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TK0360no place: no date. 9.5 x 12.75 inches. 40 pages. 145 numbered photographic tinted illustrations each with numerous figures. Original plain black wrappers. With apologies but there is no manufacturer name on this trade catalogue of hand-crafted ornamental 'finishing' pieces such as decorative brasses for a piece of furniture. Many are with motifs from nature leaves flowers. Other ornaments: lions lizards angel wings wheat eagle-heads sun-faces etc. Each figure is numbered with the highest number showing is 3836 ornaments are shown. [no date]. unknown
197843524New York: Mobilization for Survival 1978. Original illustrated poster offset printed in four colors on white stock measuring 40.5cm x 55.5cm 16" x 22". Mild handling to extremities faint corner crease and a tiny tear to upper edge with a staple hole toward upper margin; Near Fine. Poster produced by Mobilization for Survival a national coalition of peace and justice groups based in Philadelphia who advocated for denuclearization and an end to the arms race. Planet Earth prominently featured at center swallowed by a large mushroom cloud in the background. Not found in OCLC though we note an example held at OMCA. Mobilization for Survival unknown
197943527Philadelphia: Mobilization for Survival 1979. Original illustrated poster offset printed in three colors on yellow stock measuring 45.5cm x 58cm ca.18" x 23". Old folds smoothed out tiny pin-hole to upper margin with a short tear at lower edge and holograph local contact information pasted at lower right corner; Very Good. Poster produced by Mobilization for Survival a national coalition of peace and justice groups based in Philadelphia who advocated for denuclearization and an end to the arms race. The group states their demands above silhouettes of nuclear cooling towers and missiles of various sizes: Stop research production and use of nuclear weapons; stop operation and construction of nuclear power plants; guarantee adequate heating fuel for the poor during the winter. Not found in OCLC though we note an example held at OMCA. Mobilization for Survival unknown
45451New York: Arista Records 1975. Good. New York: Arista Records 1975. Original record store poster 86x61cm printed offset lithograph reproducing Robert Mapplethorpe's iconic photographic portrait of Smith which also appeared on the album's sleeve. Old fold lines with subsequent rubbing to paper stock ragged pinholes at corners uneven dampstaining. Overall a Good only example of this extremely rare poster with heavy signs of use either at a record shop or equally likely a dorm room. <br /> <br /> Promotional poster to Patti Smith's first solo album "Horses" released at the end of 1975. The album recorded at Electric Lady Studios and produced by the former Velvet Underground member John Cale was one of the earliest releases under the Arista Records label. Arista founded in 1974 by Clive Davis quickly established itself as a force in the 1970s music scene signing Barry Manilow Aretha Franklin Patti Smith and Dionne Warwick all in quick succession. "Horses" while not a runaway hit was an instant classic respectably reaching no. 47 on the Billboard 200 with songs like "Gloria" "Redondo Beach" and "Free Money." <br /> <br /> We find no copies of this poster in the trade auction records or OCLC as of September 2025 though we do locate an example at MoMA attributing the design to Bob Heimall. Arista Records unknown
198947500Beverly Hills CA: Hanson Galleries 1989. Very Good /Very Good. Beverly Hills CA: Hanson Galleries 1989. First Edition Stated. Slim quarto; publisher's cloth pictorial endpapers in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; 73pp.; illus. throughout many in full color. Light wear to jacket margins else Very Good and sound.<br /> <br /> Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf "For Congressman Bob Carr -- with love / Peter Max / 1991" with original full-page illustration on facing leaf. Bob Carr 1943-2024 served as Democratic Congressman from Michigan from 1983 to 1995. Hanson Galleries unknown
19762214San Francisco: Camerawork Press 1976. Very Good. 12 x 9-1/8 inches. 286pp laid-in errata slip. White wrappers printed in black. B&w illustrations from photographs throughout. Light toning and minor soiling/wear to wrappers else fine. An outgrowth of an exhibition held simultaneously at Camerawork Gallery and La Mamelle's Art Center in San Francisco in 1976. "Once linguistic structuring is integrated iwth photographic procedures genres are subjected to reinterpretation and expansion. Unexpected formats emerge enabling artists to handle content that no longer can be contained within a pictorial tradition" from the Introduction. Camerawork Press unknown
196837326Brooklyn NY: Pratt Institute 1968. Very Good. Brooklyn NY: Pratt Institute 1968. First Edition. Quarto; unpaginated. Photographs and illustrations many color. Photo-illustrated boards. Light wear to edges and joints; moderate general rubbing. Binding sound; some wrinkling to pages else unmarked; a Very Good copy of this Pop Art-styled yearbook of sorts for the Pratt Institute clearly influenced by Andy Warhol. Pratt Institute unknown
