Search Results: 20's from Carnegie Hill Books

NY: Viking Press, 1949. Octavo. x, 389 pp, illustrated with 16 pp of b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near fine/VG; jacket has small chip to top of front panel and near the heel and a couple of small closed tears and light edgewear. The chronicle of James J. Walker, New York City's 100th mayor, known to millions as "Jimmy".. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Cleveland: General Electric Company, 1928. Fourth edition. Octavo. 144 pp; color illustrations. Silver checkered boards with green cloth spine. A good copy - edges & corners rubbed, covers lightly soiled; inside a clean copy.. Hard Cover. Good.

Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 1999. Quarto. 159 pp; 185 color illustrations; catalogue of textiles; artists' biographies; index of companies, workshops and schools; glossary; bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. A fine copy in fine jacket. Outstanding examples of textile art from Germany, Austria, France, Italy and England document general currents in textile design during the twenties.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: Viking Press, 1973. Reissue. Octavo. 110, (5) pp; illustrations by Philippe Jullian. Blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine in dustjacket. VG/VG, clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket lightly yellowed at edges. First published in 1953 and now reissued in a new format, this book offers a kind of scrapbook of 1920's London.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Miami / NY: Wolfsonian / Princeton Architectural Press, 2007. First edition. Quarto. 384 pp; 175 color & 150 b/w illustrations; notes, index. Cloth with dustjacket Fine/Fine, a fresh, unmarked copy. Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, Pierre Chareau, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Eileen Gray: together these designers and their contemporaries pioneered the look of the modern French interior during the 1920s. This book presents the finest examples of this work in more than two hundred plates, selected by Sarah Schleuning, a curator of the Wolfsonian Museum, and faithfully reproduced to preserve their original color palettes.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New.

Mineola, NY: Dover, 2003. First edition. Quarto. 32 pp; 12 dolls and 32 costumes on 16 color plates. Paperback. A fine copy. This paper doll collection focuses on 12 femmes fatales who dominated the silver screen from the silent era through the 1930s, accompanied by costumes from their most popular films. The actresses are: Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Barbara La Marr, Myrna Loy, Mae Murray, Nita Naldi, Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Mae West.. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New.

NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. First edition. Octavo. xiii, 223 pp; frontispiece & 93 b/w plates; index. Cloth spine with paper label and 3/4 batik cover. VG, some pages uncut. Edges of covers well rubbed, . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Monacelli Press, 2008. Tall quarto. 240 pp; over 250 color & b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. A new copy. Twelve essays by leading French and American scholars and 250 illustrations vividly recreate the contributions of the era's legendary figures, including Josephine Baker, Chanel, Salvador Dali, Raymond Hood, Ely Jacques Kahn, Raymond Loewy, Paul Poiret, Helena Rubinstein, and Henri Soule. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925. First edition. Sixteenmo. 134 pp; illustrated by Decie Merwin. Floral-printed boards. VG, small rubbed line on front cover. Some of the stories in this volume first appeared in the "Contributor's Club" of the Atlantic Monthly, and in the "Woman's Home Companion". By the author of "The Notion-Counter, A Farrago of Foibles, Being Notes About Nothing," published in 1922.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.