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Associazione per il Disegno Industriale
XV Premio Compasso d'Oro, Comune di Milano, ADI
This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and just light soil outside. Text in Italian and English. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Late 1980's design including furniture, tableware, glass, silver, fabrics and textiles, etc. 9" high X 8" wide, 157 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Rand, Paul
From Lascaux to Brooklyn (Korean edition)
This is a fine hardcover copy in a near fine dust jacket with almost no wear. A small soft crease to the back panel of the jacket at the lower edge, near the spine. Text entirely in KOREAN. This is the Korean edition of Paul Rand's book From Lascaux to Brooklyn. Possibly later printing? Illustrated throughout in color and black & white. 10" high X 7" wide, 186 pages. A beautiful copy. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Barnouw, Erik; Gerbner, George; Schramm, Wilbur; Worth, Tobias L. & Gross, Larry
International Encyclopedia of Communications, Volumes 1 - 4
This is a fine 4 volume set with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Massive reference, it contains 569 signed articles by over 450 authors on animal communication, journalism, mass media, language, linguistics, and speech, nonverbal communication, social issues & performing arts. Specialized articles on the avant-garde, early computers designs, book technology and graphic design. Fascinating and informative reference. Illustrated throughout in black & white with over 1000 reproductions of photographs, documents, artifacts, etc. 11" high X 9" wide, 462, 506, 490 and 455 pages. A beautiful set. Heavy item, foreign shipping extra. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Ladd-Franklin, Christine
Colour and Colour Theories
This is a good hardcover copy in the original dark green cloth binding. Spine title faded. Some wear to top of spine. Completely clean inside. 8 color plates. 8" high X 6" wide, 287 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Madsen, Stephan Tschudi
Sources of Art Nouveau
This is a very good softcover copy of the elusive first edition of this classic reference work. Covers lightly and evenly toned, one short closed tear to front cover lower edge. Completely clean inside. Superior to the reprints. 264 black & white photographic plates. Bibliography. 10" high X 8" wide, 488 pages.
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Duchartre, Pierre-Louis
La Commedia Dell'arte et Ses Enfants
This is a very good hardcover copy in a clear mylar wrapper. The book is very clean inside, except for a short name on the front endpaper. Text in French. 9 tipped in color plates + black & white photographs or reproductions of prints and drawings on almost every page. Bibliography. 11" high X 8" wide, 291 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and sent with tracking.
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Tajan
Collection d'un Amateur. Arts Decoratifs du 20e Siecle
This is a very good softcover copy with just some wear to the lower corner of the front cover, otherwise fine. Completely clean inside and out. Text in French and English. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Tajan in Paris on November 19, 2003. The sale consisted of a fabulous collection of French 'neo-classical' style furntiure and decorative arts assembled privately in Paris. Essays by Felix Marcilhac and Francois Tajan. Several short essays on the designers. 144 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. A number of color photographs of the original room settings of this great collection. Prices realized sheets included. 11" high X 8" wide, 161 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Bauer, Alois
Alois Bauer
This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in German and English. Brief preface by Romana Ring. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition of Alois Bauer (1948 - ) in 2003. Illustrated throughout in black & white with dozens of photographs of Bauer's jewelery and sculpture. 12" high X 9" wide, about 80 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
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Sipek, Boris
Borek Sipek: Mamince
This is a fine hardcover copy with no wear at all in a folding tan slipcase with title label on spine. This is an artist's book. It has numerous blank pages in addition to pages with photographs of Sipek's work. Signed and numbered on the colophon in ink by Borek Sipek. Short text in English. Borek Sípek (born 1949) is a prominent Czech architect and designer. Born in Prague, Borek Sípek is renowned for his individual, unusual, colorful and rich style. He experiments with unexpected and often opulent shapes. White silk pagemarks present. 12" high X 7" wide, 495 pages. A beautiful signed copy. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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David Rago
Craftsman Auction Weekend March 11, 2007
This is a very good softcover copy with just some wear to the spine. Massive auction catalog for a sale held at David Rago Arts and Auction Center on March 11, 2007. The sale featured the furniture that Gustav Stickley designed ca. 1901 for the Vancroft Estate, owned by Joseph B. Vandergrift in the hills of West Virginia. 35 lots of Stickley furniture from this estate. Vintage black & white photographs of Vancroft interiors. 1154 lots in the complete sale. All illustrated in color. Prices realized sheets included. 11" high X 8" wide, 328 pages.
