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2000140938852Portland OR: Nazraeli Press 2000. First Edition. Fine. 2000-2017. 124 Volumes 100 titles five multi-volume deluxe sets and duplicates of several titles several labeled AP for Artist's Proof. A complete run of the celebrated series which features 100 uniformly sized books of various colors giving each artist a 16-page canvas to exhibit a cohesive body of work. Each volume is limited to 500 copies and each contains one photographic print tipped in and signed by the artist--hence the name of the series. Conceived in 1998 as a way to make original art more affordable titles were originally released in groups of four generally twice a year beginning in 2000 and ending in 2017 with most copies reserved in advance for subscribers. Complete sets of the 100 titles are uncommon as many volumes are out of print; even more uncommon are those with the deluxe box sets as few were issued toward the beginning of the series. All volumes are Fine to Near Fine. Several volumes with light spine sunning or a slight shelf lean. The deluxe sets are by John Gossage Four American Photographs Todd Hido Taft Street Eduardo del Valle & Mirta Gomez Four Sections of Time all marked as "AP" or artist's proofs Judy Gelles Beach Boxes and Emi Anrakuji e hakagi Comprised of 1. Terri Weifenbach Instruction Manual No. 1: 21. May 1995; 2. John Gossage Four American Photographs 4-volume set in slipcase; 3. Terri Weifenbach Instruction Manual No. 2: 21. April 1996 "Bee"; 4. Terri Weifenbach Instruction Manual No. 3: 25. June 1996 "Blue Sky"; 5. Chan Chao Letter from P.L.F. Burma; 6. Todd Hido Taft Street 4-volume set in slipcase; 7. Ron van Dongen Rosa Ferreus; 8. Susan Hornbeak-Ortiz True; 9. Bill Jay Bill Brandt 2 copies; one signed as usual on limitation line and there the other marked "print signed on verso"; 10. Julien Coulommier Soleil Cou Coupe; 11. Yuki Onodera How to Make a Pearl; 12. Robert Adams Alders; 13. Risaku Suzuki Fire: February 6; 14. Robert Heinecken studiesnineteenseventy; 15. Don Kirby You're not really initiated until your eyes are redder than your lips; 16. Masao Yamamoto The Path of Green Leaves; 17. Martin Parr 7 Communist Still Lifes; 18. Andreas Müller-Pohle Yumiko; 19. Sara Gilbert Cues; 20. Toshio Shibata Type 55; 21. Michael Kenna Boarding School; 22. Eduardo del Valle & Mirta Gómez Four Sections of Time 4-volume set all marked as "AP" or artist's proofs; 23. Weng Fen Sitting on the Wall & Bird's Eye View; 24. Judy Gelles Beach Boxes 1 copy 4-volume set in slipcase; 25. Naoya Hatakeyama River Series / Shadow; 26. Boomoon Kwon On the Clouds; 27. Camille Solyagua Twenty-One Red-Crowned Cranes and One Black Crow; 28. Martin Parr 7 Colonial Still Lifes; 29. Jim Stone Why My Photographs are Good; 30. Stu Levy Cranial Czar Eh; 31. Ken Ohara One; 32. Steve Pyke: Post Partum; 33. Steve Pyke: Post Mortem; 34. Joseph Mills e mars Lilly's Waist; 35. Yuichi Hibi Robert Frank A Weekend with Mr. Frank; 36. Twinkako Ishiwata-Pichler Desperately Seeking Twinka; 37. Ron van Dongen A. angustatum; 38. Junko Takahashi The Receptionist; 39. Daido Moriyama Kuchibiru; 40. Emi Anrakuji e hagaki 7 volumes included with 6 unique prints; no slipcase present perhaps as issued; 41. Michael Kenna Montecito Garden; 42. Tanya Marcuse Fruitless; 43. Stephen Shore Merced River; 44. Jesse Diamond Drum Circle; 45. Nancy Honey Poodle Parlour; 46. Lars Schwander Manuel Ãlvarez Bravo: One Day in April 1999; 47. John Divola Seven Dogs; 48. Masao Yamamoto Fujisan; 49. David Maisel Cascade Effect; 50. Rob McDonald Birth Place; 51. Netta Madahar Sustenance; 52. David Tseklenis Julius Shulman Does His Own House; 53. Joe Deal Indian Bingo; 54. Raymond Meeks Doctrine of an Axe; 55. Mayumi Lake Ex Post Facto; 56. Michael Kenna Heiden Hotel; 57. Eduardo del Valle & Mirta Gómez En Vista; 58. Edward Bateman Mechanical Brides of the Uncanny; 59. Todd Hido: Cracked Trees 2 copies one numbered the other labeled "AP" for Artist's Proof; 60. Todd Hido: Crooked Cracked Tree in Fog 2 copies one numbered the other marked "AP" for Artist's Proof; 61. David H. Gibson: Water Cascade: A Sequence; 62. Eiji Ina: Wacht; 63. Alec Soth: One Mississippi; 64. Mark Steinmetz: Italia: Cronaca di un Amore; 65. Pine & Woods: For Constance; 66. Hiroshi Watanabe: Love Point; 67. Terri Weifenbach: Some Insects; 68. Sally Mann Rob McDonald and Even Rogers: Cy's Rollei; 69. Corey Arnold: Fishing with My Dad 1978-1995; 70. Joni Harbeck & Neil Krug: Indian Girl; 71. Steve Fitch: Motel Signs; 72. Liz Steketee: Dystopia; 73. Stephen Shore: Pet Pictures; 74. Martin Parr: Seven Cups of Tea; 75. Stu Levy: Honk If You Love Stieglitz: Jerry Uelsmann A Grid-Portrait; 76. Leon Borensztein: Portraits ii; 77. Carol E. Richards: Birds Have Wings; 78. Melanie Pullen: Juliette; 79. Martin Usborne: Fox About Town; 80. Risaku Suzuki: Snow Letter; 81. John Divola: Supermarket; 82. Richard Misrach: iPhone Studies: Reverse Scrubs; 83. Dan Solomon: Witness; 84. Jim Goldberg: Polaroids from Haiti 2 copies one marked "AP" for Artist's Proof; 85. Roger Ballen: The Audience; 86. Doug Rickard: All Eyes on Me; 87. Aaron Ruell: Ten Years Too Late; 88. Alec Soth: Bogota Funsaver; 89. Steve Kahn: Corridors; 90. Daido Moriyama: Self 2 copies; 91. Katy Grannan: Lion King; 92. Michael Kenna: Kussharo Lake Tree; 93. Todd Hido: Season Road; 94. Elaine Ling: Habitacion Cubana; 95. Ed Templeton: Memories of the Salt.; 96. Ave Pildas: Bijou; 97. Javier Carrillo: Las Trocas Angelinas con sus Mercancia; 98. Gregori Maiofis: Taste for Russian Balet; 99. Tomoko Sawada: Face; 100. Gloria Katz: Souvenirs. Nazraeli Press unknown books
1903TB31835Chicago: Lakeside Press 1903 to 2019. The first 25 volumes bound in dark green cloth covered boards 1903-1926 of this complete set are in very good to near fine condition. The exceptions to this average are the 1908 and 1910 printings of Memorable American Speeches I and Memorable American Speeches IV both of which are ex-library copies with the ghosts of spine labels and with penciled library notations otherwise in very good to very good conditions. The red cloth covered volumes 1927-1952 are generally between very good to fine conditions. The blue cloth covered volumes 1953-1977 are also in very good to fine conditions. The brown cloth covered volumes 1978-2002 are in very good to fine conditions with 13 titles still in their original shrink wrap. The 19 teal cloth covered volumes 2003-2019 are all in fine condition and with one exception are in their original shrink wrap. This is a remarkable complete collection of all 119 volumes all of which are in collectible condition. Only 5 of the first 25 volumes have a prior owner's name or book plate. And one of the volumes 1919 has the signature of Thomas E. Donnelley on the third free end page. Lakeside Press hardcover books
