Search Results: Design from Harper's Books, Inc.

Weert: Emmauuel Streets Steendrukkerji, 1930. Small splash bottom front cover, light spotting to pastdowns and endpapers; a very good copy, internally quite nice, in string-bound wrappers.. First Edition. Quarto. Company book for Emmanuel Smeets Steen, with many tipped-in examples of the company's graphic design and advertisements spanning 100 years. Preface by Henri Kuijpers. OCLC lists five copies, all in Holland.

[New York: Sweet's, c. 1940s[. Slight crease to corner, overall near fine.. First Edition. Single sided signature. Catalog insert for Sweet's designed by Ladislav Sutnar for the American Measuring Instrument Corp. Rare example of single page design by Sutnar for the Sweet's catalogues.

[New York: n.p., 1983-1987]. Contents uniformly in near fine to fine condition.. Collection of 120 flyers and posters from New York's hottest and most inventive nightclub, Area, during the mid-1980s. Although it was a disco, Area was a purely visual, happenings-based venue, where New York's art, music, design, fashion, and literary worlds collided; Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, or Jean-Michel Basquiat might be brushing up against Michael Forbes, David Byrne, or Georgio Armani, and Stephen Saban would be there to remind them what happened afterwards in his Details magazine column. Unlike other downtown clubs that focused on music or dancing, Area was driven by art and the scene that it engendered, through its theme nights, elaborate installations, and inventive flyers that seemed to embody Warhol's concept of business art. This archive includes Area's famously unconventional invitations, posters, articles, booklets, and other ephemera from the nightclub's short-lived, yet significant, four-year history.… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, Inc., 1989. Fine in a fine jacket.. First Edition. Quarto. Monograph devoted to Alexey Brodovitch's significant contributions to American design, with emphasis on his legacy as the art director of Harper's Bazaar. Features 340 illustrations in color and black and white, including work by Brodovitch's collaborators and mentees Richard Avedon, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Irving Penn, among others. The first volume of the Masters of American Design series.

Hamilton: Champion Papers, c. 1950s. Near fine in printed wrappers.. First Edition. Pamphlet, stapled. Promotional booklet containing technical specifications, and color paper stock samples. Apparently designed by Ladislav Sutnar using his radically minimal information architecture tools and techniques. Sutnar had along relationship with Champion Papers of Hamilton, Ohio; he credits the quality of their "Kromekote" papers in the credits of his design classic "Visual Design in Action." Champion in turn sponsored an exhibition that opened in Hamilton to accompany publication of the book.

Baden: The German Design Council and Lars Müller Publishers, 1997. Front end-paper has a closed tear along the bottom 2 inches of the hinge, there are a few tiny specks to the top page-edges, and the covers have light rubbing, else near fine in gilt-stamped red cloth.. First Edition. Thick octavo. SIGNED and briefly inscribed by Kalman: "CHAIRS / Tibor Kalman / 12/98 / TIBOR." Published to accompany the Federal Award for Design Leadership, presented in 1997 to Rolf Fehlbaum, CEO of Vitra. Created by Kalman and his design firm M&Co New York, the book is a biographical and design scrapbook; with images from Fehlbaum's life, twentieth-century design, his collaborators, and projects.

Hamilton: Champion Papers, c. 1950s. Near fine in printed wrappers.. First Edition. Pamphlet, stapled. Promotional booklet containing technical specifications, and color paper stock samples. Apparently designed by Ladislav Sutnar using his radically minimal information architecture tools and techniques. Sutnar had along relationship with Champion Papers of Hamilton, Ohio; he credits the quality of their "Kromekote" papers in the credits of his design classic "Visual Design in Action." Champion in turn sponsored an exhibition that opened in Hamilton to accompany publication of the book.

Paris: Comme des Garçons, 1990. Several creases visible on sheet showing map of Paris, else near fine in a printed and non-circulated mailing envelope. Scarce.. First Edition. Invitation, four pieces in original mailing envelope. Elaborately produced invitation to the Comme des Garçons Homme Plus show, held on Friday, 2 February, 1990 at 7pm at the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. The invitation includes a map showing directions to the show from various points in Paris, as well as a folder printed with highlights from Rei Kawakubo's career. Attractive ephemera from Comme's notable history of unusual and minimalist print design.

Bloomington: McKnight & McKnight Publishing Company, 1956. A light scratch across the face of the printed boards, else near fine, no jacket, presumably as issued.. First Edition. Small quarto. Charming "do-it-yourself" instructions for building Eames-like mid-century modern furniture. illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and diagrams. Eccentric and pleasing book. Possibly intended as a high school shop class manual.

Hannover: Edition Copie, 1982. Very faint foxing to pages and light soling to the covers, else near fine in illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Octavo. Lamps and lighting fixtures designed by the Italian design collective UFO member Lapo Binazzi between 1973 and 1981. Illustrated with photographs and sketches in color and black and white.

