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Curated Libraries for Home

Curating distinctive libraries for home.

 

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Your Library

Tailor-made library collections to reflect your interests and literary tastes. Custom services include appraisal, organization, cataloging and more.

Our Expertise  

Experience, industry knowledge, and a love of books provide for the highest quality books and service.  

 
 
 

"THE ESSENCE OF THE BEAUTIFUL IS UNITY IN VARIETY."

- Felix Mendelssohn

 

 

 

 
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Living With Books
Literature, History, Gastronomy
Literature, History, Gastronomy

Join us Saturday, February 16th at Amangani Resort to enjoy an assortment of rare books about gastronomy, natural history, and the history of the West.

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Private Showings
Private Showings

Arrange for a viewing of our current offerings. Schedule a special event to allow your guests a unique experience with world class antiquarian books.

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Holiday Trunk Show
Holiday Trunk Show

December 12th at Twenty Two Home, plus an announcement of our Winter Pop Up Series.

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A Culinary Collection
A Culinary Collection

A project organizing, cataloging, and designing space for a collection of over 1,000 cookbooks

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J.M. Carey's Law Books
J.M. Carey's Law Books

Early laws of Wyoming, as part of the Dakota Territory. Personal copies of Senator & Governor J.M. Carey. A picture of justice, lifestyle & land on the 1860s plains.



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Hayden & Moran
Hayden & Moran

Early exploration, study and illustrations of Wyoming + Idaho

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Play it again, Sam
Play it again, Sam

Sheet music for the song from Casablanca, signed by the actress

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Louis Agassiz: Freshwater Fish of Central Europe
Louis Agassiz: Freshwater Fish of Central Europe

A beautifully illustrated volume of ichthyology by the most influential naturalist of nineteenth-century America.

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Austin + Adams: A Rare Book of the West
Austin + Adams: A Rare Book of the West

Each image printed on rag paper by Ansel Adams himself.

An essay on culture and landscape by a great writer of the Southwest.

One of only 108 copies of a fine letterpress binding.

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The Artist, the Writer and the Yurt
The Artist, the Writer and the Yurt

We talk books and home with author Alexandra Fuller and artist Wendell Field in Kelly, Wyoming. 

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You know it's spring when the grizzlies are out and about. 1st edition of The Biography of a Grizzly (1900) is a snapshot of America's growing relationship with the outdoors at the turn of the 20th century: Seton-Thompson would go on to become one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America. His wife Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson (who would go on to help found the female counterpart to the Scouts, the Camp Fire Girls) designed the cover and layout of the book. Grace was also a writer and a suffragist, a fact which complicated things with Ernest and the Boy Scouts, along with his British citizenship. Perhaps it was Mrs. Seton-Thompson’s design ethos that influenced how very many of her husband’s charming illustrations there are in this book - they're on nearly every page.
Emily Brontë's watercolor portrait of her pet merlin hawk, 1841. She had rescued the raptor (named Nero, presumably after the tyrannical Roman emperor) from an abandoned nest on the moors. All of the Brontë siblings dabbled in the visual arts, and Emily received some formal training. Thomas Bewick’s A History of British Birds (1797) – the book that Jane reads from when sat in a window seat at the beginning of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) – was a popular source of inspiration in the Brontë household. Emily Brontë published her only novel, Wuthering Heights, in 1847 - and died the following year of tuberculosis at the age of 30.
The three high walls of books in this library had little order when we started: Literature, sports books, history, children's books, art books, etc., were all mixed together on the shelves and on the floor. A beautiful mess. The previous residents' books, many decades old, still lived on some of the high shelves. After some culling and distributing of books throughout the property, we almost fit the entire collection onto the library’s shelves. Where there had been dozens of teetering piles in front of the shelving, we left a few pretty ones, intentionally placed.
2,000 volume collection in a beautiful 1929 Spanish Colonial. It’s in dire need of some organization. First up: sorting everything into manageable subject categories that make sense for this particular client. We all think of our books differently, group them uniquely. It's my job to identify categories into which this household's books fall, and also to determine how they will best fit into the different shelving around the house --not to mention in this gorgeous, wood-paneled library that looks out on the pool.
The Greek Parthenon in banned books, installed on a Nazi book burning site in Kassel, Germany by Argentinian conceptual artist Marta Minujín (2017). Minujín's first Parthenon of Books was constructed in Buenos Aires in 1983, just one week after the restoration of democracy to Argentina. It was made of books banned during the military dictatorship that had been in place in Argentina between '76 and '83. The week after installation, the piece was tipped over by two cranes, and the public were allowed to take the books they wanted. The Kassel installation, such a beautiful Phoenix from the Ashes, was installed at the Documents 14 Art Festival.
White Ridge by Wayne Thiebaud, oil on canvas, 1969. Collection of the @deyoungmuseum
Our niche falls just between the book world and the design world, and experts in both professions inspired us on our way there -- including interior designers like @susannekasler who use books as a key design element rather than an afterthought. Note the tiger maple paneling in his space - with the leather bound sets, Kasler has created an elegance that feels fresh and centuries old (perfectly so) all at once. Photo by @simonuptonphotos
Thank goodness the golden age of ski publishing coincided with the design heyday of the 1930s & 1940s - loving the typeface and illustration - These gems are hard to come by.
Nearly-lost treasures. William Mortensen was a 1920s Hollywood costume-designer-turned-photographer whose work was all but forgotten by the 1950s. Integrating the elaborate costumes and set designs of his movie work into evocative still images, Mortensen became something of an anachronism in the era of Ansel Adams and the New Realists of the 1930s and '40s. This series, 'Meditation,' is being sold as a set - discovered in the estate of Mortensen's first wife, they also feature her as a model, in the first photo.