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Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Harry N Abrams: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 032057
ISBN: 0810900564
Condition: Near Fine
The story of how people have dressed themselves from the earliest times to the present (1967). A fascinating study of human history related to clothing and fashion. Red cloth with royal blue spine label and gold lettering. Previous owner's name written on decorated end-paper and title page. No writing in the book. Price written on dust jacket flap. 441pp., index. 1,150 illustrations (346 in full color). Solid copy. Full refund if not satisfied. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: City of Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 033397
Condition: Near Fine
Includes a signed (by the author) Compliments letter from Claudia Kidwell of the Smithsonian Institution. Paperback. Illustrated. Frontispiece. Previous owner's name stamped on front free end-paper. viii, 163pp., index. Full refund if not satisfied. View more info
By: Delamore, Philip
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Buffalo, NY, Firefly Books: 2005
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 035942
ISBN: 1554071313
Condition: Fine
This is the ideal guidebook for the bride as she begins her search for the perfect wedding dress. Filled with inspiring ideas and visual references, it will help her develop a vision of her dress while making sense of the overwhelming choices available. She can use it to show storekeepers what she wants or to work with a dressmaker on a custom design.Easy to use, The Perfect Wedding Dress is organized by dress style -- ball gown, princess line, mermaid, and so on -- and by dress part -- necklines, backs, veils, trains, and more. A helpful glossary in each section defines the terms used to desc... View more info
By: E. B. Weiss and Maurice Mermey
Price: $150.00
Publisher: New York and London, Whittlesey House: 1937
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 032378
Condition: Very Good +
Extremely rare First Edition with Foreword by Grover Whalen, President of New York World's Fair 1939. Contains advice for getting your money's worth when shopping by experts from most of the big department store chains of that day (Macys, Bloomingdales, Abraham & Strauss, etc). Blue fabric cloth with black spine lettering and design. xi, 301pp., index. End papers age toned. No writing in the book. Full refund if not satisfied. View more info
Price: $22.50
Publisher: Koln Lisboa London New York Paris Toronto, Taschen: 1998-06-01
Seller ID: 036844
ISBN: 3822805459
Condition: Like New
Red boards with white lettering and design. Mylar cover. Illustrated end-papers. 532pp. Full refund if not satisfied. View more info
By: Koda, Harold; Bolton, Andrew; Hellman, Mimi
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art: 2006
Seller ID: 042912
ISBN: 0300107145
Condition: Like New
Like new copy. Hardcover. Private library mark. Not paginated. Full refund if not satisfied.During the reigns of Louis XV (1723-74) and Louis XVI (1774-92), fashion and furniture were not simply meant to be beautiful but were also intended to arouse, attract, and seduce. Published in response to the critically acclaimed and hugely popular exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum in the fall of 2004, Dangerous Liaisons focuses on fashion and its interplay with the paintings, furniture, and decorative arts of eighteenth-century France. Featuring beautiful color photographs of the exhibiti... View more info
By: Pepin Press
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Amsterdam, Pepin Press: 2002
Seller ID: 036914
ISBN: 9054960795
Condition: Like New
From Introduction: The Pepin Press visual Encyclopedias are massive visual resources, containing thousands of high-quality line drawings per volume and featuring practically every country in the world. Besides classical themes such as Greek vases, Italian churches, and 18th-century fashion from Paris, in these books, one cal also find, for example, constructions and designs from the Solomon Islands, costume from Friesland, Cabo Verde and Uzbekistan, Eskimo carvings and ornaments from Benin. Paperback. Illustrated. 544pp. Solid copy. Full refund if not satisfied. View more info
By: Phyllis Galembo; Mark Alice Durant; Valerie Steele
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 037615
ISBN: 0810932911
Condition: New
A whimsical array of ghosts and goblins, spooks and skeletons, vamps and vampires parade through this unparalleled collection of more than 100 years of American Halloween attire. From Little Bo Peep with lamb in hand to beatniks and pirates, from monsters and witches to clowns and animals, this veritable "carnival" of costumes visually captures All Hallows' Eve like no other book before. In her celebration of Halloween revelry, photographer Phyllis Galembo never settles for the ordinary; here instead are evocative scenes of dressed-to-scare young trick-or-treaters "modeling" t... View more info
