Boston: American Architect and Building New Company, 1898. First edition. Cloth over Boards. folio (14 x 19). 20 magnificent b/w full-page plates. in quite good condition for age and all 20 images still completely intact. great visually-guided tour through the history of American architecture. More
Pittstown, NJ: Arno Press, Inc., 1977. First edition. Original Red Cloth. Octavo, pp.226, indexed, illustrated in b/w photos & drawings. From material originally published as The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs. More
New York: Vintage, 1975. First edition. Original Wraps. Small Quarto, pp. 153, indexed, profusely illustrated w/ b/w photographs. An excellent overview of this distinctive architectural style that began in Georgian England and spread to the U.S. to eventually become the dominant style of architecture here for nearly a century. More
New York: Abrams, 1995. Reprint. Stiff wraps. Oblong quarto, pp. 144, profusely and lavishly illustrated w/ color and b/w photographs. More
New York: International Publications, Inc., 1932. First edition. Original Wraps. More
New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1970. Reprint. Oversized Paperback. Octavo, pp. 29 (text) plus 118 b/w plates (a total of 216 illustrations). Scarce! Ex-library noted architectural historian Nancy Halverson Schless. More
Newtown, CT: The Taunton Press, 2005. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo. Another solid study by one of the design industry's established spokes(wo)men. More
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Large Octavo, pp. 300, indexed, richly illustrated w/ b/w drawings and photographs. More
Boston: David R. Godine Publisher, 1989. First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Folio (12 X 11), pp. 191, indexed. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w plates. More than 70 structures in full color, from octagonal barns to Cape May cottages, from elegant NY town houses to grand Greek Revivals, paintings and..... More
Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1929. Brown stapled card wraps. Unpaginated (30 pages), with 22 photographic figures and 4 architectural line drawings. Some foxing inside. A study and collection of architectural and domestic artifacts of German colonists in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, in the early 1800s. Very nice examples of iron..... More
Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1913. First edition. Original Cloth, teal. Octavo, pp. xii, 300, illustrated w/drawings, a collection of articles previously printed in various magazines. More
New York: The Architectural and Building Press, Inc., 1922. First edition. Box with envelope and loose portfolio of plates. Quarto, pp. 19 of description by William Crocker, ed. of The American Architect, plus 56 loose duotone sketches. This set includes 3 additional plates by the same artist (for a total..... More
Paris: la Société Technic-Union, 1972. First edition. Trade Paperback. Octavo, pp. 118, profusely illustrated w/ b/w and color photographs. In French, with English summary. Glossy French journal journal issue presents studies of Alba, Bossard, Safdie, Ahrends/Burton/Koralek, and Venturi/Rauch. More
St. Paul, Minnesota: Brown & Bigelow, 1935. Decorated Wraps, blue. 12 mo. pp 28. richly illustrated. Appears to be a sort of "pseudo" trade catalog of American Outhouses, that indigenous form of American vernacular Architecture. A wonderful farce, beautifully illustrated, this may from be a small run for a client..... More
St. Paul, Minnesota: Brown & Bigelow, 1935. Pamphlet. 12 mo. pp 28. richly illustrated. Appears to be a sort of "pseudo" trade catalog of American Outhouses, that indigenous form of American vernacular Architecture. A wonderful farce, beautifully illustrated, this may from be a small run for a client, as it..... More
Chicago, IL: 1999. Cloth over Boards. Published for the centennial of the club, the author captured the heart and soul of the club with incredible and loving skill. The WAC was the first women's athletic club in the united states, and an integral part of Chicago society. The author used..... More
Houston, TX: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1976. First printing - only 2500 copies. Original Wraps. Quarto, pp. viii, 101. Very rare. 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: Abrams, 1997. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 376. Illustrated with color photos. Foreword by Charles Kuralt. An engaging survey of all the official governors' mansions in the U.S., written by the First Lady of Oklahoma who is also an active preservationist. An interesting book on a long-overlooked subject..... More
New York: George Braziller, 1974. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Small quarto, pp. 178, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. Eclecticism is the movement in American architecture that gave us so many neo-Georgian houses, Gothic churches, Byzantine synagogues, Roman banks, and so on between about 1880 and 1920. Questioned..... More
New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1966. Reprint. Oversized Paperback. Octavo, pp. xx, 314, indexed, illustrated in 219 b/w illus., includes chronological chart, "an unabridged and corrected republication of the work orig pub by Scribner's Sons in 1922" More
New York: 1985. Cloth over Boards. This fascinating volume explores the American bungalow as an art form and as a document reflecting middle-class life in its era. Casual and informal, the bungalow mirrored the society that produced it, and (like that society) displayed no predominant architectural ancestry. It was conceived..... More
Newtown, CT: Taunton Press, 2006. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 266, sumptuously illustrated w/ b/w photographs and a few color plates, color maps on inside covers and endpapers. A very attractive new book. The jacket copy appears accurate: "Illustrated with the starkly beautiful photographs of the Historic..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 2003. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. xv, 303, indexed, illustrated in b/w & color photos. Based on the author's senior thesis years ago while at Princeton University, this is a greatly enhanced version of the definitive study on the subject. Interestingly written, stunningly illustrated, including a...... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975. First edition, as stated. Original Cream Cloth. Octavo, pp. 184, indexed, illustrated with 251 b/w photos, plans & drawings, a "charming and colorful survey of this remarkably diverse and influential style" (from DJ). Visually fascinating look at a uniquely American vernacular architecture. More
