London, Adam & Charles Black, 1st , 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, IIllust. with black & white drawings, color paintings by Calthrop. 463 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear. chunk gone from spine top, corners.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Polity Press, First Thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth covered boards with silver titles to spine. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. llustrations in black & white throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear, now protected with a plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages throughout.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Limited Editions Club, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Two large quarto volumes (7-3/4" x 11-3/4") bound in gilt-decorated green cloth and illustrated with pen decorations by John Austen and wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. 992 pages. Copy #563 of 1500 SIGNED by Parker on the colophon page. A nicely printed set retaining Spenser's original English and beautifully illustrated. The uncommon dustwrappers are present with some sunning to the spines, light foxing. There is a chunk gone from the bottom of rear on Volume 1. The slipcase is also present with edgewear to the label. Volume 1 has a previous owner's bookplate inside the front cover. Otherwise a clean, handsome set.
Softcover. New York, NY, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy red covers with color plates on front and back. Very minor rubbing, previous price sticker on back. Paper wrappers tight, pages clean and crisp, small stain on title page. 48 color plates of fashion illustrations, not part of an exhibition but showing the changing illustrations over time. Detailed introduction on the history of fashion illustration and the different technique and styles used. 104 pages.
Softcover. New York, NY, The Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy tan covers in excellent condition; only minor sunning on bottom of the front and a small crease. Pages crisp and clean with 30 b/w plates along with description and writing on the history of fashion. 32 pages.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with some shelf wear to dust jacket. Minor curling to top edge of dust jacket front. Otherwise tight copy. Color and black & white images throughout.
Hardcover. US, Taschen, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 631 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Large heavy volume. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, The Odyssey Press , reprint, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 321 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color and b&w illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp on front cover. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, 1st, January 4, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages, b&w and color photographs. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Doubleday/Dolphin, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Softcover with light wear to cover edges & chip to lower right corner. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society Books/Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, hardcover with dust jacket. Third collection of famed photographer. Mild age toning and spotting to top text block edge. Fading to dust jacket, mostly to spine area. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Slight tear to dust jacket rear top edge. Light soiling to dust jacket as well. Unmarked. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 25 years of Skrebneski's photography for Estee Lauder advertising. Intro. by Hubert de Givenchy with b&w photographs.
Paperback. NY, Franco Maria Ricci, 1st wraps, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Lavish Art magazine, color throughout. Articles on: portraits of Joshua Reynolds, posters featuring golf, a portfolio of automated gambling machines, the paintings of Tamara de Lemlpicka, a 17th centgury Genji scroll, fashion designer Pierre Balmain.
Softcover. London, England, Victoria & Albert Museum, Reprint, 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. B&w and color photographs throughout. Pictorial paper boards. Minor wear to edges, otherwise like new.
Hardcover. New York , D. Van Nostrand Co., 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 88 pages, b&w illustrations, dark gray cloth. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, John Hayward, 1st, 1846, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 444 pages. Ex-library copy with bookplate on front endpaper, and envelope residue on inside covers. Black & white illustrations. Narrow crack in front cover hinge - approximately 1/2". Black cloth covers with blind stamped decoration. Title in gilt on spine. A clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York , Dover Publications, Inc., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. B/W photographs and color plates of fashions from Gimbel's Catalog. Clean and intact.
New York, Gallery books, 2nd, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with Photographs and 100 full-color reproductions. Dust jacket protected by clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, NEW YORK, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Design, 1st, 1980, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Green pictorial wrappers clean with minor creases near spine. 32 pp. exhibition catalog of exhibit chronicling the historical significance of hair and hairdressing. Includes various b/w and color illustrations.
Hardcover. Boston , Boston Book and Art Shop, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages. Full color and black & white examples of fashion illustration from 1770-1899. Previous owners name stamp at top right corner of front endpaper. Covers slightly bowed. Top edge with some staining. Interior clean and unmarked.
Hardcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1ST, 2007, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on reverse side front end paper. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color pictures throughout.
Softcover. New York, Dover, 1st, 1963, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in near fine condition. Over 600 patterns and illustrations. 464 pages. Begins with the Egyptians and other peoples of antiquity and ends in the end of the 19th century. This Dover edition, first published in 1963, is an unabridged republication of the English translation first published by George G. Harrap and Company, Limited in 1928.