50th Annual Exhibition (1937), Architectural League with American Institute of Decorators
New York: (1937). Paperback. 7.5 x 6 inches, wraps, 22 pp, no illustrations. Light soil and tanning.
Design & Decorative Arts
Architecture & Art: City Architecture and Design (in Russian)
Moscow: Krassivye Doma Press, 2005. First Printing. Wraps. Quarto, wraps, near fine. 263 pp, illustrated in color, text in Russia. Ideas for decorating apartments, mainly in traditional and not modernist styles. Very rare, and no copies located by Worldcat in any library.
Arte y Decoración en España, Tomo III, Ano 1919
Barcelona: V. Casellas Moncanut, 1919. First printing. Hardcover. 14.25 x 11 inches, cloth backed portfolio boards with ribbon tie, housing short text plus 75 (of 84) plates: missing plates 2, 15, 17, 21, 53, 54, 65, 73 and 80. Light wear and soil to binding, light wear to plates.
Arte y Decoración en España, Tomo V, Ano 1920
Barcelona: V. Casellas Moncanut, 1920. First printing. Hardcover. 14.25 x 11 inches, cloth backed portfolio boards with ribbon tie, housing short text plus 81 (of 84) plates: missing plates 24, 25 and 63. Light wear and soil to binding, light wear to plates.
Arte y Decoración en España, Tomo VI, Ano 1923
Barcelona: V. Casellas Moncanut, 1923. First printing. Hardcover. 14.25 x 11 inches, cloth backed portfolio boards with ribbon tie, housing short text plus 81 (of 84) plates: missing plates 42, 43 and 84. Recent cloth on spine of portfolio, light wear to plates.
Arte y Decoración en España, Tomo VII, Ano 1924
Barcelona: V. Casellas Moncanut, 1924. First printing. Hardcover. 14.25 x 11 inches, cloth backed portfolio boards with ribbon tie, housing short text plus 80 (of 84) plates: missing plates 30, 48, 82 and 83. Recent cloth on spine of portfolio, light wear to plates.
Arte y Decoración en España, Tomo X, Ano 1927
Barcelona: V. Casellas Moncanut, 1927. First printing. Hardcover. 14.25 x 11 inches, cloth backed portfolio boards with ribbon tie, housing short text plus 84 plates. Light wear and soil to binding, recent cloth on spine, light wear to plates.
Dekorative Vorbilder, Band 20 (1909). Eine Sammlung von figürlichen Darstellungen, kunstgewerblichen Verzierungen, plastischen Ornamenten, dekorativen Tier- und Pflanzen-Typen, Allegorien, heraldischen Motiven, Trophäen etc. für Zeichner, Maler, graphische Künstler, Dekorateure, Bildhauer, Architekten. Zwanzigster Band.
Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1909. First Printing. Hardcover. 14 x 10 inches, cloth portfolio loosely housing color plates. Fair copy with general light wear and soil to binding, flaps attached with recent black cloth tape, has title page, plate list and 47 of 60 plates.
Interiors magazine, May 1962 -- Tropical & Puerto Rico issue
New York: Whitney Publications, 1962. Paperback. 12 x 9 inches, wraps, very good, light wear, musty, but otherwise a nice bright copy, articles have a focus on the tropics and Puerto Rico.
Krasivyye Kvartiry / Beautiful Apartments
Moscow: Krasivyye Doma Press, 2008. First Printing. Wraps. 10.5 x 11 inches, wraps, near fine. 256 pp, illustrated in color, text in Russian. Very uncommon. No copies located by Worldcat.
Society of Illustrators, 37th Annual Exhibition, 1939
New York: Grand Central, 5th Ave. Galleries, 1939. First Printing. Wraps. Wraps, 8 x 5.5 inches, with "PM" on cover and 16 pp. homage to Charles C. S. Dean by Walter Suter preceding the catalogue. Very good, light wear. About 100 pp. illustrated, including ads for Strathmore Papers at rear.....
The Studio (bound volume, October 1908-April 1909)
London: The Studio, 1908-1909. Hardcover. Quarto, half maroon cloth and imitation gray snakeskin boards, very good, light wear, stains, to covers, contents very good, several hundred pages, heavily illustrated including a number of color plates. 340 & 256 pp.
