Chisholm Gallery: Book Inventory

Houses and Interiors:

Horst (photographs), Valentine Lawford (text), Diana Vreeland (foreword). Vogue's Book of Houses, Gardens, People. New York: the Viking Press, 1968.

Michael Greer. Inside Design. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1962. Color and b/w photographs of Greer's elegant interior designs.

House & Garden's Best in Decoration. New York: Conde Nast Books/Random House, 1987. Appropriately titled for this is truly the best decorating book of its decade; includes the homes of Baron and Baroness Guy de Rothschild, Bill Blass Enid Haupt, Henri Samuel and many other luminaries.

Steven Salny. Frances Elkins: Interior Design. New York: W.W. Norton, 2005. The legendary decorator of the 1920s-1950s, frequent collaborator with her brother, architect David Adler; includes homes of Evelyn Marshall Field, Mr. and Mrs Kersey Coates Reed and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Schlesinger.

James Archer Abbott. Jansen. New York: Acanthus Press, 200. Magnificent chronicle of "the most famous and influential decorating house of the 20^th century" whose clients Nancy and Ronald Tree, Jayne and Charles Wrightsman, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, et al.; illustrated throughout with color and b/w photographs.

Dorothy Rodgers. The House In My Head. New York: Atheneum, 1967. Mrs. Richard Rodgers' delightful review of the process of creating her dream house; includes color and b/w photos, floor plans, menus, recipes. $75

Carleton Varney. There's No Place Like Home: Confessions of an Interior Designer. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1980, stated first edition. Memoirs of the decorator of the Greenbrier resort and the Grand Hotel, Mackinack Island; illustrated with b/w photos.

Henry Lionel Williams and Ottalie K. Williams. Great Houses of America. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. Stated first edition. Documents in text and color and b/w photos many celebrated residences (Monticello, Vizcaya, Biltmore) and some not-so-well-known homes (Adena, Gwinn); hard to find with the dust jacket in such good condition.

Sacheverell Sitwell. Great Palaces. London: Spring Books/Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., 1969. Beautifully designed, authoritative survey.

Sacheverell Sitwell, ed, Edwin Smith, photographs. Great Houses of Europe. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1961. Sumptuous photographs (b/w and color), learned text, in a magnificently designed book.

The Maharaja of Baroda and Virginia Fass. The Palaces of India. London: Collins, 1980. First edition of this marvelous volume with color and b/w photos and meticulously researched text.

James T. Maher. The Twilight of Splendor. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Hard-to-find study of five of the greatest houses built in the US including Vizcaya and Whitemarsh Hall; a fine work of literature as well as history.

Clay Lancaster. Architectural Follies in America. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1960. Beautifully designed, with illustrations by the eminent author.

Deborah Turbeville (photos), Louis Auchincloss (text). Newport Remembered. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994. Signed by Louis Auchincloss; Turbeville's remarkable photos of Newport's great houses.

Bruce Weber. A House Is Not A Home. Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1996, stated first edition. The noted photographer's eclectic and eccentric collection of images of interiors and the people that inhabit them, including Brooke Astor, CZ Guest, Cy Twombley, Paul Mellon and others; foreword by Paul Bowles.

Mary Cable. Dream Castles. New York: Viking Press, 1966, stated first edition. "Mary Cable, in her roundup of gigantic dream castles from ancient Rome to Newport and from Bavaria to Bangkok, show us what happens when pomp and fantasy are the goals and expenditures are unlimited."

Hope Ridings Miller. Great Houses of Washington D.C. New York: Bramhall House, 1969. Color and b/w photographs illustrate homes of politicians, social leaders and diplomats.

Derry Moore (photographs), Henry Mitchell (text). Washington: Houses of the Capital. New York: A Studio Book/The Viking Press, 1982, stated first edition. Foreword by Gore Vidal; b/w and color photographs illustrate the complete panorama of the Capital's domestic architecture, exterior and interior.

Gardens, Flowers:

House & Garden's New Complete Book of Gardens. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. Beautiful color and b/w photographs by Horst, Kertesz, et al. of formal and informal gardens, large and small, grand and modest.

Marjorie Gibbon Battles and Catherine Colt Dickey. Fifty Blooming Years, 1913-1963. n.p.: Garden Club of America, 1963. History of the Garden Club of America; edition limited to 3000 copies; no dustjacket as issued.

