20th Century Books

Early 20th Century Books

Thirty-seven volumes. The Writings of Thomas Hardy. "Mellstock Edition" Published: London, MacMillian and Company, 1920. Signed by Thomas Hardy in volume one. Bound in full blue calf...

Richard Corman

Vintage 1980s American Modern Photography

The original, Unique Polaroids of Madonna from Photographer Richard Corman’s 1983 photoshoot presenting the future cultural icon on the Precipice of Fame, six weeks before the releas...

Late 20th Century Books

Two volumes. Chinese porcelain and hard stone, by Edgar Gorer and J.F. Blacker. Illustrated by 250 pages in colour of gems of Chinese ceramic and glyptic art. Handsomely in the publi...

Early 20th Century Books

Leather

Thirty volumes. The Works of Charles Dickens. Published: Boston Dana Estes and Company, 1908. Illustrated Cabinet Edition. Bound in three quarter red morocco over marbled boards, sp...

Michael Cooper

Vintage 1970s English Books

First edition, one of a very small number signed by Andy Warhol. Generally considered the most beautiful book to document the rock-and-roll era. A fine copy in the original shipping ...

Alexey Brodovitch

Vintage 1940s American Books

Brodovitch, Alexey. Ballet It is speculated that “only a few hundred copies of Ballet were ever printed, and that most of them were distributed as gifts to the artist’s inner c...

20th Century Books

Antique book. One volume. Catalogue of Chinese Art Objects including porcelains, potteries, jades, bronze, and cloisonné, enamels, from the collections of Edward R.Bacon with illustr...

Late 20th Century Books

Sixteen volumes. The Works of William Shakespeare. Published: Philadelphia: George Barrie and Sons, 1900s. Edited by William George Clark and William Aldis Wright. Hand colored plate...

Marc Chagall

Vintage 1960s French Modern Books

CHAGALL, MARC. Lithographe [The Lithographs of Chagall, Volumes I - VI, complete] “As with all the greatest of his contemporaries, Chagall’s genius is multiform. He is first of...

Late 20th Century Books

Twenty-eight volumes .Published: London, Longmans, Green and Company, circa 1892. The badminton Library collection of sport with various authors. Illustrated through-out set. Title i...

Early 20th Century Books

Twelve volumes. The Novels of Jane Austen, [Winchester Edition]. Published: John Grant, Edinburgh Scotland, 1911. Portrait frontispiece with black and red title pages. The complete n...

Early 20th Century Books

12 volumes. The Thornton Edition. Published: Edinburgh, John Grant, 1905. The Novels of the Bronte Sisters. Illustrated to set. Bound in three quarter red morocco, gilt motif to spin...

Vintage 1960s French Books

“I think what we all want from art is a sense of fixity, a sense of opposing the chaos of daily living. This is an illusion, of course. What I’ve tried to capture is the reality of ...

Early 20th Century Books

Thirty volumes. The Writings of Victor Hugo. Edition Des Amateurs. Published: Boston, Estes and Lauriat, n.d, circa, 1900s. The edition is limited to 25 copies which this is number 1...

Early 20th Century Books

Twenty volumes. The Novels of Samuel Richardson. Published: New York; Croscup and Sterling Company, 1901. The Edition De Bibliophile. Printed from type of Japan handmade paper, limit...

20th Century Books

Leather

Antique books. Twenty-four volumes. Published: New York, The Chaucer Company, 1900s. The Complete Works of Count Leo Tolstoy. Extra illustrated edition, limited to twenty-five copies...

Late 20th Century Books

Eight volumes. The Arabian Nights (text is in French) Le Livre Mille Nuits Et Une Nuit, Published Paris. Bound in three quarter blue calf, spine gilt decorations floral moon design, ...

Yoko Ono

Vintage 1960s Japanese Books

Ono, Yoko. Grapefruit "Grapefruit is one of the monuments of conceptual art of the early 1960's. Yoko has a lyrical, poetic dimension that sets her apart from the other conceptual a...

Mid-20th Century Books

Eight volumes. Published: London, Longman and Green, 1840. Visit to Remarkable Places; Rural and Domestic Life of Germany; Rural Life of England; Homes and Haunts of the British Poet...

