Late 20th Century Books

Vermont Clock and Watchmakers, Silversmiths, and Jewelers, 1778-1878 by Lilian Baker Carlisle. L.B. Carlisle, Burlington VT, 1970. 1st, signed and numbered Ed (#601/1000) hardcover w...

Transport yourself to a bygone era with this vintage German book, "Nelken Fur Dich," originating from the USSR around 1982. This tender and compact...

Baccarat, Les Flacons a Parfum - The Perfume Bottles, by Compagnie des Cristalleries de Baccarat and edited by Henri Addor and Associés, Paris in 1986. Illustrated with 71 wash drawi...

Mary Cassatt, Paintings and Prints by Frank Getlein. Softcover book published in 1980 by Abbeville Press of New York. Printed and bound in Japan. Illustrated, 155 pages.

American Poster Renaissance, The Great Age of Poster Design, 1890-1900 by Victor Margolin. Hardcover book with dustjacket. Stated first printing, published in 1975 by Castle Books. 2...

Robert Bateman, an Artist in Nature, with text by Rick Archbold. Hardcover book with dustjacket, published in 1995 by Crescent Books. Printed in Italy, illustrated, 176 pages.

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...

The Golden Pharaoh: The Definitive Account of the Greatest Discovery in Archaeology, the Treasures of Tutankhamen, by Philipp Vandenberg. Stated First American edition. 328 pages wit...

Wyland, the Whaling Walls. Softcover book published in 1997 by Wyland Studios of Laguna Beach, California. Illustrated, 195 pages.

Hand-assembled in-house portfolio by renowned American sculptor Richard Lippold (1915-2002), known for his site-specific geometric constructions using wire as a medium, and for his a...

A Pictorial History Of Architecture In America by G. E. Kidder Smith. Published by W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1976, 1976Published by American Academy of Arts and American ...

Christie's Sale Catalogue of the Contents of Castlegar, Ballinalsoe, Co. Galway and remaining contents of Somerton, Castleknock on 24th and 25th May, 1988. 1st Ed softcover auction c...

Geniale Amerique (Great America), French book by Editions PML, 1988. America is a rich and immense land of incredible beauty, sometimes still primitive; a complex continent in comple...

Sotheby's: The Garbisch Collection, Volume Three. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog. The 588 item catalog includes color and black & white photographs and description of each item. Wi...

Pair of Encyclopedias: Tables by Simon Yates and Sofas by Constance King. The Wellfleet Press, London, 1989. First edition hardcovers with dust jackets. A pair of great historical re...

Meissen, organized by the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 1977. 1st Ed softcover. A museum exhibition that started with a core donation from ...

Christie's Review of the Season 1982 Hardcover Edited by John Herbert. Abbeville Press, NY, 1982. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Numerous color photos of important lots from all ...

Akiba's Children by Geoffrey H. Hartman, Signed, Limited & Numbered (#187/350) 1st Edition. Published by Iron Mountain Press, Virginia. Four wood engravings tipped in by Robert Llewe...

The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Harry N. Abrams, 1988. 1st Ed softcover. Nearly three hundr...

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Britton: Christie's, New York: Saturday 16 January 1999. Hardcover with dust jacket. Auction catalog of American Furniture and Decorative Arts fro...

A Continuing Tradition: Wm. Frank McCall, Jr., FAIA 1914-1991 by William R. Mitchell, Jr. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This book captures the elegance and style of the resident...

1) Sotheby's New York: European Works of Art, Tapestries, Furniture, English furniture and decorations, 2000. Softcover with 405 lots. 2) Sotheby's New Yo...

"Je Suis Le Cahier" The Sketchbooks of Picasso hardcover book 1st Edition 1986 The Sketchbooks of Picasso "Je Suis Le Cahier". Pablo Picasso, "Picasso considered all of his works to be entries in his diary; he excluded nothing. The sketchbooks are generic chapters inextricable from his oeuvre. In Picasso's paintings the spontaneity of gesture is deceptive since the manner is which he leaves his tracks visible superficially suggests minimal preparation. Although most of Picasso's solutions appear to be immediately worked out on the canvas, this was far from the fact. Many paintings sprang fully formed as the fulfillment of preconscious models, but very often others were the product of the process of trial solution and discovery through drawing. There are eight sketchbooks for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, five for the saltimbanques, four for the Luncheon on the Grass series, and two for The rape of the Sabines. In sketchbook No. 171, Picasso inscribed...

Jugendstil Art Nouveau: Floral and Functional Forms, by Siegfried Wichmann. New York Graphic Society, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1984. !st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. With...

