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Best.-Nr. 74-0514Paris : Librairie des arts décoratifs; A. Calavas 1914. 1 color engraving. 10x6". Minimal signs of wear. Tape on verso side and edge. Light discolorations. Very Good. Original Price Handwritten on Margin: $4.00No. 99From "Meubles et Objets de Gout 1796-1830"Inscription in French. From the collection of the late Frederick G.Ruffner Jr. founder of Gale Research Detroit. Paris : Librairie des arts décoratifs; A. Calavas, 1914. unknown
Best.-Nr. 17-0972Vancouver BC: Underwater Archaeological Society of British Columbia 2004; London UK: Furniture History Society 1968. 4to. 60 pp. Soft cover. Spiral bound. Very Good. Black & white plates throughout. 8vo. 56 pp. Soft cover. Very Good. Black & white plates throughout. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz 1919-2019. Vancouver, BC: Underwater Archaeological Society of British Columbia, 2004; London, UK: Furniture History Society, 1968. paperback
Best.-Nr. 63-6685Los Angeles CA: Pacific Coast Development Bureau 1914. Letter-Sized Page Signatures & Stamps on Pacific Coast Development Bureau Letterhead Good with losses marginal tears perforations staining.Provenance: Letters and Autographs from a Who's Who in California 1914 - 1917 to the author Ellis A. Davis regarding Davis' Commercial Encyclopedia of the Pacific Southwest California Nevada Utah Arizona. Sold by Cherokee Book Shop to Frederick Ruffner Jr. the founder of Gale Research Detroit. Los Angeles, CA: Pacific Coast Development Bureau, [1914]. unknown
Best.-Nr. 05-1207Sheboygan Wis.: Phoenix Furniture Corp. ca. 1952. Tall 4to. 50 illustrated leaves in a three-hole paper folder. Stamped on front: "Our new name is Phoenix Furniture Corp." and "Milwaukee Office." Very good. Sheboygan, Wis.: Phoenix Furniture Corp., ca. 1952. unknown
2026Best.-Nr. LRB39001990Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 554 pages. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1873. Text in English. This report presents the findings of the Select Committee on Alleged Credit Mobilier Bribery established by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1873. It details the investigation into alleged bribery and corruption involving the Credit Mobilier of America a railroad construction company. The document provides a comprehensive account of the committee's proceedings evidence and conclusions offering valuable insights into political and financial scandals of the era. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
1967Best.-Nr. 160825Harvard University Art Museum / Abrams 1967. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Exhibition catalog for a show held at the publisher's gallery. Book shows very light shelfwear to covers only a little edge wear small chip at bottom spine otherwise clean with creaseless covers and spine. Binding is solid and square covers have almost sharp corners exterior shows no other blemishes text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind save previous owner at front dated 1968. Unpaginated -- about 50 pages with b&w photos of and from the exhibition throughout with carpenter's tools wooden joint illustrations ribs of a ship then catalogue of exhibits 41 with notes from each and measurements of art chairs and production chairs of the Thonet firm: chairs revolving stools rocking chairs etc. A study of the Thonet bentwood chair as a design object examining the industrial processes of steam bending and mass production that made it one of the most widely produced chairs in history published in conjunction with a Carpenter Center exhibition at Harvard. Keywords: Bentwood Furniture Vienna Cafe Chair Industrial Design Mass Production Steam Bending No 14 Chair Beech Wood 19th Century Design Austrian Design Modernist Furniture Design History Harvard Exhibition Harvard University Art Museum / Abrams paperback
2015Best.-Nr. 113668Schiffer. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - -- with a bonus offer-- . 2015. 0764349481 . Schiffer hardcover
Best.-Nr. 100-16858Baker Furniture. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Baker Furniture hardcover
1934Best.-Nr. 49765Tokyo æ±äº¬: Koyosha Henshubu 洪洋社. 編輯部 1934. First edition. Spiral_bound. vg- to vg. Quarto. 3pp. 20pp. 2. Spiral-bound illustrated red black and white wrappers. Volume 13 of the scarce series of Japanese photographic surveys on modernist furniture. At least 16 volumes were known to have been published between 1932 and 1934. This volume is the second part following vol.11 which focuses on the furniture and decorative furnishings from Japanese cafes during the early 1930s. The first three pages contain text captions in numerical order followed by 20 plates of beautifully printed b/w photogravure images of the furniture. The final two pages contain publishers advertisements. Text throughout in Japanese. Wrappers with some light staining and smudges to the wrappers. Light rubbing to extremities. Back cover with chipping to the bottom left corner as well as some small closed tears along the spiral binding and the left side. Interior with some light smudging and some sporadic minor to light water stains throughout mostly in the margins with images mostly still clean and bright. Wrappers and in very good- interior in very good condition overall. Koyosha Henshubu (洪洋社. 編輯部) unknown
