Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy (born February 20, 1927) is a French aristocrat and fashion designer who founded The House of Givenchy in 1952. He is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn, as well as clothing for clients such as Jacqueline Kennedy.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. SIGNED BY HUBERT DE GIVENCHY on the half title page! 208 pages. Profusely illustrated in full color. The house of Givenchy was founded in 1952 by designer Hubert de Givenchy. His style was marked by innovativeness, contrary to the more conservative designs by Dior. Audrey Hepburn, later the most prominent proponent of Givenchy’s fashion. Grace Kelly, Marlene Dietrich, The Duchess of Windsor, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis were other famous customers of Givenchy’s. A very nice copy, bright and clean.

Bookseller Inventory # 23040

$600

The Givenchy Style
Mohrt, Francoise

Publisher: Vendome Press
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First U. S. Edition

· Category: Fashion, Featured Items, Recent Acquisitions, Signed & Inscribed ·

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Black cloth boards with fuchsia titles. Published by Michael Edwards in association with HM Editions, France. 295 pages. Foreword by Edmond Roudnitska. An exhaustive work, starting with the birth of modern perfumery in the late 1880′s, and extending into the late 1990′s. A scarce and sought after work on the subject. The dust jacket shows only the most minor wear to corners and edges, otherwise fine.

Bookseller Inventory # 23439
$400

Perfume Legends: French Feminine Fragrances
Edwards, Michael

Publisher: HM Editions
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

· Category: Recent Acquisitions ·

Black Cat Books just purchased
a huge pile of new Architecture & Design books…

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Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Stated first American edition. White cloth-covered boards with title stamped in black on spine; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photo-collages by David Hockney. Text by Lawrence Weschler. 288 pages with 122 four-color plates. Very minor edge wear, otherwise fine.

$300

Cameraworks
Hockney, David

Publisher: Alfred A Knopf
Publication Date: 1984
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First US Edition

· Category: Photography, Recent Acquisitions ·

Description: First Italian Edition. Hard bound in die cut dust jacket, as issued. Text by H. H. Arnason. Collection edited by Ezio Gribaudo. 134 plates. Includes exhibition checklist, chronolgy and brief biography. Tan cloth boards with brown titles show some wear, with lower spine edge bumped. Front hinge weak, but holding. Wear and some soiling to dust jacket, otherwise very good. SCARCE!

Bookseller Inventory # 22954

$300

Marca-Relli
Arnason, H. H.

Publisher: Edizioni D’arte Fratelli Pozzo
Publication Date: 1971
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Italian Edition

· Category: Art, Recent Acquisitions ·

Tess Slesinger wrote fiction that combined jazzy, up-to-the-minute reports on the state of marriage, sexuality, political culture, and work in 1930s America with a biting, yet emotionally revealing style typical of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker where she published frequently. Slesinger moved in the same circles as Lionel Trilling, Clifton Fadiman and other famed liberal intellectuals, who seem to have provided her with rich material. The Unpossessed invites comparison with the best work of Dawn Powell and Mary McCarthy. “It’s sophisticated … satiric, then ecstatic, alternating social criticism with displays of sexual and intellectual coquetry.” — The Village Voice
Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Blue cloth over boards with red/gold titles. Red top stain. Dust jacket with tipped in author photo, as issued. Wear and minor sunning to edges of boards. Some soiling to page edges, and foxing to endpages. Dust jacket shows some tanning, with one small red stain to rear pannel. Interior pages clean and binding tight.  SCARCE!

Bookseller Inventory # 23013

$300

The Unpossessed
Slesinger, Tess

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 1934
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition

· Category: Literary First Editions, Recent Acquisitions ·

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Second Edition, first printed August 1945, reprinted August of the same year. Dust jacket has Second Edition printed below the blurb on the inner flap. Green cloth boards with white titles on spine edge. Wear to corners and edges of boards, and previous owners stamp to front free endpage. Dust jacket shows some wear, with some chipping to lower spine edge and lower edge of rear pannel. SCARCE!

Bookseller Inventory # 23012

$350

Animal Farm – A Fairy Story
Orwell, George

Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London
Publication Date: 1945
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: Second Edition

· Category: Literary First Editions, Recent Acquisitions ·

Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature. She was born Edith Newbold Jones to a wealthy New York family, and first gained attention for several influential design books including her first published work, The Decoration of Houses (1897). In  1901 she built The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts. There she wrote The House of Mirth (1905) and the Pulitzer Prize winning The Age of Innocence (1920). She entertained authors, and Henry James was a close personal friend. In addition to her famous novels, Wharton wrote at least 85 short stories. She was a highly regarded garden designer and wrote the classic design book Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904). Wharton in part helped chronicle New York’s upper-class and  their vanishing world in the first part of the 20th century.

Description: Hard bound in red cloth with gilt titles. True first edition published September, 1908. Collected short stories. A nice clean copy with only the most minor sun fading to spine edge. Scarce!

