Category: Fashion/Costume, Textiles, Quilting & Needlework

American Mail Order Fashions 1880-1900: Pictures and Copy Reproduced from Original Catalogs and Magazines of the Times [Americana Review]

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Scotia, NY, Americana Review : 1961

Seller ID: 018262

Condition: Near Fine

1st thus, consisting of previously published material, reproduced in facsimile. Pale orange illus. wraps. Light shelf wear, nearly as issued. 32 pp., illus.
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Beautiful Furs - Made from Skins Owned By You - Prices in Line with the Times [Vintage Furs-Animal Skin Catalog]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Dubuque, IA; St. Paul, MN; Sioux Falls, SD, Edes Road Tanning Co. : 1931

Seller ID: 029563

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Booklet, tan wraps, lettered/decorated in rust and brown. Moderate shelf wear with flecking/loss to surface paper along most edges, with several small holes in covers as well (all likely silverfishing), mildly soiled covers. Interior a bit toned by age but otherwise intact. 60 pp., illus. w/ sepia photographs of the Edes manufactory as well as many styles of furs for women, men and children - furs as well as skins, including cow, elk, bear, deer, wild cats, beaver, weasel, opossum and yes, folks, even skunk! Scarce vintage fashion/style catalogue.
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Dardelet Thread Handbook for Engineers, Designers, and Mechanics containing Comprehensive Information Relative to the Dardelet Self-Locking Screw Thread

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Dardelet Threadlock Corp. : 1933

Seller ID: 062157

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Black flexible leatherette, lettered in gilt. Minor binding lean, a bit rubbed along lower front joint. 220 pp., illus. 1st ed,
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Description of Asiatic Costume Plates [Accompanied by 50 Hand-Colored Plates]: Turkey - Syria - Armenia - Palestine - Arabia - Persia - Afghanistan - Russian Turkestan - Siberia - Nepal - Burma - India - Siam - French Indo-China - Malaya - Sinkiang - Tibet - Mongolia - Manchuria - China - Korea - Japan - Sumatra - Java [Museum Extension Project, Works Progress Administration, Pennsylvania - District 15]

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Harrisburg, PA, Works Progress Administration, Museum Extension Project : 1940

Seller ID: 046870

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: VG+

Complete set of (50) hand-painted, illustrated plates of Asiatic costume designs, accompanied by a descriptive handbook recounting the historical context of the costumes. Stiff white wraps, black cloth binding, typescript copy, with (50) one-page descriptions (printed on rectos only), 4 pp. bibliography at rear. Accompanied by 50 loose hand-colored 8.5x11" plates (also issued as larger posters intended for classroom/museum display), collated and complete. Compiled as a WPA project in the late 1930s, issued ca. 1940. Description book shows modest handling wear with mild soiling to covers, c...
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Description of Western Costume Plates [Accompanied by 114 Hand-Colored Plates]: Ancient & Classical - Medieval & Renaissance - Tudor - Seventeenth Century - Eighteenth Century - Late Eighteenth & Early Nineteenth Century - Late Nineteenth Century [Museum Extension Project, Works Progress Administration, Pennsylvania - District 15]

Price: $295.00

Publisher: Harrisburg, PA, Works Progress Administration, Museum Extension Project : 1940

Seller ID: 046869

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: VG+

Complete set of (114) hand-painted, illustrated plates of period costume designs throughout history, accompanied by a descriptive handbook recounting the historical context of the costumes. Stiff color illus. wraps, black cloth binding, typescript copy. 114 one-page descriptions (printed on rectos only), 2 pp. bibliography at rear. Accompanied by 114 loose hand-colored 8.5x11" plates (also issued as larger posters intended for classroom/museum display), collated and complete. Compiled as a WPA project in the late 1930s, issued ca. 1940. Description book shows modest wear with rubbed edges...
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Murals of Wool

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C. and New York, Jeppson Galleries, Inc./French & Co., Inc. : 1960

Seller ID: 059996

ISBN: B01I4CYM4K

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff color illus. wraps, stapled binding, oblong format. Slight handling wear, back cover mildly soiled/tanned, nearly as issued. 39 color plates.
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Occhiali Italiani

