London: Gibbings And Company, 1909. Hardcover. 8vo. xxi. 316pp. Gilt decorated green cloth with gilt decorated spine. Head and tail of spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Frontispiece. A beautiful book on Keramics by William Chaffers. Contents of this book were selected from his larger work, entitled "The Keramic... More
NP, n/d. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Sm. folio. 1) (1re Serie). Paris. 1898. Librairie des Arts Decoratifs & Industriels. 6 pages of text and 60 loose plates in blue cloth portfolio with ties and cover plate. Gilt lettering to spine. "Album con tenant 60 planches en couleurs fac-simile d'aquarelles. 200 Modeles... More
Paris: Société par Actions Simplifée, n/d. Softcover. 9 unused postcards bound in illustrated wrappers. One postcard loose. Each card with a color reproduction of a photograph by German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld of a model in sportswear. Lagerfeld is also the head designer and creative director for Chanel. Text on... More
Paris: Editions Lucien Vogel, 1921-1922. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 238pp. Uncut. Loose pages and plates, as issued. Original decorative paper portfolios. Exquisite series of this exclusive french periodical publishing poetry, literature, screenplays, musical compositions, original prints and pochoirs, and intended to reflect the literary and artistic taste of the 1920s... More
New York: Rizzoli, 1991. First American edition. Hardcover. Folio. 190, [2]pp. Original pictorial wrappers over black cloth, with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Fascinating account of a project born after 4 years of bitter occupation. In an attempt to exorcise the recent past, to begin once again to... More
(New York): Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, (2002). Dale Chihuly. Second revised. Hardcover. 4to. 372 pp. Black cloth binding with illustrated dj. With 302 illustrations, 248 in full color.This is the second, revised and expanded edition, and is the most complete of any edition now available. 24,000 copies of this... More
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Köln: Taschen, 2007. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/2000. Elephant folio (19 x 14 1/2"). 733, [3]pp. Original setalux cloth with six-color silkscreen printing. Limitation page signed by Valentino Garavani. This splendid collector's edition is housed in an elegant clamshell box finished in silk cloth, especially tinted in Valentino red. Box... More
Trumbull, CT: Weatherhill, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 156, [4]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over tan cloth, with red lettering on spine and front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Photo-illustrated title page. This remarkable work is a comprehensive study of the Tibetan rug-making tradition. The first part deals with the description and explanation... More
Paris: Les Éditions Nomis, 1949. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/1500. Folio (12 1/2 x 10"). [6], 227, [5]pp (Text vol.); [4], 140pp (Plate vol.). Original yellow cloth, with a medallion-shaped color illustration pasted to each front cover. Black lettering to spines and front boards. Dark blue lettering to each title... More
Stuttgart: Verlag für Vaterländische Kunst Gesellschaft, ca. 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio (16 3/4 x 11"). Elaborate gold-and brown stamped full vellum with metal clasps. Front cover with gold-embossed illustration of a dagger within double-brown border. Outer margins of front board with continuous lettering inside brown border: "Das eiserne... More
London: V&A Publications, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 128pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over black cloth, with silver lettering on spine. Pictorial half-title. Color frontispiece. The beautiful jewelry of Nepal, Tibet, and the Himalayas is extraordinarily evocative, with vibrant combinations of gold and silver embellished with turquoise, coral, amber, and pearls... More
New York: The Maple Press, 1947. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/500. ix. 94,15pp. Quarter cloth over pink paper covered boards in original slipcase. Gilt lettering to spine. Lower edge of slipcase torn but holding. Inscribed by author on front endpaper. "I have adopted the alternative course of discussing in some detail... More
London: Bamboo Publishing, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 160pp. Original olive colored photo-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering on front cover and spine. Debossed blind-stamped olive cloth boards, with gilt lettering on spine. This book is a survey of the spectacular varieties of carved Chinese lacquer work, and deals with... More
Paris: Ch. Massin, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. 6, [1] plus 36 b/w plates, resting in original half cloth over decorative printed paper covered boards portfolio. String ties. Fascinating work on the Modern style in interior design. Heavy abrasion and staining on portfolio with spine rubbed and partly detached. Bottom right... More
Paris: Editions D'Art Charles Moreau, [ca. 1925]. Hardcover. Folio. [2] pp. 32 plates in photogravure (1-3 per plate). Later half-leather red leather binding with gold lettering on spine. Corners and upper edge of spine bumped, lower edge torn. Marble endpapers. Artistic iron workmanship in the 1920s art nouveau and art... More
Paris: Massin, n.d. Hardcover. Portfolio. 6pp. of introduction, followed by 36 loose full-page b/w plates, as issued. 1/2 green cloth over illustrated gray paper covered boards with title-paste-on. 3 green strings. Illustrated title page. Work on the Modern Style in interior design. Magnificently illustrated with 36 full-page semitone photogravure. Very... More
Paris: Editions d'Art Charles Moreau, ND (ca 1930). First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 4pp (Title and Introduction), 32 loose leaves (Plates), as issued. Original quarter cloth over printed paper covered boards. String ties. Title in green and grey lettering. This remarkable work is a pictorial survey of French Art Deco ironworks... More
Great Britain: New Cavendish Books, 1982. First UK edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 256pp. Grey and red illustrated cardboard illustrated slipcase with white and black lettering on covers, white lettering on spine. Grey decorated cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Photo illustrated frontispiece. Beginning with an interview with... More
Milan: Franco Maria Ricci, 1982. Limited First Italian edition. Hardcover. 1/6000. Folio. 219, [5]pp. Original black moire cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, and color illustration pasted to front board. Decorative endpapers. Book housed in its original black cloth slipcase, with printed title pasted on spine. This... More
London: Philip Wilson Publishers Limited, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 551pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering on the front cover and spine. Blue buckram boards with blind-stamped roundel decorative motif on the front cover, and white lettering on the spine. Illustrated endpapers. Blue ribbon marker. A magnificent look "into... More
San Francisco: Sotheby's Publications - The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 275, [1]pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Color frontispiece. Title page inscribed and signed by Caroline McCoy Jones and Cathryn M. Cootner. This magnificent book is the... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978. Third printing. Hardcover. Folio. XX, 373, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over red cloth with gold and black lettering on spine. This remarkable work approaches the study of Indian costumes in two ways. First it examines the general history of the costume, the tools and... More
Los Angeles: Getty Trust Publications: Getty Conservation Institute, 1998. Softcover. 4to. 225pp. Pictorial wrappers with white lettering to wrappers and spine. Corners slightly rubbed. Very minor scuffing to wrappers. Blue endpapers. Great work on conservation of historic windows. Delightfully illustrated with many b/w and color photographs. In Spanish. In near... More
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1974. First American edition. Hardcover. Oblong octavo. 143, [1]pp. Original photographic dust-jacket over photographic paper covered boards. Frontispiece. This remarkable work is the perfect introduction for everyone interested in quality ceramic craftsmanship. It is profusely illustrated with 7 tipped-in color plates and numerous b/w... More
New York: Clarkson Potter, 1996. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto. XXIV, 192pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over decorative paper covered boards, with white lettering on spine. As she has in her previous books, "Ndebele: The Art of an African Tribe" and "African Canvas: The Art of West African Women," Margaret Courtney-Clarke turns... More