Leigh-On-Sea, England: F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, 1963. 9" x 11.5" pp. 63, [1]; 76 plates. Hardcover bound in red/orange cloth boards in tan dust jacket. Jacket has a few light smudges and one slightly more prominent at the left edge of the front cover. One small chip with loss to.....
![Item #372 Dale Chihuly: Japan 1990 [signed]. Dale Chihuly](https://tempobookshop.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/372.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1748789195)
Tokyo, Japan: Japan Institute of Arts and Crafts, 1990. First edition. Softcover bound with black covers. 9"x12", pp. [80], illustrated in color throughout with multiple full-page color plates of Chihuly's glass art. This copy with applied signature of the artist on the cover in red, green, and orange paint. A fine.....
Chongqing, China: Chongqing Publishing House, 2001. 8.5" x 11" pp. [8], 143; color illustrations. Paperback in illustrated brown wrappers. Wrappers have very light scuffing but overall appear shiny and bright. Text and photos are bright and clean. Very good. A photographic exploration of Tibetan folk art. This edition explores religious carved.....
Chongqing, China: Chongqing Publishing House, 2001. 8.25" x 11.25" pp. [8], 143; color illustrations. Paperback in illustrated brown wrappers, ever so lightly scuffed though presents well. Text and illustrations are bright and clear. Very good.A photographic exploration of Tibetan cookware, utensils, and weavings from both modern and ancient folk art.....
Sherman Oaks, California: Joseph J. D'Ambrosio, 1982. 6.5" x 9" pp. [40], limited edition number 29 of 50, signed by D'Ambrosio with four serigraphs, also signed. Full hunter green leather binding with two unique insets of daisies under glass cutouts; title inset on spine. The first five leaves feature hand-cut.....
![Item #2726 [Artist Anne DeCoster student work on "surrealism"]. Anne DeCoster](https://tempobookshop.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2726.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781994975)
Minneapolis, Minnesota: [Anne DeCoster], 1982. 12" x 9" pp. [2], 21, [5], including one 5.5" x 8.5" original pen drawing by Anne DeCoster and eleven applied illustrations from various cited sources. Leaves are gathered loose in white paper wrappers; project has been notarized by Ramsey County, Minnesota. "Anne DeCoster /.....
Tokyo, Japan: Meguro Museum of Art, 1992. 8.75" x 11" pp. 79, including color illustrations from photography throughout, text in the Japanese language. Blue and white wrappers with letter "B-L-U-E" cutouts are largely clean with very slight toning near spine. Text and illustrations are bright and crisp; pencil mark erased.....
Hiroshima, Japan: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000. 8.25" x 11.75" pp. 71, [1], including color illustrations from photography throughout, text in the Japanese language. Illustrated blue and white wrappers are clean with very minor scuffing at corners. Text is crisp and bright. Very good.Catalog from the 6th annual.....
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, [1958]. First American edition, large 8vo, pp. 37, [1]; without the blank sample papers at the back, but with the 16 mounted origami samples together with numerous illustrations showing how they were created; fine copy in original red checkerboard paper-covered boards, dust jacket with several tears.....
Taipei City, Taiwan: National Historical Museum, 1966. 9.5" x 9.5" pp. 64, including 14 double-sided black and white plates. Paperback in white wrappers with black jacket; slight break at title page. Jacket is scuffed at edges. Wrappers are slightly smudged. Corrections in pen on page 60. All else good and.....
Westminster, London: London Transport Board, 1963. 7" x 9.25" pp. 23, (4); including 124 color plates. Green cloth boards in bright yellow cover jacket. Jacket has light smudging with slight toning along the spine. Slight scuffing and a few small tears without loss in jacket at top edge. Boards are.....
Hiroshima, Japan: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 1995. 8.5" x 11.5" pp. 51, [1], includes color illustrations from photography throughout, text in the Japanese and English languages. White wrappers have a few faint smudges towards top of front cover. Text and plates are bright and crisp. Very good. A remembrance.....