19461972New York: F-R Publishing Co. 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Tight bright and unmarred. Cloth boards various colours gilt lettering and decorative elements decorative endpages covers front and rear bound in. 4to. Paginated by edition. Illus. color and b/w plates. Each year bound in four volumes in matching colors 1941 brown; 1942 navy; 1943 brick red; 1944 dark green; 1945 olive green; 1946 black. <br/><br/>Each volume includes approx. 13 to 15 individual issues filled with what has made the New Yorker famous outstanding articles and cartoons by some of the period's luminaries N.B. This was the golden age of the New Yorker Harold Ross was the editor contributors included E.B. White Joseph Mitchell James Thurber Dorothy Parker Truman Capote S.J. Perelman John McNulty Peter Arno Charles Addams J.D. Salinger Franny and Zooey first saw print in these leaves A.J. Liebling and Joseph Wechsberg. These are truly outstanding volumes. A very handsome set of books embodying some of the best short writing of the era. F-R Publishing Co. hardcover books
1925001319Various 1925. Hardcover. Pavlov Ivan Dvadtsatiletnii Opyt Obektivnogo Izucheniia Vysshei Nervnoi Deiatelnosti Povedeniia Zhivotnykh. Uslovnye Refleksy. Sbornik Statei Dokladov Lektsii i Rechei Twenty Years of Objective Study of the Higher Nervous Activity Behavior of Animals. Conditioned Reflexes. A Collection of Articles Reports Lectures and Speeches Leningrad/Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo 1925. Third edition 1 of 5000 copies; 6 1/4" x 9 1/4"; pp. 5 4-397 3; rebound in red cloth over boards; brown morocco label with gilt lettering to spine; uniform age-toning to text block; page edges a bit brittle with two small chips to fore-edge of first free page; last leaf publisher's advertisements with some loss of paper to lower margin; illustrated with black & white drawings; overall very good condition. A beautiful association copy from Nobel Prize winner physiologist Ivan Pavlov known for his work on classical conditioning to his pupil - Harvard educator and a world-renowned neuropathologist in his own right Paul Yakovlev. The book is signed: "Ot avtora" "From the author" on the title page. On the front pastedown Yakovlev has taped a photograph of himself seated with Pavlov with a quote in Russian and in English of their topic of discussion at the time the photo was taken: "Subcortive ganglia actuate the cerebral cortex." A second copy of the same photograph is loosely laid in the book. A third photo of aging Pavlov is taped to the first free page. The front endpaper bears Yakovlev's signature and a lengthy note: "This is personal copy of Prof. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov with a notation in his own hand: "from the author." Sent to me in Paris from Leningrad in the Spring of 1924 before the publication date in 1925. I cannot account for this." Two Yakovlev stamps are present - one is his own personal "Dr. Paul I. Yakovlev" in red ink on first free page and a second one: "Yakovlev Collection Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Washington DC" is on the title page. Numerous notes and drawings in Yakovlev's hand are scattered throughout the book. Together with: Yakovlev Paul and Halloran Roy Collected Lectures of the Seventh Postgraduate Seminar in Neurology and Psychiatry Including A Review Course in Military Neuropsychiatry. October 3 1941 - April 10 1942 In 3 Volumes Waltham Mass.: Privately printed by the authors 1942. First edition first second and third semesters; 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"; vol. I pp. 3 II-VI 1-250 2 vol. II pp. 4 III-VI 1-309 2 vol. III pp. 3 II-VI 1-528; cloth-backed paper over boards; gilt title to spines; a bit of rubbing and wear to tips of spine and corners; pages clean; very good condition. Personal copies of Paul Yakovlev's own lectures volume III bears a note in his hand: "Paul Yakovlev personal copy not to be removed from his library." Each one of the volumes has a: "Yakovlev Collection Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Washington DC" stamp to the title page. A newspaper clipping of an article on: "Neuropsychiatrists in the Army" dated in Yakovlev's hand is loosely laid in volume I. Several marginal notes and drawings are present throughout volume III. Various hardcover books
1921000681Berlin and Paris: Russkoe Iskusstvo 1921-1926. Seven issues No. 1 2 7 8 9 11 12; 9 ½ x 12 ½; all first editions except #1 and #2 which are the second edition of the same corresponding months; illustrated throughout including numerous plates mounted on leaves with captions printed; pages mostly very clean No. 12 has small chips to upper corners of covers and a spot to fore-edge of first 2 pages only; No. 6 has faint foxing to lower margin of first 2 pages; colors bright; few small chips to corners of wraps not affecting illustrations; some wear to spines with some loss of paper; #11 missing front cover else all pages and wraps present and securely attached; slight age-toning to covers; overall in very good condition. Possibly the most influential and famous of the post-revolutionary art and literature journals Zhar-Ptitsa Firebird was first printed in Berlin in 1921. A total of 14 issues were published at irregular intervals from 1921 to 1926. A magnificent journalistic endeavor it represented the Russian culture abroad and challenged the boundaries between the Bolshevik agents and the immigrant intellectuals at the time. Contributors included Konstantin Somov â a brilliant artist who immigrated to the United States after the revolution but finding the atmosphere âabsolutely alien to his artâ he eventually ended up in Paris; Alexander Benois â the founding member of Mir Iskusstva; Ivan Bilibin â the illustrator and stage designer who moved to Paris after the October Revolution but longing for his country returned home in 1936 to ultimately die during the Siege of Leningrad; Natalia Goncharova â the great niece of Alexander Pushkin and one of the most revered Russian Avant-garde artists â and many others including all the members of Mir Iskusstva. The latter was not only an art journal but an artistic movement which was said to have revolutionized European art at the beginning of the 20th century. Vengerov Staraia Russkaia Kniga 105. Rarely seen on the market. Please inquire about individual issues. Berlin and Paris: Russkoe Iskusstvo paperback books