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Nash, Jorgen and Lis Zwick et al
Visuel retorik : drakabygget plakater 1960 - 2004
This is a near fine hardcover copy in red illustrated boards with virtually no wear. Text in Danish. Study of Jorgen Nash's posters from 1960 to 2004. Illustrated throughout in color. 12" high X 10" wide, 163 pages. A beautiful copy. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Friedman, William
20th Century Design: U.S.A.
This is a very good softcover copy with light wear. Covers toned around the edges. Completely clean inside. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, which then travelled to seven more museums in 1959-60. Nearly 1100 items documented with title, designer, maker, cost, materials, etc. Illustrated in black & white. 154 black & white photographs, most with a number of objects in them. All objects makers and materials identified in the checklist. A great catalog of mid 20th century American design. 11" high X 8" wide, 95 pages.
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Sotheby's
Ceramics and Glass By 20th Century Artists and Studio Potters
This is a very good softcover copy with only light wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby's London on October 26, 1989. Sale code: "COLOMBE". The sale consisted of ceramics by Picasso, Vlaminck, Jais Nielsen, Andre Masson, Georges Rouault, Raoul Dufy, Miro, Cocteau, and Jean Lurcat. The section on British ceramics had work by Quentin Bell, Philip Sutton, Graham Sutherland, Bernard Leach, William Staite Murray, Michael Cardew, David Frith, David Leach, Geoffrey Swindell, John Ward, Lucie Rie and Hans Coper among others. A brief section of the sale was devoted to 20th century art glass from Scandinavia and Italy. All lots illustrated, most in color. Price estimates but no prices realized sheets. 11" high X 8" wide, 89 pages.
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Herdeg, Walter
Art in the Watermark / Kunst im Wasserzeichen / L'Art du Filigrane
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with some wear around the edges. Completely clean inside and out. Text in English, German and French. 363 black line drawings, facsimiles of old watermarks. 10" high X 8" wide, 103 pages.
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Maragall, Pasqual
Els Vitralls Cloisonne de Barcelona
This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Two previous ownership marks on the inside front cover and title-page, otherwise completely clean throughout. One of the marks is a small bookplate of a well known American stained glass craftsman, the other mark is a small neat handstamp from the American Craft Information Center. Text in Catalan, Spanish, French, German and English. Illustrated in color throughout with 20 color photographs of art nouveau window designs executed in cloisonne (enamel) by Francisco Vidal, a master craftsman of this difficult and demanding technique. Also 22 black & white photographs of other decorative arts objects using this technique of cloisonne. Also 17 color photographs showing craftsmen appling the enamel to a copper lamp. 11" high X 8" wide, about 70 pages.
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Herman Miller
Tables and Furniture. Action Office Series 1 and Series 2 Tables, Etc.
This is a very good softcover copy with some wear. Completely clean inside and out (one short series of numbers faintly in ink on front cover), and two pages creased a little from paper clips, otherwise fine. This catalog was published in August 2000 and shows prices effective from August 28, 2000. The catalog is titled 'Tables and Furniture Action Office Series 1 and Series 2 Tables, Arrio Freestanding Tables, Burdick Group Furniture, CLT Tables, Eames Tables, Height-Adjustable Tables, Kiva Collection, Levity Tables, Occasional Tables, and Teardrop Table'. Prices, maesurements and specifications. All furniture simply reproduced in line drawings, no photographs. 11" high X 9" wide, 266 pages. Catalog punched for three ring binder.
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Sotheby's
A Collection of Venetian Garden Sculpture
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby's in Sussex, England on September 26, 1989. Sale code "HERCULES". The full title of the catalog is 'A collection of Venetian Garden Sculpture, including works attributed to Giovanni and Antonio Bonazza, Giovanni Marchiori and Orazio Marinali'. Brief introduction by Professor Giovanni Mariacher, who catalogued this collection and made the attributions. The Bonazza brothers were active in Padua from ca. 1698 to 1763. Giovanni Marchiori (1696- 1778) and Orazio Marinali (1643 - 1720) created many such sculptures for gardens such as the one at Villa Revedin Bolasco at Castelfranco. Similar sculptures can also be seen at the Villa Medici summer palace at Castello. 15 lots in the sale. 13 lots are heroic figurative sculptures, i.e. 'Diana', Figure of Zephyr', 'Hercules', 'Adonis', etc. The other 2 lots were pairs of medieval recumbent lions. All lots illustrated with large color plates. A remarkable collection. Price estimates only, no prices realized sheet. 11" high X 8" wide, 32 pages.
