http://www.highvalleybooks.com/ At High Valley Books, we specialize in rare and out-of-print books and magazines on Fashion, Interior Decoration, Architecture, Design and the decorative arts, including furniture design, landscape architecture and graphic design. en-us Attractive set of green Penguins, 4 volumes in the 'Famous Trials' series (missing volume 3). The trials of Madeleine Smith, Oscar Slater, Dr Crippen, Dr Palmer, Herbert Rowse Armstrong, Field and Gray, George Joseph Smith, Ronald True, Harold Greenwood, William Joyce, Ley & Smith, Dr Pritchard, Robert Wood, Thomas Neil Cream, Neville Heath, John Watson Laurie, Dr George Lamson, Rattenbury and Stoner. Volume four has a scuff. Pages browning. Hodge, Harry, ed. Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:12:20 +0000 http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4775-Famous-Trials-volumes-1-2-4-5 http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4775-Famous-Trials-volumes-1-2-4-5 Massive coffee-table book- over 500 pages- on the architectural projects undertaken by Benetton. Includes work by Afra Bianchin, Tobia Scarpa, Tadao Ando, Masataka Yano. Very good condition. Mulas, Antonia Mulazzani, Marco Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:44:26 +0000 http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4774-Architecture-For-Benetton http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4774-Architecture-For-Benetton An entertaining story by Lytton Strachey- an erotic escapade in a country house. With illustrations and attractive dust jacket by Erte. VG/VG (book has some foxing at endpapers; dust jacket has some light rubbing at edges, closed tear, light foxing-now protected in a plastic sleeve. Strachey, Lytton Erte illustrations & dust jacket Holyrod, Michael introduction Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:36:15 +0000 http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4773-Ermyntrude-Esmeralda http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4773-Ermyntrude-Esmeralda Two volume set of James Lees-Milne's biography of Harold Nicolson. Vita Sackville-West. A very nice set, with very fresh dust jackets. Lees-Milne, James Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:29:43 +0000 http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4772-Harold-Nicolson-A-Biography http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4772-Harold-Nicolson-A-Biography Interesting volume with rich color photographs. The interiors range from fascinatingly ugly, to strange, to interesting. With fold-out plates. Dust jacket missing a small chip at back panel, otherwise very good. Soden, Olga Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:20:18 +0000 http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4770-Old-Art-in-New-Rooms http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4770-Old-Art-in-New-Rooms Hardcover with dust jacket- 26th printing. Light edgewear, faint browning to spine. A fairly early copy of this attractive original edition. Tolkien, J. R. R. Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:05:08 +0000 http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4769-The-Hobbit http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4769-The-Hobbit Small illustrated paperback devoted to the career of Simonetta, the "glamorous Countess" of Italian fashion. Caratozzolo, Vittoria Caterina Clark, Judith Frisa, Maria Luisa Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:59:21 +0000 http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4768-Simonetta http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4768-Simonetta A great volume of handmade homes, hippy domiciles tucked away in the woods, octagons, home-made buddhist retreats and other Special Places. Includes a small section on walls, fences and gates at back. Boericke, Art Shapiro, Barry Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:37:19 +0000 http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4767-Handmade-Houses http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4767-Handmade-Houses First American edition of Graham Greene's classic novel. Dust jacket has survived quite well, with a slightly faded spine, a small closed tear. Green, Graham Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:27:57 +0000 http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4766-The-Quiet-American http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4766-The-Quiet-American Original UK edition of this classic guide to Venice, written by the distinguished art historian. This remains one of the best books on Venice for the tourist ever written in English. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. Honour, Hugh Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:22:36 +0000 http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4765-The-Companion-Guide-to-Venice http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4765-The-Companion-Guide-to-Venice Dust jacket, by E. McKnight Kauffer, has a small scuff, light edgewear, a somewhat faded spine. Maurois, Andre Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:06:36 +0000 http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4764-Disreali http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4764-Disreali Classic volume of handmade houses- a lot of hippy dwellings, interesting salvaged homes, geodesic domes, etc. With a nice text. Paperback with light edgewear, gift inscription. Haney, Robert Ballantine, David Elliot, Jonathan photographer Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:02:56 +0000 http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4763-Woodstock-Handmade-Houses http://highvalleybooks.com/store/show/4763-Woodstock-Handmade-Houses