Search Results: Authors starting with B from Carnegie Hill Books

East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1901. Octavo. 14 pp; hand illuminated in two colors and gold by Emma Straight. Red suede covers with yapp edges and silk doublures. Very good-, small dark stain on spine, edges a little worn mostly around spine ends. Copyright page reads 1899, colophon reads 1901. Signed by Emma Straight on colophon with hand-drawn Roycrofters device.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First Edition. Limited. Octavo. 76 pp. Linen-backed boards with paper spine labels. Signed and inscribed and outside numbered by the author. VG- Call number on spine in ink, plc bookplate on pastedown. call number on corner of front free endpaper, several small plc blindstamps in the text, catalog card affixed to back board with paper strap. Author dedication to the plc collection on ffep, signed and numbered 0/0 on limitation page by author. Ex library Philadelphia Library Company research library and deaccessioned in the 1930s.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Hudson, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2018. First edition. Small quarto. 190 pp; 16 pp of color photographs, numerous b/w & color illustrations; a complete list of exhibitions held at the Vassar College Art Gallery, 1923-1940. Hardcover with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, faint paperclip impression on 1st few pp, bottom corners gently bumped; unclipped jacket with no visible wear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Zodiac Books, 1943. Small octavo. 63 pp; facsimile of 1612 title page. Decorated paper-covered boards. VG- moderate soiling to covers, light foxing to prelims. A collection of 23 of Bacon's sixty essays.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1933. Quarto. xvii, 239 pp; 7 color & 30 halftone plates. Green cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, offsetting from jacket flaps on front & rear endpapers, cloth covers clean & bright; price clipped jacket has light wear, spine lightly toned.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003. First edition. Octavo. xvi, 320 pp; numerous color & b/w illustrations; notes; bibliography; index. Green cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, ex-library copy - the only marking is small label on copyright page. Looks unread. A fascinating social history of the wealthy British women who became Mistress of the House.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Pairs: Albert Morance, 1924. Octavo. 37 pp; 48 plates, both color & b/w; bibliography. Text in French. Brown cloth with gilt-titled spine. VG, blind stamp on title page, bookplate on front pastedown, plates are clean & unmarked; covers show light wear to extremities, remnants of gilt-stamped leather label over gilt-lettered spine. Originally issued as a portfolio, it has been skillfully bound in cloth using tabs to attach the pages and plates.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Paris: Editions Charles Massin n.d. (1950s). Quarto. 16 pp; 37 plates some in color. Text in French. Cloth with dj. VG/VG- some soil and wear to dj..

NY: Thames & Hudson, 2005. First edition. Oblong quarto. 191 pp; 247 color & 130 b/w illustrations. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. This book features some of Le Corbusier's most important European buildings, complemented by others that are less well known. The photographs, taken sequentially by the author, provide a narrative description of each building.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. Second printing. Octavo. Unpaginated, color illustrations throughout. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with minor wear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992. Second printing. Octavo. Unpaginated, color illustrations throughout. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with minor wear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Paris: Musee de l'Affiche, 1979. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated, [50] pp, includes 110 images of bicycle posters, in color & b/w illustrations; bibliography. Text in French.. Paperback with bright yellow image on front cover. Near Fine, a tight, unmarked copy, tiny bump to bottom corner.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

NY: Nadja Editions for The Phoenix Bookshop, 1978. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies. Brick cloth with spine label, without jacket as issued. Fine condition. Text of October 1916 Pearson's Magazine article, accompanied by original illustrations. Designed and printed at Nadja Editions. Not listed in standard bibliography. #48/300.. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

NY: Rizzoli / Christie's, 1980. Quarto. xiii, 210 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, previous owner name on back of front free endpaper, else a bright, unmarked copy; jacket intact with no tears.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux, 1927. Limited edition, #109/490 copies on velin d'Arches paper. Small folio. 123 pp; illustrated with 17 watercolors, including frontispiece, by Andre Suréda, engraved on wood by Robert Dill, and decorated by the artist's headbands, initials, motifs and culs-de-lampe in black and gold. A fine copy in wraps in near fine chemise with sunned spine & lightly split at bottom. Paper-covered slipcase is VG, with one split corner extending mid way down spine. An extravagant and beautifully illustrated edition of this classic. Between travel diary and geopoetic introspection, this is a story about Maurice Barres' passion for the Orient: exoticism, poetry, spirituality, anecdotes.. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Andre Sureda.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980. Quarto. 288 pp; profuse b/w illustrations. Paperback. VG, a clean, tight, unmarked copy; two corners gently bumped, page edges slightly yellowed, spine toned. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 8 to Sept 28, 1980, and at Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC November 20, 1980 to February 1981.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2011. Octavo. 324 pp; illustrations by Jonathan Barrow. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy. The author's memoir of his youngest brother, Jonathan, who was killed in a car crash at age 22, along with his fiancee. Jonathan left behind the manuscript of a novel, "The Queue", in which, among other things, he prophesied his own death. Filled with fascinating and fantastical anecdotes, Animal Magic documents a heady and peripatetic childhood in Lancashire, the Lake District and Wiltshire, misadventures at home and school, and the early working life of the two brothers - on the lower rungs of show business, backstage at Claridge's, and finally in advertising.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Paris: Baschet & Cie. ca. 1967. Quarto. 194 pp; profuse b/w & color illustrations. Text in French. Tan boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, jacket chipped at base of spine & two corners, edges lightly chipped. Architecture, furniture and decoration of the following regions: Provence, Flandres, Artois, Picardie, Landes, Pays Basque, Bearn, Alsace, and Bretagne.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Paris: Baschet & Cie., 1967. Quarto. 200 pp; profuse b/w & color illustrations. Text in French. Tan boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, top corners bumped; jacket has two short edge tears, minor wear to two corners. Architecture, furniture and decoration of the following regions: Lorraine, Luxeuil-Montbeliard, Franche-Comte, Bresse-Bugey, Savoie, Dauphine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Paris: Bureaux de l'Imprimerie (ca 1904). Octavo. 70 pp; b/w illustrations, figures, and ads. Text in French. Staple bound wraps printed with ads. Very good-. The covers are the same paper as the contents and as such have become a little brittle from age and are starting to split along the spine, small chip to top edge of cover page. Mathematical drawings and illustrated period ads for printing equipment. Rare. Soft Cover. Very Good.