1932894161932. PREWAR DESIGN Atorie-sha. ZUAN SHINGIHO KOZA NOUVEAU COURS: METHODES DU DESSIN DECORATIF 8 vols. Tokyo Atorie-sha Showa 7 1932. 8 volumes 8vo. complete bound western-style in wrappers. An interesting synopsis in Japanese of world-wide trends in commercial art in the early 1930s. Very good or better condition many bw illustrations. In the original publisher's slipcases. The Atorie-sha was one of the most important publishers of art criticism etc. before the war in Japan. unknown
193431017New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1934. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; lime green cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 542pp. Sunning to cloth at spine and extremities else a fresh Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.75 gently spine-sunned and lightly dusty with a few short closed tears; Very Good. Frank's sequel to Dark Mother a strike novel in which a tobocco company executive searches for social order among farmers and workers. A much better example than usually seen of this wear-prone title. HANNA 1299 BLAKE p.252 RIDEOUT p.296. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
193042955Philadelphia 1930. Very good. 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. 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. hardcover
20028908Dundee Illinois: Appleton Coated 2002. First Edition. Stiff printed wrappers in slipcase. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo. Eight volumes unpaginated each perfect bound. Type and illustrations printed in red and black on various Appleton Utopia papers. Texts by Kevin Feeney Lawrence Ferlinghetti Larry Gaudet Jim Hardy John Pylypczak and Stefan Sagmeister. Introduction and credits on an inserted card printed red and black. In a slipcase covered in matte black paper with titles embossed in gloss black. Light scuffs. A smart paper sample promotion by multiple designers that aspires to "meaningful communications" instead of the usual sales blather. Appleton Coated unknown
18453220094<p><em>4to printed bifolio sheet 24 x 19.5 cm some marks and folds. Addressed to Joseph Hume M.P and signed by Richard Burchet R.W. Herman and W.D. Telfer. </em></p><p>In 1845 Richard Burchett became the ringleader of students protesting to the Board of Trade about the teaching methods at the Government School of Design: this was the first attempt to improve the instruction in the principles and practice of ornamental design. The complaint became so serious that eventually a Parliamentary Committee of Enquiry was instituted in 1846 at which he and others gave evidence. Oddly by that time Burchett had already become a master at the school and so was giving evidence against his own employees to the committee.</p><p>This copy was addressed to the radical Joseph Hume M.P who was a close friend of William Williams another radical M.P. who led the charge of incompetence by the School of Design in the House of Commons. After eight committee meetings it was agreed that the School was not in good shape 'the principles of Ornaments and the practice of original design as applicable to manufactures are not efficiently taught' and 'That a knowledge of manufacturing processes so as to enable the students to unite fitness and practicability in Ornament is not communicated.' Reforms were instituted but not in time for some woefully bad designs to appear at the Great Exhibition of 1851 for all the world to see.</p> [London], 17 Bond Street, Commercial Road. 10th July
200146408West Boylston MA: Selby Shaver and Tim Chambers / Mercantile/Image Press 2001. Very Good/Very Good. West Boylston MA: Mercantile/Image Press 2001. First Edition. Large square quarto 31cm; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xi1215pp.; full color photographs throughout. Moderate wear and wrinkling to dust jacket margins corners very slightly nudged else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author Tim Chambers on title page "To John & Colleen -- Two great people who make the business great! Thanks and enjoy -- Tim. Selby Shaver and Tim Chambers / Mercantile/Image Press unknown
88077Leonhard Zeh und Georg Driesch München 1924/25 Winter . Landscape folio 30 x 21 cm.pp 54 25 chromolithographed plates image size 21.5 x 18 cm. all with descriptive text and captions 11 small crayon shoe designs 18.5 x 14 cm on tissue paper and one black and white photograph inserted loose bound in original grey wrappers title lettered in gilt tied with green silk thread slightly stained on lower wrapper; overall a very attractive collection.<br /> This unusual album of shoe designs contains designs for both men and women. <br /> Leonhard Zeh und Georg Driesch, München 1924/25 Winter unknown
