New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. 24p., 9x6.5 inch landscape layout, 7 color exhibit photos, line map, b&w photo of one of the mantles in situ (as found, carefully bundled round a corpse) and diagram, very good exhibition booklet in stapled decorative wraps. More
Cat.No: 228979
New York: The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, 1995. Paperback. 63p., french-fold wraps, chiefly illus., very good exhibition catalog. More
Cat.No: 338489
London: Hali Publications Ltd, 1998. 176p., glossy 12x8.5 inch color wraps, several advertising postcards laid in. We see a small crimp to front cover next the spine panel, else completely sound, clean and unmarked. Very good copy. More
Cat.No: 257567
London: Hali Publications Ltd, 1979-2015. Eighty nine issues of the magazine, spanning the period between Spring 1979 and Winter 2015. Issues present are Vol. 2 Nos. 1-4, Vol. 3 Nos. 1-4, Vol. 5 No. 1-4, Vol. 6 No. 1-4, after which the magazine switches to whole numbers and continues with..... More
Cat.No: 248437
Paris: éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1976. Paperback. 113p., wraps shelfworn. Exhibition catalog of Silk Road art, illustrated in black and white. Text in French. More
Cat.No: 139586
Copenhagen: Haandarbejdets Fremmes Forlag, 1958. Paperback. 50p., 7x9 inches; heavily illustrated, minor spine wear, library rubberstamp on title page for the "San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum," else in very good condition. Modern Designs. More
Cat.No: 295891
San Francisco: De Young, 1937. Hardcover. 70p. and 73 b&w plates on coated alkaline stock, foreword, introduction and catalogue. Hardbound in lime-green papered boards with black cloth backstrip gilt-titled. Board margins are sunned, foxed, slightly edgeworn and generally dust-soiled, but clean within. A sound, unmarked copy. More
Cat.No: 130972
London: Sotheby's, 1990. Paperback. 121p., 294 lots, profuse full- and half-page exhibit photos in color on high-gloss paperstock. The usual top-of-the-line format: 10.5x8.5 inch coated decorated wraps; laid in is a leaf showing prices realized at this July 25th sale. Aside from a small chip to back cover laminate, a...... More
Cat.No: 232214
London: Sotheby's, 1993. Paperback. 87p., 184 lots, profuse full- and half-page exhibit photos in color on high-gloss paperstock. The usual top-of-the-line format: 10.5x8.5 inch coated decorated wraps. A nice undamaged, unmarked copy. The very last item is curiously huge, 33x20 feet, expected to bring twenty thousand pounds. More
Cat.No: 232216
New York: E. Weyhe, 1922. Hardcover. 65p. followed by 95 "figures", i.e. plates, usually one fullpage figure each, one color image set as the frontispiece, the b&w reproduced clearly (at best) accompanied by a few diagrammatic images. The color frontis is quite vivid. Hardbound in grey papered boards with a...... More
Cat.No: 297861
San Francisco: Bonhams & Butterfields, 2006. Paperback. 157p., profuse fullpage and vignette exhibit photos in color on high-gloss paperstock. The usual top-of-the-line format: 10.5x8.5 inch coated grey wraps. This issue bears a cancel title-label affixed to cover, neatly applied. A very nice undamaged, unmarked copy. More
Cat.No: 232180
Riga: Here a Corner, There a Corner, 1990. Pamphlet. [24]p., coated paperstock with exhibit photos in color and a b&w of artist, texts in Latvian, Cyrillic and English. Item is in staplebound 11.5x8 inch cardstock color wraps that are lightly crimped and soiled with handling, a good-only copy. Variously abstract..... More
Cat.No: 172305
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Mixcoac: FONART / SEP, 1986. Pamphlet. Two separate monographs in a single fastening: staplebound pamphlet in 8x5 inch glossy decorated wraps, 77p., b&w photographic and diagrammatic illustrations. Nice copy, sound and free of any markings. Text in Spanish. Pictured are baskets and diagrammed techniques, elaborate lock and key and other..... More
Cat.No: 216159
![Cat.No: 78162 Kente Colors [by] Debbi Chocolate. John Ward, artist. Debbi - Chocolate,...](https://bolerium.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/78162.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1730331027)
New York: Walker, 1996. [32]p., hardcover in dustjacket; profuse illustrations in splendid color, many doublespreads, minimal text (but Ward's graphics are the main event), hardbound in 10.5x9.5 inch laminated color-decorated boards and enclosed in a ditto dust jacket. A fine copy in every respect: perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 78162
Berkeley: Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University of California Press, 1979. Paperback. 98p., coated alkaline paperstock throughout with profuse illustrations: b&w and color exhibit photography, portraits of weavers and wearers, and explanatory diagrams. Softbound in 11x8.5 inch color wraps. Slight edgewear, a minute bump at head of spine, otherwise sound and..... More
Cat.No: 244722
Washington DC: Ram Publications, 1978. Pamphlet. [34p.], staplebound wraps with dustjacket, stated first edition, 10x10 inches, profusely illustrated with color photos of Connor braiding alternating with local-color shots, dustjacket slightly rubbed with a touch of shelfwear along top edge, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 205575
Bern: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1958. Hardcover. 144p., profusely illustrated in color photography (strictly in color) printed recto facing verso texts, presswork on semi-glazed alkaline paperstock, all texts in the German language. Hardbound in 11x9 inch maroon cloth boards lettered and decorated in white. Lacks the jacket, but in nice square..... More
Cat.No: 300110
Dacca: Bureau of Economic Research, University of Dacca, 1968. hardbound in 8.5x5.5 inch plain printed white boards with green cloth backstrip and dust jacket; boards slightly discolored (from binder's glue, we think) and the dj, of very fragile paperstock, is edgeworn and has been repaired in several places with clear..... More
Cat.No: 231936
Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, 1994. 288p., thoroughly illustrated in color and some b&w, coated paperstock throughout, 12x8.5 inch glossy wraps, mildest signs of any handling. Manufacture, designs, wearing in daily life, garments for women and men, dances, sports. More
Cat.No: 161772
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
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997. Oversized Paperback. 160p., b&w period photography, contemporary site and exhibit photos with diagrams, line maps, first paperback edition; 11.5x8.2 inch glossy wraps, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 171987
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Leiden: Museum de Lakenhal, 2024. Paperback. [96]p., color exhibit photography throughout facing texts in Dutch and English. Softbound in 10x7.5 inch colorphoto frenchfold wraps; this binding is designed to fall back from the spine panel and form an "internal wrap-around". It is held quite firmly by a quarter-inch adhesion to..... More
Cat.No: 335195
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
Lima, Peru: Museo Nacional de Arqueologia y Antropologia / Universidad Nacional San Cristobal de Huamanga, 1992. Pamphlet. Pp.61-96 (complete in itself, part of a series), line illustrations (diagramatic ideograms, one long folded plate clarifying a woven message), softbound, a pamphlet in 8.5x6.5 inch selfwraps. A little crimping and edgewear, good..... More
Cat.No: 244589