196813145161968-1974 1980. Three large bound volumes containing a variety of 1960's counterculture newspapers. Thee are a total of 113 Issues.<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Volume 1 contains Issues of the Berkeley Barbs starting at Vol. 6 No. 7 Issue 131 February 16-22 1968 and running through Vol. 8 No. 7 Issue 183 February 14-21 1969. It contains Issues 131-146 149 150 152-159 161 162 164-170 172-176 178-183 with 174 misnumbered as 173 and 178 done twice being a total of 48 Issues.<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Volume 2 contains Issues of the Berkeley Barbs starting at Vol. 8 No. 8 Issue 184 February 21-27 1969 and running through Vol. 10 No. 1 Issue 230 January 9-15 1970. It contains Issues 184-204 Berkeley Tribe #2 205-214 216-221 223 225 227-230 being a total of 43 issues of the Berkeley Barbs plus 1 issue of the Berkeley Tribe. This volume includes the special Barb on Strike issue after which the staff launched their own rival newspaper the Berkeley Tribe.<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> Volume 3 contains a variety of issues from various magazines and newspapers including: Rolling Stone issue 120 October 1972 Berkeley Barb Vol. 15 No. 8 Issue 367 August 25-31 1972 National Enquirer Vol. 46 No. 20. January 16 1972 Rolling Stone Issue 82 May 13 1971 Rolling Stone Issue 80 April 15 1971 Rolling Stone Issue 76 February 18 1974 Los Angeles Free Press Issue 333 December 4 1970 The Organ Vol. 1 Issue 2 September 1984 Tribe Vol. 3 No. 11 Issue 63 September 18-25 1970 Earthtimes No. 2 May 1970 Earthtimes No. 1 April 1970 Rolling Stone No. 53 March 7 1970 Los Angeles Free Press Vol. 5 No. 46 Issue 226 November 15-21 1968 Los Angeles Free Press Vol. 5 No. 29 Issue 209 July 19-25 1968 Los Angeles Free Press Vol. 5 No. 19 Issue 199 May 10-16 1968 Los Angeles Free Press Vol. 5 No. 16 Issue 196 April 19 1968 San Fransisco Express Cities Vol. 1 No. 12 April 11 1968 The Bay Guardian Vol. 2 No. 9 April 5 1968 Los Angeles Free Press Vol. 5 No. 9 May 1-7 1968 The Bay Guardian Vol. 2 No. 8 February 28 1968 Los Angeles Free Press Vol. 5 No. 7 Issue 187 February 16-22 1968 The Bay Guardian Vol. 2 No. 6 February 7 1968 being a total of 22 Issues. The Berkeley Barb was a weekly underground newspaper published in Berkeley California during the years 1965 to 1980. It was one of the first and most influential of the counterculture newspapers covering such subjects as the anti-war movement and Civil Rights Movement as well as the social changes advocated by youth culture.;<br /> <br><br /> <br>. 1314516. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. unknown books
1932WALTER-FILM004090A collection of 230 vintage photos chronicling Katharine Hepburn's 62 year theatrical motion picture career. Forty of Hepburn's fifty-three film credits are represented. It includes her classic Academy Award winning performances and multiple nominations as well as her popular classic films including: <br /><br />A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT ADAM'S RIB THE AFRICAN QUEEN ALICE ADAMS BRINGING UP BABY GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER HOLIDAY LION IN WINTER LITTLE WOMEN LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT MORNING GLORY THE PHILADELPHIA STORY THE RAINMAKER ROOSTER COGBURN STAGE DOOR SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER and WOMAN OF THE YEAR. <br /><br />The collection comprises the following photographs: <br /><br />BILL OF DIVORCEMENT 1932- 1 <br />CHRISTOPHER STRONG 1933 - 6 <br />MORNING GLORY 1933 - 1 <br />LITTLE WOMEN 1933 - 6 <br />SPITFIRE 1934 - 2<br />THE LITTLE MINISTER 1934 - 8<br />BREAK OF HEARTS 1935 - 2<br />ALICE ADAMS 1935 - 7<br />SYLVIA SCARLETT 1935 - 4<br />MARY OF SCOTLAND 1936 - 1 program with photo of Hepburn signed in pencil by photographer Ernest Bachrach<br />A WOMAN REBELS 1936 - 6<br />STAGE DOOR 1937 - 4<br />BRINGING UP BABY 1938 - 8<br />HOLIDAY 1938 - 1<br />THE PHILADELPHIA STORY 1940 - 1<br />WOMAN OF THE YEAR 1942 - 4<br />KEEPER OF THE FLAME 1943 - 13<br />DRAGON SEED 1944 - 6<br />WITHOUT LOVE 1945 - 1<br />UNDERCURRENT 1946 - 8<br />THE SEA OF GRASS 1947 - 7<br />SONG OF LOVE 1947 - 10<br />STATE OF THE UNION 1948 - 1<br />ADAM'S RIB 1949 - 7<br />THE AFRICAN QUEEN 1951 - 6<br />SUMMERTIME 1955 - 10<br />THE IRON PETTICOAT 1956 - 6<br />THE RAINMAKER 1956 - 1<br />DESK SET 1957 - 1<br />SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER 1959 - 14<br />LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT 1962 - 15<br />GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER 1967 - 13<br />THE LION IN WINTER 1968 - 25<br />THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT 1969 - 2<br />THE TROJAN WOMEN 1971 - 8<br />A DELICATE BALANCE 1973 - 5<br />ROOSTER COGBURN 1975 - 4<br />ON GOLDEN POND 1981 - 1<br />GRACE QUIGLEY 1984 - 3<br />LOVE AFFAIR 1994 - 1<br /><br />230 photos total.<br /><br />The life and career of Katharine Hepburn is a true study of the independent woman. Both her professional and personal life reflect the social attitude towards independent women and their influence and acceptance throughout the 20th century. <br /><br />Born May 12 1907 in Hartford Connecticut to a doctor and a suffragette she was from birth encouraged to speak her mind develop her brain and be physically fit. Independent and somewhat rebellious from youth she shunned convention and this was embraced in her early career. <br /><br />A result of the Depression meant that many women needed to re-invent their lives -- many seeking jobs and needing to be aggressive in doing so. Hepburn's early films reflected strong women in the workforce many of them professionals -- no matter the setting and period of the story. These portrayals gave hope to women that they too could achieve independent success. The scripts were saddled with romantic convention but that made the overall story acceptable to all tastes -- particularly as the 1934 Production Code took force. <br /><br />Moviegoers became tired of the aggressive maverick as the economy improved in the late-1930s. Hepburn's home studio RKO became less open to finding the unconventional vehicles it had taken a chance on for several years and Hepburn was labeled box office poison. <br /><br />As independent in the handling of her own career's fate as she was her personal life she found her own project: THE PHILADELPHIA STORY. It became a hit on Broadway and she single-handedly launched a new and successful branch of her film career by working with MGM for the film rights and signing a contract which took her through the 1940s.