C. P. Company 971-021 An informal history of Italian Sportswear by HARVEY, Paul; PUNGETTI, Alessandro; MORANO, Lodovico Pignatti - 2021

Paris: Maison Quantin, 1888. # 708/2000 on Holland wove paper. In contemporary fine binding of quarter morocco over marbled boards, five gilt ruled raised bands and gilt lettering, top edge gilt, the bookplate of Frank Cyril Tiarks of Foxbury both paste downs. Very Good, end pages soiled, light rubbing at edges. Numerous color illustrations by Paul Avril. . Limited and Numbered Edition. Quarter Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition.

Tokyo: Libro Port, 1991. First edition. Original Cloth. Fine/very good. Sm oblong 4to. In the bright yellow cloth boards with blind embossed title. Illustrated endpapers. pp. 125 with 122 colour photographic plates of shoes designed by Takada between 1967 and 1990. Held her first exhibition at a Ginza art gallery in 1966 since when she became one of the most innovative and stylish shoe designers of the C20th. Unclipped jacket with light edgewear only. Uncommon.

NY: Assouline Publishing, 2004. Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Assouline Publishing, 2004, first printing. Folio, 10 1/2" x 13 3/4", 197pp., lavishly illustrated with color and b/w photos. Inscribed by Herrera on half title: "To Annette, Carolina Herrera." "Through the celebrated photography of Annie Leibovitz, Francesco Scavullo, Horst, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Mario Testino, as well as the words of friends, colleagues, and admirers sucg as Calvin Klein, Ian Schrager and Bianca Jagger, among others, Carolina Herrera is a portrait of one of today s most timeless designers. With an introduction by Hamish Bowles, this book tells the story of one of fashion s most remarkable women." Fine in fine dust jacket. . Signed By Artist. 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.

Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2016. First Edition. Full Leather. Fine/very good (solander box). Folio (35cm x 29cm). Bound in full leather with onlay silhouettes, white and gold foil blocking. All edges gilt. Limited to 1916 numbered and signed copies, this being number 846. Housed in the grey with gilt titles cloth-bound solander case. To the cover of the case, a shutter pulls back to reveal an individually placed photograph from the Vogue archives. With eight signatures, including those of Patti Boyd, Grace Codringington, Karen Elson and photographer Eric Boman, to the mounted paper. This copy comes with a matching colour grey drawstring Vogue chemise for the book. pp. 448. Celebrating the 2016 centenary of British Vogue, there is a wealth of photography, archival material as well as interviews with 100 of Vogue's most respected contributors. Photographs by Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, to Nick Knight, Mario Testino and David Bailey among many others. The solander case has a… Read More

Thurber, James. The Thurber Carnival. 1945, Harper & Brothers. First Edition, $4.50 dust jacket thus. Book and jacket Illustrated by the author.HUMOR. AMERICANA. Used VG/Good+ original unclipped dust jacket. Hard to find in a nice jacket like this. Grey boards with yellow spine. Pink/white/green DJ. Jacket states No. 9078A. 369 pages. 5 7/8 X 8 3/4.

Tokyo: Libro Port, 1991. First edition. Original Cloth. Fine/very good. Sm oblong 4to. In the bright yellow cloth boards with blind embossed title. Illustrated endpapers. pp. 125 with 122 colour photographic plates of shoes designed by Takada between 1967 and 1990. Held her first exhibition at a Ginza art gallery in 1966 since when she became one of the most innovative and stylish shoe designers of the C20th. Unclipped jacket with light edgewear only. Uncommon.

MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Printing Thus. Paperback. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ issued. Bound in yellow pictorial stiff card wraps. Clark Cable and Vivien Leigh front cover. 391 pages 7 X 9 1/2. Scarce. Includes 12 pages of color prints from the film. Plot summary: "Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler."

NY: Assouline Publishing, 2004. Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Assouline Publishing, 2004, first printing. Folio, 10 1/2" x 13 3/4", 197pp., lavishly illustrated with color and b/w photos. Inscribed by Herrera on half title: "To Annette, Carolina Herrera." "Through the celebrated photography of Annie Leibovitz, Francesco Scavullo, Horst, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Mario Testino, as well as the words of friends, colleagues, and admirers sucg as Calvin Klein, Ian Schrager and Bianca Jagger, among others, Carolina Herrera is a portrait of one of today s most timeless designers. With an introduction by Hamish Bowles, this book tells the story of one of fashion s most remarkable women." Fine in fine dust jacket. . Signed By Artist. 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.

Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2016. First Edition. Full Leather. Fine/very good (solander box). Folio (35cm x 29cm). Bound in full leather with onlay silhouettes, white and gold foil blocking. All edges gilt. Limited to 1916 numbered and signed copies, this being number 846. Housed in the grey with gilt titles cloth-bound solander case. To the cover of the case, a shutter pulls back to reveal an individually placed photograph from the Vogue archives. With eight signatures, including those of Patti Boyd, Grace Codringington, Karen Elson and photographer Eric Boman, to the mounted paper. This copy comes with a matching colour grey drawstring Vogue chemise for the book. pp. 448. Celebrating the 2016 centenary of British Vogue, there is a wealth of photography, archival material as well as interviews with 100 of Vogue's most respected contributors. Photographs by Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, to Nick Knight, Mario Testino and David Bailey among many others. The solander case has a… Read More

Agatha Christie. The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery. 2013, Center Point Pub. Thorndike, Maine. LARGE PRINT EDITION.SCARCE THUS. ISBN 9781611737127. 5 7/8 X 8 ¾. 350 pages. EXLIB. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original price $34.95. Synopsis: "A hired stenographer lets herself into her client's home only to realize that the body of a dead man is sprawled across the living room floor. When recounting the scene to Detective Poirot, She distinctly remembers a cuckoo clock striking three but all the living room clocks showed 4:13. Poirot determines that, even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house."