Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) was the premier style arbiter of the 1930s – a favourite designer for women who made the best-dressed list, of female sports heroes, and of film and theatre actresses. This book takes a comprehensive look at the work of this startling and innovative Paris fashion designer. “Shocking!” explores the Italian-born designer’s career from its modernist beginnings in the 1920s to the closing of her salon in 1954. Author Dilys Blum discusses in detail Schiaparelli’s impact on and relationship with the American fashion industry, the foundation of her great success. She also addresses how Schiaparelli’s early designs were acclaimed for the architectural quality of her silhouettes and her use of unconventional materials. After 1935 the designer’s collections took on a new identity, partly from her close relationship with the Parisian artistic community, which included Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau, and Alberto Giacometti.Illustrated with over 300 captivating reproductions of Schiaparelli clothing and accessories, this book also includes contemporary photos of her designs by such key fashion photographers as Horst and Cecil Beaton and sketches and stills from the films and plays with which she was associated. Together the text and illustrations celebrate a masterful designer who defined dressmaking as an art rather than a profession.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Illustrated with over 300 captivating reproductions of Schiaparelli clothing and accessories. This book also includes contemporary photos of her designs by such key fashion photographers as Horst and Cecil Beaton and sketches and stills from the films and plays with which she was associated. A very nice copy, bright and clean.

Bookseller Inventory # 22490

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Shocking: the Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli
by Blum, Dilys E.

Publisher: Rizzoli, New York
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

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Paolo Venini (1895 – 1959) emerged as one of the leading figures in the production of Murano glass in the 20th century, and whose works are outstanding for their combination of traditional technique and modern form. Established in 1925 Venini is the largest and most successful of the Murano glass furnaces. Paolo Venini’s name is stil synonymous with impeccable taste & style.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. An exhaustive account of the history of the glassworks set up by Paolo Venini in 1921 and carried forward by members of the Venini family up until 1986. Profusely illustrated with with 350 (including 200 colour) illustrations, and 250 descriptions detailing each item produced in over six decades. 320 pages, chronology, list of designers, glossary, list of exhibitions, bibliography, index of names and places. Minor wear to dust jacket, otherwise fine. An essential reference source for historians, collectors, dealers, and connoisseurs of Italian glass.

Bookseller Inventory # 24163

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Venini: Catalogue Raisonne 1921-1986
Anna Venini Diaz De Santillana

Publisher: Skira
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

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Murano glass has been hand-crafted in Venice for centuries.  Murano glass expresses the creative explosion of the 1950s, which supplied the essential impulses to contemporary international studio glass art.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. 352 pages with 271 plates. Work by all the major designers and manufacturers. Exhaustive information on the technique and manufacturing history of each piece reproduced. Published on the occasion of the 1997/98 touring exhibition “Italian Glass: Murano Milan 1930-1970”. A nice copy with only the most minor wear to dust jacket.

Bookseller Inventory # 24158

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Italian Glass: Murano Milan 1930-1970 The Collection of the Steinberg Foundation
Ricke, Helmut; Schmitt, Eva

Publisher: Prestel
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

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Description: 2 volumes, hard bound with glassine dust jackets, in publishers slipcases as issued. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. Tan cloth with gilt-lettered spine title labels and the Presidential seal in gilt on the front cover. Pictorial cartographic endpapers. #591 in a limited edition of 1500 printed copies of which 1434 are signed & numbered. Illustrated with b&w plates. Minor tanning to glassine jacket. Some wear and minor foxing to publishers slipcase, otherwise near mint.

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The White House Years: Mandate for Change 1953-1956
by Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The White House Years: Waging Peace 1956-1961
by Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Publisher: Doubleday & Company
Publication Date: 1963
Binding: Hard Bound, 2 volumes in Publishers Slip Case
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed and Numbered by Author

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Grace Coddington abandoned a highly lucrative career as a leading model on the 60s London scene, alongside such swinging contemporaries as Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy, to  sign on as a junior fashion editor at British Vogue. She quickly established herself on the other side of the camera, coordinating photo shoots with David Bailey, Cecil Beaton, Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, and the eccentric Guy Bourdin. A close working relationship with royal photographer Norman Parkinson produced a series of startlingly vibrant location shoots that have come to be considered classics. At British Vogue, Coddington also introduced the sweeping narrative epic, a familiar feature of her work now at American Vogue, where she has been creative director for the past 14 years. GRACE: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue is not only a collection of Coddington’s greatest work, it is a visual reminiscence of her life in fashion.

