removed label on front flyleaf, tiny rubbed spot on front pastedown, one corner gently bumped, barely affecting pp; clipped jacket has small chip at top of spine. Signed by Montgomery on the title page. This important reference features more than 400 examples of printed textiles from the Winterthur Museum collection.
Inventory number #013920

Sirat, Jacques & Francoise Siriex
Tapis Francais du XXe Siecle : de l'art Nouveau aux Creations Contemporaines
Paris: Editions de l'Amateur, 1993

First edition. Quarto. 237 pp; color illustrations throughout; bibliography. Text in French. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/Near Fine, small loss at top edge of pp 121-132 else a near fine copy; jacket has no visible wear. A well-illustrated chronological survey of 20th century of French carpets, including Art Nouveau, Art Deco, as well as paquebots.
Inventory number #013919

Harris, Leslie & Gervase Jackson-Stops
Robert Adam and Kedleston: The Making of a Neo-Classical Masterpiece
London: National Trust, 1987

Oblong quarto. 96 pp; 82 color & b/w plates and several b/w illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; edges of back cover lightly toned. House & Garden article, "Adam's Glory" by James Lees-Milne laid in. Catalogue to accompany "The Treasure Houses of Britain" exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, in which Kedleston was well represented. Edited & with foreword by Gervase Jackson-Stops.
Inventory number #013917

Littlefield, Doris Bayley & Steven Brooke
VIZCAYA
Miami: Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, 1984

First edition. Octavo. 94 pp; profuse color photographs by Steven Brooke. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. Vizcaya, the lavish estate on Miami's Biscayne Bay built by wealthy industrialist James Deering in the 1910's, featured a 70-room Italian baroque mansion, magnificent Italian Renaissance gardens, lagoons, canals, citrus groves, a farm village, and a yacht harbor. Originally 180 acres, the mansion and gardens today occupy 50 acres, and are open to the public.
Inventory number #013908

Oberleitner, Wolfgang. Edited by Gerhart Langthaler
Geschnittene Steine. Die Prunkkameen der Wiener Antikensammlung
Wien: Hermann Bohlaus, 1985

Octavo. 77 pp; profuse color photographs. Text in German. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket has tiny nick at one corner, else near fine.
Inventory number #013903

Fox, Celina, ed.
London - World City : 1800-1840 [John Russell's copy]
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press / Museum of London, 1992

First edition. Quarto. 624 pp; profuse color & b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, clean, tight copy; "John Russell, 1992" inked on half title page, else unmarked; jacket has one closed tear at top edge, corners & top of spine lightly rubbed. Georgian London has been the subject of numerous books, but none like this. Prepared for an exhibition mounted in Essen, Germany, this book is an exhaustive overview of the material culture of London at that point in time. The book begins with 14 essays by major British scholars on aspects of urban life, from the Coronation of George IV to the rise of popular radicalism in political and economic thought. London nourished a wide variety of aspirations; its art, theater, and economic achievements in this 40-year span were notable. The remainder of this large work is devoted to the actual exhibition catalog.
Inventory number #013901

1945 Luncheon Menu
Bill of Fame! Jack Dempsey's Broadway Restaurant Mailing Menu - Luncheon
NY: Jack Dempsey's, 1945

11" x 5.5" folded mailer, 11" x 16.5" open. Luncheon menu features complete special luncheons, a la carte, sandwiches, and cocktails, wine, and beer. Cover features quotes from nine newspapers, including Walter Winchell/Mirror; Earl Wilson/Post, and Ed Sullivan/News. Jack Dempsey's Broadway Restaurant at 49th-50th St on Broadway. William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey (1895-1983) held the world heavyweight title between 1919 and 1926. From 1935-1974, he ran Jack Dempsey's Broadway Restaurant in New York City's Times Square, on the site of the old car barn across from Madison Square Garden. Most nights for those nearly forty years would find the proprietor on hand to greet guests, sign autographs, pose for pictures, and hold court.
Inventory number #013882

Smith, Paul J.
THE BED, September 23 - November 6, 1966
NY: Museum of Contemporary Crafts, 1966