Helen M. Fox. Adventure in my Garden. New York: Crown Publishers, 1965. Charming garden memoir; illustrated.

Irving Penn. Flowers. New York: Harmony Books, 1980. First edition. Signed by Penn. Gorgeous photographs, spectacular quality printing.

Fleur Cowles. Flower Decorations. New York: Villard Books, 1985, stated first edition. Innovative floral arrangements from the legendary style-setter.

Fashion:

Richard Walker. Savile Row: an Illustrated History. New York: Rizzoli, 1989. Fascinating history of the great locus of men's tailoring.

R. Turner Wilcox. The Mode in Hats and Headdress. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959. The updated and revised edition of this hard-to-find, exhaustive review of its subject with many hundreds of illustrations by the eminent author.

Mary Quant. Quant by Quant. London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1965 (second edition June 1966). Hard-to-find autobiography of the British "youthquake" fashion designer. Published in the US by Putnam in 1966, this is the British edition in a Putnam dustjacket with Putnam's memo pasted in noting that it is an "uncorrected proof" for review by the press (normally uncorrected proofs were issued as review copies but in this case the British edition was used for that purpose). Many b/w photos.

Martin Harrison. Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945. New York: Rizzoli, 1991. Definitive and highly intelligent survey.

Patrick O'Higgins. Madame: An Intimate Biography of Helena Rubenstein. New York: Viking Press, 1971, stated first edition. Many b/w photos.

Edna Woolman Chase and Ilka Chase. Always in Vogue.  New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1954.  "An autobiography of Vogue's famous editor and the story of fashion in America through the past sixty Years. Lavishly Illustrated." Some chipping to DJ.

Diana Vreeland. D.V. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. The legendary fashion editor's extraordinary memoir.

Axel Madsen. Living For Design: The Yves Saint Laurent Story. New York: Delacorte Press, 1979. Biography; includes b/w photos.

Caroline Rennolds Milbank. Couture: the Great Designers. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Inc., 1985. Lavish, encyclopedic compendium on the greatest fashion designers of Europe and America from the late 19^th century (Worth, Paquin) to year of publication (Lagerfeld, Beene).

Margaret Story. Individuality and Clothes: the Blue Book of Personal Attire. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1930. To dress what Emily Post's Ettiquette was to social relations; very hard to find.

Madge Garland. The Changing Face of Beauty. New York: M. Barrows & Company, 1957. "Four Thousand years of beautiful women" in hundreds of b/w photographs, paintings and sculpture; includes 20^th century beauties such as Millicent Rogers, Princess Niloufer, Conseulo Vanderbilt and others.

Arnold Scaasi. Women I have Dressed (and Undressed!). New York: Scribner, 2004. Quite fascinating memoir of the fashion designer and his clients including Jacqueline Kennedy, Barbra Streisand, Rosemarie Kanzler and many others; illustrated with many b/w photographs.

Food and Entertaining:

Charlotte Adams. The Four Seasons Cookbook. New York: Ridge Press, 1971. Gorgeous coffe-table style cookbook from the Four Season's restaurant; with contributions from James beard; illustrated with color photos.

Simonetta Fabiani. A Snob in the Kitchen. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1967 [stated first edition]. Fabulously chic cookbook by the famed Roman couturiere; illustrations by HRH Giovanni de Bourbon.

Trader Vic. Trader Vic's Pacific Island Cookbook. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1968. Illustrated with many color photographs.

Jan Mitchell. Cooking a la Longchamps. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1964. Forward by Cleveland Amory; illustrations by Betty Church.

Rene Verdon. The White House Chef Cookbook. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1968. "Over 500 recipes and menus by the man who was White House chef during the Kennedy years. Illustrated in color."

Genevieve Antoine Dariaux. Entertaining With Elegance. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1965. A charmingly personal A to Z guide to being the "perfect hostess on all occasions" by the Directrice of the maison de couture of Nina Ricci; amusing drawings by Sheila Greenwald.

Patricia Murphy. Glow of Candlelight. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1961. Memoirs of Patricia Murphy, creator of the Candlelight (Westchester) and Bahia Mar (Fort Laurderdale) restaurants; includes menus, recipes and color photos.