1916143509N.p.: N.p. 1916. Vintage Swiss one sheet lithograph poster made to promote the 1916 opening of Speck's Orient-Cinema in Zurich during the heart of the silent film era. Designed and illustrated by costume and commercial designer Ernst Deutsch-Dryden. <br /> <br /> The poster's illustration portrays well-dressed clientele watching a Western movie likely meant to represent a US import. During this period there was a push in Zurich as in all large European and American cities to build lavish new cinemas to accommodate the constantly growing public demand for films and elegant movie houses in which to view them. <br /> <br /> 27 x 39 inches. Linen backed with no extra linen borders with slight restoration at the folds and edges. Archivally framed with UV plexi. N.p. unknown
193288035Moscow: State Publishing House of Graphic Arts 1932. First Edition. Folio 41.5cm; original pictorial wrappers stapled; 40pp plus fold-out centerfold plates; illus. Text is entirely in English. Modest wear and handling some oxidation to staples a 2" closed tear and mild dust-soil to rear panel with one panel of the fold-out centerfold neatly and archivally mended along the fold; contents clean complete; Very Good. <br /> <br /> A significant 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 entirely devoted to Dnieprostroi the massive hydro-electric power station located in Zaporizhia Ukraine. Planned and built by the Communists to stimulate Soviet industrialization the dam was central to Lenin's slogan "Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country." A key issue marking the first design project El Lissitzky would carry out for the magazine. The highlight of the issue is the large 8-panel fold-out centerfold featuring photomontages panoramic views of the dam and portraits of various engineers designers and workers. State Publishing House of Graphic Arts unknown
193288038Moscow: State Publishing House of Graphic Arts 1932. First Edition. Folio 41.5cm; original pictorial wrappers stapled; 40pp; ilus.; text is entirely in English. Light wear to extremities touch of oxidation to staples with some very mild creases to spine-fold; contents clean complete; Near Fine. <br /> <br /> A significant 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 entirely devoted to Magnetogorsk an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains. The interior is laid out by M. Alpert and A. Smolyan with N. Troshin's cover being one of the most striking in the magazine's history. 88038. State Publishing House of Graphic Arts unknown
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
1962366740Stockholm: Raben & Sjogren 1962. First edition text in English. Oblong 4to. A fine copy with binding bright text and illustrations fresh and clean in very good dust jacket; the pictorial dust jacket reproducing a photograph of Stig Lindberg on front panel has moderate wear and foxing with a few nicks and short creased tears else complete. First edition text in English. Oblong 4to. Stig Lindberg 1916-1982 Swedish artist and industrial designer noted for his innovative designs in various mediums including ceramics won a Gold Medal at the First International Ceramics Festival in 1962 in Prague glass and textiles. He won numerous awards internationally including in Milan Madrid and Cannes and his work is displayed at the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm. OCLC lists 28 worldwide holdings including Williams Yale MoMA Cornell Philadelphia Museum of Art RIT Maryland LC Smithsonian Royal Ontario Carnegie Mellon Cleveland Institute of Art Saint Louis Art Museum California Berkeley National Library of Sweden National Art Library London British Library and University of London Raben & Sjogren unknown
194150563Leigh-on-Sea: John Crossley and Sons 1941. 4to. 25 black & white photographs printed on thick glossy photo stock numbered at corners w/ captions below sized 10 x 12 in. Preserved in black cloth portfolio white lettering on front cover & spine w/ black ties at fore-edge w/o lower flap some rubbing edgewear minor bumping to corners still G exemplar w/ NF photos. First edition of this second volume in Marchetti’s series of design photographs instructing weavers designers and salespeople on how to incorporate floral designs into carpets for the home and business. Marchetti d. 1969 director of John Crossley L. Sons Ltd. Carpet Manufacturers was a progressive and influential figure in British design who began his career with the firm in 1935. John Crossley and Sons, hardcover
195959254Goteborg Sweden: Wezata Forlag 1959. Tall 8vo. 128 pp. Colour plates weaving patterns & designs photo illustrations text diagrams throughout. Quarter-beige cloth over colour-illustrated boards black lettering on spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing to lower fore-edges still NF copy signed by author on ffep. First edition in English signed of this exceptional and influential Mid-20th-Century work on Swedish handweaving and design. Selander heavily influenced American weavers not only with her Weaving patterns 1956 and the present title but her extended workshop and lecture tour in 1960 through 28 cities. Not only did she introduce techniques of colour blending of strands to enrich the colour pallet but also advised on how to design their own cloth patterns. See: Marion Marzolf The Swedish Presence in 20th-Century American Weaving Textile Society of American Symposium Proceedings 314 2006. Wezata Forlag, hardcover
