Costume from Carnegie Hill Books

Paris: Musee Galliera, 1972. Octavo. [27] pp; several b/w illustrations. Text in French. Color illustrated stapled cover. VG, interior clean & bright with no former owner marks; cover edges toned, bottom edge of covers & text pp gently creased, small triangular tear at bottom edge of front cover. The catalog lists 331 items, including paintings & watercolors of set designs… Read more about this item

London: Medici Society, 1923. Small quarto. 46 pp; 12 tipped-in color plates. Cloth-backed paper boards with color illustration inset on cover with dustjacket. VG/G, random light foxing to preliminary pp, no writing in the book; cutout jacket lacks 4.5-in. x 2-in. piece of frame at bottom of jacket front cover, and smaller loss on the fore edge.. First Edition. Hard… Read more about this item

NY: Viking Press, 1976. Quarto. 184 pp; 8 pp of color photographs & hundreds of b/w illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; light wear to covers.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: 2wice Arts Foundation, 1998. Quarto. 109 pp; full of color & b/w illustrations. Paperback. Near Fine, minor wear to top corner, a few random numbers written in ink on page 5, else a clean copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

NY: Dover, 1982. Octavo. 104 pp; b/w photographs throughout. Paperback. VG- tiny front cover tear at top edge near spine, & slight edge wear. This Dover edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and slightly corrected republication of the work originally published by Faber and Faber, London, in 1963 under the title Fashion and Reality (1840-1914). Soft Cover. Very… Read more about this item

Taipei: Textile and Clothing Graduate Institute, Fu Jen Catholic University, 2000. Quarto. 436 pp; illustrated throughout with full-page color plates and color images in the text. Text in Chinese. Printed silk over boards with illustrated endpapers and gilt titles. Near FIne. An iIllustrated research directory. Scarce copy of this landmark work by the Graduate Institute.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near… Read more about this item

London: Barbican Editions, 1987. Quarto. 166 pp; over 40 color & 100 b/w illustrations; catalogue; chronology; notes on designers & fashion houses; glossary; bibliography; index. Two copies of the exhibiton checklist laid in. Paperback with flaps. VG, minor wear at top of spine; a clean, unmarked copy. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Crown Publishers, 1959. Small folio. xxii, 32 color plates of period costumes & 51 correlated line drawings of appropriate accessories -- shoes, undergarments, gloves, headgear -- as well as pattern plates. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, gift inscription on front flyleaf; price-clipped jacket has 1-in. triangular chip at top of spine, corners lightly chipped, top edge of rear panel has… Read more about this item

Peoria, IL: The Manual Arts Press, 1942. Thrid edition, revised & enlarged. Octavo. 256 pp; color frontispiece, numerous photographs, plates, and drawings. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, forner owner name on front flyleaf, else a crisp, unmarked copy, binding tight, cover clean & bright; jacket spine toned, spine ends lightrly chipped, a few pin-size holes. A remarkably well-preserved copy.. Third… Read more about this item