Robsjohn Gibbings (45 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 6th printing. Binding tight, interior clean and bright. Gray boards lightly soiled, bumped to corners and spine ends. Gilt lettering on spine, rubbed at spine ends. Humorous and biting attack on the interior design trends of the day, by a renowned design guru. 106 pages, not including suggested reading. Petty, Mary (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Clean tight book. Dust jacket has chunks missing, but mostly intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. Bound in green cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Edge wear. Some spotting.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Missing dust jacket. Acceptable Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, illustrated by Mary Petty, first and second printing before publication, 106 pgs., last couple of pages uncut. Pages clean, bound in light green cloth, and wrapped in a very good dust jacket. A couple tiny edge tears at top and back edges of jacket. A nice copy. Mary Petty (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket (architecture, domestic, humor).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 4th printing. A crisp book with owner's tiny blind stamp and inscription, otherwise contents clean. With some minor light soiling on the covers that are hidden under a bright facsimile jacket. Humorous and biting attack on the interior design trends of the day, by a renowned design guru. Mary Petty (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. A Borzoi book. Former owner's signatures on inside front flap. Age toning on boards and inside board/pages. Dj is price-clipped. Edges of wrappers are worn, chipped and spotted. Petty's illustrations bright and clear on wrapper and throughout. Author photo on back of dj. Mary Petty (illustrator).…

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. A funny and fundamentally serious criticism of American interior design by one of it's masters. Book has a bold owner's signature, otherwise is fine under a bright jacket with small chips at spine ends and right corner, one chip and creasing to the back panel. An attractive copy, crisp and clean, of a stated first edition. Mary Petty (illustrator).…

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, vi, 113 pages. In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine black with red lettering. Exterior has moderate plus wear including slight soiling, few instances of chips to the head tail edges and slight age toning. Boards have modest wear including slight foxing and minor whitish marks to the head/tail edges. Text block has head edge colored red and slight age toning to the fore/tail edges. Slight foxing to the end papers. Frontispiece. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column M, ND-M. 1386585. FP New Rockville Stock. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Sixth printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear on the boards. Foxing on the boards and edges. Owner's name on the front free page. Text is clean. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Mary Petty. Several pages with red pencil scoring in the margins, endpapers and boards with modest tanning, very good in a slightly tanned about very good dust jacket with light soil, a scratch on the rear panel and modest edgewear. A humorous but serious criticism of interior decoration and exterior architecture in early 20th century America.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edn, 4th printing, toning around covers (no dj), signed by author on frp, drawings by Mary Petty, classic statement on design. Good copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 110 Pp. Including 2 Pp Suggested Readings At Rear. Hardcover. First Edition Stated. An Intelligent, Well-Written Survey Of Modern Interior Design And Decoration Without Deference To The Witless.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. Stamped on rear pastedown. (Domestic Architecture, Interior Decoration, Humor).

Ex-library, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover with dustjacket and protective plastic overwrap; 112 pages; very good condition, light staining to browned dj; pages toned; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED; Good or better hardcover, minor fading to spine, 8vo, 265 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Grn cloth cover with blue and gilt spine label; owners stick on fep; few pages toned; DJ is not price clipped, has chips on spine and corners, back half missing, in mylar sleeve; No marks or writing, clean tight binding;; A humorous study of the artists from their work their personal writings, their critics and devoteesl witty discussions of artists and schools of painting and architeture from Rossetti through Dali; b/w photos;; 365 pages. …

959.T. H. ROBSJOHN GIBBINGS 1945 GOOD BYE MR. CHIOPOPENDALE. 106PP. HARD COVER NO DUST JACKET. HARD COVER GOOD CONDITION (BS-88).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Eighth Printing. Address sticker inside bottom of front board, tiny bump top front tip of boards, gift inscription on second free endpaper, dustcover in two pieces with shipping, rubbing, one inside page once folded and still has multiple creases; Clean beige linen covered hardboards with gilt over rose on spine, clean, no other markings, solid and straight, ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 106 pages. Illustrated by Mary Petty (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Envelope addressed to Nicholson from Viscount, nothing inside Nicholson bookplate glued in. Robsjohn-Gibbings (illustrator).

