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(RUTHERSTON, ALBERT). Rutherston, Albert. London: Oxford University Press, 1928. First Edition 1/475. Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Fair/Fair. np, 16 collotype plates (10 in color), each with a printed overlay. The fourteen costume designs and two "curtain scenes" by Albert Rutherston included here date between 1912 and 1914 for two theatrical productions at the Savoy and St. James Theatres, as well as a ballet produced by Anna Pavlova in New York. A serviceable example only whose fragile dust jacket is present though chipped and torn in several places and showing significant paper loss to the rear panel along with moderate soiling, tape adhesive, and uneven staining from liquid on the front. Its boards are faded and worn bearing some mottling due to contact with liquid, particularly at the extremities. These condition flaws noted, the interior of the book (including all of the exquisitely colored plates) is remarkably clean, bright, and tight with only the front inside cover and endpaper having browned somewhat. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 000933

Ide, Yasushi. Tokyo: Treville, 1991. First Edition. 12mo. Illustrated Boards. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 75 color illustrations. Text in Japanese. This is a charming little compendium of jazz and lounge-themed album cover art culled from the author's own collection. The musical artists represented include Jackie Gleason, Dick Hyman, Wayne King, David Carroll, Johnny Gregory, Russ Morgan, Art Van Damme, Ray Anthony, Les Baxter, Gordon Jenkins, Richard Hayman, Joe Bushkin, The Norman Luboff Choir, Nelson Riddle, Melachrino, Eddie Calvert, Peter Yorke, Russ Columbo, Jay Jerome, Roger Williams, Earl Grant, Bert Kaempfert, Ray Sherman, Jack Pleis, The King Sisters, Paul Weston, Percy Faith, Wayne King, Lawrence Welk, Ken Griffin, Laurindo Almeida, Jan & Dean and the Satellites, Stan Kenton, Andre Popp, Henri Rene, Jerome Kern, Mantovani, Stanley Black, Hugo Winterhalter, The Three Suns, and Jesse Crawford. Hailing from an era when romance ruled, with titles like "Martini Time", "Music for Sippin', Music for Dancin'", "Blue Chiffon", "Black Satin", and "The Torch with the Blue Flame" and endless images of lovers doing a lot of drinking, smoking and gazing longingly - how could you go wrong? A most handsome example. 4-8457-0597-4 Inventory Number: 000918

(DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC, ANDRE). Roger-Marx, Claude. Geneva, SWITZERLAND: Pierre Cailler Editeur, 1951. First Edition. Large 4to. Illustrated Wrapper Over Board. Artist Monograph. Very Good -.. 180pp, profusely illustrated in b&w with 15 tipped color plates. Text in French. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This monograph on the noted French modernist painter Dunoyer de Segonzac is number twenty in Cailler's series "Peintres et Sculpteurs d'Hier et d'Aujourd 'hui". A handsome example whose wrappers are somewhat worn along the foredge resulting in several tiny tears along the edges of the front cover and at the top of the spine. Inventory Number: 000875

(McDERMOTT, DAVID & McGOUGH, PETER). Durant, Mark Alice, David McDermott & Peter McGough. Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 1998. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 143pp, 74 illustrations in color and b&w. This is the first monograph on the photographic work of the artist team of David McDermott & Peter McGough. With biting irony and an unmistakably camp sensibility, they have long mined the history of aesthetics as a means to illuminate the present condition of art and culture. The duo's portraits, nudes, still-lifes, and architectural pictures utilize archaic processes such as gum-bichromate, cyanotype, platinum palladium and salt printing - seeking a future through the past. A brand new, most handsome example of this beautifully produced book. 0-9657280-2-1 Inventory Number: 000415