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by Line Vautrin & Patrick Mauries Line Vautrin is one of those archetypally French personalities - others are Cocteau, Piaf and Christian Berard - whose talents are compounded of dre...

This book is the third volume in the portfolio collection, inaugurated with the first two volumes devoted to the work of Pierre Chareau. Volume III is dedicated this time to the work...

A scarce vintage book featuring the creations of the 20th century's top interior designers. When first published Decoration was already an impressive book, with its excellent colour photography, top-quality interiors and stellar cast of designers. It is now a decorating classic and is much sort after. The book's aim is to illustrate how to mix both traditional and contemporary elements in an interior. It does this through text and illustrations of an international selection of homes, owned and decorated by the likes of Francois Catroux, Valentino, David Mlinaric, David Hicks, Alberto Pinto, Charles...

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage - by H.W. Fowler - Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927 - Printed in England at the Oxford university Press by John Johnson - Soft cover, black ...

The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi [pseud. of Carlo Lorenzini]; translated by Carol della Chiesa and illustrated by Attilio Mussino New York: Macmillan Company, 1929. F...

Tajan 1993 Islamic Art, Orientalist Paintings Auction Catalog Orientalist painting and Islamic Art, Text in French. Paperback softcover Islamic Art bo...

AUTHOR: LAMB, Charles and Mary (Arthur Rackham). TITLE: Tales From Shakespeare. PUBLISHER: London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1909. DESCRIPTION: LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY RACKHAM. 1 vols....

AUTHOR: BRONTE, Charlotte, Emily and Anne. TITLE: The Novels of The Sisters Bronte - with - The Life of Charlotte Bronte by E.C. Gaskell. PUBLISHER: Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. ...

A CAROLINA RICE PLANTATION OF THE FIFTIES: Narrative By Herbert Ravenel Sass, With Chapters From The Unpublished Memoirs Of D.E. Huger Smith. Publisher, New York: William Morrow, 1936. Signed 1st Ed hardcover with book plate of Ellen Doubleday, publishers personal copy. Illustrated with reproductions of 30 paintings in watercolor by and signed by Alice R. Huger Smith. The magic of the Low Country, the rice coast of South Carolina and Georgia has been captured with rare beauty and fidelity in the paintings of Alice R. Huger Smith. Her water-colors of sea-island beaches, of sea marshes, of black waters in cypress swamps...

'Cram's Commercial Atlas' published by the George F. Cram Company. Rare in this edition and condition. Num. (col.) maps and plans, orig. embossed dec. buckram, large folio. Published...

AUTHOR: MILNE, A. A. TITLE: The House At Pooh Corner. PUBLISHER: London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY E. H. SHEPHARD. 1 vol, 7-1/2" x 5-1/4", si...

Jean Royere was one of the great innovative designer/decorators of the 20th century and his clients included The Shah of Persia, King Farouk of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan. He w...

AUTHOR: DODGSON, Charles L. (Lewis Carroll) (Arthur Rackham). TITLE: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. PUBLISHER: London: William Heinemann, 1907. DESCRIPTION: LIMITED EDIT...

Morris, Charles (editor). The Great Republic by the Master Historians. New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago: The R. S. Belcher Co., 1902. Rebound in 3/4 brown leather and marbled boards, wi...

Decorating With Pictures by Stephanie Hoppen. Published by Clarkson Potter, 1991. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This book inspires the rea...

8 Volumes. Homer, The Iliad & The Odyssey. Large Paper Edition. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco and marbled boards. The raised band spines are gilt-tooled. The top edges are gilt with mar...

Vintage hardback monograph on the life and work of Alexander Calder. By Gérard-Georges Lemaire, translated from the French by Sophie Hawkes, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in 199...

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS / Keats, John Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of Saint Agners & Other Poems; with Engravings by Robert Gibbins Waltham St.Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Limited Edition. Quarto, 12 x 7 1/2 inches (305 x 190mm); pp. 104; with nineteen wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings (1889-1958); copy 178 of 345 copies printed Batchelor hand-made paper, special Cockerel watermark; red ink on title page, red and blue ink for incidental initials by Eric Gill and David Jones's colophon device; 1/4 brown sharkskin and green cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London; gilt titling; top edge gilt, others uncut; slight staining to head of spine, clean, fresh, and bright inside and out. [Chanticleer 62; Ransom p. 298, no. 60]. An elegant and beautifully proportioned and illustrated version of John Keat's (1795-1825) famous poems, which constitute the final volume Keats lived to see, published in July 1820. From the Oxford text edited by H. Buxton Forman. Robert Gibbings (1889-1958) was and Irish wood...

Edited by Andrea Branzi & Michele De Lucchi This book is a photographic record of an exhibition which was organised in 1977 to showcase "Italian Design in the Fifties", all manner o...

