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Snowman A. Kenneth
The Art of Carl Faberg�
Boston: Boston Book & Art Shop no date; Second Edition; 186 pages; 407 b&w illustrations; 84 color plates; foreword by Eug�ne Faberg�. A comprehensive history. Clean and tight. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Boston Book & Art Shop hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002306
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California Design Eleven
Pasadena California: Pasadena Art Museum 1971 176 pages; numerous illustrated products. A triennial exhibition of manufactured products and the work of California's artist craftsmen. Decorated paper-covered boards. Very Good. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. Pasadena Art Museum hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002115 ISBN : 0378060813 9780378060813
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Klein Dan.
All Colour Book of Art Deco
London: Octopus Books 1974 72 pages. Imaginative survey of Art Deco design illustrated with photographs. Clean and tight. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Photography By Angelo Hornak. 4to. Octopus Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000003 ISBN : 0706403231 9780706403237
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Vaillant George C.
Artists and Craftsmen in Ancient Central America
New York: The American Museum of Natural History 1949 102 pages; profusely illustrated. Clean and tight; light wear to the covers. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Very Good. 4to. The American Museum of Natural History paperback
Bookseller reference : 000671
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Yohe Ralph S. and H. McCoy Jones Edited by; Joseph V. McMullan introduction
Turkish Rugs
Washington D.C.: The Washington Haji Baba - The Rug Society of Washington D.C. - The Textile Museum 1968 89 rugs pictured full page with a descriptive entry. Most are black and white; four are in color including a centerfold 6-niche Saff rug. Map and reading list at back. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Very Good. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. The Washington Haji Baba - The Rug Society of Washington D.C. - The Textile Museum paperback
Bookseller reference : 001602
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Onassis Jacqueline Edited by; Audrey Kennett Introduction; Bryan Holme Designed by
In the Russian Style
New York: The Viking Press 1976 184 pages. 10 color plates; numerous b&w illustrations. Published with the cooperation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Second Printing. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Fine. 4to. The Viking Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 001675 ISBN : 0670396966 9780670396962
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Phillips
Phillips de Puy & Luxembourg 20th - 21st Century Design Art
New York: Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg 2001 261 pages; 237 items/lots of designer furniture and decorative arts illustrated in color with full description including designer/manufacturer materials size often provenance estimate. Index of artists. Something of a primer on 20th-century design. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Fine. 4to. Auction Catalogue. Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg paperback
Bookseller reference : 002156
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Cox John Introduction
Ert�'s Costumes & Sets for Der Rosenkavalier in Full Color / Erte's Costumes and Sets for Der Rosenkavalier
New York: Dover Publications 1980 41 pages. The 1980 Glyndebourne Festval Production. Covers lightly bumped at the corners; pages are clean and flat; illustrations bright and unmarked. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Very Good. Slim folio. Dover Publications paperback
Bookseller reference : 003061 ISBN : 0486239985 9780486239989
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Nutting Wallace
Furniture Treasury
New York: Macmillan 1948 2 vols in slipcase. Some fading and rubbed spines. Edge of slipcase worn. One of the classic investigations of the development of American furniture styles. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket but a Slipcase. 4to. Macmillan hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000190
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Victoria & Albert Museum
Ornate Wallpapers
Devon UK: Webb & Bower 1985 Well over 100 wallpaper samples taken from pattern books belonging to the Victoria & Albert Museum; the papers run chronologically 1837 to 1852. A pretty book: the endpapers and boards are likewise decorated. Decorated paper boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Webb & Bower hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001700 ISBN : 0863500870 9780863500879
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Fernandez Justino
Mexican Art
London: Spring Books 1965 43 pages with 59 color plates. A general survey of Mexican art and architecture of nearly 2000 years including ancient pottery jade gold wall painting sculpture pyramids as well as palaces churches and oil paintings of the colonial period and modern murals. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Photographs by Constantino Reyes. 4to. Spring Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000207
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Gould G. Glen Mr. & Mrs.
