New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Folio (11" x 16"), pp. ~30, illustrated with b/w engravings and period advertising. Harper's Weekly was an American political magazine based in New York City, published from 1857 to 1916. This issue features foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on..... More
London: Viking, 1991. Revised. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 351, indexed, illustrated with 75 b/w photographs. This book gives advice on how to clean and care for the fragile interiors of historic houses, and how to handle and store the household objects that contribute so much to their interest..... More
New York: Munn & Co., 1892. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Folio (11.5" x 16"), pp. xviii, 16, plus xvi (advertising), indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and engravings. Outstanding photographs and illustrations of historic homes in New Jersey, Colorado, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and England, as well as articles about innovations in electric..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First edition. Original Red Cloth w/gilt title. Quarto, pp. 344, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. This book tells the story of American architecture as an ongoing biography of our nation as seen through its buildings, its places, and its people. In this journey across..... More
Vicenza, Italy: Centro d'Architettura Andrea Palladio, nd c. 1976. Reissue of 1776 edition. Cloth over Boards. Folio (14" x 19"), 30 b/w plates. Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, is widely considered to be one of..... More
Boston, MA: Boston Architectural Club, 1895. First edition. Half-bound red cloth with marbled boards. Folio (13" x 16.5"), 51 full page b/w photographs. Ex-library of Perry, Shaw and Hepburn, a Boston architectural firm that became notable for its designs for educational institutions. Title page and 52nd plate are missing. Features..... More
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1972. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 194, Indexed, richly illustrated with b/w photos and drawings. The middle Georgia area—including Baldwin, Hancock, Jasper, Johnson, Putnam, Washington, and Wilkinson Counties—is a vast living museum of classic southern architecture. First published in 1972, this sweeping..... More
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2003. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 409, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. A fire in downtown Seattle destroyed more than 30 downtown blocks covering 116 acres in 1889. This book examines the brief but powerful influence of H. H. Richardson on the..... More
Atlanta, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2009. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 120, illustrated with b/w photographs. During the 1920s and 1930s, builder Joe Webb constructed nearly three dozen log homes in the tiny Appalachian town of Highlands, North Carolina. The cabins were built without the aid of..... More
Bath, UK: Millstream Books, 1988. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 224, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and plans. John Wood was an English architect and town planner who established the physical character of the resort city of Bath. Wood transformed Bath by adapting the town layout to a...... More
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
Tokyo: TOTO Publishing, 2013. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 240, illustrated with b/w specification drawings and color photographs. Text in English and Japanese. This is the first in-depth look at Kenya Hara's cutting-edge project on architecture for dogs. An impressive production in of itself, the title was created..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1988. Eighth edition. Original Publisher's Cloth. Small quarto, pp. 854, indexed, illustrated with b/w architectural specification drawings. Ex-library of architect Edward George Alexander Kubler, who taught at Penn and at the Rhode Island School of Design. The ultimate in standard references, a "must" for..... More
Dayton, OH: Bert L. Daily, Inc., 1938-39. Original edition. Decorated Wraps, blue. Small octavo, pp 172. b/w illustrations on every page. Detailed descriptions and prices. A substantial collection of brushes, pens, inks, pigments, tools, and equipment, including and early Bausch & Lomb Projector! More
Dayton, OH: Bert L. Daily, Inc., 1949. Original edition. Decorated Wraps, black/gold. Small octavo, pp 160. b/w illustrations on every page. Detailed descriptions and prices. A substantial collection of brushes, pens, inks, pigments, tools, and equipment, including and early Bausch & Lomb Projector! More
New York: Grolier Club, 2018. First limited edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 471, indexed, illustrated with over 1,200 color photographs. This book was published to accompany the exhibition "Playing Soldier" that was on display at the Grolier Club in New York City in the fall of 2018. If you..... More
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
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong octavo, pp. 182, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. An intriguing look into the personal and professional lives of architects through the lens of their libraries, published in connection with an exhibition of the same name at Yale's Urban..... More
New York: Abrams for the Brooklyn Museum, 1983. First edition. Perfect Bound. Quarto, pp. 180, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. The Brooklyn Bridge integrates monumental solidity and beadwork delicacy in a structure of awesome beauty and majesty. Its image is synonymous with New York City and, for millions the..... More
Portsmouth, NH: Peter E. Randall Publisher, 1999. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Oblong Octavo, pp. 85, richly illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. A jewel of a treatise on the predecessors of our American "first period architecture." Available as-new at a wonderful price; belongs in every builder's and architect's library!..... More
Chicago: Radford Architectural Company, 1921. First edition. Paperback. Quarto, pp. 160, indexed, illustrated with architectural drawings. A precursor to the famous "Architectural Graphic Standards," and pound-for-pound its equal! More
New York: Simmons-Boardman, 1968. Sixth edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 473, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs, construction drawings, and details. This completely revised sixth edition has compiled information on the design, building and equipping of single family dwellings. Trends toward more efficient design, simpler details, increased use of pre-cut..... More
Scranton, PA: International Textbook Co., 1943. Original edition. Hard Cover. Octavo, pp. ~230, illustrated with b/w drawings, including several fold-out plates. This book has four sections. The first section has chapters on construction of lathes; lathe attachments; maintenance of lathes; and special forms of lathes. The second section has chapters..... More
Scranton, PA: International Textbook Co., 1942. Original edition. Hard Cover. Octavo, pp. ~150, illustrated with b/w drawings. This book has two sections. The first section has chapters on cylindrical turning; centering; taking the cuts; radial facing; taper turning; lathe fitting, and more. The second section has chapters on common and..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1926, 1927. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 224 (book one), 564 (book two), indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs, plans, drawings, and diagrams. The first volume is signed neatly in ink on the front endpaper by a previous owner in 1927. These..... More
