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195332180New York: Broadcast Music Inc 1953. First Edition. Quarto. Gray cloth boards; dustjacket; 67pp; illus. A clean tight VG to Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper which is darkened on spine with a small ca 1/2" triangular chip at crown not affecting text; Very Good. Collection of Appalachian mountain songs and ballads as sung by Jean Ritchie on her various iconic folk albums of the Fifties here arranged for piano by Hally Wood Gordon. The illustrations are by Alberta Sordini and the book was designed by Merle Armitage -- one of the great modernist designer's lesser-known works. A somewhat uncommon title especially in such nice condition. Broadcast Music, Inc unknown books
1921WRCLIT81928Mitteneague Mass: Strathmore Paper Company 1921. Narrow small folio 33 x 22 cm. Gilt lettered cloth backed boards printed label. Extremities a bit rubbed and shelfworn ink name on free endsheet boards slightly marked otherwise very good in custom made cloth and marbled boards slipcase. The supplemental portfolio is not present. First edition of this sumptuous production designed and overseen by Cleland with two color renderings by Helen Dyden and 19 folding contrivances exhibiting color samples printed on Strathmore papers the series designed by Rudolph Ruzicka. Strathmore Paper Company hardcover books
198526931985. Softcover. VG. Color wraps. 336 pp. 50 color 100s bw plates. A very comprehensive guide both to American art and other areas of specialty furniture Asian art European art antiquities textiles etc. paperback books
2006RVAULAK00tmGreen Cat Press 2006. Fine. Vause Mikel. A Lakeland Walk. Broadside. Makov design Susan. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press 2006. #6 of 50 on white paper. Illustrated. 24 x 33 cm on 35.5 x 38 cm white paper. Broadside. Signed by author. Book condition: Fine. Signed by Vause and Makov. Green Cat Press unknown books
1949261496New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce 1949. Hardcover. 245p. modernist elements abound Armitage appears especially inspired by the composer. Hardbound in black cloth boards titled yellow Armitage' endsheets and portraits on inserted stock his chapter heads in agressive colors all enclosed in a dust jacket of unmistakeable design. Book itself is very good quite sound and crisply square clean and unmarked within except for a former owners signature & initials on the busy front endsheet probably himself an artist the marks blend well with the Armitage flourishes. The dust jacket however while sufficiently sound to be a plus in an informative sense not a collectable is torn stained chipped and dust-soiled; it is protected from further damage by an archival-grade brodart to size. Duell, Sloan and Pearce hardcover books
12567scsGovernment Communication and Information System. Octavo paperbound full-color illus. black stapled wrappers 8 pp. Fine. Illustrated in full-color. Contents: The Role of a Coat of Arms; The Design of the New Coat of Arms; The Symbols Used in the New Coat of Arms; The Design Process; The New Coat of Arms Enhances Betho Pele. unknown books
2008172705Los Angeles: June 2008. Paperback. 180p. b&w illustrations text in English very good first edition first printing mass-market paperback in pictorial wraps. June paperback books
1986156960San Francisco: the Vigil 1986. 8.5x11 inch illustrated flier for the benefit printed single side in red and black inks. the Vigil unknown books
192740282Praha: Knihovna Kosmopolis 1927. First Thus. Slim 12mo 18cm.; publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers printed in red and black; 106pp.; pictorial ads in rear. Tiny split at bottom spine edge of upper cover early signature including title page disbound at time of publication else Very Good and sound. Czech translation of Stendhal's 1832 novella "The Abbess of Castro" attractive avant-garde cover art by Otakar Mrkvicka. Knihovna Kosmopolis unknown books
1941167030New York: Kurt H. Volk Inc 1941. First edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies. A collection of 27 loose typographic samples. The first is a statement about this production that includes publication information and an illustration of the letters K H V. The remaining 26 folded sheets each feature one letter. All of the sheets are in very near fine condition and are in an about fair folding box that has some soiling wear and splitting along the spine. Still a solid cop of this very attractive production. Kurt H. Volk, Inc unknown books
197220674Garden City: Doubleday 1972. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/good. Small clothbound quarto. 216 pp. Illustrated in black and white. A book that advocates for using the principles of adhocism to help solve problems and design new ways for living and enjoying life. Remainder spray to lower edge else a clean very good clothbound copy in good price-intact dustwrapper with numerous chips and small tears at spine ends and along the edges of the wrapper. A distinctly uncommon dustwrapper. <br/><br/> Doubleday hardcover 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
199043437New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 1990. First American Edition. Quarto 35.5cm x 27cm. Gray cloth boards hardcover with titling embossed in silver on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 320pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slighly bumped edge of lower back board else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight slight shelf wear to extremities. A photographic journey through the landscapes and cultures of the Horn of Africa by photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher supported by an informative text by Graham Hancock and line-drawings of the artifacts and architecture of the region. 328 illustrations including 244 color plates 75 line drawings and 9 maps. Harry N. Abrams, Inc unknown books
199043435London: Collins Harvill 1990. First U.K. Edition. Quarto 35.5cm x 27cm. Gray cloth boards hardcover with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 320pp; illus. Very Good copy; slighly bumped corners; faint dampstain to spine and upper board exteriors else clean and tight. Very Good dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to extremities; wrinkled top spine panel. A photographic journey through the landscapes and cultures of the Horn of Africa by photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher supported by an informative text by Graham Hancock and line-drawings of the artifacts and architecture of the region. 320 pages of color photographic reproductions. Collins Harvill unknown books
