Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith Publisher, 1993. Paperback. 160 pages, boards, high-gloss alkaline paperstock throughout with well-reproduced color exhibit photography. Entirely sound and unmarked. Very good copy. More
Cat.No: 255847
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985. Hardcover. xxi, 240p., very good condition in an unclipped, lightly edgeworn and faded dj. The working class in American history. More
Cat.No: 3785
Nancy: Editions de l'Ouest Eclair, 1934. Paperback. 36 numbered fullpage gravures on heavy alkaline atock, alternating with blanks and brief texts on lighter stock, the graphics measuring 9x6.5 inches. Softbound in oblong decorated wraps measuring 9.5x12.5 inches, textblock is staple-fastened and the blanks have pulled away from staples, exposing them..... More
Cat.No: 286853
Mexico D.F. Gobierno del Estado de Zacatecas, 1989. Hardcover. 160p., plentiful photoillustrations, one or two period photographs on every page, presswork on alkaline matte paperstock, mostly b&w but occasional color, hardbound in 11x8.5 inch purple cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Item is in general good shape..... More
Cat.No: 289350
Oakland: Regent Press, 2003. 71p., preface, introduction, drawings, very good second edition in pictorial wraps. Poetry by the late editor of the San Francisco Oracle, who kept a shop on upper Grant Avenue (specializing in hats). His customers, to judge by these portrait poems, tended evidently to the eccentric. More
Cat.No: 133698
Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire): organization, 2000. Snazzy white cloth sun hat with short cream brim, shows organization name inside blue map of DR Congo at front of hat with native shooting arrow through a red print SIDA, French slogan in red on sides of hat, appears unworn..... More
Cat.No: 174011
Paris: H. Cros, [circa 1910]. Pamphlet. [10]p., exhibit photography in b&w on cream tint-blocks, softbound, a 10x7 inch pamphlet stapled into textured coverstock embossed in gilt, covers are somewhat edgeworn with a fore-edge abrasion and mild dust- and handling-soil, staples rusted with a touch of migration, clean within and unmarked..... More
Cat.No: 242764
San Francisco: Cypress House, 2003. Hardcover. 138p., first printing, profusely illustrated with color photos showing work by San Francisco's most prominent African American hatmaker. Inscribed by Garland-Dewson on book's front free endpaper, signing as "Ruth G. Dewson". 9x11.5 inches in landscape format, a very nice copy with just a touch..... More
Cat.No: 306075
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
Rohnert Park CA: Real Action 80's, Inc., 1982. Paperback. 50p., illustrated with profuse captioned b&w photos of designer Hill and/or his friend and model Jacqie Cryer. Softbound in 8x5 inch photographic wraps, a well-made little item in fine shape: sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 322830
New York: Millinery Workers' Union Local 24, 1960. Paperback. ix, 205p., wraps, illus., very good condition. Includes two chapters on fight to keep Communists out of the Local. More
Cat.No: 325771
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
New York: The Dial Press, 1948. Hardcover. 320p., illus., slightly bumped corners otherwise very good condition lacking the jacket *Seidman R133. More
Cat.No: 348297
New York: The Dial Press, 1948. 320p., illus., red cloth boards in dustjacket; somewhat edgeworn dustjacket, sunned spine, else very good. *Seidman R133. More
Cat.No: 803
Sacramento CA: State of California Department of Professional and Vocational Standards, 1953. Paperback. 120p., no illustrations whatsoever, softbound in pale yellow plain printed wraps with a black binder's tape backstrip over staples. Covers have picked up mild dust-soil and irregular tone-lines, item is else quite good: sound and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 305385
New York: the Union, 1959. Paperback. 425p., paperback, very good. More
Cat.No: 243800
New York: United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers International Union, 1968. Paperback. 102p., wraps, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 349933
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1917. Hardcover. x, 276p., frontis and twenty photographs by Lewis W. Hine on inserted coated stock (most of which show seamstresses amidst a multitude of chapeaux), very good first edition in green cloth boards & gilt. Minor edge wear; a clean, sound very good copy..... More
Cat.No: 121637
