Fresh Wood; New Designers V.1
Sierra Madre: Mitra, 2004. 1st. Hardcover. Foreword: Conversations with Sam Maloof on student design. Bound in the publisher's original printed paper over boards.Full-color illustrations throughout. More
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Oriental Rugs; Volume 1 Caucasian
Oriental Text Press, [1981]. 1st. Hardcover. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of color illustrations of oriental rugs. Bound in publisher's orignal green cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Endpapers printed with maps of the area between the Black and Caspian Seas. 10 x 8 3/8 inches. 376 pages. More
The Chelsea Porcelain Toys
London: Medici Society, 1925. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Contains 62 plates, 47 are in color all with multiple images. One of 650 numbered copies signed by the author. Only 150 copies were sold, the rest were pulped. Plates..... More
Seven Hundred Years of Oriental Carpets
Berkeley: University of California Press, [1970]. Hardcover. Translated from the German by May H. Beattie and Hildegard Herzog. Forward by Hanna Erdmann (editor). Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and with 20 color illustrations. 12 9/16 x 10 inches. 238 pages..... More
Gems of Costume Jewelry
New York: Abbeville Press, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine and cover stamped in silver. Grey endpapers. Translated from the German by Laura Lindgren. Profusely illustrated, most plates in color. Dust jacket photo of Greta Garbo. 12 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches. 260 pages. More
Brooches of Antiquity, A third selection of brooches from the author's collectio
Oxford: Oxbow, 1994. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original salmon cloth with spine stamped in gilt. A third selection of Iron Age to Medieval brooches from the author's collection, with references to continental types as well as British, and notes on their manufacture. Profusely illustrated. 10 x 7 1/2 inches. 406..... More
The Great Book of Jewels
Lausanne: Edita, 1974. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Illustrated, most plates in full color. 13 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches. 316 pages plus colophon. More
The Decorative Arts of the Forties and Fifties; Austerity/Binge
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1975. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in the publisher's original yellow cloth over boards, black spine label. Profusely illustrated throughout in color and black & white. More
Decorative Art 1937; Decorative Art 1937; Thirty-second annual issue of the Studio Year Book
London: Studio, 1937. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Illustrated book of the cutting edge of mid-century modern decorative art in 1937. 178pp., the last 34 of which comprise interesting and valuable period advertising. Leaf size: 11 x 8 inches. Ex..... More
Decorative Art 1939
London: Studio, 1939. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Illustrated book of the cutting edge of mid-century modern decorative art in 1939. 168pp. of which the last 24 pages comprise interesting and valuable period advertising. Leaf size: 11 x 8 inches..... More
Decorative Art 1938
London: Studio, 1938. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Illustrated book of the cutting edge of mid-century modern decorative art in 1938. 176pp., the last 32 of which comprise interesting and valuable period advertising. Leaf size: 11 x 8 inches. Ex..... More
Decorative Art 1930; year book of "Creative Art"
New York: Boni, 1930. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Illustrated book of the cutting edge of mid-century modern decorative art in 1930. 180pp. Leaf size: 11 x 8 inches. Ex non-circulating library with spine numbers. Water stain damage at page..... More
Decorative Art 1936; thirty-first annual issue of the Studio Year Book.
London: Studio, 1936. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Illustrated book of the cutting edge of mid-century modern decorative art in 1936. 164pp., the last 24 of which comprise interesting and valuable period advertising. Leaf size: 11 x 8 inches. Ex..... More
Decorative Art 1940; The Studio Year Book
London: Studio, 1940. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Illustrated book of the cutting edge of mid-century modern decorative art in 1940. 144pp., the last 16 pages of which comprise interesting and valuable period advertising. Leaf size: 11 x 8 inches..... More
Decorative Furniture
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1923. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Contains more than 900 illustrations and 23 plates in color. Ex (non-circulating) library book with spine numbers and title page perforation and library stamp on last page only. Leaf size 12 1/2..... More
Five Centuries of Jewelry in the West
New York: Arch Cape Press, 1989. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Profusely illustrated. 11 x 10 inches. 327 pages. More
Italian Landscape in Eighteenth Century England - A study chiefly of the influence of Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa on English Taste 1700 - 1800
New York: Oxford University Press, 1925. 1st. Hardcover. The Wellesley Semi-Centennial Series. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Twenty-five plates illustrating landscape designs. Extremities show slight wear, otherwise fine. 243 pages. More
The Necklace, From Antiquity to the Present
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine stamped in gilt and grey endpapers. Profusely illustrated in both color and momochrome. 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. 224 pages. More
Decorative Paper
New York: BDD Illustrated Books, 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Signed by the author on half-title page. Bound in publisher's original rust paper with spine stamped in white, and pink endpapers. Color illustrations throughout. 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. 120 pages. More
The Encyclopedia of Antique Carpets; twenty-five centuries of weaving. In two volumes.
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, [2016]. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original red cloth over with cover and spine stamped in gilt. Orange patterned end papers. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Publisher's promotional material laid in. Illustrated paper-covered slip case. More
Louis Vuitton; The Birth of Modern Luxury. Updated Edition
New York: Abrams, [2012]. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth, cover and spine stamped in blind with black endpapers. Scarcely noticible abrasion to dust jacket on front cover lower right. Profusely illustrated. A good designer resource. Size: 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches. 559 pages, weighs 11 lbs..... More
The Decorative Arts of Sweden
New York: Scribner's, 1948. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine and cover stamped in black and yellow. Light wear at extremities. 246 illustrations, 32 in color.illustrated with color artwork and lettering. Dust jacket has small chips and tears at edges, otherwise fine. More
Jewelry in Britain, 1066 - 1837, A Documetary, Social, Literary and Artistic Survey
Norwich: Michael Russell, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine stamped in gilt. 52 color plates and 133 monochrome plates. 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. 431 pages. More
The Encyclopeadia of Furniture
London: Benn, 1926. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in red pebbled cloth with spine stamped in gilt. The first 63 pages are text detailing the various periods and styles of furniture, then follow 320 photographic plates illustrating examples of them. Ex non-circulating library with spine numbers and title page perforation only. Interior..... More