Fashion, Coiffure from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

New York: PaceWildenstein; Pace/MacGill Gallery, 1999. First edition. Square octavo (8.5: x 8.5"), 57 &[1] pages. Profusely illustrated from mostly black & white photographs (one in color). Publisher's folding, pictorial card covers. Slight soiling at the lower cover, trace edge wear, otherwise fine. The New and Unseen exhibition ran from September 1 through 25, 1999 at PaceWildenstein & the Process exhibition ran… Read more about this item

New York: Prof. Rohrer's Institute of Beauty Culture, (1924). First edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), 80 pages, illustrated throughout (some in color). Publisher's gray cloth-patterned paper over boards backed in maroon paper, lettered & decorated in gilt. Binding moderately rubbed & soiled, stain in the margin from the front pastedown diminishing through page 7 (not affecting text), otherwise good or better. A… Read more about this item

London: Piper, Brothers, & Co., 1853. First edition. Octavo (9" x 6"), vii, [1], & 214 pages with frontis & 6 plates (3 color tinted) plus [2] pages of advertisements for the author's "Elegant Personal Requisites." Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & decorated in blind on the covers. Moderately rubbed & sunned, brief wear at corners &… Read more about this item

Campello, Massachusetts: the company, 1910. 12mo (7" x 4"), 16 unnumbered pages, illustrated throughout, with pricing. Pictorial stapled light card covers. Moderately rubbed, slightly soiled, otherwise very good. Available world wide, including, apparently, in Stone Ridge, New York from Frederick Davis. "… showing a representative variety of style offered for your enjoyment and employment in the spring of nineteen hundred and ten."… Read more about this item

New York: Sales Promotion Department, Cannon Mills, Inc., no date, pre zipcode, circa 1950's. Original illustrated brochure measuring 9.5 inches by 35.75 inches, folded 5 times vertically to 9.5 inches by 6 forming 12 panels (1 blank.), printed on light card stock. Brief edge wear, lightly soiled & toned, otherwise very good. A nostalgic advertising piece which apparently precedes the… Read more about this item

Hollywood, California: Frederick's of Hollywood, volume 24, Issue No. 116, August 7, 1970. Octavo (9" x 6"), 48 pages, profusely illustrated from art work & photographs. Original pictorial, stapled paper wraps. Moderately toned, slight edge wear, mailing label on the lower cover, otherwise Very Good. Largely focusing on lingerie, this Frederick's catalog also features bikinis, shoes, wigs, "Orgy Butter," & even the… Read more about this item

New York City: Perry, Dame & Co., Catalog No. 62, 1915. Small quarto (10.25" x 7.5"), 128, [4], & [1] pages plus covers in color (the upper signed in print by W. Haskell Coffin), profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. The 4 unnumbered pages following page 128 provide ordering instructions & unused order blanks. Publisher's pictorial, stapled paper wraps. Couple… Read more about this item

St. Louis, [Missouri]: Roberts, Johnson & Rand, Branch of International Shoe Co., no date [1910]. 16mo, 12 pp. including covers, each page illustrated in red & black or by multi-color chromolithographs. Original die-cut pictorial, stapled paper wraps. The lower cover additionally promotes Geo. Weiler, presumably a retailer, of Hanover, Kansas. OCLC locates 3 copies as of 6/18/2023. Lightly rubbed & soiled,… Read more about this item

New York: Theo. H. Gary Co., 1921. Folded hair net wrapped in tissue enclosed in the original pictorial envelope. The envelope measures 4.5 inches by 5.75 inches. Envelope lighly toned, with slight edge wear, otherwise very good. The hair net enclosed is unused & seemingly as new. The envelope depicts a comely young woman against a pinkish-yellow background touching her bobbed hair.… Read more about this item

