Decorative Arts

Los Angeles: C.D.N. Corporation [0-9609320-0-3] 1982, 1st edition. (4to) 98pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. Padded imitation leather with color pastedown illustration. Illustrated endpapers, color plates, monochrome plates, chronology, bibliography, index. There is a thin, shallow, and barely noticeable cut running down the center of the front cover, a light bump at the top of the spine. Art of George Tinworth. Collection of Allen Harriman & Edward Judd. Contributors include Desmond Eyles (Chronology of Principal Works). Publisher series: Harriman-Judd Collection Volume 1. (Antiques, Collectibles, Collectors' Guides, Doulton Pottery, Porcelain, Pottery).

Boston: Istituto Poligrafico Dello Stato. Very Good+. 1964. Hardcover. Clean tan cloth, spine & front cover has brown title. Text block tight, clean & intact. Profusely illustrated with color & B/W photographs and drawings. Slight toning to page edges only. Ceramics; Color & B/W photograph & Drawings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 303 pages .

Toronto: University of Toronto Press [0-8020-0592-6] [1993]. (4to) 301pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Color frontispiece, black & white and color illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. The bottom corners are lightly bumped. Time Period Middle Ages. Locale:. (Art, Stained Glass).

NY: William Helburn, Inc., 1928. Volume One. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: William Helburn, Inc., 1928, second printing, July 1928. Folio, 10 1/2" x 13 3/4", unpaginated, ix+4+143 plates. Red linen cloth with gilt titles. Light trace of wear at the spine extremities and lower tips, else fine in very good plus dust jacket with slight fray at the heel and two closed tears along the top edge. Scarce and uncommon in dust jacket. . Hard. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Folio.

Paris: Imprimerie de Vaugirard, 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine. [116] leaves: illustrations; 20 cm. Light blue cloth spine with gilt-tooled spine title: Marques de Porcelaine Russes. Marbled paper over boards. Marbled endpapers. Small armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Count Alexandre Orlowski. Original front wrapper bound in, with "369" handwritten in upper right-hand corner. The entire text was lithographed from a hand-written document. No date of publication is given. Name from end of text has been transcribed as M. A. Kouknoff and Alexandre Kukhnov. More likely H. Kaukhnoff. Library records give dates from 1925 to 1929 as the year of publication. This very scarce catalog of the marks of Russian porcelain factories includes brief histories of the factories as well as drawings of the factory marks. In Near Fine Condition: joints are slightly rubbed; light pencil marks on front wrapper (indicating the part of the title used for the spine title); clean and tight.

No Place: Harry N. Abrams Original publisher's promotional poster, 20 1/2" w x 30 3/4" h, for the book published 1986, the poster with same great Art Deco artwork as the original dust jacket. Near Fine, faint creasing. An uncommon poster, well suited for framing, distributed in short supply at the ABA trade show in 1986. All posters shipped loosely rolled in mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 20 1/2" x 30 3/4".

London, New York, Sydney, Toronto: Hamlyn, 1975 A large, heavy book. Classic reference work. 320 pages lavishly illustrated with colour photographs. Size: 10" X 14"

First and limited edition of 3,500 copies. Red leather or faux leather over board with ceramic horse's head on cover. Gilt edges and print on cover. Gilded page edges. Red slip case. Mrs. Boehm signature on publication page. Book and slipcase are in virtually new condition.

New York: Private Printing. 1961. Magazine. Very Good with no dust jacket; Mid Century Modern Furniture Catalog for Jens Risom Design, Contemporary Furniture for Business and Residential Interiors. Black White Photographs of Furniture. Catalog is in good condition wear at edges ; B&W Illustrations; 36 pages .

New York: Five Ties Publishing 978-0-9794727-0-1 [978-0-9794727-0-1] 2007, 1st edition. (4to) 183pp. Fine in very good dust jacket. Black & white and color illustrations, timeline index. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed and lightly edgeworn. (Design, Design).

Intérieurs II & Intérieurs IIITwo volumes from a set by Léon Moussinac, which provides an important documentation of furniture and interiors by notable French Art Deco designers, each volume with an introduction by Moussinac followed by a large number of plates (52 in II, and 53 in III), many of which are done in pochoir, depicting a variety of interiors and associated types of furniture, including designs for studies, bedrooms, bathrooms, living rooms, nurseries, dining rooms, salons, men's and lady's rooms, libraries, smoking rooms, and others. Large 4to. Original publisher's printed portfolio-style boards, tie-bound. Paris (Éditions Albert Lévy/Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts) 1924-1926. (Collection Documentaire d'Art Moderne.) 1924 1925.The second volume displays the work of Dominique, Dufrène, René Gabriel, André Groult, Joubert et Petit, Rob. Mallet-Stevens, and F. Nathan. The third volume features Djo Bourgeois, Mme. Chauchet-Guilleré, Andre Fréchet, M. Guillemard, René Herbst, E.… Read More

México, Centauro, 1946. 8vo, rústica, 214 pp., profusamente ilustrado en b/n, 48 planchas, varias de ellas con ilustraciones de Josep Renau. Imprenta Cosmos. Cubierta con raspones leves en los bordes, primeras hojas con pequeño doblez en la esquina inferior, por lo demás en excelente estado. PC: Exilio español, José Bolea, Leyenda, Atlántida

Good run of six monthly issues of this influential magazine, Third Series, Volume IV, July to December 1824, bound in one volume. A fascinating view of the taste of London high society in the year 1824.Complete with all 29 handcoloured engravings of fashion, landscapes, architecture and furniture, 6 engravings of needlework patterns.Each issue typically with two handcoloured architecture plates, two handcoloured London fashion plates, one handcoloured interior plate (furniture, curtains, etc.) and one needlework pattern.The fashion plates unsigned but attributed to the Arbiter Elegantiarum (Thomas Uwins). The plates show fashionable women in morning and promenade dresses, elegant opera and ball gowns, etc.The architecture plates mostly landscape scenes showing stately homes and gardens of the aristocracy by John Gendall. The Marquis of Stafford's seat at Trentham Hall, actor-manager David Garrick's house on the Thames Hampton House, Egyptologist Richard William Howard Vyse's house at Stoke Place, the… Read More

Kyoto Japan: Senshoku to Seikatsusha Publishing Co, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folio. 76 pages, indexed, 104 colour plates. Hardcover in green cloth. Binding has scuffs on front and rear covers. SIGNED by the author on the half title. Text is clean. Text is in English with Japanese translation on the facing page.

Philip Wilson Publishers Limited, London, 1997 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 22.5 x 29.5 cm, 1.979 Kg; 352 pages with various colour illustrations.; NEW. STILL WRAPPED IN PLASTIC..; The Chinese ceramics in the Rijksmuseum comprise one of the finest but least published collections of Chinese porcelain in the world. The Dutch were the first and most successful of the Western nations to develop trading links with China. This book is the first scholarly publication of the Rijksmuseum's magnificent collection of Ming and Qing seventeenth and eighteen-century wares exported to Holland. The 400 pieces included, many published here for the first time, are described and illustrated in full colour. These include Kraak and Transitional porcelains, a wide selection of Kangxi underglaze blue and polychrome wares, famille rose and other eighteen-century enamelled wares, Chine de commande, blanc de Chine and Yixing wares. In addition there is a selection of… Read More