New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1967. First edition. Original Cloth. Rectangular Quarto, pp. nn ca 100, illustrations by the author in pen & ink line drawings. Throughout the book is a selection of 8 of Sloane's works in full color, which are preceded by their individual captions. Gift inscription dated..... More
Los Angeles, CA: The Los Angeles Architectural Club, 1912. First edition. Decorated Boards. Quarto, pp. np, ~150, illustrated with b/w architectural drawings and photographs. A beautiful selection of works by Californian architects such as Greene and Greene, Myron Hunt, and Elmer Grey, both inside and outside the state. There are..... More
Portland, OR: Irwin-Hodson Company, 1910. First edition. Decorated Boards. Quarto, pp. np, ~80, illustrated with b/w architectural drawings and photographs. Signed by a previous owner inside the front cover. An attractive selection of existing and proposed buildings designed by members of the club, located mostly in Oregon and Washington, plus..... More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Press, 1985. First edition. Decorated Boards. Quarto, pp. 171, indexed, illustrated with b/w architectural specification drawings. This book was developed to show working drawing details of a wide scope of architectural details, to prepare aspiring architects with hands-on knowledge of how to combine theory, design..... More
London: Architectural Press, 1969. First UK edition. Cloth over Boards, grey. Square small octavo, pp 295, illustrated with b/w photographs and architectural drawings. A study of the artificial control of built spaces, including heating and air-conditioning systems and electricity. More
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1853. Early Edition. Half Leather with Marbled Boards. Quarto, pp. 119, illustrated with 64 engraved plates. Some pencil inscriptions and foxing. Hitchcock 132. "Originally published 1830, this was Benjamin's fourth and vastly most popular work. This was the key book in introducing the Greek..... More
Los Angeles: John C. Brasfield, 1929. First edition. Original Wraps. Folio (10.5" x 14"), pp. 86, illustrated with beautiful photogravure of interiors and exteriors and floor plans of homes in California. The homes featured are the W. K. Kellogg Ranch near Pomona, designed by Myron Hunt and H. C. Chambers;..... More
Washington DC: Preservation Press, 1991. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 216, indexed, illustrated with b/w photos, drawings, and plans. A look at 12 American houses that were designed to be prototypes of the future, by a luminary in the field of historical preservation. A wonderful book for anyone interested in..... More
Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1988. Stated First Edition. Oversized Paperback. Small quarto, pp. 173, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. The essays in this book recreate the context in which Henry Hobson Richardson's work was built, and they interpret the designs of regional architects and builders who..... More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1939. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. xxi, 202, indexed, fold-out map, illustrated with b/w drawings and 111 b/w photographic plates. This study of the Noyon Cathedral, one of the key monuments in the early development of Gothic art, covers the time from its design..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 1989. First edition. Paperback. Quarto, pp. xiv, 239, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. In a career that spanned the first half of the 20th century, Philip Trammell Shutze produced over 750 architectural works. Because his production was so large, this first book to examine his..... More
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1980. Stated First Edition. Perfect Bound. Octavo, pp. xiii, 92, illustrated with b/w photographs. The geographical location of Syracuse, its industry and especially its location on the Erie Canal, were factors propitious for its growth and development as an industrial center within New York State..... More
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1973. Second edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. xviii, 263, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. The office of Burnham & Root was pre-eminent during the early years of the Chicago School of commercial architecture. As the designing partner, John Root pioneered in developing the..... More
London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1978. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Octavo, pp. 30, illustrated with b/w photographs. This catalog accompanied the exhibition of Scott's work at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1978. It contains a short biography of Scott, a listing and description of his buildings, the restoration of..... More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977. Second Printing. Paperback. Octavo, pp. 487, indexed, illustrated with 288 b/w photographs and drawings. Long considered to be one of the most outstanding architectural biographies of the late 20th century, Saint shows what an original architect Shaw (1831-1912) was, in addition to being..... More
London: Pleiades Books, 1945. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 64, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. Signed by a previous owner in 1946 in ink inside front cover. England needed four million houses immediately after WWII. Such a program obviously called for wider and more imaginative use..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First edition. Perfect Bound. Quarto, pp. ~190, illustrated with b/w photographs, specification drawings, and period advertising. Articles include mural painting in America, sketches of Old New Orleans, planning out from the house (landscape architecture), Yale's War Memorial, Colonial Philadelphia, a portfolio of door hardware..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing, 1924. Second Printing. Half-Leather. Folio (12.5" x 17"), pp. ~125, illustrated with b/w drawings. The author was an American architect celebrated for his work in Gothic Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival design. He also designed notable typefaces. He is credited with creating a distinctive interpretation..... More
New York: Heresies Collective, 1981. First edition. Perfect Bound. Quarto, pp. 96, illustrated with b/w photographs. Heresies is an idea-oriented journal devoted to the examination of art and politics from a feminist perspective, in the hopes that the journal would stimulate dialogue around radical political aesthetic theory, encourage the writing..... More
London: J. Barfield, 1809. Second edition, with additions; revised and corrected. Full Leather. Octavo (5.5" x 8.5"); volume 1 pp. xxxiii, 263; volume 2 pp. xvi, 81; volume 3 pp. xix, 113; 216 engraved plates between all volumes. All plates are present in all volumes. Volume I is devoted to..... More
New York: Arno Press, 1981. Reprint of 1896 edition. Cloth over Boards. Folio, pp. xvi, 60, with 93 illustrations and photographs in the text, plus 152 b/w plates of architectural drawings. Mild ex-library markings. Opera houses and theatres in Austria, Hungary, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, and Russia..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing, 1914. First edition. Decorated Boards. Folio (12.5" x 17"), 55 b/w architectural specification drawings. Joseph Patterson Sims was an American architect, lithographer, and cartographer. This lovely selection of drawings features wall panels, mouldings, windows, stairs, doors, fireplace mantels, railings, and more. More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1913. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. viii, 189, illustrated with b/w photos, drawings, and floor plans. Page 7 has some marks where the preceding page stuck to it and was pulled apart later. Organic and consistent homes in 1913, with practical, serviceable..... More
London: Alec Tiranti, 1967. First edition. Boards. Small quarto, pp. 124, plus 173 full page b/w plates. Several color plates tipped-in to the text. Index, notes, appendix of Dublin Plasterers. Contrary to the widely held belief that the art of stucco decoration in Ireland was mainly the work of foreigners..... More
Tilton, NH: The Automatic Fire Escape Company, nd c. 1915. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 7, illustrated with b/w drawings. A quick escape from fire in all classes of buildings is imperative. Various kinds of fire escapes, other than the regulation iron ladders attached to buildings, existed at..... More