Period Lighting Fixtures
New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1928 274 pages; 121 b&w illustrations plus a color frontispiece. The Renaissance forward provides most examples in this work yet attention is given to earlier periods. The book is divides by country of origin: Italy Spain France England America. Pages are very clean and white; text and illustrations are bright; foredges are spotted with foxing. Handsome blue boards with bright gilt titles and decoration. A slight lean to the binding which is otherwise sound. A portion of the dustjacket laid-in at the back. First Edition. Decorated cloth boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Dodd, Mead, & Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001369
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Conran Terence
Terence Conran's New House Book
New York: Villard Books 1985 367 pages; hundreds of color illustrations; ideas; checklists; fixtures; options. One of the best coffee table books: never tiresome looking through it. Clean and tight nearly fine throughout. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Villard Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002265 ISBN : 0394546334 9780394546339
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Fontana Paolo Text; Patrizia Balocco Design
Inside Venice
New York: Crescent Books 1991 96 pages; 101 color photographs many full-page. First Edition. Decorated paper boards. Fine/Very Good. Oblong 8vo. Crescent Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002737 ISBN : 0517058804 9780517058800
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Eidelberg Martin and Nancy A. McClelland; Leslie Hayden Nash
Behind the Scenes of Tiffany Glassmaking / The Nash Notebooks including Tiffany Favrile Glass
New York: St. Martin's Press 2001 236 pages; heavily and beautifully illustrated in color and in black and white. Reproductions of images of early Tiffany pieces. Leslie Nash's father Arthur developed Favrile Glass; Leslie was the director of various Tiffany Furnace operations. So much of this book is firsthand not only in the writing but in its images too. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 4to. St. Martin's Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000883 ISBN : 0312282656 9780312282653
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Anton Ferdinand
Art of the Maya
London: Thames and Hudson 1970 344 pages. Some fading to edge of pages. 365 illustrations; 37 full color. Survey of the Maya from their origins in the second millenium B.C. through their emergence and final conquest by the Spanish in the 16th century of the Common Era. 1st American Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good; jacket chipped. 4to. Thames and Hudson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000238
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Solodkoff Alexander von
Russian Gold and Silverwork: 17th-19th Century
New York: Rizzoli 1981 238 pages; 245 illustrations 70 in color. All manner of decorative arts tableware jewelry other personal items. Encyclopedic an excellent reference for collectors or students of the goldsmiths' arts; bibliography. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Square 4to. Rizzoli hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002760 ISBN : 0847803988 9780847803989
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Atil Esin
Art of the Arab World
Washington D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art Smithsonian Institution 1975 154 pages; 80 objects including ceramics glass brass manuscripts bindings jewelry illustrated in color. The wrappers which wrap around with a flap simulate a leather binding item no. 80 from the 14th century. A very attractive book unusually designed. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Fine. Square 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution paperback
Bookseller reference : 002111
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Petit Judith
Decouverte De L'Art Thrace: Tresors Des Musees De Bulgarie
Paris: Petit Palais 1974 unpaginated. 502 catalogued items; numerous photo-illustrations color and b&w. Clean and tight. A collection of gold and metalwork that predates the first century B.C. French text. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Very Good. 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue. Petit Palais paperback
Bookseller reference : 000525
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Frackman Noel
John Storrs
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art 1986 143 pages; 145 illustrations; chronology; exhibiton list; bibliography. The early twentieth-century artist and sculptor of abstract geometric and architectural Modernist forms. Paper covered boards. Very Good. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. Whitney Museum of American Art hardcover
Bookseller reference : 003057 ISBN : 0874270510 9780874270518
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Smith Bradley
Mexico: A History in Art
Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1968 296 pages. Light fading to outer edges otherwise very good. Beautifully illustrated history of Mexico from the 18th century B.C. to the 1940s A.D. Front edges of board and jacket are chipped. Cloth. Good/Fair. 4to. Doubleday & Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000223
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Textiles in The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1995 80 pages; well illustrated in color. MMA Bulletin Winter 1995/96. . Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Very Good. 4to. Art periodical. The Metropolitan Museum of Art paperback
Bookseller reference : 002217
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Real Dutch Design 0607 - Vol. 2
Amsterdam: BiS Publishers 2006 358 pages. Includes Industrial Design; Craft Related Design; Environmental Design; Interactive Media; Packaging Design. Dutch English German text. Volume 2 only. First Edition. Paperboard/Plastic. Fine. Thick folio. BiS Publishers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002090 ISBN : 9063690827 9789063690823
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Emmerich Andre
Art Before Columbus: The art of ancient Mexico from the archaic villages of the second millennium B.C. to the splendor of the Aztecs
New York: Simon and Schuster 1963 256 pages. A survey of Mexican pre Columbian art and artifacts illustrated with photographs of objects and ruins. Inscribed by Emmerich to LEWIS GILBERT probably the British film director "For Lewis Gilbert-Cordially Dedicated-Andr� Emmerich-January 6 1976." Jacket chipped at the spine-head; front panel lightly soiled. The book is clean bright and tight. Inscribed by Andre Emmerich. 2nd printing. Embossed Cloth Boards. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Photographs by Lee Boltin. 8vo. Association Copy. Simon and Schuster hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000198
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Barnett Alan W.