<br /><br />THE PHILADELPHIA STORY bridged a gap from independent woman who gets her comeuppance to independent career woman who also needs a seemingly conventional and equal partner. This she found in her teaming with Spencer Tracy. This worked well both during and after World War II particularly as women needed to fill jobs left by men during the war thus empowering them with an independence which continued in the workplace after. <br /><br />Hepburn's 1950s and 60s career reflects attitudes towards women as they age. She starts to play spinsters such as in THE AFRICAN QUEEN and SUMMERTIME who are looking for love. As America became seemingly a bit more conservative so did some of her roles -- but the 1950s and early-60s were a strange period of convention and dark psychology and her roles in SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER RAINMAKER and LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT reflect that. As the 1960s progressed her characterizations grew to accept the changes in society such as in GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER and her roles later were those of older age reflecting on the past but embracing the present. <br /><br />Hepburn was one of the very few film actresses whose career spanned the entire sound film era of the 20th century. She would be nominated for 12 Academy Awards winning 4 and bookend her work with awards for MORNING GLORY 1933 and ON GOLDEN POND 1981. She was one of the few talents to have control over her career and one of the few to have such great longevity. <br /><br />This collection reflects nearly every theatrical film that she appeared in between the years of 1932 and 1994. It is a collection worthy of study. There are 230 photographs all but a few are 8 x 10" single weight glossy original release prints a few are slightly smaller or on double weight paper. Overall condition of the collection is FINE. Various books
1984140941196Franklin PA: The Franklin Press 1984. Complete in 100 volumes all leather bound in various colors stamped in gilt with gilt edges and moire endpapers. Near Fine overall with occasional light rubbing to bottom edges a few volumes have light foxing or wear to edges minor rubbing. Almost all volumes unread with clean bright contents. Includes information booklets. Complete title list available on request.<br /> Please note: will not ship internationally! The Franklin Press unknown books
1915002504Various: Various 1915. First Edition. Very good. A hundred and five real photo poscards two original photographs mounted in an album with small paper corner slips covering the years 1915 - ca1930; images aprox. 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 and 10 x 8; album 13 1/4 x 10 1/4; most pictures subtitled in the margins of the photos themselves; some also identified in manuscript to verso; overall in very good to near fine and better condition with occasional wear to corners; album - leather over boards embossed to imitate aligator skin tied with a decorative string; wear and chipping to edges in about good condition. An astonishing and meticulously collected and assembled archive of photographs it represented the most important figures of the Russsian cinema ballet and theater at the beginning of the 20th century. Some of the photos were portraits while in others the artists were in costumes performing in various productions. A number of them were signed and/or inscribed in Russian and English. Two of the images were taken by renowned German-Russian photographer Karl Andreevich Fisher 1859 - . A few of the names included: Vera Karalli 1889 - 1972 - ballet dancer choreographer silent film actress and allegedly a co-conspirator in the murder of Grigorii Rasputin; actor Viktor Petipa 1878 - 1933 signed; Elza Elizaveta Kruger ca1893 - 1941 - dancer actress and later founder of the Russian Romantic Ballet Theater in Berlin; Mikhail Mordkin 1880 - 1944 - ballet master at Sergei Diagilev's Ballets Russes later founder of Mordkin Ballet in the US; Aleksandr Vertinskii 1889 - 1957 - artist composer poet and actor; Vera Kholodnaia 1893 - 1919 - the first star of Russian silent cinema most of whose films have been lost as many of her features had been destroyed by the Soviet Government after the Revolution; actress Vera Baranovskaia 1885 - 1935 signed; Vsevolod Bliumental-Tamarin 1881 - 1945 - actor director and author who officially died of a suicide in Switzerland but was allegedly murdered by Russian Counter-intelligence agents SMERSH signed; Andrei Petrovskii 1869 - 1933 - actor director and educator signed; and others. Various hardcover books
1970002618Various: Various 1970. First Edition. Very good. Eight posters ca 1970 - 1974; various sizes approx. 38 x 26 and 19 x 27; all in protective laminated sleeves; condition varies from good with nicks to edges creases and closed cuts to margins to very good or better with minor wrinkles and wear. A significant archive of posters they were published at the height of the Cold War and showcased the Bulgarian performing-arts scene under the guardianship of Liudmila Zhivkova 1942 - 1981 - a senior member of the Communist Party and daughter of Bulgaria's Communist Leader Todor Zhivkov. Remembered for her goal to promote the country's culture and arts on the international stage as well as to bring foreign culture to Bulgaria Liudmila was a controversial figure viewed by some as a forerunner of alternative ideas and freedom in the friggidly-unwielding totalitarian bloc and considered a spoiled "Red Bourgeoisie" child by others. At least one of the posters a double-sided one promoting the screening of Mikhai Semesh's Hungarian movie "The Magic Fur Coat" was created by renowned graphic designers Anton Mechkuev 1920 - 2011 and Grigor Angelov 1941 - . Another one for the premiere of the Bulgarian drama "The Best Person I Know" featured beloved Bulgarian actress Nevena Kokanova 1938 - 2000 known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Several of the posters listed opera and jazz performances a Greek play and puppet shows at several major theaters. One was a propaganda for the "Bulgarian Musical Youth" Movement for all young people who were Komsomol members. Various unknown books
