Search Results: Titles starting with U from AARDWOLF Fine Books

Lucien Vogel / Conde Nast, Paris, 1922; First Edition; 7 1/2" x 9 3/4". Color pochoir print by "Thayaht" (Ernesto Michahelles) of a stylish design for a lady’s cape by notable Parisian fashion designer Madeleine Vionnet. From La Gazette Du Bon Ton, Lucien Vogel’s legendary fashion journal which was known for its uncompromising print quality and choice of artists and illustrators, who formed a veritable Who’s Who of the Art Deco period, with George Barbier, Pierre Brissaud, Andre Marty, Charles Martin, Edouardo Garcia Benito, Erté, Thayaht, Georges Lepape, Pierre Mourgue, and Robert Bonfils among them. Likewise, its articles were authored by the leading Parisian writers, academics, and critics of the day, and its opinions highly influential. Vogel signed exclusive contracts to showcase the lines of Paris’s leading couture houses in the pages of his Gazette, and the magazine was regarded by fashion conscious the world over as the epitome of style and good taste. It was… Read More

Delmas Ford, Oklahoma, 1964; Second Printing; 8vo, 51 pages; photo illustrated. Near Fine, previous owner small signature upper left corner inside front wrap.

Labor Committee For Peace in Vietnam, New York, 1967; 8vo, 32 pages; photo illustrated. Privately printed anti-war pamphlet making argument for an end to the Vietnam War and exposing its hypocrisies. Profusely illustrated with war photographs, including U.S. forces torching a Vietnamese village, and an American soldier inserting a knife tip into an enemy’s belly during questioning. Very Good, in wraps, with cover photo picturing a Vietnamese father claiming the napalmed body of his son.