robsjohn gibbings (45 resultados)

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

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

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

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Petty, Mary Ilustrador. 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.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Clean tight book. Dust jacket has chunks missing, but mostly intact.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First. Light smudging, browning of hardboards, light shelfwear, former owner's name inside; Clean and solid VG-; 9.3 X 6.3 X 0.7 inches; 113 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Mary Petty Ilustrador. 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.

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

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Mary Petty Ilustrador. 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.

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

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good Plus. Mary Petty Ilustrador. 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.

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.

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. Condición: 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.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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 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.

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

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

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Mary Petty. Ilustrador. 1st Edition. 113 pp, Book/dust jacket condition: Fine (light soilng; minimal foxing inside back board; else fine)/na (missing). Mary Petty. All orders are processed and shipped from MI or WI, USA.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Illustrated by Mary Petty Ilustrador. 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.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Robsjohn-Gibbings Ilustrador. Envelope addressed to Nicholson from Viscount, nothing inside Nicholson bookplate glued in.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. 1st Edition. Blue & green covers in a Mary Petty illustrated dust jacket. 8vo, 265 pages. The dust jacket is tattered & torn - but not the whimsical Mary Petty illustration.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good in Protector. Mary Petty Ilustrador. First. A witty critical look at American Architecture & interior decoration with brilliant cartoons by Mary Petty. See our modern firsts catalogue no 3 @ abe for other titles.

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. Condición: Fine Like New. 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. Condición: Fair. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. Knopf, 1954. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine No Dust Jacket Petty, Mary (illustrator). Stated First.Now in mylar cover.