Search Results: Authors starting with O from Carnegie Hill Books

Lenox, MA: Lenox Library Association, 1981. Square quarto (12" x 12"). 83 pp, 60 b/w photographs, most full page. Paperback. VG, short crease at bottom edge of front cover, light scratches on back cover. Sixty photographs by Edwin Hale Lincoln of the large estates built in Lenox, Mass. from 1883 to 1933. The photographs, printed from the original glass plate and film negatives, depict six estates - Bellefontaine, Blantyre, Elm Court, Erskine Park, Pinecroft, and Shadowbrook.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good+. Illus. by Edwin Hale Lincoln.

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1970. First printing. Octavo. 252 pp. Publisher's purple cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, inked-out price at top corner of front free endpaper, else an unmarked copy, binding tight & square; price-clipped jacket has light edge wear. A sophisticated salacious satire on sex viewed through the eyes of an aging sybarite and visiting American scholar who gets involved with a one-legged young opera singer.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Pointed Leaf Press, 2007. First edition. Large quarto. 216 pp; over 200 illustrations, most in color. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a clean, unmarked copy in fine jacket. This is the first monograph on American architect and furniture designer Samuel A. Marx 1885-1964). 20th-century decorative arts dealer and Marx expert Liz O'Brien reveals many of Marx's undiscovered projects, including houses that have been razed despite preservationist protests, as well as his range of furniture designs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New.

NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1967. Octavo. 148 pp; color fold-out plate & profuse b/w illustrations; catalogue of the exhibition; bibliography; index. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; light rubbing to extremities, back cover lightly soiled.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Stamford, CT: Architectural Book Publishing, 1979. Quarto. xv, 254 pp; over 300 b/w photographs & drawings. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. The photos in this book record a myriad examples of outdoor planning and decoration in gardens representing a wide range of periods of Mexican architecture from the 16th-century colonial through contemporary. Included are gates, entrances and paths, walls, terraces, stairs, water fountains, swimming pools, sculpture, furniture, lighting, balconies, roof gardens, and more.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2002. First edition. Quarto. 272 pp; color & b/w illustrations throughout. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, small black dot on bottom edge. Published to accompany a major retrospective of the designer's 50-year career, this volume features over 100 new photographs by such notables as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Horst, and Guy Bourdin, in addition to Blass's own sketches.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2003. Square octavo. 349 pp; profuse color photographs. Illustrated boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG. Featuring 40 majestic homes from New England to California to South America designed by ten international architects, this collection includes 400 full-color photographs, detailed architectural drawings, and sketches. Architects include Enrique Browne, Christian de Groote, Alfredo DeVido, and Gwathmey Siegel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY: New York Historical Society, 2002. Quarto. 39 pp; 18 color photographs; checklist. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. This catalogue was produced in conjunction with the exhibition 'Seat of Empire' held at the New-York Historical Society from October 8, 2002 to January 12, 2003.. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New.

London: A & C Black no date. Octavo. 125 pp; 20 color reproductions of paintings by A. Forestier. Decorated cloth with gilt titles on front cover and spine. VG, small pull on crown, light wear to heel. Internally clean and bright.. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Forestier, A..

NY: Viking Press, 1976. Quarto. 184 pp; 8 pp of color photographs & hundreds of b/w illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; light wear to covers.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: American Printer Inc., 1925. Quarto. 80 pp; numerous b/w illustrations. Perfect bound paperback. VG, covers lightly soiled, bottom corner creased, minor edgewear.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: American Printer Inc., 1926. Quarto. 80 pp; numerous b/w illustrations. Perfect bound paperback. VG, covers lightly soiled, minor edgewear, small loss at base of spine.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: A.L. Burt Company, 1935. Reprint. 314 pp. Cloth with dustjacket, no price on jacket. VG/Good, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket has strip at top edge from former library-style jacket protector, jacket flaps pasted to inside of covers, spine moderately rubbed with some small nicks. Ex-bookshop/library copy - "Semiat's Library & Bookshop, Bronx, New York" rubber stamp on front & back inside covers. Great jacket artwork.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

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: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1931. Stated first edition. Octavo. 372 pp; illustrated endpapers. Gilt decorated cloth in chipped dustjacket. Near Fine in Good+ dustjacket with a couple large chips missing from top edge of front panel and crown, heel missing small chip, back panel top edge crinkled with closed tears, and chip near spine. Presentation copy to Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Lowell of the Lowell Institute and WGBH radio & television.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good.

Paris: Osmont et Dezon n.d. (ca. 1820-1825). Volume 4 of seven stand-alone volumes. Oblong quarto. Title page followed by 48 (of 50) hand-colored engravings. Quarter calf and marbled boards with gilt title on spine. Existing examples of this book do not appear to have a title except for the first cahier, with the following volumes designated only by their number (2eme cahier, 3eme cahier...). A French bookseller list from 1819 shows the title as - Recueil de draperies d'Hallavant, a l'usage des marchands de meubles, tapissiers, decorateurs, mis au jour et augmente par Osmond et Dezon -, with a publication date of 1818. Two versions were available, one in black & white for 18 francs, and one in color for 25 francs. Volumes in the series also lack any dates except for the 7eme cahier, which was issued by Pinsonniere in 1839. The accepted date range of this series is 1810-1839 as based on internal evidence of drapery styles [Cf. Gail Caskey Winkler], and this volume falls into the 1820-1825 date range.… Read More

NY: Oswald Publishing, 1925. Quarto. 80 pp; numerous b/w illustrations. Perfect bound paperback. VG, covers lightly soiled, minor edgewear.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1972. Octavo. 111 pp. Paper-covered boards with dj. NF/VG. Signed on title page " Merry X'mas" Simon. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

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.