A beautifully produced book, in a presentation box. Being one of a limited edition of only 5000 that were printed by Franco Maria Ricci, 148 pages with text in French and 43 tipped in color illustrations, four of which are double page and 39 single pages. Fabled houses such as Le Chateau de Groussay and Hotel Lambert...

Hibel Lithographs edited by Theodore Plotkin. Hardcover book, stated first edition and first printing, published in 1977. Printed in Switzerland, illu...

The Royal Palaces of India by George Michell. Published by Thames & Hudson, 1994. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. As early as the 14th c, stories glorifying the exotic palaces of ...

Discovering the secrets of soft-paste porcelain at The Saint-Cloud Manufactory ca 1690-1766. North Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 303 p...

Sotheby's: Fine Continental Furniture, Decorations and Carpets Including Property from The Collection of Prince Giulio Durini Di Monza, October 1997. 416 lots on 173 pages Illustrate...

World Ceramics: An Illustrated History by Robert J. Charleston. Hardcover 1975, 2nd printing.

Paintings in the Hermitage by Colin Eisler. Hardcover coffee table book with dustjacket. Stated first edition published in 1990 by Stewart, Tabori & Chang of New York. Printed in Ita...

Intimate Visions: The Photography of Dorothy Norman by Miles Barth. Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1993. She was best known for her long association wi...

rare 1975 original Arteluce catalogue, 44 pages, text in Italian, English, German & French ex collection Galerie Mai Designs by Gino Sarfatti, Ma...

Shared Space: The Joseph M. Cohen Collection, by Ray Merritt. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. The reasons why people collect art are no doubt as simple...

The United Artists Story, by Ronald Bergan. Crown Publishers, New York, 1986. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with Brodart covered dust jacket. This book tells the fascinating story of "the ...

Louis Icart, The Complete Etchings. English book, by William R. Holland, Clifford P. Catania, and Nathan D. Isen, 1990. 1988 marked the one-hundredth anniversary of Louis Icart's bir...

Sotheby's: The Collection of Jerome C. Neuhoff. Including Chinese works of art, porcelain, silver, paintings, English furniture, decorations and carpets. Auction: Saturday, January 25...

The Art of the Cigar Label by Joe Davidson. Hardcover book, published in 1989 by The Wellfleet Press of Secaucus, New Jersey. Printed in Singapore. Illustrated, 252 pages.

Jacques Garcia Decorating In The French Style Hardcover Book by Franck Ferrand 1999. Jacques Garcia Decorating In The French Style, is a reference in term of French Decoration Style.Pubished in 2005, this version is the Original publication which was later modified.After designing private interiors for distinguished clients worldwide, Jacques Garcia subsequently set about decorating some of the most popar establishments in Paris - from the Hotel Costes, the Laduree tearoom on the Champs Elysees and the new Fouquet's, to the brasserie La Grande Armee and L'Avenue. But his masterpiece is the Norman chateau Le Champ de Bataille, in which every detail contributes to the formation of a new style: the Garcia style.Jacques Garcia is one of the most fashionable interior designers in France today. Parisians flock to the tables of the exclusive Hotel Costes he designed near the place Vendome, and the famous tea room Laduree on the Champs Elysees to dine and be seen in his elegant and atmospheric fin-de-siecle salons. Garcia counts among his private clients royalty, actors, piticians and businessmen from New York to Beirut, but he is just as much at home refurbishing museums (musee Carnavalet, musee de la Vie Romantique) and palace hotels and casinos in Deauville or Baden-Baden. Neoclassicism, Orientalism and Empire Revival are his decorative landmarks. In deliberate opposition to the post-modern spaces designed by wunderkind Philippe Starck in the early 90s, Garcia is passionate about the past, but his is not a dry historicism. He is a master at mixing texture, pattern and cor. His re-created rooms seem to bear the traces of generations, but are in fact the product of his inspired and irreverent imagination and attention to detail. The magnificent, ongoing restauration and decoration of his Normandy chateau, Champs de Bataille, attracts visitors from the world over and is a monument to his art and creativity.Stunningly illustrated, this sumptuous vume will appeal to anyone interested in interior decoration and provides a privileged look into the exclusive world of French elegance and style.In mid-career, Jacques Garcia invites us to explore an oeuvre in continuous development in which the marvels of the past have been revisited with an eye to the present. A magician of mood, Garcia is expert at keeping spectators spellbound.Here, extensively illustrated, is the first work entirely devoted to this outstanding interior designer. In it we share the joys to be derived from a certain art of living a la francaise, in the timeless tradition of the "grand style". A thirty-year career has made Jacques Garcia a worldwide name in interior design in the French tradition. In Paris, chic crowds flock to his celebrated Hétel Costes and Ladurée tearoom, and to his many fin de siécle brasseries. Garcia's designs also grace the interiors of the Musée Carnavalet and the Musée de la Vie Romantique and his most recent tour de force is the restoration of Paris Hotel Mansart. Garcia's most ambitious project to date, the refurbishment of the Chateau du Champ...

Robert Capa: Photographs by Robert and Cornell Capa and Richard Whelan. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1985. Stated first edition. hardcover with dust jacket. 242 pp., 262 black and whit...

"Stone Echoes" A catalogue raisonne book of Francoise Gilot's original prints signed by author, Mel Yoakum, circa 1995. The book is in good con...

Gardens of Historic Charleston, by James R. Cothran, Signed Ed. University of South Carolina Press, 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket. With the increasing interest in small-space gard...

Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai & Hong Kong. Three centuries of Sino-British trade in the decorative arts by David S. Howard. Inscribed 1st edition. Sotheby’s, London, 1997. 2...

Signs of our times by John Margolies. Abbeville press, 1993. First Edition hardcover, no dust jacket as released. This is an illustrated, survey of the ...

Art At Auction 1972 - 1973 The Year At Sotheby's Parke-Bernet. Viking Press, NY, 1972. 1st ed hardcover with dust jacket. Numerous color photos of important lots from all of Sotheby'...

Oriental Rugs and Carpets by Fabio Formenton. Hardcover book with dustjacket, published in 1977 by Hamlyn Publishing Group. Printed and bound in Italy. Illustrated, 250 pages.

Embark on a nostalgic journey through the maritime history of the USSR with our exquisite collection of vintage postcards. Featuring the captivating theme of the Sea Fleet, this care...

A vintage "Lichtenstein 1970 - 1980" art book by Jack Cowart (St Louis Art Museum), circa 1980. This hard to find paperback book is in good vintage ...

Stiftung Insel Hombroich: Museum und Raketenstation by Museum und Raketenstation. Published by Stiftung Insel Hombroich, 1999. 1st Ed hardcover. The Museum Insel Hombroich (Museum Island Hombroich), Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is both a park and a museum combining architecture, art and nature on over 62 acres of meadowland. The park includes the "Kirkeby-Feld" and the "Raketenstation" ("rocket station"), a disused NATO missile base. The museum located on the Museum Island is called "Museum Insel Hombroich". It presents both antique art from Asia...

Set of Four Sotheby's Catalogs of Mr. & Mrs. John Hay Whitney, 1999 and 2004. John Hay Whitney (August 17, 1904 – February 8, 1982) was a U.S. Ambassador to t...

A hard-cover book with dust-jacket on abstract American artist Frank Stella, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970, New York, NY. This book presents a decade of Sella's work from 1959 - 1...

Collection de M. Henry Clarke Vendue au Profit de L’Institut Pasteur. 1st Ed softcover. With results. 112pp. with 480 lots in color.  

Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park, Riehen, Basel, Switzerland, 1997-1998 In Autumn 1998, after the trees around Fondation Beyeler and in the Berower Park had shed their leaves, Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped 162 trees—some up to 25 meters high—with 55,000 square meters of polyester fabric and 23 kilometers of rope. The effect of light and weather on the translucent material created a kind of amorphous sculptural choreography, an ever-changing variety of shapes, surfaces, and colors. The fabric, used every winter in Japan to protect trees from frost and heavy snow, lent the trees the appearance of precious and fragile objects. The Fondation Beyeler project was a pièce de résistance for Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and an extension and expansion of many years of interest in the concept of wrapped trees...

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...

Jacques Callot 1592 - 1635, French book by Paulette Choné, 1992. This important book was published after the Jacques Callot exhibition which was presented at the Lorraine Historical ...

Leonard de Vinci (Leonardo Da Vinci), French book by Jean-Claude, Frere, 1994. Leonardo da Vinci is often regarded as the greatest artist of all time. This book retraces his career a...

Early Architecture in Ulster County, New York. Softcover book published in 1974 by the Junior League of Kingston. Illustrated, 222 pages.

Executive style by Judith Price. Linden Press / Simon Schuster, NY, 1980. Hardcover with dust jacket. Executive Style was the first book to approach the office environment as a comprehensive source...

Published by Rutgers University Press, 1st edition, 1975. Soft cover, English text. George Tice was considered a prolific and well-established photographer in his thirties. A tender...

Fundamentals of Philately by L.N. Williams. Published by American Philatelic Society, 1990. 1st Ed hardcover. The book includes 2 chapters on general collecting and the remaining 13 ...