1954160645Loudonville OH: The Flxible Company 1954. Archive of 22 vintage photographs of the Flxible Land Cruiser motorhome circa 1954. Of the 22 photographs in the collection 17 bear stamps on the versos six bear annotations noting serial number and descriptions and eleven bear stamps noting the serial number model and company. <br /> <br /> The collection includes one photograph of the exterior of the motorhome and 21 photographs of the very mid-century modern interior frequently with models in various positions demonstrating the vehicle's comfort and luxury. Eight of the photographs note a serial number beginning with "B53" and one photograph notes a serial number beginning with "B54" likely indicating production in 1953 and 1954.<br /> <br /> Founded in 1913 in Loudonville Ohio Flxible was a manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars funeral cars ambulances intercity coaches and transit buses. In 1948 Flxible introduced its Land Cruiser model a standard 29 passenger Clipper shell with an elaborately furnished interior heralding a new era in recreational vehicles and introducing the motorhome to the American public during the automobile boom of the 1950s and 1960s. Notably the vehicle proved popular with R&B and country musicians providing a comfortable and practical vehicle for touring preceding the arrival of the modern tour bus. The company sold its Land Cruiser division to Custom Coach Corporation in 1955 and discontinued marketing the finished conversions while continuing to manufacture the shells of the vehicles. The last Flxible vehicles were produced in 1995 and the company declared bankruptcy in 1996.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with approximately half the photographs with faint cracking to the emulsion and four with even toning. The Flxible Company unknown
1922156616St. Louis MO: Lippman Kamprite Trailer Company 1922. Vintage oversize double weight composite retail display photograph showing 18 images of the Lippman Kamprite Trailer circa 1922.<br /> <br /> Originally produced in 1921 in St. Louis Missouri the Lippman Kamprite Trailer was one of the earliest self-contained travel trailers. Advertised as "a real camp home in three minutes" the trailer boasted beds for four a privacy partition hammocks for clothes and a tail lamp. The composite photograph on offer here displays the assembly and functionality of the trailer in eighteen charming images and was almost certainly used for retail display. <br /> <br /> As production-line manufacturing of affordable automobiles began in the early twentieth century and car ownership boomed the production of auto trailers and goods and amenities for auto touring followed close behind. A number of creative and unusual apparatuses marketed for auto touring appeared in the 1910s including bed kits for car interiors bed and tent kits which mount to the running board and about the car as well as a variety of early auto trailers. The following decade the 1920s would be a golden age for motor camping with the refinement of the design of tent trailers and the advent of travel trailers. A charming relic of the golden age of motor camping.<br /> <br /> 13.5 x 19.5 inches. Very Good plus with a small closed tear to the top margin two modest chips to the bottom margin and a modest chip to the bottom right corner repaired with cello tape on the verso. Clean sharp and unfaded. Lippman Kamprite Trailer Company unknown
201935294Tartu Estonia: TYPA 2019. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. Number 29 of 150 handbound copies. An additional 150 copies were letterpress printed and machine bound. This is a letterpress edition of the classic children's story. It was printed at TYPA a print and paper art centre in Estonia specializing in letterpress publications. In 2020 TYPA won the Europa Nostra Ilucidare Special Prize for heritage-led innovation. It is a unique museum and studio as every item of their machinery is still in use and they continue to create fabulous hand-printed publications using traditional techniques. Hand bound by Pauline Rummel in natural linen with black title and illustration silk screened to front cover. In full color illustrated dust jacket with yellow title to spine panel and blue title to front. The illustrations were re-drawn for letterpress and the layout was redesigned by Mana Kaasik. Body text composed with Literaturnaya Bold on a Linotype machine. Title page and dust jacket set by hand with Admiral typeface. Composed and printed on Holmen Book Cream paper by pressman Jörgen Loot. 95 pages including a two page epilogue by Lemmit Kaplinski former director of TYPA. Size: About 8 x 6 inches. PRI/090721. TYPA hardcover
196854532San Francisco: San Francisco Oracle 1968. First Edition. Tabloid 44cm; pictorial newsprint wrappers; 32pp; illus. Horizontal fold at center some wear handling and faint creasing to extremities with a few old faint dampstains at upper and lower spine-fold; Very Good complete copy. Final issue of this legendary Bay Area psychedelic paper with contributions by George Leonard Michael Murphy Carl Rogers Philip Whalen Daniel Moore Lew Welch Alan Watts and others with an attractive mandala centerfold. San Francisco Oracle unknown