1976430various: various 1976. Wrappers. Near fine. 13 vols. All are the 1st appearances anywhere. All in original wrappers near fine. 1: Scientific American Sep. 1971. Page 194 the first ad for the first personal computer Kenbak-1. <br/>2: QST Mar. 1974. Page 154 the first ad for the first Mini-Computer Scelbi-8H. <br/>3: Radio-Electronics Jul. 1974. Pages 29-33 Jonathan A. Titus: Build the Mark 8 Minicomputer the first magazine project microcomputer. <br/>4: Popular Electronics Jan. 1975. Pages 33-38 Edward H. Roberts and William Yates: Altair 8800 Minicomputer part 1. <br/>5: Popular Electronics Feb. 1975. Pages 56-58 Edward H. Roberts and William Yates: Altair 8800 Minicomputer part 2. <br/>6: Byte Magazine. First 5 issues Sep. 1975-Jan. 1976. Loaded with goodies. <br/>7: Computer Notes Altair Users Group Nov.-Dec. 1975. Page 19 Bill Gates: The Status of BASIC the primitive interpreter originally on paper tape first revealed in Mar. 1975 a month before Gates and Allen founded Microsoft. <br/>8: Computer Notes Altair Users Group Jan. 1976. Page 1 announcement of the first Altair Convention. Page 13 Bill Gates article on programming. Page 14 Bill Gates article on software. Issues of Computer Notes are all scarce. <br/>9: Computer Notes Altair Users Group Feb. 1976. Faint stains. Page 3 Bill Gates: An Open Letter to Hobbyists Feb. 3. A highly important statement outlining what became the Microsoft business model and clarifying distinctions between proprietary vs. open-source software Altair licensed Microsoft BASIC.<br/><br/> Footprints on the summit are soon blown away but each of these items made their mark briefly for those who cared at the time so remain worth revering. In Jul. 1975 the first computer store opened in L. A. In Mar. 1976 Albuquerque hosted the first World Altair Computer Conference see no. 8 and by then even novices knew something was happening. And I note that the word "something" as I've used it in the last sentence has no synonym. various unknown books
1907698Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 volumes large 8vo. 2 x 4 504; 2 iv 2 538 pp. With numerous full-page photographic plates. Bound in original publisher's black cloth rebacked and recornered in very handsome dark brown morocco marbled endpapers top edges gilt. BEAUTIFUL COPY. ¶ This vast and comprehensive work covers the region of the State of Texas South and West of the Guadalupe River with particular emphasis on the Borderlands with biographical accounts of local leaders and early settlers to the region. Includes but is certainly not limited to accounts of the establishment of missions Spanish occupation Austin's colony LaSalle's colony the Alamo and Goliad San Jacinto the Republic of Texas Annexation and the new State of Texas the Civil war era the cattle industry the railroads and much more. ¶ Provenance: From the library of Rudolph L. Biesele author if the still-indispensable "History of the German Settlements in Texas" 1930 and numerous scholarly articles on the early development of the State of Texas. ¶ Rare such attractive condition as here. ¶ Suitable for exhibition and study. Lewis Publishing Company hardcover books
1976145543Spain: Various 1976. Collection of 30 vintage posters for Spanish or Spanish co-productions released between 1961-1976. <br/><br/>The posters predominantly feature full color illustrations but also include photo-illustrations and other techniques showcasing the variety of graphic design techniques which evolved over the decade-plus covered by the collection. Even among the illustrated posters a variety of styles can be found as the films represented include comedy horror crime exploitation and other genres of film. <br/><br/>Directors whose films are represented in the collection include Jesus Franco Carlos Aured Jose Luis Merino Jose Maria Elorrieta and Julio Coll while actors featured include Maximillian Schnell Nadiuska Paul Naschy Maria Perschy Carlos Quiney Elsa Martinelli and Francisco Rabal. <br/><br/>Most posters approximately 27.5 x 39 inches with minor variations in size. Posters generally Very Good with expected toning chipping and starting to folds. Folded as issued. <br/><br/>For details please inquire. Various unknown books
1996046729New York: Visionaire 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. 1606 of 2500 in a leather handbag slipcase. Small tear to the paper wrapper enclosing the contents otherwise fine. One of the harder to find issues it reportedly sold out in just 3 weeks. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: 046729. Visionaire hardcover books
196825043Nishinomiya: Kansei Gakuin University Zengakukyotokaigi Shuppankyoku 1968. Fine in plain black wrappers near fine photo-illustrated wraparound card jacket very lightly edgeworn with a tiny nick at the top of the front panel. First Edition. Oblong octavo. 96 pages photographs in letterpress. Collection of excellent Japanese protest images shot by uncredited photographers in and around Kansei Gakuin University. One of the rarest and most dynamic Japanese protest books of the era. Heiting and Ryuichi 222. Nishinomiya: Kansei Gakuin University, Zengakukyotokaigi Shuppankyoku unknown books
197024038various: various 1970. Three Ring Binder. Good. We offer a large archive of fireworks labels dating to the 1970s including 175 labels collected from various manufacturers and countries mostly India and China but with a few from Japan and even America. The archive is contained in two binders labeled "FIREWORKS LABELS ALBUM NO. 3" containing 82 labels mostly of Indian origin and "FIREWORKS LABELS ALBUM NO 4." 99 labels mostly of Chinese/Macau origin with a few from Japan and America.<br/><br/>The archive was collected in the 1970s presumably by someone in the fireworks business and placed in old photograph albums with the "magnetic glue" format which has unfortunately transferred to the backs of many of the labels and in some cases is visible on the front of the labels. We've left the labels in the albums as is partly because there are some penciled notes on some pages indicating a date or in album 4 "PGII CONV" presumably for the Pyrotechnics Guide annual conventions. They are easily removable but we feel the choice of what storage to transfer them to was best left to the next owner.<br/><br/>Label artwork ranges from very ornate to very plain. Names are as varied as the marketers could make them - and the graphics vary from beautiful girls as often on the Indian labels to "American themes" reflecting the marketing target. The names are as creative as the images and evoke their use: "Mines" "Aerial Colored Flares" "Flower pots" "Flash Ray Gun" "Crackers" "Square Bombs" "V-2 Rocket "Neptune Rocket" "Cable Car" "Electric Sparklers" "Flaming Torches" etc. Three Ring Binder. These labels represent a wonderful piece of American Cultural History and conjure images of kids with family bright smiles and loud booms on the 4th of July a uniquely American phenomena. The fact that someone collected these is a boon. By definition after the BOOM the rest of the packaging isn't very useful to most. And some of the labels in Album #4 show the results of use with occasional charring. Checking various online auction sites we find labels selling from a few dollars for modern labels to many hundreds for earlier ones. A more detailed listing is available upon request to interested purchasers. <br/><br/>A highly visual collection this archive would provide a nice basis for a larger collection in the area. various unknown books