Description: Hard bound with publishers mylar dust jacket, in orange slipcase, as issued. 408 pages. Profusely illustrated with full page color plates. Photographers include: Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, Shelia Metzner, Sarah Moon, Helmut Newton, Horst, Bruce Weber and many others. Some sunning and minor wear to publishers slipcase, otherwise fine. RARE!

Bookseller Inventory # 22481

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Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue
Coddington, Grace; Roberts, Michael; Wintour, Anna

Publisher: Edition 7L
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

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Jean-Michel Frank (1895-1941) was the most influential French interior designer of the 1930’s. He is known for minimalist interiors decorated with walls of straw marquetry, sofas of creamy leather, screens of mica, and plain-lined but sumptuous furniture. Frank was inspired by the abstraction of primitive arts, bringing to the 1930s an original style whose elegance won him the loyalty of a wealthy and elite clientele. Frank’s style of understated luxury perfectly complemented the Picassos and Braques his clients hung on their walls.

In 1915 he was informed the death of his two elder brothers, French soilders on front line, and then his fathers subsequent suicide. Four years later he lost his mother who had been in an asylum for several years. In the first part of the 1920’s he traveled the world. It was in Venice that he first met the cosmopolitan society, and the Parisian decorator Adolphe Chanaux. Together in 1932 they opened their shop in Paris. During the winter of 1939 he left France for South America and the United States. Tragically in 1941, he committed suicide while in New York. His subtle sense of understatement and minimal design is still a influence on interior designers even to this day.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Limited printing, one of four thousand printed copies. 216 pages profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in English and French. Designed by Andree Putman, and with photographs by Jacques Boulay. A beautifully produced monograph authored by Jean-Michel Frank’s former studio Partner Adolphe Chanaux. Some wear and minor chipping to dust jacket, otherwise very good. A rare and sought after monograph.

Bookseller Inventory # 18331

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Jean-Michel Frank
Chanaux, Adolphe

Publisher: Editions Du Regard
Publication Date: 1980
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

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NUES IS AN ICONIC 1960s FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK! This title was a unique collaboration between the fashion designer Paco Rabanne and the photographer Jean Clemmer. The project combined 12 of Rabanne’s “unwearable” dresses constructed from metalic lace and disks, photographed with the unique perspective of Jean Clemmer. The book defines the radical 1960’s and it’s culture of sexual freedom. This title has achieved cult status and is now is quite sought after.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Original glassine wrapper and publishers card board slipcase, as issued. Previous owners name to front free endpage. Minor tanning to glassine wrapper, and wear to slipcase, otherwise fine.  Book & Jacket both fine. SCARCE!

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Nues
Clemmer, Jean; Rabanne, Paco

Publisher: Editions Pierre Belfond
Publication Date: 1969
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition

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Before her suicide in 1971 Diane Arbus was pioneering a new documentary approach to photography. Her subject was to come from the fringes of society;  transvestites, giants, midgets, nudists, and others who have been marginalized by the larger society as a whole.  Her portraits have the power to both provoke and disturb. The viewer is drawn in and soon realizes that no matter how freakish her subjects might seem, they are in fact uniquely perfect in their own way.

Description: True first edition. Hard bound with price clipped dust jacket. Meets the point of issue – ” 2 girls with identical raincoats “. White boards show some foxing near edges and corners. Minor tanning to edges of jacket. Previous owners gift inscription on front fixed end page, hidden under inside flap of dust jacket ” For my mother who understands”. An important monograph on a photographer who is still gaining in popularity. Rare!

Inventory # 16730

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Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph

Publisher: Aperture, Millertown, New York
Publication Date: 1972
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

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Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most controversial novels of the 20th century. The book is internationally famous for its innovative style, but infamous for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, middle aged Humbert Humbert, becomes obsessed and sexually involved with a very young girl named Dolores Haze. This is Nabokov’s seminal work!

Description: First U.S. Edition. Hard bound with dust jacket. Published in New York by G. P. Putnam’s Sons in 1955.  Meets points of issue – No statement of later date on copyright page and  Dust Jacket with price that reads $5.00. Wear and some chipping to dust jacket. Some minor wear to boards, otherwise very good.

