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Image for [Faux Books] Deskset Set of Six Faux Books, with a classic Art Deco period bucolic cottage image spanning all the spines, and a dedicated bookrest for the set

[Faux Books] Deskset Set of Six Faux Books, with a classic Art Deco period bucolic cottage image spanning all the spines, and a dedicated bookrest for the set

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston, Dennison Mfg. Company:

Seller ID: 004429

Binding: Paper pastedown on card stock boxes

Condition: Near Fine

Handsome desk set of faux books! N.d., circa 1940-1942, based on the quintessential image, one represented in paper catalogues of that date. Each volume is a miniature, measuring 6 by 4 cm. The bookcase is 14.5 cm across, 7.5 cm tall and 7 cm deep. Each faux book box is given a volume number and title: Vol. I, Gummed Labels, Vol. II, Rubber Bands, Vol. III, Gummed Patches, Vol. IV, Key Tags, Vol. V, Paper Clips, and Vol. VI, Stamp Container. The boxes open like matchbooks, and all of them are full with what appears their original content other than the Gummed Patches and Stamp Container ...
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Miniature Boncilla Trade Catalogue/Promotion

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, Indiana, Boncilla Laboratories, Inc.:

Seller ID: 004772

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Delightful cosmetics and health products trade promotion from the 1920s. (No exact date.) Diminutive, oblong, 7 by 7.5 cm. Unpaginated, 28 pp., plus wraps. Virtually every other page with color illustrations, and color decoration on text pages. Two page color plate in center, capturing perfectly the Art Deco style of the period. A miniscule edge tear. Otherwise, pristine.
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[Sales Promotion] Art Deco Paint Color Advertisement

By: N/A

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Celle, Germany, Chr. Hostmann Steinberg'sche Farben Fabriken G.M.B.H.:

Seller ID: 005165

Binding: NA

Condition: Fine

A high Art Deco sales promotion for paint colors. 27.5 by 19 cm. Depicted in a highly stylized illustration is a Deco tower with trees in the foreground, and a kiosk in the center. The ad's text is as follows: "Plakat-Farben von eminenter, beständiger Leuchtkraft ein Erfolg besonderer fachmännischer Bemühungen".
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[Trade Catalogue] Cent Ans ou Quelques Réflexions sur la Collection Particulière

By: N/A

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Paris, Hermès: 1928

Seller ID: 005560

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Beautiful promotion, with original stylized artwork, for Hermes! Oozing luxury and a sleek Art Deco sensibility. 4to. 27 by 20.5 cm. 42, [2] pp. Featured are the company's equestrian tack, women's handbags, other sporting equipment and clothing Marbled papers cover boards. Light wear to boards. Clean within.
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[Saleman's Sample Album] Méry Hungarian Industry-Arts Budapest

By: N/A

Price: $1,750.00

Seller ID: 005145

Binding: Hardcover. String ties.

Condition: Very Good

Probably a salesman's sample album showing original designs for napkins or handkerchiefs, all with decorative, generally colorful and representational artwork. N.d., circa 1930s. Oblong album, 29 by 34 cm. 17 samples, including the one on the front cover, and one sample which is essentially repeated, with minor variations. Stylistically there is considerable variety, from folk art-ish and cartoon-ish to more fluid and fluent Art Deco stylized imagery. We don't know whether Méry was the artist or the name of the company, or both, but clearly these are samples of commercial artwork. That ...
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Renault. L'Automobile de France

By: N/A

Price: $850.00

Publisher: Paris, Draeger: 1932

Seller ID: 005385

Binding: Metal spiral. Card stock boards, with silver foil

Condition: Near Fine

With its silver foil pictorially embossed cover and bold interior graphics, an unusually striking automobile catalogue or sales brochure -- even by comparison with other catalogues of the same era, when glossy and resplendent catalogues were something of a norm. One can fairly liken this car brochure to the spectacular sales annuals created by Hollywood studios at the time, Also scarce, with no copies located on OCLC. Folio, 31.5 by 23.5 cm. Unpaginated, [28] pp, with fold-out centerfold, a four page spread, showcasing the Stella car. Profusely illustrated, with a combination of partial...
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[Trade Catalogue] The Montjoy's Pen

By: N/A

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Barcelona, Graficos Casamajo:

Seller ID: 005788

Binding: Mid-weight card. Staples and tacks.