Bookseller Inventory # 13737

$300

The Hermit & the Wild Woman
Wharton, Edith

Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
Publication Date: 1908
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition

· Category: Literary First Editions, Recent Acquisitions ·

Description: World Publishing, 1971. Hard Bound. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First U. S. Edition. Hard bound with dust jacket. Yellow cloth boards with all stamping in dark-brown. Matching dark-brown endpapers. A nice copy, bright and clean.

Bookseller Inventory # 22653

$75

David Hicks on Decoration-With Fabrics
Hicks, David

Publisher: World Publishing
Publication Date: 1971
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First U. S. Edition

· Category: Design, Interior Design, Recent Acquisitions ·

Description: Hard bound in dust jacket. Stated first edition. 219 pages with index. 108 pages of illustrations, 72 in color. Some minor wear to dust jacket edges, otherwise very good. Baldwin’s career is one of the most celebrated in all of interior design. Billy Baldwin Decorates is one of the most authoritative book ever written on interior decoration.

Bookseller Inventory # 22909

$250

Billy Baldwin Decorates
Baldwin, Billy

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Publication Date: 1972
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

· Category: Design, Interior Design, Recent Acquisitions ·

Description: Hard bound with Brown ‘leatherette’ covered boards and tipped-in plate on the front board, no dust jacket as issued. Published on the occasion of the 1999 exhibition Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits, curated by Peter T. Tunney, at the Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles. 205 pages profusely illustrated. RARE & SOUGHT AFTER.

Bookseller Inventory # 22482
$400

Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits
Beard, Peter

Publisher: Arena Editions
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued
Edition: First Edition

· Category: Photography, Recent Acquisitions ·

Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866-1948) was an American Zoologist. He was author of more than 2200 articles in scientific publications, and some 1700 additional authored works, including treatises on social reform and education. He was one of the most prolific taxonomists in history, publishing descriptions of over 9,000 species and genera of insects alone, some 6,400 of which were bees, and some 1,000 mollusks, arachnids, fungi, mammals, fish and plants. in 1904 he became lecturer on entomology and in 1906 professor of systematic zoology, at the University of Colorado. Even after retiring from the university, Cockerell pursued his interest in the natural history of all organisms, and continued to publish numerous notes and articles until his death at his home in 1948.

Description: Hard bound in dark green cloth over boards with titles in black. No dust jacket. 558 pages + index. Illustrated edition. Orange and black “yin/yang” to front board and spine edge. INSCRIBED AT LENGTH BY BOTH T. D. A. COCKERELL AND HIS WIFE W. P. COCKERELL on the front free endpage. Previous owners name and Colorado address to front fixed endpage and title page. ORIGINAL POEM BY T. D. A. COCKERELL to front free endpage. HAND SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH laid in.  Some minor wear to boards, otherwise very good. A sound copy with a warm inscription. SCARCE!

Bookseller Inventory # 23004

$150

Zoology
Cockerell, T. D. A.

Publisher: World Book Company
Publication Date: 1922
Binding: Hard Bound
Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket
Book Condition: Good

· Category: Recent Acquisitions, Signed & Inscribed ·

8 great items-  V. Woolf first ed on Hogarth press, a signed Fleur Cowles, A.J.Liebling Chicago first ed ,Winnie the Pooh first ed, a signed Christian Dior, Flann O’brian first ed, Bemelmans first ed & N.Y the wonder city

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We have recently purchased a small collection of signed John Irving titles.

The Cider House Rules
– Signed first edition

The World According to Garp
- Signed U.K. edition

Setting Free the Bears
- First edition

A Prayer For Owen Meany
- Signed first edition

The Water Method Man
- German edition inscribed by Irving with hand signed letter.

The Cider House Rules: Deluxe Edition
- Hard bound limited edition signed by John Irving with glassine dust jacket, in publishers slipcase, as issued

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We offer for sale several Inscribed copies from the collection of the visual artist, printmaker and illustrator; Fumi Komatsu. For many years she lived and worked in Greenwich Village. She is probably best known within the literary world for her book illustration, most notable the U.S. editions of Yukio Mishama’s novels, including The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and A Thousand Cranes.

The Grapes Of Wrath – inscribed to her by John Steinbeck

The Glass Menagerie – inscribed by Tennessee Williams

A Mask of Mercy – inscribed by Robert Frost

The Bridge of San Luis Rey – inscribed by Thorton Wilder

The Adventures of Augie March – Inscribed by Saul bellow
The Victim – inscribed by Saul Bellow

Gentleman’s Agreement – inscribed by Laura Z. Hobson
The Other Father – inscribed by laura Z. Hobson

In Search – inscribed by Meyer Levin

Dark trees to the Wind – inscribed by Carl Carmer
Listen For a Lonesome Drum – inscribed by Carl Carmer

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