Search Results: Authors starting with G from Carnegie Hill Books

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First edition. Octavo. 266 pp; b/w illustrations. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by authors. An American couple, Sally and Carl Gable, purchased the Villa Cornaro, built by Andrea Palladio in 1532. This is the story of how they came to own this great Renaissance villa outside of Venice, and what they have learned about its history during their six-month stay every year.. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, 1972. First U.S. edition. Octavo. 195 pp; frontispiece & 61 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Original cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has minor wear at top of spine, light creasing at top edge of back panel. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. Octavo. xii, 210 pp; several b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1952. Octavo. 81 pp; b/w photographs of various items. 411 lots. Wraps. VG, minor toning to covers, one corner creased. Sale no. 1353, Wednesday & Thursday May 28-29, 1952.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1959. Octavo. 72 pp; b/w photographs of various items. 311 lots. Stapled wraps. VG, minor soiling to covers. Sale no. 1907, Wednesday & Thursday May 27 and 28, 1958. Lead, wrought & cast iron, sculptured and cast stone, bronze and other ornaments. Japanese granite bronze and other garden ornaments belonging to various owners including New Jersey, New York & Pennsylvania private collectors.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1955. Octavo. 168 pp, 423 lots, b/w illustrations. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy. The catalog to an auction held in New York by Parke-Bernet Galleries on April 22-23rd, 1955.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Paris: Musee Carnavalet, 1985. Quarto. 59 pp; full of b/w photographs. Text in English & French. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, edges of cover & page edges lightly yellowed or toned; no wear to covers. Charles-Nicolas Ledoux was the most prolific French architect between 1762 and 1788, yet by the publication of this catalogue, only 6 or 7 of the 80 Paris buildings that Ledoux conceived remain.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Saranac Lake, NY: Historic Saranac Lake, 1985. Quarto. 186 pp; b/w photographs; bibliography; map; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; top of jacket spine lightly chipped, two closed tears at top edge of front panel; several edge tears & corresponding creasing on back panel. Limited edition of 2000 copies.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Fine Art Society, 1999. Quarto. 50 [8] pp; fully illustrated in color, many full-page; biographies of 28 designers & firms; index. Stiff card covers with spiral binding. VG, a clean, unmarked copy. Catalogue of an exhibition held 4-29 October 1999. Includes items from the Frank Edgar Chadwick Archive; Chadwick worked at Morris & Co. from 1921-1940.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Octavo. 403 pp; b/w illus. Blue cloth with gilt decoration on cover in dustjacket. VG/VG, bottom corner chipped, light edgewear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First edition. Octavo. 360 pp. Publisher's purple cloth with unclipped dustjacket. VG in G+ to VG- jacket. Jacket has light edgewear and a 1/3 inch chip to top edge of front cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+.

Paris: Crapouillot, 1951. Two volumes. Small folio. 160 pp; numerous b/w illustrations. Text in French. Paper covers, each with large color illustration laid on cover, in glassine. VG or better condition with no internal markings, Volume 1 pp uncut; covers bright as new, well protected by the glassine. Each cover with a large watercolor by Dignimont laid on.. Soft Cover. Very Good++.

Baltimore: Clearfield Co, 1995. Second printing of the Clearfield edition. Octavo. 86 pp. Paperback. VG slight sunning to margins of covers. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1975. Folio (15" x 11"). 20 pp; with ten original color lithographs, both single and double-page, including the cover, and 30 b/w drawings. Text in French. Loose in portfolio wraps. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy internally; cover shows minor soil, lower corner on back cover gently creased. This issue devoted to Claude Garache and his best-known subject matter, the female nude painted entirely in one color on a white background. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Galerie Maeght, Paris.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

NY: Clarkson Potter, 1993. Oblong quarto. 160 pp; numerous color & b/w illustrations; index; the sources. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Hearst Books, 1992. First edition. Quarto. 223 pp; full of color photographs; directory of designers & architects. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Hamburg: Dolling & Galitz, 2001. First edition. Quarto. 459 pp; illustrated with numerous color & b/w illustrations; bibliography. Text in German. Powder blue boards with blue velour cut outs. Slight bump to two corners, else a fresh new copy. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Haus der Kunst Munchen, November 9, 2001-February 10, 2002. Includes some letters of Maria Feodorovna.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Krefeld: Stadt, 1980. Octavo. 48 pp; color illustrations throughout. Text in German. Paperback, Very good +, 1-in. vertical strip at spine slightly faded, else a clean, unmarked copy. Published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Krefeld Textile Museum, this book illustrates 45 important pieces in the collection, primarily silks and velvets... First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Paris: Realites/Hachette, 1976. Quarto. 255 pp; fully illustrated in color & b/w. Text in French. Cloth in dustjacket. Near Fine (top corners gently bumped) in Near Fine jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Plymouth, MA: Pilgrim Society, 1976. First edition. Octavo. xiv, 65 pp; 38 b/w plates. Black cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.