Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First edition. Original Red Cloth w/gilt title. Quarto, pp. 344, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. This book tells the story of American architecture as an ongoing biography of our nation as seen through its buildings, its places, and its people. In this journey across..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1990. Reissue of 1930 edition. Cloth over Boards. Folio (9.25" x 12.25"), pp. xviii, 173, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. The book is organized by district, with an introduction describing the architectural styles that are seen in that district. Each full-page, b/w photographic..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1926, 1927. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 224 (book one), 564 (book two), indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs, plans, drawings, and diagrams. The first volume is signed neatly in ink on the front endpaper by a previous owner in 1927. These..... More
Philadelphia: J.B Lippincott Co., 1926. First edition, as stated. Decorated Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 303, indexed, illustrated with color frontispiece and 253 b/w photographs. Chapters on manors and farmsteads in France, old French gardens and gardening, and furnishing and decoration of the houses. Houses from Normandy, Brittany, Picardy, Touraine..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1988. Eighth edition. Original Publisher's Cloth. Small quarto, pp. 854, indexed, illustrated with b/w architectural specification drawings. Ex-library of architect Edward George Alexander Kubler, who taught at Penn and at the Rhode Island School of Design. The ultimate in standard references, a "must" for..... More
Boston, MA: Boston Architectural Club, 1895. First edition. Half-bound red cloth with marbled boards. Folio (13" x 16.5"), 51 full page b/w photographs. Ex-library of Perry, Shaw and Hepburn, a Boston architectural firm that became notable for its designs for educational institutions. Title page and 52nd plate are missing. Features..... More
Detroit, MI: Portland Cement Assoc. 1928. Fourth printing. Staplebound Wraps. Small octavo, pp. 46, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. This primer is an attempt to develop in simple terms the principles governing concrete mixtures and to show how a knowledge of these principles and of the properties of..... More
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 461, indexed, illustrated with color photographs. Louis Sullivan (1856–1924) was a giant of architecture, the father of architectural modernism, and one of the earliest builders of the skyscraper. Along with Dankmar Adler (1844–1900) he designed many..... More
Chicago, IL: Sears-Roebuck Foundation, 1966. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Oblong folio (11" x 13.75"), pp. 54, illustrated with blueprint floor plans. Modern medical practices require a physical arrangement designed to meet the needs of doctors and patients. The intent of this guide is to identify those features essential to achieving..... More
New York: Munn & Co., 1892. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Folio (11.5" x 16"), pp. xviii, 16, plus xvi (advertising), indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and engravings. Outstanding photographs and illustrations of historic homes in New Jersey, Colorado, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and England, as well as articles about innovations in electric..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Folio (11" x 16"), pp. ~30, illustrated with b/w engravings and period advertising. Harper's Weekly was an American political magazine based in New York City, published from 1857 to 1916. This issue features foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on..... More
London: Viking, 1991. Revised. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 351, indexed, illustrated with 75 b/w photographs. This book gives advice on how to clean and care for the fragile interiors of historic houses, and how to handle and store the household objects that contribute so much to their interest..... More
Atlanta, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2009. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 120, illustrated with b/w photographs. During the 1920s and 1930s, builder Joe Webb constructed nearly three dozen log homes in the tiny Appalachian town of Highlands, North Carolina. The cabins were built without the aid of..... More
London: Architectural Design Magazine, 1994. Original edition. Perfect Bound. Quarto, pp. 96, illustrated with b/w and color photographs and architectural specification drawings. Articles on observations of a traveler; new directions in railway architecture; traveling architects; transportation networks; and much more. More
New York: Abrams for the Brooklyn Museum, 1983. First edition. Perfect Bound. Quarto, pp. 180, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. The Brooklyn Bridge integrates monumental solidity and beadwork delicacy in a structure of awesome beauty and majesty. Its image is synonymous with New York City and, for millions the..... More
Detroit, MI: American Concrete Institute, 1956. Second edition sixth printing. Spiral Bound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 49, illustrated with b/w architectural specification drawings. This manual presented improved methods and standards for preparing drawings for the fabrication and placing of reinforcing steel. There are sections on engineering and placing drawings, fabricating shop..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1951. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 215, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Contains the glassine envelope bound in between pages 158 and 159, but the elusive color print card is missing. The story of the development of color photography with 200+ illustrations including..... More
Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 1995. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 160, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. Signed boldly by the author on the title page, with a gift inscription to Patty Poore of Old House Journal, dated 1998. Flowing from out of Rio Grande country is..... More
Bath, UK: Millstream Books, 1988. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 224, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and plans. John Wood was an English architect and town planner who established the physical character of the resort city of Bath. Wood transformed Bath by adapting the town layout to a...... More
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2003. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 409, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. A fire in downtown Seattle destroyed more than 30 downtown blocks covering 116 acres in 1889. This book examines the brief but powerful influence of H. H. Richardson on the..... More
Cincinnati, OH: Eagle White Lead Co., nd c. 1910. Original edition. Paint samples in leather wallet. Leather wallet 3.5" x 6", containing 24 paint samples measuring 3" x 5.75". Each sample has two colors on one side, and identifying name and formula on the reverse. Packaged with the samples are..... More
New York: David Williams Company, 1915. First edition. Perfect Bound. Quarto, pp. 106, illustrated with b/w photographs, a color supplemental plate, and period advertising. This issue contains articles on a moving picture theater; a western home of frame construction; roof framing with the steel square; design of beams, girders and..... More
New York: David Williams Company, 1914. First edition. Perfect Bound. Quarto, pp. 114, illustrated with b/w photographs, a color supplemental plate, and period advertising. This issue contains articles on a brick garage, stable and greenhouse; a hollow tile and timber residence; testing the efficiency of metal doors; house of concrete..... More