1974272858Fribourg: Office du Livre 1974. First. hardcover. near fine/very good. Profusely illustrated throughout with color and black & white plates. 12 volumes. Large 4tos gilt-lettered blue cloth d.w. top edge gilt. Fribourg: Published for the National Trust by Office du Livre 1967-1996. One volume is lacking the wrapper and spine is a bit scuffed but all others are in near fine to fine condition some with partially sunned dust wrappers; 7 volumes also have the publisher's board slipcase. Quite scare as a complete set.<br/><br/> Paintings 1967. Sevres Porcelain 1968. Sculpture 1970. Meissen and other European Porcelain & Oriental Porcelain 1971. Arms Armour and Base-Metalwork 1974. Furniture Clocks and Gilt Bronzes 1974. Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century 1975. Illuminated Manuscripts 1975. Glass and Stained Glass Limoges and Other Painted Enamels 1977. The Savonnerie 1982. Architecture and Panelling 1996.<br/><br/> Office du Livre unknown books
1933002281Tiantszin Shanghai and Riga: Various 1933. First Edition. Very good. A small collection of publications by the Rossnatsionalistov - an influential albeit very short-lived politico-religious party especially active among Russian emigres in the Far East. During its initial years at the head of the party was Ivan Matveevich Zaitsev 1879 - 1934 - commander of a regiment of the Orenburg Cossack Army and later author and publicist in China. The motto of the party was in part: "Spirit over Matter." and their somewhat naive and idealized vision of the perfect existence of the country was described in those publications. Three publications in several parts; bound together in black and red leatherette over boards; minor wear and rubbing to edges; very good condition. - Deklaratsiia Dalnevostochnago Otdela Rossiiskoi Vsenarodnoi Partii Natsionalistov Rossnatsi; in 5 parts - Introductory "Ideologicheskaia" "Istoricheskaia" "Podgotvitelnaia" and "Administrativnaia;" pp. 90 altogether; each part except Part 1 with its own title page on thin colored paper; published in Tianjin in 1934 place and date in Parts 3 to 5 only; illustrated with a glossy color plate depicting the official badge of the party and their slogan. - A circular announcing the release of the above-mentioned publication and describing the goals of the party; single thin rice-paper sheet; folded; 8 1/4 x 5 1/4; published in Shanghai by "informatsionno-agitatsionnoe biuro dalnotdela partii Rossnatsionalistov" in 193_ 1933 . -Konspekt Programmy Rossiiskoi Vsenarodnoi Partii Natsionalistov Rossnatsi; a small book with salmon-colored wraps; pp. 23; published in Riga by "Globus" in 1933. Various hardcover books
19033754Various 1903. Octavo with eleven pamphlet volumes mostly in original wrappers bound together in blue cloth with handwritten spine label featuring seven of the eleven titles. Text is predominately in French with two volumes in English. These are rare volumes that cover topics related to viticulture and oenology specifically wine production but also include a report on federal protection to American commerce and a French price guide to historic coins and medals. Blue cloth with some rubbing small white mark to the cover and mild foxing to the end pages otherwise very good. ~ 1. Manning J.F. Federal Protection to American Commerce. New York: Evening Post Job Printing Office 1882. 48 pages. Lacking back wrapper. 2. "Congrès de Reims Les 23 24 25 et 26 Juillet 1903". Bulletin de l'Association des Chimistes No. 3-Tome XXI Septembre 1903. 1903. 27 pages paginated 145-172. With fourteen illustrated figures. Text in French. Because this is just a section of the bulletin there are no wrappers. 3. Salleron J. Notice sur les Instruments de Précision Appliqués A l'Oenologie. Paris: Chez L'auteur 1887. xvi 182 pages. Second edition. Illustrated with numerous figures and two plates. Text in French. Lacking back wrapper. 4. Duclou Georges. De l'Epamprement ou Écimage de la Vigne en Gironde: Effets qu cette opération semble produire sur le cep et le vin. Paris/Bordeaux: Les Libraires Associes/Feret et Fils 1896. 8 pages. Text in French. In orange wrappers. OCLC locates one copy at UC Davis Shields Library. 5. Barbet M.E.A. Concours Relatif a la Rectification des alcools. Paris: Imprimerie Noizette 1892. 19 pages. Illustrated with figures. Text in French. In heathered blue wrappers. OCLC locates no copies 6. Bouffard A. La Loi Griffe et le Platrage. Montpellier: Aux Bureaux du Progrès agricole et viticole 1890. 12 pages. Text in French. In blue wrappers. OCLC locates no copies. 7. Marès M.H. Du Prix de Revient Des Vins dans Le Departement de l'herault. Montpellier: Imprimerie Typographique de Gras 1866. 18 pages. Text in French. In blue wrappers. OCLC locates just one copy at Bibliothèque nationale de France. 8. Andrieu Pierre. Nouvelle Mèthode de Vinification de la Vendange par sulfitage et Levurage: Ses application en 1900 et 1901 dans diverses contrees viticoles de la France. 1902. 22 pages. Text in French. In blue wrappers. OCLC locates one copy at the University of Chicago Library. 9. Salleron J. Notice ser les Instruments de Précision appliqués a l'oenologie. Paris: Chez L'auteur 1882. 82 pages index. Illustrated throughout. Text in French. Lacking front wrapper. OCLC locates no copies of this edition. 10. Administration des Monnaies et Médailles. Catalogue et Prix de vente des Medailles de la Monnaie: Prix de vent des Medailles de administrations de l'etat: Tarif des frappes sur coins particuliers des inscriptions en creux et end relief etc. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale 1902. 31 pages. Text in French. In green wrappers. OCLC locates no copies of this edition. 11. Grazzi-Soncini G. Appendix E to the Biennial Report of the Board of State Viticultural Commissioners for 1891-92: Wine. Classification-Wine Tasting-Qualities and Defects. Translated by F.T. Bioletti. Sacramento: State Office 1892. 57 pages. Lacking wrappers. OCLC locates no copies of this edition. hardcover books
1924175512Washington DC: Phillips Memorial Gallery 1924. VG in VG blue cloth slipcase slightest of wear to lower front outer hinge and one small abrasion at top of spine faint odor from being in storage will dispate over time. Blue levant leather.with triple gilt border on covers 5 raised-bands with gilt title. T.e.g. ages untrimmed viii 98 48 pp. 5 color 53 bw plates and one color drawing tucked in at rear. This subscriber's edition is 43 out of 50 numbered copies and is signed by the artist. Contains an original color drawing by the artist specially mounted with tissue guard located in a special pocket on inside back cover. Includes preface foreword 7 essays and a biographical sketch. The text is followed by a section of illustrations one to a page with tissue guards. A lovely copy with a lovely drawing. Phillips Memorial Gallery hardcover books
