Munich: MCM Moderne Creation München Reisegepäck GMBH, 1994. Paperback. A miniature catalog of MCM's products featuring mostly their travel bags, but also clothing, cars, perfumes, and more. Includes celebrity photos, a list of worldwide retail locations, and a working movable image featuring a nude model covered in books. Bound in glossy cream paper wrappers with gilt title to front wrapper. Minor rubbing to wrappers. Filled with full color photographic illustrations. Text is mostly in English, with some text in German, French, and Japanese. 160 pages. Size: 2.5 tall x 3.5 wide. MINI/070220. Fine. More

1888. A leaf from La Monde Illustree, founded by Henri de Girardin, in 1829. Girardin employed Chevalier , who adopted the nickname Gavarny, and later Gavarni. From 1830 to 1837 Gavarni designed the most feminine and vital of fashion plates. Many of his pieces also featured charming drawings of children. La Mode Illustree was published weekly on Sundays, with illustrations and descriptions of Victorian fashions and the latest must have accessories. There was always a fashion plate. Print method is lithograph on woven, not heavy stock, hand colored, measuring 365 x 265 mm. or approximately 14 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches. Archivally matted. #44952. Fine. More

1886. A leaf from La Monde Illustree, founded by Henri de Girardin, in 1829. Girardin employed Chevalier , who adopted the nickname Gavarny, and later Gavarni. From 1830 to 1837 Gavarni designed the most feminine and vital of fashion plates. Many of his pieces also featured charming drawings of children. La Mode Illustree was published weekly on Sundays, with illustrations and descriptions of Victorian fashions and the latest must have accessories. There was always a fashion plate. Print method is lithograph on woven, not heavy stock, hand colored, measuring 365 x 265 mm. or approximately 14 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches. Archivally matted. #44954. Fine. More

1888. A leaf from La Monde Illustree, founded by Henri de Girardin, in 1829. Girardin employed Chevalier , who adopted the nickname Gavarny, and later Gavarni. From 1830 to 1837 Gavarni designed the most feminine and vital of fashion plates. Many of his pieces also featured charming drawings of children. La Mode Illustree was published weekly on Sundays, with illustrations and descriptions of Victorian fashions and the latest must have accessories. There was always a fashion plate. Print method is lithograph on woven, not heavy stock, hand colored, measuring 365 x 265 mm. or approximately 14 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches. Archivally matted. #44957. Fine. More

Paris: Ludovic Baschet, 1887. Hardcover. Folio, 3/4 black leather with green pebbled cloth boards. Gilt title and decoration as well as 5 raised bands to spine. Rubbing to hinges, spine ends and corners. 2 inch tear to leather at top of front hinge. Crack to interior front hinge. Binding still solid overall. Marbled end pages. Interior is clean and bright with wonderful illustrations throughout. French Literature. FRE1/03061. Very Good. More

Size: 11 x 15 inches. More

Camp Hill, PA: Cumberland County Historical Society, 1995. Hardcover. Limited to 1000 copies. "This book tells the story of how the people who settled Cumberland County, Pennsylvania dressed and how they furnished their homes with textiles." The information provided comes from estate inventories, wills, deeds, manuscripts, and other papers. Illustrated with photographs of clothing, facsimilie reproductions of documents, maps, charts, and more. Near fine in orange cloth boards with black title to spine and front cover. The interior is clean and bright. Creasing to the corners of a few pages, else fine. In very good dust jacket with orange spine panel titled in white. Minor wear to the edges of the jacket including a short closed tear along the bottom edge. There is also light rubbing to the jacket. 212 pages. FASH/070912. Near fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. More

CT: Forlags ab wiken / Menkler Books, 1987. Hardcover. In this book "we encounter 50 creative individuals, 26 women and 24 men, in a vigorous and highly colored true story of Creative Sweden ... It reflects in words and pictures, something of the manifold variety and stark contrasts to be met in today's Swedish folklore of art, craftsmanship, and design ... it ranges between deadly seriousness and unrestrained hilarity" (jacket). Glossy white illustrated paper covered boards with black title to spine and front cover. Light soiling / rubbing to covers. In white illustrated dust jacket with black title to spine and front panel. Minor wear and a few short tears to edges of jacket. Clean, bright interior with many color illustrations. 184 pages. FASH/121218. Very Good / Very Good. More

1888. Leaf from Auguste Racinet's Le Costume Historique, the most comprehensive and detailed study of fashion ever published. These volues cover the history of dress and hair styles from antiquity to the 1880's. While Racinet's main focus is on European clothing and accoutrements, including armor, furniture and material culture, he does provide sections on Asia, America and Africa. Lithographs are in full color on heavy stock. Some minor foxing and toning of paper. Print measures 16.125 x 11 inches. Archivally matted. #52812. Very Good. More

1888. Leaf from Auguste Racinet's Le Costume Historique, the most comprehensive and detailed study of fashion ever published. These volues cover the history of dress and hair styles from antiquity to the 1880's. While Racinet's main focus is on European clothing and accoutrements, including armor, furniture and material culture, he does provide sections on Asia, America and Africa. Lithographs are in full color on heavy stock. Some minor foxing and toning of paper. Print measures 16.125 x 11 inches. Archivally matted. #52794. Very Good. More

Leigh-On-Sea, England: F. Lewis, (1972). Hardcover. 4to. Orange cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Fading to spine as well as very slight fading to edges of boards. Slight bumping to spine ends. Slight yellowing to edges of pages. Else is clean and bright. Filled with black and white illustrations. Clear plastic dust jacket. Unpaginated. Fashion and Textiles. FASH/091212. Near Fine. More

Paris: Draeger Freres, n.d. [1920s]. Stiff Boards. A charming advertising piece from the furriers Leroy & Schmid. There are four full page color illustrations and seven full page black and white photographs of women wearing sumptuous furs. The tipped in color illustrations are in a beautiful art deco style by Martin, Barbier, Drian, and Vincent. There are three text sections. The first was written by the writer and fencer Marcel Boulenger about an imaginary fur hunting expedition. The second is about wearing furs in winter, and the last is on miniatures of the 18th century. Each section is illustrated. Bound in stiff cream paper boards with reproduction of a miniature, title, and furrier name on front cover. Some soiling, bumping, and a few spots but in very good condition. Interior pages are bright and in very good condition save for a slight crease to the upper right page corners. An uncommon and delightful promotional publication from the early 20th century. Unpaginated. Very Good. More