The Danger of Misinterpretation

New York: Times Books in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 1987.First edition. Oblong 4to. 255 by 303mm. 128pp Unpaginated. 55 colour photographs. Text by Any Grundberg and Anne Wilkes Tucker, design by Elissa Ichiyasu and Mark LaRiviere. Original dove-grey cloth with spine lettered in silver. Title to upper cover in blind. Original colour photographic dust-jacket. A particularly nice, near fine copy of this collection of starkly archetypal images of everyday America. Sternfeld travelled across America on and off for eight years with a large format camera.

Vol. I. Containing the History and Description of Land Birds. Vol. II. Containing the History and Description of Water Birds.Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick. 1826. Attractive set of the birding classic Two volumes. Vol. I. Eighth edition. 8vo in 4s. (213x125mm). pp. xliv, 382. Vol. II. Sixth edition. pp. xxii, 432. Dark blue half calf, marbled paper boards. Spine decorated in gilt. Red morocco labels lettered in gilt. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Rubbing to extremities but otherwise in excellent condition and internally very good with only modest foxing and browning in places.

New York:. 1935. Promotional prospectus for the Fashion Academy at 16 East 52nd Street, New York. 192x125mm. pp. 48. Illustrated throughout with art deco colour fashion plates and one pochoir pastedown image. Decorated art deco style cover and endpapers. Some rubbing and wear but overall a very nice copy and internally very good. The Fashion Academy was operated under the direction of Emil Avil Hartman and ran a series of courses on fashion and costume design. This fascinating little book was published as an annual prospectus and so is quite uncommon.

London Penguin Books. 2006. Beautiful edition of an infamous classic, designed and signed by Sir Paul Smith Limited edition. No. 78/1000. Signed by Sir Paul Smith on title page. 245x170mm. pp. xxxvi, 364. Publisher's purple cloth with white lettering to spine and front cover. Textile dust jacket with embroidery to spine, front and back covers. Front and back pastedown and free endpapers printed with botanical illustrations in purple ink. Text printed in purple ink. In excellent condition throughout. To mark their 60th anniversary, Penguin commissioned notable British creatives to design new editions of five classic texts.

New York: The Viking Press. 1980. What if Carrie had kids? First edition. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper. 242x163mm. pp.[14], 428 [2bl]. Quarter red cloth, black paper covered boards. Red and gold lettering to spine and front cover. Slight rubbing to cloth spine. Original dust jacket, price clipped. Dust jacket has slight chipping to foot of spine and two tears to top edge of back cover and a repaired closed tear to bottom edge of back cover. Internally very good but with a small mark at foot of pp. 1-10.

New York:. 1938. Promotional prospectus for the Fashion Academy at 16 East 52nd Street, New York. 198x130mm. pp. 44. Illustrated throughout with colour fashion plates and one pochoir pastedown image. Decorated covers with an embossed gilded label pasted on upper cover. Illustrated endpapers with gold fashion silhouettes. The fashion plates are mostly of historic designs. Some rubbing and wear and internally there is some marking and slight staining but overall a nice copy. The Fashion Academy was operated under the direction of Emil Avil Hartman and ran a series of courses on fashion and costume design.