London: Aurum Press, 2007. First paperback edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 272, indexed, illustrated with color photographs. Publisher's sticker on front cover. Britain's towns and cities still contain hundreds of thousands of Victorian houses, ranging from grand town houses to terraces of workers' cottages, from Italianate villas to Gothic..... More
New York: Pentagram Design, 2001. First edition. Staplebound Wraps with Dust Jacket. Octavo, pp 36; 8 pages of text plus color photographs. "Wildwood is an ossifying, urban, challenging place with a bad neighborhood or two, bars and nightclubs, drug problems and a 26% unemployment rate. It's a bit grubby and..... More
Chicago. IL: The Celotex Corporation, 1954. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps, yellow/red/teal. Quarto, pp 30. Color & b/w perspective renderings, b/w floor plans & details, and 2-toned isometric diagram showing construction. 1 page color chart showing shingle finishes. An advertisement for Calder overhead sectional garage doors laid in. An extensive..... More
Proctor, VT: Vermont Marble Co., 1924. First edition. Decorated Boards with Gilt Lettering and Designs. Quarto, pp. 44. Illustrated with 7 full page b/w plates. An interesting and attractively illustrated outline of historical ornaments and motifs as related to memorial design. Includes sections on Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Celtic, Gothic, Renaissance..... More
York: Robert Sunter, 1843. First edition. Half leather with marbled boards and marbled endpapers. Elephant folio (18" x 24"), pp. ix, 88, plus two hand-colored title pages, a hand-colored dedication leaf, 34 hand-colored full-page plates, 24 hand-colored half-page plates, 22 uncolored full-page plates (some tinted), and a map. The page..... More
Oakland, CA: Dixon & Hillen, May, 1923. First edition. Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp 30, illustrated with b/w photographs and period trade advertisements. Articles on homes located in Northcrest, Stockton, California, featuring several different types from English to Mission. All issues of this sought-after series are scarce. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition. Perfect Bound. Quarto, pp. 151, illustrated with b/w photographs. Articles include sculpture and the pediment (interviews with sculptors by a member of the editorial staff); Indo-Hispanic Mexico; measured drawings of YMCA (a fold-out presentation that is in excellent condition); the Parthenon by..... More
Washington, D.C. The Commission of Fine Arts, 1978. Original edition. Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 571, illustrated with b/w archival photographs from the Library of Congress, and large foldout map of Washington DC. Architectural and historical reviews of major structures on 16th Street NW in Washington, D.C., from Lafayette Square north..... More
Detroit, MI: Kirk & Koskela Architects, 1986. Original edition. Plastic comb binding. Oblong quarto, pp. 40, illustrated with b/w photographs, drawings, and architectural plans. This firm put together a book with resumes for each architect, a list of the projects they'd done, and drawings relating to many of the projects..... More
New York: Overlook Hardcover, 1976. First American edition. Hardcover. Small quarto, pp. 554; 2400 entries with over 1000 illustrations. Dustjacket has closed tear, sunned spine, some edgewear and chipping. Describes the history and development of architecture including architects, terms, building materials, styles and movements, types, and specific examples of buildings..... More
Goshen, IN and more: Various, c. 1930s and 1940s. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto, pp. 8, 18 (plus 4-page insert), 18, 23, illustrated with b/w and color drawings and photographs. These four catalogs give a nice overview of the basic kitchen units available in the 1930s and 1940s. The first..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1916. First edition. Decorated Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 22, plus 5 figures and 36 b/w photographic plates. An unusual series of "before and after" comparisons of early 20th century "restorations" of traditional-styled (mostly Colonials) New England homes. A fascinating record of the early..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1981. First edition. Pictorial Wraps. Small quarto, pp ~180 [np], illustrated with b/w photographs. From a fabulous photographic archive in New England comes an irresistible invitation to rediscover a nearly lost vision of small-town America. Culled from over 21,000 impeccable glass negatives in the collection of..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1959. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 130, indexed, illustrated with 128 b/w photographs and 12 color plates. The title is an homage to Ruskin's "The Stones of Venice." The author found a sermon in the stones of Florence, the successor to Athens in Western..... More
Washington, D.C. National Museum of American Art, 1992. First edition. Glossy Pictorial Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 205, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. The museum's collection of African-American art is one of the largest and most comprehensive in existence. The museum's 19th century African-American holdings are especially strong. The author..... More
Montpelier, VT: Vermont Bureau of Publicity, 1932. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 32, illustrated with b/w photographs. A lovely booklet featuring the summer homes of people who were doctors, lawyers, musicians, writers, and artists, paired with a touching essay by the author that reflected her great love and..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. First edition. Boards. Small quarto, pp. 334, It's not often that we deal in fiction, but this is a novel that deserves attention. Hilarious and poignant, the novel is a love letter to a vanishing city, and a deeply emotional story of fathers and..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First edition. Original Blue Cloth. Octavo, pp. vi, 269, illustrated w/ drawings by the author. A wonderful period piece of the building industry in residential building in 1923. Very trades-oriented, with wonderful visuals of the building process in a much more hands-on age. This..... More
New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1988. First edition, as stated. Original Blue Cloth. Quarto, pp. 270, indexed, illustrated in b/w & color photos, bibliography. A beautiful, comprehensive catalog of work by one of the first women to graduate in civil engineering from the University of California-Berkeley. Julia Morgan (1872-1957) designed..... 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
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
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
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
New York: Assouline Publishing, 2010. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 216, indexed, illustrated with color and b/w photographs. In this book, 95 artists, architects, and designers reflect on the idea and reality of glass houses, and respond to two of modernism's greatest masterpieces: The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth..... More
New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 2011. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Oblong quarto, pp. 200, indexed, illustrated with color photographs. The standing of the Yale Center for British Art as one of the world's great museums and study centers finds expression in its remarkable building, designed by..... More
