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ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW EPHEMERA - COLUMBIA MASK (PROMOTIONAL ITEM.) - AS IS.

By: N/A

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: 1974

Seller ID: 30343

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

Color card mask (10" H x approx. 7 1/4" W - ear to ear) of the character "Columbia" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Produced for the Roxy Theater, Los Angeles, 1974 - the original removable eyes and mouth section are NOT present. The production notes on the verso give the cast (including Tim Curry and Meat Loaf) and other credits - these are not affected by the removals. Minor browning at part of top/bottom rear edges, two soft creases on right ear, two small soft creases on left ear.
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TRADITIONAL PALESTINIAN EMBROIDERY AND JEWELRY.

By: Abed Al-Samih Abu Omar.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Jerusalem, Al Shark: 1986

Seller ID: 22998

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

144 pp, small 4to (10 7/8" H) - glazed pictorial boards. Profusely illustrated with colour photographs. Bilingual text (Arabic/English). Largely focuses on the wedding costumes (dresses, shawls, hats, veils and jewelry) of Palestinian brides of different regions. Light scuffing to bottom edge of rear board and at corners, bump at bottom of spine.
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SPLENDOUR AT COURT: DRESSING FOR ROYAL OCCASIONS SINCE 1700.

By: Arch, Nigel and Marschner, Joanna.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Unwin Hyman, London, (1987), Ist edition.: 1987

Seller ID: 29697

ISBN: 0713526610

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

128 pp, 10 1/2" H. Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour with photographs, reproductions, drawings. "(P)rovides a lively picture of contrasting courtly scenes through the ages. It takes us from the paralysingly formal Court of Queen Anne to the outlandish ostentation of fifty years later when the Prince of Wales's dancing feet twinkled with 30,000 Pounds worth of diamonds attached to his shoe buckles. It conjures up the social butterflies of the Victorian age and a young debutante in the 1920's having difficulty tucking the essential three white feathers into her fashionably bobb...
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WOMEN FROM THE ANKLE DOWN: THE STORY OF SHOES AND HOW THEY DEFINE US.

By: Bergstein, Rachelle.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper: 2012

Seller ID: 29211

ISBN: 0061969613

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

284 pp, 9 1/4" H. Small b&w illustrations. "What is it about a pair of shoes that so enchants women of all ages, demographics, political affiliations, and style tribes? Part social history, part fashion record, part pop-culture celebration, (this book) seeks to answer that question as it unfolds the story of shoes in the twentieth century. The tale begins in the rural village of Bonito, Italy, with a visionary young shoe-maker named Salvatore Ferragamo and ends in New York City with a fictional socialite and trend-setter named Carrie Bradshaw. Along the way it stops in Hollywood, ...
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PERIOD COSTUME FOR THE STAGE.

By: Bicat, Tina.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Marlborough, Crowood: 2003

Seller ID: 23425

ISBN: 1861265891

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

144 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w drawings, silhouettes, photographs. "(D)emonstrates how to use basic costume and modern clothes to recreate the styles of the past. Written for all those - professionals, students and amateurs - who create theatre costumes, it will appeal particularly to those who work within tight schedules and budgets. Each chapter offers a brief insight into the world that influenced the design ideas of a particular century or era, and offers simple, practical and sometimes surprising suggestions for how the period can be represented in costume on the stage. Throughout the...
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PERIOD COSTUME FOR THE STAGE.

By: Bicat, Tina.

Price: $23.00 USD

Publisher: Marlborough, Crowood: 2003

Seller ID: 29348

ISBN: 1861265891

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

THE SHOE: BEST FOOT FORWARD.

By: Blanchard, Tamsin.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Carlton, London, 2000.:

Seller ID: 20898

144 pp, square 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 1842220667 Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w photographs. "From the erotic pull of the killer high heel to the trendiest cross-trainer (this book) takes you on an extravagant tour through the fashions of footwear. Capturing the latest trends and sensations and celebrating the enduring classics that have helped define the styles of today, (it) is every footwear aficionado's dream. 'No Pain, No Gain' surveys key shoe des igns - from dagger-sharp stilettos and high-rise wedges to barely-there thongs and foot-huggi...
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HAUTE COUTURE: NOTES ON DESIGNERS AND THEIR CLOTHES IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM.

By: Brett, Katharine B.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum: 1969

Seller ID: 30079

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

68 pp, oblong (8 1/2" H x 10" D). B&w drawing, photographs. Contents: Preface; Introduction; Fashion Survey 1900-1967; Biographies in alphabetic order and Notes on Clothing; Milliners; Notes; Illustrations (pages 47-63); Ready-to-Wear; Selected Bibliography. Interior - previous owner's name/info. in ink at top of title page, light toning to edges of pages and inside of covers. Exterior - light edge wear - light to moderate on spine, soft wrinkles and light rubbing on covers, very light browning/soiling on rear cover.
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LADY OF FASHION 1800/1935.

