Tapert, Annette & Diana Edkins
The Power of Style: The Women Who Defined the Art of Living Well
NY: Crown Publishers, 1994

First printing. Octavo. 224 pp; profusely illustrated in b/w & color; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a crisp, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket shows slight toning at top edge. The authors have selected the most stylish women of the 20th century - Rita Lydig, Elsie de Wolfe, Millicent Rogers, Daisy Fellowes, Duchess of Windsor, Mona, Countess of Bismarck, Pauline de Rothschild, Diana Vreeland, Babe Paley, Gloria Guinness, Slim Keith, C.Z. Guest, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Coco Chanel.
Inventory number #014627

Basho et al
The Four Seasons: Japanese Haiku
Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1958

Slim octavo. Unpaginated; illustrated with block-print decorations. Boards in unclipped dustjacket. VG in VG jacket with slight toning. Contains Japanese haike by Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, and many others. Translated by Peter Beilenson.
Inventory number #014625

Basho et al
Japanese Haiku: Two Hundred and Twenty Examples of Seventeen-Syllable Poems
Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1956

Slim octavo. Unpaginated; illustrated with block-print decorations. Boards in unclipped dustjacket. VG in VG- jacket with toned spine and small loss at top & center of spine. Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, Sokan, Kikaku and others. Translated by Peter Beilenson.
Inventory number #014624

Christie's
Japanese Netsuke and Inro, Tuesday, September 12, 1995
NY: Christie's, 1995

Quarto. 47 pp; 68 lots, illustrated with color photographs. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; minor cover wear.
Inventory number #014622

Sotheby's
The Jerome Rapoport Collection of American Aesthetic Silver. June 20, 1996
NY: Sotheby's, 1996

Quarto. 86 lots, all with color & b/w photographs. Essay by Janet Zapata. Paperback. A near fine, unmarked copy. This collection of American silver based on Japonism is noteworthy in its depth and breadth, encompassing all the important phases of the period with outstanding examples from Tiffany, Gorham, Whiting Mfg. Co., Dominick & Haff, Durgin, Enid Yandell, and others.
Inventory number #014619

Putting Color Into Practice - the Nairn Color Corner
Kearny, NJ: Congoleum-Nairn Inc., 1940

Octavo. 20 pp; color illustrations throughout. Printed stapled wraps. VG, a clean, unmarked text, covers show light foxing, top of spine split to top staple, small spot of image loss on front cover. Color brochure promoting Nairn linoleum, illustrating room settings.
Inventory number #014614

Murphy, Richard
Carlo Scarpa and Castelvecchio Revisited
Edinburgh: Breakfast Mission Publishing, 2017

Large quarto. 384 pp; profuse color & b/w illustrations, including measured drawings. Paperback with French flaps. A new, unused copy. The Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa (1906-78) worked on the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona, Italy from 1957 to 1975, and the building is arguably his most important work. This book introduces the reader to the complex history of the building as well as sequences of Scarpa's own highly revealing drawings.
Inventory number #014611

Adlmann, Jan Ernst
Vienna Moderne 1898-1918: An Early Encounter between Taste and Utility
Houston: Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, 1978

Small quarto. 96 pp; profusely illustrated in b/w and color; biographies of designers; marks; bibliography. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine lightly toned. Catalogue of exhibition organized by the Sarah Campbell Glaffer Gallery.
Inventory number #014601

E.T. Burrowes Co.
Burrowes' Wire Screens for Windows and Doors
Portland, ME: E.T. Burrowes Co., 1897

Quarto. 30 pp; illustrated with engravings and halftones. Color pictorial stiff paper wraps with original stamped, addressed mailing envelope. VG, marginal stain at top corner affecting all pp & covers, tiny stain on back cover, else a clean, unmarked copy. Features and describes all components of the company's sliding wire window screens and screen doors - the type of wire netting, screws, wood, etc. and illustrates various models. Also 10 pp of testimonials, illustrated with b/w photograph of mansions around the country. "Screening good houses is our specialty" - slogan on back cover.
Inventory number #014597

Disney, Dorothy Cameron
Crimson Friday
NY: Dell Publishing, 1943

12mo [6.5" x 4.25"]. 288 pp. Color illustrated paperback. VG, pages toned; covers with light edgewear. Dell no. 137 mass market. A Dell "mapback."
Inventory number #014594

Goldfeld, Abraham
Practices and Experiences of the Lavanburg Homes
NY: Fred L. Lavanburg Foundation, 1937

