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Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$400.00

Sandler, Irving. Foreword by August Heckscher
Sculpture in Environment; [catalogue of an exhibition] Oct. 1-31, 1967
NY: New York City Administration of Recreation.and Cultural Affairs, 1967

Square octavo. [48] pp; [24] b/w photographs. Orange stapled wraps with title in white on front cover. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; a few tiny scratches beneath title on cover, gentle vertical crease to back cover. Exhibition catalog for New York City's first major outdoor group exhibition of temporary public art, entitled "Sculpture in Environment," organized by Doris Freedman, and curated by Sam Green. The show encompassed the works of 24 artists including Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg, and Louise Nevelson installed at 9 city park locations and 15 public or corporate buildings or plazas.
Inventory number #013236



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$10.00

Lagercrantz, Bo
Gamla tallrikar / Ur tallrikens Historia
ICA-forlaget: Vasteras, 1972

Small octavo. 98 pp; b/w & color photographs. Text in Swedish. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, covers bright.
Inventory number #013226



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None


Price:
$110.00

Gerlach, Martin & Michael Haberlandt
DIE QUELLE VII. Volkerschmuck
Wien: Gerlach & Wiedling, 1906

Oblong quarto. 22 pp text; 109 b/w plates of photographs (complete). Loose in portfolio with ties. Very good. Text in original German. All 109 plates illustrate numerous items of jewelry from all cultures and societies. Each piece is numbered and catalogued in text section. A remarkable book and reference, uncommon with all plates present.
Inventory number #013222



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Jacket: Near Fine


Price:
$95.00

Horvat, Frank & Catherine Join-Dieterle
De La Mode & Des Jardins: Au Musee Galliera
Paris: Paris-musees / Imprimerie nationale Editions, 1997

First edition. Small folio. 203 pp; profusely illustrated with color photographs; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine, crisp, unmarked copy; jacket glossy & bright with no wear. Presenting an historical review of botanical and floral motifs in French fashion while exploring parallels between general principles of textile and garden design, this catalogue features a multi-part text along with photographs of nearly 100 garments and fashion accessories from the museum's collection dating from the late 17th century to the 1990s, including pieces by Chanel, Lanvin, Balenciaga, Cardin, Dior and Saint Laurent.
Inventory number #013217



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$25.00

Becker, Ingeborg
Schmuckkunst im Jugendstil : [Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung im Brohan-Museum Berlin, 20.12.1988 - 13.2.1989]
Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1989

Second printing. Octavo. 95 pp; profuse color & b/w photographs; index. Text in German. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, minor edge wear. The catalogue features 213 items by many jewelry designers, including Mogens Ballin, Karl Johann Bauer, Theodor Fahrner, Josef Hoffmann, Patriz Huber, Georg Jensen, Georg Kleemann, Viktor Mayer, Adolf Meyer, Christian W. Muller, Murrle, Bennett & Co., Otto Zahn, and others.
Inventory number #013216



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Very Good+


Price:
$20.00

Klagsbald, Victor
Catalogue raisonne de la collection juive du Musee de Cluny
Paris: Ministere de la culture, Editions de la Reunion des musees Nationaux, 1981

Quarto. 136 pp; 6 color plates; catalogue of 182 objects with full description & b/w photos; glossary; index; bibliography. Text in French. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG+, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket shows light wear at spine ends & corners. Catalogue raisonne of the Cluny Museum's Judaica collection.
Inventory number #013191



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None


Price:
$50.00

Kahler, Heinz
Alberti Rubeni Dissertatio de Gemma Augustea
Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1968

Quarto. 39 pp plus 24 b/w plates. Text in German & Latin. Blue paper-covered boards. VG, a clean, unmarked copy. Facsimile reprint from the author's De re vestiaria veterum, Antwerpen 1665.
Inventory number #013185



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Jacket: Fine


Price:
$125.00

Hernmarck, Carl
The Art of the European Silversmith 1430-1830. Two Volumes
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1977

Two volumes. Quarto. Vol. 1: Text, 411 pp. Vol II: Plates, 386 pp; over 1000 b/w plates; bibliography; indices. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine in Near Fine slipcase. A clean, unmarked copy; jackets have minute wear to spine ends, else glossy & bright with no wear; slipcase with one corner lightly rubbed, short split at one corner of opening.
Inventory number #013169



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good+


Price:
$40.00

Beckerdite, Luke, ed.
AMERICAN FURNITURE 2000
Milwaukee, WI: Chipstone Foundation, 2000

