We offer scarce and rare books, prints and photographs. Our books are mainly in the areas of architecture, decorative arts, modern design, illustrated books, textile design, fine press and typography.

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Featured Items

Box of Textile Swatches Knoll Associates, Inc. Knoll Associates, Inc. New York This is a very good cardboard container with 332 textile samples produced by Knoll during the late 1950's. The box itself, like other Knoll advertising and promotional work from this period, was desig.. more Price: $2,500.00 Masterpieces of Japanese Puppetry. Sculptured Heads of the Bunraku Theater Seijiro, Saito Charles E. Tuttle Rutland, Vermont/Tokyo 1958 This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with only light traces of wear. The jacket is virtually complete, a small chip out of the top of the spine. Otherwise very good. Completel.. more Price: $295.00