THE JOHN PLAIN BOOK 1925
by ART DECO
1925. [ART DECO] THE JOHN PLAIN BOOK [1925]. Chicago: The John Plain Company, 1925. 97 pp. 4to., quarter brown cloth with brown paper covered boards, color pastedown label to front cover. Spine worn at heel and crown with small tear to top section. Light wear and a few pale spots to boards; label rubbed, corners slightly bumped. Title and last page slightly foxed; the rest of the text is fine. Laid in are a Dealer letter on company letterhead;... Read More
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REPORT ON THE ART OF WAR IN EUROPE IN 1854, 1855, AND 1856
by DELAFIELD, Richard
1860.
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OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE NAVIES IN THE WAR OF THE
by UNITED STATES NAVY DEPARTMENT
18. UNITED STATES NAVY DEPARTMENT. OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE NAVIES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894(-1922). Series 1, vols. 2-27; Series 2, vols. 1(parts1-4)-3. Series 1 lacks the first volume otherwise it is complete. Series 2 is complete. 29 volumes, Illustrated. 8vo., blue cloth, gilt lettering at spine. Ex library, with only a bookplate at pastedown. A very nice looking set.
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OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE NAVIES IN THE WAR OF THE
by UNITED STATES NAVY DEPARTMENT
18. UNITED STATES NAVY DEPARTMENT. OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE NAVIES IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894(-1922). Series 1, vols. 1-21,23,26,27; Series 2, vols. 1-3. Series 1 lacks three volumes (nos. 21,24, & 25); series 2 is complete. 27 volumes. Illustrated. 8vo., blue cloth, gilt lettering at spine. Ex library, with all the usual markings. Texts are clean, though the paper is age-browned in most volumes; some volumes have detached leaves or... Read More
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MOMOYOGUSA Volume One
by [DESIGN] Kamisaka SEKKA, artist
1909. [DESIGN] Kamisaka SEKKA, artist. MOMOYOGUSA. Kyoto: Unsodo, Meiji 42 [1909]. Volume one of three. 30.1 X 22.5 cm. Most consider it the finest Japanese design book of all time, this exquisite suite of double-page color-printed woodblocks is printed and overprinted using opaque and metallic inks to produce a sumptuous surface. This is an early impression. The condition is internally quite good, with almost none of the gutter fading and metallic ink transfer common to this work. One of... Read More
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Ukiyoe Monyo^ KOSODE HYAKUSEN
by [DESIGN] Kano^ Shu^ho^, artist
1936. [DESIGN] Kano Shuho, artist. Ukiyoe Monyo KOSODE HYAKUSEN. [Kyoto, Happodo, Showa 11 {1936}]. 36.7 x 27.2 cm. Though this copy has no colophon or textual material, it consists of 48 of the 50 woodblock printed sheets, each with two designs, so 96 of 100 designs. Each design is identified by the original ukiyo-e artist's name. The printings are fine, the condition good overall. With the original title page, all in a clasped chitsu case. Sold with all faults.... Read More
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O^YO^ ZUAN Gekkan Dai-ichi-go
by [DESIGN] ODA Kazuma, artist and designer
1918. [DESIGN] ODA Kazuma, artist and designer. O^YO^ ZUAN Gekkan Dai-ichi-go. Tokyo, Papiyon Zuansha, Taisho^ 7 [1918]. Folio-sized wrappers, 34.5 x 24.2 cm. This "Practical Design" monthly features the work of Oda Kazuma (1882-1956) in this, its first issue. This issue features articles on the use of electric lights at night for advertising with a note at the end on some recent advertising posters that have appeared. Obviously a periodical by professionals for professionals in the design and advertising... Read More
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MOMOYOGUSA
by [DESIGN] Kamisaka SEKKA, artist
1909. [DESIGN] Kamisaka SEKKA, artist. MOMOYOGUSA. Kyoto: Unsodo, Meiji 42-43 [1909-10]. 3 volumes. 30.1 X 22.5 cm. Most consider it the finest Japanese design book of all time, this exquisite suite of 60 double-page color-printed woodblocks is printed and overprinted using opaque and metallic inks to produce a sumptuous surface. This is an early impression with woodgrain showing in a few prints. The condition is internally superb, with almost none of the gutter fading and metallic ink transfer common... Read More
