Design / Advertising from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1998. Cloth, ix, 69 pages, illustrations; 20 x 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Walker Evans: Signs traces one particular theme - signs of all kinds - through the long career of this master photographer. The book brings together images from the era and place most… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Press, 2005. 529 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First Edition, First Printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Tatiana du Plessix, the wife of a French diplomat, was a beautiful, sophisticated 'white Russian' who had been the muse of the famous Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Alexander Liberman, the ambitious son of a… Read more about this item

Hollywood, CA: Cherokee Publishing Company, 1966. Pictorial boards, 1 volume, chiefly illustrations; 29 cm. Originally published in 1869 and 1872 under title: Specimens of show printing. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to boards, with wear to edges and hinges. Clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Contains ca. 500 designs.. Hardcover. Good/No DJ.… Read more about this item

New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 310 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "We live in a commercial age, awash in a sea of brand names and advertising jingles. Twichell takes a witty and unflinching look at our commercial culture, and concludes that consumerism holds… Read more about this item

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018. Pictorial boards, 287 pages, colour illustrations; 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "As long as there have been movies, there have been posters selling films to audiences. Posters came into existence just decades before the inception of film, and as movies… Read more about this item

London and New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2009. 176 pages, illustrations; 18 cm. Tight, clean copy. "One of the most influential art collectors of our time and founder of the global advertising agency, Charles Saatchi, answers questions about art, collecting and his personal life." - Publisher. . 1st. Paperback. Fine. 12mo. Collectible.

Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2010. viii, 435 pages, [32] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. The authors have drawn on a treasure of unknown papers to write this biography of Albert Davis Lasker. Lasker helped invent 'reason why' advertising, market… Read more about this item

London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1995. 207 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "This publication contains an exploration of contemporary trends in typography and design, and consists of over 200 examples from combinations of raw typography and organic fonts." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1996. Cloth, 192 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First printing. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. " Garbo, Gable, Tracy, Hepburn, Astaire and Rogers lead the parade of… Read more about this item

New York: Warner Books, 1976. 79 pages, colour illustrations; 28 x 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate edgewear to wraps, expected browning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

London: Laurence King Publishers, 2012. 216 pages, colour illustrations; 27 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "This book demonstrates how ideas influenced and defined graphic design, and how those ideas have manifested themselves in objects of design. The aim of this book is to determine, define,… Read more about this item

New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1993. Cloth, 112 pages, colour illustrations; 38 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio.

Cincinnati: North Light Books, 1986. Cloth, 192 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Printing. Fine DJ. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1998. Cloth, xi, 306 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dogeared a couple of times, age toning. Fine DJ. Another copy available. A quasi-Marxist examination of advertising and business as examples of commodity fetishism. Quite a good book, with a hstorical focus. "A provocative, compelling, and entertaining look at how the… Read more about this item

New York: Basic Books; Perseus, 2000. xxvii, 320 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Americans have a long history of public arguments about taste, the uses of leisure, and what is culturally appropriate in a democracy that has a strong work ethic. Michael Kammen surveys these debates as well as our changing taste preferences, especially in the past century,… Read more about this item

New York: Bonanza Books, 1959. 181 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket toned. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. xxii, 285 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. CONTENTS: Wicked problems in design thinking, by Richard Buchanan; Avatars of design: design before design, by Yves Deforge; Moholy-Nagy's design pedagogy in Chicago (1937-1946), by Alain Findeli; Graphic design: fine art or social science?, by Jorge Frascara; The future isn't what it used to… Read more about this item

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1973. 173 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Clip-Art book unused & intact. Verified upon shipping. "Largest, most varied collection from first-rate sources includes all styles: Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Classical, Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, chinoiserie, etc. Simple, ornate, picture-frame, typographical, round, square, eccentric motifs perfect… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000. 127 pages, colour illustrations, colour maps; 21 x 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "The early part of the 20th century saw a boom in American vacationing. Passenger trains were swift and affordable, air travel was coming into view, and the Model T was swiftly selling to millions of average Joes and Janes. Eager… Read more about this item

Secaucus, NJ: Wellfleet Press, 1990. Cloth, 144 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Tips mildly bumped. Age toning. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.