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Edizioni Anfao : 1986

Seller ID: 059450

ISBN: B003NVBAZ2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Black cloth-effect boards, lettered in gold foil. Slight bump to bottom front cover corner, otherwise as issued. Dust jacket shows minor surface rubbing, now in mylar. 1st ed. 144 pp., illus. w/ color plates, publisher's book mark laid in. Text in English.
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Rare Ancient Rugs: The V. & L. Benguiat Collection [Catalogue 3968 - 23 Apr. 1932]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, American Art Association/Anderson Galleries : 1932

Seller ID: 044884

ISBN: B003SUDSK8

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Stiff blue wrap, lettered in black. Mild shelf wear, mild surface rubbing, sticker ghost on lower front cover. 58 pp., 44 catalogued works, illus. w/ b&w plates. Prices realized inked internally.
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Textile Design II: Traditional Arabesque

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Singapore, Page One Publishing : 1993

Seller ID: 041308

ISBN-13: 9789810047740

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff color pictorial wraps. Slight shelf wear, nearly as issued. 154 pp., illus. w/ color plates. Text (which is minimal) is in English, German, and French -- the majority of the interior is composed of color photographs.
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The "Reading" Full-Fashioned Knitting Machine - Parts Catalog

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Reading (Wyomissing), PA, Textile Machine Works : 1929

Seller ID: 029830

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Brown leatherette, embossed lettering. viii,210,8,16,22 pp., illus. Very slightly rubbed spine extremities, nearly as issued. A lovely copy.
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Two Hundred Years of American Quilts from the Collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd and Gail Binney-Winslow

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Whitney Museum of American Art : 1986

Seller ID: 004313

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Exhibition brochure, squarish 8vo. Ink notation along top front edge, slight shelf wear.
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Weaves, Fabrics, Textile Designing [International Library of Technology No. 81]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Scranton, PA, International Textbook Co. : 1906

Seller ID: 006440

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Dark red 1/2 cloth, dark green cloth, gilt accents and lettering, patterned endpapers, red-dyed text block edges. Lightly rubbed at corners, edges, joints. Front and rear prelims rather toned, interior otherwise clean and bright. viii, 35, 30, 25, 27, 35, 22, 27, 26, 22, 38, 65, 34, 24, 36, 27, 17, xvi pp., indexed, illus. w/ color plates, graphs, schematics, line drawings, etc. Glossary of weaves; elementary textile designing; analysis of cotton fabrics; analysis of woolen and worsted fabrics; twill weaves and derivatives; satin and other weaves; combination weaves; construction of spot weave...
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Navaho Weaving: Its Technic and History [Navajo Weaving]

By: Amsden, Charles Avery; Frederick Webb Hodge (fwd.)

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Santa Ana, CA, The Fine Arts Press/The Southwest Museum : 1969

Seller ID: 060618

ISBN: B000GQO2J8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Metallic green cloth-effect boards, lettered in copper foil. Essentially as issued. xviii,261 pp., illus. w/ 12 figures, 123 plates (several folding, some color). 2nd ptg.: 1969.
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, Being an Account of the Rise, Development, Eclipse, and Modern Revival of a National Popular Art

By: Atwater, Mary Meigs

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co. : 1947

Seller ID: 058482

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Red cloth, lettered in gilt. Feb. 1947 ptg. Minor rubbing to corners and extremities, bottom front corner a bit bumped, slight nick to cloth along lower front cover fore-edge. xviii,281 pp., illus. Firm binding, clean interior.
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Those Glorious Glamour Years: Classic Hollywood Costume Design of the 1930's

By: Bailey, Margaret J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Citadel Press-Carol Publishing Group : 1990

Seller ID: 061726

ISBN-13: 9780806510651

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff pictorial wraps. Slight binding lean original to issue, just a few hints of handling wear. Firm, uncreased binding, clean and unmarked interior. 384 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs.
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Those Glorious Glamour Years: Great Hollywood Costume Designs of the 1930's

By: Bailey, Margaret J.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Columbus Books : 1988

Seller ID: 043032

ISBN-13: 9780862878832

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Stiff pictorial wraps. Former owner's address inscription at top corner of front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked and as issued. Square, uncreased binding, clean interior. 384 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs.
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Lingerie: A Celebration of Silks, Satins, Laces, Linens and Other Bare Essentials

