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Secret Splendors of the Chinese Court: Qing Dynasty Costume from the Charlotte Hill Grant Collection
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- Used
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- 1981
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780914738251
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$12.00
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Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1981. Paperback. 80p., wraps, profusely illus. with b&w and color photos, wraps shelfworn, old price sticker on front blank, else very good condition. Item Price
$12.00
Mongol Costumes
by Hansen, Henny Harald
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- Used
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- 1994
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780500015858
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$45.00
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New York / Copenhagen: Thames and Hudson / Rhodos International Science and Art Publishers, 1994. Hardcover. 279p., illus., one map, remainder mark on bottom edge of textblock, else very good condition in an unclipped and worn dust jacket. The Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project. Item Price
$45.00
Shirt cannon #4
by Casey, R. J.
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- 2022
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- Pamphlet
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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npl: Self-published by the author, 2022. Pamphlet. [20]p., 5.5x8.5 inch zine on sports mascots during the pandemic; in very good condition. "Your premier source for mascot interviews, essays, short fiction, and fan art. Item Price
$15.00
Concerning Iconology and the Masking Complex in Eastern North America. [Entire issue of:] University Museum Bulletin Vol. 15, No. 1, July 1950
by Speck, Frank G. [Gouldsmith], 1881-1950
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- 1950
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- Pamphlet
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1950. Pamphlet. 60p., numerous b&w exhibit photographs, all text and pix printed on glazed alkaline paperstock; magazine textblock a little crimped here and there, the plain yellow covers have picked up dust and a small adhesion scar affecting the word 'Bulletin'. One staple is rusted with a touch of migration. Generally sound, entirely clean and… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
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DuBarry Success Course, Richard Hudnut Salon [First Week]. Look Smart - without your clothes / with your clothes
by Delafield, Ann, director, Richard Hudnut Salon
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- 1942
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- Ephemera
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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New York: the salon, 1942. Ephemera. Ten fascicles in a brad-bound envelope to size, presswork on alkaline near-cardstock weight paperstock. All ten fold to same measurements, and internal evidence confirms that these compose a complete set (for this particular First Week) Hudnut course. Some are printed four-page on a single leaf (folding only once), others on very large singleton… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
Folk Art of Nova Scotia. A traveling exhibition of 20th Century Folk Art [&c &c]..November 4-December 3, 1976. Exhibition will be touring [&c &c]
by Riordon, Bernard, curator
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- 1976
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- Pamphlet
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$17.00
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Halifax NS: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1976. Pamphlet. 59p., b&w exhibition pix with a few site photos and a small number in color, softbound in 9x9 inch slick staple-fastened wraps; nice clean copy, quite sound and entirely unmarked. Item Price
$17.00
Las Mascaras en nuestra cultura
by Salazar, Norma
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- 1992
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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npl: [Colaboración: de la Administración de Fomento Económico], 1992. Pamphlet. 15p., 8.5x11 inch staplebound pamphlet; includes a bibliography, some faint stains on back cover, else in very good condition. Item Price
$20.00
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Good Housekeeping Pattern Service. Directions: Lay the three large perforations on straight of goods. Join all seams [&c &c &c]. Directions for Making Layette Petticoat; Materialos required: Cashmere, Viyella or Canton flannel. 1 1/2 yards of [&c &c]. Be sure to shrink material before cutting
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- n.d.
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- Ephemera
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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New York: Good Housekeeping Pattern Service, n.d.. Ephemera. Folded pattern(s) printed on flimsy tinted tissue and enclosed in a small (8.5x5.5 inch) manila envelope lettered recto. Pattern is accompanied by a standard leaf folded in two (making a four-panel brochure) printed for the "Layette"; second panel for a Dress, third for a Wrapper, fourth a blank. Envelope has sustained… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
The Perfect Lady; With 16 Photographs in Colour by Alfred Eris
by Cunnington, C. Willett, honorary adviser to the gallery of English costume, Manchester
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- Used
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- 1948
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$22.00
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London: Max Parrish & Co Limited, 1948. Hardcover. 72p., text is set close in a smallish font (postwar economizing), illustrated with fullpage color plates as called for (on glazed alkaline stock, marginless) plus dust jacket drawing and 46 "decorations in line" by Peter Hoffer. Line vignettes x-ray add-ons like the bustle, how constructed. Nice book, with the book itself… Read more about this item Item Price
$22.00
Third annual monster 4-Day Bazaar for the Western Worker
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- nd
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- Ephemera
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$30.00
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San Francisco: Workers Press Bazaar Conference, nd. Ephemera. 3.75x5.5 inch pink card, black lettering; in very good condition. Item Price
$30.00
Lionel Richie, Tour 84. Presented by Pepsi Cola
by Richie, Brenda Harvey and Bill Whitten, tour book coordinators. Editorial, Patrick Snyder
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- 1984
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$22.00
