San Francisco, CA: The San Francisco Architectural Club, 1913. First edition. Decorated Boards. Quarto, np ~150, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings, with color frontispiece. This is the first time we've been able to offer a year book from the San Francisco Architectural Club. This issue featured many buildings from..... More
Boston: Bates & Guild, 1914. First edition, later printing (Eighth Thousand). Library Binding in Buckram. Quarto, pp. 4, plus 33 plates. Ex-library markings. Written by a professor of architecture at Cornell, it was created to present to his students as part of his course on architectural construction. A nice book..... More
London: Stobard & Son Ltd., 1984. First edition. Boards. Small quarto, pp. 400, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings, and several color plates. This is the first full-length, illustrated study of the art and practice of wood veneering. This highly practical manual covers all aspects of the subject from..... More
Cambridge, MA: Next Publications, 1986. First edition. Perfect Bound. Octavo, pp. 78, illustrated with b/w photographs. The book is divided into sections describing metal, stone, print, glass and ceramic ornament at Harvard. Each ornament is accompanied by text describing the creator, the date it was made, where it is located..... More
Boston: Frank L. Smith, October 1889. First edition. Perfect Bound. Small quarto, pp. 40, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings of perspective home exteriors with their floor plans, plus period advertisements. Contains 13 building designs of stunning Victorian buildings, from five room cottages to a ten-room house, plus one two-family house..... More
Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser, 2003. First edition. Decorated Boards. Quarto, pp. 240, illustrated with b/w and color drawings and photographs. Architecture and music share many parallel and intersecting elements. Space, sound and vision are connected and resonate in many ways when they coincide. Recent developments in the music, film and media..... More
Wilkes-Barre, PA: Columbia Mills Inc., 1953. First edition. Perfect Bound. Octavo, six samples bound in. An unusual catalog; we've never seen this one before. Six samples in different colors of their lightweight wood window shades. The samples can be rolled up and down as they would in a window, demonstrating..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First edition. Perfect Bound. Quarto, pp. ~190, illustrated with b/w photographs, specification drawings, and period advertising. Articles include mural painting in America, sketches of Old New Orleans, planning out from the house (landscape architecture), Yale's War Memorial, Colonial Philadelphia, a portfolio of door hardware..... More
London: Architectural Press, 1969. First UK edition. Cloth over Boards, grey. Square small octavo, pp 295, illustrated with b/w photographs and architectural drawings. A study of the artificial control of built spaces, including heating and air-conditioning systems and electricity. More
New York: Scribner's and Sons, 1887. Original edition. Pictorial Cloth over Boards (gilt, red and black on brown cloth). Octavo, pp. 210, illustrated with full-page b/w engravings and smaller b/w drawings interspersed, plus 16-page illustrated publisher's catalog bound in. Signed neatly by a previous owner on the front endpaper. American-Canadian..... More
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Zurich: Benzinger & Co., 1948. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 143, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. Text in German. The author is an architect who undertook the important task of presenting the status and design, its evaluation and reorientation in Nirchenban after hundreds of diverse developments..... More
New York: American Homecrafts Company, 1921. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 160, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. Good residential architecture is common in Connecticut. The skill of Connecticut craftsmen is proverbial. In order to fully realize how much good domestic designing there is to be found in the architecture of..... More
New York: Heresies Collective, 1981. First edition. Perfect Bound. Quarto, pp. 96, illustrated with b/w photographs. Heresies is an idea-oriented journal devoted to the examination of art and politics from a feminist perspective, in the hopes that the journal would stimulate dialogue around radical political aesthetic theory, encourage the writing..... More
New York: National Home Builders, Inc., 1942. Ninth edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 88, illustrated with b/w photographs. Co-branded by Celotex Building Products on the front cover. One page (pp. 271-272) has been sliced neatly in half, and the portion cut away is missing. A patriotic effort to encourage people..... More
Washington, IN: W. L. Evans Co., nd c. 1930. First printing. Staplebound Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 25, illustrated with b/w photographs. This brochure took the reader through a tour of the company offices and the factory of W. L. Evans in Washington, Indiana. Photographs show the offices, drafting room, mailing..... More
New York: Elizabeth Sage Hare, 1939. First edition. Folded Paper View Book. 6.5" x 5", opens to 24" high, color-lithographic pictorial upper scene with single central peep-hole and six panel images separated by folds. A deep six-panel peep show, with each layer of the show adding details to the view..... More
New York: Praeger, 1968. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 207, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. This book presents 100 approaches to the design of exhibitions of all kinds. The author has divided the examples according to particular design problems. World's fairs, with specially constructed pavilions, present..... More
New York: Reinhold, 1957. Revised. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 263, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. The subject of store design has been developed from the inside out, the same way in which the architectural design of a store grows. This revised edition has been completely reset and..... More
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Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, nd c. 1907. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 194, illustrated with b/w photographs and architectural drawings. Text in German. This book sought to compile a selection of small buildings by proven architects: apartments, dormitories, taverns, laundry, etc. Elevations, floor plans and architectural details are also included. The..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1930. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Folio, pp. xv, 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 plate has several lines of..... More
London: S.P.A.B., nd c. 1992. First edition. Staplebound Heavy Wraps. Quarto, pp 24. b/w construction details and photographs throughout. Published by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, founded by William Morris in 1877. A concise and thorough explanation of window repair methods with excellent construction drawings and explanations..... More
Watkins Glen, NY: American Life Foundation, 1976. Reprint. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. ca 140, b/w floor plans and architectural drawings throughout. A section of trade advertisements in the back. Some color renderings. A beautiful and informative book that is a facsimile of Bicknell's Village Builder and Supplement of 1872..... More
Columbia, PA: Von Hess Foundation, 2005. First edition. Cloth over Boards in Slipcase. Quarto, pp. 304, 416, indexed, illustrated with color photographs. Wright's Ferry Mansion is a historic home in Columbia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1738, and is a 2.5 story, rectangular limestone residence with a gable roof and..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. First edition. Cloth over Blue Boards with leather spine label. Octavo, pp. xiii, 146, illustrated with b/w plans, drawings and photographs. Charles Follen McKim was an American Beaux-Arts architect of the late 19th century. Along with William Rutherford Mead and Stanford White, he provided the architectural..... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2013. First American edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 728, indexed, b/w and color illustrations. Colour printing is something we take for granted. This was not always so, and we owe it to the foundations laid by chromolithography that it now touches most aspects..... More