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TANSAI GAFU
by [DESIGN BOOK] Yoshida Gyokujo^, compiler
1934. [DESIGN BOOK] Yoshida Gyokujo^, compiler. TANSAI GAFU. Kyoto, Happpo^do^, Sho^wa 9 [1934]. 2 vols., complete. Tall folios, 36.7 x 25.4 cm, orihon folded album in woodcut printed paper over board covers with printed paper title labels. There are 25 total full page color woodblock prints. Interesting style, mixing flat solid colors with small naturalistic elements in a single print. Good impressions and colors. Complete in clasped chitsu case with printed silk label. Case is worn, books about good.... Read More
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ZUAN HYAKUDAI
by [DESIGN] Hagino Issui, designer
1910. [DESIGN] Ogino Issui, designer. ZUAN HYAKUDAI. 3 Vols. Kyoto, Unsodo, Meiji 43 [1910] An orihon in 3 volumes, (27 X 19 cm) with woodblock printed covers, all in a later fitted clasped cloth chitsu case. Unsodo outdid itself in this early design effort. Dozens of double page horizontal designs (which become large prints, the paper size being 37.5 x 27 cm) as well as circular and fan-shaped, and single page designs, too. Most in the neo-Rimpa style which... Read More
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DAI NIHON BIJUTSU ZUFU 4 vols
by [DESIGN] KOSUGI Sugimura & YOKOI Tokifuyu, designe
1901. [DESIGN] KOSUGI Sugimura & YOKOI Tokifuyu, designers. DAI NIHON BIJUTSU ZUFU 4 vols. Tokyo, Yoshikawa Hanshichi, Meiji 34 [1901]. 4 plate volumes, orihon folding albums illustrated with 154 pages of color woodcut. 25.1 x 18.5 cm Complete as such BUT not including the 4 text volumes. A lovely compendium of traditional design. Very good colors, impression and condition. Volume 4 is split at one fold; its rear cover is detached, and its front cover attached with a tissue... Read More
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SÔSAKU SENSHOKU ZUANSHÛ
by [DESIGN] FUJII Tatsukichi, designer
1933. [DESIGN] FUJII Tatsukichi 藤井達吉, designer. SÔSAKU SENSHOKU ZUANSHÛ 創作染色図案集. [A Collection of Designs for Dyework] Tokyo & Osaka: Bungado, Showa 8 [1933]. Large portfolio, 41 x 31 cm., decorative cloth covered clasped chitsu case with a printed decorative label, all enclosed in the publisher's folding cardboard outer box. A 4 page fascicle of preliminaries and a table of contents. With the chitsu design, the cover design, 3 preliminary page designs and 61 designs on the 50 content fascicles. The... Read More
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MITSUKOSHI, MITSUKOSHI TIMES, & O^SAKA MITSUKOSHI, 44 ISSUES
by [DESIGN] Sugiura HISUI, designer
1908. [DESIGN] Sugiura HISUI, designer. MITSUKOSHI; MITSUKOSHI TIMES; O^SAKA MITSUKOSHI To^kyo^ & O^saka, 1908-1923. Western-style magazines, 24.9 x 18.4 cm, decorated wrappers. Lovely covers, most by Sugiura Hisui [1876-1965] or designed under his supervision. Hisui is the most important figure in the development of Japanese commercial art in the 20th century, the progenitor of "Taisho^ Chic" and a force to be reckoned with as a practical designer at Mitsukoshi and an educator at the Japan School of Art, the... Read More
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Ko^gei O^yo^ ZUAN ZASSHI 7 issues
by [DESIGN] HARUNA Shigeharu, editor
1894. [DESIGN] HARUNA Shigeharu, editor. Ko^gei O^yo^ ZUAN ZASSHI 7 issues. No.'s 20-26, To^kyo^, Meiji 26-27 [1893-4]. 24.5 x 16.6 cm. Stab-bound wrapper's in woodblock printed paper covers. Haruna Shigeharu (1847-1913) was a pottery painter born into the upper classes in Ishikawa prefecture, here using his artistic and design skills to organize and edit this "PRACTICAL ARTS DESIGN MAGAZINE", full of black and white design ideas and articles on such topics as the Columbian Exposition, etc. Very unusual periodical,... Read More
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SAIKO^KYU^ MIRAAKOOTO-KAMI TOPPAN-ZURI OODAMATCHI MIHON_CHO
by [DESIGN]
[DESIGN]. SAIKOKYU MIRAAKOOTO-KAMI TOPPAN-ZURI OODAMATCHI MIHONCHO NP, ND [Japan, 1960s?]. 16.3 X 24.5 cm. Leatheroid covers, 23 pages of 5.5 x 8 cm designs for matchbox covers, done in a "mirrorcoat" process of relief printing. One sample clipped for color matching. The back covers is loosening. Overall, a good copy of this very scarce and ephemeral catalogue.
