Niles, MI: The Kawneer Co., 1929. First edition. Decorated Stock Covers, blue. Quarto, pp. 63, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and architectural drawings. A distinctive and uncommon publication displaying beautiful specimens of highly ornamental store fronts in photographs and with special attention to the details. A supplementary section shows a...... More
Pittsburgh, PA: Eagle Paint & Varnish Co., nd c. 1940. Original edition. Paint samples in cardboard box. Box 5.25" x 4.25" x 0.5", containing 30 paint samples measuring 3.75" x 5". Each sample has its color on one side, and identifying name and catalog number on the reverse. Packaged with..... More
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Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, nd. c. 1890. First edition. Half-Leather with Marbled Boards and Endpapers. Quarto, pp. 245, illustrated with b/w architectural drawings and floor plans. Text in French. A beautiful book featuring many gorgeous 19th century homes in France. Each plate is accompanied by a description of construction..... More
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1853. Early Edition. Half Leather with Marbled Boards. Quarto, pp. 119, illustrated with 64 engraved plates. Some pencil inscriptions and foxing. Hitchcock 132. "Originally published 1830, this was Benjamin's fourth and vastly most popular work. This was the key book in introducing the Greek..... More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1947. Original edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. xxii, 290, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs; book plate for Gerhardt Kramer inside front cover. Stamped by Hugo Graf on front endpaper. Both were architects in St. Louis that designed numerous significant buildings in..... More
Chicago, IL: Montgomery Ward & Co., 19230. Color Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 108, indexed, illustrated with b/w architectural drawings and floor plans. Over 60 home exteriors and a few garages are illustrated, with floor plans and descriptions of the interior. A few pages are devoted to advertising of plumbing, heating..... More
Glendale, CA: Griffin-Patterson Company, 1945. Later printing. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 64. Illustrated with b/w exterior home drawings and floor plans. Cover reinforced with book repair tape. This is the seventh of Rosebrook's "Distinctive Small Homes" books. In 1938, a group of lumbermen interested the architect in publishing his first..... More
Cincinnati, OH: Norwood Sash and Door Mfg. Co., 1917. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 44. Illustrated with b/w exterior home drawings and floor plans. Order form laid in. This Midwestern company supplied all the lumber, roofing, doors, windows, hardware, painting materials, siding, ceiling, flooring, etc. to create these..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing, 1924. Second Printing. Half-Leather. Folio (12.5" x 17"), pp. ~125, illustrated with b/w drawings. The author was an American architect celebrated for his work in Gothic Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival design. He also designed notable typefaces. He is credited with creating a distinctive interpretation..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing, 1914. First edition. Decorated Boards. Folio (12.5" x 17"), 55 b/w architectural specification drawings. Joseph Patterson Sims was an American architect, lithographer, and cartographer. This lovely selection of drawings features wall panels, mouldings, windows, stairs, doors, fireplace mantels, railings, and more. More
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1973. Second edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. xviii, 263, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. The office of Burnham & Root was pre-eminent during the early years of the Chicago School of commercial architecture. As the designing partner, John Root pioneered in developing the..... More
Washington DC: Preservation Press, 1991. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 216, indexed, illustrated with b/w photos, drawings, and plans. A look at 12 American houses that were designed to be prototypes of the future, by a luminary in the field of historical preservation. A wonderful book for anyone interested in..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1929. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 168, illustrated with b/w photographic plates. A gift inscription dated 1934 is written neatly on the front endpaper. The domestic architecture of Venice represents an unbroken tradition of eight or nine hundred years, to which every..... More
San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1993. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 112, illustrated with color photographs. One of the reasons that Charles Rennie Mackintosh's work with textiles is not so widely known - unlike his architecture, furniture and his watercolors - is that very few of his fabrics can now..... More
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1995. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 160, indexed, illustrated with color photographs. This book celebrates the work of one of the most influential figures in modern design. Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scotland's greatest architect and designer, was remarkable for the wide range of..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 1989. First edition. Paperback. Quarto, pp. xiv, 239, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. In a career that spanned the first half of the 20th century, Philip Trammell Shutze produced over 750 architectural works. Because his production was so large, this first book to examine his..... More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977. Second Printing. Paperback. Octavo, pp. 487, indexed, illustrated with 288 b/w photographs and drawings. Long considered to be one of the most outstanding architectural biographies of the late 20th century, Saint shows what an original architect Shaw (1831-1912) was, in addition to being..... More
Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1988. Stated First Edition. Oversized Paperback. Small quarto, pp. 173, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. The essays in this book recreate the context in which Henry Hobson Richardson's work was built, and they interpret the designs of regional architects and builders who..... More
London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1978. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Octavo, pp. 30, illustrated with b/w photographs. This catalog accompanied the exhibition of Scott's work at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1978. It contains a short biography of Scott, a listing and description of his buildings, the restoration of..... More
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1980. Stated First Edition. Perfect Bound. Octavo, pp. xiii, 92, illustrated with b/w photographs. The geographical location of Syracuse, its industry and especially its location on the Erie Canal, were factors propitious for its growth and development as an industrial center within New York State..... More
London: J. Barfield, 1809. Second edition, with additions; revised and corrected. Full Leather. Octavo (5.5" x 8.5"); volume 1 pp. xxxiii, 263; volume 2 pp. xvi, 81; volume 3 pp. xix, 113; 216 engraved plates between all volumes. All plates are present in all volumes. Volume I is devoted to..... More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Press, 1985. First edition. Decorated Boards. Quarto, pp. 171, indexed, illustrated with b/w architectural specification drawings. This book was developed to show working drawing details of a wide scope of architectural details, to prepare aspiring architects with hands-on knowledge of how to combine theory, design..... More
Philadelphia, PA: William H. Horstmann Company, 1925. First edition. Original Staplebound Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 39, illustrated with color drawings. Signed neatly by a previous owner on the title page. Center four pages have pulled free of the staples, but are present and undamaged. This book shows 21 attractive rugs..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2002. Stated First Edition. Decorated Wraps. Octavo, pp. 416, illustrated with color photographs. In our car-crazed world, the bicycle is the one mode of transportation that is powered by the human spirit. Whether hauling groceries, racing the speedometer to strengthen performance, or touring through..... More
Los Angeles: John C. Brasfield, 1929. First edition. Original Wraps. Folio (10.5" x 14"), pp. 86, illustrated with beautiful photogravure of interiors and exteriors and floor plans of homes in California. The homes featured are the W. K. Kellogg Ranch near Pomona, designed by Myron Hunt and H. C. Chambers;..... More