San Francisco & New York: Paul Elder and Company, [1903]. 6" x 7.75" pp. [32], inc. multiple illustrations and handwritten aesthetic. Original cloth wrappers in a red and black patchwork quilt motif with title applied to cover. First edition of an early publication from the 238 Post Street iteration of.....
New York: Donna Karan Company, 2000. 10" x 13" pp. [60], includes color plates; first edition. Hardcover bound in cherry red cloth boards with gold stamping. Boards are clean with very minor scuffing at the corners. Plates and text are bright and clean. Very good.A photographic exploration of the concept of.....
Shelton, Connecticut: Greenwich Workshop Press, 2001. 10.75" x 12.25" pp. 180, first edition, includes multiple color illustrations. Brown cloth boards with gold stamping in an illustrated white cover jacket. Light smudging on the front of the jacket. Corners of boards are lightly scuffed. Text and illustrations are vibrant and sound.....
Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories: West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, 1972. 9" x 11" pp. 52; 51 black and white plates. Paperback bound in illustrated white wrappers. Wrappers have light smudging though overall a neat appearance. Text and prints are bright. Very good.
[Berlin]: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, [1991]. First edition. First edition thus, oblong 4to, with some partially colored illustrations and 18 sheets with punched-out color illustrations of the Japanese designer; all are present and the book is complete as issued. Fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. The text is in 11 different.....
Basel, Switzerland: Birkhäuser - Publishers for Architecture, 2001. 8.75" x 11" pp. 176; includes fold-out color illustrations from photography throughout. White wrappers have a few faint spots of smudging throughout, otherwise sound. Text and photographs are bright and crisp. Very good.An overview of various architectural projects undertaken by the Klein.....
![Item #2036 島日記 [Shima Nikki] = Island diary. Kodera Osai](https://tempobookshop.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2036.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757878650)
Japan: [ca. 1796]. Large fukurotoji, 10.5" x 7.5", pp. [108]; old Japanese "grass" script with Chinese elements, 18 extraordinary double-page watercolor illustrations; sewn and bound in the oriental style (fukurotoji) in original speckled beige wrappers; very slightly worn, preserving the original manuscript label; a very good, attractive example, beautifully illustrated.....
New York: George Kovacs Lighting Co., 1977. 8.5" x 11" unpaged, including multiple pages of black and white illustrations from photography. Paperback in blue wrappers, lightly scuffed with a few minor bends at the corners. Text and photos are sound with some light smudging scattered throughout. Very good. The George Kovacs.....
[China]: National Historical Museum, 1970. 8.5" x 8.5" pp. 12; illustrations (chiefly color); first edition. Paperback in illustrated light green wrappers. Slight bend at top right corner. All else very good and sound.A compilation of Kuo-Sung Liu's artwork, its locations, and some background behind the artist. Text in English and.....
New York: National Arts Club Gallery, 1973. 8.5" x 11" pp. 26; b/w illustrations. Illustrated white wrappers are clean with a few faint smudges on covers and slight bending at corners. Text is clean and bright. Very good.A catalog for the 77th annual open exhibition of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe.....
Lake Hill, New York: [publisher not identified], [2009]. 11.5" x 9" pp. 20; copious color illustrations from photography. Hardcover bound in black paper boards. Boards are lightly scuffed though overall present well. Text and illustrations are bright and clean. Very good. An artist's exploration of the evolution of his work. Beginning.....
Kyoto: Kyoto Hanga-in Co., Ltd., n.d., [ca. 1950]. 11½" x 9" woodblock prints; 6 leaves of plates in color illustrating Japanese proverbs, without the explanatory leaf, minor soiling and edgewear, else very good in paper-covered pictorial boards, tied with string. Reproductions of prints by the painter Iwasa Matabei (1578-1650) from.....
Pfarrkirchen, Germany: Edition Gschwendtner Blätter, 1990. 6" x 8" pp. [12]; 81 black and white plates of pencil sketches. Tan cloth boards with pasted white title paper. Boards have some scuffing at the edges and a very small smudge on the back cover. Text and plates are bright and clean.....