New York: Acanthus Press, 2006. First edition. Cloth over Boards w/illustrated Dust Jacket. Quarto, pp. 310, indexed, over 300 b/w photographs previously unpublished. CD with full text and images included. This volume, launching the Architecture of Leisure series, surveys 35 of the most renowned residences and estates designed by nationally..... More
Chicago, IL: American Builder Publishing Corporation, 1933. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 66, illustrated w/ b/w photographs and drawings. This issue has a special emphasis on the garage, including remodeling, design, equipment, and a photographic portfolio. There are also articles on good architecture in small inexpensive homes, sketches and..... More
New York: 2004. Perfect Bound. The first book to focus on the residential work of McKim, Mead & White, one of America's best-known and most influential architecture firms. With nearly 1,000 commissions executed between 1879 and 1912, the firm was clearly the architect of choice for the most prestigious projects..... More
New York: Derrydale Press, 2012. First edition. Cloth over Boards with Dust Jacket. Oblong folio, pp 128. Beautiful color photographs throughout on every page. Signed by the photographer Richard Cheek on the title page. Robertson "Happy Ward" was a famous mid-century modernist architect who started the Mill Reef Club in..... More
Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1994. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 236, illustrated with color and b/w photographs and drawings. Between the Houses projects of the 1970s, which established Peter Eisenman as a leading architectural theorist, and his most recent, computer-aided explorations of complex geometries, lies a distinct..... More
San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 1993. First edition. Perfect Bound. Small quarto, pp. 62, illustrated with b/w photographs. This story is about how houses were built in San Francisco in the 1880's and 1890's, and about William F. Lewis who was one of the hundreds of contractors..... More
New York: John B. Pierce Foundation, 1944. Second Printing. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 80, illustrated with b/w photographs. Ex-library markings. This book, which discusses systems and developments in the prefabrication movement, is based on a more extensive research study for the Pierce Foundation. The contents are largely made up..... More
New York: John Wiley, 1849. First American edition. Decorated Embossed Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp 205. + 6 Pages of advertising. Illustrated w/14 fold out lithograph plates. Ruskin's text is an enduring architectural classic, a book which was, to quote Sir Kenneth Clark, "in the history of taste, perhaps the..... More
London: M. Taylor, 1837. Second American edition. Cloth over Boards. 16mo, pp. viii, iii, 244 plus 12 engraved plates. Ex-library markings. Chapters on all the major building trades, including bricklaying, cements, carpentry, joinery, masonry, plastering, plumbing, painting, practical geometry, surveying, and architecture. This is the earliest edition we've been able..... More
New York: 2008. Cloth over Boards. This book is a richly illustrated compendium of the wide variety of buildings and spaces devoted to the urban marketplace. More than 800 historical and contemporary photographs, architectural drawings, maps, and posters from around the world depict the many types of public markets, including..... More
New York: Architecture Magazine, 1935. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 16, illustrated w/ b/w photographs. This portfolio features examples from across the United States, with a concentration in New England and the mid-Atlantic states, and a few examples from Europe. The featured cornices are identified by location and architect..... More
New York: Architecture Magazine, 1935. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 16, illustrated w/ b/w photographs. This portfolio features examples from across the United States and Europe. Doorways, chimneys, exterior border walls, windows, and ornamentation examples. More
New York: Macmillan, 1920. First edition. Decorated Cloth over Boards, tan. Small octavo, pp. 182, indexed, illustrated with b/w line drawings. Ex-library markings. A lovely edition of basic terminology, patterns, bonds, building methods (such as scaffolding) and phases of construction. Still useful as a reference or handbook today. More
Brattleboro, VT: The Steven Greene Press, 1974. Reprint of 1892 edition by Orange Judd Co. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 191, indexed, illustrated with over 300 b/w engravings. This is the to-the-point and expert how-to-do-it writing on a subject of concern to every property owner: rural, suburban, small town. it..... More
Boston, MA: Philips, Sampson and Company, 1849. First edition. Embossed Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 403 plus 5-page publisher's catalog bound in, illustrated with b/w line drawings. Ex-library markings. A practical reference guide for the engineer, with chapters on practical geometry, mensuration, and instrumental arithmetic; tables of practical data around..... More
Philadelphia: James Locken, 1849. Full Leather with some scuffing. Small quarto, pp. 331, indexed, 40 plates by W. S. Barnard depict tools of the trade and instances of joinery, molding, staircases, and bricklaying. Foxing and page discoloration. Covers bricklaying, masonry, slating, plastering, painting, smithing, turning, joinery, and carpentry, with an..... More
St. Paul, MN: Webb Publishing Co., 1913. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Oblong octavo, pp. 110, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. Ex-library markings. The great difficulty in teaching carpentry is the lack of a method that would give the student actual carpentry work to do. Constructing miniature buildings of..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964. Tenth printing. Perfect Bound. Small quarto, pp. 238, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. This thoroughly illustrated study traces the history of the world-famous Chicago school of architecture from its beginnings with the functional innovations of William Le Baron and others to their imaginative development..... More
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1969. First edition. Perfect Bound. Small quarto, pp. ix, 510, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. This is the story of Chicago and how it grew. In a little over a century, it rose from a mere frontier outpost to become one of the great..... More
Boston, MA: L. Prang and Company, 1876. First American edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. xxxiii, 274, indexed, illustrated with chromolithographic plates and woodcuts. Ex-library markings. This book was intended to make artists and persons engaged in industrial artistic pursuits familiar with the results of investigation into the physical and..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1877. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 630, indexed, illustrated with b/w line drawings. Ex-library markings. This book was intended for architects and students of architecture. The author felt there were many books written on the mathematics of construction, but none..... More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1933. Second Printing. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. xxxv, 625, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. The urgency of the need for better homes, built with less waste of human effort, is recognized universally. The best way to meet that need is through the natural forces..... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1898. Early Edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 365, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. Ex-library markings. The substance of this volume originally formed a series of lectures addressed to the students of the Manchester Municipal School of Art during the author's tenure as director..... More
New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1967. Reprint of 1859 sixth edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. xvi, 576, indexed, illustrated with b/w engravings. Published originally in 1841, this book has become a classic in the literature of American gardening. The author adapted the principles of the English landscape style to..... More
New York: Scribners/Batsford, 1904. First edition thus. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 319, illustrated w/ b/w drawings and photographs. The author shows the clear and close relation of design to workmanship, and arouses interest in the technical side of art which lovers of art don't ordinarily ponder much, but can..... More
