Sempé in New York
Jean-Jacque Sempe New York: Martine Gossieaux, nd. A fine copy in wraps featuring a Sempe drawing of the Brooklyn Edge. A wonderful collection of illustrations and musings by the famous French cartoonist about his experieces and observations of New York City. The illustrations are presented in a series of vigneets, each one capturing a unique aspect of city life. Sempe's illustrations are renowned for their wit, charm, and attention to detail to bear on the city that never sleeps. The drawings are often accompanied by short, insightful captions in French. A delightful and engaging book,
QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL
DE KRETSER, MICHELLE London: Allen & Unwin, 2013. A fine copy in red cloth binding with gilt spine lettering in a fine photographic dustwrapper. A marvelous story of Sri Lankans and Australians who travel the world, running into all kinds of complications. It's hard to describe this wonderful book because it covers so many interesting topics. The book won several literay prizes. De Kretserr is one of Australia's leading novelists. THE ART OF ENLIGHTENMENT: A HISTORY OF GLASS CHANDELIER MANUFACTURE AND DESIGN
SMITH, JOHN P. London: Mallett, 1994. A fine copy of a limited edition of 500 copies in black cloth with silver spine lettering, contained in a fine, pictorial dustwrapper featuring a magnificent crystal chandelier. This book accompanied an exhibition at Mallett, the prestigious London antiques dealer, showing chandeliers from celebrated and previously unrecognized workshops in England and Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. Lovely color illustrations with accompanying history of the art. 52pp, approx 11 1/2" X 8 1/2". RICHARD GERSTL
RAYMOND COFFER, JILL LLOYD, INGRID PFEIFFER, EDITORS New York: Neue Galerie, 2017. New, First edition (still in original shrink wrap). Issued in conjunction with exhibition of Gerstl's work at Neue Galerie, in New York City. Book and jacket are immaculate. 4to, 240 pages, illustrated throughout, reference, index. Gerstl was one of the most important artists in Vienna around 1900, together with Schiele, Klimt and Kokoschka .He died at 25 but left work still greatly admired. Taking the Town: Collegiate and Community Culture in the Bluegrass, 1880-1917
MORELOCK, KOLAN tHOMAS Kentucky: University of Ky Press, 2008. First edition. A very good copy bound in tan cloth with black spine lettering with a single bump at the bottom of the front panel else fine in a very good dust wrapper with an echo of the bump the book received, probably dropped, but no harm to the text or covers. Morelock takes readers on an exploration of the culture and intellectual life of Lexington, Ky. and its bluegrass environs from 1880 to WWII. An impressive appendixes with listings of collegiate literary societies, calendars, notes to the text and a detailed index.
UNION STATION
DOWNING, DAVID New York: Soho Press, 2024. A new copy in brown boards with white spine lettering in an illustrated dustwrapper. John Russell, the intrepid Englishman who starred in the great series of Station books concerning the Nazis, Russians, and Americans in the World War II era in Berlin is back again after a long pause with the newest John Russell book. He is now living in Los Angeles with his German wife but still battling the WWII remnants of the Russians and Germans. This is one of the better series about the Intelligence battles affecting the war. In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
Fermor, Patrick Lee; Deborah Devonshire New York: New York Review, 2008. An As-New first edition bound in blue cloth with silver spine lettering in a illustrated dustwrapper with pictures of Fermor and the Duchess. They were great friends for many years and their correspondence from 1954 to 2007 shows it. Great supporting book for the lovers of A Dance to the Music of Time and British royalty. ANTHONY POWELL: DANCING TO THE MUSIC OF TIME
SPURLING, HILARY New York: Knopf, 2018. A new copy of Spurling's biography of Powell in red binding with gilt spine lettering a illustrated dustwrapper with a portrait of Powell on the front panel. Spurlling is thought to be the most knowledgeable student of Anthony Powell, one of Britain's great author of the 20th century, known best for his 12-part series, Damce tp the Music of Time. Spurling gives us a detailed, funny, and dramatic piicture of the author. IN OTHER ROOMS, OTHER WONDERS (SIGNED)
MUEENUDDIN, DANIYAL New York: Norton, 2009. A fine copy in black boards with gilt spine lettering in a fine, illustrated dustwrapper. The author's linked stories of an aging feudal landowner, his servants and managers and his extended family dominating a place in Pakistan. Makes for fascinating stoires. The author has signed this copy on the title page. BIRTH OF THE MODERN: STYLE AND IDENTITY IN VIENNA 1900
Nuremburg: Neue Galerie, n.d. A beautiful exhibition catalog published by the Neue Museum in Nuremberg, Germany, in collaboration with the touring exhibition of the same name. The exhibition and the catalog explore the development of modern art and design in Germany between 1890 and 1920. The catalog features over 250 works of art, design, and architecture from the period, including paintings, prints, sculptures, decorative arts. and architectural drawings. The book also highlights the work of artists such as Hermann Obrist, Henry van de Velde, Peter Behrens, and Bruno Taut. The catalog is richly illustrated and features detailed analyses of the works.
