Arti decorative e design

Paris Des Reves. 75 photographies d'Izis Bidermanas.

BIDERMANAS Izis · 1950 · Inch's Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Lausanne, La Guilde du Livre, 1950. 159pp. Cloth, 28x22. VG, dust wrapper. 75 full-page photos with captions on facing page. Famous photo image book evoking the spirit of early post-war Paris

American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design. A Catalogue of the Palevsky/Evans Collection and Related Works at the Los Angeles County Musem of Art

BOWMAN Leslie Greene · 1990 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Boston/Toronto/London, LA County Museum of Art with Bullfinch/Little, Brown, 1990. 256pp, 190 colour & 275 b&w photos, bibliog. Wraps, 31x23. Fine in pictorial dust wrapper. Informative, beautifully produced exhibition catalogue

Genèse. 50 photographies sur le themes d'Amers choisis par.....

PERSE Saint-John · 1973 · Inch's Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Pierre Belfond, 1973. Unpaginated, c90pp, mostly photos. Cloth, 34x26. Lacks blank front end paper else very good copy in dust wrapper, this slightly creased at back but now protected. Very nice looking copy. Collection finding common themes in images of the sea, sand and the...

Hosiery Manufacture

DAVIS Professor W · 1931 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Pitman, 2nd ed reprinted 1931. x, 136pp incl illustrations. Cloth, 22x15. Owner's signature, top of spine little pulled, contents very good and binding tight.

20th Century Tiles

LEMMEN Hans van and BLANCHETT Chris · 1999 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Aylesbury, Shire Publications, 1999. 40pp, many b&w and colour illustrations. Pictoral wraps. 21x15. Very good. Attractive guide to tiles, from Art Nouveau to late 20th century diversity.

Imagine A Book for Band Aid. Preface by William Golding.

BAILEY David · 1985 · Inch's Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, T & H, 1985. Unpaginated, c75 b&w photos. Stiff wraps 30x22. Good. Bailey's haunting images of famine in Africa.

The Dream Factory. Alessi since 1921

ALESSI Alberto · 1998 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Cologne, Konemann, 1998. 127pp incl illustrations, bibliog. Wraps, 20x12. Fine copy.

Curiosity. 30 Designs for Products and Interiors.

TILBURG Carolien van · 2002 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Basel:Amsterdam, Birkhauser:Frame, 2002. 160pp, many photos etc, mostly in colour, project credits, bibliog. Embossed pictoral wraps, 28x22. Fine copy. Curiosity is a Tokyo-based design office with clients such as Issey Miyake, Jean Paul Gautier, Van Cleef & Arpels. 30 proje...

Le Nouveau Design Italien

BELLATI Nally · 1990 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

(NY 1990), French ed., Paris, 1991. Coloured frontis, 265 illustrations, 220 in colour, adresses of designers. Pictoral wraps. 30x24. Fine.

Tolleson Design

KELLY Therese · 1999 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

NY, Princeton UP, 1999. Coloured frontis, umpaginated c 350 pp, hundreds of colour illustrations. Plastic-protected wraps, 25x18. Vg. Probably a really useful book, but one of the worst designed we have ever had to catalogue.

High Styles: Twentieth -Century American Design

PHILLIPS Lisa (intro) · 1985 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

NY, Whitney Museum of American Art/Summit Books, 1985. xi, 212pp incl 205 illustrations, 60 in colour. Cloth, 29x29. Very good copy in dust wrapper. Period from American Art Nouveau to Post-modernism. Includes work by Eames, Saarinen, Lloyd Wright, Graves, Gehry etc. Based o...

The Photographic Study of Rapid Events

CHESTERMAN W Deryck · 1951 · Inch's Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1951. xiii, 167pp, oncl figs in text plus 32 photographic plates showing various examples eg bounces of a golf ball, rifle bullet striking plate glass etc, bibliog. Cloth, 22x15. Vg, price-clipped dust wrapper. Author was in the Royal Naval Scientif...

The Style of the Century

HILLIER Bevis · 1983 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

NY, E P Dutton, 1983. 239pp, b/w and colour ills. Pictoral wraps, 25x18. Good. Good reference for 20th Century design, especially popular manifestations.

A Century of Chair Design

RUSSEL Frank (ed), GARNER Philippe (intro), READ John (drawings) · 1980 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London, Academy, 1980. 160pp, over 350 illustrations bibliog. Cloth, 31x24. Ex RSA lib with bookplate, good, dust wrapper. Traces the history of chair design fron c1850-1950. The superior hardback edition

Tin Plate Decoration and the Lacquering of Food Containers Illustrated by micro-photography.

MATTHISON A LL · 1931 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Birmingham, Matthison, 1931. Colour frontis, 156pp, 66 illustrations, many in colour Gilt lettered cloth, 22x14. Top of front cover scuffed, spine a little faded, else nice, bright copy. A most interesting technical account with much out-of-the-way information on this now ubi...

Henry Dreyfuss Industrial Designer: The Man in the Brown Suit

FLINCHUM Robert · 1997 · Inch's Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

NY, Rizzoli, 1997. 224pp, inc many illustrations, 15 in full colour, client list. Lettered boards, 26x20. As new, dust wrapper. First monograph of this great US designer (1904-1972). Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, NY.

Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists & Innovators

BROWNE Turner & PARTNOW Elaine · 1983 · Inch's Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

NY, Macmillan, 1983. xiii, 722pp+ 144 plates. List of museums, galleries. Cloth. 24x20. Very good copy in dust wrapper. With biographies of over 500 photographers. Very useful encyclopedia.

Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver.

KREKEL-AALBERSE Annalies · 1989 · Inch's Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

NY, Harry N Abrams 1989. 272pp, with 325 illustrations, incl 25 full colour plates and biographies, silvermarks 1880-1940, comprehensive pictorial guide to maker's marks and bibliography. Cloth, 29x23. Fine, lovely art deco style dust wrapper. An indispensable book on this to...

Commercial Space: Office Furniture

CERVER Francisco Asensio · 1996 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Hove, Rotovision SA, 1996. 159pp, inc hundreds of col photos. Glossy stiff card pictorial wraps. 30x22. New. Work of 37 design firms. Very stylish.

The Papered Wall: history, pattern, technique

HOSKINS Lesley (ed) · 1994 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

NY, Harry N Abrams, (London1994), 1994. 256pp, 348 photos inc 195 plates, glossary, bibliog. Cloth, 31x23. Fine, dust wrapper. Excellent, well illustrated account. Editor is archivist for Arthur Sanderson & Sons and Secretary of the Wallpaper History Society.