577 résultats
197814338Bologna: Zanichelli 1978. Early Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Small quarto. 101 pp. Text in Italian. Published as Number 2 in this publisher's series of books on design and symbols. A very good copy in bound illustrated wrappers. <br/><br/> Zanichelli paperback books
1990136539New York: Crown Publishers Inc 1990. First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing. 160 pages. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Crown Publishers, Inc unknown books
1972235910San Francisco: Lawrence Fleming Assoc/Todd Trexler 1972. Single 8.5x11 inch handbill photo of Rothermel & Arden in 1920s drag Held Over handwritten with red and black markers on diagonal very slight wear at corners otherwise very good on orange stock. The tickets at the door of 56 Gold Street were $200. Rothermel was a member of the Cockettes. Trexler who died in 2014 was the main designer of Rothermel's Divine's and the Cockettes posters and cards. Lawrence Fleming Assoc/Todd Trexler unknown books
1956175392New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation 1956. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 244 pages. An interesting book that examines the layout process in publishing. Includes some color and numerous black and white illustrations. A clean near fine copy in illustrated cloth boards. No dust jacket. Reinhold Publishing Corporation unknown books
1948164490New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers 1948. Hardcover. 200 pages. An important reference book from one of the more important and influential book and type designers of the 20th century. A very good copy in black cloth boards that have some minor wear with the gilt lettering to the spine largely flecked off and with a bookplate to the front pastedown. No dust jacket. Internally a clean copy of this classic that is seemingly fairly uncommon in any edition. Harper and Brothers Publishers unknown books
1998199340Hollywood: Leather Journal 1998. Magazine. 68p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches photos stories ads resources month-to-month journal for 1998 very good annual magazine in styapled pictorial wraps. Leather Journal unknown books
1923012435Honlulu: Patten Company 1923. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Distinctive grass-woven patterned covers designed by Jean Bernard Schiffers with inset for title and author front cover. Gift inscription from Hawaii ffe. Illustrated with woodcuts by John Poole and decorations by A. S. Macleod. A lovely production in a folksy kind of way. Patten Company hardcover books
200211264Rotterdam: 010 Publishers 2002. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Stunningly book on Dutch design elements in the 1990's with text in English by Renny Ramakers. Quarto. 234 pp. Brilliant color illustrations. Die-cut cover. A fine copy in bound glossy wrappers. <br/><br/> 010 Publishers paperback books
1970176012New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company 1970. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 286 pages. Features text by Massin as translated by Caroline Hillier and Vivienne Menkes. Includes numerous black and white illustrations. From the library of New Topographics photographer Joe Deal with his rubber stamp to the half title page. A very good copy with some foxing to the page edges in a very good dust jacket with some edge tears and some other minor edge wear. A solid copy with an interesting provenance and in the somewhat uncommon dust jacket. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company unknown books
197714344Tokyo: Takeo Company Limited 1977. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall paperbound quarto.56 pp. Text in Japanese with two tipped in letters from the publisher written in English. Illustraions of corporate letterheads with photos by Hiroshi Ikeya. A very good copy in bound illustrated wrappers. <br/><br/> Takeo Company Limited paperback books
1966181490New York: Harry Gantt Publishers distributed by Students For A Democratic Society 1966. 79p. 7x10.25 inches minor pen marginalia on two pages first edition booklet in worn stapled pictorial wraps mild foxing touches of silverfishing small sticker scar affecting graphic. Work by the self-described Marxist Existentialist poet written between New York and San Francisco in 1962-1966. Harry Gantt Publishers, distributed by Students For A Democratic Society unknown books
1904008609NY: Dodd Mead 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. NF-. Fisher Harrison illustrations. Armstrong Margaret cover Design and Text decoration. 8vo First Edition. Pictorial illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Cover design and text decorations by Margaret Armstrong MA. Dark green cloth pressed in gilt and with floral vine design embossed in light green and cream floral. gte sides untrimmed. Near fine copy with trace soiling to dark green portion of boards. THE copy for the collector of American publisher decorative bindings Margaret Armstrong or Harrison Fisher. Dodd Mead hardcover books
1996012437NY: Pace Wildenstein Gallery 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. Distinctive catalog for exhibition at the Pace Wildenstein Gallery in Nov - Dec 1996. Elaborately produced catalog double panel front cover opening to reveal single panel cover and leaves then to reveal two spiral bound mini-books. An amazing catalog for an amazing exhibition in which Samaras photographically explores self and world in four sub-topics: Kiss Kill Perverted Geometry Inedibles Self Absorption. Pace Wildenstein Gallery hardcover books
