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The Queen Of Hearts, 1859 Harper & Brothers, NY. First Edition. By Wilkie Collins. Complete in one volume. RARE. QUEENS QUORUM TITLE. Exlib. Marbled boards, beige cloth spine. Paper library tag on spine. 4 5/8 X 7 1/2. Moss green end-papers are intact at the hinge. 472 pages. Pages tanned. Some pages show some degree of water damage. Please see our photos.
are clothes modern? An essay on contemporary apparel by Bernard Rudofsky - 1947
by Bernard Rudofsky
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are clothes modern? An essay on contemporary apparel
by Bernard Rudofsky
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Paul Theobald, 1947. Stated first edition. VG+/VG-. Dust jacket shows light edge wear with a chip to top corner, moderate soiling and light foxing in a new Brodart clear protective sleeve. Original $8.75 price intact on flap. Minimal wear to book which appears unread. Boards are clean. Binding is strong. Text block is tight with light foxing to top edge. Text is pristine throughout. No writing or markings of any kind. Photos are of the actual book you will receive. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.
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The Queen Of Hearts
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Tres Parisien Le Mode Le Chic L'Elegance May 1922
by Joumard, G. P. Editor
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Paris: G. P. Joumard, 1922. Book. Illus. by Various. Very Good +. Soft cover. First Printing of the First Edition. Very good with some chipping and tears to the very fragile ( vellum ? ) cover papers. Fortunately, none of this extends into either the front or back illustrations. Internally very bright and clean. Vivid en pochoir Illustrations ( Highly refined stencil technique ). 20 in all, including the 2 covers, 13 individual plates, and 5 more in the folding supplement. One of the plates is missing, but seems to have been replaced by the one from the Feb. issue of the same year. 3 other four page illustrated sections with subjects ....Les Elegances de la Scene / Les Tailleurs Fantasie and Robes Legere. 2 pages of ads, and 2 pages with "description of our figures"..
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FIFTY A Unique Insight Into The Life of A Visionary Man The Diesel Planet SIGNED AND INSCRIBED RENZO ROSSO
by Renzo Rosso Mark; Diesel
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SALE Collectible Fine Condition Folio Red and White Raised Felt on Hardcover with Black Slipcase and DVD and gold box. NOT a library copy. Clean Fine condition. Here with RARE HAND SIGNED AND INSCRIBED IN SILVER MAGIC MARKER "TO CRBG WITH JOY RENZO R" ACROSS BOTH ENDPAPERS. Plus black slipcase Brilliant book for an equally brilliant designer. Pop ups and color design fill this treasure chest. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans
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Twenty Years of Passion: Chateau du Champ de Bataille
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Editions Flammarion, Paris, France, 2014. First Edition. Hardback. Collectable - Very Good Condition/Very Good. VG/VG- 1st ed very substantial 2014 Flammarion hardback, unclipped DJ. Light wear along edges of DJ, mild crease to base of DJ spine, corners pushed, VG bright and unmarked. Size: 265\nx 350\nx 45.72mm. 400 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Fashion, Fabrics & Style; Exhibition Catalogues & Specific Collections; ISBN: 2080201697. ISBN/EAN: 9782080201690. Dewey Code: 708.4. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 084758.. 9782080201690
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Nuova Raccolta Rappresentante i Costumi Religiosi, Civili e Militari: Degli Antichi Egiziani, Etruschi, Greci e Romani
by Domenico Pronti
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Collection of 46 (of 48) beautifully detailed copperplate engravings of Roman costume.Examples of costumes, tools, musical instruments, furniture, room interiors, pots, vases, etc. A good many plates of Roman military costume, armour, breastplates, boots, sandals, helmets, boxing gloves, weapons, shields, chariots, legion standards, etc.Engraved title page and 46 engraved plates (numbered I to XLVIII, lacking XXXIV/XXXV) each with an engraved descriptive caption in Italian within the plate. Based on Lorenzo Roccheggiani's Collection of 100 Figures Representing Civil and Military Religious Costumes of the Ancient Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans (published in 1804).This suite drawn, engraved and published by Domenico Pronti (1750-1815), Italian painter, sculptor and engraver active in Rome. He specialized in publishing books of Roman scenery and ancient costume for the tourist market.Oblong quarto in flimsy boards, amateurishly covered in marble paper, new endpapers. Good strong impressions of…
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Zanol. The Better Way to Buy. Catalog No. 20. Edition A.
