Washington DC: Preservation Press, 1993. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 128. Indexed, richly illustrated with color photos. The striking color photographs in this volume celebrate the spirit of the Village, the tranquil churchyards and vibrant piazzas, the handsome facades and the cheerful storefronts. An introduction surveys the Village's... More about Old Greenwich Village: An Architectural Portrait
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1963. Second edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp 712, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. Mild ex-library (Cargill Research Library, Minneapolis). A technical study of forms of corrosion, rate factors, corrosion testing and control, and corrosion behavior of specific metal and alloy groups... More about Corrosion Resistance of Metals and Alloys
London: Edward Arnold Publishers, Ltd., 1968. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 488, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. This book is divided into two sections. Part I contains supplements to the author's previous 1960 book, each chapter opening with a preamble summarizing the contents of the original chapter... More about The Corrosion and Oxidation of Metals; First Supplementary Volume
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1954. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. xvii, 835, extremely well researched, indexed, well illustrated w/ b/w photographs and drawings/diagrams. One of the first in-depth studies of building materials. A monumental, ambitious and comprehensive study that provides necessary info to the preservation community about... More about Deterioration of Materials: Causes and Preventive Techniques
Paris: H. Laurens, nd c. 1905. First edition. Portfolio of loose plates. Folio (11.75" x 14.75"), 83 loose plates plus title page and six pages (in French) describing the plates, profusely illustrated w/ duotones of architectural exteriors and interiors. Content pages claim 96 plates, but the plates aren't numbered so... More about Documents d'Architecture Moderne; Ensembles et Details
London: The Architectural Review, 1910. First edition. Cloth over boards. Quarto, pp 198, xxi- xxviii. b&w photographs and floor plans. Illustrated end papers, and many period advertisements. A magnificent collection of the work of the best architects of the day, published as a special issue of "The Architectural Review." A.... More about Recent English Domestic Architecture; Being a Special Issue of The Architectural Review
London: The Architectural Press, 1923. First edition. Hard Cover, Navy, w/gilt lettering. Quarto, pp. 19 (text) followed by 100 b/w photographic plates on glossy paper. A major collection of interior images (ornamental plaster, stairways, doorways) of the period. Uncommon title, especially the second volume (of images). More about Small Houses of the Late Georgian Period 1750-1820; Vol II Details and Interiors; with 50...
London: Technical Journals, Ltd., 1919. First edition, Second Impression. Cloth over boards. Quarto, pp. iv, 16 (text) followed by 100 b/w photographic plates on glossy paper. A major collection of exterior architectural elevations and details, doorways, porches, portico's, facades, as well as entire groups of row houses. The houses are... More about Small Houses of the Late Georgian Period 1750-1820
North Tonawanda, NY: Bennett Homes & Lumber Co., 1936. Original edition. Staplebound Wraps. Small quarto, pp 24, illustrated with b/w drawings and floor plans. Dura-Bilt homes were advertised to be the most durable and easiest-to-erect home for the price. Their design details included modern fire-stop construction, short studs in place... More about Plan Book #42
New York: Architectural Book Publishing, 1930. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 147, sumptuously illustrated with b/w photographs and plans. Four pages of photographs from a 1927 article in Architecture magazine about antique ironwork laid in. An important book and wealth of visual information on this element of Philadelphia's... More about Colonial Ironwork in Old Philadelphia
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1964. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 108, indexed, with many wonderful illustrations by the author. This absorbing and profusely illustrated book describes in detail scores of early American tools and the wooden and metal artifacts made with them. Informally and expressively written, the... More about A Museum of Early American Tools
Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Press, 1995. First US Edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 390. Indexed, bibliography, illustrated with b/w drawings and photos. Some of the greatest medieval castles survive only as earthworks and in pictures and written accounts of that time, because they were made of timber. The authors... More about Timber Castles
Olean, NY: A. Weston Lumber Co., 1925. Original edition. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp 184, contains b/w and color exterior illustrations and the floor plans for over 100 homes. Informational articles and period advertisement for flooring, heating, insurance, lumber and other building supplies throughout. Home designs in American Colonial, New England... More about Weston's Book of Homes
Stratford, CT: Self, 1937. Original edition. Albumen with cardboard frame. Albumen photograph (8" x 10") float-mounted to cardboard frame with amateur glue-job and reused cardboard. Water stain on top right corner affects only the frame and not the photograph. Tilo Roofing Company operated in Stratford, Connecticut at least into the... More about Tilo Roofing Company, Stratford, Conn
New York: Self, 1926. Original edition. Albumen on cardboard mount. Albumen photograph on trimmed cardboard mount, 7" x 9". Inscription on the reverse: "Woolworth Building NYC 1926 Photo taken by my father, Farnon Prescott at age of 17" A rare vintage photograph of the Woolworth Building in New York City... More about Woolworth Building, New York
Chicago, IL: Murdison Company, 1909. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Folio (12"x15.5"), pp. 370, illustrated with b/w photographs of architectural ornaments. Anaglypta is a range of paintable textured wallcoverings made from paper or vinyl. It was the first washable wall covering and appealed to Victorians because of its sanitary properties... More about Anaglypta & Salamander; Anaglypta Retail Pattern Book Price List
New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1994. First paperback edition. Glossy Pictorial Wraps. Quarto. pp 336. Indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. A unique work of pictorial reference, supported by introductory texts, glossary and bibliography, which will be equally valuable to art historians, architects and designers- and to anyone who cares... More about Cast Iron Decoration: A World Survey
Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 1997. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp 144, indexed. Illustrated with color photographs. The floorcloth is rapidly gaining popularity as a fashionable alternative to an area rug. A painted canvas rug is lightweight, durable, and economical, and it offers a simple way to add... More about The Complete Book of Floorcloths; Designs & Techniques for Painting Great-Looking Canvas Rugs
Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2005. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 233, illustrated with color photographs. This is the quintessential monograph of the legendary Thomas Molesworth, his life and work. As the first thoroughly detailed and complete guide, it explores Molesworth's journey to becoming one of the... More about Molesworth: The Pioneer of Western Design
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 191, indexed, illustrated with 265 color photographs. This volume will delight anyone interested in interior design. Tracing the evolution of these electic European styles from their roots in the Renaissance through the early twentieth century, it... More about Biedermeier to Bauhaus
nd c. 1890. Paper with wooden, hand grain-painted frame. Frame is 16.25" x 12.25" and is hand painted to simulate wood grain. Art is supported with a cardboard backing that shows sign of some water damage in the past, but it has not affected the artwork. This attractive pastoral scene... More about Framed Hat Box Art
Amsterdam: Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Small quarto, pp. about 70, illustrated with color drawings. Text in Dutch and English. Since 1992, the Oeuvre Awards presented by the Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture have expressed public appreciation for artists who... More about John Habraken: Oeuvreprijs (Oeuvre Award) 1996
Cambridge, MA: Atwater Press, 1985. First edition. Paperback. Small quarto, pp. 163, illustrated with b/w drawings. The four essays in this book consider how the countless physical objects that we live with appear in our human culture. For millennia use and making were inseparable, even when the latter knew specialization... More about The Appearance of the Form; four essays on the position designing takes between people and things
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 about A Modulkoordinalt Epitesi Rendszer (The Modular Coordinated Building System
New York: Methuen, Inc., 1977. First American edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 178, indexed, illustrated with b/w diagrams and drawings. This book tried to anticipate what computer-aided design systems would be like, and what their impact would be on architects and other designers. The book is written from... More about The Automated Architect; Human and Machine Roles in Design