Second edition. Octavo. 16 pp; b/w photos, floorplan. Printed stiff card covers. VG, an unmarked copy except for library pocket (Regional Plan Association Library) on inside back cover; shallow chip to top edge of back cover, light soil. First published in 1934. The Fred L. Lavanburg Foundation was established in 1927 as a low-income, non-profit housing corporation for families with children who were unable to find housing elsewhere. The Lavanburg Homes opened at 124-142 Goerck St (renamed Baruch Place) on the Lower East Side in December 1927, a six-story building containing 113 apartments; it had a large screened playground on the roof. OCLC locates several copies of this edition.
Inventory number #014589

Karl, Johann
Aus Munchner Kunstler-Ateliers
Munich: Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1930

Band 6. Octavo. 127 pp; illustrated with 128 b/w photographs. List of artists. Text in German. Illustrated paperback with cover title by Ludwig Hohlwein. VG, a clean, umarked copy.
Inventory number #014588

Karl, Johann
Aus Munchner Kunstler-Ateliers
Munich: Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1929

Band 5. Octavo. 84 pp; illustrated with 110 b/w photographs. List of artists. Text in German. Illustrated paperback with cover title by Ludwig Hohlwein. VG, a clean, umarked copy.
Inventory number #014587

Pattison, James William, editor
Fine Arts Journal. September 1911
Chicago: Fine Arts Journal, 1911

Volume 25, Number 3. Quarto. pp 131-192; numerous b/w illustrations, advertisements. Printed illustrated wraps. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers with light edgewear. Contains 16-pp article on houses constructed with hollow tile for fire proofing, including 15 b/w photos of houses constructed with hollow tile, noting location and architect. The Fine Arts Journal, published in Chicago from 1899 to 1919, was an art magazine devoted to the fine arts and increasingly to the arts in the broadest sense.
Inventory number #014579

Rounds, Glen
Lumbercamp: Being the Life and Good Times of the new Whistle Punk at Camp Fifteen up Horse Crick Way, with many drawings made on the scene by the Author
NY: Holiday House, 1937

First edition. Octavo. 116 pp; many b/w drawings by the author, map on endpapers. Original cloth-backed wood boards lettered in red on spine & cover. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine darkened. Glen Harold Rounds (1906-2002), an American author and illustrator, was the recipient of more than 25 literary awards over his 60-year career. He wrote a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction, all of it written for children and young adults.
Inventory number #014577

Bettmann Archive
Bettmann Panopticon
NY: Bettmann Archive / Daly & Max Studio, 1963

5" x 5". [96] pp of b/w illustrations. Color illustrated covers. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; light edgewear, short edge tear on back cover. OCLC locates 3 copies
Inventory number #014573

Trade Catalogue
Artistic Wood and Brick Mantels, Grates, Tile and Fire-place Fixtures: Catalogue M
Quincy, IL: Heitland Grate & Mantel Co., 1908

n.d. ca. 1908. Octavo. 32 pp; b/w illustrations of each item with specifications and price. Printed wraps. Good condition, thin paper wraps split 2" at bottom of spine, 2 " x 1.5" loss at inside corner of back cover, old tape repair on inside of front cover. June 1, 1908 discount slip tipped onto first page. Laid in: 4-pp leaflet featuring the hot-water circulating grate No. 51, and a mimeographed sheet of testimonials for the grate, dating from 1907 to 1910. OCLC locates 1 copy of Catalogue E at Hagley Museum and Library.
Inventory number #014565

Cocteau, Jean
La Difficulte d'Etre
Paris: Paul Morihien, 1947

Twelvemo. 273 pp. Text in French. Paperback with glassine wraps. #165/1000 copies on Alma Marais. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, glassine wraps with small loss.
Inventory number #014560

Midda, Sara
Sara Midda's South of France: A Sketchbook
NY: Workman Publishing Company, 1990

First printing. Small octavo. 143 pp; profuse color drawings. Cloth with color drawing inset on cover with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine, a crisp, new copy with no markings; unclipped jacket has short tear at edge of spine. The author's sketchbook/journal of her year-long stay in the South of France, crammed with images, thoughts and discoveries on a daily basis. Publisher marketing letter laid in.
Inventory number #014559

Travel Ephemera
Around Manhattan Island : Circle Line Cruise Guide
NY: Circle Line-Sightseeing Yachts, Inc., 1962

7.75" x 5.25". 80 pp; full of b/w photographs. Color illustrated paper wraps. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers show light soil.
Inventory number #014553