1993155970Chicago IL: The Art Institute of Chicago 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 124 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran June 5 through September 6 1993. Foreword by James N. Wood. Preface by Manfred Steinfeld. Essays by Ghenete Zelleke Eva B. Ottillinger and Nina Stritzler. Includes 185 illustrations with 75 duotones. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The Art Institute of Chicago unknown books
2009RGIRAHO00tmGreen Cat Press 2009. Fine. Giralt Alicia. Ahora Llueve / Now It Rains. Broadside. Makov design Susan. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press 2009. #36 of 60 on white paper. Illustrated. 23 x 31.5 cm on 29 x 36 cm white paper. Broadside. Signed by author. Book condition: Fine. Signed by Giralt and Makov. Green Cat Press unknown books
1989178391San Francisco: Asian American Theater Company 1989. Single sheet poster 13.5x19.5 inches illustration of two boxers fighting in blue on white text in yellow and white very good on heavy semi-glossy stock. "The time is 1940. The place Puukolii Maui. Two brothers try to box and punch their way out of the bondageof filial piety and a $6000 family debt." Based on the third section of a Nisei classic novel published in 1975. Set in the sugar plantations of Hawaii. Directed by Phyllis S. K. Look. Asian American Theater Company unknown books
198537650St. Paul: New Rivers Press 1985 c. 1986. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers designed by Gaylord Schanliec; 101pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wear to wrapper extremities else Very Good to Near Fine. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author on half title to the late Minnesota poet John Rezmerski. Minnesota Voices Project Number 27. New Rivers Press unknown books
1992118975Los Angeles CA & Boston MA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art in association with Bulfinch Press/ Little Brown and Company 1992. First paperback edition. Softcover. 255 pages. Foreword by Earl A. Powell III. Preface by Max Palevsky. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A tight very near fine copy in wrappers. Los Angeles County Museum of Art in association with Bulfinch Press/ Little, Brown and Company unknown books
2003162281London: Laurence King Publishing 2003. First edition. Softcover. 192 pages. A wide ranging examination of graphic design in America that looks at among others Alexey Brodovitch Paul Rand Saul Bass Alvin Lustig and others. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A very near fine copy in French style wrappers. Laurence King Publishing unknown books
199225326New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1992. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. Lovely clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 287 pp. With 250 illustrations including 82 in full color plus bibliography and index. A near fine copy in dustwrapper. Marvelous. For fans of the history of American interpretation of European rococo design in the 18th century. A large and heavy book. Metropolitan Museum of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art unknown books
195939309New York: Roving Eye Press 1959. First Limited Edition. Small octavo. Rust cloth hardcover; 63pp. Limited to 1000 copies. A clean and unmarked copy in a moderately dusted spotted dustjacket two tiny closed tears else VG. Jacket illustration by Rockwell Kent. Lowenfels 1897-1976 was a key figure in the Paris avant-garde during the 1930s where he was a close friend of Henry Miller and Anais Nin and was in fact the model for the character Jabberwhorl Kronstadt in Miller's Tropic of Cancer . Returning to the US he became a central Communist Party organizer and an editor of the Philadelphia Daily Worker. He was arrested tried and convicted under the Smith Act in 1953 but eventually exhonerated for lack of evidence. Roving Eye Press unknown books
195932204New York: Roving Eye Press 1959. First Limited Edition. Small octavo. Rust cloth hardcover; 63pp. Limited to 1000 copies. A clean and unmarked copy in a moderately dusted spotted dustjacket about VG. Jacket illustration by Rockwell Kent. Inscribed on front endpaper: "This advance copy for Mike / who knows I have never lost confidence in her and I hope it is vice versa / Walter" datemarked Weymonk 1958. The inscribee is possibly Michal Lowenfels the poet's oldest daughter who was married to American bookseller Norman Kane from whose estate the current volume was obtained. Lowenfels 1897-1976 was a key figure in the Paris avant-garde during the 1930s where he was a close friend of Henry Miller and Anais Nin and was in fact the model for the character Jabberwhorl Kronstadt in Miller's Tropic of Cancer . Returning to the US he became a central Communist Party organizer and an editor of the Philadelphia Daily Worker. He was arrested tried and convicted under the Smith Act in 1953 but later exhonerated for lack of evidence. Roving Eye Press unknown books
1906WRCLIT70381Boston: L.C. Page & Co. 1906. Pictorial cloth stamped in white gilt and olive t.e.g. Photographs. Decorated endsheets. First edition. Christmas 1905 gift inscription on half-title minuscule cracks to inner hinges otherwise about fine. The binding design is by B. McManus Mansfield. L.C. Page & Co. hardcover books
19501001713Bramsche: Gebr. Rasch & Co 1950. Scarce sample of wallpaper signed in the print by "Letizia Cerio" more often spelled "Laetitia" Capri-based artist renowned for her spare whimsical line drawings. Founded in the late nineteenth century German wallpaper firm Rasch won an international reputation through its collaborations with modernist designers from the Bauhaus and Vienna Secession. In the 1950s and 1960s owner Emil Rasch commissioned wallpaper designs from artists across Europe including Salvador Dalà and Bruno Munari for the International Artists Collection. Cerio's "Amsterdam" paper dates from this period. A fine example of midcentury popular design. Color pictorial wallpaper sample measuring 15.5 x 18.5 inches printed in gold and ivory. Stamped on verso: "RASCH WATERFAST / Amsterdam WT 10 / R 2076 / $3.95 PER SINGLE ROLL.". Gebr. Rasch & Co unknown books
