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1982rif. 2311913New York: Obelisk 1982. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 7x1x5. First printing. Sticker ghost on front corner. 1982 Trade Paperback. xii 161 pp. Includes introduction by Edmund White. "A character portrait of Hugh Tatnall a successful American painter and an unrepentent rake traces his thirty-odd years of amorous adventure with one idle worldly woman after another. Obelisk paperback books
1978rif. 2353210New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x0. First edition. Jacket toned with a couple tiny closed tears along corners board edges faded. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1978 Hard Cover. 130 pp. A lighthearted high-society romance following Nicholas Romney a Philadelphia banker whose wife of twenty-five years suddenly divorces him. Spackman's general tone and use of tongue-in-cheek dialogue has drawn comparisons to P.G. Wodehouse and Tom Wolfe. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1999rif. 35185NY: Hearst Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0688167268 . Color and black and white illustrations throughout. First printing. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Hearst Books hardcover books
2002rif. 35844NY:: Thames & Hudson. Near Fine. 2002. Paperback. 0500283834 . Color photographs throughout. First edition thus paperback. Near fine in pictorial wraps. . Thames & Hudson, paperback books
1997rif. 27363Atglen: Schiffer Publishing. Near Fine. 1997. Paperback. 0764303090 . Illustrated by the author. First edition paperback. Faint damp mark along bottom edge else near fine in oblong illustrated wraps. . Schiffer Publishing paperback books
1929rif. 1769Phila. 1929-30. Paperback. Men's 2 & 3-button sacks suits 3 button double-breasted overcoats Chesterfield overcoat tuxedos trousers knickerbockers. Well illus. 16pp. 7" x 4 1/2". paperback books
1959rif. 30366Stuttgart: Gustav Kilpper 1959. First edition. Cloth. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. 267 pp. 3 maps. Illus. with 1 color & 95 b/w plates and 3 b/w maps. Sm. 4to. Early India was part of the Grosse Kulturen der Fruhzeit series Gustav Kilpper hardcover books
1970rif. 125725New York New York: McGraw-Hill 1970. Hardcover. Fair Ex-lib. usual markings; No dj.; Some discoloration and dampstaining to cloth; Front hinge cracked. Beige cloth; Illus. endpapers; 118 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color and bw. Discusses common themes in Indian art including the woman as mother as lover; the celestial and terrestrial woman; the woman displaying her charms; and more; Includes a glossary of terms. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1979rif. 301261979. Softcover. VG A few light scratches to wraps. Black ill. stapled wraps. 20 pp. 17 bw figures. Descriptively annotated illustrations of cosmetic packages. Includes a variety of items mostly from the 1930s 40s and 50s. paperback books
1982rif. 195421982. Softcover. VG- slightly bowed and faded cover orange sticker. Bw wraps. 120 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. Exhibition catalogue. Text in English and Japanese. paperback books
1986rif. 176806Tokyo: Fashion Foundation 1986. Softcover. VG light shelfwear to wraps corners bumped pages are very clean and tight. White wraps with black lettering color illustration on front cover 104 pp profusely illustrated in color and bw followed by several unpaginated pages of ads. Text in Japanese and English. International textile design contest Dec. 3-5 1986 organized by the Fashion Foundation Tokyo Japan. Fashion Foundation paperback books
2002rif. 42163NY:: Powerhouse Books. 2002. Hardcover. As New in As New dust jacket. Color and black and white photographs throughout. First edition. As new in like dust jacket. Still in original shrinkwrap. . 1576871509 . Powerhouse Books, hardcover books
1955rif. 438389Berlin: Volk und Wissen Volkseigener 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition. Quarto. 200pp. Text in German. Illustrated with black and white plates. Pages lightly age-toned cloth edges mildly sunned near fine in a good only dustwrapper with spine and edges chipped and worn light dampstain on folds. Volk und Wissen Volkseigener hardcover books
rif. B144867-5Paris 1991. 38 8pp. 60 illus. Lrg. 4to. Wraps. Paris, 1991. paperback books
1972rif. 608860New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First Harper & Row edition. Attractive ownership signature of noted architectural light designer Richard Kelly on the front fly else fine in a very good lightly age-toned dust jacket with quarter-sized stain on front panel. The early 20th Century's most notorious example of underground lesbian literature. Harper & Row, Publishers hardcover books
1931rif. S2251Berlin & Leipzig:: Walter de Gruyter 1931. 1931. 235 x 160 mm. 8vo. ix 300 ads 4 pp. 19 tables 260 figs. index. Cloth folding table inserted in pocket on rear paste-down. Very good. Walter de Gruyter, 1931. hardcover books
1997rif. 166527Boston: Bulfinch Press 1997. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Illustrated with 650 color 405 halftone and 150 duotone illustrations. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition which opened on November 8 1997 at the Whitney in New York and closed at the Andy Warhol Museum in spring of 1999. Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers. Bulfinch Press unknown books