1975149497Mexico: Various 1975. Collection of 19 vintage Mexican posters for films released between 1961-1975. <br/><br/>The posters feature full color illustrations in a variety of styles as the films represented include Westerns comedies thrillers horror and action films. Directors whose films are represented in the collection include Rene Cardona Miguel M. Delgado and Roberto Rodriguez while actors featured include Julissa Antonio Aguilar Fernando Casanova Lucha Villa Sara Garcia and Sylvia Pinal. <br/><br/>Most posters approximately 27 x 36 inches with minor variations in size. Posters generally Very Good with expected toning chipping and starting to folds. Folded as issued. <br/><br/>For details please inquire. Various unknown books
198828351East Lansign MI: The Michigan Computer Consortium 1988. Wraps. Very Good. An incomplete run of the Michigan Computer Consortium Magazine ENERGY. Formats and issues listed below. All are stapled wrappers in various colors most with mailing labels Kruse Company Lansing MI on rear panel. 28 issues of the large format and 17 of the later smaller format issues 45 issues total. ISSN: 0740-2759<br/><br/>Format: 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Stapled self-wrappers pagination includes wrappers. Dennis C. Cullinan Editor<br/>Oct 1983 - 36 pages no price<br/>Nov 1983 - 24 pages Preston cartoon on cover $1 cover price starts<br/>Dec 1983 - 32 pages Preston cartoon on cover<br/>Jan 1984 - 28 pages Preston cartoon on cover<br/>Feb 1984 - 28 pages Preston cartoon on cover $1.50 cover price starts<br/>Mar 1984 - 32 pages Preston cartoon on cover<br/>Apr 1984 - 28 pages Preston cartoon on cover<br/>May 1984 - 40 pages Computer Faire issue<br/>Jun 1984 - 28 pages Preston cartoon on cover<br/>Jul 1984 - 28 pages Preston cartoon on cover stained<br/>Aug 1984 - 28 pages Preston cartoon on cover<br/>Sep 1984 - 20 pages Preston cartoon on cover<br/>Oct 1984 - 20 pages Preston cartoon on cover<br/>Dec 1984 - 24 pages Preston cartoon on cover<br/>Jan 1985 - 20 pages<br/>Feb 1985 - 16 pages<br/>Mar 1985 - 20 pages "jt" cover illustration<br/>Apr 1985 - 24 pages<br/>May 1985 - 24 pages<br/>Jul/Aug 1985 - 24 pages<br/>Sept 1985 - 24 pages<br/>Oct 1985 - 28 pages<br/>Nov 1985 - 28 pages<br/>Dec 1985 - 28 pages<br/>Jan 1986 - 28 pages Preston cartoon on cover<br/>Feb 1986 - 32 pages<br/>Mar 1986 - 28 pages<br/>May 1986 - 28 pages Mid-Michgan Computer Show<br/><br/>Format: 6 3/4 x 8 /12 inches. Stapled self-wrappers pagination includes wrappers. Erin Sweeney editor<br/>June 1986 - 20 pages.<br/>Jul 1986 - 20 pages.<br/>Aug 1986 - 20 pages<br/>Sep 1986 - 24 pages<br/>Oct 1986 - 20 pages. Cartoon by Ginny<br/>Nov 1986 - 24 pages.<br/>Dec 1986 - 20 pages. Cartoon by Ginny<br/>Feb 1987 - 16 pages.<br/>Mar 1987 - 24 pages.<br/>Apr 1987 - 20 pages.<br/>May 1987 - 24 pages<br/>Jun 1987 - 24 pages.<br/><br/>Format: 6 3/4 x 8 /12 inches. Stapled self-wrappers pagination includes wrappers. Wendy Spencer editor<br/>Sep 1987 - 24 pages<br/>Nov 1987 - 24 pages<br/>Jan 1988 - 32 pages<br/>Mar/Apr 1988 - 22 pages.<br/><br/>Format: 6 3/4 x 8 /12 inches. Stapled wrappers. Tom Eddy editor<br/>May 1988 - 20 pages plus wrappers. cover price still $1.50. Wraps. It is nearly impossible to provide a comprehensive flavor for this monthly magazine's contents in today's computer terms. These magazines go back to an era when the internet as we know it wasn't access to shared online data was through free local or costly long-distance bulletin boards modems supported 45.5-300 and if you were lucky 1200 baud speeds and information about what was happening in the personal computer field was pretty fragmented. Much of the discovery learning happened in local user groups who shared ideas enthusiasms hacks and techniques among themselves. Computers were new and exciting. Businesses providing support new software and hardware and supplies were blinking into existence every day all over the country as this new phenomenon took hold of everyone's imagination and blinking out just as quickly if they didn't stock the right stuff. It was a heady time to be a techie.<br/><br/>What follows is a fairly detailed look at the contents of the first issue in this grouping Oct 1983 to give you a flavor of what they are. The production values of both articles and advertisements varies wildly throughout. It is quite fun having lived through this time period myself to recognize certain dot-matrix printers amateur layout techniques and references to computers I've not seen in many many years. <br/><br/>The issue explains that "we are now in a combined format with CMTUG and M3G. This did not happen overnight! The planning began last May 1982 after the Computer Faire. We first formed the Michigan Computer Consortium MC2. This was intended as an umbrella organization for any existing club that wanted to join. The two primary functions of this umbrella are to provide a basis for planning the next Computer Faire and to share a bulk email permit. In an effort to bring about more cooperation between clubs and to disseminate additional information about computers it was decided that the three founding members of MC2 would move toward the production of a joint newsletter. Last month Sept 1983 CMTUG and M3G produced a joint newsletter. This month you will note that CHAOS has joined this great effort. It should be noted that each club has the option of printing their own newsletter at any given time if this newsletter ceases to meet the needs of its members." The President's Report by Ike Hudson goes on to discuss the mechanics of needing articles from member clubs the suggested editorial / submission process etc.<br/><br/>Contents include attempts much like speculation on Apple computers today to predict what Atari's next move is and notes that CP/M "is coming soon from Atari" and talks about the Atari 400 through 1400XL. It also includes a 2 1/2 page article introducing word processing reports on a fundraising auction hardware reviews Seikosha AT-100/GP-100 printer The Atari-Forum a new tollfree CHAOS dial-up bulletin board "What is a computer Part III" hacking a floppy disk drive to fix a warping problem and much else including a number of pages of advertising. TARICON 83 has a full page ad: "The largest Atari only computer show ever held" and billed as the "First Major Consumer Computer Convention Devoted Exclusively to Atari Home Computeres and related Support Products." with some 50 exhibit booths and 50 seminars and workshops. In addition to Atari news there is TRS-80 Heath/Zenith and other content.