Istanbul: the museum, 2004. Paperback. x, [85]p., dual-language texts (English/Turkish) profusely illustrated with portraits, facsimiles, period and contemporary photography (mostly interiors, colorphoto where possible), presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock and softbound in 8.5x9.5 inch decorated wraps. Slightest edgewear to covers, perfectly sound, clean and unmarked, a very good to fine..... More

Cat.No: 293496

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Hardcover. xxv, 346p., b&w illustrations include photos and line maps; first edition cloth boards in openweave red cloth boards. Lacks the jacket; a bright sound copy, completely clean and unmarked. More

Cat.No: 234702

Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1999. Hardcover. 310p., 10.25x10.25 inches, illustrated profusely with b&w and color photographs, very good first printing in like dj with an old price sticker on the rear panel. More

Cat.No: 292235

[Bay Area]: Bernina, 1996. Hardcover. 128p., presswork on alkaline glazed paperstock throughout featuring multitudinous b&w diagrams plus vignette and fullpage color photography, hardbound in 10.5x9 inch orange boards titled white and enclosed in the dust jacket. Ffep bears a brief inscription signed in full. Book itself is fine: sound, clean..... More

Cat.No: 290281

240p., DUTIFA, 1976. 239p., texts keyboard-set, professionally printed 11x8.5 inch cover sheets with binder's tape spine. Slightest edgewear, mild small corner crease, a very good copy. Publishing acronym stands for Duquesne University Tamburitzans Institute of Folk Arts, which is what Kolar directed. Academic studies. More

Cat.No: 168829

New York: League of Composers, 1934. Paperback. pp[57]-111, music, wraps. 10.25 x 7 in. A clean, crisp copy in yellow printed wraps. Inserted is a typewritten article by John Weatherwax and a rejection note from the editor (the submission was received too late for inclusion). Contributors include Aaron Copland, Nikolai..... More

Cat.No: 303004

Two related works by Lifka, bound together. Respectively 46p, 47-70p., with a huge plates section, 102 images in b&w and color exhibit photography. Plates and text are sewn into signatures and hardbound in 9x6 inch red cloth boards gilt. Unfortunately the fastening threads are coming loose, especially where plates meet..... More

Cat.No: 235894

New York: Spertus Publishing Company, 1963. Softbound in doubled 14x10 inch cardstock wraps with glazed-paper content. The outer cardstock protects inner which holds the diecut punch-out doll figures and a punch-out Fair ad; find six leaves of color costumes not furnished with diecut outlines (would require advanced scissoring skills). The..... More

Cat.No: 254236

Los Angeles: the museums, printed by The Ward Ritchie Press, 1944. Hardcover. xi, 63p., plus 87 fullpage b&w plates on coated paperstock, captioned with cross-reference to other exemplars. Presswork on laid-lined alkaline stock, hardbound by local expert Ward Ritchie, and bound in 10x7.5 inch green photo-repro'd boards trimmed white. Casing..... More

Cat.No: 297247

Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 1995. Paperback. 232p., presswork on coated alkaline stock with numerous illustrations from all periods in color and b&w, softbound in 11.5x9 inch glossy decorated frenchfold wraps, a great copy: entirely sound, clean, unmarked, and fairly sexy. More

Cat.No: 251876

[Argentina]: 2000s. Pamphlet. Embroidered "MTL" red and black bandana mask, together with a white cloth poncho, the latter silkscreened with the MTL flag and the full name of the organization. Somewhat soiled, apparently used. The anarcho-syndicalist inspired MTL, an organization of workers and the unemployed, led barricades in the early..... More

Cat.No: 122690

New York / Tokyo: Weatherhill / Shibundo, 1973. Paperback. 151p., coated paperstock with b&w and some color reproductions, substantial text, first edition 9x7.5 inch frenchfold color wraps (there was hardcover issue as well), has a tiny bump at the head, a very good copy entirely without ownership marks. Arts of..... More

Cat.No: 173772

Newark: the museum, 1975. Reprinted from 1961 issue: vi, 106p., includes about thirty pages of exhibit photography in b&w (not sharply re-reproduced). Presswork on glazed alkaline paper. One of a group of five, series format, each in 9.5x7.5 inch textured matte wraps, this one is blue. Condition: front cover is..... More

Cat.No: 234219