Search Results: Authors starting with K from Carnegie Hill Books

Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1968. Quarto. 39 pp plus 24 b/w plates. Text in German & Latin. Blue paper-covered boards. VG, a clean, unmarked copy. Facsimile reprint from the author's De re vestiaria veterum, Antwerpen 1665.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1934. Small octavo. 74 pp; high contrast b/w illustrations for the identification of trees, each listed tree has descriptive text, a silhouette of the tree and a plate of leaf and fruit details. Text in gothic German. Paper covered boards with inked titles, spine sunned, pages sl yellow. VG-. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Berlin: Max Hesses, 1942. Quarto. 247 pp; profusely illustrated with color & b/w illustrations. Text in German. White cloth-backed boards with gilt lettering & drawing of the opera house on front cover. VG, minor wear to top corners, previous owner name on front free endpaper. Pictorial history of 200 years of the Berlin State Opera, with many hundreds of b/w illustrations of actors, programs, theatricals, autographs, notes, stage pictures, and 24 color plates on cardboard with stage images, costumes, etc.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Munich: Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1930. Band 6. Octavo. 127 pp; illustrated with 128 b/w photographs. List of artists. Text in German. Illustrated paperback with cover title by Ludwig Hohlwein. VG, a clean, umarked copy.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Munich: Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1929. Band 5. Octavo. 84 pp; illustrated with 110 b/w photographs. List of artists. Text in German. Illustrated paperback with cover title by Ludwig Hohlwein. VG, a clean, umarked copy.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1951. First edition. Quarto. ix, 142 pp; 12 samples of actual color wallpaper & over 100 b/w illustrations; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket with small loss to spine ends, edges lightly rubbed & closed tear. The authors cover the recent history of wallpaper, the selection of patterns & colors, technical requirements, manufacturing processes, and wallpaper design. Katzenbach and Warren, founded in 1928 by William Katzenbach and Phelps Warren, pioneered in wallpaper manufacture and design.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good.

Paris: Bibliotheque, 1982. Square octavo. 94 pp; color & b/w illus. Stapled wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1931. Octavo. 115 pp; 48 diagrams & b/w photographs; glossary of furniture terms. Paperback. VG, an unmarked copy; covers toned with light edgewear, small loss at spine ends.. Softcover. Very Good.

NY: Heritage Press, 1948. Quarto. xxii, 107 pp; tipped-in b/w photograph of artist by Phillippe Halsman. color illustrations throughout. Orange boards with black cloth spine, lacks dustjacket. VG.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers (ca 1905) unpaginated (pps 547 through 563); b/w tables, 2 b/w plates. Paperback. VG, back cover corner folded, original owner name on top margin of cover. reprinted from the Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers Vol. XVI, No. 2., 1904.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Grove Weidenfeld, 1988. Fourth printing. Octavo. 238 pp. Illustrated paperback. VG, a clean copy; edges show light wear. Satori is an autobiographical saga in which the protagonist goes to France to seek the origins of his surname. Satori is Japanese for "sudden awakening" or simply "kick in the eye." Kerouac's last novel, Pic, set in 1948, is narrated by 10-year-old Pictorial Review Jackson in the dialect of rural North Carolina.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: W.W. Norton, 2008. First edition. Oblong octavo. 144 pp; 250 b/w photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a new, unused copy. A delightful collection of quirky faces and figures that appear on New York City buildings, most built during the years between the Civil War and World War I. Designed for entrances, around doorways, on cornices, and in lobbies, they include beautiful women's faces, frightening grotesques, and natural elements such as acanthus leaves, vines, and flowers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Quarto. 208 pp; color frontispiece, 252 b/w illustrations; appendix; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG in VG- jacket, two closed tears to top rear edge of jacket, former owner signature on front flyleaf. An excellent guide to the art of chairmaking in 18th century America, clearly written and well illustrated. Arntzen P220.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First edition. Quarto. xiv, 397 pp; 1508 b/w & color illustrations; notes; indexes. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 1988. Quarto. Unpaginated. 325 plates, some full-page, rest smaller. Paperback with jacket. Fine/Fine. This book illustrates textiles and other specimens selected from over 16,000 pieces collected by Count Koreaki Kamei (1861-1896) while he was studying aesthetics and art history in Germany from 1886 to 1891.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine.

Paris: Les Editions de L'Amateur, 1994. First edition. Stout quarto. 693 pp; 540 color & 410 b/w illustrations; bibliography. Text in French. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine in Fine jacket, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket bright, with no wear. The major reference book of twentieth-century furniture designers, listing more than 600, from Alvar Aalto to Charles Zublena.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: Parents' Magazine Press, 1969. Revised edition. Quarto. 228 pp; over 150 color illustrations including more than 70 portraits of our presidents and their first ladies. Illustrated hardcover with matching dustjacket. NF/NF in cardboard sleeve. A clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has light chipping at top & bottom of jacket & top corners.. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Koln: Museum Fur Angewandte Kunst, 1989. Quarto. 184 pp; profuse color photographs. Text in German. Paperback. VG. A well-illustrated survey of the collections of the Museum of Applied Art, Cologne from the Middle Ages to Post modern. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Koln: Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln, 1973. First edition. 11.75" high x 8.25" wide. 134 pp; b/w illustrations of 581 objects in the exhibition; bibliography. Text in German. Original pictorial wraps. VG+, bookplate on inside front cover, else a clean, unmarked copy; light wear to top & bottom of spine and corners. Errata slip inserted. catalogue of the exhibition held in 1973 at the Overstolzenhaus in Cologne; it then travelled to Darmstadt, Hannover, and Munich in 1974. Uncommon.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Madrid: Asppan, 2002. Quarto. 216 pp; fully illustrated with color photographs. Boards with dustjacket. CG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy. Over 300 color photographs, drawings, watercolors, and sketches of a wide range of renovated rural homes. They show mansions and country houses that have been renovated retaining original materials, textures and colors.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.