Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1994. First edition. Decorated Boards. Small quarto, pp. 312, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. Drawn from the wisdom of over 100 of America's best woodworkers, this book offers advice on everything from tuning machines to cutting joints, and every tip has been shop-tested. This volume is..... More
New York: Bonanza, nd c. 1970. Reprint of 1932 edition, first thus. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 212, indexed, illustrated with 300 b/w photographs and 32 pages of detailed architectural drawings. A comprehensive study in the form of photographs and detailed drawings, mostly domestic, which show the influence of successive..... More
Washington, D.C. The Preservation Press, 1992. First edition. Hard Cover. Quarto, pp. 288, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. In October 1991, preservationists, public officials, historians, museum administrators, and educators gathered in San Francisco to mark the 25th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and the 75th anniversary..... More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. First edition. Glossy Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 235, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. In this prize-winning book, the author combines architectural history with cultural analysis for a perceptive look at the creation of the parks, churches, skyscrapers, and civic buildings of the quintessential..... More
Chicago, IL: Bonus Books, Inc., 1992. First edition. Hard Cover. Quarto, pp. xxxii, 459, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. A story of the development of Chicago. This story is engaging and encompassing; organized into four major periods, spanning more than 150 years of Chicago history: 1830 to 1879, 1880 to..... More
Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1972. First edition. Original Cloth. Quarto, pp. 256, indexed, illustrated with 134 color and 278 b/w photographs. One of the most ambitious studies of the American barn, a vanishing landmark and one of the most "American" of architectural structures. Beautifully illustrated, well researched in..... More
New Haven, CT: Penguin Books, 1980. Later printing. Perfect Bound. Small quarto, pp. 344, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. The author's unique and vivid picture of the English upper classes at home over 500 years has won the W. H. Smith & Son Annual Literary Award and the Duff Cooper..... More
New York: Abrams, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto, pp. 290, indexed, richly illustrated with b/w drawings, plans, and photos. 8 appendices. A multidisciplinary textbook on planning and installing modern electrical systems in historical buildings without damaging their architectural integrity. A valuable resource for preservationists, architects, engineers, contractors, old building owners..... More
New York: Dykes Lumber Company (self published), 1936. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. 4" x 9", pp. 56, indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. A price list and a sheet of other products laid in. A very nice 1930s trade piece, from a very ambitious New York-based lumber company. Glass mouldings, stop..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1972. First edition, as stated. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 469, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. The dramatic changes that have taken place in American architecture from the building of the Rockefeller Center to the early 1960s are traced in this fourth volume of..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1980. Revised. Perfect Bound. Small quarto, pp. 400, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. A wide-ranging, yet substantive, account from pre-historic times to the present. The author provides a balanced assessment of each period based on contemporary concerns and conditions, rather than on retrospective criticism, as..... More
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Company, 1910. First edition. Decorated Cloth over Boards. Small octavo, pp. 440, xxv, indexed, illustrated with over 100 b/w drawings and engravings. Ex-library markings. This is not merely the compiling and putting together the writings and antiquated methods which have been put to use by..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1923. First edition. Cloth over Boards. 12mo, pp. 202, illustrated with b/w drawings and engravings. Ex-library markings. The author strove to make this book capable of meeting the real needs of those who wish to do small, or even large, jobs of painting. Chapters on interior and..... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. Second edition. Perfect Bound. Quarto, pp. 125, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. An important conservation manual that required meticulous research and years of hands-on experience to write. No conservator's library should be without this unique work. More
Cleveland, OH: The Sherwin-Williams Co., 1942. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 34, illustrated with b/w photographs. Everything a sales person needed to know about interior wall finishes in the 1940s: wall primer and sealer, wall mixing size, plastering, tinting, painting over calcimine or casein paints or resin emulsion paint..... More
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1909. First edition. Original cloth on boards, burgundy, w/gilt lettering & design on front & spine. Small quarto, pp. xiii, 226, indexed, 13 color plates of marble types, 72 b/w photographs of quarries, production facilities, marble buildings and more throughout the text. Illustrated frontispiece. A..... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004. First edition. Pictorial Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 222. Indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photos. A return to the glorious age of the futuristic, sleek and modernistic look of the Southern California roadside, with its drive-ins, coffee shops, motels, and restaurants. This book, a follow-up..... More
New York: Tudor Publishing, 1945. Reprint of 1929 edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 326, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. Tidewater Virginia is perhaps more interesting to an American than any other equal area between the two oceans. Jamestown was home to the first permanent English settlement in America in..... More
New York: Abrams, 2004. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Oblong quarto, pp. 240, indexed, illustrated with color photographs. Alan Hess, one of the country's foremost authorities on the 20th century American home, carefully traces the nearly 75-year evolution of the ranch house before leading a tour of more than 25..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1902. First printing. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 770. Richly illustrated with "complicated" visuals, including "diorama-like" sepia toned before and after pictures of Eliot's work. 1901 Boston map laid in. Ex-library markings. Written by his father, the senior Eliot who was president of Harvard at the time..... More
New York: Bonanza Books, 1956. First edition. Decorated Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 208, indexed, illustrated with b/w photos, drawings, plans. This work is a delightful record of a civilization which flourished on both sides of the Chesapeake Bay from 1700s to the 1900s. In a series of concise monographs..... More
nd c. 1890. Wooden tool chest. Wooden tool chest with dovetail joints, possibly black walnut, 39" x 19.75" x 21". There are no splits in the top, which consists of a large single board measuring 39" x 19.75" x 1". The hardware appears to be original, and the lock has..... More
Flint, MI: Flint Institute of Arts, 1985. First edition. Staplebound White Wraps. Octavo, pp. 35. Illustrated with 15 b/w plates. An in-depth examination of metalworker Samuel Yellin's work in its broader context, with roots in earlier European wrought ironwork traditions. The b/w plates of his works are spectacular and give..... More
Washington DC: The Preservation Press of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1981. Sixth printing. Paperback. Octavo, pp. 47, richly illustrated with b/w photos, includes bibliography, glossary. A very useful study published by the National Trust. A great place to start in any architectural study! More
Beaver Falls, PA: The Associated Tile Manufacturers, 1925. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 31, illustrated with b/w photographs. There were sanitary advantages to using tile in hospitals in the 1920s: they were waterproof and easy to clean, they were resistant to staining and abrasion; and they were attractive and..... More
