Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Good
Price:
$15.00
Langner, Lawrence
THE IMPORTANCE OF WEARING CLOTHES
London: Constable, 1959
Octavo. 349 pp; over 300 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Dark blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine in dustjacket. VG/Good, This is the classic history of clothing that inspired the bold, young designers of the 1960s to create the controversial styles of the period, including the mini-skirt, the topless bathing suit, & the unisex look. It is essential reading for social scientists, historians, students, artists, librarians & all those who cover & adorn their bodies.
Inventory number #007436
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$50.00
O'Hagan, Helen, Kathleen Rowold & Michael Vollbracht
BILL BLASS: An American Designer
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2002
First edition. Quarto. 272 pp; color & b/w illustrations throughout. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, small black dot on bottom edge. Published to accompany a major retrospective of the designer's 50-year career, this volume features over 100 new photographs by such notables as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Horst, and Guy Bourdin, in addition to Blass's own sketches.
Inventory number #007311
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good
Price:
$100.00
Fukai, Akiko & Jun Kanai
MARIANO FORTUNY 1871-1949
Kyoto: Kyoto Costume Institute, 1985
Square octavo. 48 pp; 21 full-page color photographs & a number of b/w illustrations. Text in Japanese. Paperback. Top corner gently creased, else in very good condition. Catalogue of an exhibition held November 9 - Dec 1, 1985.
Inventory number #007209
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Fine
Price:
$50.00
Ettesvold, Paul M.
THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WOMAN An Exhibition at the Costume Institute, December 12, 1981-September 5, 1982
NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982
Quarto. 64 pp; color & b/w illustrations; checklist of exhibition. Paperback. A fine copy. Introduction by Diana Vreeland
Inventory number #005830
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good+
Jacket: Very Good-
Price:
$10.00
Rybczynski, Witold
THE LOOK OF ARCHITECTURE
NY: Oxford University Press, 2001
Twelvemo. xiv, 130 pp; 34 b/w illustrations; notes; index. Hardcover with dustjacket. VG/VG. Based on three lectures given at the New York Public Library in October 1999. Rybczynski makes a compelling case for the connection between architecture, interior decoration, and fashion.
Inventory number #005559
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$15.00
Ames, Winslow
PRINCE ALBERT AND VICTORIAN TASTE
NY: Viking, 1968
First edition. Quarto. 238 pp; several sections of b/w photograph pages; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG in VG jacket, some wear on spine extremities and jacket edges
Inventory number #005072
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$8.50
Douglas-Home, Jessica
VIOLET: The Life and Loves of Violet Gordon Woodhouse
London: Harvill Press, 1996
Second printing. Octavo. 342 pp; 32 pages of b/w photographs; appendices; discography; bibliography; index. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, in dustjacket. VG/VG-, light jacket wear & mild creasing at bottom edge on back cover. Violet Gordon-Woodhouse (1872 - 1948) was an acclaimed British harpsichordist and clavichordist, highly influential in bringing both instruments back into fashion. She was the first person to record the harpsichord, and the first to broadcast harpsichord music.
Inventory number #002888
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$25.00
Worsley-Gough, Barbara
FASHIONS IN LONDON
London: Allan Wingate, 1952
First edition. Octavo; 118 pp; numerous b&w illustrations. Cloth in unclipped dj designed by Paul Hogarth. VG/VG- moderate sized chip to top of spine and closed tear to face of jacket, other minor dings and chips to top edge, still very nice.
Inventory number #002799
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$35.00
Gere, Charlotte
AMERICAN & EUROPEAN JEWELRY 1830-1914
NY: Crown Publishers, 1975
Quarto. 240 pp; 227 illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Edges of pages age toned, else very good in very good jacket.
Inventory number #001294