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1950136469N.p.: N.p. 1950. Two vintage black and white photographs advertising the legendary Ohrbach's department store in the Wilshire Prudential Insurance Company building today home of the Screen Actors Guild. An strong example the apex of its mid-century design in Los Angeles. Stamped on the verso by Woro Studio the agency who shot and struck the photographs for the store's use at<br/><br/>Ohrbach's was a moderately-priced department store with a merchandising focus primarily on clothing and accessories. From its modest start in 1923 Ohrbach's expanded dramatically after World War II and opened numerous branch locations in the metro areas of New York New Jersey and Los Angeles. The growth of the fashion industry in California encouraged the company's expansion to the state and the firm employed the services of a buying office in Los Angeles as early as 1939 and opened its own office in 1945<br/><br/>In 1948 Ohrbach's leased three floors and the mezzanine in a wing of the Prudential Insurance Company building designed by Welton Becket and William Wurdeman on Wilshire Boulevard's Miracle Mile. The success of the Miracle Mile store led the firm to open another branch in Downtown Los Angeles in 1953 when it acquired the twelve-story Milliron's building at 5th and Broadway. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown books
1904846251904. DESIGN Shimomura Tamahiro designer. SEKAI SARASA 2 vols. Kyoto Unkindô 22.3 x 31.3 cm. Meiji 37 1904. 2 vols. Tassel-bound in decorated paper covers fukuro-toji. 27 full page color woodcut plates of cotton chintz designs from around the world. Nicely printed very good condition. unknown books
197326219Havana Cuba: S.i. 1973. Original poster silkscreened in black red and blue on off-white stock measuring 51cm x 76cm 20.25" x 30". Professionally linen-backed with expert touch-up along lower margin and a small area near the center image; Near Fine. Film poster for Cuban director Santiago Alvarez's 16-minute documentary film depicting the injustices commited in Chile in the 1970's under the fascist dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. It featured music by Chilean folk singers Violeta Parra and Victor Jara; shortly after the Chilean coup in 1973 Jara was arrested tortured and shot to death with 44 bullets from machine gun fire his body later thrown out into the street of a shantytown in Santiago. Designed by Cuban artist Eduardo Muñoz Bachs prominently featuring a cartoonish image of Pinochet whose nose is puncturing a guitar painted the colors of the Chilean flag. Not found in OCLC. S.i. unknown books
197713387New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold 1977. First American edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Scarce first American edition following the Swiss. Four softbound books in illustrated hard slipcase. Includes Volume 1 Object Drawing Object and Museum Drawing and Nature Drawing; Volume 2 Memory Drawing Technical Drawing and Perspective and Lettering; Volume 3 Material Studies Textile Design and Color 2; and Volume 4 Color 1 Graphic Exercises and Dimensional Design. Contributors to these classics in the field of design include M. Zwimpfer J. Hutter A. Gurtler P. Stettler J. Tramer and others. All volumes in near fine condition. Slipcase in fine condition. Profusely illustrated. Van Nostrand Reinhold paperback books
32547DESIGN AND WORK; A HOME AND SHOP COMPANION. Volume I. London: G. Purkess 1876. 4to. Publisher's blue cloth. xi 476 pages. First edition. This is the first volume of a London weekly periodical with the same name as Manchester monthly. The London work is not cited by OCLC the NUC or RIBA. Our volume contains the first thirty issues from 13 May through 2 December 18 Articles cover mechanics construction building design technology and inventions including "Practical Wood-turning" "The Telescope" "Our Steam Velocipede" "Miniature Railroad Train" and "The Megascope." Advertisements appear for each issue. Covers moderately worn. unknown books
1902891971902. DESIGN Fujii Rindô. SHOKUMON ZUKAN 1-4. Kyôto Yamada Unsôdô Meiji 35 1902. Four volumes complete each volume with printed title string-bound Japanese-style fukuro-toji. 24.2 x 16.4 cm. Illustrated throughout with lightly colored woodblock prints of traditional design motifs. The covers are worn some pages split but present. unknown books
1906879181906. DESIGN Kamisaka SEKKA. NIHON JOSÔ 7 vols. Kyoto Unsodo Meiji 39 1906. 26.3 x 18.7 cm. String-bound Japanese style fukuro-toji printed paper title labels. An interesting visual history of women's fashion in traditional Japan. The bw woodblock prints were supervised by the master himself Kamisaka Sekka. A good impression some cover soiling in very good condition overall. Complete. unknown books