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Cincinnati, OH: The American Products Company, May, 1925. Perfect bound (355 x 280 mm). Original brown wrappers printed in blue and cream, brown cloth backstrip. 78 pages, of which 16 are in full colour and the rest being uncoloured lithographs on single-colour backgrounds. With the original order form loosely inserted. Light rubbing at the extremities, small chips at the ends of the spine. A fresh copy in excellent condition. A beautiful, 78 page chromolithographic catalogue for the American Products Company's Zanol line of cosmetics, food products, and home goods, including 16 pages in full colour. A superb example of Art Deco marketing design. The American Products Company was founded in 1907 by three brothers, Albert, Edgar and Clarence Mihalovitch (Albert later changed his surname to Mills), of Cincinnati, who hoped to capture the growing Midwestern consumer market (see "Cosmetics by the American products Company", Collecting Vintage Compacts blog, January 2012). This catalogue promotes…
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Costumes Historiques des XVI, XVII et XVIII Siecles Vol. 1
by Georges Duplessis
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First volume only of this 2-volume set on European costumes from the 16th to 18th centuries. This volume dedicated to the 16th century. 75 fine hand-colored lithographs and 151 pages of explanatory text in French (some explanations mismatched with the plates).Exquisite costume plates of French, German, Italian, English nobles, courtiers, bourgeois, mercenaries, musicians and peasants of the 16th century, taken from contemporary paintings, manuscripts, tapestries and frescos.Georges Duplessis (1834-1899) was a French art historian and curator of the Print Room of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard (1825-1902) was a French painter, engraver and illustrator. He was professor at the Ecole nationale superieure des Arts Decoratifs.Condition: Binding solid, interior mostly clean except for some spotting to text and tissue-guards.
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Tres Parisien Le Mode Le Chic L'Elegance May 1922
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Paris: G. P. Joumard, 1922. Book. Illus. by Various. Very Good +. Soft cover. First Printing of the First Edition. Very good with some chipping and tears to the very fragile ( vellum ? ) cover papers. Fortunately, none of this extends into either the front or back illustrations. Internally very bright and clean. Vivid en pochoir Illustrations ( Highly refined stencil technique ). 20 in all, including the 2 covers, 13 individual plates, and 5 more in the folding supplement. One of the plates is missing, but seems to have been replaced by the one from the Feb. issue of the same year. 3 other four page illustrated sections with subjects ....Les Elegances de la Scene / Les Tailleurs Fantasie and Robes Legere. 2 pages of ads, and 2 pages with "description of our figures"..
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THEATRUM MULIERUM
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28 costume engravings by W. Hollar including the title page. Overall in good condition, unexamined out of the frame. Framed and glazed.
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Nuova Raccolta Rappresentante i Costumi Religiosi, Civili e Militari: Degli Antichi Egiziani, Etruschi, Greci e Romani
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Collection of 46 (of 48) beautifully detailed copperplate engravings of Roman costume.Examples of costumes, tools, musical instruments, furniture, room interiors, pots, vases, etc. A good many plates of Roman military costume, armour, breastplates, boots, sandals, helmets, boxing gloves, weapons, shields, chariots, legion standards, etc.Engraved title page and 46 engraved plates (numbered I to XLVIII, lacking XXXIV/XXXV) each with an engraved descriptive caption in Italian within the plate. Based on Lorenzo Roccheggiani's Collection of 100 Figures Representing Civil and Military Religious Costumes of the Ancient Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans (published in 1804).This suite drawn, engraved and published by Domenico Pronti (1750-1815), Italian painter, sculptor and engraver active in Rome. He specialized in publishing books of Roman scenery and ancient costume for the tourist market.Oblong quarto in flimsy boards, amateurishly covered in marble paper, new endpapers. Good strong impressions of…
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Are Clothes Modern? An Essay on Contemporary Apparel
by Rudofsky, Bernard
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Chicago: Paul Theobald, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Orig. yellow cloth. 241 pp. Fully illustrated in B&W. Some light soiling to cloth, spine tilted, some bruising to spine ends and upper corners. Dust jacket is price clipped, age toned, chipped to extremities. Are Clothes Modern? is no treatise on historic costume, on pattern making or merchandising. Though it digresses necessarily into historical and psychological matters, it is written for the adult reader whether he be professionally interested in present-day clothing or merely intrigued by its social and ethical aspects.
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Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky
by Nijinsky, Romola
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Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky and the Last Years of Nijinsky. The Definitive Biography Copyright 1980. Simon and Schuster stated First Impression Thus. Number line starts with 1. EXLIB. Good Condition/ VG original dust jacket. 260 pages, indexed. ISBN0671411233. PERFORMING ARTS, RUSSIA, BALLET, VASLAV NIJINSKY. Summary: "The life of Vaslav Nijinsky is not merely a record of a great dancer's artistic triumphs; it is one of the strangest stories ever written. There is madness everywhere. From the child's first appearance with a troupe of wandering Russians to that last terrible performance, his "Marriage With God" , it is a growing chaos of madness, abnormality, distortion, genius and beauty." 260 pages, indexed. 5 3/4 X 8 3/4.