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Hiatt, Charles
Picture Posters
This is a very good hardcover copy in pale green cloth boards with titles in gilt, and a vignette in darker green on the front cover. Top page-edge gilt. Covers a bit toned, spine has a small stain. The black design on the covers is still vivid and the gilt titles still bright. Slight foxing to preliminaries and endpapers. Also a note tipped in to the front endpaper, citing some London auction information from the 1960's and a very faint pencil notation by someone noting that they bought the book in Wimbledon at Lloyd's Bookshop in 1967. Otherwise very clean throughout. Slight lean to book, (but not cocked). Illustrations of late 19th century European and American posters in black & white on every other page. A scarce and important classic survey of the graphic design of the late 19th century poster. 9" high X 6" wide, 367 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Weyerhaeuser
Weyerhaeuser Text and Cover Papers
This is a very good copy in a plastic comb binding (intact), stiff paper covers printed in color with Weyerhaeuser paper sample names: 'Weycroft', 'Louvain', 'Carousel', 'Kashmir', 'Gainsborough', etc. No date but ca. 1970's. Each of the 10 paper sample sections has a color printed title page with the different paper weights and characteristics available in that sample, followed by a number of blank sheets in different colors that are available with that sample. A typical early to mid 1970's Weyerhaeuser trade catalog. 11" high X 10" wide. All printing in offset lithography. Publisher's 'Complimentary Copy' business reply card laid in. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Driver, Clive and Seymour Adelman and Maurice Sendak
The Art of Claud Lovat Fraser: Book Illustrator, Theatrical Designer, and Commercial Artist. An Exhibition to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of His Death
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Signed by Seymour Adelman on the first page, the half-title page, and briefly inscribed. Otherwise completely clean inside and out. It was long ago fitted with a mylar protector so the covers are pristine. Introduction by Adelman. Descriptive catalog by Clive Driver. And a tribute by Maurice Sendak. Illustrated with 48 black & white and 2 color plates. 270 works in the exhibition, all catalogued and in the checklist. 12" high X 9" wide, 78 pages.
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Sotheby's
Decorative Garden Statuary
This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Very clean, but hammer prices neatly inked in next to lot descriptions. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby's New York on June 9, 1990. Sale code: 6052 "WILMA". The sale consisted of ornamental garden statuary and other ornament. Most pieces carved stone, also a few terracottas. 101 lots in the sale. All illustrated in black & white. Prices realized sheets included. 11" high X 8" wide, about 40 pages.
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Hamilton
Hamilton Text and Cover Papers
This is a very good copy in a plastic comb binding (intact), stiff paper covers printed in color with Hamilton paper sample names: 'Weycroft', 'Andorra', 'Victorian', 'Louvain', 'Carousel', 'Kashmir', 'Gainsborough', etc. No date but ca. 1970's. Each of the 8 paper sample sections has a color printed title page with the different paper weights and characteristics available in that sample, followed by a number of blank sheets in different colors that are available with that sample. Catalog designed by S. Neil Fujita who did all the decorations on the covers and individual title pages, in a playful abstract style. The cover design is signed, also the colophon lists Neil Fujita as the designer of the catalog. Sadamitsu "S. Neil" Fujita (1921- 2010) was an American graphic designer known for his innovative book cover and record album designs. Afficionados will know his works, for example the album covers he designed for Dave Brubeck, like the Time Out album (with the tune Take Five). A number of his book dust jacket designs were memorable, for example the one for Truman Capote's 'In Cold Blood', and perhaps his best, the one for Mario Puzo's 'The Godfather'. 11" high X 10" wide. All printing in offset lithography. Rare. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Skelley, Davis Leloise
Modern Fine Glass
This is an about very good hardcover copy. No jacket. Generally clean inside, but endpapers offset, and with some foxing. Illustrated in black & white with many photographs od European and American modern art glass. Index with designers, makers. 12" high X 10" wide, 144 pages.
