Search Results: Titles starting with A from Carnegie Hill Books

London: English Universities Press, 1951. Fourth impression. Octavo. 328 pp; 4 color, 9 b/w photos, and numerous line drawings. Bright green cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, an unmarked copy with scattered faint foxing on front & rear endpapers & edges of text block; price-clipped jacket with light edgewear, inside of jacket with faint foxing.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1956. Slim octavo; 61 pp; color page decorations by Ruth McCrea. Decorated boards with dj. NF-/NF. Previous owners address sticker on ffep, else near fine.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1970. Reprint. Oblong octavo. Black & white drawings by Nelly Bodenheim. Cream paper-covered boards. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers lightly soiled. First published in 1917. Nelly Bodenheim or Johanna Cornelia Hermana Bodenheim (27 May 1874 - 7 January 1951) was a Dutch illustrator known for her silhouettes. Title: "ABC: The dog goes along, the cat stays at home, peep said the mouse in the front house.". Hard Cover. Very Good.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1988. Quarto. 160 pp; more than 60 color & 50 b/w illustrations throughout; bibliography; index. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. The illustrated history of absinthe. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. Octavo. xii, 175 pp; 16 color plates by Elsie Louise Shaw. Green cloth with gilt decoration & lettering in cardboard slipcase with color plate affixed. VG/VG-, a few spots of light soiling on slipcase.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Philadelphia, PA: Lanston Monotype Machine Company n.d., [1936]. Quarto. 16 pp. Stapled wraps with titles. Very good, light fading to edges of covers. Bruce Rogers explains the process of designing the typography and layout of the Oxford Lectern Bible.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Japan Paper Company, 1920. Octavo. 50 pp; frontispiece. Vellum-backed boards with blind-stamp decoration and gilt titles, edges untrimmed, in slipcase. VG+, light toning to spine & bottom corner lightly bumped; slipcase with one corner rubbed through, else minor edgewear. Printed letterpress on hand-made rag paper. Contains a catalogue of an exhibition held by the American Institute of Graphic Arts at the National Arts Club, NY in 1920. Judges for this exhibition include Goudy, Updike, Goodhue, Ruzicka, Rollins, Rogers, etc., and this volume may be considered a precursor of the catalogues for the yearly "Fifty" Books exhibitions. Bibliographic descriptions are given for each item.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+.

Paris: Buchet/Chastel, 1962. Reprint of the 1956 Guilde Du Livre edition. Octavo. 165 pp; text in French. Paperback. VG, minor rubs and light soiling to covers, pages somewhat toned, some pages uncut. A very nice copy.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1966. Quarto. Unpaginated, illustrations by Milton Hebald. Green cloth with gilt-lettered spine, embossed image of zebra on cover, paper-covered slipcase with paper label. VG, gift inscription on first blank page, else a crisp, unmarked copy; slipcase intact with minor wear, spine sl. sunned.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: The Century Co., 1923. First edition. Octavo. 250 pp; drawings by W. Emerton Heitland. Pictorial green cloth. VG+, bright, clean covers & spine with no visible wear. Only defect is occasional faint spotting on covers; no markings inside the book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Paris: Gazette Du Bon Ton, 1920. Issue No. 5, June 1920. Octavo. Printed paper folder with four color plates laid in, as issued. Near Fine, images bright, plates evenly toned. The plates are of a mirror, a dressing table and stool, a stool and curtain sash, and an elaborate grooming set of blackened pear wood and galuchat lining.. First Edition. Paper. Near Fine.

NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930. Volume 4, No. 4. Quarto. pp 399-470, numerous b/w & some color illustrations. Paperback. VG. Cover design by J. Floyd Yewell. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Reporter Publications, 1949. Folio. 124 pp; color & illustrations; fabric samples tipped in; advertisers index. Paperback. VG. may be missing a swatch or two. Included articles: portfolio of authentic district checks, portfolio of fabric fashions, loom hand-weaving part III. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First edition. Quarto. 352 pp; profusely illustrated with 524 color & b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG. A well-illustrated survey of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum, home of America's most important collection of painting, sculpture and decorative arts, dating from 1630. Separate chapters on the Period Rooms, furniture, silver, pewter, ceramics, glass, paintings, prints, drawings and watercolors, and sculpture.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Milwaukee, WI: Chipstone Foundation, 2000. Quarto. xi, 2239 pp; many b/w & color illustrations; index. Paperback. VG+, minor edgewear, spine slightly cocked, minor scuffing to covers. This issue presents articles on: the early furniture of Christopher & Job Townsend, furniture by the Potthast Brothers of Baltimore, 1892-1975; the genesis of Neoclassical Style in Baltimore Furniture; Baltimore cabinetmaker Edward Priestley; John Cadwalader's commode-seat side chairs; Patronage in early Salem: The Symonds Shops; and Cultural Negotiations: A Study of the New Mexican Caja. Also book reviews and a list, "Recent Writing on American Furniture," compiled by Gerald W.R. Ward.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good+.

NY: Stark Carpet, 1993. Quarto. 314 pp; 126 full-page color plates of carpets plus several color photos of interiors of houses in the Britain and the U.S. Black cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. VG/VG, jacket lightly rubbed. The book presents the 1993 Y & B Bolour Collection of primarily 19th and early 20th century carpets. Vol. 2 shows color plates of 6 Savonnerie, 38 Aubusson, 6 Axminster, 10 Arts & Crafts, 4 Bessarabian, 17 Indian, and 27 Persian carpets. Also color plates of 11 needlework and 7 tapestry -- mid & late 19th C.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Viking Press, 1966. First edition. Quarto. 497 pp; 491 b/w photographs; 127 illustrations of inlays in color; 21 room settings (11 in color; 46 cabinetmakers' labels and 39 furniture details for regional identification; cabinetmakers' biographies; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG, light chipping at top & bottom of dj spine & bottom corner, dj price clipped. The important reference book on American Federal furniture; and an essential work for the serious student of American decorative arts. Arntzen P218, Franklin 2300. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-.

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1972. Two volumes in slipcase. Quarto. 708 pp; 689 illustrations; index. Half cloth in slipcase. Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy in ndar fine slipcase - appears unused.. "A detailed catalogue of more than 600 pieces of American silver by more than 150 known makers in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which is unsurpassed in examples of New England manufacture. The catalogue is arranged geographically, then chronologically by makers' dates under place of origin." Arntzen. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

NY: Crown Publishers, 1975. Quarto. 240 pp; 227 illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Edges of pages age toned, else very good in very good jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1992. Oblong quarto. 194 pp; full of b/w & color photographs; list of architects & designers, list of builders, list of log-home companies; bibliography; index. Paperback. VG. The authors, after spending 3 years traveling across the U.S. in search of log homes, present over 50 examples. They range from Abe Lincoln's original log cabin to lavish new homes. Floor plans are provided for 24 houses.. Soft Cover. Very Good.