Fashion, Costume, Textiles, Fiber Arts

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1947 60 pages; 12 b&w illustrations; 200 tapestries w/ catalogue entries. Modern tapestries (#139-200) are only briefly described; others are more fully described. Bibliography.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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Japan Society, 1983 125 pages; 50 full-page color plates with complete descriptive entries; four essays on the Japanese Aesthetic by four Japanese authors; chronology; bibliography. All text is English. Some rubbing to dustjacket edges.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12" x 9". Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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San Francisco: The Quilt Digest Press, 1986 88 pages; numerous color illustrations.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 4to. more information

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New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995 80 pages; well illustrated in color. MMA Bulletin Winter 1995/96. . Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good.. 4to. Art periodical. more information

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São Paulo: Museu de Arte Moderna, 1979 67 full-page b&w reproductions ao artworks, most are works of fiber arts.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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The Western Reserve Historical Society - Chisholm Halle Costume Wing, 1986 35 pages; 30 large color plates showing over 70 female mannequins in dress. Time span: 1810-1968. Covers are creased.. First Edition. Printed Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Large 4to. more information

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New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974 Nine quilts are illustrated in good color, full page, others in b&w; accompanied by curator's comment.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 7" x 8". more information

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Genève: Éditions Pierre Cailler, 1958 16 pages. French text.. Printed Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 8vo. more information

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Tel, 1957 190 pages; 127 illustrations, color and b&w. 44 artists.. Fifth Edition. Decorated paper boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to. more information

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New York: Dover Publications, 1980 41 pages. The 1980 Glyndebourne Festval Production. Wrappers are bumped at the corners; pages are clean and flat.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Slim folio. more information

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New York: Dover Publications, 1990 460 pages; 1,117 illustrations, all b&w. An unabridged republicatiuon of the work originally published in London in 1937 with the same title. This edition has no color illustrations. A bend of the covers lower corner, otherwise clean and tight.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. more information

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New York: Sterling Publishing, 1974 262 pages; numerous b&w illustrations. . Revised Edition. Decorated paper boards. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. more information

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New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987 364 pages; 356 illustrations, 254 in color; 15 maps showing bead sources and distribution patterns; 8-page color foldout of over 2000 beads. A beautiful production that covers the history and the uses of beads throughout the world's cultures and religions. Should be a classic for its photography and its scope. Nearly fine throughout except for previous owner's (well-known jewelry designer) name on front free endpaper.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Original Photography by Togashi. Folio. more information

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New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2004 364 pages; 356 illustrations, most in color; 15 maps showing bead sources and distribution patterns; 8-page color foldout of over 2000 beads. A beautiful production that covers the history and the uses of beads throughout the world's cultures and religions. Should be a classic for its photography and its scope.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. Illus. by Original Photography by Togashi. Large 4to. more information

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Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Essex Museum, 2000 160 pages; hundreds netsuke are illustrated with b&w photographs and are arranged according to subject matter. The catalogue offers explanations of use; information about their stories; type; material dimension; signature;circa.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 4to. Collection catalogue. more information

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New York: Beauvais Carpets 14 carpets and 1 tapestry: the carpets from India, Persia, Turkestan, Russia, France and England; the tapestry from France. The color images are full-page; the entries on the opposite verso fill the page, too, and are informative.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. Gallery catalogue. more information

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Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1979 98 pages; 7 essays by 7 different specialists;15 color plates; many b&w; appendix with line drawings of motifs. . First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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Berlin: Verlag Für Kunstwissenschaft no date. 384 pages; 223 illustrations, including 6 color. Most illustrations are of textiles, some are pattern diagrams or of loom setup. Binding faded; backstrip worn at head and foot and detached from the back board; decorative paper label applied to the front board has minor soiling, text block in good condition.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. more information

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974 48 pages, well illustrated. A special publication similar to The Metropolitan's monthly bulletin. Text and detail plates examine the seven tapestries in succession. Three additional sections discuss the creation, the original ownership, and the history of the tapestries. Clean and tight.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good.. 4to. more information

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New York: William Morrow, 1971 192 pages; b&w and color illustrations; b&w designs in line drawings.. Second Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. more information

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New York: HarperCollins, 2003 392 pages; a few b&w illustrations.. First Edition. Paper boards. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. more information

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New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999 Fanciful, poetic text combined with specially commissioned drawings of Geoffrey Beene's garments. 40 color illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover - Pictorial Boards. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Sirichai (Drawings). 8vo. more information

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New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1981 428 pages. Different segments of the business chapter by chapter; each chapter includes essays or articles published elsewhere; each chapter ends with a bibliography.. Decorated paper-covered boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. more information

