Arts & Architecture

Folio (55 x 48 cm); 64pp., printed on thick card, 20 full-page colour plates with art deco borders, 4 pages of text with illustrated borders and gilt detail, mounted textile samples in wool, wool-rayon blends, silk, cashmere, tweeds, silk stripe flannels, and more, sample pages also with borders and tiger vignettes and some combined with text and illustrations, patterned endpapers with portrait of the founder Joseph Vehon; original black cloth gilt ruled and embossed, large tiger colour lithohraph logo pasted on to upper cover with the motto 'pay less and dress better', title in gilt to spine, some spotting but otherwise an excellent copy.

New edition. Large 8vo. Hardback. 320 pp. including title and many colour illustrations. Dust-jacket to match cover.

First edition, first impression, limited issue, no. 72 of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author. Large 8vo. Boards just a little bowed but an exceptional copy of a book more often found in slightly tired condition.

First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's brown cloth, titles to spine in white and red, photographic endpapers, with the dust jacket. Small scuff to one corner but a very nice copy in the dust jacket.

Limited edition numbered 21 of 180 (total edition 205) , signed by Miró in pencil on colophon; folio (43 x 33 cm). pp. (viii), 133, (xv), 13 lithographs printed in colours by Miro ,printed by Mourlot, on Arches wove paper, all loose as issued in the publisher's printed wrappers, cream coloured chemise and matching slipcase; a very attractive copy.

Mixed editions (complete), vol. I third, vol. II second & vol. III first; 3 vols, folio (410 x 300mm); engraved title-pages in red black, photographic frontispieces and numerous black & white illustrations, small nick to edges of first few leaves to vol. I and base of p. 314 in vol. III, toning to endpapers, otherwise a near-fine internally; publisher's blue cloth gilt, rubbed and bumped at extremities, usual slight bowing to boards due to weight of text blocks, upper hinge (inside) of vols I & III split but firm, in all, very good.

First edition, first printing; 8vo; single quire, wire-stitched in white card, Haring designed wrappers printed in black. Unpaginated series of illustrations by Haring. Very light tide mark at the spine fold, but a particularly crisp copy of a book much given to discolouration.

Limited edition, one of 120 named examples on vélin teinté d'Arches printed for the members of the Lyon society, this example for Maurice Méric, 4to (25.5 x 20 cm); 54 illustrations in colour, drawn and engraved by Schmied (of which 26 are full-page); brown morocco binding, signed and dated 1998 by Honneger, with an abstract rectangle design to the covers, made up of red, green and brown morocco and yellow shagreen, with gilt lines, morocco doublures with gilt detail and cream suede guards, original wrappers bound in, in a morocco backed, brown suede lined, cloth clamshell box with gilt title to spine, an excellent copy.

First English edition, first impression; signed, presentation inscription from the author/artist with doodle below to half-title in an approximation of a soup can, additionally signed on upper panel of jacket; 4to; scores of black and white plates of the rich and famous of the period. Publisher's black cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the photographic dust jacket. An excellent copy in the very lightly frayed jacket with some minor loss at the top of the spine panel.

Limited edition, one of 300 copies, this being no. 81, folio (41 x 31 cm) two title-pages, justification leaf, 11 fashion plates in pochoir, of which one is double-page, loose as issued in original pictorial portfolio with flaps, some wear to spine and foxing covers, plates in very good condition.