By: Clark, Rowena. Photography by George Mehes. Introduction by Marion Fletcher.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: [National Gallery of Victoria, Australia], n.d.:

Seller ID: 19744

Unpaginated (approx. 35pp), square soft cover (10" x 10") - stapled in wraps. B&w illustrations. The catalogue of an exhibition put on by the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. Interior - minor browning, soft curl/crease to top/bottom corne r of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light browning, light edge wear, creases at corners of rear cover and bottom corner of front corner. Good+
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INDIACOLOR: SPIRIT, TRADITION, AND STYLE. (INDIA COLOR).

By: Crites, Mitchell and Nanji, Ameeta.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: San Francisco, Chronicle: 2008

Seller ID: 25063

ISBN: 0811853160

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Very Good+

176 pp, 10" H. "Journey through this stunning visual landscape, where bazaars offer vibrant surprises at every turn, women in lively saris and men in striking turbans turn crowded streets into dazzling rainbows, and shimmering palace pools arise from the desert. With its 300 photographs and insightful text, 'IndiaColor' reveals the traditions, imagination, and creativity that make India a land like nowhere else." Contents: Introduction; Doors & Passages; Adornment; Flowers; Bazaar; Animals Everywhere; Women at Work; Dhurries: Woven Wonders; Textiles: Threads of Time; Eternal Sari...
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OCCUPATIONAL COSTUME IN ENGLAND FROM THE ELEVENTH CENTURY TO 1914.

By: Cunnington, Phillis and Lucas, Catherine. With Alan Mansfield.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: London, Adam & Charles Black: 1967

Seller ID: 30571

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

427 pp, 9 1/2" H. Profusely illustrated in b&w with drawings, reproductions and photographs. "(This book) fills a wide gap in the history of costume, since former books on the subject have concentrated on the fashions of the more leisured classes (a minority) rather than on the clothes worn by people at work. The occupations covered include those of outdoor manual worker, tradesmen, craftsmen, miners, seamen, public and domestic servants. In describing working clothes, the authors show that they gradually evolved from a comparative uniformity in medieval times to a later rich variety ...
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THE GEORGE STUART COLLECTION OF HISTORICAL FIGURES.

By: Foster, Keith, foreword. Inscribed by George Stuart.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Ventura County Historical Society/Museum, Ventura, California, 1985.:

Seller ID: 19746

31 pp, 11" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Profusely illustrated with color and b&w photographs. INSCRIBED AND DATED BY GEORGE STUART ON THE FOREWORD PAGE. The catalog of an exhibition of the amazing one-quarter life-size historical figures of George Stuart. Contents: Acknowledgements; Foreword; George Stuart - artist and historian; The Collection; The Renaissance and Reformation; The Tudors; The Stuarts; The Hanovers; The Three Louis; Marie Antoinette; The Romanoffs; The Fall of the Tz ars; The American Patriots; The American Founders; Queen Victoria; Abraham Lincoln; The Manchus. ...
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THE COVENANT CHAIN: INDIAN CEREMONIAL AND TRADE SILVER.

By: Fredrickson, N. Jaye. Catalogue of the exhibition by Sandra Gibb. Foreword by John E. Langdon.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, National Museum of Man: 1980

Seller ID: 23001

ISBN: 0660103478

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

168 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H). Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. "Indian trade silver is a fascinating and little-known part of our cultural heritage - a product of the interaction between two profoundly different cultures during the European exploration of North America. Originating in the early diplomatic gifts of medals to friendly Indians, the distribution of silver became widespread during the height of the fur trade, 1760 to 1821. Silver ornaments designed specifically for the fur trade included brooches, gorgets, armbands, legbands, earrings, nose-rings, crosses and headb...
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Image for THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1955, No. 6081A, Vol. 227 + CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1956, No. 6126A, Vol. 229 + CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1959, No. 6274A, Vol. 235. 3 ITEMS.

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1955, No. 6081A, Vol. 227 + CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1956, No. 6126A, Vol. 229 + CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1959, No. 6274A, Vol. 235. 3 ITEMS.

By: Gilbert, Anthony; Macardle, Dorothy; Bucke, Marion; Bryant, Arthur, Sir; Laver, James; Aickman, Robert; Muir, Marie, et al.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: London, Illustrated London News:

Seller ID: 30178

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good+

3 Christmas Numbers of The Illustrated London News (1955, 1956 & 1959), 14 1/2" H x 10 1/4" W. Christmas 1955 - 56 pp, articles include: Trafalgar from the French Point of View: The Report of Captain Lucas; "Give me a ring" by Anthony Gilbert; Art in cap and bells: Trompe-l'oeil masterpieces designed to cheat the eye by their astonishing effect of reality; Double spread Queen Elizabeth II by Pietro Annigoni; 4 full page colour portraits "The Beauty of early Girlhood"; 2 full page colour illustrations - "Fairy-tale creatures (1. Hans Andersen, 2. Brothers Grimm), by...
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TRADITIONAL TEXTILES OF CAMBODIA: CULTURAL THREADS AND MATERIAL HERITAGE.