Bookseller Inventory # 23010

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Lolita
Nabokov, Vladimir

Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Publication Date: 1955
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First U. S. Edition

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Dorothy Parker’s first book appearance; her solo debut did not come until 1922. Numerous Illustrations by Anne Harriet Fish, a British-born cartoonist who emigrated to the United States around 1914 and began contributing regularly to Vanity Fair Magazine, from which the contents of this book were taken. A Pictorial Guide to Life in Our Upper Circles. The drawings and text comment satirically on the concerns of the upper classes: the Season, the Opera, Weekends, Divorce, Bridge, and the ordeals of finding a place in Society and keeping it.

Description: Illustrations by Anne Harriet Fish. Dorothy Parker’s first book appearance; her solo debut did not come until 1922.  Prose Precepts by Dorothy Parker, George S. Chappell, and Frank Crownshield. Hard bound with original Pictorial Boards, no dust jacket. Wear to boards with corners bumped. Interior clean. Binding loose, but holding.

Bookseller Inventory # 19190

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HIGH SOCIETY
Advice as to Social Campaigning, and Hints on the Management of Dowagers, Dinners, Debutantes, Dances, and the Thousand and One Diversions of Persons of Quality.

Parker, Dorothy

THE FIRST BOOK APPEARANCE OF DORTHY PARKER.

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Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Publication Date: 1920
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Good

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National Book Award winning The World According to Garp gave John Irving instant fame. Since it’s publication every one of his novels has gone on to become an international best-seller.

Description: Second U. K. Edition. Hard bound in dust jacket. SIGNED BY JOHN IRVING on the half titlepage. Some minor spotting to upper page edges, otherwise very good. Interior clean and binding tight. A sought after Irving title. Scarce!

The World According to Garp
Irving, John

Publisher: Victor Gollancz
Publication Date: 1978
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition:Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author

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Helen Frankenthaler is an American Abstract Expressionist painter, and has exhibited her work over six decades. She began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in important contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s. She was included in the 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg that introduced a newer generation of abstract painting that came to be known as Color Field. In 2001 she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. Craig Claiborne invented the restaurant review as we know it, a four star system based on multiple visits. Known as an exacting and honest critic, he was the first male editor of the food section of the New York Times and remained on the Times staff until his retirement in 1988. He was also prolific writer, with his cookbooks selling in the millions.

Description: Paperback INSCRIBED BY HELEN FRANKENTHALER TO CRAIG CLAIBORNE (Critic, food writer and former food editor of the New York Times) ” For my friend Craig Claiborne Sincerely, Helen Frankenthaler Nov ’85”. Published in association with the International Exhibitions Foundation. 128 pages, profusely illustrated. The artist’s works on paper have assumed a stature equal to that of her canvases and often catch the most highly charged and vibrant aspects of her art. A nice copy with only the most minor edge wear.

Bookseller Inventory # 23082

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Frankenthaler: Works on Paper 1949-1984
Wilkin, Karen

Publisher: George Braziller
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition:
Signed: Inscribed by Artist
Edition: First Paperback

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Description: Visionaire is a multi-format album of fashion and  art produced in exclusive numbered limited editions. Visionaire has always offered a forum for famous and emerging artists from around the world, as well as personalties, designers, art directors & image makers. THE PREMIER ISSUE OF THIS ICONIC ART & DESIGN MAGAZINE Complete folio in original plastic envelope. Contributions by Stephen Gan, Ruben Toledo, Bill Cunningham, and others. Fashion design by Dirk Van Saene, Todd Oldham, Geoffrey Beene, Claude Montana, Isabel Toledo, Marc Jacobs, Randolph Duke, Martine Sitbon, Isaac Mizrahi, Helmut Lang, and others. Photography by Dean Chamberlain, Stephen Gan, Josef Astor, Bill Cunningham, Pierre & Gilles. The wrapper shows minor creasing to the spine & is slightly cocked, all inserts near fine & complete. Handsomely produced & now scarce

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VISIONAIRE : SPRING

Publisher: Visionaire
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Folio
Book Condition: Very Good

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Roberto Aloi began writing books on architecture, furniture and the decorative arts in 1934. Over a fifty year span he published more than forty titles, each published by the Italian publishing house of Ulrico Hoepli. His design books combined precise technical information with his own aesthetic, and help define the important & artistic design of his time. Long out of print these books are highly sought after, and are a seminal reference of important Italian mid-century design.

Description: Hard bound first printing in dust jacket. 365 pages. Profusely illustrated with photographs of mid-century Italian furniture. Text in Italian with English translation on pages 335-346. and German on pages 347-358. Wear and some minor chipping to dust jacket edges, otherwise very good.