Michael Dorn, ed. Tycoons in the Kitchen. n.p. (New York: Dorn Press), 1968. Includes a handwritten note from the author. Menus and recipes from Bill Blass, Gardner Cowles, Marshall Field, Andrew Goodman, et al. Illustrations by "Rosalind Rust" apparently a pseudonym of the author. In slipcase.

Cyril Ray. Bollinger. London: Peter Davies, 1971. Authoritative story of the venerated champagne "which is made with dedicated care by the most traditional methods É presided over by Madame Bollinger, a legend in her lifetime as the greatest of the present-day 'champagne widows.'" Includes photographs and several appendices (Comparison of Climates; Note on Vintage Years; Where to find the Great Bottles; The 1969 Echelle).

Biography, Autobiography, Memoir:

Alexis, Baron de Rede, Hugo Vickers, ed. Alexis: the Memoirs of the Baron de Rede. n.p. ["privately published by the Estate of the late Baron de Rede"], 2005.

Baron Philippe de Rothschild and Joan

Littlewood. Baron Philippe: The Very Candid Autobiography of Baron Philippe de Rothschild.  New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1984. Husband of Pauline, numerous photographs.

Guy de Rothschild. The Whims of Fortune. New York: Random House, 1985. First edition; memoirs of the Baron de Rothschild, life at Ferrieres and with the Baroness Marie-Helene; illustrated with numerous color and b/w photos.

Celeste Andrews Seton (as told to Clark Andrews). Helen Gould Was My Mother-in-Law. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1953. Utterly charming portrait of the daughter of Jay Gould and her life at Lyndhurst (Tarrytown); illustrated with b/w photographs and a map of Lyndhurst.

Michael Bloch. The Duchess of Windsor. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Biography by the assistant to the Duchess' lawyer, enhanced by his access to the Duchess' private correspondence; illustrated with many, many color and b/w photographs.

Suzy Menkes. The Windsor Style. Topsfield, MA: Salem House Publishers, 1987. Gorgeously produced with color and b/w photos throughout including many previously unpublished photos of the residences of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

Rosemarie Kanzler (as told to Katherine Livingston).  Yesterday is Gone: The Story of Rosemarie Kanzler.  Privately printed, 2000. In slipcase, signed by Katherine Livingston, beautifuly designed, hundreds of photographs, a charming and exquisite book. 

Igor Cassini. I'd Do It All Over Again. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. Autobiography of the man known to newspaper readers in the 1940s and 50s as gossip columnist Cholly Knickerbocker; illustrated with b/w photographs.

Letitia Baldridge. Juggling: the Art of Balancing Marriage, Motherhood and a Career. New York: Viking Press, 1976, stated first edition. Memoirs of the Kennedy White House social secretary and etiquette expert.

John Walker. Self Portrait With Donors: Confessions of an Art Collector. Boston: Little Brown, 1974, stated first edition. Memoirs of the former Director of the National Gallery; illustrated with b/w photos.

Stephen Birmingham.  The Grandes Dames.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. "The wonderfully uninhibited ladies who used their wealth and position to create American culture in their own image--from the Gilded Age to modern times." Illustrated with photographs.

Helen F. Boehm. With a Little Luck: An American Odyssey. New York: Rawson Associates, 1985. First edition, "Limited Edition." Very entertaining autobiography of the wife and business partner of Edward Boehm, famed porcelain sculptor. Includes details of her life in Palm Beach as an owner of a polo team. Forward by Letitia Baldridge. Minor chipping to dust jacket.

Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger (as told to Susan W. Dryfoos).  From Iphigene: The Memoirs of Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger. Privately printed, 1979. No dustjacket as issued. Memoirs of the matriarch of the family that owns the New York Times. Numerous photographs.

Sylvia Brooke. Queen of the Headhunters. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1970. The fascinating autobiography of Sylvia Brooke, wife of the last white Rajah of Sarawak; many b/w photos; minor tears to dustjacket.

Joseph F. Cullman, 3^rd. I'm a Lucky Guy. n.p [privately printed], n.d. [1998]. Autobiography of chairman of Philip Morris; includes family, social and business histories and stories of his many philanthropic activities in support of wildlife conservation, the Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, etc.; numerous b/w photos.

Dodie Kazanjian and Calvin Tomkins. Alex: the Life of Alexander Liberman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Biography of the legendary Conde Nast creative director; inscribed and signed by the authors; numerous b/w photos.