unknown_binding. Condition: Good. Hardcover Book, Good condition but not perfect, Cover has minor nicks and tears, spine shows some creases from use. Ask Questions and request photos if your buying for the cover and not the content. Items are uploaded with their own individual photo, but when Multiple Items are for sale only one representative photo may be shown. Actual Photos are availible upon request. Fast Shipping - Safe and Secure.…

Condition: Acceptable.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A sharp and influential mid-century critique of modern art and aesthetic theory, Mona Lisa's Mustache represents architect and cultural polemicist T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings at his most incisive. Written with wit and intellectual force, the book challenges Surrealism, abstraction, and occultist tendencies in modern culture, engaging figures such as Rossetti, Kandinsky, Picasso, Blavatsky, and Dalí. The work became a touchstone for postwar debates on taste, classicism, and cultural authority. This copy is Near Fine overall. The cloth remains clean and well-colored with only the faintest signs of handling; corners sharp, spine square, and binding firm. Internally, the pages are clean and bright with light, neat pencil annotations and underlining that do not obscure text or interfere with readability. Of particular note are period handwritten notes on the front pastedown referencing Emma Goldman (1869-1940) and Wilhelm Reich (orgone theory) - thoughtful study notes that align thematically with the book's critique of mysticism, psychology, and modern ideological movements. Stated FIRST EDITION on the copyright page, with Borzoi colophon; first printing, 1947. T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings (1905-1976) was a British-born architect, designer, and cultural critic known for his vigorous defense of classical aesthetics and his opposition to modernist trends. Educated at Oxford, he later worked extensively in the United States, influencing architecture, interior design, and popular debates on taste. His writings, including Mona Lisa's Mustache, remain influential critiques of modern art's philosophical and cultural foundations.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. First. Fine like new copy. Large or heavy book and may require extra postage. No overseas postage for these books for AMAZON. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Tan cloth over boards with gold lettering over a red background on the spine. Cloth is discolored around all edges -- perhaps from some earlier spill or stain, but it doesn't quite carry over to the endpapers. DJ is toned and worn around the edges, with multiple tears along the spine, which some unfortunate soul has tried to repair with tape. Title and copyright pages dated 1944. Stated first edition. 106 pages. Previous owner's bookplate neatly affixed inside front cover. Textblock strong, interiors clean and unmarked. This copy may be rough around the edges, but is still a true first edition, and perfectly readable. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ROBSJOHN-GIBBINGS, T.H. (1903-1976) was a British-born architect and furniture designer. [265] pp. Alfred A. Knopf 1947 First Edition 8 5/8" x 5 7/8" Jacket drawing by Mary Petty In Good-bye, Mr. Chippendale, Robsjohn-Gibbings skewered the antiques craze and praised modern design. It follows that he would prefer conceptual modern art to traditional. He does not at least in this book, which is consistently more humorous and fun than it is lacerating. In it, he accuses Dali, Kandinsky, et al. to be engaged in a vast conspiracy against no less a principle than democracy itself. In a twist worthy of The Da Vinci Code, Robsjohn-Gibbings seeks to expose a clandestine society whose mission is to make art incomprehensible by replacing it with primitive art and sorcery. "Schiaparelli designed a hat like a leg of mutton, and one like an old shoe. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes wore both, butwith superb restraintseparately." --T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. ROBSJOHN-GIBBINGS, T.H. [106] pp. Alfred A. Knopf 1944 Third Printing 8 3/4" x 5 7/8" Illustrated by Mary Petty Jacket in full colors by Mary Petty As World War II claimed the lives of millions, the noted modernist interior designer launched a crusade against the real threat to the civilized world: Elsie de Wolfe, Syrie Maugham, and their obsession with antique furniture. With great wit, Robsjohn-Gibbings questions the centuries-old notion that antiques are more desirable than newly designed furniture, skewering Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Sheraton, and etc. He goes so far as to declare Harry K. Thaw a hero for murdering Stanford White, because it prematurely terminated the career of this celebrated Beaux Arts architect. Hilarious but also informative. Palm Beach was the last big production number of the Gilded Age. --T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings.…