Bookseller Inventory # 23073

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Mobili Tipo / Furniture Type
Aloi, Roberto

Publisher: Ulrico Hoepli
Publication Date: 1956
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

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Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely began experimenting with movement in space, and in 1944 he began equipping machine-like sculptures with electric motors and making them spin around at high speed. He moved to Paris in 1951, where he participated in Robert Rauschenberg’s international happenings and associated with the casual artist group ‘Nouveaux Réalistes’, exhibiting works in their exhibitions. He had his first one-man exhibition three years later, in 1954, at the Galerie Arnaux. Tinguely’s fantasy machines with pre-programmed elements of chance, the so-called ‘Métamatics’, are quite spectacular. His welded iron constructions represent ironic attacks on the purpose of the era of technology.

Description: Paperback published on the occasion of the opening of the 1987 art exhibition held by the Palazzo Grassi, Venice . Foldout from the exhibition in pocket affixed to inside of rear wrapper. Profusely illustrated, with many plates in full color. Some very minor wear to slip case, otherwise fine

Bookseller Inventory #23756
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A Magic Stronger Than Death
Pontus, Hulten and Tinguley, Jean

Publisher: Bompiani, Milano
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Paperback, in publishers slip case
Book Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

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Internationally recognized photographer Peter Beard first visited Africa in 1955. After graduating from Yale, he returned to Africa and worked at Kenya’s Tsavo Park, during which time he photographed and documented the demise of over 35,000 elephants and 5000 Black Rhinos. The work done there led to the publication of The End of the Game books.

During this same time period, he became close to Karen Blixen, well know as the author of Out of Africa. He also acquired Hog Ranch, the property adjacent to Karen Blixen’s, near the Ngong Hills and made it his home base in East Africa. Beard has written further works on his African experience: Eyelids of the Morning: The Mingeled Destines of Crocodiles and Men, and Longing for Darkness: Kamante’s Tales From Out of Africa.

“When I first went to Kenya in August 1955, I could never have guessed what was going to happen. Kenya’s population was roughly five million, with about 100 tribes scattered throughout the endless ‘wild—deer—ness’ – it was authentic, unspoiled, teeming with big game – so enormous it appeared inexhaustible. Everyone agreed it was too big to be destroyed. Now Kenya’s population of over 30 million drains the country’s limited and diminishing resources at an amazing rate: surrounding, isolating, and relentlessly pressuring the last pockets of wildlife in denatured Africa.” —Peter Beard

Description: Hard bound FIRST JAPANESE EDITION with dust jacket. Wrap around band and inserts present. Text in Japanese. Some minor wear to dust jacket edges and sunning to spine edge, otherwise very good. Interior clean and binding tight. RARE!.

Bookseller Inventory # 16623

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The End of the Game
Beard, Peter H.

Publisher: Shueisha
Publication Date: 1979
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition:Very Good
Edition: First Edition

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Description: Hard bound with price clipped dust jacket. Meets point of issue of Scribners “A” on copyright page. Minor wear to dust jacket edges, otherwise very good. Interior clean and binding tight. SCARCE!.

Bookseller Inventory # 22838

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Cool Hand Luke
Pearce, Donn

Publisher: Scribners, New York
Publication Date: 1965
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

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Raphael Mazzucco spent the first several years of his career shooting in Milan and Paris before moving to New York. His arrival onto the fashion scene was heralded by immediate attention from such clients as Bergdorf Goodman and Ralph Lauren. Raphael has shot for Elle and Vogue magazines, as well as Dutch, Io Donna, Spoon, Arena, Marie Claire, GQ, Playboy and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. His photographs have appeared on the cover of four consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues. His Guess campaigns over the past several years have been regarded as some of the most successful advertising that Paul Marciano has commissioned to date. Raphael continues to define the look of popular culture, shooting recording artists for Sony Music, Atlantic Records, EMI and Capitol Records. In 2005, Victoria’s Secret commissioned Raphael to shoot their 10 year anniversary coffee table book entitled Sexy. His 2006 editorial cover story for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit entitled Cover Girl Beach Party has been the inspiration for their 25th Anniversary hardcover image book entitled Exposure. American Photo has hailed him as “One of the top 50 photographers in the world to watch” Raphael’s groundbreaking work is known for its diversity of style and its richly textured lighting and composition. His vision extends beyond photography; painting and sketches often make their way into his photographs.