Sotheby's; highly important Americana from the Stanley Paul Sax Collection. Sotheby's: New York, 1998. Unpaginated hardcover with dust jacket. The single-owner sale includes Stanley ...

Drinker, Frederick E. Booker T. Washington: The Master Mind of a Child of Slavery. Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., 1915. Memorial Edition. Rebound in ¼...

Five Architects - second edition - 1975 - hardcover Five architects: Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, Meier Published by Oxford University Press, 1975 by Richar Eisenman, Pe...

1. Clear As Crystal, Red As Flame: Later Chinese Glass, by Claudia Brown, Donald Rabiner. Natural History, University of Washington Press, 1990. Gloriously colored Chinese glass arti...

Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany's: A short novel and three stories. New York: Random House, 1958. First edition, first issue printing. Signed by Truman Capote. In the original publisher’s orange first issue dust jacket and yellow cloth binding. Presented with an archival clamshell case. This is a signed, first edition, first issue of Truman Capote's classic novella chronicling the adventures of the free-spirited Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's. In addition to the title novella, the book also includes three other short stories: House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory. The book is issued its first issue dust jacket with the 10/58 date code one the front flap. "First Printing" is stated on the copyright page and the book signed by the author “Truman Capote” on the front flyleaf. Capote originally sold his story Breakfast at Tiffany's to Harper's Bazaar for $2,000, with intended publication in its July 1958 issue. Shortly after the publication was scheduled, Harper's editor Carmel Snow was ousted by the magazine's publisher, the Hearst Corporation, and Hearst executives began asking for changes to the novella's language as there was concern that Tiffany's & Co., a major advertiser, would react negatively. The story was removed from the Harper’s Bazzar publication schedule but Capote soon resold the work to Esquire for $3,000. His novella appeared in Esquire’s November 1958 issue. A collection of the Breakfast at Tiffany’s novella and three short stories by Capote was published by Random House in the same year. The novella received glowing reviews. "If you want to capture a period in New York, no other book has done it so well. He could capture a period and place like few others" (Norman Mailer). The novella was quickly adapted for the 1961 hit film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard. Truman Capote was born in New Orleans and educated in New York and Connecticut. He worked in the Art Department of The New Yorker and as a writer on a television show before going on his own as a full-time writer. His first novel at age 24, Other Voices, Other Rooms, brought him literary fame and a strong following, which continued throughout his life, reaching a peak with the success of his "nonfiction” true...

Treasures of Islam by Toby FALK, Hardback in the excellent pictorial dust-jacket. pp 400; 567 color illustrations. Catalogue of the immense exhibition of Islamic Art held at the ...

Signed edition of Maremoto by Pablo Neruda Edition: Sociedad de Arte Contemporáneo. Santiago de Chile – 1st edition. 1970. Limited edition: 52/110 Ingres paper screen printed by Estu...

Horsemanship - The Way Of A Man With A Horse, Lonsdale Library Book. One of the volumes from Lonsdale Library, Horsemanship - The Way Of A Man With A Horse. The book with over ninety illustrations, the first is of The Right Hon. The Earl of Lonsdale on 'Marble'. The Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games & Pastimes, Editors The Right Hon. The Earl of Lonsdale, Sir Theodore Cook & Mr. Eric Parker...

Robert Kime: The Personal Collection (Day 1) Warwick Square, London This October, Dreweatts has the great honour of holding the auction Robert Kime: The Personal Collection. The liv...

Book Limited Availability Book by Israel Katzman titled La Arquitectura Contemporanea Mexicana Hard Cover. Published 1964. Original Dust Jacket. Modern masters of contemporary Archit...

Antiquities from The Collection of the Late Christos G. Bastis, Sale 7404. Sotheby's (New York). 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. In 1987, 188 antiquities assembled by Christos G....

La Tapisserie Gothique, par Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins, by E. Planès, Directeur de la Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins. Published by Albert Morancé...

"November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three / November 26, 1963" John F. Kennedy book with sleeve signed by artist, Ben Shahn and poet, Wendell Berry, circa 1964. This limited ...

First edition of Larry Clark’s iconic second book of photographs (following 1971’s Tulsa) documenting and immortalizing a debauched adolescent subculture. Self-published in 1983. Con...

Faust volume 1 & 2 by Johann Wolgang Goethe. Printed in these miniature version by Schmidt & Günther in Leipzig, Germany in 1907. The share the same distinct qualities as regular cla...

Rare vintage 1989 Actuel magazine exploring the history of the iconic Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat collaborations poster and 1985 exhibit. Cover and interior editorial features reproductions of the iconic 1985 poster shot by Michael Halsband in conjunction with Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York. A standout Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol boxing...