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Le Nihon Keizan Shimbun
Exposition Emile Galle
This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Very clean inside and out, just a small tan stain to the edges of about 20 pages (not affecting text or illustrations). Text in Japanese, with captions and some information on individual pieces in the exhibition in English. This catalog was prepared to accompany the travelling exhibition in Japan. The exhibition was co-ordinated by Shinya Nishizawa, Tsuneo Yoshimizu and Toshio Yoshida with the help of Yvonne Brunhammer. Essays for the catalog by Francois Mathey, Brunhammer, Shinya Nishizawa, and Tsuneo Yoshimizu. Chronology. Bibliography. Exhibition history. 100 works in the exhibition checklist. 10" high X 7" wide, 207 text pages + 32 color plates + 100 black & white illustrations.
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Artcurial
Black. Le Noir Dans Le Paysage Domestique
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in French. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Artcurial in Paris on June 28, 2006. The sale consisted of modern French design with a black color theme. It included the full range of furniture and decorative arts: chairs, tables, case furniture, lamps, lighting fixtures, vases, etc. One section devoted to the collection of Marcel Wanders. 261 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. Includes the work of over 100 designers including: Adnet, Arad, Bellini, Joe Colombo, Christian Dell, Eames, Fontana, Fornasetti, Garouste & Bonetti, Guarriche, Arne Jacobsen, Pierre Jeanneret, Knoll, Kuramata, Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Mangiarotti, Enzo Mari, Mategot, Serge Mouille, George Nelson, Verner Panton, Potzamparc, Prouve, Saarinen, Sapper, Sarfatti, Starck, Thonet, Wirkkala, Wanders, and Sori Yanagi among many others. Price estimates for each lot, no prices realized sheets. Index of designers. 11" high X 8" wide, 108 pages.
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Sotheby's
Collection de Ceramiques francaises, Verreries et Documentations Provenant de la Villa Clara Schumann a Francfort.
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Sotheby's Paris on December 16, 2005. Sale code: PF5025 "CLARA". The sale consisted of the Clara Schumann Collection of modern French ceramics and glass. This is probably the finest collection ever assembled privately. Encyclopedic in its range: virtually every interesting French designer in the modern period included. Text in French and English. Essays on all the major designers. 523 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. Prices realized sheets included. An essential reference for modern French ceramics. 11" high X 8" wide, 300 pages.
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Alison, Filippo
Le Sedie di Charles Rennie Mackintosh
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with almost no wear. Completetly clean inside and out. Text in Italian, but titles of works catalogued are in English. Monograph on Charles Rennie Mackintosh featuring his chair designs. Illustrated in black & white and color. 9" high X 10" wide, 107 pages.
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Christie's
Leading Lights
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Christie's in London, South Kensington, on November 25, 2009. Sale code: AND- 5943. The sale consisted of 88 examples of modern lighting design from English Arts & Crafts to Ingo Maurer. 88 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. Prices realized sheet included. 11" high X 8" wide, 31 pages.
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Jentsch, Ralph
Illustrierte Bucher Des Deutschen Expressionismus
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Spine is not creased. Feels crisp and unread. As new. Text in German. Biographical sketches of artists. Bibliography. Hundreds of illustrations in color and black & white A large folded poster of a Kokoschka lithograph is laid-in. 11" high X 9" wide, 399 pages.
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Toulet, Jean
Relieurs contemporains. Claude Honnelaître, Alain et Paule Lobstein, Renaud Vernier, Ecole Estienne
This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in French. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris in the fall of 1980. Exhibition organized by Jean Toulet. 111 examples of contemporary French bookbinders, many illustrated in black & white. Press release laid in. Preface by George Le Rider. 8" square, 69 pages.
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Millon & Associes
3 Collections Art Nouveau
This is a fine hardcover copy in glazed illustrated boards, (no jacket, as issued). Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at the Drouot in Paris on April 4, 2008. Text in French. The sale consisted of three collections of art nouveau decorative arts and sculpture. The first section had 49 lots of sculpture in bronze or other precious metals. The second section had pewter and dinanderie. The third section had about 100 lots of art nouveau glass with many pieces by Galle. The next section had about 35 lots of art nouveau ceramics. The last section had about 50 lots of French art nouveau furniture with wotk by Majorelle, Jallot, Emile Andre, Georges de Feure, Edward Colonna, and Henry van de Velde. 283 lots in all. All lots illustrated in color. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for each lot. 11" high X 8" wide, 122 pages.