Sevres Porcelain of Buckingham Palace (Signed by King Edward VII)
London; Bradbury, Agnew & Co: 1907. A near-fine copy in publisher's original quarter-backed tan morocco over fine white cloth with King Edward VII's crest on the front panel and with gilt spine lettering, slightly rubbed but still readable. The book, 203 pp, and approx. 13 1/2" X 11", is square and tight with gilt top edge and light foxing to the endpapers and rear panel.Contained in a fine case in red cloth. cloth It contains 63 immaculate full-page color plates showing some of the Royal collection, fully documented, as well as a history of the collection, considered the most important and comprehensive when the book was published. This was a presentation copy inscribed by Edward VII at Christmas, 1907, to Viscount Esher, a noted politician and historian close to the Royal Family. THE WAY WE WERE AND THE PINK SANDS STORY
Harbour Island, Bahamas: Richard Malcolm, 2011. A fine, limited first edition, hardbound in gray covers with a photo on the front panel and with a fine dustwrapper. A short inscription on the ffont free endpage, signed by the author. A nostalgic look at Harbour Island in the Bahamas with a separate section on the Pink Sands Lodge. 10" X 10", 182 pp with black and white and color photographs. A lovely copy. KLEE AND AMERICA
New York: Neue Galerie, 2006. Condition: As-new copy in black cloth binding with gilt spine and front panel lettering. Edited by Josef Helfenstein. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from The Neue Galerie, New York NY March 10-May 22, 2006, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC June 16-September 10, 2006 and The Menil Collection, Houston TX October 6, 2006-January 14, 2007. This lovely copy explores "the reasons for Paul Klee's enthusiastic reception in the United States, especially during the 1930s and 1940s." (dj) With a variety of thematic essays, a chronology, and an exhibitions history, as well as the many color illustrations.
WIENER WERKSTATTE JEWELRY
New York: Neue Galerie, 2017. A lovely book bound in black cloth boards with gilt stamped letters, decorative gilt-stamped black and gilt endpapers and a fine dustwrapper with color-illustrated photographs of Wiener Werkstatte Jewelry. This publication accompanied the first major museum exhibition devoted to Weiner Werkstatte jewelry. It highlights masterpieces created by Josef Hoffman, Koloman Moser, Carl Otto Czeschka, and Dagobert Pecne, among others. Supplemental materials include design drawings, as well as historic photographs of prominent clients wearing Wiener Werkstatte jewelry. There is a particular emphasis on fashion designer Emile Floge, confidante of Gustave Klimt, who assembled a large collection of Wiener Werkstatte jewelry. The central essay by Neue Galerie assistant curato (and editor)r Janis Staggs examines the founding of Wiener Werkstatte, the development of its working program, the role of key designers and patrons, and the legacy of this unique firm. The book features over 400 illustrations, including designs, objects, and archival material. . A worthwhile contribution to a form of art still coming into its own.
JOSEF HOFFMANN: INTERIORS, 1902 – 1913
New York: Neue Galerie, 2006. First edition. A lovely As-New copy bound in yellow cloth with gilt spine lettering in an As-New dustjacket. Book and jacket are without blemish. illustrated with 244 illustrations, 65 in color, 224 pp, Published in conjunction with the Josef Hoffmann exhibition at the Neue Gallerie in NYC from November 2, 2006 to February 26, 2007. Illustrated with color photographs of Hoffmann s masterpieces--on their own and as parts of interiors- "This monograph focuses on significant aspects of Hoffmann' s career: his early years as a member of the Secessionist Movement and founder of the Vienna Workshops, his role in the intellectual rebellion that took place in Austria; and his progression toward a Modernist ethic. It takes readers through four dazzling interiors designed by Hoffmann and furnished with his signature pieces, including furniture, wall and floor coverings, textiles, lighting, ceramics, glassware and metalwork" SMOKE BELLEW
New York: Century, 1912. True First Edition. A very good copy in blue cloth with a decorated front panel and black lettering on the front and spine, without dustwrapper. There is characteristic mild rubbing and edgewear but the book is tight and solid. A sweeping adventure saga in the tradition of White Fang and The Call of the Wild. Christopher Bellew, A San Francisco newspaperman, sets off on what he thinks will be a brief trip to cover the gold rush in the Yukon. He becomes a hardened survivor after kearning to cope with the cold, bleak, unforgiving Alaskan wilderness and the colorful, desperately uncertain lives of both natives and intruders. One of London's most popular novels. THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. First edition. A fine copy in black boards with gilt spine lettering in a fine dustwrapper.The book is an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential election of 1940 by Charles Lindbergh. The novel follows the fortunes of the Roth family during the Lindbergh presidency, as antisemitism becomes widespread in American life and Jewish-American families like the Roths are persecuted in various ways. Roth based his novel, which was well-received, on the isolationist ideas espoused by Lindbergh in real life as a spokesman for the America First Committee, and on Roth's own experiences growing up in Newark, New Jersey. SATURDAY
New York: Doubleday, 2005. First Edition. A fine copy in black boards with silver spine lettering in a fine, illustrated dustwrapper. Both book and jacket are immaculate. McEwan is one of the finest writers in the U. K., as he proves once again with this, his ninth novel, about a man (a successful neurosurgeon on top of the world one morning as he wakes, only to experience horrific threats to himself and his family later in the day, barely surviving. This book was very successful at its debut and remains popular as an exciting story from which anyone can learn. UTZ
New York: Viking, 1988. A fine copy, As New, in an As-New- dustwrapper. Book and jacket are without blemish. Chatwin's fine characterization of the protagonist, Kaspar Utz, makes this novel one of Chatwin's most memorable. It is the story of a man who destroyed an invaluable collection of porcelain rather than turn it over to the Communists. SEMPE A NEW YORK
Paris: Editions Denoel & Editions Martine Gossieaux 2009. A fine copy in wraps with an illustrated front panel of a cyclist on the Brooklyn Bridge, This book is a collection of illustrations and musings by the famous French cartoonist about his experiences and observations of New York City, many of which have appeared in The New Yorker. The illustrations are presented in a series of vignettes, each one capturing a unique aspect of city life. Marvelous and very funny, a great collection for budding artists and illustrators. Text in French.