1909Best.-Nr. 22111Preisbuch V. Auflage 5. Auflage 12.-17. Tausend Fifth edition 12th-17th thousand 1909. Softcover. vg. 4to. 1002pp. Gold-stamped wraps with decoration string protected in modern mylar. Title-page with emblem of the "Deutsche Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst." Rare work on "Dresdner Hausgerät" a cost-effective program designed to manufacture furniture which was easy to assemble in a variety of shapes and forms. Each plate with exact measurements of the pieces depicted. Most of the furniture shown after designs by Prof. Richard Riemerschmid and Prof. Adelbert Niemeyer. Also includes price list with difference in cost depending on type of wood used. Price list loose as issued. Creasing and minor staining on wraps. Top right corners of title-page and third page expertly repaired. Some numbers handwritten in pencil by previous owner to margin of some pages. Text in German. Wraps in good interior in very good condition. Scarce. Preisbuch V. Auflage, 5. Auflage, 12.-17. Tausend (Fifth edition, 12th-17th thousand) unknown
1857Best.-Nr. 28019Baltimore: John D. Troy 1857. "Being the entire Furniture and Fixtures contained in the Dwelling of Mr. William Key Howard." Administered by F.W. Bennett & Company. Early auction catalogues such as this are rare even more so in this condition. Items of note include a lavish engraving of "Washington Crossing the Delaware." Original printed wrappers. Slight foxing. Very good. unknown
1868Best.-Nr. 32817Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird 1868. An American Furniture Design Book The third furniture pattern book published in America issued simultaneously with another Baird title GOTHIC ALBUM FOR FURNITURE MAKERS. It was preceded by books called THE CABINET-MAKER'S ASSISTANT published in 1840 and 1842. Depicted are a variety of bed stands bureaus wardrobes tables bookcases and more in a Renaissance Revival style. They are patterned after mid-19th-century French designs. All early American furniture books are rare. Oblong octavo. Original green cloth gilt-stamped cover. Front hinge starting. Internally bright and clean. Very good. hardcover
1985Best.-Nr. 160817MIT Press / Museum of Finnish Architecture / Finnish Society of Crafts and Design / Artek 1985. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition with a bump/crease to the upper back corner causing a small crease to the upper corner of the last 60 pages of the page block as the only blemish; otherwise Fine. Binding is solid and square covers have sharp corners otherwise exterior shows no other blemishes text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 179 pages on matte glossy and some pages of tracing paper. Lots of large color photos of the work many scaled mechanical drawings of the chairs workshop photos and details of the mechanical procedures copies of workshop drawings. Contents include: Early furniture and interior designs The decisive years Workshop recollections Excerpts from Alvar Aalto's articles on interior and furniture design Chronology of mass-produced furniture Selection of Artek's standard models etc. A catalog presenting the furniture designs developed over four decades from the early bent plywood experiments through the classic stools chairs and tables produced by the Artek company with historical essays and photographs of each piece. Keywords: Bent Plywood Paimio Chair Stool 60 Artek Furniture Finnish Design Laminated Wood Cantilever Chair Tea Trolley Savoy Vase Modernist Furniture Nordic Design Alvar Aalto Foundation MIT Press / Museum of Finnish Architecture / Finnish Society of Crafts and Design / Artek paperback
1825Best.-Nr. 56380Greenfield MA. 1825. First Cabinetmaker's Guide Published in America The first American printing of the first American furniture finisher's manual reprinted from the original British edition by G.A. Siddons. "A new edition with considerable additions. Including an appendix containing several valuable tables." Clear and concise instructions are given for dying and staining woods making glue making and applying varnish polishing japanning cleaning woods and metals and much more. For example to make furniture oil "Take linseed oil put it in a glazed pipkin with as much alkanet root as it will cover; let it boil gently and you will find it become of a strong red color: let it cool and it will be fit for use." Six tables in the appendix provide assistance for figuring lengths and weights and an index follows. Western Massachusetts was obviously a place of great architectural and design innovation during the American Federal period as both the present title and Asher Benjamin's landmark architecture book The Country Builder's Assistant. were printed in Greenfield. Not in AMERICAN IMPRINTS. Highly desirable and a landmark in American crafts. 16mo. Original printed paper-covered boards. Moderate staining to boards minor chipping to spine ends minor edge wear. Moderate scattered foxing. Very good and wholly unsophisticated. Untrimmed. RINK 1793. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 606052726Robert A. Mitchell Furniture Co. Soft cover. Very Good. Paper. Used very good condition former owner's signature on front end paper light foxing on endpapers covers clean text block crisp so it looks like the former owner did not feel the need to explore the interesting notes about Oriental rugs. Mitchell Robert A. Furniture Co. SOME INTERESTING NOTES ABOUT ORIENTAL RUGS. N. d. 76 p. 23 black and white illlustrations fig. 19 x 13 cm. Most of the text is identify to a 1903 book with the same title published by the Karagheusian importing firm who allowed its retail rug dealers to use it with suitable revisions to give to their customers. The revision consists of a two page introduction describing the Mitchell Furniture company. Most of the text describes town and areas in Persia and Turkey and what is being currently made in 1903 in them. There are much smaller section on Turkmen "Bokhara" Afghan- Kiva Yamoud and Belouchistan and the Caucasus. About half of the illustrations are of people and scenery. Useful for seeing what importers were saying about the rug trade at the turn of the last century. Robert A. Mitchell Furniture Co. paperback
