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Powerhouse, New York, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Immense color portraits of models and celebs, set against a white background, the subjects wearing bizarre outfits, makeup, or nothing at all. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: Large Folio (bigger than A3). unpaginated. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust jacket shows moderate wear, soiling, wrinkling with a chip at the head of the spine.. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Photography; United States; Modern; Fashion, Fabrics & Style. ISBN: 1576870359. ISBN/EAN: 9781576870358. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50017. . 9781576870358 This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

R. Martin, New York, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. NEHEMIAH CLEAVELAND, Green-Wood, bound with: CORNELIA W. WALTER, Mount Auburn, New York: R. Martin, 1847.Quarto, first edition thus, pp. 94, 22 plates including title page; 120, 20 plates including title page, boards have perished, spine intact, all edges gilt, illustrations by James Smillie. Green-Wood was originally released in parts in 1846. Views of cemeteries in Boston and Brooklyn make for an unlikely gift book, but that is how they were marketed, according to Frank Weitenkampf (American Graphic Art, p. 81-82), "with good landscapes, drawn by James Smillie and in part engraved by him, in 'highly finished line engraving.' "Scarce; Worldcat lists only 7 copies in institutional libraries.Condition of this book:Good except for the lack of covers. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and… Read More

Scribner, New York, 1900. Revised Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. PAGE, THOMAS NELSON. The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock, New York: Scribner, 1900.Octavo, illustrated and expanded edition of a book that was released in 1897, pp. xii, 170, color plates, teal cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering on spine and upper board, gilt and black illustration in vellum scroll on upper board (designed by Margaret Armstrong, initialed MA) 7 color plates by Howard Chandler Christy, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Poignant romance in the pre-auto era. BAL 15387.Condition of this book:Boards lightly worn, cover illustration darkening; rear hinge cracked.Leaves clean with scattered foxing, free front endpaper is lacking, images fine. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is loose but fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing.… Read More

Abrams, New York, 1992. Hardcover (Original Cloth). New Book/New. Salvatore S. Nigro. Pontormo, Drawings, New York: Abrams, 1992.Folio, edition unknown as this book has never been opened, pp. 158, brown cloth boards.From Publisher's Weekly: "The agitated and contorted figures of 16th-century Florentine Mannerist painter Jacopo da Pontormo still beckon us to fathom their psychological depths, as revealed by this collection of 77 full-page color reproductions of his drawings. Pontormo's androgynous male youths wrestle with inner demons. His highly elongated, smiling Three Graces are not of this world. A penitent St. Jerome, in his painful self-inquisition, is emblematic of the artist's turmoil. Even his chubby infants twist and grimace, confirming Italian scholar Nigro's observation that Pontormo and his circle dwelled on 'the body in all its aspects of pathological misery.' Featured in this elegant volume are calm, sensitive portraits that… Read More

Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, Tokyo, 1934. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. NISHIZAWA, TEKIHO. Poupees Japonaises, Dolls of Japan, Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1934.Thin quarto, pp. 54, wraps, color frontis, all other illustration halftone or tritone, text in French and English. Overviews Japanese doll styles and their significance, including uses in theater.Condition of this book:Overall very good but wraps moderately soiled. Size: Quarto. Text is in multiple languages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crafts & Hobbies; Japan; 1930s; Antiquarian & Rare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51538. .