Search Results: Literature from Carnegie Hill Books

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.

NY: Viking Press, 1950. First edition. Octavo. viii, 314 pp. Cloth with dj. NF/VG, bottom of dj spine and corners lightly chipped.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. First edition. Square octavo. 302 pp; illustrated chapter titles and b/w photographs throughout. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG. Jacket has light soiling & a closed tear on back panel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY: Columbia University Press, 1995. First American edition, first printing. Octavo. 234 pp; 18 b/w illustrations; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. A memoir of the circle of intellectuals in early 20th-century London known as the Bloomsbury group. The author writes candid portraits of his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell (Virginia Woolf's sister), Vanessa's lover Duncan Grant, and of Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry, Ottoline Morrell, and others who frequented Gordon Square in Bloomsbury and Charleston, the Bells' country place in Sussex.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1876. Later printing. Octavo. 303 pp; illustrated with b/w engravings and engraved frontispiece and title page with tissue guards. Blindstamped green cloth with gilt titles and decoration on spine. G+ Binding fairly worn around spine tips, corners and front hinge, cloth splits on front and rear hinges, although not completely. Binding remains firm and tight, frontispiece is starting to detach. Boards somewhat scuffed. Internally, pages mildly toned, plates clean and bright. Early owner name and address on ffep from 1912.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Clarkson Potter, 1993. Oblong quarto. 160 pp; numerous color & b/w illustrations; index; the sources. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971. Second edition, revised. Octavo. 432 pp. Red cloth with gilt-lettered spine with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, top corner bumped, not affecting text block; price-clipped jacket shows light soil.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. First edition. Octavo. 201 pp; frontispiece b/w photo of Norman Douglas, two additional b/w photos; appendix; index. Gilt-lettered cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, solid, unmarked copy, top corners gently bumped; unclipped jacket with minor edgewear, light hand soiling to spine. LAID IN: typed letter signed (TLS) from Cecil Woolf, dated June 15, 1954, replying to a book order.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1956. Second printing. Small octavo. 128 pp. Blue green cloth with gilt lettered-spine in dustjacket. VG/VG, interior clean & tight, no marks; jacket has short edge tears & chipping at top & bottom of spine; not price-clipped.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Westvaco, 1986. Limited edition. Octavo. 343 pp; 44 reproductions of sleel engravings by F.O.C. Darley. Dark green cloth in illustrated slipcase. Top edge gilt, illustrated endpapers. VG/VG. Privately published by Westvaco, Christmas 1986.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Collins, 1964. Octavo. 255 pp. Gilt-lettered blue cloth, no jacket. VG. Historical novel set in the time of the Punic wars, as two Greeks traders negotiate their businesses deals and survive the conflicts between the Carthaginians and the Romans.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Austin: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1971. Oblong octavo. 120 pp; b/w illustrations; index. Blue cloth with red lettering. VG, a clean, unmarked copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Viking Press, 1949. First edition. Octavo. vi, 312 pp. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG-, bottom of jacket spine lightly chipped. Novel set in Bemelman's native Tyrol. Color illustration by Bemelmans on endpapers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Heinemann, 1986. Second printing. Octavo. 255 pp. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering in dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, jacket price clipped, else a clean, unmarked copy.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First edition. Octavo. xix, 407 pp; b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Letters written over the course of three decades shed light on Williams' works, his friends and colleagues, and his dependency on alcohol and drugs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Contact Publications, 1948. Quarto. xlvii, 80 pp; mostly b/w illustrations, with some color ads. Thin paper-covered boards, no jacket. VG, a clean, unmarked copy. bottom 1/2 in. of spine missing, with 1/2 in. splits to sides of backstrip. A delicate book. The Contact book was published every 2 or 3 months, with a different theme. This issue deals with good living - with hedonism, happiness and pleasurable activity in its broadest sense. Authors include Elizabeth Bowen, James Pope-Hennessy, Lesley Blanch, Cyril Ray, Patrick Leigh-Fermor, Philip Toynbee, Enid Bagnold, and John Carter.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. First printing, first American edition. Octavo. 344 pp; b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, tiny tear to jacket along spine on back cover; jacket not price clipped. A collection of newly recovered letters examines the enduring friendship between Evelyn Waugh and Lady Diana Cooper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY / London: The Century Co., 1930. First printing. Twelvemo. x, 212 pp; 4 illustrations by Arthur William Brown. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, jacket soiled with some loss at top of spine & price-clipped; book is in very good condition. Byrne's tale of love and gambling set on the Riviera. In this book the Irish novelist is a bright, hard, dazzling observer of modern life among the moneyed sophisticates of the Azure Coast.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1943. Octavo. 150 pp; color illustrations by Hermine David. One-quarter cloth with patterned boards, no slipcase. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, spine gilt lettering dulled. Translated from the French by H. Ashton. Introduction by Jean Cocteau.. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Hermine David.

London: Zodiac Books, 1943. Small octavo. 63 pp; facsimile of 1612 title page. Decorated paper-covered boards. VG- moderate soiling to covers, light foxing to prelims. A collection of 23 of Bacon's sixty essays.. Hard Cover. Very Good.