1995Best.-Nr. 0905202512Gallery 532 Soho 1995. First Edition. Paperback. New. 0x0x0. ISBN: 096481161xStated First Edition; no later printings indicated. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Ships in a box. Fast shipping from NYC! Gallery 532 Soho paperback
1953Best.-Nr. 80898Indiana: Dunbar Furniture Corp. of Indiana. Very Good. 1953. Hardcover Covers Loose. This book is hard-bound in white paper covered boards with black and green printing. The covers show soiling and wear to the edges and corners. The spine is perished with the covers loosening from the text-block. The text-block is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations some in color. . Dunbar Furniture Corp. of Indiana hardcover
Best.-Nr. 0764349481.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 39780TRADE CARD PAINE FURNITURE. Paine Furniture Trade Card featuring a fold-Away Eastlake Bed. Boston: circa 1870s. Card 5 1/2 x 4 inches. An attractive trade card for Paine Furniture of Boston featuring a woodcut of the store on one side and an interior scene of a Victorian parlor where a handsome Eastlake cabinet is being folded down by a girl to become a bed. Some soiling light wear; abraded portion on the corner of the living room scene. unknown
Best.-Nr. 39139BROADSIDE ADVERTISEMENT FORT PLAIN FURNITURE COMPANY. MANUFACTURERS OF ASH AND PAINTED CHAMBER FURNITURE ETC. Fort Plain New York: n.d. circa 1870-1880. Large printed broadside 23 x 18 inches. Rare printed trade broadside not recorded on OCLC nor in Romaine or in McKinstry. Fine large broadside with thirteen wood-engraved illustrations of furniture suits or beds. Suits consist of bed tall dresser with mirror and wash basin stand. They could be had in ash walnut trimmed or painted imitation walnut and burl. Each of the cuts is signed "Levytype Co. Phila." Title printed with large poster types. Linen backed in very good condition. 39139. unknown
Best.-Nr. 8742FURNITURE ITALIAN FURNITURE INTERIORS AND DECORATION. New York: Architectural Book Publishing n.d. Folio. Portfolio. 1 page 58 plates. First edition. Italian furniture interior moldings and decorations of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries are illustrated in sixty plates of which plates three and fifty-two are missing. The portfolio is worn however the plates are very good. unknown
1967Best.-Nr. 16801Rutland VT: Charles E. Tuttle 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12.4x9.8x1.5in. previous owner's signature on front endpaper dust jacket with small tear at head of spine. Dust jacket in clear protector. French court styles have been the chosen means of decorating important interiors since the end of the seventeenth century and French furniture and works of art have attracted many distinguished collectors beginning with Catherine the Great. The carefully selected illustrations assembled during the course of nearly twenty years include not only important examples of all kinds but contemporary arrangements of the period discussed. With 24 illustrations in color and 204 in black and white. This is the American edition of the book "French Furniture and Interior Decoration of the 18th Century" published in England. 291pp 5.07lb 12.4x9.8x1.5in Charles E. Tuttle hardcover
1992Best.-Nr. 160770Taschen 1992. Oversize Paperback. Fine. Book is in excellent condition appears unread. Binding is solid and square covers have sharp corners exterior shows no blemishes text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 158 pages in oversize format with a great many color and b&w photos of the work of the subject. A survey of the furniture and product designs produced throughout a career that began at the Bauhaus covering tubular steel chairs plywood furniture aluminum designs and textiles drawn from the Bauhaus Archive collection. Keywords: Wassily Chair Cesca Chair Bauhaus Furniture Tubular Steel Plywood Design Isokon Furniture Aluminum Design Hungarian Modernism Modernist Furniture Bauhaus Archive Breuer Textiles Industrial Design Taschen paperback
1981Best.-Nr. 25510New York: Vendome Press 1981. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 11.4x10.1x1.2in. Dust jacket in clear protector. Madeleine Jarry the distinguished French art historian and member of France's National Trust for Historical Sites and Monuments presents the multiform manifestations of chinoiserie as these occurred in textiles and wallpaper ceramics furniture and décor systematically considering them country by country. Over 250 specially photographed works lead the reader through a vast panorama of art - from Venetian lacquer to Chippendale chairs - an aesthetic and intellectual tour that is certain to enchant collectors travelers decorators and today's new crop of China hands. 256pp 4.42lb 11.4x10.1x1.2in Vendome Press hardcover
1960Best.-Nr. 10167New York: Crown Publishers 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 11.2x8.6x0.8in. Dust jacket in clear protector. With 172 illustrations. 186pp 1.81lb 11.2x8.6x0.8in Crown Publishers hardcover