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BIJUTSUKAI 美術海
by [DESIGN] UNSO^DO^ 芸艸堂, Publisher
1903. [DESIGN] UNSODO 芸艸堂, Publisher. BIJUTSUKAI 美術海. Kyoto, Unsodo, 24.0 x 16.3 cm 61 numbers of the 70 numbers printed in the BIJUTSUKAI design series, Numbers 1 thru 61, Originally issued in 70 volumes in the early 1900s.... Number one was published on January 1st, Meiji 36 [1903], Number 61 in 1905... Over 1200 color woodblock printed designs. A remarkable achievement by most of the important designers of the day. Bijutsukai printing is always good, the early printings here... Read More
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KOKUGA O^GI
by [DESIGN] HAPPO^DO^, publisher/printer
1938. [DESIGN] HAPPO^DO^, publisher/printer. KOKUGA O^GI. Kyo^to, Happo^do^, N.D. [other sources indicate a date of 1938] Very large oblong brocade porfolio, 36.5 x 59.0 cm. Contains an undated Happo^do^ colophon and 50 design prints (49 in color and one as a textual calligraphic introduction to the work) A source indicates the designs were done by Yamaoka Chinpei. The prints are extraordinarily lavish, with sprinkled metal flakes, overprinting, metallic inks, etc. A wonderfultribute to the Neo-Rimpa and Deco sensibilities of... Read More
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PAEDOTROPHIA; OR, THE ART OF NURSING AND REARING CHILDREN. A POEM
by DE ST. MARTHE, Scevole
1797. DE ST. MARTHE, Scevole, transl. H. W. TYTLER. PAEDOTROPHIA; OR, THE ART OF NURSING AND REARING CHILDREN. A POEM, IN THREE BOOKS. London: printed for the Author by John Nichols, 1797. First edition (of this translation). cxci + [5] - 224 pp. 8vo., half black calf with gilt spine lettering. Spine chipped, joints cracked, marbled paper boards edgeworn. Leather corners chipped. Complete text, with Michel & Niceron's life of de Ste. Marthe. Translated from the Latin (Paedotrophiae libri... Read More
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THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS, EDITION DE LUXE
by DICKENS, Charles
1908. DICKENS, Charles. WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS, EDITION DE LUXE, 14 VOLUMES. Boston: C. T. Brainard Publishing Company, 1908. One of 1000 copies, unnumbered (although limitation page states the sets are numbered). Volumes I - IX, XI - XV. 8vo., half deep green leather sunned to caramel brown at spine, with gilt spine lettering and decoration, over green marbled paper covered boards. Seven volumes are slightly chipped at crown. Volume II is split at the front joint (backstrip only,... Read More
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POP-UP MINNIE MOUSE
by DISNEY, Walt
1933. (DISNEY, Walt). THE "POP-UP" MINNIE MOUSE. Story and Illustrations by the Staff of Walt Disney Studios. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, (1933). Three bright double-page color pop-ups and many black and white text illustrations. [26] pp. Small quarto, color-illustrated paper boards. Some light soiling in margins. The binding is lightly soiled all over, slightly rubbed along the spine and at corners, and gently bunped at heel. Nonetheless, this is a very good, pleasing copy.
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Koutashirabe AZUMA KOROMO
by [DESIGN] Azuma Do^jin
1937. [DESIGN] Azuma Do^jin. Koutashirabe AZUMA KOROMO. Unso^do^, Kyo^to & To^kyo^, Sho^wa 12 [1937]. A large folding album (34.0 x 24.8 cm), 10 pages (15 designs) of superbly printed color woodblock images by the "Companions from the East" The margins and facing pages have browning and foxing. This, the "spring" volume, appears to be one of two volumes published. The covers are detached. Sold with all faults.
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ELAINE
by DORE, Gustave, illus
1867. (DORE, Gustave, illus.) TENNYSON, Alfred. ELAINE. London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1867. 9 steel engravings. [3], 84 pp. Folio, maroon half morocco, gilt-stamped title to spine, marbled boards, with matching endpapers. Ex library; the title-page and each plate has a small, discreet ink stamp; there are library bookplates and a pocket to ffep. and rear endpapers. The text leaves and illustrations are clean and crisp. The leather is very worn and rubbed, but the binding is still sound.... Read More
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BY SALT MARSHES: PICTURES AND POEMS OF OLD IPSWICH
by DOW, Arthur Wesley
1908. DOW, Arthur Wesley & Everett Stanley HUBBARD. BY SALT MARSHES: PICTURES AND POEMS OF OLD IPSWICH. Ipswich: Privately printed, 1908. No. 103 of approximately 200. [32] pp. 8vo. Quarter brown cloth (unmarked) with color illustrated (front cover only) paper covered boards. Covers worn but still attractive; interior near fine, small pencil numerals to front pastedown. Eight lovely color woodblock illustrations, with other monochrome and two color designs/headpieces. "BY SALT MARSHES is Arthur Wesley Dow's tribute to the old... Read More
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STARK MUNRO LETTERS
by DOYLE, A. CONAN
LP. DOYLE, A. Conan. THE STARK MUNRO LETTERS. London: Longmans, 1895. First edition. A very good copy.
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GERICHTLICH-CHEMISCHE ERMITTELUNG VON GIFTEN
by DRAGENDORFF, Georg
1876. DRAGENDORFF, Georg. GERICHTLICH-CHEMISCHE ERMITTELUNG VON GIFTEN IN HAHRUNGSMITTELN, LEFTGEMISCHEN, SPEISERESTEN, KORPERTHEILEN. St. Petersburg, Kaiserlichen Hofbuchhandlung H. Scmitzdorff, 1876. First Edition, later printing. 519p. Octavo. Bound in 3/4 brown leather with original orange wrappers bound in. Ex-library with bookplate and ink stamps to front endpapers and title page. Large foldout table at page 300 with tear at gutter. Binding is tight and interior is clean. A very good copy.
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