Limoges & Paris: Librairie des Bons Livres, 1857. Quarto. 208 pp. 64 hand-colored engraved plates with tissue guard, complete; includes additional engraved title page and 63 plates of fashions and dress of the peoples of the world. Dark brown embossed cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, green, blue, and red; all..... More

Stanford and Cambridge: Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and the MIT Press, 2018. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x24.5x2.5cm); 232pp, including bibliography. Contact sheets reproduced ad infinitum, with many additional background and documentary images of Warhol-istic monkey business on every page.Photographic covers on heavy pasteboard with case binding over sewn gatherings..... More

United States: 1976. Handmade scrapbook (22x31cm); brown corduroy eyelet-bound with white string, titling fashioned out of white cloth letters affixed to upper cover; [18]pp. with manuscript and collages on versos only.  Handwritten text, drawings, and magazine and book cutouts within. Boards bumped with some fuzz clinging to corduroy. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior..... More

Paris: Librairie H. Cagnon, n.d., ca. 1880s. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); slightly later brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; [2]pp. + sixty leaves of engraved fashion plates (collated complete). Moderate wear to extremities with brief exposure at corners, leather spine ends..... More

New York: Rizzoli, 2011. Reprint. Folio (35.5cm); publisher's black blind-embossed cloth, in original glossy pictorial paper-covered slipcase; 362pp.; color photographs throughout. Very light smudging to cloth and front endpapers, slipcase margins lightly scuffed, old price sticker to front panel, else Very Good and sound. Fabulous art book devoted to the..... More

New York: Conde Nast Publications, 1928. First Edition. Large, slim quarto; publisher's bright pink pictorial wrappers illustrated by Eduardo Benito; 120pp.; illus. and pictorial advertisements throughout, many in color. Moderate wear and dust-soil to wrapper margins, chips at spine ends, coin-sized paper scar to upper cover slightly touching illustration; overall..... More

United States: ca. 1830. Original blue and yellow hand-made paper-covered band box (29x25x10cm) decorated with decoupage. Margins worn with exposure of original stitching beneath, some of the decoupage a bit dulled and starting to chip, else a Very Good, still bright example. Beautiful American band box decorated with sixteen pictorial..... More

Istanbul, Turkiye: Tannerie Kazlicesme, n.d., ca. 1970s. Quarto (25.5cm); publisher's brown post-bound card wrappers printed in gilt; title page and thirty (30) leaves of stiff black stock to which are mounted twenty-eight gelatin fashion photographs captioned in white ink manuscript. Wrapper margins a bit rubbed, occasional white ink splatters, else..... More

New York: Revlon, Inc., 1962. First Edition. Quarto. Bifolium. Seventeen hair color samples mounted to interior. Light edgewear; punctures from hair mounts to rear; general surface scratching, overall Very Good. This trade catalog includes Revlon's "Predict-A-Mat" chart to interior, indicating how stylists and patrons can change their natural Light Blonde..... More

Hollywood, CA: Frederick's of Hollywood, 1962. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers; 47pp.; illus. throughout, many full-color. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, else Very Good and sound. Rear wrapper postally used to a Mrs. Betty Place of Worcester, Mass. Lavish Mad Men-era fashion and lingerie catalog "with..... More

Fribourg, Switzerland: Arabesque, 1985. Second Edition. Two folio volumes; publisher's leatherette in glossy photo-illustrated dust jackets and matching gilt-lettered slipcase; 188; 132pp.; full color and halftone illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, faint damp spot to slipcase, else a Very Good or better set. Both volumes inscribed and..... More

New York: Viking Press, 1977. First Edition. Square quarto (27cm); boards bound in beige cloth with black stamping to spine, photographic dust jacket with $18.95 price intact; 94pp.; black-and-white photographs throughout. Dust jacket bumped with superficial scratches throughout. Rear panel and interior flaps toned. Boards lightly bumped but otherwise clean. Binding..... More

New York: J.N. Genin, 1850 [copyright 1848]. Reprint. Small octavo (17cm); publisher's bright green pictorial wrappers; [4],54pp.; illus. throughout, many full-page. Light wear to wrapper margins, tiny loss at bottom fore-edge corner of upper cover with glue stain from removed tape mending, otherwise an excellent, clean and sound example. Very..... More