Fashion and Costumery

Paris: Edition 7L (Edition7L), 2002. Book. Illus. by Bruce Weber, Steven Klein, Irving Penn, Alex Chatelain, Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, Peter Knapp, Annie Leibowitz - a Total of 30 Contributing Photographers. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 408 pages. Signed and inscribed by fashion icon Grace Coddington upon title page, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with light external wear. Reviews the life and prolific fashion accomplishments of Ms. Coddington during her thirty year tenure with Vogue magazine. Sumptously photo-illustrated in colour and black and white. Binding tight and square. Decorated black boards protected by attractive clear glossy acetate protector. Slipcase not included. A high-quality copy of this magnificent work..

Kazan: Zaman, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Small 4to. 252, [4] pp. Bound in glossy illustrated boards, brown ribbon bookmark, in matching dust jacket. Text in Tatar with translations in Russian and English. Profusely illustrated, chiefly in color. Includes bibliography. Chapters include The Bulgar Costume of the 8th-18th Centuries ; The Costume of the Early and Mid-19th Centuries ; The Costume of Townspeople in the Second Half of the 19th Century ; The Rural Clothing at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries ; Children's Clothes ; National Dress of 19th-20th Centuries ; Costumes of the Ethnic and Territorial Groups of Tatars in the Second Half of the 19th Century. Fine, bright, clean copy in Fine dust jacket.

Paris: Meynial, 1925. First Edition. George Barbier. A complete and excellent set of the five annual issues illustrated with a total of sixty beautiful pochoir plates, complete with decorated pochoir title pages. 'Falbalas and Franfreluches' (Frippery and Finery: Fashion Diaries) represents a literary and artistic collaboration of unusual elegance and sophistication. French illustrator, George Barbier (1882 - 1932) spared no effort in the making of this beautiful collection, using the finest pigments and up to thirty stencils per print to create images of the highest quality reflecting fashionable themes of the day. The plates portray romance amidst exotic lands and ages past, including a native American idyll on the Missouri, a languid mistress cocooned in a hammock in the tropical Antilles, high baroque debauchery, and, of course, a myriad of lovers depicted in Paris at the height of the chic 1920s. Each annual includes twelve pages of fine writing by Barbier's contemporaries in the Parisian scene… Read More

Rudolfo Anaya. Bless Me, Ultima. TQS, Quinto Sol Publications, Inc. Berkeley, CA. Softcover. Copyright 1972, 25th Printing Thus, 1991 SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. ABOUT RUDOLFO ANAYA: Rudolfo Anaya was an American author. Noted for his 1972 novel Bless Me, Altima, Anaya was considered one of the founders of the canon of contemporary Chicano literature. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

25 fabric designs with fabric description on back. Blue cloth binding; gilt particulars to spine and front. Blue and yellow hanger cord. Protective plastic cover. 12.5 x 17.5 in.

The Little Mother Goose (1918 Dodd, Mead & Company Stated 2nd Edition. Children's book. Nursery Tales. ILLUSTRATED BY JESSIE WILCOX SMITH. Used. VG/ No DJ if issued. Black cloth. Gold Titling on spine is somewhat dimmed. Front Pastedown is complete and in nice condition. Twelve color plates (including frontis) . Please see our photos. Rare/scarce. A clean, solid copy. 8 X 6. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

Tokyo: Libro Port, 1991. First edition. Original Cloth. Fine/very good. Sm oblong 4to. In the bright yellow cloth boards with blind embossed title. Illustrated endpapers. pp. 125 with 122 colour photographic plates of shoes designed by Takada between 1967 and 1990. Held her first exhibition at a Ginza art gallery in 1966 since when she became one of the most innovative and stylish shoe designers of the C20th. Unclipped jacket with light edgewear only. Uncommon.

Willat Company, 1960. Softcover. Good. 0x0x0. Collectible first and only edition of Cosmetology Hall of Fame inductee Arnold F. Willat's Physics of Hair as Related to Cosmetology. Notably, Willat developed the first cold permanent wave equipment, in its time a revolutionary advancement in hair care. Inscribed and signed by Willat on half title page thus: "With best wishes | Sincerely, | A. F. Millat." Signature unconditionally guaranteed to pass any COA examination. In 1952 Millat famously boasted he would pay $1,000 to any person whose hair he couldn't curl. He was never proven wrong. Also signed on back panel by the notorious Herbert M. Shelton (see attached image), an American naturopath, alternative medicine advocate, author, pacifist, vegetarian, and supporter of rawism and fasting. Shelton was arrested several times for practicing medicine without a license and charged with negligent homicide for starving a patient to death, though charges were later dropped. Shelton's… Read More