1936892161936. DESIGN Kanô Shûhô artist. Ukiyoe Monyô KOSODE HYAKUSEN. Kyoto Happodo Showa 11 1936. 36.7 x 27.2 cm. Though this copy has no colophon or textual material it consists of 48 of the 50 woodblock printed sheets each with two designs so 96 of 100 designs. Each design is identified by the original ukiyo-e artist's name. The printings are fine the condition good overall. With the original title page all in a clasped chitsu case. Sold with all faults. unknown books
193731077Moscow: State Publishing House of Graphic Arts 1937. First Edition. Folio 41.5cm; photo-illustrated card wrappers stapled; 36pp; illus. with three illustrated plates tipped onto thicker stock in-text and three panoramic fold-out plates designed by Es and El Lissitzky; text is in English. Light wear along spine fold and extremities else Near Fine with all plates intact. Well-preserved issue of this landmark Soviet art magazine issued from 1930 to 1941 to celebrate the achievements of the first two Five Year Plans and through various foreign-language editions to propagandize the stark contrast between the vibrant Soviet economy during this period and the stagnation of Western economies under capitalism. "All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks designed by Lissitsky Rodchenko and others.were developed in USSR in Construction one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century" Parr-Badger The Photobook I:148.<br/><br/>The present issue is devoted to the various people groups of the Caucasus region their history industries and accomplishments. A superior copy of a desirable issue. State Publishing House of Graphic Arts unknown books
2000CNJL795Baltimore Maryland: Dolphin Press / Maryland Institute College of Art 2000. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Lorenz Hilary. No. 7 of 40 copies of the deluxe edition total edition 100 elephant folio size 40 pp. signed by Albert Mobilio and Hilary Lorenz. "The Handbook of Phrenology" is a collaboration between artist Hilary Lorenz an artist and printmaker whose work has been exhibited throughout the United States Europe and Asia and the co-founder of the Dolphin Press and writer Albert Mobilio a poet and literary critic whose work has appeared in The Village Voice Harper's Fortune and The New York Times Book Review n. b. artist bios from the book. <br/><br/>The book is a collection of five prose fiction pieces that revolved around the nineteenth-century science of phrenology or "the reading of one's head shape to determine personality" n. b. from website of Hilary Lorenz and is a provocative examination of what is now recognised as a pseudoscience.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full black Japanese Asahi cloth gilt vignette and lettering on the front board hand-marbled paste-down endpapers hand-sewn binding six etchings interspersed throughout the text both etchings and text printed on the rectos only; Dante monotype on Rives Heavyweight elephant folio in size 16" by 13.5" unpaginated with 20 leaves excluding front and back blank leaves per the colophon page a limited edition of 100 copies this being number 7 per the web site for Hilary Lorenz numbers 10-100 were for sale signed by Albert Mobilio and Hilary Lorenz on the colophon. The slipcase is covered in matching cloth gilt vignette and lettering on the front which mirrors the book lined with maroon paper. With a sheet with a description of the book serving as the prospectus one sheet printed on one side.<br/> <br/>___CONDITION: Volume is fine with a strong square text block solid hinges perfectly straight corners with no rubbing the interior is clean and bright and it is entirely free of prior owner markings - crisp as new. Slipcase is also fine strong and sturdy clean without wear. The prospectus sheet is near fine clean with very light toning to the edges and light wear to the corners else fine.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an oversize book and additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Dolphin Press / Maryland Institute, College of Art hardcover books
189951352New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1899. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; black and gray illustrated paper-covered boards with title label at upper spine; 962pp; illus. Gentle sunning to spine and upper rear cover light wear to spine ends and board corners with minute board exposure to lower corners a few tiny stains to lower front cover and a tiny vintage booksellers ticket to lower rear pastedown; hinges sound and clean throughout; Very Good. <br/><br/>Attractive copy of this masterpiece of Art Nouveau book design and a key Will Bradley work. The title poem remains Crane's most searing indictment of war condensing the spirit of The Red Badge of Courage into a work of 32 lines. BAL 4083. Frederick A. Stokes Company unknown books
