A pair of 19th-century wood bookcases, center, is $3,600.

I walk into Posman Books on University Place in Greenwich Village and see the burnished wood bookcases, the faded Oriental rugs on top of old carpeting.

The place was ceiling to floor in dark wood bookcases.

I could see a desk and a chair and dark wood bookcases.

Tichenor combed photos of the 1939 World's Fair, for example, before designing the wood bookcases that reinforce the living room's horizontal lines, which connect the space to the landscape.

On floor after floor - dark wood bookcases, green carpeting, Indian miniatures and botanical prints, and with reassuring views of the square - the rich assortment of antiquarian books is enhanced by the family atmosphere.

Estimated to be over 500 books on Polynesian and New Zealand history in 1887, he left a collection of 304 books, the earliest being dated 1773, to the Auckland University College in an inlaid wood bookcase upon his death.

The second-floor exhibition spaces are flanked by towering cherry wood bookcases inspired by those at the Trinity College library in Dublin - a favorite building of Mr. Clinton's but weirdly out of place here.

Along the wall opposite the couch, between the living room and the bedroom, was the large wood bookcase.