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PENN, Irving. Moments Preserved.New York : 1960
First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper "For Francine and Cleve, With Love, Irving Penn". The recipients were the French-American Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and literary critic, Francine du Plessix (1930-2019), and her husband, the American abstract expressionist painter, Cleve Gray (1918-2004).
Francine... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 143083
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BOBRINSKOI, Aleksiei Aleksieevich, count. Ornament gornykh tadzhikov Darvaza (Nagornaia Bukhara)Moscow : 1900
First and only edition of this excellent visual record of the traditional designs of the Darvaz Pamiris, an ethnic Tajik group settled in that region on the Panj river, a tributary of the Amu Darya or Oxus in the south eastern part of Bukhara, now part of the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Superb quality "phototype" plates of textiles, the... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 144207
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TARTAN - WHYTE, John. Clan Tartans [spine title] - Coats of Arms, Crests, Clan Tartans &c. Designed for Embroidery …Edinburgh : [c.1845]
No other copy recorded institutionally of this fascinating, and enterprising exercise in "pattern drawing", making available the 75 designs published in John Sobieski Stuart's Vesitiarium Scoticum of 1842 in a format enabling their manufacture. This is an important early record of the adoption of the Sobieski Stuart patterns, and an extremely appealing... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 135594
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BEATON, Cecil. Scrapbook.New York : 1937
First edition, deluxe US issue, a superb presentation copy with an unusually fulsome inscription, inscribed by the photographer to Vogue editor-in-chief Edna Woolman Chase, who gave him some of his most important commissions and helped establish his career, on the front free endpaper: "To Edna Arch Instigator of so much of this Book or to Edna Editor... Learn More£4,950.00Stock Code: 146208
