Biography from Carnegie Hill Books

London: Chatto & Windus, 2010. First printing. Octavo. 258 pp; 8 pages of b/w photographs; family trees; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, several early pp with red ink underlining; unclipped jacket with minimal wear. Laid in: book review clippings from several newspapers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Paris: Paul Morihien, 1947. 12mo. 273 pp. Text in French. Paperback with glassine wraps. #165/1000 copies on Alma Marais. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, glassine wraps with small loss.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

NY: Random House, 2012. First printing. Quarto. 333 pp; well-illustrated with color & b/w photographs. Orange paper-covered hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy with tight binding; unclipped jacket with slight wear to bottom of spine. A memoir from Grace Coddington, Vogue's longtime creative director, and a former model.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Dial Press, 1996. Second printing. Octavo. 334 pp; b/w illustrations; b/w photos. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; bottom front corner lightly bumped, unclipped jacket with no creases or tears. The author is the oldest of Stanford White's great-granddaughters.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

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.

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. First edition. Octavo. 355 pp. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a solid, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket shows mild rubbing on back cover, a remainder mark to the bottom edges of pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Viking Press, 1996. First printing. Quarto. xii, 276 pp; 26 color & numerous b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket crisp and clean. A profile of Sir Edwin Lutyens' clients.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Random House, 2011. First edition. Octavo. 625 pp; 16 pp color photographs; select bibliography; index. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket bright, slight creasing at head of spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. Second printing. Octavo. Unpaginated, color illustrations throughout. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with minor wear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Second printing. Octavo. 208 pp; frontispiece & 11 b/w photographs; index. Green cloth with gilt lettering in dj. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket has light edgewear. Dame Edith Sitwell was 69 when she invited Elizabeth Salter, a young Australian, to be her secretary. Over the next eight years she became friend, confidante and… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Jonathan Cape, 2011. Octavo. 324 pp; illustrations by Jonathan Barrow. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy. The author's memoir of his youngest brother, Jonathan, who was killed in a car crash at age 22, along with his fiancee. Jonathan left behind the manuscript of a novel, "The Queue", in which, among other things, he prophesied his own… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975. First American edition. Octavo. 317 pp; b/w photographs; notes; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket has lightly sunned spine, small nick at top of spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: William Morrow & Company, 1980. First edition. Octavo. 475 pp; numerous illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG in VG jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Collins, 1964. Octavo. 255 pp. Gilt-lettered blue cloth, no jacket. VG. Historical novel set in the time of the Punic wars, as two Greeks traders negotiate their businesses deals and survive the conflicts between the Carthaginians and the Romans.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First American edition. Octavo. x, 238 pp; b/w photographs; 4 drawings by the author; extracts from letters; bibliography; some books consulted; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG-, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket with moderate wear - 1-in. x 1-in. chip at top edge of front panel, spine ends lightly chipped, small loss at top edge of… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1985. First printing. Octavo. 256 pp. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has light toning at top & bottom edges of flaps. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 2003. First printing. Octavo. 241 pp. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with minimal wear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1971. First edition. Octavo. 251 pp; 48 b/w illustrations. Publisher's burgundy cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, small erasure spot on front flyleaf, else a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket lightly chipped at top & bottom of spine, short edge tear, light soil on back panel. Autobiography of Marya Mannes (1904-1990) American writer and critic, known… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1986. First American edition. Octavo. xii, 274 pp; 16 pages of b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth-backed boards with dustjacket. VG/VG, previous owner name at top of front free endpaper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.