North American Books

First Edition, published for The Bard Graduate Center by Yale University Press, 1999. Text by Susan Weber Soros. "The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin" is a fascinating exploration...

Author: THOMPSON, Kay (Hilary Knight). Title: Kay Thompson's Eloise At Christmastime. Publisher: NY: Simon & Schuster, 1999. Description: Signed...

Fine English and French furniture and objects of Art form the Private Residence of Henry Francis du Pont at Winterthur. New York October 14, 1994. Sa...

Spacemaker Press Landmarks Series, Paperback, volumes 1-6 Public Architectural Landscapes and Sculpture Gardens • 01 Barnsdall Park: A New Master Plan for Frank Lloyd Wright’s C...

Author: THOMPSON, Kay (Hilary Knight) Title: Eloise at Christmastime. Publisher: NY: Simon & Schuster, 1999. Description: Limited signed edition...

Spectacular America Hardcover Book 1994 Large horizontal format - 16 x 12 inches featuring 180 color plates and accompanying text. Spectacular America conveys all the grandeur of t...

Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, September 19, 1996, Sale 8468, Christie's. First Edition. 226 pages. Text in English and C...

Andy Warhol, 1928-1987 Works from the collections of Jose´ Mugrabi and an Isle of Man company Perfect Paperback – January 1, 1993 by Jacob-Baal-Teshuva. The art of Andy Warhol continues to hold surprises for even the seasoned Warhol admirer. The best works from one of the world's largest private collections of Warhol paintings are published here for the first time in book form. Beginning with whimsical paintings from the pre-Pop period, this selection of over 100 works spans the full breadth of Warhol's spectacular career, up until his last project: The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci. More than 200 illustrations, many in full color, give a comprehensive overview of the many facets in the work of the "pope of Pop art." Of particular interest is a little-known series of "Paintings for Children," published here for the first time. These delightful pictures of ships...

The Keck collection from La Lanterne, Bel Air, California. New York; Sotheby’s: December 5-6, 1991. First edition hardcover. The contents of the faux French Château built by oil-heir...

Cézanne Watercolors by Acquavella Galleries, introduction by William Rubin. New York: Acquavella Galleries, 1999. 1st Ed Softcover. 128 pp. 21 b&w...

Artforms: An Introduction to the Visual Arts Duane and Sarah Preble Softcover Book. 5th Edition 1994. Publisher: Harpercollins College Div, 1994. For Art Appreciation, Art for Non...

American tables and looking glasses: In the mabel brady garvan and other collections at Yale University by David Barquist, Garrett Elisabeth, and Gerald Ward. 1st Ed hardcover with d...

My Time at Tiffany's by Gene Moore. St Martins Press, 1990. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Gene Moore dressed Tiffany's windows for 35 years and helped ...

Sotheby's, the Arthingworth Collection, Important English Furniture. 1st Ed hardcover. New York, December 12, 1996. An auction devoted to the contents of Arthingworth, an English country estate in the middle of Rancho Santa Fe. The house was filled with fine Georgian and Regency...

Piet Mondrian: 1872-1944, by Yve-Alain Bois, Angelica Zander Rudenstine, Joop Joosten and Hans Janssen. Published by Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown, Boston, New York, Toronto, London, ...

