Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave by Joanna Gaines

The Rockwell's Complete Guide to Successful Gardening. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. First edition second printing hardcover with dust jacket....

Guide to The Victoria and Albert Museum. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1910. Moroccan leather and green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering and no dust jacket as issued. 62 pp. An antique guide to the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, England. The guide includes the museum's hours, a list of rooms and galleries. Departments include Architecture and Sculpture, Ceramics, Glass, and Enamels, Engraving, Illustration, and Design, Library and Book Production, Metal Work, Paintings, Textiles, Woodwork, Furniture, and Leather. With 30+ illustrations in black and white with four fold-out floor plan maps in color. The binding is labeled and by Jas. Truscott & Sons, Book Binders...

"The triumph of this book is that it does manage to reflect the mad experience of traveling in Southeast Asia, while still reflecting on what it all means" (Roth 101).


FIRST EDITION of one of the seminal photobooks of the 1980's. SIGNED BY BURKE INSIDE ORIGINAL DRAWING OF HIS HAND. One of only 1000 copies printed of the first edition.

"Bill Burke has become known for his large-format portraits shot on Polaroid Land film, which have the formality and feel of nineteenth-century photographs whilst remaining acutely modern in their sensibilities. In his best book, I Want to Take Picture, this technique is entirely appropriate, since it records his personal pilgrimage to southeast Asia, duplicating the enterprise of the old colonialist photographers but adding a contemporary twist...

"Although the pictures have a nineteenth-century feel, the book is also a diary that records a twentieth-century experience. Burke not only uses his photographs, but also employs documents- reproductions of ephemera like money...

An insider's guide to the world's greatest 'secret' gardens, green spaces, and pocket parks tucked away in cities around the globe Cities everywhere are graced with charming but...