Los Angeles: Gladys and Gustave Plochere, 1960s. Later printing. Box. With harback publication Licht Reflectance Guide in compartment. Light blue box. Blue leatherette box (4 1/2 x 18 x 6 1/2”) with gilt lettering on cover, imitation leather handle, draw bolt latches and 1448 Color Tone Cards (3 x 5”)..... More
Los Angeles: Gladys and Gustave Plochere, 1980s. Later printing. Box. Black leatherette box (5 x 18 x 6”) with gilt lettering on cover, imitation leather handle, draw bolt latches and 1448 Color Tone Cards (3 x 5”) with 116pp. spiral-bound guide with white lettering on cover warps, and Light Reflectance..... More
Los Angeles: Gladys and Gustave Plochere, 1960s. Later printing. Box. With spiral-bound publication in lid compartment. Light blue box Blue leatherette box (4 1/2 x 17 x 6 1/2”) with gilt lettering on cover, imitation leather handle, draw bolt latches and 1248 Color Tone Cards (3 x 5”) with 116pp..... More
New York: Henry Dreyfuss, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original red-brown cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, protected by modern mylar. Gray endpapers. Title page printed in red and black. Inscribed "For W. A. M. Burden Henry Dreyfuss" on front free endpaper. Burden was a banker, collector..... More
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St. Gallen: Galerie im Erker, 1967. First edition. Softcover. Inscribed "Für Amalie Max Bill 13-5-67" underneath a b/w photograph of Max Bill on inside front cover. Octavo. 48 (4)pp. Original illustrated glossy wraps with black lettering on spine, protected by modern mylar. Exhibition catalog for the first major retrospective exhibition..... More
München: Albert Langen, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 251pp. Original tan cloth with brown lettering on cover and spine, in original dustjacket, protected by modern mylar. Dedicated to E. H. F. Porsche. Cover and typography by Adolf Meyer, Franz Kollmann. Font and typography similar to the Bauhaus book-series. 'Style, seen..... More
Berlin: Verlag des Reichsbundes, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 106pp., (1) 26 plates. Original yellow cloth with black modern typography on cover. Published on behalf of the Reichsbund of German Painters covering the basics of house painting, elaborating on the terminology of aesthetics in craft, examples of spatial design, and..... More
London: Phaidon Press, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Thick octavo (11" x 8-1/2"). 390, (10)pp. Index. White dust jacket, stippled in light yellow, with black lettering on spine, over white blind patterned boards with spine lettered in black. Profusely illustrated with color & black and white photographs of commercial products (basically..... More
London: Phaidon Press, 2011. Hardcover. Quarto. 390 (10)pp. Original textured white buckram with blind-stamped lettering on cover, green on spine, in original texture stiff, glossy dustjacket with green lettering on cover and spine. Light green endpapers. Frontispiece photograph. Title page printed in red and gray. Illustrated half-titles. Profusely illustrated with..... More
New York; California: Henry Dreyfuss, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 2752/4000. Small Folio. 142pp. Original gray illustrated cloth with facsimile signature printed to cover, in original dustjacket with color lithograph on cover; housed in plain cardboard slipcase. Frontispiece lithograph, and two additional lithographs in block, plus lithographic dustjacket. Signed by Tarkay..... More
München: Georg D. W. Callwey, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 23pp. 64 plates (13 1/2 x 9 1/2"). Original three quarter gray cloth portfolio with illustrated paper-covered boards and green and white lettering on cover and spine. This work is part of a series of design and sample collections edited..... More
Göttinge, Germany: Steidl, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto. Unpaginated (168pp). Eight page catalog of photos included laid in. Original color photo-illustrated boards with black lettering on citrus color spine; housed in citrus color stiff wraps slipcase with red lettering. Signed "Lars Tunbjörk" on back cover of slipcase. Designed by..... More
Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln, n/d. Softcover. 4to. 134pp. Original pictorial wraps. Catalogue of the "Wilhelm Wagenfeld; 50 Jahre Mitarbeit in Fabriken" exhibition which was held in 1973 at the Overstolzenhaus in Cologne / Germany by the Kunstgewerbemuseum. Wilhelm Wagenfeld (1900-1990) was an important German industrial designer of the 20th century..... More
Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1916. Hardcover. 8vo. 109 pages of text followed by 20 pages of plates. Sienna cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Some age wear and staining on binding. Water staining near top-edge of pages throughout not affecting text. Minor rippling to pages. Color frontispiece..... More
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, (1967). Hardcover. Small 4to. 212 pp. Blue cloth binding. With b&w and color drawings and photographs. A pictorial professional history of the Austrian graphic designer, painter, photographer and architect. Light edge wear. Spine sunned. Else, in very good condition. More
Culver City, California: Design Studio Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto Oblong. 176pp. Dedicated to Stanley with car drawing and signature on title page. Original photo-illustrated dustjacket over illustrated paper-covered boards with white lettering on cover. Red endpapers. "in this pursuit, I taught myself how to use several 3D modeling..... More
London: Gibbings and Company, Inc., 1910. Third edition. Hardcover. Sm. folio. xii. 59pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Beveled edges. Head and tail of spine bumped. Head of spine slightly frayed. Corners bumped and rubbed. Scuffing, staining and discoloration to boards. Rear of title page taped to page..... More
New York: Da Capo Press, 1977. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. vii, 42 pp. Gray cloth with black lettering on front cover and spine. Work is filled with 92 plates portraying multiple b/w facsimile photographs of innovative examples of interior design and architecture. Some minor bumping and age wear to head and..... More
Brakel, Germany: Franz Schneider, (1991). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 96pp. Original illustrated paper-covered boards. Work on the history of European door handle designs in modernism. Contains designs by Walter Gropius, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Max Burchartz, Arne Jacobsen, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg and others. Text in German. Some scuffing and staining on..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11" x 9"). 192pp. Index. Printed on glossy paper. Black dust jacket lettered in yellow, over black cloth lettered in yellow. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs and architectural floor plans. Half-title a bit foxed and pastedowns somewhat..... More
The Hague: Stichting Holland in vorm, 1987. First American edition. softcover. Square Quarto. 296 pp. Original color photo-illustrated wrappers. Great catalog survey of Dutch interior and industrial design. Abundant b/w and color photographs. Text in English. Wrappers lightly rubbed and bumped at edges, handwriting indentation on cover. Wrappers in overall..... More
Hanover: The Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2000. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 28pp. Original pictorial, stapled wraps as issued. Exhibition catalog. Illustrated with b/w photographs of works in clay, wood, blown glass, silver, paper and other material by 18 artists. Includes checklist of the exhibition at rear. Very good condition. More