Condition: Very Good

Art Deco panache from the heyday of sleek fountain pens, featuring the Spanish-made Montjoy. N.d., circa 1920s. Folio, 31 by 24 cm. 9 glossy leaves, each following the title with a color image of the pens and pen sets. These color plates are a composite of photo imaging and illustration. We believe that the designer worked off of photos, but with his original work created something with a distinctly soft lens effect and that is definitely something other than a photo. The first of these plates features five colorfully sheathed fountain pens. The following plates showcase desk sets, with...
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Charles & Co. Catalogue. May, 1937

By: N/A

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, 1937

Seller ID: 006135

Binding: Leatherette

Condition: Very Good

Attractive culinary catalogue from a prestigious high-end gourmet grocer in New York, one that began in 1848 and continued in business into the 1980s (when it was acquired by Red Apple.) 8vo. 21 by 14 cm. 319 pp. With 8 page supplemental brochure dated September, 1937. The catalogue proper has color plates on both endpapers and two other pages, and many other b/w photos and drawings of products throughout. The outstanding feature of the catalogue aesthetically, though, is its two toned binding, which is high Art Deco, with relief stylized lettering and an image of Hermes! Otherwise, the...
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Image for Les Portmonteaux Les Porte-Parapluies Les Poussiers de Porte de Dejonckheere-Andries. Magasins d'Exposition et de Vente. Alimentation Catalogue No. 294

Les Portmonteaux Les Porte-Parapluies Les Poussiers de Porte de Dejonckheere-Andries. Magasins d'Exposition et de Vente. Alimentation Catalogue No. 294

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Bruxelles,

Seller ID: 006462

Binding: String tie

Condition: Very Good

4to. 28 by 20.5 cm. 20 pages, plus wraps. (Page numbering doesn't relate to this brochure, and pages within would appear to have been pulled from a larger stockpile of promotional leaves.) Store displays for food businesses -- groceries, delis, restaurants, cafes, etc. Among items are etageres for kitchens, bakery display, and the like, coffee machines, various meat racks with hooks, a wide variety of display vitrines. This company tailored the brochure for the type of business it was serving, and thus, "Alimentation" is stamped, not printed, on the front cover, and it pulled sheets it d...
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[Saleman's Sample Album] Méry Hungarian Industry-Arts Budapest

By: N/A

Price: $2,400.00

Seller ID: 004846

Binding: Hardcover. String ties.

Condition: Very Good

Probably a salesman's sample album showing original designs for napkins or handkerchiefs, all with decorative, generally colorful and representational artwork. N.d., circa 1930s. Oblong album, 29 by 34 cm. 20 samples, including the one on the front cover. Stylistically there is considerable variety, from folk art-ish and cartoon-ish to more fluid and fluent Art Deco stylized imagery. We don't know whether Méry was the artist or the name of the company, or both, but clearly these are samples of commercial artwork. That is not pejorative, for the images are delightful, evocative and even ...
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Douglas Kitchen Master and Dinette Sets. Confidential Catalog No. 148

By: N/A

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Cicero, Illinois, Douglas Furniture Corporation:

Seller ID: 006782

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1950. Oblong, 21 by 27.5 cm. Unpaginated, [36] pages, plus content on inside wrap covers. With color detailing -- one bright color per page -- added to black and white illustrations of mostly stainless steel constructed kitchen and dinette furniture, with tabletops of formica typically. The kitchen sets were sold primarily to middle class families back when, but today well-preserved specimens of the furniture are highly prized under the rubric of "Fifties Modern". Color highlighting are most often red or yellow. The catalogue, besides a green cover, also has some blu...
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Vingt-Cinq Costumes pour le Théâtre

By: Barbier, Georges. Preface by Edmond Jaloux. Frontis portrait of Barbier by Charles Martin

Price: $5,000.00

Publisher: Paris, Bloch and Meynial: 1927

Seller ID: 005263

Binding: Heavy Wrappers.

