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
Washington DC: Preservation Press, 1985. First edition. Original Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 203, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. Part of the Building Watchers series. Signed by a previous owner in ink inside the front cover. This unique guide puts faces with America's most well-known and loved buildings, from the U.S...... More
Chicago, IL: The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, 2008. Limited Edition. Japanese Silk Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 28, illustrated with color and b/w photographs. Only 3,000 copies were made. Richard Driehaus purchased the historic Samuel Mayo Nickerson Mansion from the American College of Surgeons in 2003; This spectacular Gilded Age..... More
Boston, MA: Colonial Williamsburg and Little, Brown & Co., 1957. First edition. Cloth over Boards with Marbled Paper. Small quarto, pp. xvi, 402, indexed, 165 color illustrations. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection began in the 1930s and was donated to Colonial Williamsburg in 1935. It includes paintings in..... More
Dublin, NH: William L. Bauhan, 1988. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Octavo, pp. 72, illustrated with b/w photographs and floor plans. Benjamin Henry Latrobe was the dominating architectural figure in the Jeffersonian era and the designer of such monuments as the Bank of Pennsylvania, Baltimore Cathedral, and the rebuilt United..... More
Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2013. First edition. Glossy Pictorial Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 112, indexed, notes, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. Includes a custom bookmark signed with original pen and ink drawing by the author. An important book by Thomas Hubka, author of the well-known book on..... More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. First edition. Original Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 281, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. OHJ stamp in ink on the front endpaper. This book explores the relationship between the image of the ideal house and family and the reality of..... More
New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1981. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 144, indexed, illustrated with over 200 color and 47 b/w photographs and drawings. Enticing a customer to enter and then buy is the primary function of the design of commercial spaces. Achieving such a successfully designed..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1955. First edition. Boards. Octavo, pp. 633, indexed, illustrated with 104 half tones and 42 line cuts. This is the first full-length biography of America's first professional architect and a valuable contribution to American cultural history. Making full use of the voluminous Latrobe papers -..... More
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Small quarto, pp. xxvi, 261, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. Includes a custom bookmark signed with original pen and ink drawing by the author. This book analyzes a period when millions of average Americans saw accelerated improvement in..... More
New York: Assouline Publishing, 2010. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 216, indexed, illustrated with color and b/w photographs. In this book, 95 artists, architects, and designers reflect on the idea and reality of glass houses, and respond to two of modernism's greatest masterpieces: The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1945. First edition. Cloth over Boards, library binding. Quarto, pp. 192, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs of all manner of store fronts and interiors. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover, dated 1945. A careful presentation of dozens of shops, large and small, handling a...... 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
New York: Garden City Publishing, 1937. Second edition. Decorated Boards. Quarto, pp 128, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. Detailed practical information on finance, construction plans, heating and air conditioning, insulation, lighting, flooring, roofing, siding, kitchen design, and much more. The first 50 pages is a compilation of articles..... More
Budapest: Muszaki Konyvkiado, 1981. First edition. Decorated Boards. Small quarto, pp. 283, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. Text in Hungarian. This book takes stock of the development and domestic practice of modular coordinated building systems and design methodology, referring to the international dimension of the subject. It provides..... 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: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 42, illustrated with b/w photographs. This issue of their monthly bulletin was devoted to architecture and environment, a theme suggested by the exhibition "Visionary Architects" which was on view at the Museum at the time the..... More
Woodstock, VT: The Countryman Press, 1995. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 175, indexed, illustrated with color photographs. The Shakers conducted 19th-century America's most successful experiment in utopian living. From Maine to Kentucky, they established communal villages and worked to build a heaven on earth. Designed to accommodate hundreds..... More
Manchester, NH: Currier Museum of Art, 2011. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 56, illustrated with color photographs. Jon Brooks is firmly rooted in his native state of New Hampshire. He took his first art classes at the Currier Museum Art Center as a boy. While studying at Rochester..... More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. First paperback edition. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. x, 467, bibliography, index, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. In this richly illustrated history Cecil Elliott focuses on a neglected aspect of architecture, the technics of building form. Concentrating on developments in Europe and North America from..... More
New York: F.W. Dodge Corp. 1945. First printing. Original Illustrated Cloth. Octavo, pp. approx. 250, with postcards bound in for mailing to the individual manufacturers for more information. Illustrated with b/w and color drawings and photographs. A Sweet's trade catalog for residential owners, to help guide them in the selection..... More
New York: F.W. Dodge Corp. 1934, 1939, 1940, 1947. First printing. Original Illustrated Cloth. Octavo, pp. approx. 250, index of firms and of products. A sample of DuPont Tontine washable window shade material laid in. A Sweet's trade catalog for residential owners. The subtitle says it all--it's full of period..... More
New York: Sweet's Catalog Service, 1927. First edition. Original Cloth, half inch of backstrip missing in one volume. Octavo, pp. 3171, 3-volume complete set, illustrated with b/w drawings and spot color. Very uncommon to find a complete set in such good condition. More
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co. for Sears, Roebuck & Co., 1917. Revised. Cloth over Embossed, Decorated Boards. Octavo, pp. 261 (Hodgson's Estimator and Contractor's Guide), 261 (Guide to Correct Measurements) plus rear section of house plans and publishers' ads (not numbered; about 70 pages). Special exclusive edition printed expressly..... More
Bath, NY: Combination Ladder Company, nd c. 1930. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Octavo, pp 36, illustrated with b/w drawings. A scarce and historic trade piece from a company that produced light, durable ladders from air-dried spruce lumber and cadmium hardware to prevent rust. More
