Search Results: Titles starting with M from Carnegie Hill Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. First printing (stated). Octavo. 356 pp; b/w photogarphs; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, top corner bumped; unclipped jacket has one short edge tear, minor wear to spine ends, price in ink next to printed price on jacket flap. Biography of the French stage and early film actress, who made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, and then in Europe and America. Jacket poster by Alphonse Mucha shows Ms. Bernhardt in one of her most famous roles in La Dame aux Camelias.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh at the University Press, 1993. Reissue; first published in 1966. Octavo. xv, 338 pp; 82 b/w photographs, 80 figures, appendix; notes; index. Publisher's cloth with gilt-lettered spine. VG+, a clean, unmarked copy; spine gilt bright, light soiled area on back cover. This book features the Georgian 'New Town' part of Edinburgh, built in the space of 75 years, from 1766 to 1840. The author has studied in detail how it was planned, financed, and brought into being.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Little, Brown, 1990. First edition. Quarto. vii; 215 pp; fully illustrated with color photographs by George Chinsee; bibliography, index. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket has short crease at upper corner of back cover, two corners lightly rubbed. Also paper clip indentations at the top of several pages. This book profiles the interiors of Elsie de Wolfe, Rose Cumming, Sister Parish, Albert Hadley, William Odom, Van Day Truex, Billy Baldwin, David Easton, and many other Manhattan designers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: The Authors Club, 1922. Octavo; 175 pp. Quarter-cloth and paper covered boards with spine label and raised bands. VG- Cloth slightly soiled. Includes a program for an Authors Club New Year's Eve event 1923/1924, a Proxy request from the board of the AC and a note about proposed amendments to the AC constitution.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1981. First printing. Small quarto. 192 pp; 199 b/w illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked, tight copy, covers bright & glossy. The first comprehensive study of Breuer's furniture & interiors; companion to the 1981 MOMA exhibition. Exhibition brochure laid in; errata slip taped to front flyleaf.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

NY / Philadelphia: Museum of Modern Art / Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973. Quarto. 345 pp; illustrated in b/w and 4 color plates. Paperback. VG in slightly chipped mylar over wrap. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Monacelli Press, 1999. Quarto. 192 pp, illustrated with color photographs. Paperback. Near Fine. In a collection of projects developed during the 1990s, Margaret Helfand Architects argues for an architecture of logic, simplicity, and sensuality. Presented chronologically, nineteen projects ranging from showrooms, residences, academic buildings, parks, and functional objects are examined in photographs and texts along the three axes fundamental to the firm's work: geometry, structure, and materials. Basic materials such as steel, wood, glass, and stone are used with a minimum of transformation.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Kyoto: Kyoto Costume Institute, 1985. Square octavo. 48 pp; 21 full-page color photographs & a number of b/w illustrations. Text in Japanese. Paperback. Top corner gently creased, else in very good condition. Catalogue of an exhibition held November 9 - Dec 1, 1985.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1987. Small quarto. 79 pp; profuse color & b/w illustrations; exhibition checklist. Paperback. Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy, minor crease to bottom corner of front cover.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

NY: George Braziller, 1998. Large quarto. xv, 392 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine. The nearly 100 titles catalogued here trace the origins and development of architectural illustration in Britain. The Millard collection is particularly rich in the 18th century, and includes almost all of the great folio albums recording the archaeological investigations of antiquity.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

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.

Binghamton, NY: University Art Gallery, 1971. Octavo. 36 pp; 32 b/w photographs of works in the text. Paperback. Very good to near fine, covers lightly soiled, faint paper clip impression to top edge. Includes furniture by Wendell Castle and Jack Lebowitz.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Crown Publishers, 1959. Small folio. xxii, 32 color plates of period costumes & 51 correlated line drawings of appropriate accessories -- shoes, undergarments, gloves, headgear -- as well as pattern plates. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, gift inscription on front flyleaf; price-clipped jacket has 1-in. triangular chip at top of spine, corners lightly chipped, top edge of rear panel has small chips. Written and illustrated by noted theatrical designer Aline Bernstein.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 2002. Quarto. 174 pp; over 100 color photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. This exhibition features 100 objects from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1961. Square octavo. 63 pp; tipped-in color frontispiece, numerous b/w photographs; catalogue of the exhibition of 240 pieces; bibliography. Paperback. VG. Catalogue of an exhibition of Ernst's paintings, sculpture and reliefs; watercolors, drawings, gouaches, collages; portfolios and illustrated books.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: A.S. Barnes, 1966. First edition. Small quarto. 178 pp; 47 b/w illustrations; index. Map of Mayfair on endpapers. Green cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket is lightly chipped at top & bottom of spine & corners, spine & part of back panel a bit sunned. The author has written an enlightening history of Mayfair's parks, squares, buildings, and people, past and present.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Elek Books, 1957. First edition. Octavo, 159 pp; some b/w illustrations. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. VG+/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has light soil, spine toned.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2008. Quarto. 239 pp; profuse color photographs, floor plans; bibliography; index. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket clean & bright, with no chips or tears. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Macdonald & Co., 1946. First British edition. Octavo. 114 pp. Illustrated with 32 color photos & 32 photogravure stills, along with some of Oliver Messel's costume sketches reproduced in the margins of the text. Red gilt-lettered cloth with tipped-on illustration of Michelangelo's head of Cleopatra* on cover with dustjacket. VG+/VG+, a clean, unmarked copy, gilt lettering bright; jacket price clipped with light wear at spine ends, small loss at bottom corner of front cover; light rubbing at edges; tiny puncture in fold of spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+.

Paris: Realites/Hachette, 1976. Quarto. 255 pp; fully illustrated in color & b/w. Text in French. Cloth in dustjacket. Near Fine (top corners gently bumped) in Near Fine jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.