Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Christian Dior: Man of the Century

DuFresne, Jean-Luc; Christian Dior · 2005

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.52 | ¥12,138)

Paris, France, Editions Artlys, 2005. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Uber-scarce in this state and condition, there being currently only one additional hardcover copy available on-line. A sumptuous homage designed to accompany the 100-year anniver...

Degas: The Dancers

Shackelford, George T.M. and Edgar Degas · 1984

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Big, tall pictorial wraps printed on ...

The Dance: The Story of the Dance Told in Pictures and Text

Martin, John · 1946

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Tudor Publishing, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine and accessible social history the dance and the performing arts, in words and pictures, from the head dance critic for the New York Times. Two-hundred sixty exciting action photograph...

Discovering Ballet, Perfect for All Young Readers Who Love Ballet

May, Robin and the staff of the Royal Ballet · 1979

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Marshall Cavendish, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. The Russian Ballet, the Royal Ballet, and the Alvin Ailey dance troup get full coverage in this item designed to encourage young dancers. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean ...

Ballet Art from the Renaissance to the Present

Clarke, Mary and Clement Crisp · 1978

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Published by Clarkson N. Potter, NY, 1978, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Glossy pictorial wraps, and...

Buckle at the Ballet

Buckle, Richard · 1980

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Atheneum Books, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sixteen years' worth of articles and essays from the London Sunday Times, pieces about dance, theatre, and especially ballet and other performing artists. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with...

The Looking Glass in America 1700-1825

Comstock, Helen · 1968

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, A Studio Book, The Viking Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A particularly fine exemplar of a cute little tome about collectibles, being a social history of the Looking Glass, with examples from Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Adam and...

Enamels Enameling Enamelists

Matthews, Glenice Lesley · 1984

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Radnor, Pennsylvania, Chilton Book Company, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in First Edition state. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex...

Phaidon Guide to Glass

Mehlman, Felice · 1983

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1983. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and accessible guide to the social history and proper pricing and collecting of glassware, from drinking vessels to lighting. Super-sturdy little short octavo form...

Chelsea & Chelsea-Derby China

Mew, Egan; Hare, T. Leman, General Editor · 0

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, T.C. & E.C. Jack, . . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A fine exemplar of another fine contribution to Masterpieces of Handicraft, under the general editorial direction of T. Leman. A short octavo format hardcover bound handsomely in black cloth and with gilt lettering a...

Looking After Antiques

Halahan, Frances and Anna Plowden · 1987

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

London, The National Trust, 1987. First Edition. . Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A splendid, practical compendium to care and collection of amber, antler, basketry, ceramics, coral, enamel, feathers, glass, horn, ivory, bone, lacquer, leather, metals, mother-of-pearl, paper, prin...

Western Decorative Arts, Part I, Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles Including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics

Distelberger, Rudolf, Alison Luchs, Philippe Verdier, Timothy H. Wilson · 1993

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.95 | ¥3,577)

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Authored by Rudolf Distelberger, Alison Luchs, Philippe Verdier, and Timothy H. Wilson, and with contribut...

Investing in Pottery and Porcelain

Morley-Fletcher, Hugo · 1968

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, Clarkson N. Potter Inc., 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A marvelously useful guide to investing in British pottery and porcelains, focusing especially in Chelsea, Worcester, Wedgwood, Ralph Wood, Leeds and other houses and figures. Sterlin...

The Wedgwood Circle 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends

Wedgwood, Barbara and Hensleigh Wedgwood · 1980

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Westfield, New Jersey, Eastview Editions, 1980, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and engaging family and friends biography beginning with the first Master Potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95) and written by a descendant. A fine social history of the ...

Treasury of American Design: A Pictorial Survey of Popular Folk Arts Based Upon Watercolor Renderings in the Index of American Design, at the National Gallery of Art, Volume 1, Volume 2

Hornung, Clarence P. · 1973

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.16 | ¥3,833)

New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1973. . Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. An absolutely magnum opus of design and social history, illustration and scholarship. From typography to binding, marginal illustrations to font-size, produced near-wholly by the author, Clarence P. Hornu...

American Furniture 1620 to the Present

Fairbanks, Jonathan L. and Elizabeth Bidwell Bates · 1981

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Richard Marek Publishers, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining no...

Enameling Principles and Practice

Bates, Kenneth F. · 1951

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Cleveland And New York, The World Publishing Company, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. But for a bruise to the front bottom tip, a sterling condition hardcover copy in octavo format. 125 drawings and illustrations augment the text, including a full-col...

The Folk Art Tradition: Naive Painting in Europe and the United States

Jane Kallir · 1981

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Galerie St. Etienne, a Studio Book, with the Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. One hundred fine illustrations, 29 in full-color, augment this special volume of some brilliant self-taught artists. The author is the Director of th...

The Sacred Spring: The Arts in Vienna, 1898-1918

Powell, Nicolas · 1974

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Greenwich, Connecticut, New York Graphic Society, 1974, 1974. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A brilliant and sumptuously illustrated social history of Vienna's late 19th-century "Sacred Spring," a burst of social, intellectual and artistic creativity....

Plastic Design

Campos, Cristian, ed. · 2007

$20.80 (€18.87 | £15.74 | ¥3,322)

Koln, Germany, Daab, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Brand-new, just removed from shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Oversized octavo in format, bound handsomely in blue pictorial cloth. Texts in five l...