Search Results: Fashion from William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA

Salmon cloth. Red morocco label with gilt particulars to spine. Card with title and publisher affixed to front fly. 100 nicely hand-colored sur blanc lithographed plates; all individually hinged. Some pages trimmed, in some instances affecting bottom line of text. A very nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; Large 8vo; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

Original hand-painted print from The Royal Game of Golf with printed artist's signature to bottom left; publisher's circular blind stamp to bottom right corner, which indicates this an originally hand-painted print published 1901. Royal coat of arms of Queen Victoria, put into use in 1837, to top right corner. Print depicts a woman in a rose print dress with a floral bonnet and holding a gold club by a golf ball. Light spotting and toning throughout, as well as light foxing to subject's face (see image). Framed in silver coated wooden frame. Frame: 21 x 29.75; Window: 13 x 21.75 inches.

Cellulose inset cover medallion of Bernhardt as La Princesse Lointaine (after Mucha) enveloped by poppies on wood-veneered boards. Twenty-eight fin-de-siecle celebrities, each in photograph (by Nadar, Boyer, et al.) surrounded by colored art nouveau motifs (by Habert-Dys, Orazi and Fraikin) and facsimiles of autographed script. Included are Victorien Sardou, Sarah Bernhardt, François Coppée, Mme Edmond Adam, Anatole France, Mme la Duchesse D'Uzès, Jules Lemaître, Mme Réjane, Jules Claretie, Mme Segond-Weber, Jean Richepin, Marthe Brandès, Coquelin aîné, Jeanne Granier, Jules Massenet, Aïno Ackté, Mounet-Sully, Jane Hading, J-L.Gérôme, Jane Hatto, Antonin Mercié, Marie Delna, Luc-Olivier Merson, Sibyl-Sanderson, F.-A. Bartholdi, Carrère-Xanrof, Alfred Capus & Ranavalo Manjaka III (the ex-queen of Madagascar). Also contains fourteen stunning hors-texte chromolithographed Leonetto Cappiello caricatures of Sarah Bernhardt, Francois Coppee, Jules Lemaitre, Madame Rejane,… Read More

6 issues total. All in original paper wraps. Color illustrations, photography, and fabric samples throughout each issue. Contents include topics such as: Fabric in the Strato-Age, Women in Industry: Stephanie Cartwright, The Main Points About Wash and Wear, The Story of Kanebo, Where Certain Fabrics Got Their Names, Evan-Picone: Skirtmaker to Millions, David Evins... Philosopher of Footwear, Cross-Linked Cellulosics, Weaving: 10,000 Years Ago and Today, How to Set-up a Piece-Goods Department, Textiles in Israel, Chemistry Finds a New Acrylic, and many more. No. 42, Spring 1958: Creasing to top exterior corner of paper wraps. No. 43, Summer 1958: light soiling to paper wraps. No. 44, Fall 1958: light abrasions to back cover. No. 45, Winter 1958-59: light abrasions and soiling to paper wraps, and crease to exterior corner of back cover. No. 46, Spring 1959: crease to bottom exterior corners and light soiling of paper wraps. No. 47, Fall 1959: crease to bottom edge of back wrap, and large crease to right… Read More

5 issues total. All in original paper wraps. Color illustrations, photography, and fabric samples throughout each issue. Contents include topics such as: African Textile Design, Behind the Scenes at the House of Ricci, Man Made Furs, The Weavings of Sheila Hicks, Inspiration from India's Handlooms, Jacqueline Kennedy and the American Image, Walter Hoving on Aesthetics in Business,Fashion Fabrics from the Altiplano, Andrew Sokol: "Where Do We Go From Here," Zefkrome--Dow's "Producer Colored" Acrylic, and many more. No. 52, Spring 1961: creases to exterior corners of front wrap and light abrasions and soiling to wraps. No. 53, Summer 1961: crease to right edge of front wrap and light abrasions and soiling to wraps. No. 54, Fall 1961: paper wrap disconnected from issue, and denting and creases to bottom exterior corner. Light soiling to wraps. No. 55, Winter 1961-62: paper wrap disconnected from issue, and light abrasions to wraps. No. 56, Spring-Summer 1962: creases at bottom edge of front wrap, and 1/2… Read More