1915857611915. DESIGN Saikasha. SAIKA. Tokyo 1924-9. 30 issues bound into 10 volumes out of 36 issues bound in 12 volumes. Significant run of the SAIKA series which captured Japanese and Asian design in all its manifestations - objects utensils. fabrics rugs architectural elements lacquerware cloisonnee etc. etc. There is a total of approximately 500 plates of which about 100 are color woodblock printed and another dozen or so are color collotypes and color lithographs. The remainder are collotypes and offset. An interesting series from the reference library of the Mitsukoshi Department Store. Two of the volumes are disbound with a few plates missing but they have the original covers. Sold with all faults and priced accordingly. Unusual set. unknown books
1933891861933. DESIGN Hisatomi Jun; Yoshida Tamashiro designes. SHINKÔ KOSODE BURI 1 2 3 5. Kyôto Happôdô Shôwa 8 1933 36.1 x 26.1 cm. Each volume of the four of five contains 10 lovely color-printed woodblock design in a kimono sleeve format. A wonderful collection of these "shinkô" "modern" designs. The woodblock printed covers are loose and some folds in the folding albums are starting. Sold with all faults. 4 volumes. unknown books
1901891941901. DESIGN KOSUGI Sugimura & YOKOI Tokifuyu designers. DAI NIHON BIJUTSU ZUFU 4 vols. Tokyo Yoshikawa Hanshichi Meiji 34 1901. 4 plate volumes orihon folding albums illustrated with 154 pages of color woodcut. 25.1 x 18.5 cm Complete as such BUT not including the 4 text volumes. A lovely compendium of traditional design. Very good colors impression and condition. Volume 4 is split at one fold; its rear cover is detached and its front cover attached with a tissue repair. unknown books
1919004668London: Martin Secker first two issues Cecil Palmer third issue. Printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son 1919 1923. First edition. Wraps for first issue hardcover paper pastedown second two issues. Very Good. Literary journal with extraordinary roster of contributors including Max Beerbohm Siegfried Sassoon T. E. Lawrence John Doyle Enoch Soames Robert Graves John Crowe Ransome John Masefield John Galsworthy Thomas Hardy Walter de la Mare Rockwell Kent Vachel Lindsay Edwin Lutyens William Nicholson etc. 4to. 32 by 25 cm. Mostly poetry with also a mix of stories dialogues etc. and lovely plates quite a few in color. All produced handsomely and though short-lived the confluence of talent marks these as an unique undertaking. Minor edge chips to wraps of the first volume. Chips along the joints and the spine of the second. Within the leaves are age toned with some scattered light foxing. <br /><br /> Martin Secker (first two issues), Cecil Palmer (third issue). Printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son hardcover books
1911902691911. EHON - Design Book Yamada Unsôdô publisher. MOMIJI. Kyoto: Yamada Unsodo Meiji 44 1911. 26.5 x 19 cm. Orihon with printed paper covers over boards. Thirty double fold sets of color woodcuts detailing the leaf forms of some 187 different species of Japanese maple. A scarce example of Unsodo's wonderful design work with a naturalistic theme from the early part of the 20th century. The covers are a bit worn but the impressions and colors are very good. Complete as issued in one volume. unknown books
196933815New York 1969. Watercolor on paper. 1 vols. 18 x 23-1/2 inches. Framedvery good/fine. Watercolor on paper. 1 vols. 18 x 23-1/2 inches. 'DANCES AT A GATHERING'. Illustrious American fashion illustrator Joseph "Joe Eula 1925-2004 is best known for his work as the creative director at Halston during the 1970's. In 1968 however Eula's work in American theater garnered him a Tony Award for the Broadway production of Private Lives. His later work in costume design for Jerome Robbins and the New York City Ballet includes Dances at a Gathering 1969 and costumes for The Goldberg Variations. unknown books
1925877511925. DESIGN Shimomura TAMAHIRO. TAMAHIRO GASHÛ. Kyoto & Tokyo: Unsodo Taisho 14 1925. Single sheets cord-bound into illustrated boards with a printed paper title label. 36.2 X 25.3 cm. There are 16 pages of color woodblock printed designs and 30 pages of bw collotypes. One of the hybrid design books that Unsodo created in the 20s and 30s. Very clean and bright in the original publisher's slipcase. A very unusual and late effort by Tamahiro 1878-1926 an important Unsodo designer who began his work for them at the turn of the century. Even more unusual in such lovely original condition. Complete. unknown books
1911869271911. DESIGN Shirokiya Department Store. 38 COVERS FROM RYÛKÔ MAGAZINE. Tokyo Taisho era design done by the design staff including Furuta Tachiji of Shirokiya Department store for this their monthly magazine. Here we have a group of 38 front covers removed from the original magazines. They were trimmed by a collector to uniform size andstab bound into an album. Here removed again they provide a repositury of Taishô chic design at its best. Save for the trimming and occasional foxing in very good condition. unknown books
