Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1979. First edition. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. 580, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Text in French. Exhibition catalog from the National Center of Art and Culture at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1979. Relationships and contrasts between France and Russia during the..... More

New Haven, CT: 1999. Cloth over Boards. This abundantly illustrated book provides for the first time a full account of the houses that were built and inhabited by the upper classes during the rich and fascinating period from the end of the 15th century to the closing years of the..... More

Paris: Draeger, 1975. First American edition. Original Silver Cloth in plastic case. Large quarto, pp. 148, illustrated in b/w & color. More

Paris: August Vincent, 1957. First edition. Board portfolio with loose pages as intended. Quarto, pp. 26 list of projects in competition, pp. 64 b/w plates of architectural drawings, some folding out. Text in French. The annual competition of the School of Architecure at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, with..... More

Tokyo: Graphic-sha Publishing Company, 1982. First printing. Original Wraps. Octavo, pp. 167, illustrated with b/w and color drawings, text in English & Japanese. In the contemporary architecture, some drawings on papers are far more attractive than the actual buildings on the ground. The drawing is organizing a particular mental space..... More

Paris: Ch. Massin, nd c. 1920. Original edition. Cloth over Boards portfolio w/ cloth ties and loose plates (as issued). Folio, 76 loose plates as issued, two extra plates (XXVIII, XXX). Text in French. Signed neatly on the front cover by a previous owner. Pierre Esquie (1853-1933) was a French..... More

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1941. First edition. Cloth over Boards. 12 Mo (5 1/2 x 8 1/4), pp. 100. An important, ground-breaking biographical study of the great French poet, among the creators of the modern sensibility... a hero to the surrealists, among many others. More

Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1982. Second Printing. Boards. Quarto, pp. 161, indexed, illustrated with color photographs. An authoritative and well-illustrated book from Oxford that takes a detailed look at the Australian traditions of Victoriana. This book celebrates the Victorians' enthusiasm for ornament as it is full of many rich and..... More

New Haven, CT: Penguin Books, 1980. Later printing. Perfect Bound. Small quarto, pp. 344, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. The author's unique and vivid picture of the English upper classes at home over 500 years has won the W. H. Smith & Son Annual Literary Award and the Duff Cooper..... More

Fredonia, NY: State University of New York, Fredonia, 1997. First edition. Original Wraps. Octavo, pp. 252, illustrated w/ b/w engravings. Articles on Stendhal, Balzac, Merimee, Flaubert, Rimbaud, Mallarme, reviews in studies of Baudelaire, Gautier, Hugo, Balzac, Chateaubriand, etc. More

Cambridge: MIT Press, 1966. Second Printing. Original Wraps. Octavo, pp. 112, illustrated w/ b/w photographs. More

New York: Viking Press, 1974. First American edition/Reprint. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 352. Indexed, Bibliography, illustrated with b/w and color photos. A richly illustrated coffee table book on the castles and great houses of Ireland by the President of the Irish Georgian Society. From the Old House Journal Reference..... More