Skyscrapers: A History of the World's Most Famous and Important Skyscrapers. By Judith Dupre, Published by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, New York, N.Y., 1996. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Extremely tall elephant folio (18 inches tall x 8 inches). Large hardcover coffee table book. Now, bigger than ever, this long-awaited revised edition of Judith Dupré's best-selling Skyscrapers is a giant celebration of today's most significant superstructures. It features an all-new design with full-color photographs, 10 new buildings, and informative updates throughout. Includes Foreword; Introductory Interview with Philip Johnson. List of One Hundred Tallest Buildings in the World. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs. The lower front left jacket corner contains a repaired one inch closed tear; the jacket is otherwise in fine condition. ".This magnificent tour presents a fascinating look at fifty of the greatest skyscrapers in the world. Breathtaking photographs capture details often missed by the naked eye; architectural drawings and pictures of works-in-progress take you behind the scenes and enrich your understanding of the efforts involved in erecting many of the buildings; facts-at-a-glance charts give you the vital statistics, including the locations of the structure, its height, the primary architect, the date of completion, materials used, and information about its place in architectural history.You'll encounter such architectural pioneers as William Le Baron Jenney, who took advantage of new technologies like fireproofing, elevators, and electrical lights to create, in 1885, the Home Insurance Building in Chicago, generally acknowledged to be the first skyscraper; Daniel Burnham, who, inspired by the irregular building site, designed NewYork's Flatiron Building, a dramatic triangular structure that exuberantly mixes Gothic and Renaissance motifs; and Miles van der Rohe, whose elegant, monumental Seagram Building epitomizes the ideals of the modernist movement.From the ancient pyramids of Egypt...

Sotheby's: The Bertram K. Little and Nina Fletcher Little Collection, Parts I & II October 21 and 22, 1994. Hardcovers. The sale consisted of the Little's Americana collection. Intro...

American Rococo, 1750-1775: Elegance in Ornament, by Morrison H. Heckscher and Leslie Greene Bowman. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Date: 1992 and Distributed by Harry N. Abrams. Publis...

Houses by Thierry W. Despont. Published by Office of Thierry Despont, New York, 1990. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Private edition with personal letter to Sandra and Herbert Kasper. He was an American fashion designer known as Kasper. He studied English and advertising at New York University and fashion at the Parsons School of Design in New York from 1951–53 and l'Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in 1953. He left NYU to serve in the US Army in Europe. After World War II he enrolled at Parsons, where he became a protégé of milliner Fred Frederics. After graduating, he returned to Paris for two years developing his skills in design while working for Jacques Fath, Christian Dior, and Marcel Rochas. When he returned to the US, he worked for Frederics at Mr. John. He was also a famous art collector. He was an avid art collector, and in 2011, the Morgan Library and Museum devoted an exhibition, called “Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs,” to the designer.unnumbered copy of a run of 1000. With letter from Despont to his client. Mr. Despont was Associate Architect for the Centennial Restoration of the Statue of Liberty and has completed the restoration of Clayton, the Frick family mansion in Pittsburgh. Mr. Despont designed the Decorative Arts Galleries of the new J. Paul Getty Museum and, in collaboration with Richard Meier, was responsible for the interior design of the museum's sculpture and painting galleries. The office also completed the 50,000 square foot flagship store on Bond Street for Ralph Lauren. In the US, the firm designed the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue on East 63rd Street in New York and the flagship store for Harry Winston in Beverly Hills, California. Mr. Despont and his office have completed several very high end hotel projects. Among them are the renovation of the Carlyle Hotel in New York, Claridge's and The Dorchester in London, and Boca Raton Resort & Club in Florida. Current hotel projects include the renovation of the Ritz Paris, the Dorchester Collection's new 45 Park Lane Hotel in London, The Chatwal in New York, and the Divan Hotel in Istanbul. volume with its own dustjacket. These books were given only to clients of the firm. Privately printed set, issued between 1990 and 1995 in a special case. Volume I. 1990, unnumbered copy of 1000 published. Illustrated with photographs by Philippe-Louis Houze and watercolors by Bonnie Glasser. Provides high quality photographs of exteriors and interiors of important houses planned...

Influential Interiors: Shaping 20th-century style through key interior designers by Suzanne Trocomé. Published by Clarkson Potter, U.S.A., 1999. Stat...

Sotheby's: The Estate of Peter Jay Sharp, Thursday January 13 1994. 1st Ed hardcover auction catalog with dust jacket. Richly illustrated with full-color lithographic reproductions a...

