Madigan, Mary Jean & Susan Colgan, ed.
EARLY AMERICAN FURNITURE from Settlement to City: Aspects of Form, Style, and Regional Design from 1620 to 1830
NY: Billboard Publications, 1983

Quarto. 160 pp; many color plates & b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, small chip at top edge of jacket front panel. Essays by Wendy Cooper, Marvin Schwartz, Richard Dana Reese, Henry Kauffman, and other experts, on various aspects of American furniture -- Chippendale, Phyfe, Lannuier, the Neoclassical influence, Kasten, New England joinery, Shaker chairs, etc.
Inventory number #003771

Thiede, Arthur & Cindy Teipner
AMERICAN LOG HOMES
Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1992

Oblong quarto. 194 pp; full of b/w & color photographs; list of architects & designers, list of builders, list of log-home companies; bibliography; index. Paperback. VG. The authors, after spending 3 years traveling across the U.S. in search of log homes, present over 50 examples. They range from Abe Lincoln's original log cabin to lavish new homes. Floor plans are provided for 24 houses.
Inventory number #003549

Lockwood, Alice G.B., ed.
GARDENS OF COLONY AND STATE: Gardens and Gardeners of the American Colonies and of the Republic Before 1840. 2 Volumes
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons for The Garden Club of America, 1931

Two volumes, 1931-34. Folio. xxii, 464 pp; xxi, 444 pp; profusely illustrated with hundreds of b/w photographs and plans. Two-tone cloth with gilt-stamped titles. VG. Vol. 1 covers the Northeast and Midwest, Vol. 2 covers the South plus California. A major reference work on landscape architecture--still considered to be the best book on early American gardens.
Inventory number #003439

Halle, David
INSIDE CULTURE: Art and Class in the American Home
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993

Octavo. 261 pp; 91 b/w illustrations; appendix; notes; index. Cloth with dj. Fine/Near fine. A fascinating account of the uses and meaning of art for those who buy it and live it. This study ranges from Manhattan's Upper East Side to blue-collar Brooklyn to middle- and upper-middle-class suburbs on Long Island.
Inventory number #003074

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

Ward, Barbara McLean & Gerald W.R. Ward, eds.
SILVER IN AMERICAN LIFE Selections from the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University
NY: The American Federation of the Arts, 1979

Quarto. 193 pp; 196 objects described and illustrated, some in color plus 39 b/w text illustrations; bibliography; index of silversmiths, designers, manufacturers and retailers. Paperback. VG.
Inventory number #002449

Swan, Susan Burrows
PLAIN & FANCY American Women and Their Needlework, 1700-1850
NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977

First printing. Octavo. 240 pp; profusely illustrated with 42 color & 123 b/w photographs from the collection of the Winterthur Museum. Publisher's red cloth with black-lettered cover & spine in dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a crisp, tight, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with minor edgewear. Review slip laid in.
Inventory number #002171

Kirk, John T.
AMERICAN FURNITURE & THE BRITISH TRADITION TO 1830
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982

First edition. Quarto. xiv, 397 pp; 1508 b/w & color illustrations; notes; indexes. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #001978

Strohl, Mike
NEW AMERICAN STYLE
Glen Cove, NY: PBC International, 1997

First edition. Quarto. 175 pp; color photographs. Cloth with dj. VG+/VG+. Foreword by Suzanne Slesin. Very nicely presented, a wide selection of styles, from folk art to modern.
Inventory number #001732

Gere, Charlotte
AMERICAN & EUROPEAN JEWELRY 1830-1914
NY: Crown Publishers, 1975

Quarto. 240 pp; 227 illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Edges of pages age toned, else very good in very good jacket.
Inventory number #001294

Davidson, Marshall B. & Elizabeth Stillinger
THE AMERICAN WING at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985

First edition. Quarto. 352 pp; profusely illustrated with 524 color & b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG. A well-illustrated survey of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum, home of America's most important collection of painting, sculpture and decorative arts, dating from 1630. Separate chapters on the Period Rooms, furniture, silver, pewter, ceramics, glass, paintings, prints, drawings and watercolors, and sculpture.
Inventory number #000905

Haldane, Jack & James Hawkins
AMERICAN APPROACH TO ANTIQUE CARPETS Vol. 2
NY: Stark Carpet, 1993

Quarto. 314 pp; 126 full-page color plates of carpets plus several color photos of interiors of houses in the Britain and the U.S. Black cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. VG/VG, jacket lightly rubbed. The book presents the 1993 Y & B Bolour Collection of primarily 19th and early 20th century carpets. Vol. 2 shows color plates of 6 Savonnerie, 38 Aubusson, 6 Axminster, 10 Arts & Crafts, 4 Bessarabian, 17 Indian, and 27 Persian carpets. Also color plates of 11 needlework and 7 tapestry -- mid & late 19th C.
Inventory number #000506