THE ROSE B EDITION. Du Bose, Heyward. Porgy (1925 George H. Doran Mauve "B" Hardcover 1st Edition/ 2nd printing thus, known as the Mauve or Rose "B" Edition. Decorated By Theodore Nadejen. USED. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Mauve/Purple boards with gold gilt titling and owl cartouche. ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL FOR "PORGY AND BESS", THE DRAMATIC BROADWAY MUSICAL AND MOTION PICTURE, SCORED BY AMERICAN COMPOSER GEORGE GERSHWIN.

Rizzoli, 2015-04-28. Hardcover. Good. 11x9x1. Unmarked. Text and full color photos free of highlighting, underlining or writing. Hardcover. Cover shows corner bump (right upper front). Dust jacket has some edge and shelf wear from use or storage but in overall good condition. Binding is in very good condition, solid, square. A currently OOP (out of print), rare, or hard to find book. 2018. Rizzoli. 4th printing. Ships in box, quickly and with care.

Hayward, Rachel The Hippodrome , 1913 George H. Doran Company, New York. American First Edition. Red boards with gilt titling and ornamentation. Gilt still fairly bright. EXLIB Good condition. / No DJ Included. Early noir detective novel set in Paris in the 1860's- 70's, and the Story of Arithelli, the beautiful English equestrienne. 295 PAGES. 5 1/8 X 7 ¾. 295 pages. QUITE RARE. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

Du Maurier, Daphne: Jamaica Inn 1936 First Edition. Doubleday Doran & Co. RARE. Title page states 1936. Used. Good-/ New Fax Whistler Dust Jacket. Condition: Front board was cracked in half in shipment and has now been reinforced from inside. Fabric is intact. Other than this damage the book is in good overall condition. Priced accordingly. 332 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Plot summary: "Shadows moved across the moor. Horses' hoofs rang sharply on the stone pathway. They had come again - the mysterious visitors who arrived at Jamaica Inn under cover of darkness...Here is a story of passion, treachery and death. Of a beautiful woman caught in the web of a dangerous intrigue. And of her compelling love for a scoundrel. Daphne de Maurier tells this strange tale of the suspense and excitement which characterizes her internationally famous novels Rebecca and The Scapegoat" YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

Du Maurier, Daphne: Jamaica Inn Copyright 1936, states 1937 on the title page. Doubleday Doran & Co. QUITE RARE. Used. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. 332 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Plot summary: "Shadows moved across the moor. Horses' hoofs rang sharply on the stone pathway. They had come again - the mysterious visitors who arrived at Jamaica Inn under cover of darkness...Here is a story of passion, treachery and death. Of a beautiful woman caught in the web of a dangerous intrigue. And of her compelling love for a scoundrel. Daphne du Maurier tells this strange tale of the suspense and excitement which character-izes her internationally famous novels Rebecca and The Scapegoat". YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

The Case-book Of Sherlock Holmes. By Arthur Conan Doyle. Publisher: John Murray, 1929 Cheaper Edition. Short story anthology. Detective fiction. Used. Clean and square. Protected in a mylar wrap. Good Condition/Good- ORIGINAL DUST JACKET illustrated by J. Abby. Blue blind-stamped cloth. Toning as is typical of this edition. RARE original, White, blue and red pictorial dust-wrapper. Priced at 2/- net to the bottom right of the front panel. Back panel of the jacket lists "New volumes in Murray's Fiction Library. The 12 Titles listed there are from Beau Geste to The Black Flemings. 320pp. 4 5/8 X 7. A great find. Adventures included here are: The illustrious Client; The Blanched Soldier, The Mazarin Stone, The Three Gables, The Sussex Vampire, The Three Garridebs, The Problem of Thor Bridge, The Creeping Man, The Lion's Mane, The Veiled Lodger, Shoscombe Old Place, The Retired Colourman.

Carrie Fisher. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Postcards from the Edge. 1987 Simon and Schuster. NY. EXLIB. Stated 1st Printing. Number line starts with 1. VG CONDITION/ VG Unclipped original dust jacket protected in a mylar wrap. 223 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "Postcards from the Edge is a semi-autobiographical novel by American actress Carrie Fisher, first published in 1987. It was later adapted by Fisher herself into a motion picture of the same name, which was directed by Mike Nichols and released by Columbia Pictures in 1990."