By: Green, Gillian.

Price: $80.00 USD

Publisher: Bangkok, River Books: 2003

Seller ID: 27236

ISBN: 9748225399

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

320 pp, large 4to (11 5/16" H). "Subtle, enigmatic patterns woven into Cambodian silk textiles speak of origins in an ancient past, with resonances continuing to the present. While Cambodian textiles may justifiably be regarded as works of art in Western terms, their cultural relevance and vitality, which defines their quintessential character, is only beginning to be be appreciated and understood. This is the first book to document and explain this rich textile and costume tradition. Written for collectors, curators, travellers, textile artists and aficionados, it identifies and e...
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FABERGE: IMPERIAL JEWELLER.

By: Habsburg, Geza von and Lopato, Marina. (A. Kenneth Snowman, Carol Aiken, Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm, Anne Odom, Karina Orlova, Larisa Zavadskaia, Boris Ometov, Galina Smorodinova, Tatiana Muntian, Alexaner von Solodkoff, Paul Schaffer.)

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Faberge Arts Foundation: 1993

Seller ID: 14366

ISBN: 0883971100

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good -

476 pp, square 8vo (8 5/8" x 8 5/8" x 1 3/8"). Profusely illustrated with color and b&w photographs. The catalogue of an exhibition. Contents: Faberge in Our Time; History of the House of Faberge; Chronology of the House of Faberge in Its Time; New Insights into Faberge from Russian Documents; A Few Remarks Concerning Imperial Easter Eggs; Imperial Easter Eggs - A Technical Study; New Light on the Workshop of Henrik Wigstrom; The Moscow Workshops; Faberge and the Paris 1900 Exposition Universelle; The London Branch; Faberge Drawings in the Hermitage Collection; Faberge's Houses ...
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A PORTRAIT OF THE HINDUS: BALTHAZAR SOLVYNS & THE EUROPEAN IMAGE OF INDIA 1760-1824.

By: Hardgrave, Robert L., Jr.

Price: $95.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 2004

Seller ID: 29291

ISBN: 0195220412

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

568 pp, 12 1/8" H. 79 colour and 285 b&w illustrations. "The Flemish artist Francois Balthazar Solvyns (1760-1824) is little known, but his series of etchings of the Hindus provides a rich and compelling portrait of India two hundred years ago. With commitment to faithful representation and with the sensi-bilities of an astutely observant artist, Solvyns portrays the people of India in their occupations, festi-vals and cultural life with immediacy and sympathy. Solvyns' life is itself fascinating, and his portrayal of India constitutes an unrivalled visual account of the people of ...
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MODELING FOR MOTHERHOOD: HEIR CONDITIONING THE MODERN MRS.

By: Heinz, Doris Hale and Bolt, Katherine Smith. Foreword by Frederic M. Loomis, M.D.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons: 1946

Seller ID: 30190

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

74 pp, oblong large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w line drawings (VERY 1940s!) by Doris Hale Heinz. "Underlying the amusing text and gay illustrations are sound advice and facts, carefully checked by prominent obstetricians. (This book) will guide you through the problems of pregnancy and start you off to becoming your own slim and attractive self again." Advice on maternity fashions, exercise, posture, diet and how to keep 'hubby' in the process! Endpapers are made up of four blank charts: Your Appointments and Orders; Your Personal Record; Equipment Need; Expenditures - Spent and Owing...
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COCO: THE LIFE AND LOVES OF GABRIELLE CHANEL.

By: Kennett, Frances.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz: 1989

Seller ID: 24874

ISBN: 0575045957

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

160 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H). B&w photographs, b&w and colour illustrations. " 'Coco' Chanel changed the way women dressed, brought them a new chic, and liberated them forever. But she paid a tremendous price for her domination of the fashion scene, a reign that lasted six decades. She was driven by her ambition to build an international empire and become a millionairess. Happiness, however, eluded her. The luck that attended her professional career was absent from her private life. The great love of her life died in a car crash. She was wooed by an English Duke, a Russian Prince and by on...
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ETHNIC DRESS.

By: Kennett, Frances. With Caroline MacDonald-Haig.

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: New York, Facts on File: 1995

Seller ID: 27359

ISBN: 0816031363

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

192 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H). "The immensely rich diversity of folk costume throughout the world is brought together in a unique and superbly illustrated volume. (It) introduces the reader to contemporary costume from every corner of the globe, country by country, region by region. The book explores a succession of styles and fashions, which cover everything from the dashing tartan ensembles of the Scottish Highlands to the softly rustling grass skirts of the Pacific Islands. It shows the many-hued regional splendors of the Indian sari, the beautiful ceremonial robes of the North Americ...
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