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
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
Los Angeles, CA: Western States Publishing Company, Inc., 1932. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 48, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. In 1929, a merger of Pacific Coast Architect and California Southland resulted in this lovely monthly magazine that covered the field of architecture and the allied arts and crafts..... 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
Los Angeles, CA: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1989. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 185, indexed, illustrated with 225 b/w photographs. Speed, mobility, freedom: these governed the aesthetics of the "city of the future" as it spread its arterials across the Southern California landscape. If ever..... More
Sacramento, CA: California Council, American Institute of Architects, 1991. First edition. Paperback Original. Octavo, pp. 64, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. This issue focuses on growth in California. Growth in California is predominantly a problem of urbanization, and strategies for its management require innovation in the design of..... More
New York: Hennessey + Ingalls, 1977. Second edition. Original Wraps. Oblong small quarto, pp 218, Illustrated with b/w photographs, architectural plans and drawings. This volume of modern Californian homes begins at the end of World War II. John Entenza, the editor of "Arts & Architecture" commissioned a group of architects..... More
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Paris: Ch. Juliot, 1883. Fifth edition. Portfolio with three cloth ties and loose pages. Folio (12" x 16"), originally had 100 plates, but missing plates 4-10, 91. Text in French. The text on each plate is printed in French, German, and English. Andre Jacob Roubo (1739-1791) was a French carpenter..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Assoc. of American Portland Cement Mfgrs. 1907. First edition. Portfolio Folder; Dark Green Boards w/cloth backstrip and ribbon ties; text is string-bound wraps laid in. Elephant Folio (15 1/2" x 19"), pp. ~50 (n.p.), illustrated with b/w renderings, architectural elevations, floor plans, and building sections . Three pages..... More
