Blue and Yellow Don't Make Green: or How to Mix the Color You Really Want--Every Time.
Rockport. MA: Rockport Publishers, 1992. Reprint. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 121, richly illustrated in color. More
Rockport. MA: Rockport Publishers, 1992. Reprint. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 121, richly illustrated in color. More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. First edition. Boards. Small quarto, pp. 380, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. In this book, the award-winning historian Regina Lee Blaszczyk traces the relationship of color and commerce, from haute couture to automobile showrooms to interior design, describing the often unrecognized role of..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1923. First edition. Cloth over Boards. 12mo, pp. 163, illustrated in color. Ex-library markings. Carl Cutler was a respected color theorist. In this book, with Stephen C. Pepper, he explained a detailed system involving a scale of 168 colors, telling how to imitate the appearance..... More
New York: Random House, 2003. First paperback edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Octavo, pp. 448, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and color photographs. In this vivid and captivating journey through the colors of an artist’s palette, Victoria Finlay takes us on an enthralling adventure around the world and through the ages..... More
Chicago: The Crimson Press, 1934. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. 57, illustrated w/drawings & fold-out color chart. Important work on color aesthetics & psychology by its most competent scholar. More
New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, Inc., 1963/1966. Second Printing. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. 223, indexed, 250 illustrations. Rare in slipcase! Ex-library Franziska Porges Hosken (1919 - 2006), with her ownership stamp (Viennese born, Smith College and Harvard School of Design educated - one of the first women to do..... More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. First paperback printing. Perfect Bound. Quarto, pp. 335, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Color is fundamental to life and art yet so diverse that it has seldom been studied in a comprehensive way. This ground-breaking analysis of color in Western culture..... More
New York: 1891. Cloth over Boards. This practical handbook solves the difficulties attending the application of vitrifiable colors to china. This edition adds illustrations and several new chapters treating upon figures and flowers, after the Dresden methods. More
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1973. First edition thus. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 255, illustrated w/ color and b/w plates, includes facsimile of first American edition, 1879. More
Detroit, MI: Acme White Lead & Color Works, 1930. Original edition. Color Trade Pamphlet. Small octavo, folds out to 8" x 18" ~ 36 Colored paint chips and 3 colored illustrations. These paint chips include the "popular soft toned King Color shades...very carefully selected" and Two-Tone or Scumbled Finishes. Regular..... More
Wichita, KS: Kansas Paint & Color Co., nd ca 1949. Original. 2 3/4" diameter x 2 3/4" high paint can with decorated paper cover depicting company trademark. More
New York: Columbian Carbon Co., 1950. Original edition. Cardboard Covers w/white plastic comb. Octavo (5" x 8 1/2") pp 50. With glossy colored paint chips on each page. These pigments are composed of "pure iron oxides" made from what was the "largest manufacturer of this type of pigment at that..... More