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Force and Freedom
by Burckhardt, Jacob
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Pantheon, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Missing. First Printing stated on the copyright page. Lacking the dustjacket, with a small tear to the spine and light wear / fading to the edges of the cover, and a presentation bookplate on the front fixed endpaper. Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (1818-1897) was a historian of art and culture. This book consists of notes for three lectures that Burke delivered at Basel in 1870-1871. The book contains a lengthy and helpful introductory essay by editor James Hastings Nichols. In stock, ready to ship now from Evanston, IL!
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Mary Stuart: a Tragedy
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E. Worthington, 1881. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, with age-toning to the paper, and with light wear & several scratches to the green cloth binding, otherwise clean with no markings. The third and final volume of Swinburne's verse trilogy on Mary, Queen of Scots, after "Chastelard" (1865) and"Bothwell" (1874). In stock, ready to ship now from Evanston, IL!
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Murder for Christmas (A Midnite Mystery)
by Christie, Agatha
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Murder for Christmas, a Poirot Story by Agatha Christie (1944 Midnite Mystery) COPYRIGHT BY AGATHA CHRISTIE MALLOWAN: "It is Christmas Eve, and elderly Simeon Lee is found violently murdered in his locked office. The police are immediately called, but of course nobody has a clue until Hercule Poirot arrives..." USED. 1944 Books inc. Midnite Mystery. Copyright 1938 - 1939 Agatha Christie Mallowan. Good+/ No DJ. Black boards with gold titling on spine. Titles gilting is still nice Scarce.
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Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp
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William R. Gillis. Goldrush Days with Mark Twain (H. Glintenkamp woodcuts). Copyright 1930. Albert & Charles Boni, NY. With an into by Cyril Clemens. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS 6 woodcut illustrations included, Twain frontis (Three old friends), and 5 other historic and realistic woodcut illustrations. MEMOIRS. HISTORY OF NEVADA GOLDRUSH. Summary: Mr. Gillis was a friend of American author/humorist Mark Twain and was with him at Virginia, Nevada in the Goldrush days. In 1859 placer miners in the Great Basin discovered the largest gold and silver strike that had happened in the United States up until that time. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS. Used. Good- Condition. 264 pages. Used. Good condition. First few pages are loose. Frontis is still affixed to binding. Green cloth boards gold titling. No titles left on spine. Spine is sunned.
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Little May and Her Friend Conscience
by Marianne Parrot
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Little May and Her Friend Conscience. Used. Very Good+ Condition. RARE/SCARCE. ANTIQUARIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK. Thomas Nelson & Sons First Edition, 1876. Color front paper paste-down label is in good shape. Complete. Dark Blue, blind-stamped boards. Pocket-size. 70 pages plus adverts.
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The Professional Cosmetologist
by John W. Dalton
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West Pub. Co, 1981. 2nd. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. John W. Dalton's near definitive textbook of cosmetology. Professional level instruction covering all significant topics for students of cosmetology. Valuable resource for replicating ca. 1970's hairstyles, makeup, etc. A standard in its field. Expanded and revised second edition. 463 pp. 10" x 7 3/8". Tight copy with light rubbing to cover and scattered yellow highlighting. Small corner loss to front blank endpaper. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.
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Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) G&D Hardcover w/DJ 1945
by Christie, Agatha
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Christie, Agatha: Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) 1945 HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. Unabridged. Please see our stock photo. Used. VG/Fair unclipped DJ. 209 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 ¾. A COLONEL RACE MYSTERY.
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Three Blind Mice (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection)
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Three Blind Mice (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) (aka The Mousetrap). Black faux leather binding. First Edition Thus Bantam Books Inc., NY, September, 1988. Number line: 0987654321. As New. Summary: "A blinding snowstorm—and a homicidal maniac—traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate." THE MOUSETRAP: Known as the "world's longest-running play," The Moustrap has been running since 1952 and celebrated 70 years in London in 2022."
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Udmurt Folk Embroidery
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Udmurt Folk Embroidery. Izhevsk Publishing House (2009). English, Russian, and Udmurt languages. Fine, as new, large hardcover with substantial text and full color and black and white illustrative plates. A history of the tradition with beautiful examples from the National Museum of the Udmurt Republic. A bright, handsome copy. Boxed for safe shipping. 3-b
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