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1925. Near fine in a very good jacket, complete, with a little wear at the spine ends and edges, and a few small tape repairs at the verso. Scarce in jacket.. Thirty-third edition, 1925. With 47 fold-out maps and 50 printed maps.

New York: Bell Systems, c. early 1960s. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Thin quarto, stapled. Sixteen page publication from Bell Systems designed by Ladislav Sutnar demonstrating various layout and typographic standards for display of the newly developed area code on business letterhead.

[Lexington]: IBM, [1957]. Inked sheets retain carbon and odor, gathered in very good card chemise with a few light creases. Opening tab does not close and has a small abrasion.. Quarto sheets in folder. Unused carbon paper in folder by Paul Rand. Sheets enclosed decorated with alternate wagon wheel arrangement of IBM logo. Rand's colorized version of the three letter IBM logo suggests the information permutations available even in simple arrangements. Though a mechanical tool, IBM carbon paper link the analogue and digital eras of repetitive computational information in business and culture.

Torino: Pressa la Casa Editrice Chiantore di Torino, 1949. Rear hinge split with a small divot to the rear spine gutter (not affecting pages), front hinge has a smaller split, foxed at top edge; a very good copy (binding is tight) in an almost very good jacket, worn but complete, with the publisher's bellyband (worn).. First Edition. Large quarto. Text in Italian. Mollino's important survey of photography from its inception to the date of publication, including reproductions of his own work, and photographs by Man Ray, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, and very early Richard Avedon, among others. With 15 tipped-in color plates. This elegantly designed book is widely considered one the best Italian photobooks of the 20th century. Laid in are three original photographs by Mollino, each 7 x 9 1/4 inches, possibly vintage. One of the three images appears in the book on page 224 and is noted as such on the verso; the other two are from the same period.

Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1938. Light bump to the head of the spine, else fine in a fine jacket; rare thus.. First Edition. Octavo. This volume proposes to answer such questions as: "Why is income unequally distributed?" "What determines income?" and "How has the distribution of income changed since 1929?

New York, 1982. A few minor creases, else close to fine; folded as issued.. Folded invitation (13 x 14.5 inches, unfolded). A joyous invitation to Issey Miyake's landmark 1938 Spring/Summer collection show-where he showcased his flowing Plantation line-held on the deck of The Intrepid, the decommissioned WWII-era aircraft carrier that had been converted into a museum the previous year. One side of the invitation features a portrait of Miyake by Tadanori Yokoo, with the verso containing event details, boldly printed to reflective gold foil.

New York: Joe McKenna, 1992. Both issues fine in illustrated wrappers, still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Rare in perfect condition.. First Editions. Folios. Complete run of the legendary 1990s journal Joe's Magazine, compiled and published by Joe McKenna in tribute to the era's most influential figures in fashion and fashion photography. Features contributions by Craig McDean, Juergen Teller, Mario Sorrenti, Paolo Roversi, Steven Meisel, David Sims, and Bruce Weber, among others. One of the most sought after fashion publications of the 1990s.

London: Phaidon, 2000. Light soiling to the covers and bottom page edges, else near fine in pink silk cloth.. First Edition. Thick quarto. SIGNED and briefly inscribed by Bruce Mau in the year of publication to architecture critic Herbert Muschamp: "For Herbert / with thanks / Bruce Mau / N.Y. 14. 11. 2000." Over 600 pages filled with images and writings on design, and Mau's eponymous Bruce Mau Studio.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003. Black cloth boards with minor bumping to corners; near fine. In near fine photo-illustrated jacket.. First Edition. Oblong quarto. An impressive monograph on the designs of George Nakashima, written by his daughter Mira, herself the Creative Director of his Studio following his death. Contents: [276] pages; thoroughly-illustrated after drawings and photographs, mostly color.

Newtonville, MA: International Data Corporation, 1965. Near fine in printed vinyl binder.. First Edition. Quarto sheets in three-ring binder. Advertisement for Honda laid in. Proceedings of an early commercially oriented computer conference, held on November 19th, 1964 in Newtonville, Massachusetts. The notebooks describe a wide range of computer equipment and applications. Speakers included computer science pioneer and antinuclear activist Edmund C. Berkeley, known for having designed "Simon", the first "personal computer" in 1950. In January, 1963, Berkeley was also the first person in print to describe an image as "computer art" upon publishing an image created by Israeli computer scientist Efraim Arazi in the magazine "Computers and Automation". Co-speaker Patrick J. McGovern had begun the EDP Industry & Market Report a year prior in 1964; that publication would eventually morph into both Computer World and PC World, as well as spawning the "For Dummies" book series. McGovern achieved massive… Read More