Samaras, Lucas & Kim Levin
SAMARAS: RECONSTRUCTIONS AT THE PACE GALLERY. November 29, 1979 - January 5, 1980
NY: Pace Gallery, 1979

Oblong octavo. unpaginated; b/w and color photographs; list of one-man shows; bibliography. Paperback with French fold covers. Very Good to Near Fine. Slight rubbing to covers.
Inventory number #011843

Ridley, Pauline
FASHION ILLUSTRATION
NY: Rizzoli International, 1979

First American edition. Octavo. 3 pp; 48 color plates. Paperback. Near Fine. Introductory text by art and design historian Pauline Ridley, followed by 48 color plates with fashion designer, date, and illustrator identified, and a brief description of clothing. Collection of French fashion illustrations from the early 20th century, culled from the pages of period journals such as Gazette du Bon Ton, La Guirlande, Le Gout du Jour, and Art, Gout, Beaute. Artists and designers represented include Brunelleschi, Barbier, Mourgue, Lepape, Poiret, Iribe, Lelong, Molyneux, Patou, Doucet and many others.
Inventory number #011831

Adrian
ADRIAN: The Couture Years, 1942-52
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1995

11" high x 8" wide. 8 pp; illustrated with three b/w photographs. Accordion-folded single sheet. A fine copy. Exhibition guide from the LA County Museum's Adrian exhibit from August 17, 1995 to January 7, 1996. Scarce. A sampling of what followed appears in "Adrian: The Couture Years, 1942-52,". Co-curators Cara Varnell and Kaye Spilker show only a few of the late designer's film costumes amid more than 40 dresses, gowns and suits meant for everyday women. The clothes bear the Adrian signatures familiar to his film-going fans: extraordinary tailoring, beautiful beading and an enduring love for the most American of fabrics, gingham. Also evident are his humor - dinner dresses printed with farm animals, for example - and his love of lavish gowns modeled after historical costumes.
Inventory number #011798

Laver, James
FASHION, ART, AND BEAUTY
NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967

Octavo. 152 pp; illustrated in b/w. Paperback. Reprinted from Museum Bulletin Vol XXVI No. 3 November 1967.
Inventory number #011787

Townsend, Chris
RAPTURE: Art's Seduction by Fashion Since 1970
London: Thames & Hudson, 2002

Quarto. 176 pp; illustrated throughout with color photographs; conclusions; notes; credits. Paperback in as new unread condition.
Inventory number #011776

Vertes, Marcel
ART AND FASHION
NY: Studio Publications, 1944

Quarto. 112 pp; color & b/w illustrations. Original red cloth with gilt-lettered cover & spine, lacks dustjacket. VG, small tear to cloth at head of spine, cloth rubbed at top corners, bottom corners bent affecting text block, gilt spine lettering dulled. The book is illustrated with many examples of fashion in art of the 15th to 19th centuries, as well as the 20th century. Many artists' work is depicted in addition to Vertes. Some examples are from the pages of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue magazines.
Inventory number #011773

Outumuro, Manuel (ed)
Genio y Figura: La influencia de la cultura espanola en la Moda
Spain: Disparo, 2006

Quarto. 189 pp; illustrated throughout with color photographs; exhibition list. Text primarily in Spanish, there is also an English language section in the rear. Boards with illustrated glassine dustjacket, in publisher's box. Fine in fine jacket. Box closure slot torn.
Inventory number #011771

Bussagli, Mario
LA SETA IN ITALIA
Rome: Editalia, 1986

Large quarto. 303 pp; 32 color plates; b/w photographs & illustrations in the text; index of text illustrations; index of plates. Text in Italian. Paper-covered boards in unclipped dustjacket and publisher slipcase. Near Fine in VG jacket. Jacket has small closed tear to base of spine.
Inventory number #011692

Wolfe, Tom, Walter Kerr, Judith Crist et al
New York Herald Tribune Presents New York, New York
NY: Dial Press, 1964

First printing. Octavo. 190 pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on cover & spine, no jacket. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, light wear to joints at top & bottom of spine. A collection of essays about New York City in the 1960's.
Inventory number #011507

Grunow, Evelise
HUGO FRANCA: The Story of the Tree
NY: R 20th Century Gallery, 2008

