Search Results: Titles starting with H from Carnegie Hill Books

P. F. Collier & Sons, 1922. Octavo. 32 pp; color photos. Paperback. VG. Scarce pamphlet from one of the great horticulturists of the early 20th century. A wonderful little guide designed as a "sampler" for the full library of Burbank books published by Collier.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Pelham, NY: Bridgman Publishers, 1941. Octavo. 208 pp, illustrated with b/w photographs & line drawings; index. Tan cloth with red lettering. VG, light soil on spine. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

Stuttgart: Von Ferdinand Enke, 1910. 1909-10. Two volumes in one. Octavo. xv, vii, 653, 215 pp; 9 plates, 255 text images; 4 plates, 70 text images. Text in German. Leather-backed marbled boards. VG, chip at top of spine. A handbook on briquetting. This illustrated book demonstrating the briquetting process and example designs for factories, presses, grinders, conveyors and more.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Macmillan, 1977. First American edition. Quarto. 136 pp; 8 color plates, 167 b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG. Contributions from Elizabeth Longford, Helmut Gernsheim, Roger Taylor, Frances Dimond, Cecil Beaton, Tom Hopkinson, and Richard Cawston.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1971. First edition. Twelvemo. 151 pp. Cloth binding. numerous strokes in the checklist margins. VG-. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Newark, NJ: The Carteret Book Club, 1940. Octavo. 32 pp. Cloth with glassine dustjacket. Near fine in good only glassine which is toned and brittle with loss at spine.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good.

Shelburne, VT: Shelburne Museum, 1960. First edition. Octavo. 196 pp; hundreds of b/w illustrations and color frontispiece. Paperback. Near Fine. Former owner stamp on front free endpaper & same owner blindstamp on title page. Museum Pamphlet Series, number 4. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1980. First American edition, taken from the second English edition. Large octavo. xvi, 298 pp plus 96 pages of b/w plates, 46 plans, elevations & drawings; list of buildings & drawings; index. Red cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, light chipping at top & bottom of jacket spine & one chip at top edge of back panel. Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661-1736), a student and collaborator of Christopher Wren and John Vanbrugh, was of Britain's outstanding baroque architects. First published in 1959, this was the first major study of Nicholas Hawksmoor. In this new edition, many details have been revised in light of recent research. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Wiesbaden: V. Pallmann . ca. 1920s. Twelvemo. 10 accordion-fold photographic postcards in paper wraps. VG.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Tudor Publishing Company, 1936. Second printing. Octavo. xvi, 317 pp; color frontispiece, illustrated with nearly 300 b/w photographs, drawings, floor plans. Turquoise pictorial cloth with image of fireplace, flanked by rocking chair and wooden pew-like bench on cover, gilt lettering on cover & spine. No dj. Spine faded, included gilt lettering, with light wear at top & bottom, else a VG copy. The author discusses and illustrates decorating a house in four styles: Early American, Colonial, English, and Spanish.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Rizzoli, 1986. Quarto. 263 pp; numerous color and b&w photos and illustrations of projects; biography; completed buildings; projects; awards; collaborators; reviews. Paperback. Near Fine.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

NY: Rizzoli, 1999. First edition. Quarto. 224 pp; profusely illustrated in color & b/w photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; jacket in protective mylar cover. HHPA is especially renowned for its theater and performing arts complexes. This book features the presentation of 50 projects (interiors and exteriors), plus works in progress and planning projects. They include: Windows on the World restaurant at the World Trade Center and Bryant Park in New York City; Cleveland Library, Hawaii Theatre Center in Honolulu; the comprehensive development plan for Warner Bros. Hollywood Studios; and the Los Angeles Public Library, Central Library, built in 1926 by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: Da Capo Press, 1978. Second edition of 1000 copies. Quarto. xvii, 119 pp; 6 lithographs with tissue guards, 9 wood engravings, and 99 woodcuts in the text. Green cloth with gilt-lettered spine & column in gilt on cover. Fine copy. #468/500 numbered, facsimile bound copies of the original edition published in 1849. It features views and plans of the Smithsonian Institution, along with an appendix relative to building materials employed in public edifices in Washington, DC.. Facsimile. Hard Cover. Fine.

N.P.: H. Frank Smith for His Friends, 1924. Limited edition. Octavo. 8 pp. Signed and initialed by H. Frank Smith. Paper-backed boards with title label on cover. VG-, moderate loss of paper to spine ends & 2 small tears to spine edge. Freshly wrapped in acetate.l. Rare Christmas gift book of the "Last Will of Charles Lounsbury" by Williston Fish and printed by H. Frank Smith, a NY printer and typesetter. The edition is limited to 150 copies, each signed to a specific person, in this case John Clyde Oswald, president of the National Arts Club, editor of the American Printer magazine and a leading authority on Benjamin Franklin. The limitation reads "One hundred and fifty copies of His Will were printed by H. Frank Smith for his friends, to convey to them his wishes for their happiness. Christmas 1924." OCLC lists this edition in 2 libraries; however they have the name "Theodore Weicker" (president of Squibb) in the limitation instead of Smith.. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. First American edition. Quarto. 144 pp; color photographs throughout. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has minor edgewear. This book features interior photographs of some of the great estates, manors, and country houses owned and maintained by Britain's National Trust, with a text that assesses changes in style and use. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Peoria, IL: The Manual Arts Press, 1942. Thrid edition, revised & enlarged. Octavo. 256 pp; color frontispiece, numerous photographs, plates, and drawings. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, forner owner name on front flyleaf, else a crisp, unmarked copy, binding tight, cover clean & bright; jacket spine toned, spine ends lightrly chipped, a few pin-size holes. A remarkably well-preserved copy.. Third Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1970. Stout octavo. xxi, 650 pp; index. Blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine in cream slipcase with paper label. Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy, slipcase VG+, top & bottom lightly soiled, else unmarked. #758 of 1950 copies signed by the editor, Marcus A. McCorison. Printed by the Stinehour Press.. Signed. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

NY: Netherlands Information Bureau n.d. (ca.1940) Quarto. 20 pp; b/w photographs and illustrations. Stapled orange paperback. Near fine. Illustrations by Louis Raemaekers. Wartime bulletin published by the Netherlands Information Bureau. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: John Lane Company, 1921. First American edition. Quarto. xviii, 155 pp; 59 line drawings by Chappelow; appendices; bibliography; index. Original two-tone cloth, with gilt lettered spine & image of key on front cover. VG, corners rubbed through and slightly bumped. Front hinge a little loose. The author presents a proposal for preserving certain typical houses, each to be furnished as an example of its own time.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by A.C. Chappelow.

Garden City, NY: Privately Printed, 1930. Octavo. unpaginated. Fold-out frontispiece by Chester Price, b/w plates throughout; list of offices and bookstores. Original blue cloth with gilt rules and titles on cover. VG, minor wear to corners, crown bumped. Views of Country Life Press in Garden City, NY; Windmill Press in Kingswood, Surrey, England; 99 Great Russell St in London; and Amen House in Toronto, Canada.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.