Illustrated from Carnegie Hill Books

NY: Holiday House, 1937. First edition. Octavo. 116 pp; many b/w drawings by the author, map on endpapers. Original cloth-backed wood boards lettered in red on spine & cover. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine darkened. Glen Harold Rounds (1906-2002), an American author and illustrator, was the recipient of more than 25 literary awards over his 60-year career. He wrote… Read more about this item

Cleveland: Corday & Gross Co., 1945. Octavo. 125 pp; frontispiece, drawings & color diagrams; tipped-in photo of author; illustrated endpapers. Gilt-stamped blue buckram binding. VG/Good, owner name on first blank page & half title page, else a clean, unmarked copy; jacket edges & spine ends chipped, spine & band on front cover sunned. Paul Weeks Litchfield, an American industrialist, was… Read more about this item

Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux, 1927. Limited edition, #109/490 copies on velin d'Arches paper. Small folio. 123 pp; illustrated with 17 watercolors, including frontispiece, by Andre Suréda, engraved on wood by Robert Dill, and decorated by the artist's headbands, initials, motifs and culs-de-lampe in black and gold. A fine copy in wraps in near fine chemise with sunned spine & lightly… Read more about this item

NY: Modern Library Modern Library #49. Octavo. 544 pp. Original green cloth with dustjacket illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. VG+/VG, former owner stamp on half title page, else an unmarked copy, binding bright & solid; price-clipped jacket has small tear at bottom of front panel, spine slightly faded.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. Illus. by E. McKnight Kauffer.

Home Lines, 1961. 12" x 8.5". [4] pp; die-cut cover with watercolor drawing on cover, menu on p 3. Menu from Sun-Way Cruises New Year's Holiday Cruise for Saturday, January 6, 1961. . First Edition. Very Good.

London: Medici Society, 1923. Small quarto. 46 pp; 12 tipped-in color plates. Cloth-backed paper boards with color illustration inset on cover with dustjacket. VG/G, random light foxing to preliminary pp, no writing in the book; cutout jacket lacks 4.5-in. x 2-in. piece of frame at bottom of jacket front cover, and smaller loss on the fore edge.. First Edition. Hard… Read more about this item

Boston: Boston Public Library, 1968. Small folio. 227 pp; 443 b/w illustrations; list of illustrations; index. Gilt-stamped green cloth with dustjacket. VG+/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has small chip at head of spine.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Vendome Press, 1984. First American edition. Folio; 175 pp.; 296 illustrations from photographs & drawings, including 136 in color; bibliography. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has light wear to spine ends, short edge tear, faint dampstain at top corner of back cover. "A well-illustrated monograph on the enduring illustrator whose distinctive style helped define art deco. Lepape's… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1948. First edition. Octavo. 47 pp; 8 color & 23 b/w illustrations. Illustrated boards in dustjacket with identical image. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket has light wear to toned spine with tiny nicks to backstrip.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/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.… Read more about this item

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: Rizzoli International, 1979. First American edition. Octavo. 3 pp; 48 color plates. Paperback. Near Fine. Introductory text by art and design historian Pauline Ridley, followed by 48 color plates with fashion designer, date, and illustrator identified, and a brief description of clothing. Collection of French fashion illustrations from the early 20th century, culled from the pages of period journals… Read more about this item

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1956. Special printing. Octavo. 174 pp; b/w drawings by the author. Off-white cloth with red spine lettering in slipcase. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine is darkened; . Hard Cover. Very Good.

Hastings: R. A. Brimmel, 1967. Octavo. 71 pp; illustrated with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. Blue paper-covered boards. #381/525 copies. Near Fine, small bookplate on front pastedown, else a clean, unmaked copy.. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Reynolds Stone.

NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. Octavo. 13 pp plus 32 color plates; bibliography; key to plates. Illustrated hardcover, no jacket, as issued. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. This book presents a selection of pattern papers from the Curwen Press, dating from the early 1920s to the early 1950s, by English artists and designers such as Paul Nash, Lovat Fraser,… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1952. Twelvemo. 92 pp; illus by William Pene du Bois. Illustrated paper-covered boards, no jacket. VG, spine lightly soiled, light wear to cover extremities, back cover lightly rubbed. Interior clean, with a few light smudges.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: John Murray, 1973. Octavo. 94 pp; approx 40 b/w illustrations by Lancaster. Original gilt-lettered yellow cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy in price-clipped jacket. With a foreword by Roy Strong.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Pavilion, 1989. First printing. Quarto. 192 pp; illustrated throughout in color and b/w; bibliography. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. Near fine in near fine jacket. former owner gift inscription on ffep. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Callaway Editions, 2000. Oblong quarto. [32] pp; color illustraitons by Dasha Ziborova. Hardcover with dustjacket. A fine copy in fine unclipped jacket. Press release laid in. Lovely watercolor illustrations tell the story of Crispin, the dandy feline hero who longs for a sense of independence.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1882. Second edition. Quarto. 581 pp; 17 chromolithographs and 300 wood engravings created under the direction of M.A. Racinet; all edges gilt. Text in French. Bound in original leather-backed pebbled cloth with coat of arms of the city of Paris on cover and gilt tooling and titles on spine. VG- scattered moderate foxing throughout… Read more about this item