Community Murals: The People's Art
Philadelphia: The Art Alliance Press 1984 516 pages; numerous illustrations in color and in b&w. A history and a study of the urban wall art that emerged in the 1960s. The study includes the artists' social expressions as well as its place in the broad history of art. The jacket is rubbed on its face and torn at the head of the spine with a small loss of material on the back panel. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Good. Folio. The Art Alliance Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001610 ISBN : 0879820306 9780879820305
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Feininger Andreas
Trees
New York: Rizzoli 1991 168 pages; 90 pictures 10 in color. "I set out to make a new kind of tree book . a tree-appreciation book." - Feininger. Reissue. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Very Good. 4to. Rizzoli paperback
Bookseller reference : 002237 ISBN : 0847813258 9780847813254
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Solodkoff Alexander von; Roy DR. Betteley Paul Schaffer; A. Kenneth Snowman; et al. with essays by D. R.
Masterpieces from the House of Faberg�
New York: Harry N. Abrams / Abradale Press 1988 192 pages; more than 350 illustrations including 80 color plates. Most illustrated works are from the Forbes Magazine Collection. More than just eggs. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 4to. Harry N. Abrams / Abradale Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002717 ISBN : 0810980894 9780810980891
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Wheeler Monroe edited with a foreword; Pupul Jayakar and John Irwin texts
Textiles and Ornaments of India
New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1956 95 pages; 6 color plates; numerous b&w plates. A very nice copy clean and bright nearly fine; jacket with a small tear but no loss; jacket's spine faded. First Edition. Hard Cover - Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Very Good. Square 8vo. The Museum of Modern Art hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001471
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Stokes William Michael and William Lee Stokes
Messages on Stone: Selections of Native Western Rock Art
Salt Lake City: Starstone Publishing 1980 pp. vii; 57. Clean and tight. Drawings of and commentary on the rock art found by the authors. Printed Wrapper softcover. Very Good. Oblong 8vo. Starstone Publishing paperback
Bookseller reference : 000562
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Karpun Alexei
Russian Jewellery: mid-19th Century - 20th Century
Moscow: Beresta 1994 196 pages; 148 full-page illustrations color photographs most shot against a black background. Part of a series of albums on Russian decorative metalwork. Bibliography; List of Contemporary Russian Jewellers; List of Plates. Text in Russian and English. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to. Beresta hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002786 ISBN : 5746000027 9785746000026
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Moskowitz Anita Fiderer
Nicola Pisano's Arca Di San Domenico and Its Legacy
University Park Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press 1994 76 pages followed by a section of 98 plates. An examination of the design and construction of the tomb of Saint Domenic 1264-1267 and its influence on subsequent design and construction of monumental tombs. First Edition. Hard Cover - cloth boards. Fine/Fine. 4to. The Pennsylvania State University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001452 ISBN : 0271009462 9780271009469
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Frazer Margaret English
Medieval Church Treasuries
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1985 56 pages; well illustrated. MMA Bulletin Winter 1985/86. Clean and tight. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Very Good. 4to. Art periodical. The Metropolitan Museum of Art paperback
Bookseller reference : 001843
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Nordenfalk Carl
Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Painting: Book Illumination in the British Isles 600-800
New York: George Braziller 1977 127 pages; 48 color plates plus black and whites. Clean and tight. Only very light wear to the covers. Bibliography. First Printing. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Very Good. 4to. George Braziller paperback
Bookseller reference : 001350 ISBN : 0807608262 9780807608265
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80 Masterpieces from the Gold Museum
