Fitchburg, MA: B. A. Cook & Co., nd c. 1915. Original edition. Cloth spine with textured paper cover; gilt lettering. Folio (18"x18"). Over 75 wallpaper samples; very unusual and vivid! These wallpapers encompass a broad range of colors, from soft neutrals to bright florals with metallic embellishments. More
Boston, MA: S. Z. Goldberg, 1915. Original edition. Cloth spine with textured paper cover; gilt lettering. Folio (16"x18.5"). Over 75 wallpaper samples, including half-page borders that coordinate with a full-page sample. Samples range from florals in pastel pinks and light blue, to dramatic dark green and brown styles so popular..... More
Boston, MA: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1962. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Oblong quarto, pp. 13, illustrated with b/w photographs. A 1962 fundraising letter addressed to members of the Society is laid in. This booklet describes the history of SPNEA, from its founding in 1910 by William..... 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
Chicago, IL: Chicago Daily News, 1927. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp 16, illustrated with b/w photographs, drawings, and floor plans. The designs selected for this book show the application of Spanish and Italian styles to small house architecture. Short articles describe the characteristics of Spanish and Italian style. Scarce;..... More
Jersey City, NJ: The Standard Wood Turning Company, nd c. 1890. First edition. Ephemera. 9.5" x 12" brochure, which opens to 19" x 12". Has been folded; some closed tears and soiling. An attractive trade piece depicting stairwork in the ornate Victorian patterns of the day, with prices for pieces..... 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
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Lee Valley Tools, Ltd., 1984. First edition. Paperback, pictorial cover. Octavo, pp. 416, indexed, richly illustrated in b/w & color. Includes the 1904 Universal Design Book and price list of the wholesale Sash, Door, and Blind Manufacturers' Association of the NW US and the Illustrated Official Moulding..... More
New York: Harry N Abrams, Inc., 1994. First edition. Cloth over Boards, Red, w/red pictorial DJ. Folio, pp 256. Beautifully illustrated with 348 color photographs. Colored free end papers. Brilliantly produced and written by leading American and European scholars, this is a stunning publication. Preservation and conservation techniques are also..... More
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc., 1979. First paperback edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 84 plus 91 illustrations, 26 in color. William Morris was a designer, craftsman, and theorist who was at the center of the Arts and Crafts movement, a group of architects, artisans, and artists..... More
Carrera, IT: Italian Marble Industrie, 1972. First edition. Original Cloth on Boards, green w/white embossed lettering. Quarto, pp x, pp 223. B/W photographs throughout text plus 140 Color reproductions of marble types by Rizzoli in Milan. Specifications for each type is listed across from each plate. (Physical & mechanical tests..... More
Chicago: Shattuck & McKay, 1914. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Octavo, pp. 64, illustrated with b/w and color drawings. Front cover imprinted with the name of Flanagan & Biedeweg Studio, Chicago. One sample image has been neatly clipped from page 13. Scarce trade catalog with lovely color images of stained glass..... More
Buffalo, NY: The Beaver Companies, nd ca 1920. Original edition. Ephemera. Cardstock envelope, 2.75" x 5.25", with printed card that slides up and down within the envelope to reveal quantities of materials required for rooms of various dimensions. Beaver Board was active between 1910 and 1922 in Buffalo, supplying wall..... More
Bayport, MN: Andersen Frame Corporation, nd ca 1945. Original edition. Ephemera. Cardstock envelope, 2.75" x 5.5", with printed card that slides up and down within the envelope to reveal lumber sizes for each size window. A handy pocket tool in its day, and an attractive advertising piece. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1970. First edition. Cloth over Boards in Slipcase. Small quarto, pp. 344 (volume 1) and 300 (volume 2), illustrated with b/w photographs. The Garvan collection of American silver was started by a Yale alum in 1916, and gifted to Yale in 1930. Three major..... More
Konigswinter, Germany: Konemann, 2004. First edition. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp.639, indexed, illustrated with over a thousand color photographs. This book follows the historical development of the Islamic regions and their ruling dynasties, and illustrates their greatly varied forms of artistic expression from the birth of the religion to the present..... More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1927. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. xvii, 108, indexed, illustrated with 92 b/w and color photographic plates. Signed by a previous owner on inside front cover in 1929. Chapters on the history of the Manufactory at Jouy; other important centers of..... More
Savannah, GA: Telfair Books, 2010. First edition. Decorated Boards. Quarto, pp. 128, illustrated with color photographs. This book examines the important role Savannahians played in the production of silver flatware and hollowware and in the connoisseurship and collecting of these distinctive and beautiful objects. The Telfair Museum hosted an exhibit..... More
London: B. T. Batsford, 1905. First edition. Decorated Cloth over Boards. Quarto, 72 pages of text. Illustrated w/ith 100 b/w collotype plates and numerous in-text b/w drawings and plans. Includes bound-in list of other Batsford architecture titles in back. This district contains some of the most typical stone buildings in..... More
Cleveland, OH: Sandusky Cement Co., nd c. 1922. Original edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 32, ilustrated with b/w photographs. A beautiful trade piece for Medusa Cement, with many examples of residential architecture around the country, including the home of President Herbert Hoover located in Stanford, CA. Also includes an..... 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
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
London: B.T. Batsford, 1904. First edition. Publisher's cloth, stamped. Octavo, pp. vi, 39 plus 100 b/w photographic plates, reproduced in collotype and indexed. In studying timber architecture of these three counties, the most ordinary observer cannot fail to be struck by the difference in general effect in the Southern and..... More
Chambersburg, PA: Northern Homes, Inc., 1951. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 32, illustrated with b/w photos, drawings and floor plans. The book is not dated, but an insert with 1951 prices is laid in. Northern created prefabricated housing with quality materials. They shipped the entire framework of the house..... 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
