Heitere Tage mit Braunen Menschen.
Woodstock, VT: Eugen Rentsch, 1935. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 239, richly illustrated w/ b/w photographs, foldout mao. More
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Die Verlorene Avantgarde: Russische Revolutionsarchitektur 1922-1932 [The Lost Avant-Garde: Russian Revolutionary Architecture 1922-1932].
Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto, pp. 347. Indexed, profusely illustrated with color photos. Text in German. A beautiful look at the architectural trends of the period immediately following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Comprehensive, covering a range of styles from individual dwellings to the onset of institutionalized..... More
Small Commercial Buildings; A photographic record of 100 selected designs for small commercial buildings executed within the last 20 years, with a challenging introduction, plans of each project and critical text
New York: Reinhold, 1956. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 216, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. This is a pictorial selection of designs from the United States, South America, England, France, Germany, Sweden, and Italy. Almost all the examples shown, apartments, motels, shops, showrooms, banks, clinics, theatres..... More
Wingspread--The Building.
Racin, WI: The Johnson Foundation, 1981. First edition. Original Wraps. Oblong Quarto, pp. 32, lavishly illustrated w/ b/w and color photographs. More
The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan.
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 461, indexed, illustrated with color photographs. Louis Sullivan (1856–1924) was a giant of architecture, the father of architectural modernism, and one of the earliest builders of the skyscraper. Along with Dankmar Adler (1844–1900) he designed many..... More
Building Cities (New condition!).
London: Artmedia Press, 1999-10. First edition. Wraps. Quarto, pp 112. Well-illustrated. A competent and comprehensive treatment. More
Prefabrication in Building.
London: The Architectural Press, 1946. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 148, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and architectural drawings. Ex-library markings. In this book, the author examines the development of prefabrication in the UK and abroad, and analyzes in detail the various prefabricated systems which have so..... More
Selling the Dwelling: The Books that Build America's Houses, 1775-2000.
New York: Grolier Club, 2013. First edition, Limited. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 288. Illustrated with 749 color illustrations. Limited edition of 1,500 copies. A beautifully produced, visually spectacular catalog for the exhibit of the same name, showing at New York's Grolier Club through February of 2014. Written by exhibit..... More
Building Economy and The Modern Brickbuilder; December 1931
Cleveland, OH: The Common Brick Manufacturers' Association of America, 1931. Glossy Pictorial Cover. Quarto, pp 30. b/w photographs on each page. A fact filled issue of this journal with articles on skintled brickwork (an unusual textural pattern), minarets of Turkestan, with spectacularly ornate brickwork patterns and textures, steel frame construction..... More
Faszination Brücken. Baukunst, Technik, Geschichte.
Munich: Callwey, 1998. First edition. Original Cloth. Quarto, pp. 283, indexed, beautifully illustrated in b/w photos & drawings, text in German. More
The Georgian House and Its Details.
Bishopsgate Pr Ltd, 1989. Original Cloth. Square octavo, pp. 190. Richly illustrated, indexed with appendices of useful societies. A very ambitious treatment of the subject. Quite technical and wonderfully illustrated. More
Manual of Low-Slope Roof Systems.
Mcgraw-hill Professional Publishing, 1996-02. Hardcover. More
Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis.
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1969. First edition. Perfect Bound. Small quarto, pp. ix, 510, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. This is the story of Chicago and how it grew. In a little over a century, it rose from a mere frontier outpost to become one of the great..... More
Brother Turgar and the Vikings.
London: Ginn & Co. Ltd., 1961. Second Printing. Decorated Boards. 12mo, pp. 154. Illustrated with b/w drawings. Fold-out map glued to back cover. An exciting adventure story based on historical accounts of the vikings. More
Framed Illustration from "Sally, Dick and Jane"
New York: Scott, Foresman & Co., 1962. First edition. Matted and framed illustration under glass. 22.5" x 25.5", matted with wooden frame, under glass. Dick and Jane are the two main characters in a series of children's books created to teach children to read. The characters first appeared in 1930..... More
The Canon of Sir Thomas Wyatt's Poetry.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. First edition. Magenta Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 259, indexed. More
A Census of Fifteenth-Century Prints in Public Collections of the United States and Canada.
New Haven, CT: Print Council of America, 1995. First edition. Original Wraps. Octavo, unpaginated, approx. pp. 150. More
Art Nouveau: An Annotated Bibliography. (Art & Architecture Bibliographies Ser No. 4).
Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1977. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies. Original Wraps. Octavo, pp. 303, indexed. More
The Modern Chair: Its Origins and Evolution.
La Jolla, CA: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1977. First edition. Original Wraps. Quarto (9 /2 x 8 1/2), pp. 62 profusely illustrated w/ b/w photographs. More
Gedanken über Deutschland. Signed and inscribed by the author. .
Leipzig: Paul List, 1931. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 293. More
Richard Haas, an Architecture of Illusion.
Rizzoli, 1981. Book. 160 pp. More
Jacob's Dream (w/ signed letter from the book's renowned publisher Otto Kallir to Prof. Arthur Burkhard laid in).
New York: Johannespresse, 1946. First edition thus. Blue Cloth over Boards, Gilt Lettering. Octavo, pp. 188. More
Irish Walls.
New York: 1986. Color Pictorial Wraps. Shows a variety of stone walls in various parts of Ireland, looks at cashels, castles, demesnes, and false ruins, and discusses the role of walls in rural Ireland. More