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Manchester: James Gee [circa 1870s]. (Mass market paperback) 60pp. Good to very good. Color illustrated card covers, 4 color plates. (Costume, Hats, Social History).

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 .

Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Small 4to. 278, [2] pp. Bound in full red cloth, stamped in gilt and black on front cover and spine. Full-color plates of textiles from the collection of the Russian Museum in Leningrad. Text in Russian, English, German and French. Samples from textile mills in Ivanovo, Moscow, Leningrad, Schlüsselburg and more, with designs by Preobrazhenskaya, Burylin, Nazarevskaya, Griun, Lotonina and others. Very Good, minor age-toning to pages, otherwise clean and tight, binding shows wear and rubbing to extremities as well as to rear cover, fading to extremities and water stain to tail of spine, in Very Good dust jacket water stain to tail of spine, chipping, wear and fading to extremities, 1" tear to bottom edge of front cover, note in blue ink to rear flap.

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

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 .

Kazan: Zaman, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Small 4to. 252, [4] pp. Bound in glossy illustrated boards, brown ribbon bookmark, in matching dust jacket. Text in Tatar with translations in Russian and English. Profusely illustrated, chiefly in color. Includes bibliography. Chapters include The Bulgar Costume of the 8th-18th Centuries ; The Costume of the Early and Mid-19th Centuries ; The Costume of Townspeople in the Second Half of the 19th Century ; The Rural Clothing at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries ; Children's Clothes ; National Dress of 19th-20th Centuries ; Costumes of the Ethnic and Territorial Groups of Tatars in the Second Half of the 19th Century. Fine, bright, clean copy in Fine dust jacket.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1998. 223 pages. First U. S. printing. A profusely illustrated (photographs and line drawings) study of British clothing and accessories in the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection. The book is clean and tight; the dust jacket is clean and bright.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Richard Davis and Leonie Davis. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

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