By: Bardey, Catherine

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Black Dog & Leventhal : 2001

Seller ID: 021900

ISBN-13: 9781579121051

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Color illus. laminated boards. As issued. 192 pp., illus. w/ color, b&w plates.
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Wearing Vintage

By: Bardey, Catherine

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers : 2002

Seller ID: 030345

ISBN-13: 9781579122331

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Brown cloth-effect paper covered boads, lettered in silver foil. Slightly rubbed bottom corners and heel of spine, otherwise as issued. Dust jacket as issued. 280 pp., illus., color photographs.
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Fleur de Lys: d'hier a aujourd'hui

By: Bizier, Helene-Andree, and Claude Paulette

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Editions Art Global : 1997

Seller ID: 041852

ISBN-13: 9782920718678

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Color glossy pictorial paper covered boards. 158 pp., illus. w/ color photographs. Mild foxing to front and rear blanks adjacent to flyleaves, "Mfg. Sample" stamp on upper text block fore-edge, otherwise nearly as issued. Text in French.
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Dispensing Beauty in New York and Beyond: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Harriet Hubbard Ayer [INSCRIBED]

By: Blaugrund, Annette

Price: $14.95

Publisher: The History Press : 2011

Seller ID: 059054

ISBN-13: 9781609492793

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: As New

INSCRIBED. Stiff color illus. wraps. As new, review copy w/ insert. 1st ptg. Inscribed by author on main title, full signature, personalized. 224 pp., illus.
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The Fine Art of Textiles [The Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art]

By: Blum, Dilys E.; Lynn Rosenthal (photographs)

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum Of Art : 1997

Seller ID: 059868

ISBN-13: 9780876331163

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Stiff color pictorial wraps, French flaps. New/as issued. 1st ed.: 1997. 208 pp., illus.
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All That Jazz: Printed Fashion Silks of the '20s and '30s [Exhibition Catalogue]

By: Boardman, Michelle, with contributions by Carol Dean Krute, Lola S. McKnight, Madelyn Shaw

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Allentown, PA, Allentown Art Museum : 1998

Seller ID: 012524

ISBN-13: 9781882011506

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

32 pp., stiff paper wraps, oblong format, fully illus. w/ 52 color plates. Classy catalog, of interest to all vintage textile collections.
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American Samplers

By: Bolton, Ethel Stanwood, and Eva Johnston Coe

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Weathervane Books : 1973

Seller ID: 060903

ISBN-13: 9780517226438

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dark green leatherette, lettered in gold foil. Text block edges typically a bit tanned, otherwise as issued. Color pictorial dust jacket has price-clipped front flap, light rubbing along edges, now in mylar. 1st thus (a). viii,416 pp., 126 plates.
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Early American Specs [Spectacles - Eyeglasses]

By: Bronson, L. D.

Price: $24.50

Publisher: Glendale, CA, Occidental Publishing Co. : 1974

Seller ID: 022351

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Burgundy "leatherette," lettered in gold foil. Very slightly rubbed spine extremities, virtually as issued. Limited edition. Dust jacket shows minor shelf wear, price-clipped front flap, now in archival mylar. Firm binding, clean interior. 189 pp., well illus. w/ b&w photographs. Relatively scarce in hardcover.
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Das Kostumwerk: Eine Geschichte des Kostums aller Zeiten und Volker vom Alterum bis zur Neuzeit einschliesslich der Volkstrachten Europas und der Trachten der aussereuropaischen Lander

By: Bruhn, Wolfgang, and Max Tilke

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Berlin, Germany, Verlag Ernst Wasmuth : 1941

Seller ID: 034537

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Tan 1/4 color buckram, brown coated cloth-covered boards, lettered on upper spine panel in red. Modest exterior wear, a bit frayed at spine extremities and with rubbed corners, a few light soil marks to covers. Binding is somewhat curled but intact and firm. [iv],116 pp., illus. w/ b&w line drawings + 200 plates, including 120 color, 80 b&w, all printed on rectos only, at rear. Interior shows mild foxing to the first several leaves and slight toning to text block leaves, plates bright and nicely intact. Cloth tape reinforcement to binding at title page. Text in German.
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Category: Fashion/Costume, Textiles, Quilting & Needlework