Chicago: William A. Radford, 1904. First edition. Ephemera. 3.25" x 5", with Radford home and house plans on the outside, and opens up to 3.25" x 10" reveal a calendar for nine months of 1905 and three months of 1906. Radford seems to have used this calendar as a promotional..... More
New York: Finch College Museum of Art, 1975. First edition. Original Wraps. Octavo, pp. [32], bibliography, illustrated with b/w photographs. This is the exhibition catalog of a show at Finch College Museum of Art in New York City from November 1974 thru January 1975. The exhibit explored Art Deco architecture..... More
The Monacelli Press, 2010-11-16. First edition. Hardback. Quarto, pp 576, indexed, illustrated with color photographs and drawings. As an architect, educator, and architectural historian, Robert A. M. Stern brings special knowledge and expertise to issues of campus master planning and the design of academic buildings. This unique volume collects more..... More
Downer's Grove, IL: SERMAC Surface Maintenance Systems, 1977. First edition. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. 44. Illustrated with 90 b/w photos and drawings. A useful photographic survey of American architectural styles and their European influences, listing the distinguishing characteristics of each style and the period of their emergence and prominence in..... More
Amesbury, MA: Powwow River Books, 2018. Third edition, greatly expanded. Paperback. Octavo, pp. 232. Illustrated with b/w photos and drawings. A field guide and survey of different types of root cellars, pits, trenches, root houses, and others that were used for centuries to preserve root crops and vegetables before the..... More
Amesbury, MA: Powwow River Books, 2019. Second revised, in 250 copies. Glossy B/W Pictorial Cover. Octavo, pp. 36. Illustrated with b/w photos and drawings. A useful field guide to identifying the stone structures one may encounter on hikes throughout the forest and conservation lands in New England. More
Amesbury, MA: Powwow River Books, 2015. Expanded First edition, in 100 copies. Glossy B/W Pictorial Cover. Octavo, pp. 316. Illustrated with b/w photos and drawings. A useful field guide to identifying Native American and agricultural stone structures one may encounter on hikes throughout the forest and conservation lands in New..... More
New York: Universe, 1976. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 192, indexed, illustrated with over 200 b/w photographs. Depression Modern was gleaming glass block and black Vitrolite. It was chrome and Micarta and round peach-tinted mirrors. Depression Modern was the primary style of the 1930s, a design revolution that..... More
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, pp. 260, index, bibliography. Profusely illustrated with drawings, diagrams & b/w photos. The authors examine the influence of pattern books on New Jersey's residential architecture. By matching period illustrations to surviving houses, the authors explain why that old house..... More
London: John Brindley, 1749. First edition. Full Leather. Oblong small quarto, pp. 25 plus the copper engraved plates. Several of the 47 plates are missing (plates 7, 8, 9, 11), and two are fold-out size. Pages 6 and 10 have large, closed tears. William Halfpenny (active 1723-1755) was an English..... More
New York: New York Public Library, 1965. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Folio, unpag., 50 theatres each with a photo or two plus plans, bibliography with 1700+ entries covering 1946-1964. This book contains a comprehensive bibliography of theatre architecture, 1946-1964, with over 1700 entries, compiled by Ned Bowman of the..... More
Glasgow: The Architectural Press, 1937. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 199, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. The design of homes in multi-storey buildings produced a building type distinctive to the 1930s, and without precedent in earlier eras. This book was intended to show the developments that..... More
New York: Horizon Press, 1965. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp 164, indexed, illustrated with over 200 b/w photographs. This book includes historic writings by Frank Lloyd Wright himself, and also several remarkable contributions by noted European architects clarifying the Wright influence; the essay by Louis Mumford on the..... More
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Leipzig: F. A. Seeman, 1895. First edition. Original half-linen wings portfolio; one wing torn. Folio, portfolio format, index plus 50 full sized b/w plates. German. Laid in is a 22" x 34" architectural drawing dated 1929. Arthur Brausewetter was an architect and professor at the k. k. Staatsgewerbesch ule in..... More
New York: Russell F. Whitehead, 1928. Original edition. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. [243-264], numerous b/w photographs, with many b/w photographs and several architectural drawings of historic doorways. Stamped in ink in 1962 by Minnetonka Woodcraft Co on the title page, which has bled onto the back of the front cover..... More
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Octavo, pp 191. Beautifully illustrated with over 90 color and 60 black-and-white photographs and 50 line drawings. This book features 25 houses designed in a 35-year period by currently practicing architects for their mothers, fathers, and close relatives. Included..... More
New York: Russell F. Whitehead, 1921. Original edition. Original Wraps. Octavo, 1 volume, pp. 16, numerous b/w photographs. One of the first studies of this subject, visually well documented. A popular and scarce issue in the White Pine series, still one of the best and most widely used series of..... More
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., 1946. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. 138, glossary, illustrated with b/w drawings, some with spot color. A book of house plans with information about the G.I. Bill of Rights. Features a variety of work from eight architects whose designs have been included..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1985. First American edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 160, indexed, illustrated with more than 140 full-color pictures. Signed by a previous owner in ink inside the front cover. For anyone interested in the way Europeans lived in the early nineteenth century, Mary Ellen Best..... More
Boston: Rogers and Manson Co., 1912-1915. First edition. Original Wraps. Folio, each issue approx. pp. 50. Richly illustrated with b/w photos, plans, details. October 1914 (no cover), "The Brick Church and the Parish House (1915, no cover), September 1912 (cover detached), February 1915 (cover detached), November 1914 (cover detached and..... More
London: Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, 2002. Reprint. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 17, illustrated with b/w photographs. This pamphlet describes and illustrates the repointing of old stone and brick walling, a common remedial task that is often undertaken unnecessarily, or executed badly. The use of strong cement mortars..... More
Cleveland, OH: J. H. Jansen, 1923. First edition. Maroon Linen over boards portfolio with tie slips. Quarto, portfolio of 68 loose b/w plates of church exteriors and interiors. This collection of 68 plates is complete as presented. The numbering of the plates is not consecutive in that some of the..... More
Cleveland, OH: J. H. Jansen, 1923. First edition. Green Linen over boards portfolio with tie slips. Quarto, portfolio of 55 loose b/w plates of home exteriors and interiors. This collection of 55 plates is complete as presented. The numbering of the plates is not consecutive in that some of the..... More
Watkins Glen, NY: American Life Foundation, 1978. Reprint - limited edition. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. unpaginated, Limited Edition of 1000 Copies. A facsimile of Samuel F. Eveleth's School-house Architecture (Hitchcock 430), a pattern book of 1870, with a new introduction by John Crosby Freeman. Beautiful as-new reprint of an 1870..... More
Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1984. First edition. Original Cloth. Quarto. pp 190, illustrated with b/w and color photographs of the interior, exterior, and construction of the Trump Tower. This book chronicles, with dazzling photographs and a provocative text, the construction of one of New York City's most unusual and controversial..... More