Bogota Colombia: Banco de la Republica 1954 The pieces appear in full page photos 3 color remainder b&w. Pre-Hispanic or pre-conquest goldwork collected by the Banco de la Republica and allowed to leave the country the first time for this exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. One sees roots of the Met's popular reproduction jewelry. Front edge damp-stained and rippling some page edges but confined to the margin edge and not affecting the plates. Otherwise clean and tight very good condition. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Good. 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue. Banco de la Republica paperback
Bookseller reference : 002026
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Feininger Andreas
The Anatomy of Nature
Newb York: Dover 1979 175 pages; numerous b/w photo-illustrations. ". unabridged and slightly revised republication of the work originally published by Crown . in 1956." Clean and tight nearly unblemished. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Very Good. 4to. Dover paperback
Bookseller reference : 001070 ISBN : 0486238407 9780486238401
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Garner Phillip
The Contemporary Decorative Arts from 1940 to the present day
London: Park Lane 1990 224 pages; numerous illustrations in color and in b&w. Includes "Evolution of Style" followed by sections on design of furniture fashion textiles graphics industrial ceramics glass jewellry film and photography. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to. Park Lane hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002155 ISBN : 1856270718 9781856270717
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Jacobs Laura
Beauty and the Beene: a modern Legend
New York: Harry N. Abrams 1999 Fanciful poetic text combined with specially commissioned drawings of Geoffrey Beene's garments. 40 color illustrations. First Edition. Hard Cover - Pictorial Boards. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Sirichai Drawings. 8vo. Harry N. Abrams hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001447 ISBN : 0810940205 9780810940208
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Cunnington C. Willett
English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century
New York: Dover Publications 1990 460 pages; 1117 illustrations all b&w. An unabridged republicatiuon of the work originally published in London in 1937 with the same title. This edition has no color illustrations. A bend of the covers lower corner otherwise clean and tight. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Very Good. 4to. Dover Publications paperback
Bookseller reference : 001514 ISBN : 0486263231 9780486263236
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Kaplan Wendy Edited by
Designing Modernity: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion 1885-1945 - Selections from the Wolfsonian
New York: Thames and Hudson 1995 352 pages; 417 illustrations including 300 in color. Essays from eleven contributors. One small closed tear on the jacket's back panel at the foot otherwise fine. 1st U.S Edition. Printed Paper Boards. Fine/Very Good. Square 4to. Thames and Hudson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002110 ISBN : 0500237069 9780500237069
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Newton Douglas
The Art of Africa the Pacific Islands and the Americas / The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1981 56 pages; well illustrated; full-page color. MMA Bulletin Fall 1981. Clean and tight. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Very Good. Illus. by Photographs by Lee Boltin. 4to. Art periodical. The Metropolitan Museum of Art paperback
Bookseller reference : 001811
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Johnson Diane Chalmers
American Art Nouveau
New York: Harry N. Abrams 1981 312 pages; 394 illustrations. Chronology; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index. Thorough text; beautifully illustrated including many full-page color tipped-in plates. Nearly fine condition. Front panel of the dustjacket is faded unevenly. Second Printing. Decorated cloth boards. Very Good/Very Good. Folio. Harry N. Abrams hardcover
Bookseller reference : 002075 ISBN : 0810906783 9780810906785
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Yelavich Susan
Design for Life
New York: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Rizzoli 1997 192 pages; filled with color illustrations. Published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the museum. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Fine. 4to. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Rizzoli paperback
Bookseller reference : 002202 ISBN : 0910503648 9780910503648
