American Books

Dreams Through the Glass: Windows from Bergdorf Goodman by Linda Fargo. Assouline, NY, 2003. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Each window is a fantastic tableau, a narrative, a piece of theater inviting the viewer into rich imaginary worlds of fashion and surrealistic luxury. Window design is a vanishing metier, but it remains an enduring art form providing rare views through the glass into fantastic realms of dreams and fantasy. In these pages, Linda Fargo, the renowned window artist for Bergdorf Goodman, opens up her portfolio of magical tableaux created especially for this crown jewel of the retail world. Her palette is wonderfully rich and eclectic, juxtaposing relics of the past and the present, symbols of art and literature, western culture and exotic lands, moving easily between the marvelous and the everyday. These windows continue to astonish and delight all who flock to them for the traditional annual Christmas displays...

The Muses of Gwinn: Art and Nature in a Garden Designed by Warren H. Manning, Charles A. Platt and Ellen Shipman, by Robin S. Karson. Sagapress, Incorporated, 1995. 1st Ed hardcover ...

Sotheby's New York Auction Catalog: Fowler Museum February 1985. 1st Ed softcover. The Fowler Museum at UCLA, or more commonly, The Fowler, is a museum on the campus of the Universit...

Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective by Professor Michael Taylor and Kim Theriault. Yale University Press, Published 2009. 1st Ed Hardcover with dust jacket exhibition catalog for show at ...

Ruhlmann by Florence Camard. Published by Rizzoli Intl Publications, 2011. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket and unopened CD. The most comprehensive and authoritative monograph to be published about the prolific master of art deco interior design. Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann (1879–1933) who was one of the most celebrated art deco interior and furniture designers. A tastemaker and a style setter...

The House and Garden Book of Classic Rooms by Robert Harling, Leonie Highton, and John Bridges. Vendome Press, NY, 1990. First Edition hardcov...

5 Volumes. Washington Irving, Life of George Washington. Bound in 3/4 brown calf and marbled boards with the raised band spines gilt-tooled with tan and green morocco labels. All of ...

1 Volume. (Anon) Holy Bible: Old and New Testaments and the Apocryphal Writings. Illustrated. Bound in full black morocco with all the edges gilt, ornate gilt on covers and spine. Th...

4 Volumes. William Milligan Sloane, Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Bound by Worsfold in 3/4 red morocco and linen boards with the cover and raised band spines displaying gilt-tooled det...

1 Volume. Richard Henry Stoddard, The Loves and Heroines of the Poets. Bound in full brown morocco with the covers and raised band spine displaying ornate gilt and open-tooled detail...

The Second World War by Winston Churchill from Houghton-Mifflin Company, Boston. A vintage edition of Winston Churchill's six-volume memoir, The Second World War, for which he was a...

10 Volumes. Dryden, Plutarch Lives & Writings. Translation: Dryden's Corrected from The Greek and Revised by A.H. Clough. Illustrated with photogravure reproductions of paintings, sc...

2 Volumes. U.S. Grant, Personal Memoirs. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco and linen boards. The Covers display the author's seal in gilt tooling and the raised band spines display gilt-too...

10 Volumes. Thomas Paine, The Writings. Continental Edition. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco and marbled boards with the covers and raised band spines displaying gilt-tooled detailing. Th...

12 Volumes. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Complete Works. Centenary Edition. Bound in 3/4 green calf (spines faded as usual) with marbled board and endpapers. The top edges are gilt with rais...

1 Volume. Lydia E. F. Painter, Under Egypt's Skies. Bound in full tan morocco with silk doublers, top edges gilt, gilt panel, illustrated with numerous plates. Quarto. First Edition....

2 Volumes. Edward B. Lytton, The Last Days Of Pompeii. Edition Des Amateurs. This edition is limited to 74 copies, this being no. 33. Bound in 3/4 red morocco, marbled boards and end...

2 Volumes. Charles T. Yerkes, Esq, Catalogue of Paintings & Sculpture In His Collection. The author was an American Financier who played a part in developing mass transit systems in ...

Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1998. Second printing hardcover with dust jacket. 255 pp. An important book published by the United States Ho...

Marc Jacobs Illustrated (Hardcover) by Grace Coddington In stock in Los Angeles A unique monograph of over 50 collections created by the fashion desi...

In the 1950s, a young man from Pittsburgh named Andy Warhol was earning a comfortable living as a commercial illustrator in New York City. But his ambitions went well beyond that; soon he was painting Coca-Cola bottles and filling a gallery with paintings of Campbell’s Soup cans. He certainly wasn’t the first to make a Pop work, but Warhol soon became a brand name himself, synonymous with the new art form that embodied everything youthful, subversive, bright and fresh. From the proto-supermodel Twiggy rocking false eyelashes and a Union Jack dress...

For centuries the moon had been synonymous with mystery, an unknown. But over the years, mankind has studied this brilliant satellite and even managed to venture there. Mystery becam...

Pair of signed Mel Roberts first edition photography books. From 2000 and 2001. Both books are hand signed. In great condition.