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Paris: G. Charpentier, 1880 pp.xii, 356. 24 plates of which 5 are double-page. Frontispiece and one other are 4-color; 2 of the double-page are monochromatic color; remainder are b&w. 3 of the double-page plates each have 2 prints. This may account for the 27 gravures called for on the title page; the Table des Gravures lists 24 plates.Half-leather with green marbled boards; raised bands and gilt tooling on the spine; t.e.g. The leather appears to have been dyed green but is now faded; hinges are firm but joints appear tender; edges rubbed all around. Interior is clean; frontis is detached and is marked by a small stamp, "Bibl. de L'Opera"; a piece of the corner of p.47 is gone.. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good. 4to. more information

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London: Paul Hamlyn, 1970 57 pages of illustrated text followed by a map and more than 74 color plates of carpets from Iran, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Asia Minor, Caucasus, Armenia and Kurdistan, China, Pakistan, India, Japan, Spain and Northern Africa.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970 114 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w; all designs by the author.. Decorated cloth boards. Fine/Very Good. 4to. more information

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London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1947 100 illustrations, all b&w. The catalogue reproduces costume illustration (men's and women's), not actual clothing, from the collection of costume prints and books at the Victoria & Allbert Museum.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Small 4to. Museum Gallery Catalogue. more information

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New York: The Viking Press, 1976 184 pages. 10 color plates; numerous b&w illustrations. Published with the cooperation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.. Second Printing. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 4to. more information

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Paris: Galerie la Demeure, 1962 33 pages; b&w illustrations; paintings and tapestries. French text. Front wrap faded irregularly.. Printed Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 8vo. Gallery catalogue. more information

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New York: Abbeville, 1991 334 pages. Hundreds of color illustrations, including the finish, which is a visual history of 250 sketches representing each collection from 1960 to 1990. A damping ring blemishes the bottom three inches of the back board and the spine, also removing gilt from part of the title "...ars of magic". Otherwise the book is fine. The jacket has a very small nick at the top edge.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Folio. more information

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New York: Harper & Row, 1970 218 pages; 120 drawings, 325 photographs, four pages of color illustrations, color endpaper illustrations.. First Edition. Decorated cloth boards. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. more information

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New York: Dover, 1973 121 pages; 340 illustrations, including 2 color. Selections from the four portfolios of Tapis tunisiens, by L. Poinssot and J. Revault. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. more information

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Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Essex Museum, 2001 162 pages; 68 items, often illustrated more than once, all in color. A checklist of the exhibition, itself color-illustrated, is divided interestingly: The Artists and Their Work; Schoolgirl Needle Arts; Sailors' Embroidery; Home; Nature; Memory.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983 144 pages; numerous illustrations, including quilts and quilters. Text contributions by a number of artists and quilters. Biographical sketches with photos of Artists and Quilters. Spine faded, otherwise fine condition; no marks, notes, tears.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Square 4to. more information

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New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1968 112 pages; 775 catalogued items, about 80 illustrated with b&w or color photography; short essays; maps; charts. Ceramics, textiles, jewelry. Clean and tight, almost as new.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987 56 pages, generously illustrated in color. MMA Bulletin Spring 1987. Clean and tight.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good.. 4to. Art periodical. more information

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New York: The Haji Baba Club, 2008 308 pages; 107 color plates; numerous color text illustrations; blue silk boards with impressed orange titles.. The book accompanied the Haji Baba Club's 75th Anniversary Exhibition at the New York Historical Society. The history of the club and "Rugs in the City"; production of textiles and rugs in parts of the world; uses; collecting. A lavishly beautiful catalogue, as new.. First Edition. Blue silk boards . Fine/Fine. Large 4to. more information

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Edita S.A. Lausanne, 1965 280 pages; 185 b&w illustrations; 82 color; many of the color are tipped-in. The art, design and techniques of tapestry making from the Middle Ages to our time. The four authors each covers his own special period. A repaired tear in the jacket's front panel, no lost material. A beautiful book.. First Edition. Decorated cloth boards. Fine/Very Good. Thick folio. more information

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New York: Watson-Guptill, 1976 160 pages; dozens of exercises; color plates; bibliography. Nearly fine condition.. First Printing. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 8vo. more information

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New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1967 64 pages most filled with patterns and color charts.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Oblong 8vo. more information

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Washington D.C.: The Washington Haji Baba - The Rug Society of Washington D.C. - The Textile Museum, 1968 89 rugs pictured full page with a descriptive entry. Most are black and white; four are in color, including a centerfold 6-niche Saff rug. Map and reading list at back.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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