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New York: Knopf, 2002. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 307 pages. Black & white photography. Minor wear to dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy. Record # 205916
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Design was the journal of The Council of Industrial Design (Great Britain) and published from 1949 until 1999.
November 1998:
Cover Institutional Identity: Abbey National, Royal Mail, British Council
Contents
- Does Research Work? - Packaging: Supermarket Shelves & Social Values - Dividing Society: Up-Market to the City, Non-Designer to the Public
See Table of Contents Scan 8 1/4" x 11 ¾"112 Pages, minor wear to the edges. Otherwise perfect.
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Great Neck, 1929. unbound. Typed letter signed in full, commenting on a watch she received from, and an advertisement by, the Helbros Watch Company. 1 page on personal stationery, measuring 7" x 10.5", in part: "...I understand that you conceived and executed...this advertisement. It has been done extremely well and you are to be complimented on your work..." Kenwood Great Neck, NY, November 9, 1929. Very good condition. Aviator with Curtiss Flying Services.
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M. H. N & Co., 1867. Very good condition. Victorian chromolithograph advertising scraps, to be used as a window display, of Pantaloon and Clown. Pantaloon, who harks back to the Venetian character from commedia dell'arte is shown as a foolish old man with white hair and beard wearing pantaloons; he accosts Clown who wears a top emblazoned with the British flag, his pockets stuffed with beer and sausages. 9 3/4 x 7" sheet.
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Design was the journal of The Council of Industrial Design (Great Britain) and published from 1949 until 1999.
It is 9 ¾" x 12 ¾"—too large to scan and my apologies for the photo.
February 1992
Cover
'Straining at the Leash' chair by Mark Lewis
Photo Ian Dobbie Contents
See Table of Contents Scan
British Furniture Design
Redesigning the Tube (Subway)
78 Pages, Pristine.
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Chicago Illinois: W. D. Allen Mfg. Co.. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1906. Soft Cover. Circular No. 182. "The object of this little book is to help the buyer of leather belt find out what he is getting for the money he spends. " Contents include: Kinds of leather, short lap, center stock, shoulder ends, splices, Ajax Brand Leather Belting, Otter Waterproof Leather Belting, Arm & Hammer Belt, Arrow Brand, Red Cross Belt Dressing and Ajax Belt Oil. Inside the rear cover is the 1906 Price List. 3 1/2 by 9 Inches. Booklet.; Drawings and Photos . whbx 5
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Guinness, Dublin, Ireland 1957 . First edition collectable Guinness advertising booklet with humorous Guinness drawings, poems and prose based around the writings of Edward Lear .9x6", unpaginated, VG throughout
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Print Magazine: America's Graphic Design Magazine
This copy has not been read.
This copy: May-June 1996
Jonathon Rosen Illustrations
A Modern Egyptian Alphabet
Environmental Graphic Design
See Table of Contents Scan for Full Listing 138 Pages, Pristine Condition.
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Chicago: Superior Match Company, 1971. Spiralbound. Good + overall. A salesman's sample dummy of matchbooks with assorted styles, colors, captions, and images for promotional matchbooks. With Dealer card certifying Harland Speicher as a Superior Match Company dealer. 4to, 8 1/2 x 10 3/4", 96pp, color card covers, plastic spiral bound, with samples and sample colors on each page. Front cover dusty with creased corners, red plastic spiral binding, interior with faint fox spotting throughout and occasional notations in pencil and pen.
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Ausable Forks, NY, 1943. unbound. 1 page, 10.5 x 8 inches, Ausable Forks, New York, March 5, 1943. Written to Arthur Price at Sears and Roebuck, in part: "...The seasons come and go and, despite my good intentions...I find myself compelled to keep on earning money to build more barns, to house more cows, to give more milk, to help win the war. I have need of the sketches of mine that you have I think there are two, aren't there - a large one, and a little one of a boy and girl walking along. I need them for an exhibition and would appreciate very much your sending them to me..." Natural folds; staple holes in the upper left corner. Very good condition.
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Ephemera. Otherwise very good condition. Color advertising cards with the images of Dr. Elisha Kane, Robert A. Bartlett, Robert E. Peary and Sir John Franklin R.N. and biographies on verso. 2 1/2 x 3 1/4", one card (Bartlett) has small rub at lower right, Peary card dusty upper left, otherwise cards in very good condition.
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Perth: Sands & McDougall, 1900. Very good condition. Two lithographed beer labels, one on red paper and printed in red and black, the second on cream paper and printed in black, and both with the brewery's logo. Bottled by H. Sherwood & Co. Esplanade, Perth. 3 1/2 x 2 3/4"
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Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. A fascinating examination of traditional Chinese trade signs for merchants and professionals, including: clothing, tailors, shoes, noodles, cakes, wine, medicine, barbers, silver and a large fold-out of a Peking funeral procession. Decorative cream buckrum with gilt titles and red and gilt circular design on front board. 4to, 227 pp, spine and upper corners a little bumped, some light marking on spine and back board. Wonderful colored illustrations by Kent Crane, many highlighted in gilt. Very good overall. Internally perfect text and plates (102 illustrations, 48 color) very clean. No dust jacket. OCLC 2821675.
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Print Magazine: America's Graphic Design Magazine
This copy has not been read. July 1998 DToys
A Rejuvenated Encyclopedia Britannica
Controversial Ads & Advertisers
See Table of Contents Scan for Full Listing 232 Pages, Pristine Condition.