The Frick Collection, an Illustrated Catalogue: V - Furniture, Italian and French (Part 1); VI - French (Part 2) Gilt Bronzes by David Dubon and Theod...

Christie's: Property Formerly in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Warner, October 1990. 319 lots, 192 pp., fully illustrated in color. Includes a wide s...

Mapplethorpe by Robert Mapplethorpe, Introduction by Arthur Coleman Danto. Random House (NY) Published: 1992. Hardcover with dust jacket. "Robert Mappl...

Author: Whitman, Walt. Title: Song of the Open Road. Publisher: NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1990. Signed Limited Edition. 1 vol., fo...

A Renaissance Treasury by Laurie Winters. Published by Hudson Hill Press, 1999. Stated 1st Ed Hardcover with dust jacket Exhibition Catalog. This carefully researched and richly illu...

On a Scale That Competes with the World - The Art of Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz by Robert L. Pincus. First edition published in 1990 by The University of California Press. Prin...

The American Country House by Clive Aslet. Yale University Press, 1990. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This great book describes the great country houses that were built with Ame...

Architecture of the Old South: Louisiana by Mills Lane. New York: A Beehive Press book or Abbeville Press, 1990. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 203 pp. The book has chapters on: The Colony, Federal Era...

Russian Imperial Style by Laura Cerwinske. Published by Prentice Hall, NY, 1990. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Sumptuously illustrated with over 100 stunning full-page co...

Sotheby's, highly important French furniture from a Private collection, NY November 19, 1993, sale #6498. Sotheby's New York, 1993. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 80 lots ...

1. Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs by Colin Wilson. Farrar, Straus & Company, New York, 1964. 1st Ed and Printing hardcover with no dust jacket. 2. ...

American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design by Leslie Greene Bowman. Bulfinch Press, 1992. Stated First edition softcover. 255 pp., profusely illustrated with 190 color and 275 b&w plat...

Published by Rizzoli first edition, 1992 Women of Design profiles thirty two women who have dominated the world of interior design, included are photographs of some of their finest ...

Exteriors by Inger McCabe Elliott. Published by Clarkson Potter, 1993. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Interior decoration is only one way of expressing a personal sense of...

200 Years of Rochester Architecture And Gardens byRichard O. Reisem. Published by Landmark Society of Western, 2006. 1st Ed hardcover with dust...

Christie's Photographs Twenty Years: Celebrating Galleria Zur Stockeregg, Zurich. A 56 lot auction catalog that features pictures of each art work. New York, October 4, 1999. We are...

The Big Book Of Harley-Davidson: Official Publication by Harley-Davidson, Inc. Bolfert, Thomas C. Published by Harley-Davidson Inc. Milwaukee, 1989 The Big Book Of Harley-Davidso...

Sotheby's Catalog Magnificent Jewels April 12th & 13th, 1999, Sale #7287. Sotheby's NY, 1999. First Edition softcover catalog with results. Featurin...

Italian drawings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, by Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura Giles. Published in Princeton, NJ, Princeton Univ. Press, 1997. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket The third in a series of scholarly catalogs on the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago, this book focuses on the museum's important holdings of Italian drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The catalog contains comprehensive entries on over 700 drawings, including preliminary studies for major compositions, cartoons, modelli, independent drawings, and copies after Renaissance and Mannerist masters. Featured are major works by some of the most significant artists of the time: Baccio Bandinelli, Federico Barocci, Fra...

Sotheby's Japanese prints, paintings and screens, New York June 18, 1990. First edition softcover catalog. 531 illustrated lots.

Joan Miro by Carolyn Lanchner. 1st Ed softcover catalog. Published by Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1993. Henri Matisse, 1st Ed softcover catalog. Published in conjunction with...

Paintings of Paul Cezanne: A Catalogue Raisonne by John Rewald, a 2 Volume set. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. The two 1st Ed hardcover volumes are slipcased. This encyclopedic, lo...

Picasso and Portraiture, Representation & Transformation, Exhibition Catalog at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in Collaboration with the Musee Picasso, Paris, in April 1996. Edi...

Picasso and the War Years, 1937-1945 Exhibition Catalog by Steven Nash. Published by Thames & Hudson, 1998. 1st Ed Exhibition Catalog with dust jacket. In collaboration with the Solo...

Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of East Asian Art from New York Private Collections, with contributions by Richard M. Barnhart and Christine M.E. Guth Photography by Amy G. Poster. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket and a personal note from the author. Some of the finest private collections of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean art are found in New York City. This illustrated book explores the riches found in these collections, which include some of the world's finest and most important paintings, calligraphy...

Picasso and the Age of Iron by Carmen Gimenez, Curator; Essays by Dore Ashton and Francisco Calvo Serraller. Published by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1993. 1st Ed Exhibit...

By George: The Autobiography of George Foreman First edition signed by George Foreman. Villard, U.S.A., 1995. Signed, Stated 1st Trade Ed hardcover with...

Sotheby's: The Breitbart Collection of Antiquities & Ancient Glass, 6/1990. 145 lots, Ancient Glass; Egyptian, Western Asiatic, and classical antiquities...

Masterpieces of English Furniture: The Gerstenfeld Collection by Edward Lennox-Boyd. Christies books, 1998 1st Edition thus hardcover with dust jacket. A unique collection of 18th ce...

‘Christie's Important 20th Century Design Including Arts and Crafts and Western Cowboy High Style’ 6/96. Christie's NY, 1996. First Edition softcover with dust jacket. This auction c...

Inventing Acadia Artists and Tourists At Mount Desert, Essay by J. Gray Sweeney; Foreword by John Wilmerding. Rockland, Maine: The Farnsworth Art Museum, 1999. A catalogue that accom...

Morgan : American Financier by Jean Strouse. Published by Random House Publishing Group, NY, 1999. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Jean Strouse is an American biographer, cultural administrator, and critic. She is best known for her biographies of diarist Alice James and financier J. Pierpont Morgan. She was an editorial assistant at The New York Review of Books from 1967 to 1969 and a book critic at Newsweek magazine from 1979 to 1983. She won a MacArthur Fellowship in September, 2001. John Pierpont "J. P." Morgan (April 17, 1837 - March 31, 1913) was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation. In 1892, Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric. He was instrumental in the creation of the United States Steel Corporation, International Harvester...

American Wicker: Woven Furniture from 1850 to 1930 by Jeremy Adamson. Rizzoli International Publications, 1993. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket. 176 pp. Beautifully illustra...

In Good Hands, 25 Years of Art in the Life of a Dealer, by Achim Moeller. Published by Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, 1997. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Achim Moeller is a German-American art dealer, adviser, art historian, scholar and curator. He is the founder and head of Moeller Fine Art and the Achim Moeller Art Advisory. Color and black and white plates, includes works by; Jackson Pollock, Paul Klee, Otto Mueller, Paul Gauguin, Feininger, Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Alexej von Jawlensky...

Seven catalogues from the Chinese Porcelain Company on Oriental Porcelain, Export Porcelain and French Furniture. Chinese Ceramics and Wo...

Sotheby's, Jewels, Watches and the Costume Jewelry Collection of Mrs. James W. Alsdorf. This post auction catalog consists of 111 pages with 549 lots all illustrated in color and B&W...

‘Antiques for the Table’, A Complete Guide to dining room accessories for Collecting and Entertaining by Sheila Chefetz. Penguin Publishing Group 1993. Signed and inscribed first edition 4th printing hardcover with dust jacket. Inscribed "Enjoy our 'feast' for the eyes!" More than 200 full-color photographs. 'Antiques for the Table' presents dozens of table setting ideas for every occasion. Antiques authority Sheila Chefetz tells readers how to use, store, identify, and appreciate fine examples of 18th, 19th, and 20th century China, glass, and silver. A definitive volume on antique tableware...