Search Results: Authors starting with W from Carnegie Hill Books

Leipzig: Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn, 1912. Octavo. 116 pp; 194 b/w illustrations. Tan cloth with red lettering. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine & edges of covers toned. Volume 2, the plate volume of two-volume overview of the arts - architecture, sculpture, painting, graphic arts, and decorative arts.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Leipzig: Insel Verlag c.1934. Small octavo, 79 pp; 16 "shear-cuts" (silhouettes) by the author. Gothic German text. Decorated paper covered boards. VG. Book number 426. Rough translation = The meadow book with 16 shear cuts by the author. Island Books No. 426.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Bonanza, 1976. Quarto. Unpaginated; full of b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, former owner's ink stamp on front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy; short tears at top of jacket spine. A reproduction of six 19th-century trade catalogues of American architectural details. Manufacturers include Marshall Lefferts & Brother, 1854; Buffalo Eagle Iron Works, 1859; Morris, Tasker & Co, 1860; Philadelphia Architectural Iron Co, 1872; Keystone Mantel & Slate Works, 1872, and George O. Stevens, 1879.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1978. First printing. Quarto. 296 pp; 96 color & 102 b/w illustrations; chronology; list of exhibitions & selected reviews; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, top 2" of cover a bit yellowed, pages are bright. Based on the retrospective presented at the Guggenheim Museum in 1978.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Bethlehem, PA: Chapman Slate Co., 1930. No. 1, May 1930. Quarto. 16 pp; profuse b/w photographs by the author. Stapled wraps. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; staples rusted, middle spread (pp 7-10) detached but present. The first in a series of monographs prepared for architects and others interested in the building of churches. Chapman Slate Co. was founded when William Chapman, an Englishman, discovered slate deposits in PA in 1850. This monograph shows the beauty of English parish churches with their stone roofs.. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good.

VT: David & Charles, 1980. First American edition. Octavo. 319 pp; numerous b/w photographs and drawings. Cloth with dustjacket. Near fine in near fine jacket. The story of the Westminster bridge, its planning, history and eventual collapse.. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Oxford University Press, 1970. First edition. 6" x 4.25". 25 pp; color illustrations by Tim Gaydos. Stapled wraps. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; minor wear to extremities. The text was adapted from Chapter III of the author's biography of Andrew Carnegie.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

NY: Bonanza Books Quarto. 147 pp; numeorus b/w illustrations & measured drawings. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG-. Detailed drawings and photographs of Philadelphia's wrought decorative ironwork -- including gates, fences, railings, and lamps. Originally published in 1930 by Architectural Book Publishing.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997. Second printing. Quarto. 288 pp; illustrated throughout in color; appendix. Hardcover with jacket in as new condition. A look at the history and collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum.. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1953. First edition. Octavo. xii, 177 pp plus 19 maps & b/w illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt-lettered cover & spine, lacks dustjacket. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; minor rubbing to spine ends & corners.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+.

NY: The American Federation of the Arts, 1979. Quarto. 193 pp; 196 objects described and illustrated, some in color plus 39 b/w text illustrations; bibliography; index of silversmiths, designers, manufacturers and retailers. Paperback. VG.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: The Andy Warhol Foundation For the Visual Arts, 2007. First edition. Three volumes. Square octavo. 94; 82; 95 pp; illustrated in color. Paperbacks housed in slipcase. Fine in fine slipcase. Paperback. Fine.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926. Quarto. 237 pp; illustrated throughout with b/w and the occasional color illustrations. Cloth-backed boards with label on cover. No jacket. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1947. Folio. xvii, 191 pp; illustrations, elevations, full size details of portfolios [13 plates], list of brick sizes, comparison of outline plans, glossary, index. Gilt-titled green cloth. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; slight dampstain at lower corner of front cover with corresponding waviness to text block pages, cover gilt dull, spine gilt obscured. This copy has been inscribed by Waterman for "Eppes & Bill Fahnestock, to mark the day that work was started on the restoration of Readbourne. Thomas T. Waterman, Corsica House, May 7, 1947." This book was originally in published in 1932.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: Batsford, 1984. Quarto. 201 pp; 35 color & 248 b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy. This book tells the story of 22 Arlington Street, the great town house designed by William Kent for Henry Pelham in the 1740s. Prints, drawings, plans and photographs enhance the book's documentary value.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+.

NY: Rizzoli, 2006. First edition. Quarto. 240 pp, full of color photographs. Hardcover with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a new copy. This book contains hundreds of lavish color illustrations and thirty of Quinlan Terry's designs, including state rooms at #10 Downing Street, a library and residential building at Cambridge University, a cathedral in Essex, a church in Bishopsgate, four buildings in Williamsburg, VA, townhouses in London, and ten large country houses in England, Germany, and the U.S. Buildings include Juniper Hill in Buckinghamshire; Ionic Villa, Corinthian Villa, and Regency Villa in Regents Park, London; Abercrombie House in KY; Latourette Farm, NJ; and Highland Park House, Dallas. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New.

NY: Architectural Catalog Co., 1940. Vol. IV, No. 9, April 1940. Folio. [30] pp, printed recto only, [18] pp advertisements; full of b/w photos of exteriors and interiors. Original printed wrappers. Fine, a bright, crisp copy. Trade catalogue showing the firms residential & commercial work, including 26 residences and country houses, two churches, a chapel, funeral home, library, post office, hospital, housing project, and a design submitted for a memorial, all in the Chicago area. The adverts are from companies in the Chicago building industry before World War II.. First Edition. Soft Cover. 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.

London: Thames & Hudson, 2007. Oblong octavo. 223 pp; full page color photographs throughout. Illustrated boards. Near fine. Photographs of eclectic New York City shop windows and interiors along with an image of each establishment's business card on the facing page.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

NY: Silver, Burdett and Company, 1924. Octavo. 200 pp; numerous b/w photographs & drawings. Original light blue cloth. VG, gift inscription on front free endpaper, dated 1926. Minor wear to spine ends & corners, cover lightly & evenly soiled. Contains "A reference list for teachers and pupils": book 1, pp 192-195.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.