Search Results: Titles starting with E from The Rug Book Shop

Textile Museum, 1961. Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover. Used, very good condition. 8 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 28 x 21.5 cm. Exhibition brochure, Textile Museum, to go with a 1961 show; comments on textiles from this area, with references to the exhibits (no longer on the walls of the museum) and the 6 illustrations.

Self-published, 1984. Hardcover. New/New. Hardbound, in dust jacket. New book. 169 p., 64 color illus., 30 x 21.5 cm. Excellent 18th & 19th century Turkish kilims, in excellent color. Text gives short descriptions of the pieces, with comparison to others in the literature; essay by James Melaart, on the archeologic evidence for kilims in Anatolia, as far back as the 7th millennium.

Dover, 1967. Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover. Large paperback. Used, very good condition: no internal writing, crisp, no spine creases, covers shiny, but foxing on edges, inside cover and top of pages.

Edinburgh City Museums and Art Galleries, 1986 ISBN 0-905072-25-1. Soft cover. New. Softcover. New book. 63 p., 38 illus., 15 in color, 24 x 17 cm. A description of the rugs in Lauriston Castle, in Edinburgh; the rugs were bought around 1900, thus are now antique, & represent middle class taste of the time. Most are Turkish (yastiks) and Caucasian. The text describes the castle, owners & rugs; some of the rugs are illustrated in situ; colors are mediocre.

Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1921. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover. Used, fine conditon, but corners slightly bumped; spine rounded on top and bottom. Covers not worn, no internal marks, book looks unread. This is the original edition, not a modern reprint, so all pages and plates are present; it is also not ex-library.

E. Wasmuth, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover. Used, good condition but foxing on endpapers and front edge; dust jacket shiny but chipped and torn along top edge. 1961, 122 p., 56 color illus., 29 x 21 cm. A picture book of 18th and 19th century rugs, in good color, of Turkish, Caucasian, Persian, Baluch and Turkmen rugs. Many of the illustrations show only part of the rug. In German.

David Black Oriental Rugs, 1981. 1st Edition, 1st Printing . Soft cover. New. New book. Softcover. 64 p., 25 illus., 12 in color, 30.5 x 21.5 cm. Ottoman, West Caspian, and East Turkestan embroideries; beautiful textiles in an exotic area of collecting. The text includes historical background by Robert Chenciner and a discussion of stitching and techniques by Ksynia Marko as well as descriptions of the pieces and the dyes used. Inscription by both authors.

Interlink, 1998. Hardcover. New/New. Hardcover. New in dust jacket.

Scala, 2006. Soft cover. New. Paperback. New, in shrink wrap. 160 p., 30 x 22 cm. This catalogue was produced in conjunction with an exhibition of these textiles at the Textile Museum; the text is scholarly. Examples are from the 17th to 19th century, and produced by brides and their families for bridal dowries. They include embroidered bed tents, bed curtains, large covers, pillows, handkerchiefs and panels for women's clothing. Designs range from geometrical patterns to floral and animal motifs and are embroidered in a variety of techniques. Paperback. New.

Random House, 2008. 5th or later Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover. Used, very good condition. Does NOT have limited writing, or indeed any writing. Is NOT ex-library. No spine creases Covers shiny but with slight shelf wear. Very slight wear along some edges.

Batsford, 1949. 3rd Edition, Revised . Hardcover. Good/Poor. Hardback. Used, good condition, with an inscription to Art Peacock from Alex Edmison inside the front cover. Pages beginning to brown. The dust jacket is in poor condition: spine missing so it had only the front and back covers; both are chipped badly.

Batsford, 1962. Soft cover. Good. Paperback. Used, good condition, no internal marks, pages beginning to tan at edges, front cover with bent corners; spine worn enough so no lettering is visible. Copyright 1954, 1st paperback edition 1962.

Parke-Bernet Galleries. Sale 2271. April 11, 1964. Softcover / paperback. Used, good condition.

Parke-Bernet Galleries. Sale 2312. November 20, 21, 1964. Softcover / paperback. Used, good condition.

Oxford, 1927. 8th Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover. 1927 copyright, 8th edition revised, 1954 printing. Used, good condition, cover rubbed and spotted at top front edge. Owner's signature on front free endpaper; no other internal marks. Red stain on fore edge between pages 48 and 80. Front hinge weak.

Busse, 1984, 3rd edition, expanded. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Used, very good to fine condition but bump on bottom edge of front cover; dust jacket very good: rubbed, worn along edges; Textile Museum sticker inside front cover. 371 p., about 600 illus., about 100 in color, 31 x 23 cm. An encycloped ia, with maybe 1500 entries, from "Adana" and "Carpet Trading Co (PVT) Ltd" to "Yun" and "Zar". In German.

Norsk Folkemuseum / The Village Museum (Bucharesti), 1996. Soft cover. New. Softcover. New. 22 p., 18 color illus., 21 x 21 cm. Exhibition catalogue: Norsk Folkemuseum (Oslo) and The Village Museum (Bucharesti) of late 19th century Romanian & Moldavian kilims: the illustrations are small and most of the booklet is text on the production, ornaments, and uses of kilims, with, despite the amount of text, not much concrete detail. In English / French / Norwegian.

Society for Ethnomusicology. Paperback. Fine. Paperback. Used, fine condition. Contains the loose plastic 33 1/3 rpm insert to go with the article by George List: The Reliability of Transcription.

Florian Kupferberg Verlag, 1962. No ISBN. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover. Used. Good, in good dust jacket - slight soiling and small chips and tears. 62 illus., 8 in color, 27 x 20 cm. A cultural history of the Oriental carpet in Europe: when rugs first appeared in Europe; their use; the development of trade in rugs; formation of rug societies, and the development of the study of Oriental rugs. In German.

Christie's South Kensington. Sale 5750. 25 January 2005. Softcover. New.