Search Results: Authors starting with P from Design Books

Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Kosmos Editora, , 1976. This is a very good hardcover copy without dust jacket as issued with almost no wear. Bound in red cloth printed with gilt device on the front cover only. This is a limited edition of 50 numbered copies not for sale. This is number XXXIV. This in effect is the second edition of Bertichem's 1856 original edition. Short modern introduction in English and Portuguese (four pages). Illustrated in color with 47 plates. 12" high X 17" wide. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Leiden: Brill, 2009. This is a fine hardcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. All gilt titles still bright. Text in French. This is Volume XIII: Index, only. 11" high X 7" wide, 1136 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket.

Germantown, New York, : Key of Dreams Publications, , 1997. This is a fine hardcover copy with a fine dust jacket without any wear at all. SIGNED by the photographer, R.P. M. and briefly inscribed to two friends, on the first white page. Illustrated throughout in black & white with phptpgraphs taken of Jackie Onassis in New York. Color frontispiece portrait of Jackie used for Life magazine cover. 12" high X 9" wide, unpaginated. A beautiful copy. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Signed by Artist.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Madrid: Instituto de Valencia de Don Juan, 1956. This is a very good two volume set in the original printed wrappers. Pages uncut. Completely clean inside, covers lightly toned, a few small spots. Text in Spanish. 9" high X 6" wide, xlvi, 499; 2 p.l., 482. This is the 1956 reprint of the original 17th century treatise. These books will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and sent with tracking.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Paris: CENTRE POMPIDOU, 2008. This is a near fine hardcover with almost no wear. Completely clean. Black silk page-mark present. Text in FRENCH. This monograph was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris from May 7 to August 11, 2008. Essays by dozens of scholars. Illustrated in color. 12" high X 10" wide, 455 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Paris. New York. Montreal. : Centre Pompidou. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1978. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Feels unread. Completely clean. This is the English text edition. This monograph was prepared to accompany the exhibition first initiated by Pontus Hulten in Paris at the Centre Georges Pompidou, from March 15 to June 14, 1978. The exhibition then traveled to the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, from September 7 to October 15, 1978. Texts by Alfred Pacquement, Agnes Angliviel de La Beaumelle, and Gerard Barriere. Contributions by Octavio Paz, Jean Starobinski, Genevieve Bonnefoi, Henri Alexis Baatsch, Edith Boissonnas and Thomas Messer. Illustrated mostly in color. Biographical sketch. Exhibition history. Bibliography. Checklist with 172 works catalogued. 9" high X 8" wide, 204 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking.. Soft Cover. Fine.

Paris: Paris Musees / Flammarion, 1997. This is a very good hardcover copy with almost no wear in blue pictorial boards, no dust jacket as issued. Completely clean inside and out. Text in French. Standard survey of the decade before World War II, surveying both fine and decorative arts. Covers painting, sculpture, photography, graphic design, film, decorative arts and furniture. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris in the spring of 1997. Illustrated in color and black & white. Bibliography. Chronology. Essays by more than a dozen scholars including Michel Winock, Eric Michaud, José Vovelle, et al. 11" high X 9" wide, 571 pages. Large heavy book foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

Verona, Italy: Banca Mutua Popolare di Verona, 1976. This is a fine hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with a few closed tears at the corners and spine tips, and one chip at the base of the spine. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Italian. This is the fifth volume in the publisher's series on Verona. Illustrated with XVII color plates + 367 black & white photographs, prints, theatrical notices and posters + many reproductions of musical scores. 13" high X 8" wide, 697 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Paris: Paris-Musees. Editions des Musees de la Ville de Paris, 1992. This is a near fine hardcover copy in gray pictorial flexible boards with almost no wear, but slight indentation on top edge of front cover. Completely clean inside and out. Text in French. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Musee d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris from November 1992 to March 1993. Essays by over a dozen scholars. Chronology. Bibliography. Biographical sketches of the artists. Illustrated throughout in color with hundreds of color plates and many smaller black & white illus. 11" high X 9" wide, 463 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Near Fine.