In 1968, when Stanley Kubrick was asked to comment on the metaphysical significance of 2001: A Space Odyssey, he replied: “It’s not a message I ever intended to convey in words. 2001...

Mists of Dawn By Chad Oliver. The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, 1952. First Edition. The authors first novel. Gray cloth binding, illustrated dust jacket, shelf wear, ed...

Marcel Breuer: Buildings and Projects 1921-1961 Hardcover Cloth Binding Published by Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1962 Binding is Loose Spotting along edges of cover No Dust Ja...

Herb Lubalin: Art Director, Graphic Designer and Typographer by Alan Peckolick. Published by American Showcase. 1985. Hardcover. This is the definitive book about the typographic im...

AUTHOR: RHODES, James Ford. TITLE: History Of The United States From The Compromise of 1850 To The Final Restoration Of Home Rule At The South In 1877. PUBLISHER: NY: The Macm...

NY Noir: Crime Photos from the Daily News Archive by William Hannigan. Published by Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. When Ruth Snyder...

A unique book first edition print set on a circular format retains its original case.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Daring by Design by Anne Hawley and Robert Campbell. Published by Skira Rizzoli, 2017, hardcover. An in-depth study of one of Boston's treasured ...

First edition ring-binder catalog of the Herman Miller Collection, showcasing the designs of Charles (and Ray) Eames and George Nelson (and Associates). Published in 1955 by Herman M...

Charles Scribner's, New York, from late 1800's to early 1900's. Bound in blue leather and cloth boards with blue and red spines. 8 3/8" H x 5 3/4" W x 1 1/4" D Condition: the spin...

Archigraphia: Architectural and Environmental Graphics. Edited and designed by Walter Herdeg. Published by The Graphis Press, Switzerland in 1978. English, French and German text. 23...

New York The Century Co. 1896. An oversized set in dark brown leather with four spine bands and gilt lettering. Blue gray marbleized papers. 12 1/2" H x 8 7/8" W x 2 1/8" D Conditi...

Moderne: Fashioning The French Interior by Sarah Schleuning. Stated 1st Ed published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2008, hardcover with dust jacket. Jacques-mile Ruhlmann, Pierre...

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 ...

Finding Home: The Houses of Pursley Dixon, by Ken Pursley. Published by Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2021. Hardcover with dust jacket. Founded on the simple principle “Build beautiful things,” the architectural team of Pursley Dixon, like populist architects Bobby McAlpine and Jeff Dungan, is known for blending elements of tradition with a modern lifestyle. In Finding Home, they share 15 stunning houses in three distinct styles: rustic mountain escapes, dreamy retreats by the water, and elegant houses in town. Each house has its own thoughtful visual narrative, but all are connected on an innate and authentic level by their sense of proportion, attention to detail, and a marvelous affinity with nature, displayed in their soothing neutral palettes, oversize windows that bring the outdoors in, and natural materials such as rough-hewn stone and unfinished wood. Little touches of humanity await discovery, such as a sleeping nook perched right out into the highest branches of a tree. These eccentricities and secrets add to the distinctly Southern sense of warmth and refuge these homes provide, homes whose open interiors and majestic porches easily accommodate family and gatherings. Featuring their own interior design work as well as that of acclaimed decorators such as Suzanne Kasler, Phoebe Howard, and Circa Interiors...

Martin Ramirez by Brooke Davis Anderson. Published in conjunction with the exhibition presented at the American Folk Art Museum, NY 1/23-4/29, 2007 and Milwaukee Art Museum, 10/06-1/...

Group of 4 vintage Jack Magazines, Sante Fe, New Mexico edited by Richard Maslow and Art Directer Leah Sherman. Issue 2 1995, issue 4 1996 and issues 5 and 6 1997. Highly graphic and irreverent satire art...

Environment and Design in Housing was planned as a textbook and for reference work. It features some of the best illustrations of design in housing, including 135 photographs by Juli...

George Nelson was an American designer, architect, and writer who is known for his contributions to modern furniture design. He was born in 1908 in Hartford, Connecticut and studied ...

Pieter de Hooch, one of the most famous and innovative artists of Holland's Golden Age, played a pioneering role in the Delft School and the advancement of genre painting and naturalism in the seventeenth century. Best known for his expressive use of interior space and sun-filled courtyards, de Hooch's command of perspective and responsiveness to light and atmosphere were unprecedented, and his work undoubtedly influenced his younger but more famous colleague Vermeer. This beautiful book examines de Hooch's position in Dutch genre painting and the social and political context of his art in the United Netherlands. It also addresses the artist's favored themes -- in particular the virtue of domesticity -- and relates them to Dutch civilization, literature, and the history of the family in the Protestant republic. Peter Sutton investigates de Hooch's approach to narration and his practice of encoding commentaries through symbolism, gesture, and such time-honored devices as the painting within the painting. In addition, he discusses new technical data concerning the artist's painting techniques, materials, and working methods. Through word and image, the book traces de Hooch's artistic development from his early beloved Delft period pictures to his more elegant and aristocratic paintings...

