935pp. Blue Cloth. 5,000 entries with 1,000 illustrations, many in color. Book is like new. Beautiful, unclipped pictorial jacket has slight edgewear. a concise guide to the decorative arts of the West from the Middle Ages to the present day. Though mainly concerned with the furniture and furnishings of the European and North American private house, it also includes accounts of Chinese and Japanese pottery and porcelain, Peruvian pottery. Islamic metalwork and pottery, Turkish, Persian and other oriental carpets, and many other objects that have influenced the development of the decorative art... View More...
210pgs. Blue boards, gilt lettering. Drawings throughout. Author inscription on the front flyleaf. Like new copy. Includes a gatefold with 60 fine-quality shirt samples. Price-clipped pictorial jacket like new. in mylar sleeve. "From the front flap: "Coty Award winner Alan Flusser is convinced that any man can learn how to dress with style and good taste - all that is needed is the proper education. In 'Clothes and the Man', Flusser sets out - through the use of detailed illustrations, both black and white and full-color photographs, and a comprehensive text - the basic principles involved in ... View More...
Black and pale green pictorial boards. Author signature in black ink above his crossed out printed name. Toned spine edge, slight edgewear, otherwise internally fine, unmarked copy. Each page of text is accompanied by an illustration. the unclipped pictorial jacket has a darkened spine, toning to the extremiities, has no chips or tears. In mylar sleeve. "A curious culinary adventure incorporating a caveat against Lesser Literature and an instance of startling sensibility." View More...
