Search Results: Titles starting with E from Carnegie Hill Books

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1962. Revised edition. Octavo. 243 pp; over 200 b/w photographs; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. A crisp, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket shows occasional light soil on back panel, else near fine, with no tears.. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Billboard Publications, 1983. Quarto. 160 pp; many color plates & b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, small chip at top edge of jacket front panel. Essays by Wendy Cooper, Marvin Schwartz, Richard Dana Reese, Henry Kauffman, and other experts, on various aspects of American furniture -- Chippendale, Phyfe, Lannuier, the Neoclassical influence, Kasten, New England joinery, Shaker chairs, etc.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1978. Revised edition. Quarto. 411 pp; over 600 b/w photographs, numerous pen and ink drawings, appendices, bibliography, glossary, index. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine lightly faded. The definitive work on traditional French-Canadian furniture by Palardy, who has devoted more than 40 years to the study of French-Canadian culture. A valuable sourcebook on the design and workmanship of French-Canadian furniture from the 17th to the first half of the 19th century. The catalogue raisonne includes armoires, buffets, chairs, commodes, beds, as well as spinning-wheels, chandeliers, mantelpieces, stoves, doors, locks, and latches. All are described and illustrated in detail. Includes lists of woodworkers' tools and descriptions of their working methods.. Second Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good+.

New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 1983. Quarto. 107 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine, except for discreet bookplate on inside front cover, a crisp, clean copy. Exhibition catalogue with 85 entries.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 1983. Quarto. 107 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine, a crisp, clean copy. Exhibition catalogue with 85 entries.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

NY: Arno/Crown, 1977. Quarto. 223 pp; profuse b/w photographs & measured drawings. Red leatherette. VG/VG, architect's ink stamp on front pastedown, light pencil underlining throughout last 7 monographs; unclipped jacket has light edgewear. A re-issue of sixteen of "The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs" published between 1915 and 1931. The monographs documented,, in both photographs and measured drawings, the historic buildings of the original thirteen colonies, accompanied by a historic essay.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001. Small quarto. 216 pp; 16 color plates & numerous b/w illustrations; map; bibliography; index. Paperback. Near Fine. The author explores early Scottish designed landscapes from the Royal Gardens around 1500 to The Hermitage in 1750, and details the dramatic developments that occurred during this period.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

NY / London: G.P. Putnam's Sons / J.M. Dent & Co., 1900. Second edition. Octavo. xix, 234 pp; 9 photogravure plates & 17 b/w drawings by James Kerr Lawson. Gilt-lettered vellum spine with brown paper-covered boards, top edge gilt. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; rear hinge cracked, spine evenly soiled.. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by James Kerr Lawson.

NY: George H. Doran Company, 1919. Twelvemo. 64 pp; 3 illustrations by Herbert Johnson. Tan pictorial boards illustrated in green and black, missing jacket. VG, spine darkened with wear along backstrip & small chip at top of spine, covers lightly soiled, top corner of back cover creased, all corners rubbed. Title page and pages opposite illustrations are lightly foxed.. Hard Cover. Good+.

London: Longmans Green and Co., 1951. First edition. Octavo. 199 pp; color frontispiece from an aquatint by W.L. Leitch; notes; index. Cloth with dj. VG/VG. The book presents a brilliant picture of the social life and personalities of Edinburgh from 1769 to 1832, a period known as that city's "Golden Age." Some of the men portrayed -- David Hume, Adam Smith, Henry Mackenzie, Robert Burns, Francis Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, Henry Raeburn, Sir Walter Scott and others.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Allworth Press, 1998. Octavo. 273 pp. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. This collection of essays, interviews, and course syllabi examines how changing professional standards in graphic design have revolutionized the way design is taught, learned, and practiced. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

NY: Viking Press, 1936. First edition. Octavo. 447 pp. Cloth with gilt titles in unclipped dust jacket. VG in VG- dj. Jacket has small v-shaped chip to top edge above title, 2 very small closed tears and mild wear to spine tips. German writer Arnold Zweig, a veteran of the German army, spins a tale of intrigue in the trenches. When Sergent Christoph Kroysing discovers his superiors selling army rations, he reports his discovery to the courts marshal, but before he can testify, the hearing is postponed and the private is reassigned to a dangerous post, only to be killed by a french artillary shell. However, just before his death, he enlists the help of Werner Bertin, a bookish private in a labor battalion. Bertin, in turn, draws into the investigation Kroysing's estranged elder brother, Lieutenant Eberhard Kroysing. These two characters engage in a war of wills with the criminal officers, all while simultaneously trying to stay alive in the vast waste of the battle of Verdun.. First Edition. Hard… Read More

NY: Viking Press, 1967. First American edition. Octavo. 312 pp; illustrations by William Nicholson; bibliography; index. Burgundy cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, old dampstain near top of fore edge, only visible on 3 pp, else a bright, clean copy; jacket lightly chipped at spine ends.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1964. First American edition. Octavo. 224 pp, b/w photo frontispiece plus 24 b/w photographs. Light green cloth with gilt-lettered spine in dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, previous owner name on front free endpaper, binding tight; jacket price clipped.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982. Quarto. 64 pp; color & b/w illustrations; checklist of exhibition. Paperback. A fine copy. Introduction by Diana Vreeland. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

Cleveland: General Electric Company, 1928. Fourth edition. Octavo. 144 pp; color illustrations. Silver checkered boards with green cloth spine. A good copy - edges & corners rubbed, covers lightly soiled; inside a clean copy.. Hard Cover. Good.

NY: Oxford University Press, 1956. First edition. Octavo. 292 pp, several b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Black cloth with silver-stamped spine lettering with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has small loss at head of spine & slight wear to corners, inked price next to printed price on front jacket flap. The biography of A. Oakey Hall, who served as mayor of New York City from 1869 to 1872. A lawyer, he was the prosecutor in the notorious Burdell murder case, and a chief defender of August Belmont when Belmont sued the Evening Post for libel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

NY: Viking, 1999. First American edition. Octavo. xvii, 316 pp; 28 b/w plates + b/w drawings in the text; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. A social history of the Regency, an era of lavish parties, ferocious gossip, relentless bed hopping, and notorious gambling that set a new standard for elegance and vulgarity.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 275 pp; a few b&w photos; note on the author. Cloth backed boards in unclipped dj. NF/NF. A loving tribute to the British writer Iris Murdoch by her husband of forty years.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Rosenberg & Stiebel, 1984. Octavo. 68 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; catalogue of the exhibition. Paperback. VG, light rubbing along backstrip, back cover lightly soiled.. Soft Cover. Very Good.