Introduction Design, Signed (17 results)

Condition: Good. Signed Copy . Good dust jacket. Signed/Inscribed by J. Stuart Hunter on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Third Impression. Inscription reads: "To Jayn S. Buckley, with good wishes from Christopher (A.J.) Young 20th April 68." Jacket has tear, creases, bumps, scuffs. Pages toned. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Book is clean with a square, tight binding and bright, white pages. Book has minor wear on the edges that is difficult to see in the scans. Book is inscribed by author to his brother-in-law on the FEP and there is a former owner's name on the pastedown as well as remnants a two pieces of tape. Experimental design is a challenging subject. It demands and provokes serious inquiry among persons who aspire mastery of it. The book you see in the images is the actual book we have for sale. Why pay more? When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick and mortar family owned store. We have been curating our collection for three generations and currently have over 250,000 volumes in stock. Please feel free to call for more stock. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Spine darkened. From the library of the poet David Gascoyne, with the Gascoyne library book-label and inscribed by the translator on the title-page, "David - on your 75th birthday - Love, Tony"; translator's autograph correction on p.[iii]. Inscribed by Author(s).

8vo. pp x, 348. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Presentation from the author on the front endpaper (without a signature), "To Prof. L. Finkelstein, with kind regards, by the author." ISBN: 0198563205 Very good plus in slightly sunned, very good dust jacket.

black full cloth hardcover 4to ~ 4º (quarto ~ 8"x11"). large "coffee table" book, international or priority shipping may cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. faint 1cm smudge on front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking (save author's signature), underlining, remainder markings etc~. 7th printing (#7 in # line). SIGNED with a personalized dated inscription (To Jim) on the dedication page by the author. tutone endpaper maps. b&w photo frontis & title pg. xiv+133p. b&w photo illustrations throughout. almost every page illustrated. 2 appendices. architecture. engineering. history of michigan. american history. art history. ~ In 1958, the Mackinac Bridge was described as the "finest, safest, and most beautiful bridge the world has ever seen." The description is still accurate. It was also then described as the longest suspension bridge in the world. This is still true despite the fact that the Golden Gate Bridge, the Verrazano~Narrows Bridge, and the soon~to~be completed Humber Bridge in England have longer center spans. The Mackinac Bridge, with its total suspension span length of 8,344 feet from anchor block to anchor block, remains unchallenged. This is the picture story of its building. From the beginning in May of 1954 every phase of construction was photographed. Under the auspices of the Mackinac Bridge Authority, its photographer, the late Herman Ellis, and his assistants, Harold Bell and Mickey Duggan, took some 3,000 black and white photographs and 1,000 color transparencies, covering in detail the building of the bridge. In addition, another 14,000 feet of 16 mm film was shot for motion picture documentary purposes. With few exceptions the pictures are from the official black and white photographs. Governing the selection of each picture was its visual descriptiveness, its human interest, and its contributions to the construction history of the bridge as a whole.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Muy bien. (Ilustradores. Retratos. Caricaturas). San Francisco, Pomegranate, 2002. 1 h. 86 p. 2 h. Ilustraciones en color. 4º menor. Cartoné editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Muy buen ejemplar. En inglés. Dedicatoria y firma autógrafa del autor. Dedicatoria autógrafa del autor.

Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Peter de Sève (illustrator). First Edition. SIGNED & EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with an ORIGINAL DRAWING of "SCRAT" chasing an acorn (from ICE AGE) on the half title, folio (12 1/4" x 11"), orange boards with white lettering on spine, Introduction by Amid Amidi, Foreword by Chris Wedge, profusely illustrated with color and B&W illustrations by the brilliant artist, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting an elephant precariously balanced on the artist's head, pictorial endpapers with characters drawn by de Sève, [i-vi] + 7-239 numbered pages + [240-241]. ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT ILLUSTRATIONS! "In this exquisite monograph, world-renowned illustrator and character designer Peter de Sève shows his favorite published and unpublished works. Inventive, eccentric, and often irreverent, they represent a lifetime of drawing . . . a very sketchy past."--blurb. Peter de Sève is an American artist who has worked brilliantly in the illustration and animation fields. He has drawn many covers for the magazine The New Yorker. As a character designer, he worked on the wonderfull characters of A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo, Robots, the four ICE AGE films (including SCRAT), and on the main animal character E.B. (voiced by Russell Brand) in the 2011 Easter themed comedy film Hop. Most recently, he designed the characters for Arthur Christmas, for which he was nominated for Annie Award. He received the National Cartoonists Society Magazine Illustration Award for 2000.--Wikipedia (adapted). SIGNED & WITH AN ORIGINAL SKETCH of SCRAT! EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! (We note one small bump atop of the boards.).

