Paris. Centre Georges Pompidou. Catalog by Pontus Hulten et al.
Paris-Moscou, 1900-1930
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1979

First edition. Quarto. 580 pp; profuse b/w & color photographs; biographies & bibliographies. Text in French. Paperback. VG, rear corner of spine bumped, small edge tear, binding crack at pp 560, spine edge lightly rubbed, minor edgewear. No internal marks. Catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Ministry of Culture of the USSR and the Centre Georges Pompidou, and held at the Centre from May 31 to November 5, 1979.
Inventory number #013447

Buhler, Kathryn C.
AMERICAN SILVER 1655-1825 in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1972

Two volumes in slipcase. Quarto. 708 pp; 689 illustrations; index. Half cloth in slipcase. Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy in ndar fine slipcase - appears unused.. "A detailed catalogue of more than 600 pieces of American silver by more than 150 known makers in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which is unsurpassed in examples of New England manufacture. The catalogue is arranged geographically, then chronologically by makers' dates under place of origin." Arntzen
Inventory number #013432

James Templeton & Co.
Templeton Presents Carpets of Distinction
Glasgow: James Templeton & Company Limited, n.d.

ca. 1950. Folio. 82 pp; numerous tipped-in color plates. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on front cover & spine, illustrated endpapers. VG, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #013429

Duncan, Irma
THE TECHNIQUE OF ISADORA DUNCAN
NY: Kamin Publishers, 1937

Quarto. x, 35 pp; b/w photographs by Hans V. Briesen of poses by Isadora, Irma, and the Duncan pupils. Light blue illustrated paperback. VG, former owner address label at top of title page, else a clean, unmarked copy; cover edges lightly toned, corner of back cover very gently creased. Published after Isadora Duncan's death in 1927 by Irma Duncan, one of the famous Duncan dancers who started studying with Isadora at the age of six, and later, with Isadora's permission, took Isadora's name. Cover photograph by Arnold Genthe. Foreword by Mary Fanton Roberts. Printed in Austria.
Inventory number #013427

Morrison. A.G.
Drapery, Interior Decoration and Architecture: A Practical Hand-book for the Dealer, Decorator and the Workroom
NY: T.A. Cawthra & Co., 1906

4to. 139 pp; 245 b/w photos, drawings & plans, 33 pp of advertisements. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering on cover. VG, former owner name on front pastedown, else an unmarked copy; cover has light wear to spine ends & corners, light spotting to cloth at edges of front cover
Inventory number #013425

Chropovsky, Bohuslav
Krasa Slovienskeho Sperku
Bratislava: Pallas, 1978

Octavo. 121 pp; 67 color & b/w photographs. Text in Slovak, French, German & Russian. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket with light edgewear, delamination along spine. Archaeological finds in Slovakia.
Inventory number #013421

Tracy, Berry B. & William H. Gerdts
CLASSICAL AMERICA 1815-1845: An Exhibition at The Newark Museum
Newark, NJ: Newark Museum, 1963

First edition. Quarto. 212 pp; 295 objects described, many with b/w photographs; bibliography. Cloth in very good+ condition. A crisp, unmarked copy; ;white covers arte clean & bright, spine a biy darkened. Major exhibition catalogue of American decorative and fine arts of this period, with many high-quality examples. Includes furniture, silver, ceramics, glass, wallpaper & textiles, lamps, stoves & clocks, as well as the fine arts.
Inventory number #013418

Macknight, Nancy, ed.
DEAREST ANDREW: Letters from V. Sackville-West to Andrew Reiber 1951-1962
London: Michael Joseph, 1980

First edition. Octavo. 127 pp; illustrated with b/w photographs & drawings. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket lightly foxed on reverse, short closed tear at top edge, edge of front flap creased.
Inventory number #013417

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene Emmanuel
Dictionnaire raisonne du mobilier francais de l'epoque carlovingienne a la Renaissance (6 volumes)
Paris: Vve. A. Morel et Cie, 1872

Six volumes. Octavo. 443 + 535 + 478 + 506 + 498 + 488 pp; illustrated with chromolithographs, steel engravings & wood engravings. Quarter morocco over marbled boards with raised bands, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt. VG, a clean, unmarked set, occasional foxing; extremities lightly rubbed.
Inventory number #013413

Nichols, Beverley
GARDEN OPEN TODAY
NY: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1963

First American edition. Octavo. 252 pp, with drawings by William McLaren. Red cloth with dustjacket, illustrated endpapers. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, minor bumping to spine ends; unclipped jacket is lightly creased at top of spine, minor soil on back cover.
Inventory number #013405

Weaver, Lawrence, ed.
THE HOUSE AND ITS EQUIPMENT
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912

First edition. Quarto. 212 pp [12] pp; 235 b/w photographs, floor plans & diagrams; index. Gilt-lettered brick cloth, top edge gilt. VG, attractive bookplate on front pastedown, else an unmarked copy; spine darkened with 1.5 inch abrasion & water stain on lower half, spine extremities rubbed, top corners bumped.
Inventory number #013402

French, Lillie Hamilton
THE HOUSE DIGNIFIED: Its Design, Its Arrangement and Its Decoration
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908

First edition. Small quarto. xiii, 157 pp; numerous b/w plates. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering & decoration, top edge gilt. VG copy.
Inventory number #013398

Ephemera
KID GLOVES 1897
New York: P. Centemeri & Co., 1897

5.25" x 3.25". 20 pp illustrated with 3 b/w photographs. Order form & envelope laid in. Stapled wraps. VG, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #013396

Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
THE FEASTS OF AUTOLYCUS: The Diary of a Greedy Woman
London / NY: John Lane / Merriam Co., 1896

First edition. Octavo. 264 pp. Decorated cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, top edge gilt, deckled edge. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, a few pp uncut; top corners & base of spine bumped, spine gilt dulled. "These papers were first published in the 'Pall Mall Gazette, ' under the heading, 'Wares of Autolycus.'"
Inventory number #013394

Hackens, Tony
CLASSICAL JEWELRY
Providence, RI: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1976

Quarto. 159 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. VG, bumped at head of spine, one corner lightly creased, light edgewear.
Inventory number #013376

Foss, Kenelm
Beardsley: His Best Fifty Drawings
London: Unicorn Press, 1955

4to. 165 pp. Bright blue cloth with silver lettering on spine, harp & decorative designs on cover. Spine cocked. Edition limited to 1000 copies.
Inventory number #013372