Square octavo. [36] pp; b/w illustrations. Purple stapled wraps. Near Fine, an unmarked, clean copy; covers show minimal edgewear.
Inventory number #013881

Footner, Hulbert
NEW YORK City of Cities
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1937

First edition. Octavo. 338 pp; 45 illustrations in aquatone from photographs by John J. Floherty; index. Illustrated endpapers. Silver cloth with black-lettered spine, lacks scarce jacket. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, front hinge starting to crack; spine ends with small loss, bottom boards rubbed through near spine, corner tips bumped. A photographic tour of the Big Apple during the 1930s, with images of a number of important buildings and landmarks, such as the Empire State Building and Wall Street.
Inventory number #013861

Colvin, Howard
A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840
NY: Facts on File, 1980

First American edition. Thick octavo. 1,080 pp. Cloth with gilt-lettered spine with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, an unmarked, solid copy, small dent in middle of back cover; unclipped jacket with corresponding blemish on back cover, light toning to jacket flaps. An unaltered re-issue of the British second edition of 1978. First published in 1954, this edition includes biographies of Scottish and Welsh as well as of English architects for the first time, and the starting date is now 1600 instead of 1660.
Inventory number #013856

Raines, Joan & Marvin
A Guide to Royal Bayreuth Figurals
New City, NY: Privately published, 1973

Octavo. [42] pp; 20 color plates. Plastic comb binding. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, minor edge wear.
Inventory number #013853

Macquoid, Percy
Children's Costume from the Great Masters. XV & Early XVI Centuries
London: Medici Society, 1923

Small quarto. 46 pp; 12 tipped-in color plates. Cloth-backed paper boards with color illustration inset on cover with dustjacket. VG/G, random light foxing to preliminary pp, no writing in the book; cutout jacket lacks 4.5-in. x 2-in. piece of frame at bottom of jacket front cover, and smaller loss on the fore edge.
Inventory number #013844

Strzelecki, Zenobiusz
Wspolczesna Scenografia Polska / Contemporary Polish Stage Design
Warsaw: Arkady, 1983

Small folio. 31 pp text plus over 500 b/w & color illustrations; catalogue of illustrations; list of stage designers. Text in Polish & English. Black-lettered white cloth with dustjacket; errata slip laid in. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked interior; jacket has 0.75-in. loss at head & small loss at base of spine, moderate wear to extremities. An illustrated survey of some 70 twentieth-century Polish stage designers, each represented by a small number of productions.
Inventory number #013840

Van Pelt, John V.
Selected Monuments of French Gothic Architecture. One Hundred Plates
NY: Pencil Points, 1924

First edition. Quarto. [12], 213 pp; 100 plates of photographs & illustsations; index. Brown cloth-backed with tan paper-covered boards. VG, interior clean with no markings; corners lightly rubbed, bottom corners bumped, spine gilt no longer visible; covers relatively clean.
Inventory number #013836

[Stanford White]
Illustrated Catalogue of the Artistic Furnishings and Interior Decorations of the Residence No. 121 East Twenty-First Street, New York City. April 4, 5, 6, 1907
NY: American Art Association, 1907

Octavo. Unpaginated. 409 lots of furnishings, followed by 122 lots of old and modern paintings, water colors and drawings. [24] b/w interior photographs of the house. Illustrated tan wrappers. VG, pencil notations on ffep & a few scattered ticks & prices in catalogue; spine chipped with considerable loss but still tight copy, edges rubbed, lightly soiled. The sale was held on premises at 121 East 21st St.; the catalog is organized by room - from the entrance hall, dining room, music room, library, to the picture gallery. Plus separate catalogue "Supplementary Sale" - Illustrated Catalogue of Valuable Artistic Property Collected by the late Stanford White to be sold at the American Art Galleries on Nov. 25th, 26th, 27th, 1907. Octavo. Not paginated. A total of 651 lots, some b/w photographs of the items in situ. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine has 1" loss at head, closed tear at tail, light edgewear, light soiling. The sale includes a large range of items, from furniture, tapestry, paintings, vases, columns, stained glass panels, etc.
Inventory number #013796