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New York: Exeter Books, 1988. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 191. Illustrated with color photos. More
New York: Exeter Books, 1988. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 191. Illustrated with color photos. More
Bulfinch Pr, 1993. First edition. Glossy Pictorial Wraps. Oblong 12mo, 32 color postcards. More
Boston: American Architect and Building New Company, 1898. First edition. Cloth over Boards. folio (14 x 19). 20 magnificent b/w full-page plates. in quite good condition for age and all 20 images still completely intact. great visually-guided tour through the history of American architecture. More
Pittstown, NJ: Arno Press, Inc., 1977. First edition. Original Red Cloth. Octavo, pp.226, indexed, illustrated in b/w photos & drawings. From material originally published as The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs. More
New York: Vintage, 1975. First edition. Original Wraps. Small Quarto, pp. 153, indexed, profusely illustrated w/ b/w photographs. An excellent overview of this distinctive architectural style that began in Georgian England and spread to the U.S. to eventually become the dominant style of architecture here for nearly a century. More
New York: Abrams, 1995. Reprint. Stiff wraps. Oblong quarto, pp. 144, profusely and lavishly illustrated w/ color and b/w photographs. More
New York: 1994. Hardcover. As the title states, very concise but on the mark. Each section of the book begins with a historical overview of the period, followed by a concise commentary on each style. The author then highlights the specific design details that distinguish one style from another. He..... More
New York: International Publications, Inc., 1932. First edition. Original Wraps. More
New York: Braziller, 1973. First edition, as stated. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 50. More
New York: Hastings House, 1956. Cloth over Boards. Folio, 172 pp. Color frontispiece. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs by Samuel Chamberlain, indexed. An unprecedented guided tour of some of America's most beautiful houses. More
New York: Knopf, 2004. First edition, as stated. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 957 plus xlii index. Nice bold signature in bright blue ink, direct from Clinton Library, possibly of topical interest. More
New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1970. Reprint. Oversized Paperback. Octavo, pp. 29 (text) plus 118 b/w plates (a total of 216 illustrations). Scarce! Ex-library noted architectural historian Nancy Halverson Schless. More
New York: Viking Press, 1974. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 179. Nice copy of first book of a highly regarded writer who died too young. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 1985. First edition. Original Green Cloth. Octavo, pp. 289, indexed, illustrated in b/w & color photos. Creese analyzes the historical essence of eight distinguished American sites and their architecture. Eight maps and striking photographs - 16 in color, 138 in B&W - accompany descriptions of how..... More
Newtown, CT: The Taunton Press, 2005. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo. Another solid study by one of the design industry's established spokes(wo)men. More
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Large Octavo, pp. 300, indexed, richly illustrated w/ b/w drawings and photographs. More
Boston: David R. Godine Publisher, 1989. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Folio (12 X 11), pp. 191, indexed. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w plates. More than 70 structures in full color, from octagonal barns to Cape May cottages, from elegant NY town houses to grand Greek Revivals, paintings and..... More
Boston: David R. Godine Publisher, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Octavo, pp. 74. Scarce signed first of the author's first book. Doty is one of the most highly regarded of younger American poets. More
Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1929. Brown stapled card wraps. Unpaginated (30 pages), with 22 photographic figures and 4 architectural line drawings. Some foxing inside. A study and collection of architectural and domestic artifacts of German colonists in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, in the early 1800s. Very nice examples of iron..... More
Middletown, CT: Clark & Lyman, 1818. First edition. Full Calf, w/ gold lettering and patterns, mildly faded. Octavo, pp. 533. A lovely copy of a scarce volume in a scarce set.by an early president of Yale University. More
Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1913. First edition. Original Cloth, teal. Octavo, pp. xii, 300, illustrated w/drawings, a collection of articles previously printed in various magazines. More
New York: The Architectural and Building Press, Inc., 1922. First edition. Box with envelope and loose portfolio of plates. Quarto, pp. 19 of description by William Crocker, ed. of The American Architect, plus 56 loose duotone sketches. This set includes 3 additional plates by the same artist (for a total..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1942. First edition. Original Wraps. 12 Mo, pp. 27. Wartime speech, nice first edition of the Nobel-winning poet and critic. More
London: Faber & Faber, 1939. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 136. More
Paris: la Société Technic-Union, 1972. First edition. Trade Paperback. Octavo, pp. 118, profusely illustrated w/ b/w and color photographs. In French, with English summary. Glossy French journal journal issue presents studies of Alba, Bossard, Safdie, Ahrends/Burton/Koralek, and Venturi/Rauch. More