Quarto. Unpaginated. Full of color & b/w photographs. Text in English and Portuguese. Tan linen cloth with brown lettering. Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. The work of the Brazilian designer-maker Hugo Franca, who repurposes hardwood from fallen Pequi trees in Bahia, Brazil, and fashions them into monumental furniture and sculptural works that call to mind George Nakashima, Constantin Brancusi, Isamu Noguchi and Henry Moore in equal parts. This volume presents 20 finished tables, benches and objects alongside documentary photographs of Hugo Franca and his work team as they locate, cut and transport the wood to his studio. Published to accompany Franca's 2008 exhibition at R 20th Century Gallery in New York, it also contains a short essay by Brazilian scholar Evelise Grunow.
Inventory number #011483

Natori, Josie Cruz [Signed]
THE ART OF NATORI
NY: Glitterati Inc, 2007

First printing. Quarto. unpaginated; full page color photographs and illustrations. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. Near Fine in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on title page.
Inventory number #011256

Baldt, Laura I.
DRESSMAKING MADE EASY
NY: McCall Company, 1928

Small octavo. 181 pp; profusely illustrated with line drawings, b/w photograph of the author; index. Patterned paper boards with cloth spine. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; corners rubbed, minor soil to green cloth spine. The author was assistant professor of household arts at Teachers College, Columbia University. A very attractive vintage sewing book.
Inventory number #011231

Wildenstein, Georges
Oeuvres Romaines de Francois-Andre Vincent, Peintre du Roi
Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1938

Two volumes. 16mo. 26 pp, 12 facsimile plates, 10 in color. Green paper-covered boards in marbled slipcase with paper label. VG, spines of volumes sunned, else clean, vg copies; slipcase spine has been reattached, edges lightly rubbed. This copy was specially printed for Capt. Edward Molyneux, Paris fashion designer (1891-1974).
Inventory number #010532

SECRETS D'ELEGANCE (1750-1950)
Paris: Musee de La Mode et Du Costume, 1979

8vo. 61 pp; sq. sm. 8 . orig. stiff pict. col. wraps. 59pp. many ills. of which 8 full-page. An interesting exhib. catalogue as held at the Paris Museum of Fashion depict. & descr. mainly female fashions fr. the period, incl. corsets, lingerie & gloves.
Inventory number #010225

Cornforth, John
LONDON INTERIORS: From the Archives of Country Life
London: Aurum Press, 2000

Quarto. 192 pp, including over 150 black and white photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. John Cornforth, a leading expert on the history of English interiors, has made a selection of 200 of the archive's finest images of London interiors, from the 18th century, turn-of-the-century, and between the wars. They include the glamorous Rococo interiors of Norfolk House or Chesterfield House and the Gothic Pomfret Castle. Fashionable taste between the wars is shown by Lady Diana Cooper's bathroom, Chips Channon's staggering dining room, Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten's elegant apartment, and several ravishing decorative schemes by Rex Whistler.
Inventory number #010133

Battle, Dee & Alayne Lesser
THE BEST OF BAKELITE & other Plastic Jewelry
Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1996

Oblong quarto. 160 pp; full of color photographs. Illustrated boards in matching jacket. Fine/Fine, a new, unmarked copy. Not a price guide, this book features hundreds of pieces lent by several leading bakelite collectors
Inventory number #009846

Swanson, Dean
A CENTURY OF FASHION 1880-1980
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Museum of Art, 1980

Square octavo. 39 pp; color & b/w illustrations; checklist of 46 items. Paperback. Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #009674

Gernsheim, Alison
VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN FASHION: A Photographic Survey
NY: Dover, 1982

Octavo. 104 pp; b/w photographs throughout. Paperback. VG- tiny front cover tear at top edge near spine, & slight edge wear. This Dover edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and slightly corrected republication of the work originally published by Faber and Faber, London, in 1963 under the title Fashion and Reality (1840-1914)
Inventory number #009567

Lipmann, Anthony
DIVINELY ELEGANT: The World of Ernst Dryden
London: Pavilion, 1989

First printing. Quarto. 192 pp; illustrated throughout in color and b/w; bibliography. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. Near fine in near fine jacket. former owner gift inscription on ffep.
Inventory number #009504

Kilgour, Ruth Edwards
A PAGEANT OF HATS: Ancient and Modern
NY: Robert M. McBride, 1958

Quarto. 389 pp; b/w photos & illustrations throughout; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. near fine in vg- jacket, with closed tear across upper panel; top edge & top portion of flap lightly chipped.
Inventory number #009435