Women from Carnegie Hill Books

Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Co., 1929. Deluxe edition. Octavo. 408 pp; color frontispiece, numerous b/w plates; index; map on endpapers. Burgundy pictorial cloth with gilt-stamped lettering on cover & spine, in original glassine wrap with original box. VG book - clean & unmarked, glassine lightly chipped at edges. Box split at corners. In 1928, Dorothy Giles drove her own Ford… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Oblong octavo. [36] pp; numerous b/w illustrations. Paperback. Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; covers with no wear. Catalogue of an exhibition organized by Diana Vreeland for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan. "This is not a dress show. This is an exhibition to project, through the beholder's imagination, a vision of ten American women… Saber más sobre este artículo

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.

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.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1934. First edition. Octavo. 302 pp; illustrated by the author. Original blue cloth, maps on endpapers. No jacket. VG, spine lightly sunned, else a clean, unmarked copy. Helen Worden Erskine, 1896-1984, journalist and author of The Real New York, Here is New York, and Out of this World (about the Collyer Brothers and other hermits).. First Edition. Hard… Saber más sobre este artículo

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.

NY: Boni and Liveright, 1924. Third printing. Octavo. 355 pp; 20 illustrations from photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG-. Rare in jacket. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First U.S. edition. Octavo. 184 pp; illustrated by Virginia Powell. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, binding tight; unclipped jacket is crisp & bright. The author and her daughter, Claire Hastings, lived next door to each other in a village on England's Berkshire Downs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. First edition. Octavo. xvi, 192 pp; b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dj "a perceptive study of the relationship between V. Sackville- West's life and her work, in which [is explored] her poems 'The Land' and 'The Garden', biographies, novels, shorter poetry, and all her writings, published and unpublished." [dj]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977. First printing. Octavo. 240 pp; profusely illustrated with 42 color & 123 b/w photographs from the collection of the Winterthur Museum. Publisher's red cloth with black-lettered cover & spine in dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a crisp, tight, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket with minor edgewear. Review slip laid in.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: Clarkson Potter, 1993. Oblong quarto. 160 pp; numerous color & b/w illustrations; index; the sources. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

NY: Clarkson Potter, 1997. Second printing. Quarto. 224 pp; profusely illustrated with color photographs; index. Illustrated boards with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG+. Women from all walks of life show us the sanctuaries they have created in their own homes. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+.

London: Harvill Press, 1996. Second printing. Octavo. 342 pp; 32 pages of b/w photographs; appendices; discography; bibliography; index. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, in dustjacket. VG/VG-, light jacket wear & mild creasing at bottom edge on back cover. Violet Gordon-Woodhouse (1872 - 1948) was an acclaimed British harpsichordist and clavichordist, highly influential in bringing both instruments back into fashion.… Saber más sobre este artículo