Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. This stylish book re-creates the charmed life of two American expatriates in France at the turn of the 20th century-the noted artist Walter Gay and his wife, Matilda, whose glittering social circle included John Singer Sargent, Edith Wharton, Henry James, and many other artists and aristocrats. Narrated by witty excerpts from Matilda Gay's recently discovered journal, and richly illustrated with Walter Gay's remarkable, sought-after paintings of the rooms in which they and their friends lived, in Paris, Fontainebleau, Venice, and elsewhere, A Charmed Couple offers an intimate glimpse of a long-gone social milieu whose hold on the popular imagination continues to this day. WILLIAM RIEDER is a curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Author of numerous articles, most on European furniture, in such journals as Architectural Digest, Connoisseur, and Antiques, he lives in New York City. 128 illustrations, 55 in full color, 81/2 x 101/2".

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 499 pages illustrated in b&w by Thomason. Black cloth with gilt lettering.Marcellin Marbot (1782-1854) was a Napoleonic general who earned recognition for his military memoirs. This issue with illustrations by John Thomason (1893-1944), author, illustrator, and lieutenant colonel in the US Marine Corps. Previous owner's inscription opposite the title page.

Hardcover. NY, Arcade, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w with the author/artist's drawings and photographs. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Arcade, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w with the author/artist's drawings and photographs. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Minneapolis, MN, North Loop Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout.

Softcover. London, Illustrated London News , 1954, Original printed red card wrappers. Light rubbing of the covers, some thumbing of the leading edge; top spine worn, overall, this book is in good to very good condition. 68 pages. Gilt decorated red cover, color frontispiece portrait, gravure and color plates, photographs, illustrations, genealogical table. Contributors include Cyril Falls (Sir Winston Churchill in War), E.D. O'Brien (Sir Winston Churchill- the Man), Charles Petrie (Sir Winston Churchill's Place in History), Edward Winterton (Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament). Frontispiece by Yousuf Karsh.

Softcover. London, Illustrated London News , 1954, Original printed red card wrappers. Light rubbing of the covers, some thumbing of the leading edge; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. 68 pages. Gilt decorated red cover, color frontispiece portrait, gravure and color plates, photographs, illustrations, genealogical table. Contributors include Cyril Falls (Sir Winston Churchill in War), E.D. O'Brien (Sir Winston Churchill- the Man), Charles Petrie (Sir Winston Churchill's Place in History), Edward Winterton (Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament). Frontispiece by Yousuf Karsh.

Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Publishing, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 224 pages. B&w illustrations by Lorence Bjorklund. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., 4th Edition, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover. Color and black & white illustrations throughout. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. Dust jacket price clipped, a touch of agewear. Top edge dyed green.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with illustrations to endpapers. Navy cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Profusely illustrated in full page, full color illustrations beautifully presented, including fold out illustrations. Dust jacket with only minor wear. SIGNED BY BOTH SENDAK AND KUSHNER on half-title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., first, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages. 261 illustrations including 94 plates in full color. Pop-up illustrations not working, but present. Depiction of the life and works of children's illustrator Maurice Sendak. In very good condition, pages a bit faded along edges, overall a clean book with a tight binding. Transparent dust jacket with white lettering, the cover underneath depicts a scene from "Where the Wild Things Are"

Hardcover. New York, Harper Design, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A tight copy. Over 125 color illustrations, memorabilia, plus a framable print in the back.

Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 105 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by various artists throughout. Dust jacket price clipped. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a black cloth spine. Part of the Little People, Big Dreams series, the author tells the inspiring story of the Swedish author and creator of Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren. Color illustrations by Linzie Hunter. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Multiples Inc & Lois and Michael K. Torf , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages, paperback. Hundreds of b&w photographs documenting the personal belongings in LeWitt's living and working space in New York City in 1980. Fascinating look into the private life of one of the pioneers of minimal and conceptual art. Age toning to spine. Light rubbing, slight soiling, and mild age toning to wraps. Unmarked. Very scarce. A tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, March 27, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Light edge wear to dust jacket; small tear on rear cover. Light foxing on top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press , 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 132 pages of text, plus 125 numbered plates in b&w and color. Price-clipped dust jacket with minor wear.

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2nd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 503 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and was known -- in the late 1940s, no less -- to traipse around in full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? An eccentric, a gregarious recluse, an enigmatic auteur of whimsically morbid masterpieces, yes -- but who was the real Edward Gorey behind the Oscar Wildean pose? He published over a hundred books and illustrated works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, John Updike, Charles Dickens, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Bram Stoker, Gilbert & Sullivan, and others. At the same time, he was a deeply complicated and conflicted individual, a man whose art reflected his obsessions with the disquieting and the darkly hilarious. Based on newly uncovered correspondence and interviews with personalities as diverse as John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman, and Anna Sui, Born to Be Posthumous draws back the curtain on the eccentric genius and mysterious life of Edward Gorey.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with cover label, white lettering on spine. 12 full page illustrations about Audubon's early life by Elinore Blaisdell. Publisher's review slip laid in. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 133 pages, illustrated throughout with tipped in b&w plates by M. Boutet De Monvel. Purple cloth with gilt titles. Sun-fade to covers, light tanning to pages opposite plates, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, illustrated throughout with b&w photographs by Bob Adelman. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. France, Editions Artlys, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. At once Dior scrapbook, survey and autobiography, this magnificent compendium offers a panorama of the life and art of one of the twentieth century's most influential fashion designers. It reprints Dior's 1956 autobiography Christian Dior et moi--in which the designer contrasted his reputation as both an individual and as a company with his own sense of himself--alongside eight articles by Dior first published in Elle magazine in 1951, which were then collected as Je suis couturier. Throughout, the volume takes as its thematic anchor the designer's beautiful childhood home in Granville, elaborating his lifelong attachment to the house (now the Christian Dior Museum) and its gardens, and showing how his work was influenced by these resplendent environs--a theme that especially preoccupied Dior himself, who once affirmed his "tender and wonderful memories of my childhood home," declaring that "my life and my style owe everything to its location and architecture." Many of the copious illustrations that accompany these writings are supplied by the Christian Dior Museum collection, and reproduce family albums and archival photographs, fashion sketches and formal presentations of classic Dior dresses, hats, shoes and jewelry. Dior scholar Jean-Luc Dufresne conducts a tour of the Dior house and garden, narrating its long and fascinating history.

Hardcover. England, Antiques Collectrors Club, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 520 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ex-Lib with usually stamps and markings on end papers, front fly leaf and spine. Faded dust jacket spine. Black and white illustrations throughout. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. Allen Say's own story of his path to becoming the renowned artist he is today. Shunned by his father, who didn't understand his son's artistic leanings, Allen was embraced by Noro Shinpei, Japan's leading cartoonist and the man he came to love as his "spiritual father." As WWII raged, Allen was further inspired to consider questions of his own heritage and the motivations of those around him. He worked hard in rigorous drawing classes, studied, trained--and ultimately came to understand who he really is. Part memoir, part graphic novel, part narrative history, DRAWING FROM MEMORY presents a complex look at the real-life relationship between a mentor and his student. With watercolor paintings, original cartoons, vintage photographs, and maps, Allen Say has created a book that will inspire the artist in all of us.