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Fashion Drawing and Dress Design. A Handbook dealing with Proportion, construction, pose and draping of the adult and child figure with numerous illustrations.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., 1928. [Fashion] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 164; [4] of advertisements. Publisher's cloth, titled in red and black to spine and upper. Illustrated throughout in red and black. Neat gift inscription to half title, occasional marks to the textblock but generally... More about Fashion Drawing and Dress Design. A Handbook dealing with Proportion, construction, pose and...
Hockney: The Biography. Volume I, 1937-1975: A Rake's Progress.
London: Century, 2011. [Art] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 18cm), pp.xx; 363 [1]. With numerous in-text illustrations and colour plates; illustrated endpapers. With an associated Royal Academy bookmark. Publisher's white cloth with black titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £25.00. A fine, as-new copy. From the... More about Hockney: The Biography. Volume I, 1937-1975: A Rake's Progress
The Art of Photoplay Making.
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1918. [Filmmaking] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 283; [11]. With 10 photogravure plates, including a frontispiece of the Venus de Milo. Publisher's brown cloth. gilt titles to spine and in dark brown to upper board, dust-jacket title with printed price of $2.00... More about The Art of Photoplay Making
The King and I.
New York, NY: Random House, 1951. [Musical] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.146. Publisher's green cloth, top edge green, in pictorial dust-jacket, priced $2.50. Dust-wrapper is toned to spine, with some loss to head of the front panel, chips and tears to rear top edge, minor rubbing. Binding is... More about The King and I
Addresses Delivered to the Students of The Royal Academy by the Late Lord Leighton.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1896. [Art] FINELY BOUND, first edition thus. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] 310. With a photogravure frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary green half crushed morocco by BUMPUS with raised bands, green cloth over boards, and a gilt armorial device stamped to upper... More about Addresses Delivered to the Students of The Royal Academy by the Late Lord Leighton
American Domestic Cookery, formed on Principles of Economy, for the use of Private Families. By an Experienced Housekeeper. To which is added the Complete Family Brewer.
New York, NY: Evert Duyckinck, 1823. [Cookery] EARLY EDITION. Duodecimo in half-sheets (15 x 9cm), pp.357; [7]. With nine engraved plates including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary straight grained brown calf with gilt decoration to spine and gilt titles to recently applied black labels. Marbled endpapers. Black ink... More about American Domestic Cookery, formed on Principles of Economy, for the use of Private Families. By...
The Human Zoo.
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969. [Sociobiology] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.256. INSCRIBED: 'To Hector | Best wishes | from | Desmond | Feb 1970' in blue ink to title page. Publisher's black quarter cloth with silver titles to spine and yellow paper over boards... More about The Human Zoo
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