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Chicago: Popular Mechanics Co, 1912. Hardcover. Orig. covers in red, brown and blue with front cover illustration. Very good. 3 Vols. 120 pages in each. 17 x 12 cm. Index in all three with adverts at rear. Host of black and white images, all with detailed instructions. All bindings tight and firm with interiors clean. Slight extremity rubbing.

Paris: Albert Levy, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated board board portfolio with cloth ties intact. Very good. 7 text pages. 34 x 26 cm. Forty eight plates printed recto only. Includes full page Art Deco and Art Nouveau designs by a host of prominent architects and designers of the period including Jean Prouve, Edgar Brandt, Raymond Subes,… Read more about this item

New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons & B.T. Batsford, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gilt decorated green cloth. Fine. 202 pages . 30.5 x 25.5 cm. Host of black and white full page and multiple images per plate on glossy stock, plus black and white drawings to scale. Author notes a large proportion of examples illustrated (Harcourt… Read more about this item

London: Theodore Brun, 1949. First edition. leather_bound. Full black morocco, front cover decorated in gilt. Fine. 291 pages. 30.5 x 25 cm. Limited edition, copy 80 of 100. The first volume published in 1947 by Alan Wingate was a great success, this the second effort. Glossary of Professional Affixes. Index To Designers. Plethora of plates, multiple images per… Read more about this item

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 288 pages. 25.5 x 25.5 cm. Presents more than 600 color photographs covering architecture, interior design, and examines a myriad of styles.

Sao Paulo: Decor, 2007. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff illustrated wrappers. Fine in fine dust wrapper.. Unpaginated. 25.5 x 25.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color plates, a series of modern interior and exterior designs for the largest metropolis of Brazil, including hotels and public edifices. Text in Portuguese and English. Laid-in are two folding plans front and… Read more about this item

Genova: Stringa Editore, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light beige cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in very good dust wrapper. X test pages. 34 x 25 cm. 610 black and white illustrations on 256 plates. Index to the contents -- Decorative Arts, mainly interior designs, furniture (chairs, bedding, mirrors, door panels, candelabra, church pews, et al). Text in… Read more about this item

Torshavn: Emil Thomsen, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper in the original decorated slipcase. 134 pages. 32 x 24 cm. Color and black and white illustrations present richly decorated church furniture from the first half of the 15th century of the Faroe Islands. The motifs on the furniture are especially associated with… Read more about this item

Genova: Le Mani, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 445 pages. 32 x 25 cm. 401 illustrations, mostly in color printed on quality glossy stock. A series of scholarly articles. Comprehensive Bibliography. Index of Names. Text in Italian.

Torino: Cassa Di Risparmio Di Torino, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. salmon cloth lettered in black. Near fine in fine dust wrapper. 303 pages. 30.4 x 23.5 cm. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white, printed on quality glossy stock. Commentaries are chapters by eight scholars. Bibliography. Text in Italian. Small dampstain lower front cover at backstrip.… Read more about this item

Paris: Charles Moreau, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Original cloth-backed printed blue and gray boards all with functional cloth ties. Very good. 3 vols. Folio, 46 x 31 cm. Each part contains 32 loose as issued heliogravure full page images of Art Deco interiors, a few with two images per plate. Contributors include Maurice Dufrene, Paul Follet, René Lalique,… Read more about this item

Np: Steelcase, 1981. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Very good. 6 pages. 20 x 19 cm. Promotional piece for desk designs by FLW re S.C. Johnson Building. Color illustrations plus three page fodlout of black and white sketches of Steelcase designs with explanation of the desk design. Slight toning and small stain front cover.

Paris: E. Maincent, 1890. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth front cover lettered in gilt. Fine. 13. 5 x 17.5 cm. Empire style furniture, frontispiece and 67 plates, all colored by hand and printed recto only of Empire furniture designs. Lavish presentation: drapery, chairs, bedding, tables and more. Contents clean, bright and fresh.

Paris: Gustave Ficker, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth front cover lettered in gilt. Very good. 8 pages in text. 29.5 x 24 cm. 120 full page color plates printed recto only, including designs by H. Kammerer, P. Lazlo, M. Stier, et al. Text in French. Bright and fresh copy, rubbing to backstrip extremities.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth lettered in gilt. Fine. 219 pages. 23.5 x 18.5 cm. Twenty-seven black and white illustrations. Introduction by Leon Deshairs. Art deco and traditional designs with roots in the turn of the century designs of Galle, Grasset, Plumet and Gaillard.

New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons & Chapman and Hall, 1898. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth decorated in leaf motifs. Very good. 2 vols. 409, 411 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Vol. I: 436 illustrations (Charles Scribner's Sons), Vol.II; 317 illustrations (Chapman and Hall). Modest intermittent toning Vol. I, Vol. II clean, slight crinkling to backstrip extremities. … Read more about this item

Portland: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark gray cloth. Teg. Very good. 200 pages. 30.5 x 24 cm. Illustrated by Edna C. Rogers, Nelson Chase, Eva Melady and others. Lovely illustrations in black and white and in color, approximately seventy-five in total depict contemporary rooms. There are also drawings in the text and floor plans. Extensive… Read more about this item

New York: William Helburn, Nd. Hardcover. Orig. marbled board and cloth portfolio lacking ties. Good/Very good. Folio, 35 x 30. cm. Ninety-two tinted plates from "Studies from Old English Mansions Their Furniture Gold & Silver Plate Ec by An Architect." Originally published by T. McLean, June, 1841. Plates generally clean, portfolio interior spine reinforced, spine worn and chipped.… Read more about this item

Paris: Veith & Hauser, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter black morocco and marbled boards. Near fine. Folio, 43 x 29 cm. Engraved title and 114 engraved plates, each with small publisher's blind stamp in lower margin, a few plates with light spotting, balance exceptionally bright and clean. Provenance: Furstliche Furstenbergische Hofbibliothek at Donaueschingen with inkstamp on lower corner… Read more about this item

London: Jones & Co, 1826. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary sheep rebacked, portions of original spine laid-down, red leather spine label. Very good. 217 pages in text. 27 x 20 cm. 152 plates, colored frontispiece, additional pictorial title page, and thirty-six hand-colored plates, plus 115 plain. Index. Some plates bound out of order, number of leaves remargined, plate offsetting,… Read more about this item