Description: Hard bound in black cloth. In publishers slipcase, as issued. Photographic paste down to both front and rear boards of book and slipcase. Text by Carine Roitfeld of Paris Vogue. Limited edition of 1000 printed copies. LIMITED EDITION of 1000 printed copies. A very nice copy with only the most minor edge wear.

Bookseller Inventory # 18451

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Raphael Mazzucco Collected Art
Roitfeld, Carine and Mazzucco, Raphael

Publisher: Red World Editions
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued
Signed: Signed by Photographer
Edition: First Edition

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Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916-1990) was an abstract expressionist artist. At age fourteen, he moved to the United States where he studied fine art at Harvard University and the Rhode Island School of Design. In the early 1950s, Ossorio was pouring oil and enamel paints onto canvas, bit it was Art brut opened up new vistas for Ossorio. He was an admirer and early collector of the paintings of Jackson Pollock who counted him as a good friend. On the advice of Pollack, Ossorio purchased an expansive 60-acre estate “The Creeks” in East Hampton in 1951, and lived there for more than forty years. In the 1950s, Ossorio began to create works resembling Dubuffet’s assemblages. He affixed shells, bones, driftwood, nails, dolls’ eyes, cabinet knobs, dice, costume jewelry, mirror shards, and children’s toys to the panel surface. Ossorio called these assemblages congregations, with the term’s obvious religious connotation. Ossorio died in New York City in 1990. Half his ashes were scattered at his grand estate The Creeks and the other half came to rest nine years later at Green River Cemetery alongside the remains of many other famous artists, writers and critics.

Description: Limited editon, 1 of 120 copies SIGNED BY LEWIS THOMAS & ALFONSO OSSORIO. Folding folio in publishers clam shell box, as issued. Verse by Lewis Thomas & 8 tissue guarded etchings by Alfonso Ossorio. Some wear to slip case edges, otherwise very good. Interior clean and bright. A beautiful edition. RARE!

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 Could I Ask You Something?
by  Lewis Thomas & Alfonso Ossorio

Publisher:  Whitney Museum of American Art
Publication Date:  1984
Binding:  Hard Bound
Book Condition:  Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition:  No Dust Jacket
Edition:  First Edition

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As a designer for Tiffany, Jean Schlumberger captured the attention of celebrities and fashion icons worldwide. Schlumberger was born in Mulhouse, France. He began his career creating buttons for Elsa Schiaparelli in the 1930s. Schiaparelli later commissioned him to design costume jewelry for her firm. In 1956, the president of Tiffany & Co., Walter Hoving, asked Schlumberger to begin designing for the firm. He had his own workshop at the company until his retirement. Schlumberger’s designs at Tiffany & Co. were remarkable for their whimsical interpretations of natural forms. He quickly built an impressive client base that included John F. Kennedy, the Duchess of Windsor, Babe Paley, Greta Garbo, Rachel Lambert Mellon, C.Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness, Françoise de la Renta, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, Lyn Revson, Gloria Vanderbilt, Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn & Jacqueline Kennedy. Schlumberger remains one of only four jewelers that Tiffany & Co. has allowed to sign their work.

Description: 2 hard bound volumes in publishers cloth slipcase. Black silk covered boards with decorative gilt titles. Pasted down illustration on the front panel of each volume. A lavish two volume set on the artistry of Jean Schlumberger which was edited by Franco Maria Ricci. #101 in a limited edition HAND SIGNED & NUMBERED BY SCHLUMBERGER. Text in French. Beautiful blue paper stock with numerous tipped in plates. Minor wear to slipcase, otherwise fine. RARE!.

Bookseller Inventory # 19997

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Bijoux de Jean Schlumberger et Objets de Jean Schlumberger
Vreeland, Diana  &  d’Ormesson, Jean

Publisher: Franco Maria Ricci
Publication Date: 1976
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued
Edition: First Edition

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Description: Hard bound in publishers slipcase, no dust jacket, as issued. Stated first edition. Limited edition #138 of 301 printed copies HAND SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY NOEL COWARD in blue ink on limitation page. Cream cloth with pasted down spine label title on back-strip. Wear to publishers red paper slipcase. Some minor wear and staining to boards, otherwise very good. Interior clean and binding tight. Present Indicative is the first part of the autobiography of one of the most celebrated characters in British theatrical history. Each line is punctuated with his trademark effervescent wit, making this book a comic tour de force in its own right, as well as a “must read” for anyone with an interest in the world of theater.

