Search Results: Titles starting with K from Design Books

Prague: Neubert a Synove , 1946. This is an about very good softcover copy of the first edition with just some wear to the covers. The covers and spine slightly stained (the tan stain goes around the spine from front to back. Inside very clean. Illustrated with black & white photogravure photographs of Prague just after liberation. Photographs by a dozen Czech photographers including J.Harvana, M.Hasi, E.Jiru, L.Kanderala, J.Otty, J.Pacovskeho, V.Steky among others. 11" high X 8" wide, about 60 pages. Photographs on every page, not much text. Text in Czech. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Tokyo: Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, 2015. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Text in English and Japanese. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Tokyo from June 27 to September 6, 2015. The exhibition explored the relationship between Kyosai (1831- 1889) and Josiah Condor (1852- 1920). Josiah Condor was a British architect who was hired by the Meiji Japanese government as a professor of architecture for the Imperial College of Engineering and became architect of Japan's Public Works. He was a controversial figure in Japan because his teaching involved instructing young Japanese architects about the architecture in England and Europe. He was a prolific lecturer and author. One of his most important books in the west was "Landscape Gardening in Japan" (1893). Kyosai was also a controversial figure in Japan and ran afoul of the authorities many times. Kyosai is considered by many to be the… Read More

Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1966. This is a fine hardcover copy with a near fine dust jacket and like slipcase. No toning to the jacket or the pale red printed label on the slipcase. Completely clean. Stated first printing. Illustrated mostly in color with drawings of Kabuki costumes and accessories. Bibliography. 11" high X 8" wide, 396 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

London: Teak House, 1997. This is a fine hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket. The jacket has a few small indentations on the front cover, the jacket paper is heavy stock, so no tears. Completely clean inside and out. Illustrated throughout in color. 12" high X 8" wide, 258 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Tokyo: Santori Bijutsukan, 1992. This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Just a few small marks on the front cover from light brown ink used by previous owner a calligrapher (see photo). Otherwise completely clean. Text all in JAPANESE. [Painters of Kaga and Noto : Haku, Morikage, Soyuki, etc.]. Illustrated mainly in black & white + 16 color plates. 11" high X 8" wide, 80 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Japan: The Kahitsu Press , 1981. These are very good softcover copies, 2 volumes, offered as a set. Both volumes completely clean inside and out. The English volume has a page with several creases in the lower corner. One volume has English text and the other volume has Japanese text only. The English text volume has translations of the essays by Michiaki Kawakita, Takeshi Umehara, Teiji Ito, and Yoshitomo Kajikawa. Illustrated with 1 small tipped-in color plate. The Japanese text volume has the same essays in Japanese and 48 black & white illustrations + 8 architectural plans and elevations of the Kahitsukan Museum. This museum, in Kyoto, is very much the creation of one man: Yoshitomo Kajikawa. He conceived of it, then set about designing and building it, and became its director. The building currently houses several cultural institutions. 13" high X 10" wide, 35 & 107 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Tokyo: The National Museum of Modern Art, 2008. This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in English and Japanese. This retrospective is a centennial commemoration of the birth of one of Japan's best loved artists. It was held in the spring of 2008 at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. It presents about 100 paintings, 50 sketches and studies and examples of screen painting in several settings. Illustrated throughout in color with some black & white, including fold-outs. Chronology. Essays by Masaaki Ozaki, Kaori Tsurumi, and Yoko Ito. 12" high X 9" wide, 257 pages.This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2007. This is a very good hardcover copy in green cloth with gilt titles with almost no wear, just a few scuffs on the back cover. No dust jacket as issued. This is the second and concluding volume on the Kalenderhane Camii. (The first volume was published in 1997). Completely clean inside and out. 26 black & white plates + 104 figures in the text. Edited by Cecil L. Striker and Y. Dogan Kuban. Essays by Judith Herrin, Ayyuz Toydemir, Gul Sismanoglu, Michael F. Hendy, John w. Nesbitt, Ibrahim Artuk, Urs Peschlow, J. Lawrence Angel, Sara C. Bisel and Page Selinsky. Folio, 14" high X 10" wide, 387 text pages + plates. A beautiful copy. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and sent with tracking.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1989. This is a very good hardcover copy with almost no wear. Light offsetting to front endpaper. Otherwise completely clean inside and out. Text in Russian only. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Tretyakov Gallery. Illustrated in color with over 100 color plates + many black & white ills. + many vintage photographs of Kandinsky and family, colleagues, etc. The exhibition included paintings, drawings, graphic arts and decorative arts. Bibliography. 11" high X 8" wide, 271 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

Hong Kong: Christie's, 1999. This is a very good hardcover copy with almost no wear. Slight bump to top left corner of the cover. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Christie's in Hong Kong on November 2, 1999. The sale consisted of the Robert Chang Collection of Imperial Wares. Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong wares. Essay (10 pages) by Rosemary Scott. Text in English and Chinese. 30 lots in the sale. All illustrated with full-page color plates and with extensive notes. Fold-outs. Prices realized sheet included. 11" high X 8" wide, 112 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and sent with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

Kyoto National Museum, 2007. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Text mainly in JAPANESE, but a preface and List of Works in English. This monograph was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Kyoto National Museum in the fall of 2007. Kano Eitoku (1453- 1590) was a Momoyama period painter. Illustrated throughout in color with a number of fold-outs. 12" high X 9" wide, 314 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Fine.