London: Phaidon Press, 2018. This is a fine softcover copy SIGNED by the artist, Trevor Paglen, on the title-page and briefly inscribed to a friend. Otherwise completely clean. Interview with Paglen conducted by Lauren Cornell. Chronology. Bibliography. Illustrated in color. 11" high X 10" wide, 158 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Signed by Artist.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

New York, 1962-64.: Random House / Ridge Press, , 1966. This is a fine hardcover copy with a near fine dust jacket. The jacket is complete, not price-clipped, no tears, a bit of wear to the edges. Completely clean. Text by Francoise Sagan and Federico Fellini. Illustrated in black & white, some color. 12" high X 9" wide. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Basel, Schwabe: Kunsthalle Basel, 1996. This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Rear cover has scraped area from old price sticker removal. Otherwise clean throughout. Text in German. Introduction by Peter Pakesch. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel in 1996. Illustrated in color and black & white. 9" high X 7" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Kiev: Mystetstvo, 1976. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Ukrainian, with summaries & notes in English, French, German and Russian. Illustrated mostly in color with 150 plates. Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (1814- 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, as well as folklorist and ethnographer. 10" high X 8" wide, 348 pages (48 text pages + plates). This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Plume / Penguin , 2003. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Appears unread. Completely clean inside and out. Spine is not creased. Black & white illustrations. 8" high X 5" wide, 370 pages. . First Paperback. Mass Market Paperback. Fine.

Firenze: Vallechi Editore, 1951. This is an about very good hardcover copy in a good dust jacket. The jacket front and back panels are present, but spine of jacket mostly perished. The top edges of both panels chipped, the front more heavily. Very clean inside, however the paper is very acidic and the edges of the text pages have browned. Text in Italian. The book is illustrated with 21 original serigraphs by Mino Maccari. These are printed on a lighter, better quality paper. The colors are fesh and bright. Palazzeschi's fabulous creatures are playfully interpreted by Maccari, who also used two of the decorations for the front and back panel of the dust jacket. Two different illustrations have been applied directly to the paper-covered boards. There is one brief inscription in Italian from the period on the front endpaper. The headpieces and vignettes in black & white are also by Maccari. 11" high X 8" wide, 164 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and… Read More

New York: Palazzetti, 1999. This is a very good softcover copy with only light wear. Very clean inside and out, just a small mark to the front cover and a few stress creases around the punch holes. It has three holes punched along the left edge for insertion into a ring binder. A business card of a Palazzetti executive stapled to the front cover. Inside 49 pages of black & white photographs and design specifications of classic modern furniture and their prices. 11" high X 8.5" wide, 49 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Milan, Italy: Casa Editrice Mondadori , 1944. This is a very good hardcover copy in an about very good dust jacket. The jacket is evenly toned and has a few closed tears or splits at the spine edges. Boards chipped at corners. Very clean inside, both text and plates. Pages evenly toned at edges. Text in Italian. 112 monochrome (light blue) illustrations + color frontispiece. Bibliography. 10" high X 7" wide, 237 pages + plates. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Soho Photo Gallery , 2003. This is a very good hardcover copy without dust jacket as issued, with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in English and Italian. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Soho Photo Gallery in New York from April 1 to May 3, 2003. The catalog was edited by Roberto Palmas, the son of Giuseppe Palmas. The Palmas Family Archive of Giuseppe Palmas' work includes over 66,000 negatives and around 4500 photographs. The catalog was printed in Italy and the photos reproduced in duotone (black & white) without retouching. Half of the book shows the impoverished Italians after the war, the other half shows the celebrities in Rome, many connected to the film industry: Federico Fellini, Giulietta Masina, Alberto Sordi, Hitchcock, Claudia Cardinale, Sophia Loren, Brigitte Bardot, among others. 30 photographs in all. Also a list of plates with some identifying information. 9" square, 14 pages text + plates. This book will be… Read More

Praha : Orbis, 1948. This is a very good hardcover copy with just light wear. Very clean inside and out. Bottom of spine bumped. Text in Czech. 304 full page photogravures reproduced in brown and gray tones. One photo by Sudek, another by Plicka, all photographers identified. 11" high X 8" wide. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Parma, Italy: Accademia Italia delle Arti e del Lavoro , 1979. This is a very good hardcover copy bound in orange cloth with title in gilt on the spine. This copy came from some kind of private or public collection, and has one mark that indicates this status: a number at the base of the spine, like a Dewey decimal number. Otherwise completely clean throughout, no other marks, cards, etc. Text in Italian. Massive compilation of thousands of post-war Italian artists. Thousands of black & white illustrations of paintings, drawings and sculpture. illustrations on every page. The entries are arranged alphabetically and consist of artist name, dates, place of birth, exhibition activity, educational background, public and private collections, bibliography. An essential reference especially for less well known post-war Italian artists. 12" high X 8" wide, 1231 pages. Will require extra postage, the book weighs 10 pounds - 4.5 kilos before being packed. This book will be securely wrapped and… Read More