St. John, Charles
A SCOTTISH NATURALIST The Sketches and Notes of Charles St. John 1809-1856
London: Andre Deutsch, 1982

First edition. Quarto, 191 pp; numerous color plates, many b/w sketches in the text. Cloth with dust jacket. VG+/VG+ to near fine, jacket price-clipped. A great copy.
Inventory number #003876

Whistler, Laurence
THE INITIALS IN THE HEART
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964

First U.S. edition. Octavo. 248 pp, illustrated with b/w photographs. Cloth with dj. VG/VG-, dj lightly rubbed, price-clipped. Laurence Whistler, British poet and glass engraver, and the younger brother of Rex Whistler, tells the story of his life with the actress Jill Furse.
Inventory number #003190

Douglas-Home, Jessica
VIOLET: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse
London: Harvill Press, 1996

Second printing. Octavo. 342 pp; 32 pages of b/w photographs; appendices; discography; bibliography; index. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, in dustjacket. VG/VG-, light jacket wear & mild creasing at bottom edge on back cover. Violet Gordon-Woodhouse (1872 - 1948) was an acclaimed British harpsichordist and clavichordist, highly influential in bringing both instruments back into fashion. She was the first person to record the harpsichord, and the first to broadcast harpsichord music.
Inventory number #002888

Wetzsteon, Ross
REPUBLIC OF DREAMS : Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960
NY: Simon & Schuster, 2002

First edition. Octavo. xvii, 617 pp; 24 pages of b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards wirh dj. Near fine/Near fine.
Inventory number #002857

Strachey, Lytton
EMINENT VICTORIANS: The Illustrated Edition
NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989

First U.S. edition. Small quarto. 192 pp; numerous color & b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Front free endpaper has vertical crease, top corner gently bumped, else VG/VG. Biographies of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon.
Inventory number #001923

Marbury, Elisabeth
MY CRYSTAL BALL Reminiscences
NY: Boni and Liveright, 1924

Third printing. Octavo. 355 pp; 20 illustrations from photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG-. Rare in jacket
Inventory number #000738

Boston, Richard
OSBERT A Portrait of Osbert Lancaster
London: Collins, 1989

First edition. Octavo. 256 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; appendices; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket not price clipped. Biography of Osbert Lancaster (1908-86), one of the great English comic artists of the 20th century. For 40 years a "Daily Express" cartoonist, he designed many theatrical productions and wrote two volumes of autobiography, as well as several other books.
Inventory number #000688

Shelden, Michael
FRIENDS OF PROMISE : Cyril Connolly and the World of Horizon
NY: Harper & Row, 1989

First American edition. Octavo. xii, 254 pp; several b/w photographs; notes; bibliography; index. Black cloth backed boards with silver lettering on spine. VG/VG.
Inventory number #000378

Gadd, David
THE LOVING FRIENDS: A Portrait of Bloomsbury
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974

Octavo. xii, 210 pp; several b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG.
Inventory number #000338

Rothschild, Miriam, Kate Garton & Lionel De Rothschild
THE ROTHSCHILD GARDENS
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1997

Quarto. viii, 190 pp; profusely illustrated in color & b/w; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. A fresh, unmarked copy; crisp jacket with no tears. Many members of the Rothschild family have been passionate and knowledgeable gardeners over the last two centuries, creating magnificent parklands and gardens throughout England, Europe, and elsewhere. Featured here are gardens at Waddesdon Manor, Exbury, Ascott, Ashton Wold, and Ramat Hanadiv.
Inventory number #000271

Root, Waverley
THE PARIS EDITION: The Autobiography of Waverley Root 1927-1934
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987

First edition. Octavo. xvi, 208 pp. Cloth with dj. VG/VG.
Inventory number #000091