Emerson

Late 20th Century Books

12 volumes published, New York Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1904. The writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with a biographical introduction and notes by Edward Waldo Emerson, portrait f...

20th Century Books

Antique books. 17 volumes. The Writings of De Maupassant Collected Works. Published: New York, M. Walter Dunne, 1903. Portrait illustrations to frontispiece. Bound in three quarter b...

Early 20th Century Books

Four volumes. The History of the Ingenious gentlemen Don Quixote of La Mancha. Translated from the Spanish by P.A. Motteux. Published : Edinburgh, John Grant, 1906. Bound in three qu...

20th Century Books

Ten volumes. The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman, This edition is limited to three hundred set which this is number 202. Paumanok Edition portrait illustrations to frontispiece. Pu...

Marc Chagall

Vintage 1950s American Modern Books

Paper

First American edition, inscribed by Chagall and with stunning original full-page color drawing of Moses receiving the tablets on title page. With important provenance. ”If we ha...

Marc Chagall

Vintage 1960s American Modern Books

Chagall, Marc. The Jerusalem Windows First edition, signed and inscribed by Chagall. A fine, pristine copy with the scarce publisher's slipcase and shipping box. The English lang...

20th Century Books

16 volumes . Published: New York, The Grolier's Society, 1900s. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte with Memoirs Madame Junot, and Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Bourrienne, Hazlitt, an...

20th Century Books

Twenty-four volumes. Historic Memoirs of the Court of Europe from 16th to 19th Century. Various Authors. Published London George Barrie and Sons, 1899. Complete with one hundred-sixt...

20th Century Books

Thirty-two volumes. The Works of James Fenimore Cooper. The Grand Format Edition is limited to fifty sets which this is number 20. Hand colored illustrations to each volumes. This se...

Late 20th Century Books

Leather

18 volumes. The Royal Court Journal And Memoirs, by Catharine Prescott Wormeley. Published Boston, Hardy Pratt and Company, 1901. Illustrated to set. Bound by Whitman Bennett in thre...

20th Century Books

40 volumes. Published: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's, 1897. The Complete Writings of Washington Irving. The "Holly Edition", with portrait and other illustrations through-out set. Ha...

20th Century Books

Sixteen volumes. Anges Strickland, Queens of England. Published Philadelphia: George Barrie and Sons, 1902. Extra illustrated collection, each volume to frontispiece with a hand colo...

Syrie Maugham, Richard B. Fisher

Vintage 1970s American Books

First US edition, published by Duckworth, 1979 By Richard B. Fisher. A history of Syrie Maugham’s influential interior design career. A pioneer in many styles we now view as ma...

David Hockney

1990s British Books

First edition, published by Thames and Hudson, 1993 “That’s The Way I See It” is David Hockney’s second autobiographical monograph. Published in the early 1990s, this great book d...

David Hockney

Vintage 1980s British Books

First edition, published by Pavilion Books, 1987. The posters for Hockney’s exhibitions never disappoint, usually incorporating a piece from the show they are graphically powerful...

Derek E. Ostergard

Late 20th Century American Books

First edition, published by The American Federation of Arts, 1987 This catalogue offers a comprehensive history of furnishings made from bent wood and metal. The series of texts w...

Mario Dal Fabbro

Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Books

First edition, second printing, published by Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1950. A guide to the design and production of modern furniture, published contemporary to the era. Wi...

Frans Postma

1990s German Books

First edition, hardback, published by Ernst & Sohn, Berlin, 1995 An important book about the studio Piet Mondrian used between 1921 and 1936. Through a series of chapters the book...

1990s American Books

First edition, published by Abrams, 1994. Edited by Lesley Hoskins The rich and varied history of the centuries-old decorating material, wallpaper. With numerous images of the ...

David Wainwright, Catherine Dinn

Vintage 1980s British Books

By David Wainwright and Catherine Dinn First edition, published by Sarema Press, 1989 A beautiful monograph of the work of Henry Scott Tuke. Known by most for his paintings of ...