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Guinness, Dublin, Ireland 1964 . First edition rare collectable Guinness advertising booklet with humorous Guinness DIY drawings, poems & prose. Illustrated by John Tribe. Unpaginated,9x6", VG throughout
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Print Magazine: America's Graphic Design Magazine
This copy has not been read.
This copy, May/June 1997
Comic Artist Chris Ware
Magazine Designer Bridget de Socio
Arnold Varga See Table of Contents Scan for Full Listing 130 Pages, Pristine Condition.
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England, 1898. Ephemera. Very good overall. Chromolithograph poster to accompany the 1898 Christmas Annual. From an original painting by W.S. Coleman. A richly tapestried image, showing a young woman doing needlework, a child asleep on the pillow next to her, with an elaborately designed carpet hanging on the wall behind her. Size: 25.75"x19.75". Beautiful color, excellent condition.
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Design was the journal of The Council of Industrial Design (Great Britain) and published from 1949 until 1999.
It is 9 ¾" x 12 ¾"—too large to scan and my apologies for the photos.
January 1992
Cover Element from Pepe Jeans Campaign, Designer Tibor Kalman
Photo Ian Dobbie
Contents Inside Czechoslovakia Smart Graphics & Bright Signs
See Table of Contents Scan 78 Pages, Scuff mark on the cover, otherwise Pristine.
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New York: Gantz, Jones & Co, 1877. Very good condition. Baking powder advertising booklet with amusing series of 6 pages of chromolithographic illustrations depicting Humpty Dumpty dressed as a medieval clown, in white face and white stocking cap, sailing to the moon on a cloud of dough to which he added too much Sea Foam. The front wrapper with Humpty Dumpty seated on a wall with a box of Sea Foam with its Duane Street, New York address on the label. 12mo, 12pp.
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London: Pears Soap, 1898. A lovely copy of a famous and rare Pears Soap advertisement: we have not had this image for 20 years. Handsome chromolithograph of a young boy in front of a wicket with his bat straight to the ground in a defensive pose. Large chromolithograph print laid on canvas, 20 1/2 x 31 3/4", based on a painting by Philip Calderon, 1882. Beautiful 12 color printing, 3 repaired cracks into image on right side which are only slightly noticeable, otherwise vy good condition. This was one of a series of three elaborate chromolithographic advertisements for Pears. The other two advertisements were of African gray parrots in a cage & a woman & child with Persian carpets.
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N. Wayer & Son, 1901. Color advertisement card of boy in raincoat. 247 x 170 mm. Irregular left edge, light abraisions on verso. Text on verso.
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New York: Fleming, Schiller & Carnrick. unbound. Fleming, Thomas. Print. Color lithograph. Page measure 17" x 12". This 1890s poster announces the avant-garde magazine M'lle New York. It features a decorative drawing of Pan being fawned over by an admiring woman with flowing pink hair. This choice of the god of the wild complements the magazine's commitment to turn-of-the-century styles such as Art Nouveau and Symbolism. The stylized title at the top of the poster is mirrored in the text blow the image, which tells of the magazine's distribution schedule--"the New Fortnightly"--and its ten cent price. The poster in very good condition. Some chips to edges. Repairs to back. M'lle New York was an avant-garde magazine founded in 1895 by James Gibbons Huneker, a bohemian musician, and Vance Thompson, a Princeton graduate, both of whom had spent time in Europe and become enmeshed in fin-de-siècle literature, drama, and music. Struck by the tameness of New York magazines in comparison to their counterparts in France and London, they put together their pink-and-black-printed attack on American gentility with fiction, poetry, illustration, and decadent critiques--often published anonymously or with pen names--of what they saw as the lowbrow public. Despite the magazine's ridicule of democratic culture, it participated in introducing New Yorkers to the work of some important Modernists. Its editorial run only lasted four years, and while both men went on to continue their cultural crusade in other publications, M'lle New York stands out as as a manifesto of their anti-philistine perspective.
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The Bodley Head, 1958. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1958. Reprinted. 319 pages. Gray dust jacket over black cloth. Visible tanning to pages with pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and minor tanning to text block edges. Light cracking to gutters throughout. Boards have light edge wear with light bumping to corners and minor crushing to spine ends being heavier to top end. Some tearing to head end of spine with light rubbing to boards. Unclipped jacket with light tanning and water mark to interior. Vast sunning to spine with light tears and chips to edges, corners and spine ends.
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Michigan: General Foods, 1932. Ephemera. Very good condition. Advertising newspaper published by General Foods of Battle Creek, Michigan to promote Grape-Nuts Cereal which was taken to Little America by Admiral Byrd. BW newspaper (Vol. 1, No. 2) advertises 'Byrd Broadcasts Make Radio History'. Stapled to front cover is a notice by General Foods the times of Byrd's Broadcasts. Penguin and sled dogs images either side of top header.11 x 16" folded to 11 x 8", 4 pp, toned, slt. ruffling to edge, vgc.
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1840. Very good overall. Early New York candy maker's paper bag illustrated with blue steel engraving of the store facade at Chambers and Hudson Streets, where it was established in 1806. Engraved illustration showing the store front with large painted signs for "Candy Sugar Plums". Horse drawn 6th and 8th Avenue trolleys in the street, and customers flocking to the entrance. Verso with engraved illustration "Ridley & Co.'s Branch Store, 206 Fifth Avenue, Corner 26th Street, New York". A bit ruffled at edges, slightly marked with age spots. 6 1/2 x 11"