Bruce Weber by Bruce Weber. Published by Twelvetrees Press, Los Angeles, 1983. Stated 1st Limited Edition (1/5000) hardcover with dust jacket. Beautifully illustrated with over 50 full-page photogravure plates of male models and actors, a few tinted with halftone colors. Contains subjects: Brothers, Matt...

AUTHOR: Dickens, Charles. TITLE: A Christmas Carol. PUBLISHER: London: William Heinemann, 1964. DESCRIPTION: 1 vol., 7-15/16" x 5-13/16", illustrated with full page color p...

Roy Lichtenstein The Paris Review: 1992 The Paris Review book, featuring an interior spread of Roy Lichtenstein's "__" (1992). Imagery features 8 detailed segments of this esteemed 1...

An oblong A4 sized portfolio with 48 absolutely amazing and exquisite pochoir plates. The plates are all present, all very clean and in Fine condition. Showing room set designs from ...

The First in a series of Brazilian furniture design, this book abstains from discourse. The pieces have been chosen for the consistency of the work done by their creators and because...

29 Volumes. Mark Twain. The Writings. "Underwood Edition" Bound in full red morocco, top edges gilt, raised bands, ornate gilt on spines and covers, green endpapers, illustrated thro...

Fiske, John. The American Revolution. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. In two volumes. Reprint ("Twenty seventh thousand"). 8vo. Three-quarter tan calf, blin...

Le Pavillon De La Societe de L'Art Applique Aux Metiers a L'Eposition Internationale Des Arts Decoratifs Et Industriels Modernes preface by Yvanhoe Rambasson. Rare complete publicati...

A unique photograph album in original grey card wrappers with the Ruhlmann name embossed on the front and the name of the client Monsieur Molinie also...

Elizabeth, the Queen Mother : A Twentieth Century Life by Grania Forbes. Elizabeth, the Queen Mother is a celebration of the life of the nation''s most t...

This book was published concurrently with a retrospective exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is a 1st edition copy which is in good condition and still has the origin...

AUTHOR: CHURCHILL, Winston. TITLE: A History of The English-Speaking Peoples. PUBLISHER: NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1956-56-57-58. DESCRIPTION: 4 vols., 8-1/4" x 5-3/4", title-pag...

Five Beautiful Women Hardcover – February 19, 2008 by Victor Skrebneski (Author), Hubert de Givenchy (Introduction). Victor Skrebneski is celebrated as one of the world’s finest fashion and portrait photographers. His diverse body of work has won him international accolades and, for more than half a century, he has photographed the world’s most famous people, from Orson Welles, Truman Capote, and Audrey Hepburn to Andy Warhol, David Bowie, and Iman. In 1962, Skrebneski became the exclusive photographer for Estée Lauder, and over the years his flawless images of models such as Paulina Porizkova...

A striking limited edition set of the collected works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a beautiful and illustrated set. A limited edition. The 'Author's Edition' limited to one-thousand s...

Knock Wood by Candice Bergen signed and autographed book. Candice Bergen KNOCK WOOD 1984 First Edition 1st Printing Autobiography. Candice Bergen’s best selling 1984 memoir: an “engaging, intelligent, and wittily self-deprecating autobiography” (The New York Times). Candice Bergen was born into the heady Hollywood of the 1950s. Before she became a celebrity in her own right and wrote her memoir, A Fine Romance, she wrote this book about being the “celebrity offspring” of Edgar Bergen, vaudeville and radio’s greatest dignitary/comedian. Her “sibling” was Charlie McCarthy...

Hardback book with dust jacket, text is in French, 206 pages full of photographs, illustrations and drawings which showcase much of his amazing talent both as an interior designer an...

Essays by Pierre Berge, Peter Marino and Reed Krakoff A stated first edition of a very scarce book on the husband and wife sculptors Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne. Beautifully p...

Napoleon, Nelson and Their Time. The Calvin Bullock Collection Christie's, May 1985. The sale consisted of items from the renowned New York collector Calvin Bullock, which was formed...

An excellent set containing this profusely illustrated natural history of plants, translated from the German of Austrian botanist, Anton Kerner von Marilaun. A new edition of this w...

Monet hardcover art book with text by William C. Seitz. Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. of New York. Text printed and bound in the Republic of Korea, illustrations printed in Japa...

"Miniature Rooms: The Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago," by Kathleen Aguilar and Michael Anderson. Generations of visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago have been fasci...

AUTHOR: DULAC, Edmund. TITLE: Sinbad the Sailor and other Stories from the Arabian Nights. PUBLISHER: London: Hodder Stoughton, n.d., (1914). DESCRIPTION: ILLUSTRATED BY EDMUND D...

Out of the Studio by Tom Bianchi. Published by St.Martin's Press, 1991. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. The unself-conscious and affectionate con...