Condition: Sehr gut. ERSTAUSGABE. 60 Tafeln. Mit Schwarz-Weiß- Abbildungen. SEHR gutes Exemplar der ERSTAUSGABE. Auf der Titelseite SIGNIERT mit WIDMUNG von GASSER " für ELLIS KAUT Casole d' Elsa 27.6.86. " ( zu ELLIS KAUT, ebenfalls Fotografin und Autorin des "Pumuckl", vgl. Wikipedia) Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200 Originalleinen mit Original-Schutzumschlag. 32 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Hardcover, no dustjacket, inscribed, signed and dated by the author: "For David George Moyer from Donald Fletcher July 27.53." No significant flaws to this scarce volume, "For beginners in architecture, this book offers a systematic introduction to design"; 212 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. 322p octavo, illustrated. A very fine unread copy in like dust jacket enclosed in publisher's wood slipcase. 1/50 lettered copies this copy W and signed by 42 authors/editors/artists including Robert McCammon, Elizabeth Saunders, Michael Bishop, P J Meacham who did the tipped in the signed frontispiece. Laid in is also a signed bookplate of McCammon not called for. McCammon has also signed the signature page as called for.

First Edition, First Printing. Signed in gold ink by fashion designer Zandra Rhodes. Oversize format, 8 1/2Ó x 11 7/8Ó, 207 pages. Hardcover with original hot pink printed wrap-around band. As new. Beautifully illustrated throughout. From the publisher: ÒDame Zandra Rhodes is a British fashion designer and the founder of the Fashion and Textile Museum, London. Her designs have graced the wardrobes of Diana Ross, Debbie Harry, Freddie Mercury, Princess Diana, and Princess Anne. Her work can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of ArtÕs Costume department, New York; the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York; and the Fashion and Textile Museum, London.Ó With many photos of her other well-known fans wearing her designs, including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Ali McGraw, Bianca Jagger, and Ms. Rhodes, herself.

First Edition. Quarto (20.2 cm wide x 29 cm high). 119 pages, illustrated throughout. Original, illustrated Softcover. Absolutely stunning, near mint condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed / Inscribed by Eric Pearce on the titlepage. Extremely rare publication ! This amazing publication includes for example the following sections: Christmas Cards [Designed by Patrick Scott] / Felt Banners [Designed by Patrick Scott] / Resin-Coated Windows [Designed by Patrick Scott] / ROSC Posters [Designed by Patrick Scott] / Silk Scarf [Designed by Patrick Scott] / Wall Hangings [Designed by Patrick Scott] / Exhibitions & Collections / Select Bibliography Patrick Scott (24 January 1921 14 February 2014) was an Irish artist. Patrick Scott was born in Kilbrittain, County Cork, in 1921, and had his first exhibition in 1944, but trained as an architect and did not become a full-time artist until 1960. He worked for fifteen years for the Irish architect Michael Scott, assisting, for example, in the design of Busáras, the central bus station in Dublin. He was also responsible for the black and orange livery of Irish intercity trains. Scott was perhaps best known for his gold paintings, abstracts incorporating geometrical forms in gold leaf against a pale tempura background. He also produced tapestries and carpets. His paintings are in several important collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He won the Guggenheim Award in 1960, represented Ireland in the 1960 Venice Biennale, the Douglas Hyde Gallery held a major retrospective of his work in 1981 and the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin held a major survey in 2002. His works are distinguished by their purity and sense of calm, reflecting his interest in Zen Buddhism. In October 2013, Scott wed his companion of 30 years, Eric Pearce, in a civil ceremony at the Dublin Registry Office. On 11 July 2007, Scott, who was a founding member of Aosdána, was conferred with the title of Saoi, the highest honour that can be bestowed upon an Irish artist. The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, made the presentation, placing a gold torc, the symbol of the office of Saoi, around his neck. No more than seven living members may hold this honour at any one time. Scott died on 14 February 2014 at the age of 93. He was survived by his partner. In January 2021 An Post issued a special stamp featuring Scott's work for the centenary of his birth. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.