Bookseller Inventory # 22972

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Present Indicative
Coward, Noel

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran and Co.
Publication Date: 1937
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued
Signed: Signed by Author
Edition: First U. S. Edition

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Donald Deskey studied architecture at the University of California, but did not follow that profession, becoming instead an artist and a pioneer in the field of Industrial design. In Paris he attended the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, which influenced his approach to design. He established a design consulting firm in New York City, and later the firm of Deskey-Vollmer which specialized in furniture and textile design. His designs in this era progressed from Art Deco to Streamline Moderne.  In the 1930s, he won the competition to design the interiors for Radio City Music Hall. In the 1940s he started the graphic design firm Donald Deskey Associates and made some of the most recognizable icons of the day. He designed the Crest toothpaste packaging, as well as the Tide bullseye. His company is still in operation in Cincinnati. A collection of his work is held by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. 214 pages. One plate cut out (page 179/180) Some wear to dust jacket, and previous owners bookplate to endpage, otherwise very good. A RARE monograph.

Bookseller Inventory # 20792

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Donald Deskey Decorative Designs and Interiors
Hanks, David A.

Publisher: E P Dutton, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

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François-Edmond Pâris (1806 – 1893) was one of the most fascinating characters in French maritime history. As a young man he was involved in the last of the grand French scientific expeditions, and helped collect and classify the curiosities of the newly explored lands in Asia and the Pacific. He circumnavigated the globe three times with renowned French captains. As a surveyor and draftsman, he helped with the overwhelming success of these explorations. This opened for him a new opportunity, the honor to command one of the first steamships in the French fleet. A brilliant naval engineer, he greatly helped modernize the French navy of the 1800’s. Most of his books became classics not only in France but abroad. He is notable for his role in organising the Musée national de la Marine (National Navy Museum) in Paris. In 1871 he was appointed curator of the Navy at the Louvre, where Admiral Paris spent the last twenty-two years of his life enriching the collections, and formulating this unique set.

Description: 3 volumes ( Volume 1, 2 & 5) Hard bound in publishers green cloth with blind stamped boards and gilt titles. Large Elephant folios – 22.5 ” x 19″. Massive at over 13 Lbs. each. Each volume holds 60 full page, single sided plates. Originally published 1882-1908. First reprinted in 1910. Volume #5 is a 1892 first printing. Volumes 1 & 2 from the 1910 reprinted series. All volumes show some wear with minor chipping to spine edges and corners. Binding weak, but holding well. Profusely illustrated with striking full page plates of marine architectural renderings. RARE!

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Souvenirs de marine Collection de plans ou dessins de navires et de bateaux anciens ou modernes existants ou disparus avec les éléments numériques nécessaores à leur construction
Pâris, François-Edmond

Publisher: Gauthier – Villars Et Fils, Paris
Publication Date: 1892, 1910, 1910
Binding: Hardcover, 3 volumes of 6
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: #5 – 1st edition, #1 & #2  – 1910 reprints

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Description: Hard bound first printing with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BRUCE WEBER “TO MY GOOD FRIEND GREG HAPPY SUMMER 1991 LUV YA – RICHARD + BRUCE WEBER” One of the most sought after male erotic photography books of the 20th century! Published in a very small and limited print run. Cream linen cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and spine in white. 9 page poem by Reynolds Price. Over 100 rich gravure photographic plates. Widely regarded as the photographer’s finest work, and surely his most celebrated book. A “must-have” title for Bruce Weber collectors. Out-of-print for a very long time. Minor damp staining to upper spine edge of boards. dust jacket edges show some minor wear, otherwise very good. An extremely rare copy of the true First Edition, Signed by Weber!

Bookseller Inventory # 18869

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Bear Pond
Weber, Bruce

Publisher: Bulfinch Press, New York
Publication Date: 1990
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: inscribed by Photographer
Edition: First Edition

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Anias Nin, feminist icon, diarist, model and dancer is probably one of the finest writers of female erotica of the last century. Known for her elegant and sensual style, she has the ability to convey the most intimate of thoughts in a way that we can almost feel. Here In this, the fifth and final instalment of Nin’s continuous novel project Cities of the Interior we she her at her lyrical and poetic best.

Description: INSCRIBED by Anais Nin ” For Alice – all the overtones you know to well the mysteries – Love Anais”. Some wear to price clipped dust jacket, otherwise very good.

Bookseller Inventory # 14709

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Seduction of the Minotaur
Anais Nin,

Publisher: Alan Swallow
Publication Date: 1961
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition

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