Paris: No date [c. 1850-60s]. Wraps. [FRENCH LANGUAGE] [FASHION]. Folio; 38 hand-colored engraved plates, signed by the artist and engraver, folded once horizontally as issued, 3 double page black and white engraved plates; black and white marbled stiff wrappers with green tape spine; tissue guard to front, lacking after last..... More
No place identified: c. 1880-1910. Ephemera no binding. [NEEDLE ARTS] [HOME ARTS] [WOMEN’S FASHION]. A lovely 19th and early 20th-century collection of women’s dress collars and cuffs contained within a padded cream-colored folder (13 ¾” x 5 ¼”), printed with roses, and lined. The collars were meant to be held..... More
Paris: April 1905 through April 1908. Cloth. Quarto (11” x 7 ¾”); pebbled black cloth over board, hand-written paper label to spine; peach endpapers; 48 b&w plates tipped-in, printed recto only; multiple purple ink stamps for Ecole Professionnelle de Coiffure on endpapers and to verso last plate; one plate with..... More
No place listed [France]: No publisher listed, No date [c. 1850]. Boards. [EPHEMERA] [FASHION]. 12mo; reinforced red cloth shelf-back; blind stamped red-pebbled board; gilt-stamped ornamental frame around the title; partial bookseller’s ticket to front; navy and gilt bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown; 25 leporello panels; hand-colored aquatint illustrations with gum..... More
Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, 1860. Boards. 12mo; 300pp + 4pp ads; blind stamped decorative medallion inside triple border, royal blue cloth over board, gilt stamped title to spine in decorative borders; aquatint frontispiece with tissue guard; binding solid; light scuffing boards, edges and bumping of corners with some..... More
Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, 1860. Calf. 12mo; vi, 7-300pp + 4pp publisher’s ads; brown calf, blind-stamped decorative borders, gilt stamped title and spine; all edges gilt; pale yellow endpapers; fragment of a bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown; frontispiece, half-title and 4 additional mezzotint plates with tissue guards; scuffing..... More
New York: The McCall Company, 1928. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 12mo; vii [2] 181pp; quarterbound in mint green cloth with gilt stamped title and publisher to spine, multicolored decorative gilt backed paper to covers, title label to front cover; instructions with illustrations; bound in photographic illustrations of the author..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1923. Cloth. 8vo; xvi, 183pp; red cloth over board, label with title and author on front cover and spine; untrimmed bottom and fore edge; illustrated with black and white photographs and sketches; chipping to label on spine, bumping to cover lower edge and..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, 1911. Albert D. BLASHFIELD, decorations. Cloth. [J.C. LEYENDECKER, illustrated binding onlay]. Octavo; viii, 240pp; dark green basket-weave cloth with stamped white lettering to front and gilt-stamped spine, color illustration onlay to front board of a putti or Kewpie about to carve a turkey; illustrated endpapers; 7..... More
Chicago: Goldsberry & Doran, 1893. Wraps. 4to; 100pp; tan wrapper printed in black with decorative border; fashion illustrations for women, men, and children with a corresponding page of pattern diagrams to copy and enlarge; light staining to wrapper, chipping and loss at spine making spine fragile but still attached, closed..... More
Bound Brook, New Jersey: American Cyanamid Company, Dyes Department, 1958. Cloth. 8vo; 136pp; bright calico covered board with green leather labels to front; ownership in ink to front pastedown; line drawings and photographic illustrations; light scuff to front pastedown; near fine. Rare; not recorded. Cloth printing with dye recipes. Illustrated..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1914. Cloth. 12mo; xvii [i], 163pp; blue decorated cloth over board with a waitress in an apron on the front cover; black and white photographic illustrations; light shelf wear; very good plus. Nice edition of this book with duties on serving, furnishing and maintaining the..... More
Worcester [Massachusetts]: S.A. Howland, 1845. Wraps. [COOKERY]. Second edition with editing and additions. 12mo (7 1/8” x 4 ½”); 108pp; tan boards, black decorative border and front, publisher’s ads on rear with small vignette of children and a globe; brown cloth shelf-back; wood-engraved frontispiece; wear and soiling to boards, cloth..... More
Philadelphia: Charles H. Marot, 1883. Half Bound Leather. 4to; 390pp; half-bound in green calf with 5 raised spine bands, gilt detail and title to spine, marbled boards; all edges marbled; marbled endpapers; engraved illustrations; bumping to cover corners with loss, shelf scuffing to spine and covers, ownership in ink with..... More
Vichy, France: Société des Cartes Folkloriques de France, No date [c. 1950s]. R. MARGOTTON. Wraps. [FRENCH LANGUAGE] [POSTCARDS] [FASHION / TRADITIONAL DRESS]. R. MARGOTTON, illustrator. 6 1/8” x 4 1/8” ; 84 cards, numbered; half-bound tweed cloth folder with ties, marbled paper over board, color paper label to front folder; 3..... More
New York: The Perfect Fit Publishing Co., 1976/77. Revised Edition. Stiff wraps. Revised edition, 1976/77. Elephant folio, oblong; 38pp; purple pictorial stiff-wrapper in purple with white images of women modeling clothing and title in gold; 3 staple binding; illustrated throughout with b&w line drawings; lacking enlarging scale pattern templates at..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1918. 1st Edition. Cloth. [SIGNED and INSCRIBED]. First edition. 4to; 199pp; brown stamped cloth over board with the title and author on front cover and spine; inscription to a student and signature on free front endpaper; signed on title page; illustrated throughout text..... More
Syracuse, New York: Syracuse Washing Machine Corporation, 1927. Stiff wraps. Wrapper title: Washing, Helps and Suggestions. 12mo; [1-2] 3-32; ivory colored stiff wrapper with title and author printed in black on front and green decoration; 2 staple binding; vignette illustrations in green ink; sunning and soiling to wrapper; very good..... More
London: John C. Nimmo, 1886. Eugen GAUJEAN, engravings. First Edition. Cloth. Publisher’s note: 300 copies printed for England and 200 copies for America. Quarto; xxii, 273 [1]pp; stamped violet-blue cloth over board, color illustrated cover, gilt-stamped spine; top edge gilt, others untrimmed; watermarked paper; 10 color engraved plates inserted with..... More
New York: The Conde Nast Publications, Inc., 1930. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 90pp; blue cloth over board, stamped silver lettering to front cover; illustrated with drawings and black and white photographs; light scuffing and sunning to cover, light age toning to endpapers; very good. More
London: John North, Office of the Dairy World and British Dairy Farmer, 1910. Cloth. 12mo; 96pp; orange cloth wrap with black text and graphics; light soiling and creasing of wrapper corners; 8 tipped in glazed pages with black and white photographs, black and white illustrations in text; 5 pages of..... More
No place listed: Lewis H. Warmkessel, 1933. Cloth. 12mo; [1-4] 5-81pp; gilt stamped title on navy ribbed cloth over board; illustrations by the author; light scuff to front cover bottom edge; near fine. Scarce: not recorded. Illustrated instructions for the making of shirt patterns. More