Pearl Binder (123 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have condition issues including wear and notes/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. First. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. First. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Complete DJ with some edge wear and light fading.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in black buckram, sans DW; previous owners book plate affixed to front paste down; news-paper clipping taped to obverse of ffep.; black & white and color photos; 127pp. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Published In The U.S. In 1970 By Franklin Watts. First Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Color Iillustrated Dj In Plastic Cover Taped To Boards. Hardcover Has Green Cloth Boards With Light Edgewear On Spine Top And Bottom. Library Sticker On Spine And Date Due Tag On Endsheet. Prev. Owners Name On Stamp On Flyleaf Page Corner. The End Pages Are Decorated With Chinese Theatre Face Paintings By Pearl Binder, Who Also Illustrated The Story. Unclipped Dust Jacket Has Original Price. Charming And Colorful Illustrations. Unpaginated. In Protective Mylar. Free Of Any Markings, Nice Clean Ex-Library. Copy. ; Approx. Size: 8 1/2" X 11 1/4" Tall. Binder, Pearl (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. This hardcover edition is in fair condition, showing signs of its previous life as a library book. The cover is intact but lacks a dust jacket, and there is a library sticker on the spine. Inside, the pages are clean, with a personal inscription from the author. The binding remains solid, ensuring durability for continued use. unknown (no dust jacket visible).…

hardcover. Condition: Good. hardcover book with dustjacket, light wear to dustjacket and to pages .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A stimulating, world wide account of the magic symbols of the common people in all their resourceful, unbounded and audacious imagination. With chapters on the symbols of fertility, gods as symbols, magic protection of body, dwelling, family, and livelihood; death and after life, and more. …

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Writing inside. Review of the book paperclipped to front endpage. (England, Great Britain, Manners, Customs).

Condition: New. Binder, Professor Pearl (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. slight fox ins cvr, slight tear bott sp.

Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st ed. 1st ed. US, 4to picture book, full green cloth, with line drawings and lovely color plates by Pearl Binder. Fine in near fine, unclipped dj with short closed tear at top edge. Binder, Pearl (illustrator).

Condition: New. Binder, Professor Pearl (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover, presumed first, undated but likely 1954. Lilac cloth boards with faded gilt titles on spne. Some shelf and edgewear, more pronounced at bottom left hand corner of front. Interior fine. Pearl Binder (1904-1990), later Baroness Elwyn-Jones, was a British writer, illustrator, lithographer, stained-glass artist, sculptor, and lifelong champion of the Pearly Kings and Queens of London's East End. Her other books include The Peacock's Tail, Dressing Up, Dressing Down, Magic Symbols of the World, and The Pearlies: A Social Record. She both wrote and illustrated Muffs and Morals, a combination that gives the book a particularly unified character. Muffs and Morals was published by George G. Harrap and Co. of London in 1953, with an American edition issued by William Morrow. It runs to 256 pages and is illustrated throughout with eleven half-tone plates and eighty-three line drawings by the author. The binding is found in both pink and purple cloth, with gilt lettering to the spine. The American Morrow edition is undated. The book is described on its dust jacket as a frank and stimulating account of dress and fashion — male and female, military and civilian — in relation to moral standards and social developments from ancient Egypt to present-day Korea. The argument running through the book is that clothing has never been merely practical or aesthetic but has always functioned as a register of social anxiety, moral aspiration, and the exercise of power — that what people wear and what they are permitted to wear tells us as much about a society's values and hierarchies as any other form of evidence. Binder pursues this thesis across a wide chronological range and a deliberately eclectic selection of subjects. The chapter list gives a fair sense of the breadth and tone: Decency and Indecency in Dress; Male Coquetry; The Dress and the Job; Beards and Moustaches; Cosmetics and Patches; Hairdressing and Wigs; Foundations and Underwear; Jewellery and Clothes; Sumptuary Laws: Extremes and Encroachments; Umbrellas, Walking-sticks and Fans; Children and Their Clothes; Who Sets the Fashion?; and The Influence of the East. The chapter on beards draws on the full range of Victorian pogonophilia, including a letter by Charles Dickens eulogising his own beard with what one reviewer described as an ardour more appropriate to a romantic attachment. The chapter on sumptuary laws examines the long history of legislative attempts to enforce social distinctions through dress — the regulation of who might wear silk, fur, or particular colours — and the consistent failure of those attempts in the face of human vanity and aspiration. The Spectator, reviewing the first edition, described it as a richly amusing book whose study of the interrelation of dress and decency had an intriguing relevance quite apart from its excellent entertainment value. The tone throughout is sharp, witty, and unsentimental — the work of someone who takes her subject seriously without taking herself too seriously, and whose illustrations carry their own dry commentary on the text they accompany.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Burlap-covered boards with paper spine label. No.345 of 550 copies. Color illustrations. Boards dust-soiled and toned around the edges. A tight, VG copy. Pearl Binder (illustrator).

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. General wear to boards. Light toning to pages with spotting.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book is in fine condition with a near fine dust jacket. Black cloth board. Pages all bright and clean.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. slight wear to bottom edges of cover, library marks, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: library sticker to spine. Due to weight extra may apply to any quoted postage Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex Library.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. minimal library marks endpapers, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: library sticker spine. Due to weight extra may apply to any quoted international postage Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex Library.