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Bernal Ignacio
One Hundred Great Masterpieces of the Mexican National Museum of Anthropology
New York: Abrams Comicarts 1969 Not paginated but 100 color photographic reproductions of those chosen as masterpieces. Only pre-Hispanic objects were among the choices Also only objects that originated in "Nuclear Mesoamerica". The preface by Ignacio Bernal is entirely instructive. The plates are often full-page so most objects are enjoyed easily in this larghe book. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Photographs by Constantino Reyes. 13" x 10". Abrams Comicarts hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000229 ISBN : 0810903490 9780810903494
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Abbate Francesco editor
PreColumbian Art of North America and Mexico
London: Octopus Books 1972 159 pages with 98 full color illustrations. Translated by Elizabeth Evans. A survey of precolumbian art with concentration on Mexico. 1st English Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Octopus Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000263
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Gerstner Karl
Vingt et un passages a travers le Rouge
Editions Geneve 1988 "Karl Gerstner Forme Couleur Continuum du Rouge au Rouge Conversion". Karl Gerstner is a renowned Swiss graphic designer painter and color manager. 24 unopened leaves printed on the recto with a pattern of red and a second color. As one moves through the 21 "passages" the color combinations change but always including red. The verso is printed with the passage numbers and a black and white pattern. Limited to 150 examples the first 50 were reserved for friends of the artist: this is number 17 of 50 signed by Gerstner for 'George!'. Black wrappers are covered with a white card jacket printed with titles The jacket is further covered with a French-fold onion skin cover. Book is fine; jacket has ill repaired damage at the head. Some toning of the onion skin. Signed by Artist. Limited/Numbered Edition. Black Card Wrapper softcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to. Artist's Book. Editions Geneve paperback
Bookseller reference : 001335
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Droste Magdalena
Bauhaus 1919-1933
Berlin: Bauhaus Archiv/ Benedikt Taschen 1990 256 pages; illustrated throughout in color and in b&w. Material drawn from the Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design. Clean and tight. Decorated Wrapper softcover. Very Good. 4to. Bauhaus Archiv/ Benedikt Taschen paperback
Bookseller reference : 002108 ISBN : 3822802956 9783822802953
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Anonymous
Costume
The Western Reserve Historical Society - Chisholm Halle Costume Wing 1986 35 pages; 30 large color plates showing over 70 female mannequins in dress. Time span: 1810-1968. Covers are creased. First Edition. Printed Wrapper softcover. Very Good. Large 4to. The Western Reserve Historical Society - Chisholm Halle Costume Wing paperback
Bookseller reference : 001563 ISBN : 0911704353 9780911704358
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Rheims Maurice
The Flowering of Art Nouveau
New York: Harry N. Abrams 1966 450 pages; 12 color plates tipped in; 595 black and white illustrations. Comprehensive: architecture to heating to glass to religious art. Corner of half-title missing; staining to fore-edge and bottom edge; minor spotting to a few pages. Otherwise clean and tight. Acetate dustjacket lightly curled at the bottom. Decorated cloth boards. Very Good./Good. Folio. Harry N. Abrams hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000954
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Wise Herbert H.
Attention to Detail
New York: Quick Fox 1979 159 pages; color illustrations throughout. A picture book of design ideas for every room of the house: from hooks and hinges to tubs and toilets. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Very Good. 4to. Quick Fox paperback
Bookseller reference : 002261 ISBN : 0825631718 9780825631719
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Marcus George H.
What Is Design Today
New York: Harry N. Abrams 2002 144 pages; numerous color illustrations. Published coincident with the exhibition organized by the Design Center at Philadelphia University. A discussion of the title-question beginning with the question posed by MoMA'a 1950 book What is Modern Design. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper softcover. Fine. Small 4to. Harry N. Abrams paperback
Bookseller reference : 001448 ISBN : 0810990814 9780810990814
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