1921rif. 44450Menasha: George Banta Publishing Co 1921. cloth. 8vo. cloth. xxiv 735 pages. First edition Besterman 1779. Spine faded covers lightly rubbed else a very good copy. The pioneer collection of source documents and subject bibliographies. George Banta Publishing Co unknown books
1989rif. 159713San Francisco: Club Oasis 1989. Original "Majestically Modern" poster announcing an "XQ" fashion show and performance art by "Christi On's Hot Foote Dancers" Thursday August 17 1989 hosted by Live 105 KITS disc jockey "Big" Rick Stewart with DJ Mark Hamilton also a disc jockey with Live 105 KITS. The popular San Francisco LGBTQ nightclub Club Oasis first opened in 1982. Following its decline in the early 2000s the club was bought by actor writer musician director producer and choreographer D'Archy Drollinger who reopened the club as an internationally acclaimed drag show nightclub/cabaret in 2015. D'Arcy was appointed as the San Francisco Drag Laureate in 2023 the first Drag Laureate ever in the world. 11 x 17 inches on pink paper. Near Fine with some light edgewear. Club Oasis unknown books
1943rif. D10931probably New York 1943-1944. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps cloth backstrip "Public Schools of Highland Park Composition Book No. 60" printed on front cover; 172 x 210 mm; approx. pp. 100 lined paper it contains 19 pencil drawings of women in dresses most of them initialed "R.W." and dated. Some of the drawings are incomplete -- a bit ghostly -- but all are nicely accomlished offering a collection of sophisticated fashions of the period. The models are perhaps based on film stars. Rear cover detached. paperback books
1989rif. 159727San Francisco: N.p. 1989. Vintage "Glas Haus Fashionism: A Totalitarianform of Style Administered by the Fashionists" poster for a fashion show produced by Glas Haus and Fad Magazine held at San Francisco's Galleria Design Center at 101 Kansas Street Saturday March 18 1989. Glas House was a short-lived 1980s arts magazine published in San Francisco as well as a legendary series of avant-garde art parties and dance events spearheaded by Joegh Bullock and held throughout the San Francisco area throughout the 1980s. Fad Magazine not to be confused with the British magazine first published in 2009 was a short-lived arts and fashion magazine published in San Francisco in the mid 1980s. 11 x 17 on glossy paper. Very Good plus with light edgewear some faint creasing at the extremities and a small pinhole at the top center. N.p. unknown books
1921rif. 454836Menasha Wisconsin: George Banta Publishing Company 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 735pp. Owner name stamp on front fly exterior with moderate wear and soil spine base bumped in the margin for the first half of the book a very good copy. Text is clean. George Banta Publishing Company hardcover books
1926rif. 95055Toronto:: Ryerson Press. Very Good. 1926. Hardcover. B001ULE7FW . First ediion. Tipped-in black and white photograph frontispiece. Foxing to endpages gift inscription on half-title page else very good in blue cloth. No dust jacket. ; 46 pages . Ryerson Press, hardcover books
1974rif. 1003720Paris and New York: International Wool Fashion Office; The Wool Bureau 1974. Ephemeral 1974 trend report on Parisian knitwear for American designers and showrooms issued by the International Wool Fashion Office in Paris and The Wool Bureau in New York. Editor Skippy Stone declares: "Fall 1974. . . Total from top to toe. Paris is everything that is at once avant romantic feminine and grand . . . blending the classic and peasant into a new season of big new clothes." Top runway models of the day among them Jerry Hall pose in voluminous layered knits designed by the likes of Kenzo Issey Miyake Sonia Rykiel and Karl Lagerfeld for Chloë. The International Wool Secretariat IWS the entity behind the IWFO and The Wool Bureau was the natural fiber mills' response to DuPont's introduction of nylon in the 1930s a major disruptor in the fashion industry. The IWS shaped global fashion trends for decades through forecasting reports like this one and the International Woolmark Prize which launched the careers of young designers Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld. In 1997 the IWS would rebrand as The Woolmark Company keeping their iconic logo the stylized skein of yarn sprinkled throughout this report. Text in English and French. An uncommon survival. Side-stapled volume measuring 12 x 9 inches: 80. Original photographic wrappers black-and-white photographs throughout text. Light foxing and edgewear; evidence of label removal to upper wrapper. International Wool Fashion Office; The Wool Bureau unknown books
1986rif. 136028Paris: Union des Arts Decoratifs 1986. Softcover. VG- Ex-library with spine label slight soiling on white portions of cover page edges tanning otherwise quite nice. White & illus. wraps French flaps 232 pp. many BW and some color illus. Text is in French. Issued in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition held in Paris in 1987 featuring photos and drawings of the fashions of designer Christian Dior 1905-1957. A terrific representation of the styles of the day. Union des Arts Decoratifs paperback books
