Chicago, IL: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company, 1897. First published 1893. Paperback Original. Small octavo, pp. 176, illustrated with b/w drawings. The Santa Fe route extended through Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, southeastern Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and California to the Pacific coast, with a return route by way..... 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, 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: Reinhold, 1955. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 2618, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. A book on the architectural problems of buildings in which physicians conduct their professional activities was long overdue. Physicians do not receive formal training which qualifies them to draw architectural plans..... 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

Tucson, AZ: Canyon Ranch Enterprises, 1989. First edition. Original Wraps. Oblong quarto, pp. 61, illustrated with b/w photographs. A monograph on the resorts of Lenox, Massachusetts, and especially Bellefontaine. Covers the Gilded Age, the Berkshire Cottages, and the history that turned Lenox into a Gilded Age resort. Beautifully illustrated with..... 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: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 370, illustrated with nearly 1,000 b/w line drawings. This volume covers everything to do with the built environment in the United States. Over 2,500 definitions describe construction materials and techniques, landscape elements, decorative terms..... 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

New York: Reynolds Publishing Co., Inc., 1924. First edition. Cloth over Boards, navy w/stamped gilt design. Small octavo, pp 117. b/w photograph on frontis page depicts Flagg type house design overlooking the Hudson River. B/w photographs, perspective drawings, and construction details throughout the text. Reduced blue print drawing of "Collier's..... More

New York: Pencil Points, 1927. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Large Octavo, pp. 488, indexed, illustrated w/ b/w photographs and plans. Scarce book from Pencil Points in nice shape with much trade-related material, including chapters on masonry, roofing, tile, glass, hardware, heating, wiring, as well as chapters related to this..... More

London: George Virtue, none (circa 1842). Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 339; should have 342 pages, so last several are missing. 63 plates containing perspective views and ground plans, and elevations drawn to scale. Original publisher's brown cloth with front cover illustration in gilt, repaired with the original spine laid-down..... More

Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1975. First edition. Paperback Original. Octavo, pp. 192, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. The architecture of the Santa Clara Valley, as put so magnificently on record in this charming book, virtually recapitulates the entire architectural history of greater California. The author has give us..... More