2026 Mid-Century Modern Sale

Group of Fashion, Decorative Arts & Design Books
to including Charles Plante, Designs for Gilt Bronze Objects 1814–1830; Manolo Blahnik, Drawings; Alice Springs, Portraits; Luxury Toys; Camilla McGrath, Face to Face; Christian Lacroix, Pieces of a Pattern; Tapert & Edkins, The Power of Style; Collecting & Display; The Idealizing Vision; and Gianni Versace, Rock and Royalty, late 20th to early 21st century

Estimate: $300 - $500

James Gillray (British, 1756–1815) “The Caricatures of James Gillray”, Folio
London: Published by John Miller, Bridge Street, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh, circa 1825.
Large folio volume containing 85 finely hand-colored engravings (on 81 plates) of political and social caricatures by James Gillray, widely regarded as the most important British caricaturist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The work includes political satires, social commentary, theatrical and musical scenes, skating subjects, and numerous caricatures of Napoleon and contemporary figures, executed in aquatint and line engraving with hand coloring.

Estimate: $1000 - $1500

Approximately 23 Travel, Architecture, and Fine Art Books
Including Still New York (The Vendome Press); The Great Houses of Paris; Alexis Gregory, The Golden Age of Travel; The San Francisco I Love; The Carnival of Venice; Campanili di Venezia; Patagonia Argentina; Imperial Splendour: Palaces and Monasteries of Old Russia; The Palaces of India; Paris; Elizabeth Taylor, My Love Affair with Jewelry; Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals; Centre Georges Pompidou, Balthus; San Francisco (Herb Caen / Dong Kingman); Canaletto; Paintings in the Musée d’Orsay; Amedeo Modigliani: Nu Couché (Christie’s); Paintings in the Uffizi & Pitti Galleries; and Goya.
Various authors and publishers, mid- to late-20th century.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Approximately 25 American and European Art, Design, and Cultural History Books
Including Impressionism; American Heritage (April/May 1978); Naveen Patnaik, A Desert Kingdom; Man and the Horse; The New Yorker Album 1950–1955; J. L. Loeb et al., All in a Lifetime; Les Costumes Historiques Russes; A Choice Collection of the Works of Francis Johnson; El Greco; Braque; American Ballet Theatre; Bassegoda, The Designs and Drawings of Antonio Gaudí; Helen Reeder Cross, Life in Lincoln’s America; Monique Lévi-Strauss, The Cashmere Shawl; Encyclopaedia Britannica; Mary Lawrence, Lovers; Susanne Everett, London: The Glamour Years 1919–1939; Jacob El Hanani, Drawing on Canvas; Ariane Dandois; Jonathan Miller, Steps and Stairs; The Best of Beaton; Shapiro, Mondrian: Flowers; and Exhibition of Old Master Paintings (Hazlitt & Johns, London, 1991).
Various authors and publishers, mid-20th century and later.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Approximately 32 Modern Art and Art History Books
Including multiple volumes on Vincent van Gogh; Henri Matisse; Edgar Degas; Pablo Picasso (including A Retrospective, The Sculpture of Picasso, and Through the Eye of Picasso); Paul Gauguin; Paul Cézanne; Francis Bacon; Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism; Russian Avant-Garde Art: The George Costakis Collection; Walter Sickert: Prints; Russian Graphic Design 1880–1917; History of Modern Art; 19th and 20th Century Art; Surrealists and Surrealism; Art at Auction 1983–84; French Impressionists; The Cone Collection; The Great Libraries: From Antiquity to the Renaissance; and related museum, auction, and scholarly publications.
Various authors and publishers, mid- to late-20th century.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Approximately 22 Modern Art and Design Reference Books
Including Radu Varia, Brancusi; Matter: Alberto Giacometti; Edward Sorel, Unauthorized Portraits; William C. Seitz, The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art; Jasper Johns; Chevreul, The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colors; Russian Avant-Garde Art: The George Costakis Collection; Bromberg, Walter Sickert Prints; Russian Graphic Design 1880–1917; Life: The Classic Collection; The Art of New York; Surrealists and Surrealism; History of Modern Art; Friedman, Hockney Paints the Stage; George Heard Hamilton, 19th and 20th Century Art; Miró the Sculptor: Elements of Nature; Riopelle: Grands Formats; Kelly Killoren Bensimon, American Style; The Meanings of Modern Art; and The Museum of Modern Art.
Various authors and publishers, mid- to late-20th century.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Large Assortment of History, Literature, Biography, and General Interest Books

Extensive mixed group of hardcover and softcover books spanning history, politics, biography, literature, art, and general non-fiction. Titles include works on world history, American political figures, European history, social movements, war, cultural studies, and memoir, with authors such as Winston Churchill, Robert Lacey, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bill O’Reilly, John Updike, David McCullough, and others. Includes a combination of mid-20th-century to contemporary publications, many in original dust jackets, housed in cardboard boxes and arranged across shelving as shown.

Estimate: $200 - $400

Large Group of Hardcover and Paperback Books

An extensive grouping of books spanning history, biography, politics, literature, travel, economics, social commentary, and cultural studies. Titles include works on American and European history, world wars, political figures, philosophy, art and architecture, travel narratives, and modern nonfiction, along with select literary classics and contemporary novels. Publishers include Random House, Knopf, Viking, Harper & Row, Oxford, Yale, Time-Life, and others.
Mixed bindings including cloth and paper covers; various sizes and dates, primarily mid-20th century to contemporary.

Estimate: $200 - $400