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Los Angeles: Lionel Richie Fan Club, 1984. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about 28p., high-resolution color photography on glossy alkaline paperstock throughout, covers crimped and creased with similar signs of handling within, spinefold mildly abraded. Vignette photos (mostly b&w) here & there show LR with a wide spectrum of celebrity friends. A good (good-only) copy: reasonably sound (staples in good shape, &c… Read more about this item Item Price
$22.00
All about health and beauty for the black woman; illustrated by Harvey Boyd
by Sims, Naomi
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- 1976
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$18.00
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1976. Hardcover. xvi, 296p., illustrated with numerous sketches and diagrams, and enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself shows mild wear at top and tail of spine panel, while the dust jacket is in poor shape, missing large chunks from its spine area, but don't discard, what's left has informative text and a big… Read more about this item Item Price
$18.00
Laws, Rules and Regulations Relating to Cleaning, Dyeing, Pressing, Furrier and Hat Renovating Establishments. Sixth Edition
by State Board of Dry Cleaners
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- Used
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- 1953
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- Paperback
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$12.00
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Sacramento CA: State of California Department of Professional and Vocational Standards, 1953. Paperback. 120p., no illustrations whatsoever, softbound in pale yellow plain printed wraps with a black binder's tape backstrip over staples. Covers have picked up mild dust-soil and irregular tone-lines, item is else quite good: sound and unmarked. Item Price
$12.00
Mother's 2000-2005: traces of the future. Japanese Pavilion, the 51st International Art Exhibition, the Venice Biennale 2005 June 12-November 6, 2005
by Miyako, Ishiuchi, concept & execution. Sandra S. Phillips [and] Kasahara Michiko, critical introductions
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- Used
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- 2005
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- Hardcover
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- 9784473032577
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$60.00
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Tokyo (?): The Japan Foundation, 2005. Hardcover. 135p., high-quality production on matte alkaline paperstock, hardbound in 10x7.5 inch laminated grey-and-white boards and enclosed in the photo-decorated dust jacket. Aside from a little shelf-abrasion along bottom edges, an immaculate copy: perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. Laid in, in the Italian language only, a stapled self-wraps booklet with translations of the… Read more about this item Item Price
$60.00
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Sepik, Land der sterbenden Geister. Bilddokumente aus Neuguinea. Einfuhrender text und bildlegenden von Alfred Buhler
by Gardi, Rene
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- 1958
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$30.00
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Bern: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1958. Hardcover. 144p., profusely illustrated in color photography (strictly in color) printed recto facing verso texts, presswork on semi-glazed alkaline paperstock, all texts in the German language. Hardbound in 11x9 inch maroon cloth boards lettered and decorated in white. Lacks the jacket, but in nice square condition, with a touch of card-exposure at one lower… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
Dancers of Bali
by Coast, John
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- Used
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- 1953
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$12.00
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1953. Hardcover. 250p., illustrated with a generous clutch of b&w photographs by the author, hardbound in 8.5x5.5 inch dark grey papered boards lacking the jacket. Casing paper has small chips at most extremities, else sound, clean within and unmarked except for the endsheets, which bear a penciled ownership and a dealer's codes also in… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.00
Burning Man Live; 13 years of piss clear, Black Rock City's alternative newspaper
by Roberts, Adrian
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- Used
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- 2009
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- Paperback
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- 9781889307183
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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San Francisco: Re/Search Publications, 2009. Paperback. 319p., 8.25x11 inch wraps; profusely illustrated, photos., some pen notation on half-title page, mild handling of wraps, else very good condition. Anthology of Piss Clear's magazines. Item Price
$20.00
Japanese Theatre in Highlight, A Pictorial Commentary by Francis Haar. Text by Earle Ernst, Introduction by Faubion Bowers. Second edition (revised). (Soft-Cover Edition)
by Francis Haar, photointerpretation; Earle Arnst, text. Faubion Bowers, introduction
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- Used
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- 1954
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- Paperback
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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Rutland VT / Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1954. Paperback. 127p., illustrated in b&w photography, production stills and other elements, softbound in 10x7 inch decorated cardstock covers, covers a little sunned and somewhat scratched, clean and unmarked within, a good copy. Item Price
$15.00
The Ballad-Drama of Medieval Japan
by Araki, James T.
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- Used
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- 1964
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964. Hardcover. xvi, 289p., find diagrammatic sketches and other visuals amongst the text, hardbound in grey boards with floral onlay and a cinnamon-brown backstrip gilt, and enclosed in the dust jacket. A presentable copy that has been handled a little roughly, leaving faint crimp marks throughout the text leaves; and the dust jacket is… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
Japanese Dolls
by Yamada, Tokubei
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- Used
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- 1955
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, 1955. Hardcover. 190p., profuse b&w illustrations from photography with a number of color plates, small hardbound in 7x5 inch gray-green cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself is very good: sound, clean and unmarked, while the dust jacket is very fresh-looking with a couple short tears. Tourist Library volume 17. … Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00