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Camard
Italie
This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held in Paris at the Drouot sponsored by Camard. The sale featured a set of furniture (12 lots) by Carlo Zen (1851-1918), and a number of photographs and some drawings and furniture (13 lots) by Carlo Mollino (1905- 1973). Also Italian glass, Memphis furniture, etc. The front and back covers have reproductions of Carlo Mollino's photographs of Rina Pistoi wearing a transparent black veil costume and pulling Mollino's paper mache light 'Promenade du Dragon' like a pet being taken for a walk. 6 other photos of Rina Pistou, some with Mollino. 96 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for each lot. 11" high X 8" wide, 63 pages.
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Behal,Vera
Mobel des Jugendstils. Sammlung des Osterreichischen Museums fur Angewandte Kunst
This is a fine hardcover copy in a near fine dust jacket with virtually no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in German. This is the 2nd revised and enlarged edition. Bibliography. 277 pieces of furniture catalogued and illustrated in black & white photographs + 11 color plates. Also a section on drawings and sketches for furniture and interiors with 23 illustrations. 10" high X 9" wide, 358 pages. A beautiful copy. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Kozo, Yoshida
The Ceramic Art of Kitaoji Rosanjin
This is a very good softcover copy in stiff silvered card covers, with only light wear. Very clean inside and out. Spine not creased. Foreword by Kozo, Curator at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Essay by Elise Grilli. Reminiscence by Sidney Cardozo. Chronology. Page of signatures or marks used by Rosanjin. 70 illustrations in black & white, with 12 color plates. 10" high X 7" wide, 93 pages.
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Tajan
Arts Decoratifs du 20e Siecle
This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Tajan in Paris on November 20, 2001. This sale consisted of modern French decorative arts. It had 4 sections which highlighted the work of Jean Lambert-Rucki, Paul Dupre-Lafon, Gilbert Poillerat and lastly Jean Royere. The section on Jean Lambert-Rucki had an exceptional ensemble of 37 sculptures and drawings. The section on Paul Dupre-Lafon had 28 lots. The section on Gilbert Poillerat had 16 lots, mostly lamps and sconces. The section on Jean Royere had 25 lots. 211 lots in the complete sale. All illustrated in color. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for each lot. 11" high X 8" wide, 235 pages.
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Quittenbaum
Murano Glas Auktion 88 B
This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Quittenbaum on Febuary 9, 2010. Auction number 88 B. The sale consisted entirely of modern Italian glass. 315 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. Text in German. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for each lot. 11" high X 8" wide, 142 pages.
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Jullien
La Grande Maison De Blanc
This is a very good softcover copy in silver moire patterned silk wrappers, with a color plate of a pink parasol at the beach by Jullien, tipped on to the front cover. Generally clean inside and out, some occasional foxing, and a small group of indentation points on a number of the pages in the same place. Text in French. This is the April 1926 issue of this catalog prepared for La Grande Maison de Blanc in Paris on the Place de L'Opera. About 24 pages with sections on lingerie, intimites, ladies fashion and gentleman's fashion. Illustrated throughout with line drawings colored with various pastel shades by Jullien. 2 color plates hors texte, one each by Jullien and Pierre Mourgue. All done in a art deco style. Texts by Babette, Germaine Beaumont, Rosine, and Berniere. 10" high X 8" wide, about 24 pages.
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Kimmich, Karl
Die Zeichenkunst
This is an about very good two volume hardcover set in the original publisher's decorative tan cloth bindings with light wear and an old repair to the rear hinge of volume two, which had started to split, and was glued back in place. Very clean inside and out. The light brown cloth bindings are decorated in black with a German art nouveau design on the front covers and spines. Text in German. Illustrated in color and black & white. 1157 black & white illustrations + 60 color plates. 10" high X 7" wide, 616 pages + ads.
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L'avant Scene Theatre. Corps Perdus, Enzo Corman
This is a very good softcover copy with light wear. Very clean inside and out. Bottom of spine lightly bumped. Text in French. This issue of L'avant Scene Theatre features Corps Perdus by Enzo Corman. Interview with Corman. The issue contains the text of Corps Perdus. Illustrated in black & white with photographs from a production in Lyon in 1985. 10" high X 7" wide, 50 pages.
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McLean, Ruari
Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with just light wear. Completely clean inside and jacket clean, lightly, evenly toned. 8 color plates + 64 black & white illustrations. 9" high X 6" wide, 182 pages.
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L'Avant Scene Theatre No. 797 November 1986
This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Very clean inside and out. Text in French. This is Issue No. 797, 1st November, 1986. This issue features Michael Vinaver's Les Voisins, and Jean-Gabriel Nordmann's Simple Suicide. Illustrated in black & white. 10" high X 7" wide, 53 pages.