Phaidon Press. 1974. First edition. Large 4to hardback in original protective plain beige wrapper. Bound in full tan calf gilt, very slightly rubbed to corners. LIMITED EDITION OF 150, this being number 110. Contains inside the front cover, within an envelope, a sterling silver, hallmarked medallion of Guy the gorilla's head, designed originally by Wynne to raise funds in order to preserve areas where wild gorillas lived. The sculture of Guy at London Zoo was one of Wynne's first public works. SIGNED presentation copy from Wynne, " For James, with love and affection and many, many thanks for May 1980. David Wynne." with drawing of dove. Pages browned otherwise a lovely clean copy of a very scarce item. David Wynne is remembered for his sculptures of The Beatles, The Royals and Guy the Gorilla! He was helped in his career by Jacob Epstein.

Folio (42 x 27 cm.). [104] S. mit 43 Tafeln in Sheet-fed gravure. Illustr. Orig.-Leinenband mit Klarsichtschutzumschlag in illustr. Pappkassette. Auer 422. Heiting/Kaneko 368 f., 279. The Open Book 194 f. Parr/Badger I, 280 f. (mit mehreren Abb.). Roth, The Book of 101 Books 164 ff. - Erste Ausgabe, das wohl wichtigste japanische Fotobuch der 60er Jahre. - Von E. Hosoe und Y. Mishima im Impressum signiert. Eines von 1500 num. Exemlaren. - "Eikoh Hosoe's first edition of Killed By Roses is so splendidly packaged that just opening it is a plearure - and the seduction doesn't stop there. Within a black-and-white cardboard case printed an both sides with photos of carved pendants in thick chains and a fine shower of text is a glossy color cover featuring a photogram of symbolic elements plucked from Hosoe's hallucinatory narrative, the title superimposed in classical Greek lettering. . The photos that make up the body of the book are inky, sometimes high-constrast gravures that bleed right to the edge of the page and often extend across the entire open spread, given extra impact to images that are already quite arresting. Even if the subject of Hosoe's photographs weren't zje author Yushi Mishima, the book would be remarkable for its humid mix of eroticism and myth, queer kitsch and high art" (A. Roth). - "Both Japanese editions of Barakei (Killed by Roses) are significant, not only because of the remarkable collaboration between Eikoh Hosoe and Yukio Mishima, but also because they were designed by the two most influential Japanese graphic designers of the postwar years - the first edition by Kohei Sugiura and the second by Tadanori Yokoo. Each is an original working of the material in its own right, and the second, one of the most complex bookworks ever made, also memorializes a definingmoment in Japanese culture. . In his preface to the first edition, Mishima was equally disingenous: 'One day without warning, Eikoh Hosoe appeared before me, and transported me bodily to a strange world.' That world, he continued, was 'abnormal, warped, sarcastic, grotesque, savage, and promiscuous'. Mishima allowed Hosoe unprecedented directorial freedom, but as in other such close collaborations between photographer and subject, just who had the ultimate control is open to question. What emerged was a series of extraordinary theatrical tableaux - Japanese surrealism meets Italien mannerism - that certainly contributed to the iconicity of Mishima, the samurai saviour of the country's soul. Hosoe's images were baroque, kitsch, frequently sadomasochistic, disturbingly narcissistic and clearly homoerotic, despite the presence of women in a number of the pictures" (Parr/Badger). - Die Kassette teils stärker berieben, der Acetat-Schutzumschlag am Kapital etwas eingerissen, gutes Exemplar. Sprache: japanisch.

