A Museum of Early American Tools.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1964. First paperback edition. Paperback. 12 mo, pp. 108, indexed, with many wonderful illustrations by the author. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1964. First paperback edition. Paperback. 12 mo, pp. 108, indexed, with many wonderful illustrations by the author. More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1964. Second Printing. Color Pictorial Wraps. Octavo, pp. 108, indexed, with many wonderful illustrations by the author. A collection of drawings and information about early American tools and other wooden and metal implements that were an important part of colonial and pre-industrial American life. A...... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998. Seventh printing. Hardcover. 4to, cloth. 240 pp, (188 in color, including endpapers), chronology, bibliography, lists of works, index. An in-depth tour of 25 magnificent homes, this book examines the creative evolution of the Arts and Crafts style. More
St. Helena, CA: Silverardo Publishing Company, 1985. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 127, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. A beautifully illustrated history of this iconic American company, from its start in the frontier town of North Redwood, Minnesota with an order of pocket watches, to its chain of hundreds..... More
Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1959. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 126, index, extensive bibliography and notes. Heavily illustrated. Winterthur Series book, volume 1. Architecture and interior decorations. More
Chicago: Orcutt Co., 1893. Original edition. 3-Hole Punched Stiff Color Covers, tied with red cord. Oblong Octavo, 8 color lithographs. A beautiful souvenir book of color lithographs of the famous Midway Plaisance section of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, produced by Orcutt Co., a leading lithographer in..... More
ca. 1800. Original engraving. Image size ca. 3" x 4" (oval shaped) on laid eighteenth century paper 5" x 8.5" Tisdale (1768-1835) worked in New York 1794 til 1798, then in New England. This engraving of William Penn was included in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' blockbuster "Exhibition of..... More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, Museum of History & Technology, 1965. First edition. Original Green Cloth. Octavo, pp. 167, indexed, illustrated in b/w, decorated end papers. 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