18973382<p>Frederick A. Stokes Co. New York 1897<b> IN THE ORIGINAL LINEN DUST WRAPPER WITH LETTERING AND DECORATION BY BRADLEY </b>An octavo bound in the original rust colored cloth with a beautiful heavily gilt cover design by Bradley. The book is fine with no wear and the gilt clean bright and unworn. New endleaves with appropriate paper done at some point in the past. The paper backed linen dust-wrapper has wear and tear internally at the folds and is soiled with some darkening to the spine. Gilt titling and decoration by Bradley on the dustwrapper is bright and unworn. Very scarce and a nice example of the early cloth dust wrapper. Illustrated by Madeleine Lemaire.</p> Frederick A. Stokes, Co. hardcover 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
200046498Seattle WA: Fantagraphics Books 2000. First Edition. First printing. Oblong octavo 21 x 26.5cm.; tan and red pictorial paper wrappers; 130pp. Some handling wear scratching and rubbing; visible creasing to spine hinges; Very Good or better.<br/><br/>A compilation of select Maakies comics from 1994 to 2000; a darkly humorous self-syndicated comic series from Tony Millionaire concerning the sometimes nautical sometimes naughty adventures of the ever-inebriated Drinky Crow and his friend Uncle Gabby among others. Comics in b/w; cover and book design by Chip Kidd. Fantagraphics Books unknown books
1957288754New York: The Citadel Press 1957. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. First American Edition of this new translation. Previous owner's namestamp on the front endpaper. Black cloth. Some sunning to the spine of the Very Good dustjacket. With the evocative dustjacket art by Edward Pagram. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. The Citadel Press unknown books
192915275Waterbury CT: The Waterbury Metal Wares Co. ca. 1929. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Large 8vo. commercial album. Limp leather wraps over metal ring binding. Printed catalogue with 75 added leaves holding 85 professional black-and-white photographs loosely corner-mounted. Some stamped on verso with company name. With numerous additional manuscript notations and dozens of sketches. An unmodified copy of the print catalog a supplemental catalog and various related scrap and ephemera additionally laid in. General wear. Overall sound. Very good. <br/><br/>Draft production binder used in creation and revision of a 1929 catalogue of electric lighting fixtures and accessories belonging to Lauritz W. Andersen industrial designer and owner of The Waterbury Metal Wares Co. Andersen was a prominent inventor and designer of electrical socketry in the early 20th century; his career can be traced through patent office records where over 60 items bear his name. He was with the firm of Plume and Atwood for approximately 25 years leaving in 1915 to form Waterbury. The firm specialized in fixtures and other components for lamps and lighting — including earlier methods candles lanterns. Sconces candelabras floor and desk lamps as well as more specialized piano drafting much in evidence. The clear professional photographs as well as sketches and notes within the binder provide a thorough glimpse into the early industrial design and marketing of electrical lighting. The Waterbury Metal Wares Co. paperback books
197315355Nantes: Musee Des Arts Decoratifs Nantes 1973. First edition. Paperback. Very Good . Square paperbound quarto. Unpaginated catalog of a 1973 exhibition. Slight rubbing and wear to covers. A satisfying copy in bound illustrated wrappers. Text in French. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams. <br/><br/> Musee Des Arts Decoratifs Nantes paperback books
2011140022Bologna Italy: Damiani 2011. First edition. Hardcover. The first monograph on French furniture designer Pergay. Foreword by Suzanne Demisch. Essay by Adam Lindemann. Includes numerous color images. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Damiani unknown books
1980WRCLIT84751Toronto: The Typocrafters 1980. Small octavo. Printed wrapper. Eight tipped- in items hors-text. Fine. First edition. One of forty copies reserved as a keepsake for the Typocrafters from an edition of 100 copies printed by Phil Metzger at the Crabgrass Press. The Typocrafters unknown books
1984173039New York: Rizzoli International Publications Inc 1984. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. An examination of this important design group founded under the initiative of Ettore Sottsass. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear. Rizzoli International Publications, Inc unknown books
1978209897San Francisco: David Wilts/Shady Grove 1978. Single 11x8.5 inch handbill printed recto-only posterized photo of Saunders and Shady Grove Palm and man in sombrero riding a tortoise black on white stock very good. Saunders was an African American keyboardist from San mateo who played with Jerry Garcia and others in 1970s-1980s. David Wilts/Shady Grove unknown books
1996114125San Francisco: Terrapin Press 1996. 26p. 5.5x8.5 inches very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Trebor Healey was born in Seattle and spent several years in San Francisco/Berkeley where he published this chapbook and four more. He wrote the song "Denny" for Pansy Division. He now lives in Los Angeles where he has written and published several novels. Terrapin Press unknown books
2004166352New York: Melcher Media 2004. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 128 pages. Text by Phil Patton. Includes numerous color images of some of the output of the Michael Graves Design Group. A clean very near fine copy in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. Melcher Media unknown books
