New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1892. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 211, illustrated with b/w engravings. Ex-library markings. Fascinating look at 19th century American architectural trends. Chapters on Queen Anne, the Vanderbilt houses, the Brooklyn Bridge, an American cathedral, and architecture in Chicago and Minnesota. A...... More
Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann, 1994. Nineteenth edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 1622, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. The 19th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture is the first major work of history to include an overview of the architectural achievements of the 20th century..... More
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Moscow: Order of Lenin Printing House, 1980s-1990s. Original printing. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, each issue about 36 pages, illustrated with b/w photographs. Text in Russian. This monthly illustrated magazine covers a lot of interesting topics related to Moscow architecture. Some sample topics covered in the issues include Moscow antiquities in photographs;..... More
London: R. A. Sprigg, Atchley & Co., 1872. Photomechanical reprint by Palala Press, 2015. Decorated Boards. Small quarto, pp. viii, 416, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. In the 1870s, a volume of specifications was sorely needed, and the old standard work of Alfred Bartholomew was out of print. The author..... More
Boston, MA: Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott Incorporated, 1999. First edition. Decorated Boards. Small quarto, pp. 145, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs and architectural drawings. Tracing its roots to the arrival in Boston in 1874 of Henry Hobson Richardson, Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott is one of the..... More
New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989. First edition, as stated. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. 628, indexed, illustrated with b/w photos. Malcolm Cowley called Lewis Mumford "the last of the great humanists," and indeed, in more than six decades of writing, Mumford made contributions to history, philosophy, literature, art, architectural criticism..... More
New York: Abrams, 1998. First American edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 320, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Of the indisputably great figures in 20th-century architecture, Alvar Aalto is in many ways the most humane, the least rigid, the most relevant to our contemporary sensibility and the emerging..... More
New York: Russell F. Whitehead, nd c. 1931. Original edition. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. 16, illustrated with b/w photographs and architectural drawings. This roofs issue is quite scarce and has beautiful photographs of New England and mid-Atlantic exteriors, such as Mount Vernon; the Morris-Purdee House in New Haven; the Captain..... More
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. First edition. Color Decorated Boards, Cloth spine. Quarto, pp. 285, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and architectural drawings. Architectural Graphics Standards by Charles George Ramsey and Harold Reeve Sleeper, first published in 1932 (and now in its eleventh edition), is a definitive technical reference..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Time, Inc., 1938. First edition. Spiral Bound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 106, illustrated with b/w photographs and period advertising. This issue focuses on industrial buildings. Articles on Kelvinator Corporation plant, Kellogg grain elevators, Pratt & Whitney engine test house, De Soto press shop, Ford Motor Company plant, Chevrolet commercial..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Time, Inc., 1938. First edition. Spiral Bound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 114, illustrated with b/w photographs and period advertising. This issue focuses on four modern and four traditional house designs for modern living, by eight distinguished architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Royal Barry Wills, and Aymar Embury II. They..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Time, Inc., 1935. First edition. Spiral Bound Wraps. Quarto, pp. ~300, illustrated with b/w photographs and period advertising. Neatly signed in ink by a former owner on the table of contents page. This issue focuses on small houses, and money for building them. Over 100 houses photographed with..... 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. The ultimate in standard references, a "must" for any architect. These older editions remain indispensable for architects and builders/tradesmen who work in more traditional, older built environments..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. First edition. Decorated Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. xii, 280, illustrated with b/w photographs and b/w and color architectural drawings. Ex-library markings. Chapters on the history of the house, house plans, roofs, walls, windows and doors, furniture, decoration, and much more. Scarce; this is..... More
London: Country Life Library, nd c. 1911. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 224, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. Publisher's catalog bound in. Previous owner signed the front end paper in pencil in 1911. Contributions from over 40 designers, each highlighting one or more homes in England that they..... More
London: V&A Publications, 2003. First edition. Perfect Bound. Quarto, pp. 464, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Art Deco - the style of the flapper, the luxury ocean liner, and the skyscraper - came to epitomize the glamour, luxury, and hedonism of the Jazz Age. It burst onto the..... More
New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2000. Second edition. Cloth over Boards. Oblong small quarto, pp. 240, illustrated with color and b/w photographs and architectural plans. Previously published in 1987 under the title "Tiny Tiny Houses." A delightful exploration of the smallest of modern dwellings, with numerous details, floor..... More
Cincinnati, OH: American Fluresit Company, nd, c. 1950. Original edition. Advertising wooden ruler. Wooden ruler with black lettering. There are four scales on this ruler. On the front of the rule, the first scale measures inches, but numbers it so that 1 inch = 4 feet. The other scale measures..... More
Scranton, SC: Merritt & Tomlinson, Inc., nd, c. 1950. Original edition. Mechanical pencil. Antique mechanical pencil. "Merritt & Tomlinson, Inc. Manufacturers of Quality Masonry Products since 1946 READY MIXED CONCRETE Scranton, S. C. - Phone 2711 - 2721 Lake City, S. C. - 8-2651" This charming pencil has a transparent..... More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. Second Printing. Perfect Bound. Small quarto, pp. 430, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. Los Angeles is a place without a sense of place, famous for sprawl and overdevelopment and defined by its car-clogged freeways. It might seem inhospitable to ideas about connecting with nature and..... More
Dubuque, Iowa: Universal Catalogue Bureau, 1927. First edition. Embossed Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 356, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color drawings. An attractive line of millwork such as doors, windows, sash, colonnades, stairwork, breakfast nooks, kitchen cupboards, bathroom cabinets, porchwork, mouldings, and much more. More
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1886. Third Edition. Original Cloth on Boards, olive w/embossed design & gilt lettering. Quarto, pp. 12, plus 34 of 35 b/w lithographic plates (plate IX lacking), some fold-out. Thomas Tredgold (1788-1829) was a self-taught engineer, and whose technical works on carpentry, cast iron, and steam..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1973. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 309, illustrated with color chip charts. The intricate formulas for glazes, clays, enamels, stains, and glass have lifted ceramics from a potter's rough craft to the art it is today. This is a compendium of more than 700 tested..... More
Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1994. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 378, indexed, illustrated with b/w line drawings. The authors' aim with this handbook, is to provide a rapid ready-reference to help in the often complex task of handling, using and disposing of chemicals safely and with minimum risk to..... More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. First edition. Boards. Small quarto, pp. 380, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. In this book, the award-winning historian Regina Lee Blaszczyk traces the relationship of color and commerce, from haute couture to automobile showrooms to interior design, describing the often unrecognized role of..... More