Quarto. xi, 2239 pp; many b/w & color illustrations; index. Paperback. VG+, minor edgewear, spine slightly cocked, minor scuffing to covers. This issue presents articles on: the early furniture of Christopher & Job Townsend, furniture by the Potthast Brothers of Baltimore, 1892-1975; the genesis of Neoclassical Style in Baltimore Furniture; Baltimore cabinetmaker Edward Priestley; John Cadwalader's commode-seat side chairs; Patronage in early Salem: The Symonds Shops; and Cultural Negotiations: A Study of the New Mexican Caja. Also book reviews and a list, "Recent Writing on American Furniture," compiled by Gerald W.R. Ward.
Inventory number #013166



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None


Price:
$30.00

Komleva, Galina
Jewellery: Museum of the Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR
Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1988

Octavo. 167 pp; color photographs throughout; 2-pp glossary. Text in English. Laminated illustrated boards. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, light wear to spine ends (gently bumped) & corners.
Inventory number #013161



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$50.00

Helvenston, Harold
SCENERY: A Manual of Scene Design
Stanford University, CA: Stanford University Press, 1931

First edition. Quarto. xvi, 95 pp; tipped-in color frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Green cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with small triangular tear on rear cover, spine ends lightly chipped, jacket lightly soiled.
Inventory number #013148



Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$150.00

Lunsingh Scheurleer, Theodoor Herman
PIERRE GOLE, Ebeniste de Louis XIV
Dijon: Editions Faton, 2005

Quarto. 281 pp; profuse color photographs; index. Bound in full leather in slipcase. Text in French. #67 of 220 copies in full leather, top edge gilt. Near Fine in Near Fine slipcase, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #013144



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$20.00

Fifoot, Richard
A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971

Second edition, revised. Octavo. 432 pp. Red cloth with gilt-lettered spine with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, top corner bumped, not affecting text block; price-clipped jacket shows light soil.
Inventory number #013141



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$15.00

Pepys, Samuel. Edited By Robert Latham
The Illustrated Pepys: Extracts from the Diary
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978

First edition. Quarto. 240 pp; 14 color plates & numerous b/w illustrations; chronological summary; index, glossary. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, an unmarked copy, bottom corners bumped, not affecting pages; unclipped jacket shows minimal wear.
Inventory number #013140



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$25.00

Stelling, Lord-Wood and Van Suetendael
General Development Plan Penobscot Bay - Mt. Desert Planning Area
Hartford, CT: Stelling, Lord-Wood & Van Suetendael, 1962

Oblong folio. 64 pp, 5 pp printed on only one side; 5 plans in color; 5 tables. Plastic spiral binding. VG,
Inventory number #013138



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$20.00

City Plan Commission.
COLLEGE HILL, Demonstration Grant Study, Project R.I. D-I
Providence, RI: Providence City Plan Commission, 1959

Oblong quarto. ix, 213 pp; full of b/w photographs, plans and maps. Plastic spiral binding. VG, former owner name stamp on front flyleaf & cover, else an unmarked copy, light edge wear to stiff card covers.
Inventory number #013137



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$15.00

Penoyre, John & Michael Ryan
THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF ARCHITECTURE
London / NY: Frederick Warne & Co., 1970

Fifth edition. Sixteenmo. 223 pp; many illustrations (some in color); map; illustrated glossary. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, price-clipped jacket shows minor wear at top of spine & corners, red spine lettering a little faded. #13 in the Observer's Pocket series
Inventory number #013124



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$100.00

Chamberlain, Samuel (Inscribed)
ETCHED IN SUNLIGHT: Fifty Years in the Graphic Arts
Boston: Boston Public Library, 1968

Small folio. 227 pp; 443 b/w illustrations; list of illustrations; index. Gilt-stamped green cloth with dustjacket. VG+/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has small chip at head of spine.
Inventory number #013117



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Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good+
Jacket: None


Price:
$1500.00

Lindeberg, H.T. Introduction by Royal Cortissoz
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF H.T. LINDEBERG
NY: William Helburn, 1940

First edition. Folio. xxi, xiv, 310 pp; illustrated from photographs, drawings, plans, and elevations, including six plates in color; list of clients. Original gilt-stamped red cloth. VG, top & bottom of spine and edges of backstrip lightly rubbed, covers show light soil, gilt spine dull. PRESENTATION COPY TO THE PRINTER - Inscribed "To E.L. Hildreth, With thanks for your care and congratulations on your success in the printing of this book - Harrie T. Lindberg, August 15, 1940.
Inventory number #013116



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$250.00

Leon, M. Paul et al
Exposition internationale des arts decoratifs et industriels modernes : Paris 1925 : rapport general. 6, classes 13 et 14. Tissu et Papier
Paris: Librairie Larousse, 1928

Quarto. 102 pp; 96 plates including a few color; bibliography; index of designers & companies; list of plates. Text in French. Original printed wraps in original glassine, printed on velin d'arches with gold & black Art Deco designed endpapers. Near Fine, text pages uncut, light stain in margin of a few early pp, else a crisp; unmarked copy; glassine has closed tear on front cover, minor wear to spine ends.
Inventory number #013108