Guide to Research and Reference Works on Sub-Saharan Africa. [Hoover Institution Bibliographical Series 46].
Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1971. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 1102. More
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Apprenticeship at Kuruman: Being the journals and letters of Robert and Mary Moffat 1820-1828 (Central African Archives, Oppenheimer Series Number Five).
London: Chatto & Windus, 1951. First edition. Red Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 308. Indexed, fold-out map bound in. More
Main Streets.
New York: Exeter Books, 1988. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 191. Illustrated with color photos. More
Built in USA 1932-1944.
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1944. First edition. Boards. Octavo, pp. 128. Illustrated with numerous b/w photos and plans. A survey of U.S. post-war architecture, including public and private buildings designed by prominent architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Richard J. Neutra, and Walter Gropius, among..... More
Country Life Magazine (U.S. periodical) Building Number - Oct. 1920.
Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1920. First edition. Original Color Wraps. Large Quarto (10.25" x 14.25"), pp. 140. Illustrated with b/w and color photos, drawings, and advertisements. A scarce periodical showcasing properties, supplies, and livestock for the country homeowner and small farmer. Includes some spectacular ads, several in..... More
La Suisse Qui Chante; Histoire Illustrée de la Chanson Populaire, du Chant Choral et du Festspiel en Suisse
Lausanne, Switzerland: R. Freudweiler-Spiro, 1932. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. 236, profusely illustrated w/ b.w. drawings and photographs. More
Symposium on Local Diversity in Iroquois Culture - Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 149.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1951. First edition. Rebound in library buckram. Octavo, pp. 187. Indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. From the library of noted American anthropologist and historian Gene Weltfish, former professor at Columbia University and Fairleigh DIckinson University. More
Man and Environment in the Isle of Man (BAR British Series 54, Part i and ii).
Oxford: BAR, 1978. First edition. Blue Cardboard Covers. Quarto, pp. 428. Illustrated with b/w photos, maps, charts and drawings. Very scarce two-part publication edited by an expert in the field. Good ex-library copy. More
Le Corbusier Last Works.
New York: Praeger, 19641970. First edition. Boards. Oblong Small Quarto, pp. 208. Illustrated with numerous color and b/w photos, drawings, plans, and elevations. Text in English, German, and French. More
The American Institute of Architects Quarterly Bulletin (April '07, July '07 Oct. '07, Jan. '08, Oct. 1910).
Washington DC: The American Institute of Architects, 1907-1910. First printing. Staplebound Wraps. Octavo, pp. ca 100, illustrated with photos & drawings, numerous pub ads. Indispensable documents about the AIA in its infancy. More
The Architectural Annual 1901.
Philadelphia: The Architectural Annual, 1901. Second edition. Original Red Cloth with Gilt Lettering. Quarto, pp. 303, profusely illustrated w/ b/w photographs, plans, and drawings. An interesting collection of articles recording the growth and influence of various trends and developments in the practice of architecture and urban planning. An important document..... More
Traditional Building Magazine, June 2012 issue.
New York: Traditional Building, 2012. First edition. Glossy Pictorial Wraps. 10.5" x 13" pp. 98. Profusely illustrated in color. An important issue of this influential magazine of the Traditional/Classical and period architecture and preservation field, featuring a tribute to "Old House Journal" founder Clem Labine on the occasion of his..... More
Antonio Gaudi and the Catalan Movement, 1870-1930 - The American Association of Architectural Bibliographers Papers, Volume X, 1973.
Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1973. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 173. Illudtrated with 9 b/w Figures and Frontispiece. More
Frank Lloyd Wright and Madison: Eight Decades of Artistic and Social Interaction.
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 1990. First edition. Boards. Oblong Quarto (14" x 10.25"), pp. 218. Over 200 b/w illustrations. The catalog of an exhibition focusing on Frank Lloyd Wright's lengthy history with his home town of Madison, WI. Throughout his career, Wright continued to maintain a working relationship with..... More
The Principles of Architecture: Style, Structure and Design.
Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1982. First UK edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 224. Indexed, illustrated with color and b/w photos and drawings. A visual overview of architectural principles and the use of various materials. More
Architectural Record 10/1993.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993. First edition. Glossy Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 150. Profusely illustrated. October 1993 issue, with articles on Carre d'Art Nimes, France; Kyobo Training Center, Chun An, South Korea; Metropolitan Community Church, Washington, DC; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College; Military Base Conversions, etc. More
Architectural Record, February 1939.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939. First edition. Glossy Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp 160. Profusely illustrated. Including photographic portfolio of residential stairways. Some unusual modern buildings are shown in this issue including an Art Deco style hotel near Brighton, England; a proposal for a scientific pavilion at the Paris Exposition in 1937;..... More
The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. First edition. Octavo, pp. 371. Indexed, with b/w illustrations. A survey of the history of architecture as a profession. From the library of Daniel D. Reiff, Harvard professor and author of "Houses From Books" More
American Architect and Architecture; February 1938
New York: Hearst Magazines, 1938. First edition. Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp 114. b/w photographs and drawings throughout. This magazine volume features ski lodges, 2 houses, a restaurant and a power station design, as well as technical articles on plywood and HVAC. Also it has some nice interior details as well..... More
Otto Benesch: Collected Writings (4 volume set, complete).
London: Phaidon Press, 1970-73. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, each vol. approx. pp. 500. More
Limbert's Arts & Crafts Furniture Booklet No. 112 and Book No. 119.
New York: Turn of the Century Editions, 1990. Reprint. Original Wraps. Octavo, pp. 208. Illustrated with b/w photos and drawings. A revised edition of the publisher's reprint of two catalogs from a midwestern manufacturer of "Dutch Arts and Crafts" furniture. This edition adds material from a rare 1905 Limbert catalog..... More
Die Fruehzeit des modernen Holzschnitts; Holzschnitte aus den Bestaenden...
Museum Schloss Moyland: self published, 1993. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Sq octavo, pp. 367. 445 illustrations, 200 in color, 100 f.p. With 18 pages of biographies of the artists exhibited. A jewel of an exhibition catalog, which accompanied a traveling exhibit in 4 European cities in the early 1990s..... More
Art Catala Contemporani (1970-1985).
Barcelona: Xarxa Cultural, 1985. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 439. Richly illustrated with b/w and color photos and reproductions. Text in Spanish. More
100 Jahre Kestner-Museum Hannover, 1889 - 1989.
Hannover: Kestner-Museum, 1989. First edition. Decorated Boards. A stunning celebration of an illustrious institution in North Germany. More
Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes.
New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. First edition. Decorated Boards with cloth spine. Quarto, pp. 130, indexed, illustrated with 85 b/w line drawings by Alexander Calder, executed in the spring of 1944. This book was printed by S. A. Jacobs at The Golden Eagle Press, Mt. Vernon, in Granjon type, on..... More