from Eve's Book Garden

Rizzoli, 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. With foreword by Dominick Dunne. Clean pages in glossy thick boards. With special inserts throughout. Rubbing at corner tips, with bump to lower rear covers. Jacket has ruffling along top edges, and taped tears below front cut-out design. HEAVY BOOK! Benefits the Friends of the Albany, CA Library.… Read more

Yale University Press, 2003. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. The glorious designs of Elsa Schiaparelli on oversize pages. With over 300 illustrations. In trademark "shocking pink" covers. In very well-kept bright condition. Pages with slight waviness at ends, possbily due to heavy paper. Jacket looking neat in plastic wrapper. VERY HEAVY book. Benefits… Read more

Rizzoli International Publications, 1985. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Hugely illustrated with historic fashion photos, drawings , and full page color fabric and clothing examples. Crease at upper front corner. Overlong in size. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, CA Library. .

B.T. Batsford, 1953. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Notable for its photo of young Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave modeling 19th century fashions. Other children of English lords and notables appear as well. Book insides are clean and its binding is sturdy, but the covers are quite heavily foxed. The front endpage has had a label or bookplate… Read more

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1988. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Small stapled booklet to accompany to exhibition. With 7 color photos of Asian costumes. Includes article on embroidery stitches used. Clean and bright copy. .

Royal Ontario Museum, 1982. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Clean tight copy. With 70 b/w plates. Covers with shelfwear to corners and light soil to rear. .

McGraw-Hill, 1964. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Handsome copy with beautifully preserved covers with peacock design. Printed on softly textured paper. With 28 plates and 415 figures. Paper has tanned at borders. Jacket is glossy and bright, but has tatters at upper spine. HEAVY book. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, CA Library. .

Harry N. Abrams, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Rhinestone cowboys! Unbelievable glam in Western wear fashion. With 249 illustrations including 203 color plates. Fresh glossy copy, looking new. Jacket has tiny tear at upper spine, and a bit of fading on its edge. Heavy and oversize. .

Thames & Hudson, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Glossy new copy with unopened pages! Crisp attractive jacket. Heavy book due to weight of paper. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, CA Library. .

Fairchild Books, 1990. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Clean pages in glossy boards. Illustrated throughout with fashion through the eras in b/w photos and drawings. Wear at corner tips. .

V & A, 2008. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Oversize quality paperback with full page color fashion illustrations. Looking glossy & unopened. Only flaw is a crease to the rear cover. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, CA Library. .

Shire Publications, 2010. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Fresh & unopened. Filled with color illustrations including paintings, fashion drawings and historical clothing. .

THAMES HUDSON, 1999. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Excellent, like new, unopened copy. With full page fashion photography. Crisp jacket with neat edges. Includes a large Thierry Mugler poster. Oversize and heavy. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, Ca Library. .

Yale University Press, 2003. Book. Fine. Hardcover. With 100s of examples of textiles and other decorative arts from the innovative Finnish firm. Excellent crisp & clean copy. Jacket with slightest shelfwear to edges. HEAVY book. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, CA Library. .

Assouline, 2001. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Well-kept copy with clean pages and covers. Rich in photos of the jet set of the 1960s. Includes comic drawings by her sister Jacqueline Bouvier. Line of fading along cover edges. Bright jacket with little ding at back corner. Published in France with text in English.… Read more

Duquesne University Tamburitzans Institute of Folk Arts, 1979. Book. Good. Soft cover. Stapled softcover of 26 pages. 13 color drawings and photos of national costumes. With map on inside front cover. Clean pages. Covers is darkened along front spine. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, CA Library. .

Walter T. Foster, 1940. Book. Good. Soft cover. Oversize vintage stapled paperback from the 1930s or 1940s (no publication date). Clothing styles appear more like 1940s. From the Walter T. Foster series on art instruction. How to draw fashion models in active poses, including hands & feet, with a whole page of shoes! Clean pages with… Read more

Thames & Hudson, 1997. Book. Fine. Soft cover. With 100s of illustrations of hats & their history. Glossy clean copy. .

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1988. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Masks are all complete and looking bright and ready to punch out and wear. Glossy covers with a little wear to corner tips. Oversize. .

Third Millenium Pub Ltd, 2006. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Beautifully reproduced fans. Tight & clean softcover in its own flaps. Slight brushings to covers. .