Throughout the twentieth century, Italian designers have been at the forefront of promoting the idea of evolution in the forms and images in the environment. 'New Italian Design' is ...

Michel Comte and Milk: A Collaboration 1996-2016 Hardcover in Box.For more than 35 years, photographer Michel Comte (born 1954) has been one of the most in-demand editorial and fashi...

Barrie, James M. Peter and Wendy. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1911]. First American trade edition. Illustrated by F. D. Bedford. 8vo. In publisher’s original pale green cloth, boards and spine stamped and lettered in gilt. With a new archival slipcase. Presented is the first American trade edition of James Barrie’s "Peter and Wendy." This edition was published in New York by Charles Scribner’s Sons, in 1911. It is presented here in the publisher’s original pale green cloth boards, with both boards and the spine sumptuously stamped and lettered in gilt. The book is further decorated with a frontispiece, illustrated title page, and 11 plates, all illustrated by F. D. Bedford. It is presented with a new archival slipcase. James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) was a Scottish born writer, working and writing in London. In 1902, he wrote "The Little White Bird," the first introduction to his character Peter Pan. In 1904, Barrie wrote a play version of Peter Pan, a slightly different version of the young boy going on adventures in Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, Tinkerbell and the Lost Boys...

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1995. Signed 35th Anniversary Edition. Signed by Lee on a bookplate affixed to half title page. Octavo. I...

Thayer, Emma Homan. Wild Flowers of Colorado: From Original Water Color Sketches Drawn From Nature. New York: Cassell and Company, New York, 1885. First edition. Illustrated with 24 ...

Satire Against Husbands by J. F. Regnard,. Hardcover 1954 1st Edition. Mylar jacket has been added at later date.

The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan. 1952 Hardcover 1st Edition. Mylar clear cover has been added at a later date.

1 Volume. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged. 1st Edition. Bound in full light green morocco with the covers and raised band spine displaying gilt-tooled detailing. All of the edges are gilt w...

Aldrin, Edwin, Warga, Wayne, Return to Earth. New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by Buzz Aldrin on front endpage. In original cloth boards and unclippe...

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...

Nicklaus, Jack, with Bowden, Ken. On and Off the Fairway: A Pictorial Autobiography. Simon and Schuster: New York, 1978. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by Nicklaus on the front ...

Davis, Benjamin O. American: An Autobiography. Washington and London: The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. First edition. Signed by Benjamin O. Davis, Agatha Davis, and Louis Purnell. In original dust jacket and hardcover boards. presented with new archival slipcase. Presented is a signed, first edition printing of "American: An Autobiography "by Benjamin O. Davis. The book was published in Washington and London by The Smithsonian Institution Press in 1991. The book is signed and inscribed by Benjamin Davis on the title page “To Bob/ All the best/ Ben Davis” in black felt-tipped ink. His wife, Agatha Davis, signed on the same page. The book is additionally signed and inscribed by decorated Tuskegee Airman and noted curator of the Air and Space Museum Louis Purnell on the dedication page. His inscription reads, “To Bob/ Best Wishes!/ Louis R. Purnell/ 99TH FTR SQDR,” in blue ink. The book is offered here in the publisher’s original dust jacket and hardcover boards, with the addition of a new archival slipcase. Benjamin O. Davis (1912-2002) was an acclaimed pilot and officer who became the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force. Davis’ autobiography chronicles the life of a great American and provides an acute account of race relations in the segregated and unsegregated military. Davis entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1932. After graduating in 1936, he was commissioned in the infantry and in 1941 was among the first group of African Americans admitted to the Army Air Corps and to pilot training. He was swiftly promoted to lieutenant colonel and he organized the 99th Pursuit Squadron, the first entirely African American air unit. The 99th Squadron flew tactical support missions in the Mediterranean theater. In 1943 he organized and commanded the famed 332nd Fighter Group. Davis later commanded the integrated 51st Fighter Wing in Korea and the 13th Air Force during the Vietnam War. He retired from the Air Force in 1970 as a three-star general. On December 9, 1998, Davis was awarded his fourth general’s star, the first African American to be so honored in retirement. Before 1940, African-Americans were barred from flying for the U.S. military. Civil rights organizations and the black press exerted pressure that resulted in the formation of an all African-American pursuit squadron based in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1941. They became known as the Tuskegee Airmen. During WWII, the pilots flew P-51 Mustangs to escort the heavy bombers of the 15th Air Force during raids deep into enemy territory. The tails of their planes were painted red for identification purposes, earning them the enduring nickname “Red Tails...

Hoyt, Edwin P. Guadalcanal. New York: Stein and Day, 1981. First edition. Signed by Hoyt and 7 USMCS VMF fighter pilots on the half title page. In original publisher's dust jacket a...

Osborne, Shane, McConnell, Malcolm. Born to Fly: The Heroic Story of Downed U.S. Navy Pilot Lt. Shane Osborn. New York: Broadway Books, 2001. First edition, first printing. Signed by...

Yeager, Chuck and Leo Janos. Yeager: An Autobiography. New York: Bantam Books, 1985. Signed by Chuck Yeager. Third edition. In the original dust jacket an...