New York: Th. Lacombe, May 15, 1852. Printed & decorated paper wraps, sewn.. New York: Th. Lacombe, volume 1, number 1, "15 Mai, 1852." First & probably only edition. Quarto (11.5 x 8.25"), 12 pages printed in two columns plus covers. Original printed & decorated paper wraps, sewn. Text in French & English. OCLC finds a single copy at the New… Read more about this item

Boston: Oak Hall, 32 to 44 North Street, no date (1876 per OCLC). Twenty-fifth edition. 24mo (5.75" X 5"), 29 & [3] pages, with illustrations from woodcuts throughout. Publisher's pictorial paper wraps, sewn. Moderately soiled & toned, short split at spine, slight edge wear, otherwise very good. A clever promotional pamphlet told in verse & dedicated to the "juvenile patrons" of the… Read more about this item

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, 1910. First edition, one of 450 copies "for sale in Europe and the British Dominions," this out of series and unnumbered. Folio (14" x 11"), xix, 311, & [1] pages plus 127 plates of which 27 are in color. Publisher's bevel edged blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt Top edge gilt, the… Read more about this item

Paris: Belfond & Cie; Comite des Coiffeurs de Paris, 1892 First edition. 8vo, [2] pages of text followed by 62 lithographed plates by Westfield, concluding with a [2] page index. Contemporary marbled paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered green morocco, original illustrated wraps bound in. Text in French Spine faded to brown, edges moderately rubbed, hinge cracked at first blank… Read more about this item

New York & St. Louis: Pfeiffer Chemical Company, "Revised 1919." Brochure, single sheet measuring 8 inches by 19 inches folded three times vertically forming 8 panels of text. providing instructions for use in several languages, the first panel with illustrations of the product. Not found in OCLC as of 6/7/2023. Spurious vertical folds, soiled & stained (briefly obscuring text), modest… Read more about this item

Chicago: Stone-Field Corporation, 1955. Group of 115 wool (mostly) fabric swatches attached to 75 cards, with descriptive text (8" x 10.5"), promoting the company's line of products for the 1955 - 56 season, with approximately 71 pieces of related ephemera, contained within a hinged box (13" x 10" x 4") comprised of faux crushed black morocco over boards, with clasp… Read more about this item

Honolulu, Hawaii: Hardy Marks Publications, (1988). Reprint. 4to, 95, [1] pp illustrated throughout in color & black & white. Pictorial stiff paper wraps Brief wear at spine extremities & corners, otherwise very good Includes a chapter on "Punk Rock Tattooing"

Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, (2005). First edition. 4to, vii & 191 pp, profusely illustrated Publisher's tan cloth lettered in black & plum, in pictorial dust jacket. Small remainder mark at the bottom edge of the text block, otherwise fine in very good, lightly soiled dust jacket with slight edge wear. Published in conjunction… Read more about this item

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Pioneer Rubber Shoe Company/ Hood Rubber Co., January 2, 1918. 12mo, 48 pp, illustrated throughout (frequently duotone), with pricing. Original stapled, pictorial stiff paper wraps, with vignette engraving of the Hood factories on the lower cover Not found in OCLC as of 5/16/2020 Lightly soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise Near Fine. Presents a wide range of rubber footwear… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton & Dutton, printed by HW Whittemore & Co, Malden, Mass., no date (ca 1899) 8vo, unpaginated [34 pp plus covers], illustrated throughout, with pricing. Original pale pink, pictorial, stapled paper wraps. Not found in OCLC as of 4/18/2020. Slight edge wear, lightly soiled, otherwise Very Good Features corsets, dressing gowns, drawers, clothes for infants, etc as offered by… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Browning, King & Co, printed by Ferris Bros, New York, 1904. 12mo, unpaginated [32 pp & covers], illustrated (often in color), with pricing. Stapled pictorial paper wraps. Not in OCLC as of 12/23/2022 Lightly soiled, foxed & toned, trace edge wear, rubber stamp of "WM Crozier, Salesman" at title page, rear wrap, & 3 pages, otherwise very good. "Clothing… Read more about this item