Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Treasures of Childhood: Books, Toys, and Games from the Opie Collection

Opie, Iona, Robert Opie, and Brian Alderson · 1989

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, Arcade Publishing, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A stunning catalog to augment the exhibition of The Opie Collection, a collection spanning 20,000 items and 40 years of collecting, written up by them and Brian Alderson, a noted collectibl...

English Furniture Designs of the Eighteenth Century

Ward-Jackson, Peter · 1958

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

London, England, Victoria & Albert Museum, by Her Majesty's Stationer's Office, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. 350 fine illustrations and photographs, printed on high-gloss paper augment this fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover format survey ...

Rare Carpets from East and West

Ferrero, Mercedes Viale · 1972

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Orbis, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Big, tall near-folio size in hardcover, bound handsomely in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spineBright ...

A Collector's History of English Potttery

Lewis, Griselda · 1969

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, A Studio Book, for Viking Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for previous owner's calligraphed signature at first free endpaper. Bright an...

Legacy of Lace: Identifying, Collecting, and Preserving American Lace

Warnick, Kathleen and Shirley Nilsson · 1988

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Crown, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine and accessible survey of the history of lace-making and lace-makers including looping, knotting, crossing, needlework, novelty tapes, machine-made lace and preservation and use. Superior copy, gif...

British Fabrics

Sanderson, Kylie, ed. · 1987

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, England, Columbus Press, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. Glossy illustrated wraps of an oblong softcover format catalog of British purveyors of fabric and textiles of all manner. Replete with fine, full-color photography, in black-and-white, ...

The Oriental Rug Collection of Jerome and Mary Jane Straka

Straka, Jerome A. and Louise W. Mackie, eds. · 1978

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Jerome A. Straka, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine and fine-looking survey of rugs from the Jerome and Mary Jane Straka Collection, featuring exemplars including Turkoman rugs, East Turkestan rugs, Chinese rugs, Turkish rugs, Persian ...

Oriental Carpets

Schurmann, Ulrich · 1966

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, England, Paul Hamlyn , 1966. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Burgundy cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine, illustration to front cover. Previous...

Batik

Vesper, Carl · 1922

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Wittenberg, Germany, A. Ziemsen Verlag, 1922. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. German language treatise on the method and theory of batik fabric-dyeing. The sub-title continues: Anleitung zur Herstellung gebatikter Gewebe und Stoffe, wie Baumwolle, Leinen, Ne...

The Eastern Carpet in the Western World from the 15th to the 17th Century

King, Donald, John Mill and David Sylvester, eds. · 1983

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, England, Hayward Gallery / Arts Council of Great Britain, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Three fine essays from acknowledge experts augment this fine catalog for the exhibit that was held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 20 May - 10 July 1983...

Hesse: A Princely German Collection

Hunter-Stiebel, Penelope · 2005

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy in tall quarto-sized format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy ...

English Cameo Glass

Whitehouse, David · 1994

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Corning, New York, Corning Museum of Glass, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the glossy pictorial covers, bright interior, unmarked. Replete with black-and-white and full color plaet...

Bow Porcelain 1744-1776

Trustees of the British Museum · 1959

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, Trustees of the British Museum, 1959. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Particularly fine-looking copy of the catalog that augmented the special exhibition of documentary material to commemorate the bi-centenary of the retirement of Thomas Frye, held O...

Meditations on a Hobby Horse, and Other Essays on the Theory of Art

Gombrich, E.H. · 1971

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Phaidon, 1971. Second Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Stated second printing of this influential collection of essays...

20th Century Ceramic Designers in Britain

Casey, Andrew · 2001

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Woodbridge, England, Antique Collectors' Club Ltd., 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. More than 420 illustrations, most being in full color, augment this superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust ...

Renaissance Treasury: The Flagg Collection of European Decorative Arts

Winters, Laurie and Joseph R. Bliss, eds. · 1999

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Hudson Hill Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Richard and Irna Flagg Collection of Renaissance decorative arts and sculpture was given to the Milwaukie Museum of Art in 1991, and this is the exhibition catalog that accompanied its debu...

Neo Furniture

Claire Downey · 1992

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

New York, Rizzoli International Publications, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Scarce in the trade in this state and condition, there being only a few copies available in First Edition state. Claire Downey has authored a fine survey of Neo-Furniture i...

Scandinavian Design: Objects of a Life Style

Beer, Eileene Harrison · 1975

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Big, tall, folio sized Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound handsomely ...

American Art: 1750-1800 Towards Independence

Montgomery, Charles and Patricia Kane · 1976

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Boston, Massachusetts / New Haven, Connecticut, N.Y. Graphic Society/Yale University, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustra...

Dictionary of Antiques

Savage, George · 1970

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Praeger Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. An apparent First Edition, First Printing from 1970, with several hundred photographs and drawings, printed on high-gloss paper. Entries about furniture, French furniture, glass, pottery, pewter...