Below are several books from David Duncan's private library. Most of them were purchased directly from estates over decades:
Berard by Boris Kochno: is a collage of the artist/set designer's work, written by his former collaborator.
Bernarde Boutet de Monvel by Stephane-Jacques Addade: The sole monograph documenting the thirties/fourties society portrait artists iconic stylized renderings of key social figures, such as Millicent Rogers in glamorous settings.
"El Moroccos" Family Album by John Perona: Privately published and presented as a gift to patrons of the cafe society nightclub. Photos by Jerome Zerbe, printed in blue, with celebrities seated at the signature zebra patterned banquets. Details from the pages with Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe) among her peers.
Enchanted Visions by Claude Arthaud: A coffee table volume with esoteric interiors and architecture.
Halcyon Days by Peggie Phipps Boegner and Richard Gachot: A lavishly illustrated volume by a Phipps family member with personal photographs of Old Westbury Gardens and early 20th century Long Island society at play.
Homes of the Great by Claude Arthaud: Seldom seen and atmospheric interiors of illustrious authors and artists, with text by Arthaud.
Legendary Parties by Prince Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge: The English language edition of the French volume "Fete Memorable" illustrated with photographs of thematic society balls, from the decadent period between the wars and to the opulent Rothschild, Proust themed ball.
The Bones of my Hand by Edward James: A privately printed volume of poetry by Anglo-American heir to a railroad fortune. James, who was Salvador Dali's great patron in the thirties, commissioned the most fantastic surrealist interiors at his families Lutyens designed estate at West Dean.
Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People by Hamish Bowles : A new classic loosely inspired by the sixties volume "Vogue Book of Houses, Gardens, People".