New York: Abbeville Press, 1980. This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket. The top edge of the front board is tanned, there is a short closed tear to the spine of the dust jacket, and the last few text pages have bent corners. Overall very good. Foreword by Marshall McLuhan. Essay by Jean-Clarence Lambert. Translated from the French by Kenneth White. 252 mostly color plates. Chronology. Exhibition history. Bibliography. 15" high X 12" wide, 255 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Prague: Privately Printed, 2003. This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean, Essay by Richard Drury. Illustrated in black & white and some color with a vellum fold-out. The images are of the ghostly dresses Karen Lamonte makes, and a few mirrors. Biographical sketch. Bibliography. 10" high X 8" wide, 33 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Berlin: Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft , 1940. This is a very good hardcover copy with light wear. Completely clean inside and out, no foxing or other marks. The spine tips are worn. The title letters in black on the spine are a bit faded but all there. Text in GERMAN. Standard monograph on the German painter Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen (1798 - 1840) (sometimes Karl Blechen) was a German landscape painter and a Professor at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Preface by Dr. Paul Ortwin Rave. Four tipped-in color plates + hundreds of black & white illustrations. Concordance. 13" high X 10" wide, 540 pages. Large very heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

Berlin, Germany: Kunsthandel Jorg Maass, 2008. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. Text in GERMAN. Three page essay by Gerd Presler and a plate list for the illus. The Niemeyer Collection of woodcuts by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff are all black images on tan sheets. 37 are illiustrated in the catalog. Also included is the large folded poster for the Basel Art Fair in 2008. The poster is 23" high X 33" wide, and is printed on both sides with almost 200 more images of woodcuts in the Niemeyer Collection. The catalog is 8" square, 34 pages. This book and poster will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Fine.

Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz / Weinand, , 2015. This is a fine hardcover copy without dust jacket, as issued, with no wear at all. Completely clean. Text in ENGLISH. (This is not the German text volume). This monograph was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz from December 13, 2015 to April 10, 2016. Catalogue edited by Ingrid Mossinger. Contributions by Beate Ritter, Jana Bille, Detlef Goschel, Kerstin Drechsel, Anette Kindler, Cornelius Krell, Katharina Metz, and Liane Sachs. Illustrated in color and black & white. Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide, 288 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Fine.

Koln: J.M.Heberle, 1891. This is a very good hardcover copy in green cloth with title in gilt to the spine. De-accessioned from a small German museum, it has two small bookplates: one from the museum, the other from a subsequent private collector, also German bookseller tickets and stamps. Patterned endpapers. Very clean inside and out but a few closed tears to the front free endpaper and a small chip of the endpaper missing on the bottom corner, front and back hinges strengthened. Text in German. Introduction in German, English and French. Two color plates + illustrations in black & white. A sale catalog of stained glass. 550 lots in the sale. This is one volume, complete in itself, of this sale, which included ceramics in a second part and medals and books in a third part. 12" high X 9" wide, 69 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Hamburg: Museum Fur Kunst Und Gewerbe, 1960. This is a near fine hardcover copy in blue cloth with gilt title printed on the spine. Completely clean inside and out. Text in German. This is a museum handbook of the holdings of the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe's collection of decorative arts prints and books of designs for decorative arts objects and architecture. Covers these countries: Germany, France, England, the Netherlands, & Italy. From the 16th to the 19th centuries. 724 works listed by century and by country. List of artists. Bibliography. 32 black & white plates. 4to, 10" high X 6" wide, 148 text pages + plate section. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Vienna: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2019. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. Text in German and English. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Neues Museum, Nurnberg from March 22 to June 16, 2019. Catalog edited by Thomas Hensel, Robert Eikmeyer, and Eva Kraus. Illustrated throughout in color. 9" high X 6" wide, 151 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Fine.

Berlin: Jurgen Holstein Antiquariat, 1987. This is an almost very good softcover copy. The opaque vellum dust wrapper is defective, split along the spine. The binding of the catalog itself is split as well, but still holding. Completely clean inside, outside light toning. Text in German. This is catalog 104 devoted to architectural works of art on paper and several books. Each item illustrated, most in color. 11" high X 7" wide. . Soft Cover. Good.