Search Results: Authors starting with S from Carnegie Hill Books

NY: Crown Publishers, 1978. 27th printing. Small quarto. xvi, 303 pp; fully illustrated with b/w photographs of chairs, beds, bureaus, chests and cupboards, chests-on-chests, clocks, desks, secretaries, highboys, lowboys, mirrors, sideboards, sofas and tables. Cloth with dustjacket. VG in VG jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1993. Orig. published 1937. Octavo. 111 pp; 27 watercolor plates by Graham Rust. Cloth with dj. Near fine/Near fine. In 1937 Vita "chose 25 of her favorite flowers and described their appearance, origins, characteristics, and the best ways to grow them in a series of brilliantly expressive essays, illustrated with b/w photographs." In this edition, Graham Rust, a highly regarded muralist and botanical illustrator, has created watercolors to match her words.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1937. First U.S. edition. Octavo. vii, 309 pp; b/w portrait of Pepita on frontispiece. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG The unconventional memoirs of the extraordinary Sackville-West family.. 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: W. W. Norton, 2005. Quarto. 208 pp; profusely illustrated in color and b/w. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a new, unused copy; jacket glossy with no wear. The career of Frances Adler Elkins (1888-1953), sister of renowned Chicago architect David Adler, spanned more than three decades. An avant-garde decorator and arbiter of taste, Elkins was celebrated for inspired designs that integrated various periods and styles, from country French to chinoiserie to art deco, and featured furnishings by such modern designers as Jean-Michel Frank and Alberto Giacometti.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Second printing. Octavo. 208 pp; frontispiece & 11 b/w photographs; index. Green cloth with gilt lettering in dj. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket has light edgewear. Dame Edith Sitwell was 69 when she invited Elizabeth Salter, a young Australian, to be her secretary. Over the next eight years she became friend, confidante and aide-de-camp, in the thick of the crises, the controversy and the celebrity that surrounded the British poet and critic.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Lock Haven, PA: Hammermill Paper Company, Lock Haven Division, 1968. Limited edition. Octavo. Six 24-pp sections, in each of which a designer has presented his version of Kafka's The Trial plus an essay by Kenneth Rexroth; Kafka chronology; designers' biographies. Cloth-backed boards with gilt titles. VG, former owner name and date on front free endpaper, edges of covers a bit toned. Each designer was given 24 pages to present their own print version of The Trial complete with endpapers, title page, illustrations and chapter heads. The result is a comparative study of book design, starting with George Salter's original layout for the American edition of The Trial, published in 1937 by Alfred A. Knopf. #266/2500 copies.. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Pace Gallery, 1979. Oblong octavo. [32] pp; b/w & color illustrations throughout; list of one-man shows; bibliography. Paperback with French fold covers depicting large purple "glitter" scissors on black & white decorative background. Very good copy, light rubbing to edges.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York: P. Centemeri & Co. n.d. First Edition. 6.75" x 4.25" closed; four panels opening to 6.75" x 17.75.." Four panels of kid glove color swatches in accordion fold binding, with a total of 32 color swatches (8 per panel). VG, light edge wear, cover gilt a bit dull.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Baltimore, MD: John Duer & Sons no date. ca. 1930s. The 9"x4" sample card contains 9 cane or reed samples, and two samples of cane webbing. Blue printed stiff card; cane & reed samples are held by elastic cord, and cane webbing samples are glued to the card. VG, corners lightly bumped, light wear. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Hearst Magazines, 1936. Vol. 78, No. 9. Folio (13 in. x 10 in.). 100 pp; full of color & b/w illustrations. Paperback. VG+, a clean, unmarked copy; spine lightly rubbed, back cover with light soil. Cover design: Espalier Apples by Leon Carroll. Articles include "America Builds" by Ethel B. Power, "When She Comes Home from the Office," featuring furniture designed by Macy, "Three New Bathrooms" with fixtures by Crane Company, and lighting fixtures by Lightolier. Advertisements by Armstrong Linoleum, Kenmar cooper shingles, General Electric, Monel Metal, Hodgson Houses, Carrara Walls by Pittsburgh Glass, Vitrolite by Libbey Owens Ford Glass Co., and others.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Leon Carroll.

London: The Architectural Press, 1939. Folio. 165 pp plus 32 pp advertising section; full of diagrams & tables; fold-out map; index. Publisher's cream cloth with dark blue stamped lettering on cover & spine. Good only - binding tender, covers soiled; former owner name on front free endpaper; occasional pencil underlining.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Barcelona: Labor, 1981. Quarto. 207 pp; profuse color photographs; bibliography; index. Text in Spanish. Blue cloth with gilt lettering in dustjacket.VG/VG, jacket shows light edgewear, small dampstain on inside of jacket near bottom of rear panel, not visible on exterior. Former owner name on front free endpaper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: New York City Administration of Recreation.and Cultural Affairs, 1967. Square octavo. [48] pp; [24] b/w photographs. Orange stapled wraps with title in white on front cover. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; a few tiny scratches beneath title on cover, gentle vertical crease to back cover. Exhibition catalog for New York City's first major outdoor group exhibition of temporary public art, entitled "Sculpture in Environment," organized by Doris Freedman, and curated by Sam Green. The show encompassed the works of 24 artists including Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg, and Louise Nevelson installed at 9 city park locations and 15 public or corporate buildings or plazas.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: W. W. Norton, 2017. First printing. Octavo. xix, 459 pp; b/w illustrations; notes; index. Illustrated paper-covered boards, no jacket, as issued. Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy. A ground-breaking book tracing the arc of food production in NYC from colonial artisanal, to mega-industrial, back to contemporary artisanal. Deeply researched and entertainingly written, Food City relates in captivating detail how politics and personalities, as well as global networks of food supply, shaped the provisioning of the urban metropolis. From New Amsterdam to the present. Joy Santlofer has detailed the history of modern food.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

NY: William Morrow & Company, 1980. First edition. Octavo. 475 pp; numerous illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG in VG jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1985. First printing. Octavo. 256 pp. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has light toning at top & bottom edges of flaps. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1992. Oblong quarto. 112 pp; 77 b/w halftones by well-knows photographers; Cocteau chronology; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a crisp, unmarked copy; jacket shows mild shelfwsear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY: De Witt C. Lent and Company, 1872. Octavo. viii, 526 pp; 52 original designs from contemporary American artists. Original rust cloth with gilt-lettered spine, gilt & black lettering on cover. VG minus, a clean, unmarked copy, binding split in middle but held in place by the stitching. Cover has black ink thumbprint at fore edge, top & bottom of spine lightly frayed with small chips, bottom edge has small split at corner, covers lightly soiled overall.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Bruna/Deutsch, 1961. First edition. 7" x 4.5". 121 b/w photogravure plates. Original stiff photographic wrappers. VG, laminate over spine is lifting but intact, binding tight and clean, light edge wear, preliminary pages moderately spotted with very fine pin-point spots but not affecting any of the photographs. Photos of by renowned Dutch photographer Kees Scherer, who was one of the Netherlands' most popular and respected photographers. This distinctive photobook looks at early 1960s New York City with European eyes and fully conveys Scherer's fascination with the dynamics of light. With text in English by Dutch journalist Max Tak, featuring 121 captioned b/w photographs. Preceded by a 1960 Dutch edition.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.