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Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1957. (4to) 256 pp plus 121 plates. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Grey cloth with gilt lettering. Patterned endpapers, black & white and color illustrations, maps, patterns, 78 color plates, errata slip, 2 double-sided folding patterns laid in. The dust jacket has minor edgewear, a dampstain on the top edge, is lightly faded on the spine and the front inner flap is crumpled near the center. Text in Estonian Language. Locale: Estonia. (Costume, Costume--Estonia, Folk Costume--Estonia).

Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn at corners and head and foot of . spine, gilding faded, some foxing to interior, illustrations of young girl . and married woman have several small areas of loss in center, lower . corners of several illustrations chipped.. 1891. Hardcover. A leporello tourist souvenir featuring five color lithograph illustrations of Norwegian Folk Costumes after photographs by F. Beyer of Christiana (as Oslo, Norway was known from 1624-1924) , taken in 1891. The illustrations are mounted on cardboard and fold out accordion-style from green cloth boards with elaborate black and gilt botanical design on front. The title of this leporello is in Danish, but the captions for each costumed figure are in English and German. The five costumes shown are for a married man, married woman, young girl, bride and bride and bridegroom together. Measures 17.5 x 11.5 cm. Illustrations fold out to a length of 50 cm. No copies located in WorldCat or the trade at present. ; 8vo… Read More

Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale. Fair; Boards heavily worn, with cloth soiled and nearly detached from rear . boards, pages toned at margins and sporadic waterstains and foxing.. 1861. Hardcover. Quarterbound leather with six gilt-ruled compartments. Titles stamped in two compartments in gilt. Red cloth boards. Marbled endpapers. xx, 891 pp, glossary. Text in French. Volume V of a seven-volume set of documents pertaining to a Second French Empire commercial treaty with England. This volume covers those parts of the textile industry pertaining to hemp, linen, silk, hides, fleece and pre-made clothing. No other copies offered for sale in the trade at present. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall .

New York, New York, Usa: Penguin Books, 2012. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New. New - May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges And/Or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. - After The Enormous Success Of The Sartorialist, Scott Schuman Is Back With A Completely New Collection Of Beautiful Images Of The Men And Women Who Have Caught His Attention. His Much-Loved Blog, Remains One Of The Most-Read In The Fashion World And Continues To Grow In Popularity As Scott Travels Further And More Widely. This Book Encompasses. The Diverse Style And Visual Attitude Of People As Far Afield As Japan, Korea, London, Milan, New York, Paris, And Beyond. In The Sartorialist: Closer, Scott Schuman Looks Deeper And With Great Breadth At Human Style, And The Way It Is Expressed Across The World. Always Reacting To An Inspirational Moment, The Images In His New Book Continue To Reflect Scott's Unique Sensibility And Vision. Available With Two Different Covers: One Featuring A Woman,… Read More

NY: Thomsen-Ellis Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn at corners and spine.. 1938. Hardcover. Quite an elegant little Art Deco number with wood grain patterned paper, cloth spine, and debossed copper foil plaque on front boards. Gilt-accented illustrated endpapers and tipped-in frontispiece illustration. 19 additional color pochoir illustrations. The Fashion Academy was in operation from 1920-50 and run by Emil Alvin Hartman and his wife, Ann Hartman. In 1930, the Fashion Academy was housed on the 43rd floor in the newly built Rockefeller Plaza tower at Rockefeller Center in the heart of midtown Manhattan. The book speaks only of female students and describes coursework to educate them in various aspects of the fashion industry. "There is no more highly esteemed --no more lucrative--no more modern or progressive profession than that of FASHION." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 48 pages .

Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn at corners and head and foot of . spine, gilding faded, some foxing to interior, illustrations of young girl . and married woman have several small areas of loss in center, lower . corners of several illustrations chipped.. 1891. Hardcover. A leporello tourist souvenir featuring five color lithograph illustrations of Norwegian Folk Costumes after photographs by F. Beyer of Christiana (as Oslo, Norway was known from 1624-1924) , taken in 1891. The illustrations are mounted on cardboard and fold out accordion-style from green cloth boards with elaborate black and gilt botanical design on front. The title of this leporello is in Danish, but the captions for each costumed figure are in English and German. The five costumes shown are for a married man, married woman, young girl, bride and bride and bridegroom together. Measures 17.5 x 11.5 cm. Illustrations fold out to a length of 50 cm. No copies located in WorldCat or the trade at present. ; 8vo… Read More

Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale. Fair; Boards heavily worn, with cloth soiled and nearly detached from rear . boards, pages toned at margins and sporadic waterstains and foxing.. 1861. Hardcover. Quarterbound leather with six gilt-ruled compartments. Titles stamped in two compartments in gilt. Red cloth boards. Marbled endpapers. xx, 891 pp, glossary. Text in French. Volume V of a seven-volume set of documents pertaining to a Second French Empire commercial treaty with England. This volume covers those parts of the textile industry pertaining to hemp, linen, silk, hides, fleece and pre-made clothing. No other copies offered for sale in the trade at present. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall .

Yves Saint Laurent by Yves Saint Laurent and Diana Vreeland, Rene Huyghe, Pierre Berge, Paloma Picasso-Lopez, Marella Agnelli, Catherine Deneuve, Duane Michals, Pierre Boulat and Nicholas Vreeland. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publishers, [1983]. pp. 192. All of the Yves Saint Laurent couture designs shown in this book are described chronologically in the illustrated survey beginning on page 89, as nos. 1-218; designs in colour are cited as colour plates 1-60, those in black and white as figures 1-218. Hardcover, navy cloth with gilt title on cover & spine (corners square, interior is clean and unmarked). dj., clipped (price sticker residue, crease at top of back cover, no marks or stains).Very Good+ condition.Size: 12 1/4" x 9 1/4" (31cm x 23.5cm)
Exhibition conceived and organized by Diana Vreeland. This book was published in connection with an exhibition at the Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from December 14, 1983, through… Read More

Peterson's Magazine for 1864, January to December, inclusive. A complete year of Peterson's heavily illustrated fashion and literary magazine. Remarkably silent on the Civil War considering the dates! Ladies fashion, Paris fashion, poems, short and serialized stories, etc. bound with and 1856 United States Magazine featuring the U.S. Capitol Building. Ex-Libris

The One Club Volume 28 Large Folio Hardcover Good Condition Good Dust Jacket Clean 524 pp Color and B/W Plus Accompang Bonus Radio CD. Some shelf wear else Good+. NO Writing inside. NOT A LIBRARY COPY..Stunning Visuals... See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans.