Search Results: Shoes from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

San Francisco: the Union, 1948. 40p., staplebound booklet, very good.

San Francisco: the Union, 1948. 40p., staplebound booklet, 3x4 inches, front cover partly toned, otherwise very good.

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 1910. Paperback. 101p., wraps slightly edge worn and a bit soiled, head of spine chipped, else good first printing. Study of the shoe makers union. Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, no. 355.

Paris: Etablissements A. Claverie, 1920. Pamphlet. 28p., matte paperstock, alkaline, illustrated with four fullpage color plates each tissue-guarded, each of a type of prosthetic leg, plus diagrams and stats, plus idealized sketches of maimed persons happily at work, plus numerous sepia vignettes in altered photography showing interiors of the factory and craftspeople at work. A large pamphlet in 10.5x7 inch textured salmon wraps decorated and lettered copperfoil. Covers have picked up a little handling-soil and dust, slight general edgewear with an inch long bump to one corner affecting every leaf. Otherwise clean and sound.

npl: Converse, nd. Paperback. [32]p., wraps, 6x8 inches, all illus. with color photographs, very good condition. Published by the shoe company to promote their skate shoes, although they are only featured in a few photographs.

New York: Stuart Weitzman, Inc, n.d.. Poster. 20x14 inch poster in colors which shows sideview of high fashion pumps doing "69;" browns and greys as in a Picasso cubist portrait but sort of in Duchamp motion. The coated paperstock is tactile, a satiny grey. A little crimped here and there with a tiny faint stain, good copy. The poetic lines or what we're calling poetry, is really just captioning: three molto brief lines to clever effect.