Meyric R. Rogers

Vintage 1940s American Books

Published by Bonanza Books, 1978 “The Tradition and Developments of Domestic Design from Colonial Times to the Present" A measured study of the development of the American inte...

Lee Nordness

Vintage 1970s American Books

Paper

First edition published by Thames and Hudson, 1970 "Works by Artist-Craftsmen in ceramic, enamel, glass, metal, plastic, mosaic, wood and fiber" A survey of the work of contemp...

Sotheby's

1990s American Books

Published by Sotheby's NY, 1997. Three volumes set in a slipcase of the private and public collections of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Soft covers.

Early 20th Century French Industrial Books

Iron

A black forged iron Industrial book press from the early 1900s. Beautiful patina on the iron. Squat shape with an Industrial aesthetic. The base is square with light molding. Curved,...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Vintage 1960s American Bauhaus Books

Paper

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Drawings in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art by Ludwig Glaeser, a important, out-of-print spiral bound folio with original plates of architectural...

Laura Cerwinske

1990s American Modern Books

Paper

With over 100 gorgeous photographs this book originally published in 1990 displays the sumptuous lifestyle of the Russian Imperial family. The treasures created and collected by the ...

20th Century English Decorative Art

Paper

Penguin Books founded in 1935 and known for their iconic design of two solid bands of colour sandwiching a band of white. The most common was orange for Penguin's fiction, green cove...

Paul Follot

Early 20th Century French Art Deco Books

Published by Editions d’Art Charles Moreau, Paris, 1927 48 plates (complete) 9 7/8" X 12 ¾" Includes interior designs from the Salon des Artistes Decorateurs, 1927, including des...

Emile Léon Bouchet

Early 20th Century French Art Deco Books

Paper

Published by Editions d’Art Charles Moreau, Paris, 1929 48 Plates (complete 42 black & white and six pochoirs) – 9 7/8” X 12 ¾” Includes interior designs from the Salon des Artis...

Maurice Dufrène

Early 20th Century French Art Deco Books

Paper

Published by Edition d’Art Charles Moreau, Paris, 1926 48 Plates (complete) – 9 7/8” X 12 5/8” Includes interior designs from the Salon des Artistes Decorateurs, 1926, including ...

René Prou

Early 20th Century French Art Deco Books

Paper

Published by Editions d’Art Charles Moreau, Paris, 1928 48 Plates (complete 42 black and white and six pochoirs) – 9 7/8” X 12 ¾” Includes interior designs from the Salon des Ar...

Le Corbusier

Vintage 1930s French Modern Books

Paper

Hardcover first edition of Le Corbusier's seminal La Ville Radieuse (The Radiant City), published by the celebrated review L'Architecture D'Aujourd'hui. A rare volume, made more so b...

Will Barnet

20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Books

First edition published by Harry N Abrams in 1979. Paperback folio with 62 pages with 27 full color illustrations.  

Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Books

“Art Nouveau” by Robert Schmutzler book. An exploration of the origins, evolution, and significance of the Art Nouveau movement. First edition from 1964. 322 pages illustrated wit...

Mid-20th Century American Books

Fabric, Paper

Mid-20th century set of three 1st Edition set cookbooks. This three-piece set includes, A 1947 1st Edition of "Lets Cook It Right By, Adelle Davis-Published by, Harcourt Brace & Co.,...

Standard Co.

Early 20th Century American Edwardian More Desk Accessories

Iron

Antique industrial weight book binding press made by Standard Company for book binders M. P. Exline Co., Dallas, Tex. The press is in great condition with both names still clearly vi...

Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Books

Paper

Knoll Design by Eric Larrabee and Massimo Vignelli is a handsome portrait of some of the talented group of people who have designed for Knoll over the years. Those profiled include...

Robin Day, Lucienne Day

Late 20th Century British Books

Published by Mitchell Beazley, 2011 A publication of works of the revered British design duo. Robin and Lucienne Day were phenomenally influential in the post-war design world, wo...

Hannah Wilke

Vintage 1980s American Modern Books

Paper

Hard bound first edition monograph on pioneering feminist artist/performance artist Hannah Wilke. Titled "Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective," it was published in 1989 in conjunction with...