The Studio Year Book of Decorative Art, 1914
London: "The Studio" (1914). Hardcover. Quarto, lime cloth, very good, light wear and soil. 244 pp, heavily illustrated.
Lot 3 A. & B. Smith Art Material Catalogues and Silk Screen Guides: "A. & B. Smith Art-Sign-Process No. 55", "Nu-Film and Blufilm", "Artists Materials Catalog 38"
Pittsburgh: A. & B. Smith, ca. 1955. Paperback. ca. 1955. "A. & B. Smith Art-Sign-Process No. 55", "Nu-Film and Blufilm", "Artists Materials Catalog 38". Softcover 8vo's, all illustrated in black and white. Handsome art materials catalogs and a how-to on hte nu-film silscreening process, with two swatched of the material.....
Heisey's Glassware -- Pressed Ware Catalogue No. 109
Newark, OH: A. H. Heisey and Co., c. 1920. Paperback. No date, c. 1920. Softcover, oblong. 150 pp. Each illustrated with numerous examples of Heisey's wares, including glasses, plates, candlesticks and all sorts of glass homegoods. Near Fine. Well preserved. Strong binding. Clean contents.
A Portfolio of Frames, Fifteenth Century to the Present, Vol. I (1961) & A Catalogue of Frames (1973) with additonal brochures & catalog
New York: A. P. F. Inc., 1961 - 1973. Hardcover. Portfolio is 10 x 8.5 inches, cloth portfolio chemise with stiff card flaps and plastic snap, with 4 pp. title and contents pages plus 100 8x10" photos of reproductions of frames offered by APF. The catalogue from 1973 is also.....
A Catalogue of Frames: Fifteenth Century to the Present
New York: A.P.F. Inc., 1973. Paperback. Paperback, 1973, quarto, 159pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with hint of shelfwear to wrap, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Finnish Modern Design: Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities, 1930-1997
New Haven, CT: The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts/Yale University Press, 1998. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto [9" x 11.25"], illustrated in color and b&w. Book has faint toning to edges of boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, with faint foxing to.....
Corporate Interiors (Corporate Interiors Design Book Series, No. 1)
New York: Retail Reporting Corp. 1997. Hardcover. 1997. Hardcover. 312 pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. DJ lightly edgeworn. Contents clean, bright and unmarked. DJ now in mylar.
Wallpaper: Its History, Design and Use
London: William Heinemann, 1923. Hardcover. Hardcover with decorative blue cloth boards, 1923, octavo, 268pp., frontispiece in color, otherwise illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with mild wear to spine ends and corners, mild rubbing, binding tight, text clean and unmarked with some pages unopened. No DJ.
Eileen Gray: Architect/Designer
New York: Harry Abrams, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 1987. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in grey cloth. 400pp. illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket. Internally clean and unmarked.
A Book of Mantels, thirty-seven drawings in color reproduced from recently discovered originals
New York: The Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1915. First Printing. Hardcover. 13.5 x 11.75 inches, half cloth and pictorial boards, portfolio with string tie, housing two leaves (title page and explanatory note page) and plates numbered I-XIX (although the title alludes to 37 drawings, copies are COMPLETE when they have.....
Les Arts de Reproduction Vulgarisés Avec 140 Vignettes Dans le Texte et Douze Planches hors Texte
Paris: Librairies-Imprimeries Réunies, [1893]. First edition. Paperback. Assumed first, 1893. ix,[1],379,[2] pp., including numerous in-text illustrations, plus twelve plates. Original color pictorial wrappers. Ex-lib., with institutional labels and inkstamps on wrappers and outer leaves (title page and plates clean). Wrappers and many leaves chipped at extremities, spine vertically split. Fair.....
Charles Rennie Mackintosh as a Designer of Chairs
London: Warehouse Publications, 1974. First English language edition. Hardcover. First English language edition, 1974, paperback in dust jacket, oblong octavo, 106pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book VG+ with mild bumps to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG+ with same mild bumps to spine.....
Selected Works; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 2008. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 2008. Hardcover, 319 pp., heavily illustrated (in color), clean unmarked text, Fine copy.