Folio (42 x 27 cm.). [104] S. mit 43 Tafeln in Sheet-fed gravure, 2 gefalt. Beilagen u. Orig.-Rechnung für einen dänischen Kunden des Verlags vom 18. August 1964. Illustr. OLn. mit Orig.-Baubinde ("Obi") u. Klarsichtschutzumschlag in illustr. Orig.-Pappkassette. Auer 422. Heiting/Kaneko 368 f., 279. The Open Book 194 f. Parr/Badger I, 280 f. (mit mehreren Abb.). Roth, The Book of 101 Books 164 ff. - Erste Ausgabe, das wohl wichtigste japanische Fotobuch der 60er Jahre. - Von E. Hosoe und Y. Mishima im Impressum signiert. Eines von 1500 num. Exemlaren. - "Eikoh Hosoe's first edition of Killed By Roses is so splendidly packaged that just opening it is a plearure - and the seduction doesn't stop there. Within a black-and-white cardboard case printed an both sides with photos of carved pendants in thick chains and a fine shower of text is a glossy color cover featuring a photogram of symbolic elements plucked from Hosoe's hallucinatory narrative, the title superimposed in classical Greek lettering. . The photos that make up the body of the book are inky, sometimes high-constrast gravures that bleed right to the edge of the page and often extend across the entire open spread, given extra impact to images that are already quite arresting. Even if the subject of Hosoe's photographs weren't zje author Yushi Mishima, the book would be remarkable for its humid mix of eroticism and myth, queer kitsch and high art" (A. Roth). - "Both Japanese editions of Barakei (Killed by Roses) are significant, not only because of the remarkable collaboration between Eikoh Hosoe and Yukio Mishima, but also because they were designed by the two most influential Japanese graphic designers of the postwar years - the first edition by Kohei Sugiura and the second by Tadanori Yokoo. Each is an original working of the material in its own right, and the second, one of the most complex bookworks ever made, also memorializes a definingmoment in Japanese culture. . In his preface to the first edition, Mishima was equally disingenous: 'One day without warning, Eikoh Hosoe appeared before me, and transported me bodily to a strange world.' That world, he continued, was 'abnormal, warped, sarcastic, grotesque, savage, and promiscuous'. Mishima allowed Hosoe unprecedented directorial freedom, but as in other such close collaborations between photographer and subject, just who had the ultimate control is open to question. What emerged was a series of extraordinary theatrical tableaux - Japanese surrealism meets Italien mannerism - that certainly contributed to the iconicity of Mishima, the samurai saviour of the country's soul. Hosoe's images were baroque, kitsch, frequently sadomasochistic, disturbingly narcissistic and clearly homoerotic, despite the presence of women in a number of the pictures" (Parr/Badger). - Die Kassette etwas berieben, der Acetat-Schutzumschlag um unteren Rand mit kl. Läsuren, vord. Innengelenk minimal angeplatzt, sehr gutes Exemplar mit der fast immer fehlenden Orig.-Bauchbinde. - First edition, probably the most important Japanese photo book of the 60s. - Signed by E. Hosoe and Y. Mishima in the imprint. One of 1500 num. Copies. - The box somewhat rubbed, the acetate dust jacket around the lower edge with small tears, the front inner hinge minimally chipped, a very good copy with the almost always missing original belly band. Sprache: japanisch.

4°. Porträt, 254 S., 1 nn. Bl., mit zahlreichen, teils farbigen Abbildungen. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag, (Ecken etwas gestaucht, Umschlag minimal unfrisch). Erste Ausgabe. - Mit einer 5-zeiligen Widmung Hermann Zapfs auf dem Vortitel. Impressum signiert. - Interessante Übersicht über das Schaffen des bedeutendsten deutschen Typografen Hermann Zapf (1918-2015), der bis 1986 175 verschiedene Schriften schuf. - Sehr gutes Exemplar.