Estee Lauder. Estee: a Success Story. np [privately printed], nd [2004?]. Privately printed (following the death of the author) edition of the autobiography previously published in 1985; this edition includes "A Tribute: Remembering Estee."

Hope Cooke. Time Change. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. Autobiography of "a precocious American girl growing up in upper-middle-class New York [who] is drawn to the East before it becomes popular and then marries the king-to-be of a tiny Himalayan land [Sikkim]." Signed by the author; includes many b/w photographs.

Lee Radziwill. Happy Times. New York: Assouline, 2000. An illustrated, autobiographical, coffee-table-book. $30

Madame Wellington Koo. No Feast Lasts Forever. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Company, 1975. Autobiography of the daughter of one of the richest men in Asia who married the distinguished Chinese ambassador and was regarded as "the most beautiful and bejeweled woman in the world;" illustrated with many b/w photographs; some minor chipping to dustjacket.

J.B. West. Upstairs at the White House. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1973. "The anecdotal , intimate memoir of the man who, as Chief Usher, was responsible for running the White House for six presidents and their wives;" illustrated with many b/w photographs; chipping to dustjacket.

Felicia Warburg Roosevelt. Doers & Dowagers. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1975. Intimate biographical sketches of the most fascinating grandes dames including Mrs. Lytle Hull (of Staatsburg), Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, Mrs. Bernard Gimbel, Diana Vreeland and 16 others; illustrated with b/w photographs.

Samuel Marx. Queen of the Ritz. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1978 [first edition]. Biography of "Blanche Auzello, who with her husband Claude ran the famous Hotel Ritz in Paris during the halcyon twenties and thirties and into the cruel forties of the German occupation;" fascinating personal and social history; illustrated with numerous b/w photos.

Liz Smith. Natural Blonde. New York: Hyperion, 2000. First edition of the famed gossip columnist's memoir, signed by her.

Philip Ziegler. Diana Cooper. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Biography of the legendary, aristocratic, British beauty.

Isadore Barmash.  "Always Live Better Than Your Clients"-The Fabulous Life and Times of Benjamin Sonnenberg.  New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1983.  Biography of "Americas Greatest Publicist" whose clients included Bergdorf Goodman, Prince Matchabelli, et al.

Daphne Fielding. Those Remarkable Cunards: Emerald and Nancy. New York: Atheneum, 1968, stated first American edition. Double biography of Emerald, Lady Cunard (born Maude Burke in San Francisco) and her daughter Nancy, both remarkable women of style, intellect and courage; illustrated with b/w photographs.

Society:

Philippa Pullar. Gilded Butterflies: the Rise and Fall of the London Season. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978, stated first edition. Fascinating, illustrated (with many b/w photos) history of the London social season from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II, including the impact of Americans on London society.

Dominick Dunne. The Way We Lived Then. New York: Crown Publishers, 1999, stated first edition. Illustrated (with hundreds of b/w photos) memoir of Hollywood when it was chic; inscribed and signed by the author.

Richard Collier. The Rainbow People. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1984. Strikingly gossipy account of the "gaudy world of the very rich and those who served them" beginning with the coronation of Edward VII in 1902 and ending with the death of Aristotle Onassis in 1975; illustrated with b/w photos.

Marilyn Bender. The Beautiful People. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1967. "A candid examination of a cultural phenomenon--the marriage of Fashion and Society in the 60's." Illustrated with b/w photos; indexed.

Geoffrey Bocca. The Great Resorts: An Inside View. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1971. "A light-hearted tour of Europe's famous beaches, spas and ski slopes;" gossipy portrayals of the playgrounds of the jet-set; illustrated with b/w photographs.

Robert Lacey. Aristocrats. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983, stated first American edition. Interesting and incisive study of European nobility, beautifully designed, with many color photographs.

Lanfranco Rasponi. The International Nomads. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. "Today's Jet-Age Society, who it is and how, why and where it functions." Some b/w photos. Absolutely fascinating and extremely valuable for social history. Includes brief biographical notes on hundreds of members of the jet-set.

Roxanne Lowit. Moments. New York: Vendome Press, 1993. Photographs from 1978 to 1989 by the greatest paparazza of the late 20^th century; includes reminiscences by Fran Lebowitz, Karl Lagerfeld, Yves St. Laurent, Marian McEvoy, et al.; signed by the photographer.

