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Durham / London: Duke University Press, 2015. Scholarly study of "elite Asian bloggers", the work they do, "the status and meaning of "Asian Taste"", "and the fashion public's and industry's appetite for certain kinds of racialized eliteness." The author is a professor of Media Studies at Pratt. Paperback, as pictured; one corner bumped; text clean, no names or marks; x,… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday & Co. for the Crime Club, 1954. Murder mystery in the world of models, fashion design & publishing, set in Chicago, New York, & Paris. Stated first edition (first printing), hardcover in jacket, as pictured; light wear to book; corners bumped; jacket (with splendid surrealist art by Vera Bock) shows minor rubbing, a few short tears, light… Read more about this item

Camden, ME: International Marine, 1994. Thorough discussion of sailing, sails & their arrangements, and making, repairing, & rigging them. The author began sailmaking in 1974 and wrote columns on the craft for several magazines. Large hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book & jacket, minor foxing/ spotting to page edges, tiny ink initials & date on lower corner… Read more about this item

Grand Rapids, MI: Belding Bros. & Co. / Seymour & Muir, 1906. Oversized pamphlet showing the steps in manufacture of silk thread & cloth, from silkworm eggs, the tending of the worm, extracting & spinning the thread, packaging for export, spinning & weaving cloth. Issued as part of a classroom kit including a cabinet (presumably of natural history and product… Read more about this item

Halifax: Halifax Museums, 1959. Inventory of African, Indian, Asian, & one Santa Cruz loom from New Hebrides, with brief descriptions, including parts lists & notes on construction, a few comments on tools & cloth made, diagrams. Recently bound in hard covers, with original paper covers bound in. Light wear, original covers show some fading, light edgewear. Text clean; [8], 64… Read more about this item

No Place: [author] / Blurb, 2008. Reproduces trhe author's large collection of amateur photographs of (mostly) women in swimsuits, "Sifted from albums and shoeboxes", from the 1890s or so in to the 1950s, with a very few more recent, mostly b/w or sepia-toned, a few in color. Self-published through the Blurb website in 2008, no longer available there, nor can… Read more about this item

Dallas: Author / Taylor Publishing, 1987. Exhaustive study of these military accoutrements, based on extensive research and visits to many museums and collectors. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page, with a note indicating this volume is "1 of 100 Deluxe Bound Editions" - as far as we can tell the cover material is a different color and a… Read more about this item

Silver Spring, MD: National Institute of Drycleaning, 1967. Massive compendium of fabric samples, assembled for the drycleaning industry, but of interest to schools, designers, textile manufacturers, and retailers; listing each type of fabric then available, both natural & synthetic, defining them, and listing their characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages; each with an actual sample of the fabric. Second printing of the… Read more about this item

Gary & Laura Maurer Collectibles, 2010. Decorative tablecloths by the important designer & others. Hardcover in jacket as pictured, as new in publisher's shrinkwrap. Not terribly thick, about 100 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 12½" by 9½".

Grand Forks ND: Author/Holt Printing Co., 1926. Anecdotes and history of these Victorian staples, and their origins in Kashmir; the author, od Scottish descent, visited weavers there in the early 20th century whom he had known in his childhood some 50 years earlier. INSCRIBED by the author to a friend; these were evidently privately printed as gifts. Laid in are… Read more about this item

No Place: Author?, 2015. Biography of a rural-born electrical tinkerer who, after retiring from a biomedical technology career in the VA, invented a computer-controlled long-arm quilt-stitching system - with God's help. Hardcover, color cover, no jacket, almost certainly as issued. Light wear, head of spine bumped, a few inconsequential gutter gaps. Text clean; 446 pages; index, notes, b/w photos.. First… Read more about this item

Framingham, MA: Dennison Manufacturing Co., 1935. How-to manual for crafting with DuPont Cellophane, an early plastic then sold in sheet & ribbon form in many colors. Among the things to make are several styles of braided belts, woven billfolds & purses, bracelets & napkin rings, lampshade, hat, various flowers, gift wrap, decorations. Undated, circa 1930-35. Stapled pamphlet, two-color covers. Light… Read more about this item

Edinburgh/London: Johnstone and Hunter; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1852. Victorian anti-Catholic/anti-European satire or parody written in pseudo-scientific natural history jargon, complaining of the laziness, odd dress & weird habits (literally!), strange hours & stranger noises of various orders of monks, deposited of British shores by Papist Europeans of little merit and bad intent. Each major order of Monk is depicted… Read more about this item

New York: Rogers Peet Company, 1930. Small guide to gent's fashions & furnishings from a conservative but tasteful NY & Boston clothier. Includes formal day & semi-formal evening wear, travelers togs, equestrian style, business wear, topcoats, sportswear (golf & tennis), Izod. "The white plaited shirt is traditionally accepted. Usage today, however, also sanctions a colored bosom. Collar and cuffs are… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1948. Style & fashion guide for teens; the author, a pioneering designer of clothing for children, improves her young sister Barbara's fashion, figure & fitness. Author's first book, scarce. Includes clothing chart inside jacket. Hardcover, green & white illustrated boards. Light wear & scuffing, corners rubbed, gift note on first page; jacket has some… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Reinhold Publishing Corp., 1962 166 pgs; bibliography; index. Bound in decorated paper-covered boards; light edge wear; light fading on spine. Interior very clean. Discusses fibers, processes, binders, products & applications, & patents.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Leipzig: Verlag Von Otto Spamer, 1912 497 pgs. Bound in blue cloth with gilt titles. Text clean; binding tight; cloth worn through to boards on bottom edge & corners. Chemische Technologie in Einzeldarstellungen. Herausgeber: Prof. Dr. Ferd. Fischer, Gottingen. Text in German. Note: this is an oversize book, and additional postage may be required.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo… Read more about this item

London: Charles Griffin & Company, Ltd., 1895 180 pgs; index; 32 figs. Bound in red cloth; worn along edges; damp staining on spine & front cover. Damp stains along page edges; foxing on endsheets; but text is clean & unmarked. Binding tight & hinges sound. Discusses: Technology of the Textile Fibres; Garment Cleaning; Dyeing of Textile Fabrics; Bleaching of Textile… Read more about this item

York, NE: L.E.Foster, 1929 216 pgs; 8 pgs. adds. Bound in blue cloth, with black titles. Cover shows light wear, light soiling. Binding tight & hinges sound. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf, otherwise interior is very clean. "The purpose of this book is to present in one volume to practical cleaners and dyers some knowledge of rayons in general… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: American Society for Testing Materials, 1968. Technical guide to materials testing, intended to increase uniformity of procedures & results. Includes glossary of textile terms. Blue hardcover blocked in red, gilt titling. Shows some wear & rubbing. Text clean; xxii, 728 pages; figures, charts.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.