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

L'Institut Roumain pour les Relations Culturelles avec l'Etranger, 1955. Hardcover. Good/Good. Demetresco, Dem. Hardcover with dust jacket. Used good condition in good dust jacket with a stamp on end papers: Legation of the United States of American Budapest. 109 pages, illustrations of about 150 objects, 8 in color, 31 x 14.5 cm. A well illustrated survey of folk art in the Museum of Folk Art in Bucharest. For rug enthusiasts, there is 1 page of text on peasant rugs and then 18 illustrations (3 in color) of rugs, from Oltania, Muntania, Cotuari, Suceava, Bacati, Timisoara, Banat, and Maramures. There are also 83 illustrations of other textiles: costumes, blouses, caps, belts, other costume pieces and table-cloths. Other folk art in this book includes decorated wood: buildings, churches, doors, crosses, tables, chairs, boxes; ceramics: plates, jugs, bowls; and paintings on glass, wood cuts, engravings. Each section has several pages of text with general descriptions. This museum I… Read More

Firenze / Florence: Karta, 1987. Hardcover. New/New. Hardcover. New in new dust jacket. 1987, 47 p., 15 color pl., 29 x 22 cm. A discussion of this rug, & of 14 other 16th-18th century Turkish rugs. In Italian.

Milano: Galleria Eskenazi, 1995. Soft cover. New. 1995, 12 p., 6 color illus., 21 x 20 cm. A small catalogue of a collection at the Galleria Eskenazi, 45 examples of silk Chinese fabrics, 6 of them with illustration of details in color. The illustrated ones include a 16th century lotus embroidery, an 18th century dragon, a 15th century horseman, a 16th century flower, a 17th century dragon and cloud design. Brief text in Italian.

William C. Brown, 1975. Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover, spiral binding. Used, very good condition, looks unread and unused, no internal marks, clean content.

Behrouz Gallery, 1991. Soft cover. New. Softcover. New book. 77 p., 30 color illus., 28 x 21. Exhibition catalogue, Behrouz Gallery, of 30 rugs woven for Behrouz with maze designs; a strange concept for an Oriental rug dealer.

1987.. Soft cover. New. Softcover. New book. 108 p., 132 illus., about 115 in color, 28.5 x 21 cm. This accompanied an exhibition of Northern Thai textiles; the text describes the types of textiles from this area: clothing, scarves, bags, sleeping textiles, as well as the methods of constructing these textiles and dyes used in them, and is an excellent overview of textiles from this area. In English and Thai.

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.

Houghton-Mifflin. The Riverside Press, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Robert C. Osborn. Hardcover. Used, good condition, no dust jacket. Hinges intact, text block fairly tight, owner's signature on title page, no other internal marks, slight wear at top and bottom of spine and tips of corners, corners not bumped, book is not cocked. Illustrations by Osborn.

Le Courrier du Livre. 1977 ISBN 2-7029-0010-0, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Used, very good condition, with very good dust jacket. 105 p., 107 illus., 24 in color, 30.5 x 21.5 cm. This is the French edition of The Tibetan Carpet; and is one of the major sources on Tibetan carpets; about half the book is on their construction and use; about half on carpet types & designs, both before & after 1959. In French.

Marchi Artetessili, 1993, 1993. Hardcover. New. Hardcover. New book. 131 p., 25 color illus., c. 200 figures, 29 x 24 cm. A Oriental rug dealer's catalogue; about 100 p of text arguing that many geometric designs - crosses, diamonds with latch hooks, hexagons - are representations of the Great Goddess, or childbirth, or female reproductive organs. The bibliography reveals the influence of Gimbutas & Mellaart. The color plates are of tribal rugs, kilims, bags, mostly from Persia with a few Turkish & Afghan. In Italian.

Veb Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hardcover with dust wrapper. Used, very good condition, no internal marks, hinges good, text block fairly tight, corners bumped, not ex-library, not the modern reprint. Dust wrapper in fair condition, water stain at top of spine (but not leaving visible marks on the cover of the book), tears, small chips, wear along edges.

Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication 293, 1921. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcover. Used, very good condition, no internal marks, covers not worn, corners bumped, spine lettering slightly faded, back free endpaper with reddish stains along two edges. This is the original edition, not a modern reprint, so all pages are present; it is also not ex-library

Paperback. Good. Paperback. Used, good condition: no internal marks, spine not creased, text block fairly tight; some foxing spots on edges, back cover has a fold mark at one corner. In French.

1958 (7th ed., 1967). Hard. Used, good, dust jacket worn & with small tears. 317 p., 252 illus., 28 in color, 24 x 16 cm. Introductory book, with mostly 20th century examples. In French.

Presses Universitaires De France, 1958, 7th revised edition, 1967. No ISBN, 1967. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover. Used, good, dust jacket worn and with small tears. 317 p., 252 illus., 28 in color, 24 x 16 cm. Introductory book, with mostly 20th century examples. In French.

Munchen, 2002. Hardcover. New. Hardcover. New book. 143 p., 64 color plates, 30.5 x 22 cm. Exhibition catalogue of Shahsavan, Kurd, Lur, Afshar, Belouch and Turkmen bags, bag faces, mafrash, salt bags. Color is good. Technical descriptions. In German.

Liberty Corporation. N.d. (circa 1980). Soft cover. New. Softcover / paperback. New book. In folder. 92 p., 46 pl., 45 in color, 24 x 20 cm. A catalogue of this corporate collection: most are 19th or 20th century, and range from a Senna kilim to an Uzbek ikat, to an Indonesian batik, to a Hausa blanket , to an Argentine string bag. The complete list of textiles: Senna kilim, Iranian horse blanket, Turkish grain sack, Afghan wedding shawl borders and saddle bag, Uzbek Ikat, Kazakh tent panel, susani, Romanian prayer rug, Punjab Phulkari, Indian c e iling embroidery and coverlet, Bhutal wrap, Burmese royal hanging, north Thai hill tribe costume pieces, Chinese mandarin robe and bed decoration, Korean embroidered panel, Japanese futon, Philippine geometric weaving and sash, Indonesian ikat, sh aw l, batik and ship cloth, Iban women's skirt, Tonga tapa, Congo kasai velvet, Hausa blanket, Coptic weaving, Berber textile, Georgia quilt, Navajo child's blanket, Cuna mola, Mexican embroidery,… Read More

Wepf & Co. 1985, 1985. Hardcover. New/No Jacket, as so Issued. Hardcover. New, as issued with no dust jacket. 151 p., 62 illus., 24 in color. An expansion of his earlier books with more examples, and an expansion of the text. There are some different plates in this book.

Gateway, 1955. Paperback. Good. Paperback. Used, good condition. Spine and top edge foxed, spine cracked between pages 12 and 13, owner signature, no other internal marks, bumped corners.

Princeton University Press, 1940. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover. Used, good condition. No internal marks, no writing, no hightlighting, hinges good, text block fairly tight, but water stain at top corner of 1st three pages and light stain at corners of last 2 pages, end papers slightly tanned, corners slightly worn. No dust jacket. Not the modern reprint, and not ex-library