John Fairchild. Chic Savages. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. "The New rich, the old rich, and the world they inhabit." Numerous color and b/w photos.

Roy Perrott. The Aristocrats: A Portrait of Britain's Nobility and their Life Today. New York: Macmillan, 1968 (first American edition). A fascinating book É Mr. Perrott has been properly thorough, has seen and investigated not only the peers but also the smart set, county people and the landed gentry -Ray Gosling. Some b/w photos.

Martin Green. Children of the Sun: A Narrative of "Decadence" in England After 1918. New York: Basic Books, 1976. "This book describes the sons of England's cult of beauty and brilliance in dandified defiance of their fathers--as seen in the lives of forty or more English writers, intellectuals, and leaders born in the first decade of this century." Study of Brian Howard, Harold Acton, Evelyn Waugh, Cecil Beaton, Christopher Isherwood, et al.

Paul Fussell. Class: a Guide Through the American Status System. New York: Summit Books, 1983. A sort-of American Noblesse Oblige with amusing illustrations by Martim de Avillez.

Jonathan Daniels. Washington Quadrille. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1968, stated first edition. Histories of the "fascinating women who were the leaders of Washington society from the turn of the century through the FDR years;" b/w photos, footnotes, index.

Boating:

Bill Robinson. Legendary Yachts. New York: Macmillan, 1971. "The great American yachts from Crowninshield's Cleopatra to today's Intrepid--those ships whose grace, size, lavishness and performance made them legends. 175 photos, exteriors, interiors."

J. Linton Rigg. Bahama Islands. Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1959. "Third edition, fully revised and enlarged, with new illustrations ... an indispensable guide for yachtsmen and visitors, with detailed descriptions of the harbours, passages, weather, people and facilities in the Bahamas"--includes maps, photos and a few recipes as well.

Gurney Williams III, ed. Yachtsman's Choice: the Best of Rudder. New York: David McKay, Inc., 1977. Includes "Proper Yachting Dress (1891), America's Cup War Games (1963), "On Cooks" (1906), etc.

Miscellaneous:

Robert Rosenblum. The Dog in Art, From Rococo to Post-Modernism. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988. Definitive study by the distinguished art historian, illustrated with numerous examples reproduced in color.

Douglas Sutherland. The English Gentleman. London: Debrett's Peerage, Ltd., 1978.

_____. The English Gentleman's Wife. London: Debrett's Peerage, Ltd., 1979.

_____. The English Gentleman's Mistress. London: Debrett's Peerage, Ltd., 1980.

Set of three from the series of amusing, perceptive, charmingly designed little books, with illustrations by Timothy Jaques.

Jean Lipman, ed. The Collector in America. New York: A Studio Book/The Viking Press, 1971. Fascinating compilation of articles on some of the greatest and most interesting art collectors including Wright Ludington, John Hay Whitney, Mary and Leigh Block, Henry P. McIlhenny and a number of others; extensively illustrated with color and b/w photographs.

Ronald Pearsall. The Worm in the Bud: the World of Victorian Sexuality. New York: the Macmillan Company, 1969. Authoritative study of the not-so-well hidden perversions of the 19^th century.

Joseph Purtell. The Tiffany Touch. New York: Random House, 1971. "This beautifully illustrated, entertaining book is a compendium of glamorous gossip and social history, as well as an inside look at the development of American taste.

Rosina Harrison. Rose: My Life in Service. New York: Viking Press, 1975. "Recollections of life in one of England's grandest houses by the personal maid to Nancy, Lady Astor;" illustrated.

Patrick Dennis and Cris Alexander. First Lady. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1964. Hysterical spoof memoir of "Martha Dinwiddie Butterfield" and her "thirty days upstairs at the White House" with text by Dennis and side-splittingly funny photo-illustrations by Alexander.

Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson. Savage Grace. New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1985. "The true and harrowing story of an Upper East Side New York family [the Baekelands] whose cultivation of taste, pursuit of social distinction, and fashionable expatriatism led its members to drugs, to apparent incest, to murder, and to suicide." Illustrated with many b/w photos; signed and inscribed by Aronson.

Marilyn Kaytor. 21: The Life and Times of New York's Favorite Club. n.p. [privately printed], 1975. Entertaining history of the famed 21 Club and it's times from prohibition to the prosperous postwar era.