1918869371918. DESIGN ODA Kazuma artist and designer. ÔYÔ ZUAN Gekkan Dai-ichi-go. Tokyo Papiyon Zuansha Taishô 7 1918. Folio-sized wrappers 34.5 x 24.2 cm. This "Practical Design" monthly features the work of Oda Kazuma 1882-1956 in this its first issue. This issue features articles on the use of electric lights at night for advertising with a note at the end on some recent advertising posters that have appeared. Obviously a periodical by professionals for professionals in the design and advertising world. Not a world one usually thinks of Oda Kazuma belonging to but here he turns his talents at lithographic printmaking to more practical ends with sevarl examples of advertising designs and commercial art. Very good condition throughout. Very unusual. unknown books
193538548Moscow: VOKS 1935. First Edition. Small quarto 27cm. Leatherette-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; 1-24 25-306 20pp. Mild external wear; slight lean to text block; still a tight Very Good or better copy with both pictorial inserts present and in good condition bit of wrinkling to the fragile celluloid insert bearing Stalin's silhouette portrait. Unusually well-preserved copy of this landmark of Soviet book design featuring copious examples of the revolutionary photomontage work of Rodchenko and Stepanova. The two extremely fragile inserted design elements - a die-cut folded plate bearing Lenin's portrait on a movie screen and a clear celluloid sheet with the printed silhouette of Stalin are rarely found intact if at all; in this copy both are present and complete in excellent condition. VOKS unknown books
19301598251930. JAPANESE COMMERCIAL DESIGN. A Collection of approximately 200 labels for food and drink products. Various sizes mounted in an album. Small folio 305 x 225mm bound in pale blue wrappers in a recent brown chitsu case. NP. ND. Japan 1930's. An eclectic collection of Japanese food and drink labels from the first quarter of the twentieth century. Fruits vegetables spirits candies canned meats and fishes are all represented on colourful labels featuring combined western and Japanese design sensibilities. They are neatly tipped into an accordion style album of thick pale blue paper and mostly remain in fine condition. unknown books
193020242Philadelphia ca. 1930s. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong 4to. album. Screw-bound leather-covered boards with publisher's text in printed in gold to front cover. Holds photos diagrams text and paint swatches all affixed to 29 dark-gray stiff leaves divided into four sections. Appears almost entirely complete with corners of several captions torn off. Album about very good overall with many affixed papers toned from age or glue-stained but all remain readable. Sound overall. Additionally laid-in are 21 clippings and advertising ephemera relating to hardware stores including several in Toronto. <br/><br/>Extensive custom catalogue containing metal fixtures and display equipment for hardware stores published by David Lupton's Sons a steel company based in Philadelphia. The catalogue includes suggestions for store layout providing examples of merchandise display on Lupton display cases and shelving with extensive diagrams showing the proper distribution of for example various-sized shovels on a particular shelving unit. From a stamp appearing several times throughout the album and on a piece of laid-in marketing ephemera which reads "Bowes Hardware & Plumbing 425 Danforth Ave Toronto" this particular album was almost certainly compiled by Lupton for Bowes as part of its "Store Planning Service" referred to on the album's cover. A fascinating example of the marketing and merchandizing of U.S. hardware store equipment and a glimpse into the process of starting a North American small business during the height of The Great Depression. hardcover books
1934891821934. DESIGN BOOK Yoshida Gyokujô compiler. TANSAI GAFU. Kyoto Happpôdô Shôwa 9 1934. 2 vols. complete. Tall folios 36.7 x 25.4 cm orihon folded album in woodcut printed paper over board covers with printed paper title labels. There are 25 total full page color woodblock prints. Interesting style mixing flat solid colors with small naturalistic elements in a single print. Good impressions and colors. Complete in clasped chitsu case with printed silk label. Case is worn books about good. The set eventually ran to 4 volumes these are the first two produced. unknown books
1932894051932. DESIGN Iida Shikô. HÔEN-CHÔ. Kyoto: Maria Gabô Shôwa 7 1932 Oblong orihon folding album in the original publisher's chitsu clasped case. 28.3 x 39.0 cm. There are 23 ornately printed circular designs with metallic inks etc. Maria Gabô was not prolific but what they printed was always done with first rate craftsmanship. unknown books
