Search Results: Authors starting with V from Carnegie Hill Books

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First edition. Octavo. 78 pp, with 23 poems. Cloth with gilt titles on face and spine. VG, slight wear to spine ends, front free endpaper removed.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Pencil Points, 1924. First edition. Quarto. [12], 213 pp; 100 plates of photographs & illustsations; index. Brown cloth-backed with tan paper-covered boards. VG, interior clean with no markings; corners lightly rubbed, bottom corners bumped, spine gilt no longer visible; covers relatively clean.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Troy, NY: Whitston Publishing Co., 1971. Octavo. 501 pp. Original red cloth with gilt lettering, no jacket as issued. VG, ex-library copy, a sound, lightly used copy, top corner of front flyleaf clipped, library stamp at base of title page.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co., 1938. Octavo. 491 pp; 128 b/w plates; index. Red cloth with lettering on cover & spine. Good, a clean, unmarked copy internally; covers lightly soiled, spine darkened with short tear in cloth under spine title, cover gilt worn off. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

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.

Paris: Editions du Chene, 1997. Quarto. 191 pp; profuse color photographs & b/w illustrations; bibliography. Text in French. Hardcover with dustjacket, ribbon marker. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket with no rips or tears. SIGNED by photographer on half-title page. This book focuses on Auguste Rodin, the man: his childhood in Paris, learning the trade and his years in Brussels, attending artistic and literary circles, meeting with Camille Claudel, but also life in the villa with Rose Beuret, his girlfriend, and finally his life at the Hotel Biron, which became the Museum Rodin. By revealing aspects of both more intimate and anecdotal nature, we discover good living at family meals, lunches with friends at Meudon, his villa and lavish banquets offered in his honor. Rodin's correspondence, his notes and drafts, documents and testimonies abound with gastronomic allusions and tell us about his tastes and eating habits. Includes many recipes.. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover.… Read More

Paris: Madcap Publications, 1986. Quarto. 90 pp; b/w & color photographs throughout. Text in French & English. Paperback. Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy, covers glossy & bright. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Paris: Vve. A. Morel et Cie, 1872. Six volumes. Octavo. 443 + 535 + 478 + 506 + 498 + 488 pp; illustrated with chromolithographs, steel engravings & wood engravings. Quarter morocco over marbled boards with raised bands, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt. VG, a clean, unmarked set, occasional foxing; extremities lightly rubbed.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Paris: Gazette Du Bon Ton, 1920. Issue No. 5, June 1920. Octavo. Printed paper folder with four color plates laid in, as issued. Near Fine, images bright, plates evenly toned. The plates are of a mirror, a dressing table and stool, a stool and curtain sash, and an elaborate grooming set of blackened pear wood and galuchat lining.. First Edition. Paper. Near Fine.

Munich: Schneider-Henn, 1984. Quarto. 283 pp; 33 color & 360 b/w illustrations; list of designers. Text in German. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. ** Vienna Fashion + fashion photography. The fashion department of the Vienna Workshop 1911-1932. Catalogue of the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts **. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Trefoil Books, 1981. Square quarto. 238 pp; over 200 b/w & color illustrations; lists of makers; Russian town marks, index of marks & signatures; bibliography; index. Brown cloth with gilt-lettered spine with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. A well-illustrated history of Russian gold and silverwork from the 17th to 19th centuries.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Oblong octavo. [36] pp; numerous b/w illustrations. Paperback. Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; covers with no wear. Catalogue of an exhibition organized by Diana Vreeland for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan. "This is not a dress show. This is an exhibition to project, through the beholder's imagination, a vision of ten American women of style." DV. The women are Elsie de Wolfe, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough, Mrs. John W. Garrett, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Isadora Duncan, Mercedes de Acosta, Irene Castle, Millicent Rogers, and Josephine Baker.. First Edition. Soft Cover. New.