Search Results: Titles starting with V from Carnegie Hill Books

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. First edition. Octavo. xvi, 192 pp; b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj "a perceptive study of the relationship between V. Sackville- West's life and her work, in which [is explored] her poems 'The Land' and 'The Garden', biographies, novels, shorter poetry, and all her writings, published and unpublished." [dj]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: High Tide Press, 1995. Limited to 15 numbered copies signed by Ross. Quarto. One sheet (56 cm. x 117 cm.), printed on both sides, folded in two (top to bottom), then folded again accordion style and pasted to the lower board. Turquoise cloth boards with a wave pattern, lined in blue slubbed silk, matching silk slipcase with recessed paper title label. Near Fine, a crisp, clean copy, with no markings. Slipcase shows light sunning where a smaller book rested on top. #11 of 15 copies. Conceived, designed, illustrated and printed by John Ross in the High Tide Press workshop on Rives BFK; set in Janson and printed on a Vandercook proofing press. Printed Accordion fold. Collagraph images of Venice with two three-page fold outs. When open the pages can be unfolded to show a pull-out soft ground etching of very large proportion with hand coloring. Prints done on a Brand etching press. The binding is by James Di Marcantonio.. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

NY: Norton, 1984. Third printing. Octavo. xxx, 235 pp. Paperback. Very good.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Des Moines, IA: Elephant's Eye, 1976. Oblong quarto. 98 pp; b/w photographs throughout. VG, bottom corner of rear panel creased, else a fresh, clean copy. The author, a photographer, spent four months in 1975 traveling around Iowa taking photographs of Victorian buildings. This book is the result, and it is rich in architectural detail. It focuses on homes and commercial buildings, and is organized around the most common styles of the period - Italianate, Second Empire, and Gothic Revival. It's the best visual record of Victorian architecture that I have seen.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Dover, 1982. Octavo. 104 pp; b/w photographs throughout. Paperback. VG- tiny front cover tear at top edge near spine, & slight edge wear. This Dover edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and slightly corrected republication of the work originally published by Faber and Faber, London, in 1963 under the title Fashion and Reality (1840-1914). Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Viking Press, 1981. First edition. Oblong octavo. 160 pp; numerous illustrations, some in color; index. Cloth with dj. near fine in near fine dust jacket. This book traces the changing character of English homes from Queen Victoria's birth in 1819 to her death in 1901. Lasdun includes the homes of families from widely different backgrounds. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: American Life Foundation, 1977. Octavo. 274 pp; 55 illus. + 31 plates. Paperback. VG. A reprint of the 1870 edition, entitled: The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds of Small Extent.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. Revised and enlarged edition. Quarto. 467 pp, including 33 color and 427 b/w illustrations. Cloth with dj. VG/VG-. 3 inch long strip of de-lamination on top edge of jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Hulton Press, 1954. First English edition. Octavo, 256 pp. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. VG/VG- minor tanning to spine. Very nice copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1986. Quarto. ix, 272 pp, color photographs throughout. bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. More than 150 color photos show the range of the 20th-century revival of the Victorian interior. The author focuses on the historic significance of each room in the house.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Canopy Press, 1994. First U.S. edition. Quarto. 128 pp; 130 color illustrations; glossary; biographical notes. Paperback. Near Fine, former owner's blind stamp on title page & small ink stamp on front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy. This well illustrated book shows the beauty and diversity of British design for woven textles from the later 17th to the mid-18th century. The fifth in a series of seven books showing the visual history of British textile design from the middle ages to 1994.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1986. Quarto. 264 pp; full of color & b/w photographs; notes; chronology; bibliography; index. Paperback. VG. Exhibition catalogue of the major show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1986.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Pavilion, 1991. Oblong quarto. 128 pp; profusely illustrated in color. Laminated boards with cloth spine in dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, narrow lightly sunned strip along spine edge of jacket, extending half way across the top. This book reproduces the picture-book of Brighton Pavilion that George IV commissioned in 1820 from the architect John Nash. It contains aquatints of many exterior views as well as aquatints of the rooms.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: W.W. Norton, 2011. Oblong quarto. 304 pp; color photographs, floor plans, drawings throughout; list of resources for vintage house owners, glossary; index. Cloth with dustjacket. A fine copy in fine jacket. A must-have primer for homeowners and professionals, this book presents the first comprehensive survey of its kind on how to achieve truly compatible, stylistically resonant additions and renovations. Richly illustrated with more than 200 color photographs, plans, and drawings from nationally recognized architects, this book offers invaluable analysis and nuts-and-bolts guidance that will help any old-house homeowner or professional preserve the essence of a vintage treasure.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New.

London: Christie's, 2012. Quarto. Not paginated. 91 lots, each lot illustrated with color photographs. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, minor soil on back cover. Results laid in.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

London: Harvill Press, 1996. Second printing. Octavo. 342 pp; 32 pages of b/w photographs; appendices; discography; bibliography; index. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, in dustjacket. VG/VG-, light jacket wear & mild creasing at bottom edge on back cover. Violet Gordon-Woodhouse (1872 - 1948) was an acclaimed British harpsichordist and clavichordist, highly influential in bringing both instruments back into fashion. She was the first person to record the harpsichord, and the first to broadcast harpsichord music.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Viking, 2000. First American edition. Small octavo. 195 pp; 10 b/w illustrations. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. The author, son of British writers Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, threads his personal reminiscences through the narrative of her life. His biography probes her stance on women's issues and the nature of war.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Aurum, 1996. First edition. Quarto. 224 pp; many color & b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Miami: Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, 1984. First edition. Octavo. 94 pp; profuse color photographs by Steven Brooke. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. Vizcaya, the lavish estate on Miami's Biscayne Bay built by wealthy industrialist James Deering in the 1910's, featured a 70-room Italian baroque mansion, magnificent Italian Renaissance gardens, lagoons, canals, citrus groves, a farm village, and a yacht harbor. Originally 180 acres, the mansion and gardens today occupy 50 acres, and are open to the public.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

NY: Viking Press / A Studio Book, 1968. First edition. Quarto. 195 pp; color & b/w photographs by Horst. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; price clipped jacket rubbed at spine ends - 0.5 in. at head of spine now mostly white rather than red; light edgewear, usual delamination issue. Features Madame Jacques Balsan; Mr & Mrs. Carter Burden, Jr; Miss Doris Duke; Mr. Henry Francis du Pont; Lord & Lady Eliot; Mrs. Charles Fuller; the Desmond Guinnesses; Horst's house on Long Island; Mrs. Nancy Lancaster; Marchese Emilio Pucci, Baron & Baroness Philippe de Rothschild; Duke & Duchess of Windsor and others.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.