Condition: Very Good Plus

No. 185 of 275 copies. 4to. 32 by 24 cm. 25 tipped-in pochoir costume plates by Barbier. Lettered tissue guards. Colas 218. The artwork is all dated to the early post-World War One period, into the early 1920s. Captured here is the fantasy spun by the costuming, so at odds with the parsimonious theatrical zeitgeist of the present when it seems so much of classic theater and opera is willfully updated to the unglamorous present day. Not that the costumes here are entirely unrelated to the then contemporary styles -- one can discern the cross-fertilization of costuming with fashion effort...
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La Belle Poule. A l'Enseigne des Mille Pertuis

By: Fay, Clark(1894-1955)

Price: $3,000.00

Seller ID: 004181

Binding: Folder. Paper pastedown.

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1930s. Folio, 39 by 29 cm. Eleven plates, including title page, housed in a silver folder. The artwork depicts showgirls and their patrons of the shadowy Parisian nightlife demimonde. The style is very much in the style of George Grosz, who almost certainly was a strong influence on Fay in this project. Here we see the lecherous patrons, generally looking like gluttonous capitalists, and the jaded, lewd showgirls generally in a state of dishabille. Coming across very clearly, though, is their solidarity with one another, and there is a strong whiff of lesbianism in their bond...
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Phili ou Par-de-la le Bien et le Mal Conte Moral orné d’Aquarelles

By: Hermant, Abel. Illustrations by Umberto Brunelleschi

Price: $6,000.00

Publisher: Paris, Édition de la Guirlande: 1921

Seller ID: 004659

Binding: Half Morocco. Marbled Boards.

Condition: Near Fine

No 273 of 275 copies, this one on Vergé D'Arches. 4to. 27.5 by 18.5 cm. Unpaginated, about 155 pages. With 12 pochoir plates, and 93 color vignettes dispersed through the text. The pochoir was done by Jean Saudé. The story concerns princes in exile hopping from one grand hostelry to another, a louche lifestyle brought on by the overturning of the old order by the First World War, and the Nouveau Riches and gold-digging Flappers they encounter in the new age of faster automobiles and the like. The illustrations glamorize the new silhouette and streamlined fashions and capture the rage fo...
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Der Raum

By: Spieler, Frank

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: Bregenz, Austria, Frank Spieler Verlag. Lithography by G. Fischer, of Graz.:

Seller ID: 005947

Binding: Folio. Card stock

Condition: Very Good

Scarce, with no copies found on OCLC First Search, KVK, Kunstbibliothek (Berlin) or other catalogues checked. N.d., circa 1920s. 33 by 25 cm. 24 color plates of Art Deco interior walls, with bold colors and interesting color combinations, stylized geometric and lineal design elements. In terms of Art Deco, a tilt more towards the Bauhaus aesthetic than the more ornate and frilly end of the spectrum. Orange folio with light soiling. Bottom interior flap (of three flaps to hold in plates) missing. Light wear to plates themselves -- a few minor flattened creases, and the like.
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Les Arts de la Maison Printemps -- MCMXXV Choix des Oeuvres les Plus Expressives de la Décoration Moderne. Troisième Année. Numéro 7.

By: Zervos, Christian. Andre Groult, Georges Andre.

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Paris, Albert Morancé: 1925

Seller ID: 006280

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

4to. 29 by 23.5 cm. 24 page brochure, followed by 20 plates of Art Deco decor and decorated rooms and design, three of which are colored plates. Brochure and plates are loose, as issued. Brochure includes many pages of advertisements. Condition: Chips at spine extremities of orange wraps. Light soiling on front and rear cover. Plates and brochure are in fine condition, though. (Brochure has uncut pages.)
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Category: Art Deco