<br/><br/>One issue we looked at discussed networking. One of the most prevalent ones Sneakernet. Yes you guessed it. Taking diskettes machine to machine to transfer data. Another lists Current Versions of Apple II software as of Jan 1987. Apple LUG News. Claris tackles a game plan. AppleFest '87. A writer's tool 2 page review of new software from Optimized Systems Software Inc OSS. OSIG : Patching Wordstar. An explanation of "In the Public Domain" and what it means. You get the idea. Lots of great history.<br/><br/>We've been dealing in computer related material for years and this is one of the few chances we've had to purchase this sort of early computer group newsletter. While many advertisers remain over the timespan covered the contents change significantly and are a great source of material for anyone studying this time period in personal computers. The Michigan Computer Consortium unknown books
1919002055London: His Majesty Stationary Office 1919. Softcover. A small collection of three volumes of reports published as white papers between 1919 and 1921 they were filed by returning diplomatic representatives in Russia and by appointed British officials and released by the British Government to highlight the "disaster" caused by the Bolshevik rule. - "Russia. No. 1 1919. A Collection of Reports on Bolshevism in Russia." First edition; 13 x 8 1/4; pp. 1 iii-vi 1 2-88; printed off-white wraps; last leaf pp. 87-88 and back wrap perished replaced with a facsimile; front wrap with a bit of dust-dulling and a small handwritten number to upper corner detached; text block clean; good or better condition. After its publication the document was immediately withdrawn and reissued with various excisions and alterations because of its vicious anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and only a handful of copies the original first printing have survived. While some of the verbal attacks on Jews were more subtle others such as that of M. Oudendyk the Netherlands' Minister to Petrograd outright stated: ".I consider that the immediate suppression of Bolshevism is the greatest issue before the World not even excluding the war which is till raging and unless as above stated Bolshevism is nipped in the bud immediately it is bound to spread in one form or another over Europe and the whole World as it is organized and worked by Jews who have no nationality and whose one object is to destroy for their own ends the existing order of things." Also often discussed in the reports was the demise of the Romanov family. - "Miscellaneous. No. 13 1920. Interim Report of the Committee to Collect Information on Russia." First edition; 13 x 8 1/4; pp. 1 3-23; printed off-white wraps illustrated with a vignette separating from the text block; back wrap with cuts nicks and loss of paper along edges not affecting text; cut to bottom edge of front wrap; good to very good condition. The committee was appointed in 1920 and consisted of several prominent British figures including Sir William Ryland Dent Adkins and Alfred Emmott 1st Baron Emmott. Its purpose was "to inquire into conditions under which British subjects were recently imprisoned or detained in Russia and generally to obtain information in regard to the economic and political situation in that country." Some of the topics covered conduct of prison officials and "sidelights of prison life." - "Russia. No. 1 1921. Report Political and Economic of the Committee to Collect Information on Russia." First edition; 13 x 8 1/4; pp. 2 4-167; printed off-white wraps illustrated with a vignette; back wrap separated from the text block; front wrap with a bit of dust-dulling and small chips to corners; very good- condition. Following the previous interim report the current one focused on the political and economic conditions in Russia and covered the effects of the Revolution on the country the attitude of the Soviet Government towards other countries etc. London: His Majesty Stationary Office paperback books
1929001831S. l. San Francisco: W. & J. Sloane Design Room 1929. Softcover. Five poster boards various sizes up to 19 1/2 x 12 1/2; in pencil water colors and ink; yarn samples attached to one of the boards with old pieces of tape; manuscript notes and measurements to margins; general wear to edges; a few cuts and spots not affecting the drawings; rubbing to margins of one of the boards; ink stamps of W. & J. Sloane to lower right corner; very good or better condition. Stunning bright custom rug designs by the preeminent designer and supplier of rugs and furniture to the rich and famous of the 19th and the early 20th centuries for the family of businessman and timber baron Lowell Thomas Murray of Tacoma WA. W. & J. Sloane was founded in 1843 in New York by Scottish-American brothers William and John Sloane. They would become the first to import oriental rugs into the US and the first to coin themselves "Interior Decorators and Home Furnishers." The company opened a branch in San Francisco in 1915 originally to furnish the pavilions at the Panama-Pacific Exposition but staying on for the demand for their products. They prospered and catered to the American elite until 1955 when the business control left the hands of the direct descendants of the Sloane brothers. The firm over-expanded lowered its quality and prices and ultimately filed for bankruptcy in 1985. L. T. Murray Sr. moved West from Ohio in 1906. He would found the West Fork Timber Company the Pan Pacific Trading Company and the Pan Pacific International Corporation and would become President of the Pacific Logging Congress established in 1909 to provide technical education about the forest industry. S. l. (San Francisco): W. & J. Sloane Design Room paperback books
1991046713New York: Visionaire 1991. First Edition. Softcover. 23 individual sheets - some folding one a folding booklet attached to card stock counted as one - in a folding illustrated portfolio. Blank outer wrapper not present. Light wear to portfolio fine internally. Scarce. 303 of 1000. Contributors: ADELINE ANDRÉ<br/>BILL CUNNINGHAM<br/>BRUCE WEBER<br/>DAVID MCDONOUGH<br/>DOVANNA PAGOWSKA<br/>GREGORY PARK<br/>JAMES WHITE<br/>JOSÉ ARMAN-PITA<br/>JOSEF ASTOR<br/>JUAN BOTAS<br/>KARL HOLMQVIST<br/>KENNY SCHARF<br/>MATS GUSTAFSON<br/>MICHAEL CAPOTOSTO<br/>RUBEN TOLEDO<br/>RUVEN AFANADOR<br/>SERGE LUTENS<br/>TODD OLDHAM<br/>CECILIA DEAN<br/>STEPHEN GAN<br/> Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: 046713. Visionaire unknown books
