Japanese costume
Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1923. Pamphlet. 28p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, B&W illustrations, wraps edgeworn and lightly soiled, else very good condition. Leaflet No. 12. More
Cat.No: 139186
Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1923. Pamphlet. 28p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, B&W illustrations, wraps edgeworn and lightly soiled, else very good condition. Leaflet No. 12. More
Cat.No: 139186
New York / Copenhagen: Thames and Hudson / Rhodos International Science and Art Publishers, 1994. Hardcover. 279p., illus., one map, remainder mark on bottom edge of textblock, else very good condition in an unclipped and worn dust jacket. The Carlsberg Foundation's Nomad Research Project. More
Cat.No: 318641
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
Montreal: Les Editions d l'Epoque, 1987. Paperback. 158p., minimal text, captioned illustrations as called for, poorly reproduced on acidic paperstock, softbound in 8x5 inch colorphoto wraps. Textblock very toned but remains supple, lower corner-tips of all leaves and both covers are slightly damp-stained, an else quite good copy that is..... More
Cat.No: 238084
Boston: Chrysalis, 1957. Pamphlet. 19 pages, illustrations. Staplebound wrappers. Very Good. Illustrated essay about the work of costume and set designer Horace Armistead who worked on the 1952 production of The Nutcracker by the New York Ballet. Louise Laurent (aka Lily) Hastings was co-editor of Chrysalis and herself a fashion..... More
Cat.No: 292330
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
Columbus OH: author / Ohio State University, 1938. Unpaginated preliminaries, 62, 2p., illustrated with small from-negative photographs mounted on standard leaves mimeo'd recto only, text a later carbon copy (a bit blurry but legible) hardbound in black cloth boards with utilitarian cover titling gilt. Covers mildly spotted and edgeworn, paperstock..... More
Cat.No: 230783
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
Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1924. Pamphlet. 2p. plus b&w plates (24, multiple imagery per page) plus two full page reproductions shown in high-saturation color (one as frontispiece, the other terminates this booklet) , staple-fastened plain printed tan wraps, 12x9 inches, plates as called for, a fine copy: absolutely..... More
Cat.No: 297486
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
Paris: Ulysse Boucoiran, Editeur, 1936. vii, 170p., ads, illustrated with line drawings and diagrams; entirely in French. A small softbound in 7x5 inch plain printed wraps with a decorated back cover. Very worn with lots of dust and a bit of dirt to covers and blanks; spine panel has undergone..... More
Cat.No: 249517
Sydney: National Gallery of Australia, 2003. Oversized Paperback. vii, 216p., profusely illus., very good condition. More
Cat.No: 172221
Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 2000. Paperback. 172p., 9x6 inch glossy pictorial wraps, good clean copy. A mystery novel about the Academy Awards signed by Los Angeles-based author, who at writing had been a costume designer for twenty years, first in New York, later in film and television. More
Cat.No: 129593
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
Tallinn: Perioodika, 1981. 94p., softbound, wraps show heavy rubbing otherwise good; 6.5x8 inches, illus (some color). More
Cat.No: 153159
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
Tokyo (?): The Japan Foundation, 2005. Hardcover. 135p., high-quality production on matte alkaline paperstock, hardbound in 10x7.5 inch laminated grey-and-white boards and enclosed in the photo-decorated dust jacket. Aside from a little shelf-abrasion along bottom edges, an immaculate copy: perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. Laid in, in the Italian language..... More
Cat.No: 304460
Sydney: Trustees of the Australian Museum, 1968. Paperback. 61p., brief running texts coupled with captions of exhibits shown and unshown, softbound in 11x8 inch photographic wraps, b&w exhibit photos (a few in full color) plus numerous line-drawn maps. Item bears cover-crimps from much handling, slight abrasion to edges and faint..... More
Cat.No: 313060
Madrid: Romo y Füssel, ca 1890. Hardcover. 25p., illustrated title leaf + 20 color lithographed plates, with two illustrations per plate except for Jerez which is one large illustration, music notations for the songs; 14x9.5 inches landscape format, pictorial boards with cloth spine, corners worn but very good. More
Cat.No: 205621
[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
Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, 1956. Hardcover. xiv, 220p., plentiful b&w and color exhibit photos, simple folded map bound in at back, hardbound first edition in 7x5 inch grey-green cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. The dust jacket is very mildly edgeworn, the book itself entirely sound, clean..... More
Cat.No: 298114
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
Mexico City: Museo Dolores Olmedo Patino, 1996. Oversized Paperback. 77p., high-gloss coated paperstock with quarter-page color exhibit photography interspersed with text (in Spanish) and Posada classics, first edition 11x8.5 inch color-wraps binding, limited to 1,000 copies. Clean and sound, faintest signs of any handling, near-fine. Day of the Dead offerings..... More
Cat.No: 176569
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