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Hadfield, Miles & John
Gardens of Delight
This is a very good hardcover copy with almost no wear. No dust jacket. Very clean inside and out. Illustrated in color and black & white. Index. 10" high X 7" wide, 192 pages.
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Lackschewitz, Gertrud
Interior Design and Decoration a Bibliography
This is a very good softcover reference copy long ago released from a private reference library and bearing 3 small bookplates, one inside each cover and on the front cover. Also small discard handstamps and dates on a few pages. Not illustrated. Author index. 10" high X 7" wide, 86 pages. Ex-Library
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Japanese Centre of Iti
Japanese Theatre Pictorial
This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Small chip off spine. Very clean inside and out. Essays by Shigetoshi Kawatake, Jiro Nane, and Kihachi Kitamura. Illustrated in black & white with many photpgraphs of actors in Kabuki, Noh, Bunraku, popualr plays, children's theater, ballet, etc. 2 tipped in color plates. 10" high X 7" wide.
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Quittenbaum
Hohepunkte Der Design Geschichte III Design Made in Germany
This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Quittenbaum in Munich on November 27, 2006. This was the third sale in their 'Highlights of Modern Design' series. Auktion # 62. Text in German. This sale was almost all German modern design. From German art nouveau through functionalism and the Bauhaus, the 'Good Design' period of the 1940's, to the Post-War designs of Braun and Dieter Rams, and Wilhelm Wagenfeld, the plastic furniture of the 1950's and 60's, and finally the post-modern period. 424 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for each lot. 11" high X 8" wide, 262 pages.
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Camard
Prospection. Creations Contemporaines Ceramiques
This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in French. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Camard in Paris on May 27, 2009. Interview between Alexandra Jaffre and Yves Peltier. 108 lots in the sale. All illustrated in color. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for each lot. Bibliography. About 45 ceramic artists included in the sale. 11" high X 8" wide, 63 pages.
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Quittenbaum
Modernes Glas Modernes Design Auktion 57
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Quittenbaum's in Munich on February 6, 2006. Sale number: Auktion 57. The sale consisted of half modern glass and half other modern design. The glass section had 249 lots. 162 lots of Italian glass. 37 lots of Leerdam. 50 lots of Scandinavian glass. All lots illustrated in color. Text in German. No prices realized sheets, just price estimates for each lot. 11" high X 8" wide, 166 pages.
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Le Jour
Bal des Petits Lits Blancs
This is a very good softcover copy in the original publisher's cream colored stiff paper covers, with a color illustration by Mariette Lydis tipped on, and with the clear plastic covers and comb binding intact. Very clean inside, light spotting outside. One photo has some offsetting to the white page opposite, some slight loss of color to the photo.Text in French. This is a program, published by the French magazine, Le Jour. It was issued on the occasion of a ball at the Opera on February 6, 1934. Printed by Draeger Freres, with color drawings by Mariette Lydis, Marie Laurencin, Vertes, Alexieff and Bret Koch among others. Article by Colette on Mariette Lydis. Photographs of movie stars and actresses throughout are printed with a special process, almost like silver or metal sheets. The process is called 'papier metallise'. Stars include Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Marcelle Chantal, Dolly Davis, among others. One sheet has a textile swatch printed with a light brown woodcut by Guinhald. Advertisements throughout from Paris couture houses, and fashion accessories shops. 10" high X 9" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
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Christie's
An Important Private Collection of Gem and Jewelry Books
This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. No marks to lots, text or illustrations. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Christie's New York on Monday April 15, 1996. Sale code: Toor-8396. This sale consisted of a single owner collection of gem and jewelry reference books, many in Sinkankas, but not all. Books from the 17th through the 20th century. Many lots illustrated in color. 40 lots in the sale. No prices realized sheets. 11" high X 8" wide, 65 pages.
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Christie's
Collection Anna et Alessandro Pron, Design Italien
This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. This is a sale catalog for an auction held at Christie's in Paris on May 27, 2008. Sale number: 5544. The sale consisted of the Anna and Alessandro Pron Collection of modern Italian design. Text in English and French. Brief essay by Johanna Grawunder. 66 lots in the sale. All lavishly illustrated with color photographs. Several fold-outs. Biographical sketches and photos of each of the designers at the end. Prices realized sheets included. 11" high X 8" wide, 136 pages.
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