Wraps. Quarto; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

xliii, 292, [xvi], 156, [12] pages; 29 engraved plates (some folding) in addition to engraved titles. 3.75 x 6.5 inches; 10 x 16.5 cm

Hot pink cloth with accompanying dustjacket. A nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. Please expect the possibility of additional postage as this is a heavy book.
11 x 14.5 in

Cartier logo to front cover. An accompanying brochure and letter from the brand gifting the catalog to a client is included. No previous owners' names or other markings.

Original Barbier pochoir of Casanova with a mask in his hand adorned in floral attire from Panorama Dramatique. Casanova Décors et Costumes. Printed with white, red, pink, blue, orange, and grey colors. Pink trim surrounds image. Dated in print, 1918. Wooden frame with gilt front. Frame: 14.75 x 16.75 inches; Window: 7 x 8.25 inches.

Original Barbier pochoir of Casanova with a parrot on his hand adorned in floriated attire. Pochoir from Panorama Dramatique in white, red, pink, blue, orange, black, silver, gold, brown and grey. Pink trim surrounds image. Dated 1918. Recent beveled gilt fronted wooden frame. Frame: 14.75 x 16.75 inches; Window: 7 x 8.25 inches.

Black paper covered boards with accompanying dust jacket. A nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. Scarce. 5 x 6.75 in

Two separate works uniformly bound in full red morocco. Professionally recased about eighty years ago. Large paper editions of the first editions, not to be compared to the many reissues in smaller format. 13 x 16 inches (33 x 41 cm). Volume I (1815) published by Havell, Tooley 326, colored frontispiece and 24 tissue-guarded aquatints . Volume II (1814) Tooley 457, colored frontispiece and 60 colored aquatints (sans tissues). Plates 6, 30, 34 and 49 are in the second state and "are the best issue, being superior both in drawing and engraving." (Tooley, p. 366) This volume has several of the text pages inexplicably inserted as though they were extra illustrations.

W. Elgar 1796 watermarked text. Deaccessioned from (uncirculating) library, with minimal markings (none external), none of which affect the plates or their margins. Half green morocco, marbled boards, ruled hubs. 73 nicely hand-colored lithographed plates.; Folio; Additional images and further information provided upon request. ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

Beautifully (& sturdily) bound in half gilt ruled brown morocco over rust pebbled boards. Gilt ruled and foliated spines. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Armoreal bookplate of Welshman Sir Llewellyn Turner to front pastedowns. Three volumes; 80 engraved plates, 71 of which are hand-colored; 27 hand-colored historiated initials. 20, lxxvii, 206; 297; 147, [134] Folio: 11 1/2 x 17 5/8 inches ; All shipments through insured Priority Mail.

Half red grain morocco over blue marbled boards with gilt decoration and particulars to spine. Five raised bands; top edge gilt, other deckle; marbled endpapers. Edition de Luxe limited to 1000 copies, of which this is 328. Hand-colored frontispiece with original tissue guard. Four additional black-and-white illustrations. Publisher's watermark, three stars and three circles in a cartouche topped by a fleur de lis, to all pages. No previous owners' names or other markings.6.25 x 9 inches.

Fashion look book photographed by Lindbergh for DKNY. Includes both color and black and white photography throughout. Light wear to edges (see image). Unpaginated. 10 x 14 inches.

Original Barbier pochoir of a magnificent African in festive attire. Pochoir in black, gold, blue, red, pink, green, yellow, silver, purple and orange. Pink trim surrounds image. Dated in print, 1918. Archival wooden frame with gilt to front.

Paper covered boards taped to spine. Deckle edges.; 307 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

Original Barbier pochoir of a man in formal attire holding a hat from Panorama Dramatique. Printed with black, gold, green, red, pink, light blue, grey, purple, white and colors. Pink trim surrounds image. Dated in print, 1918. Circa 1990 archival frame. Frame: 14.75 x 16.75 inches; Window: 7 x 8.25 inches.