Los Angeles: John C. Brasfield, 1949 - 1963. Softcover. Unique collection containing 17 large and 3 extra (small) issues. The magazine was published quarterly (2 large issues & 2 extra issues published annually). The larger issues contain residential and some commercial architecture with a focus on luxury California homes, which...
Berlin: Rudolf Mosse, 1928. 1st to 3rd Edition. Hardcover. 1. bis 3. Auflage. Folio. ix, 82, [1]pp. Original cloth-backed over yellow, printed paper-covered boards with black lettering on cover, yellow lettering on spine. Critical study of American architecture by German-Jewish architect Erich Mendelsohn. The 77 b/w reproductions in photogravure were...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Hardcover. Elephant folio. [ix], 152pp. Illustrated "with plates drawn by the author illustrating methods and results." Includes 53 plates of b&w photographs of interior and exterior views and details and sketches of designs and architectural plans. "Essays on the fundamental principles of design and...
London: Architectural Association, 1983. First edition. Softcover. 12mo. 48pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name organized in London by the Architectural Association, from April 29 to May 21, 1983. This work features 19 architectural projects by some of the most talented architects...
München; Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1921. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. IV, [2], 42pp (Text), 40pp (Plates). Original pictorial wrappers. Printer's device on title-page. Photo-illustrated architectural study on the construction of American skyscrapers, their financing and rentability. This book is profusely illustrated with 15 in-text illustrations and b/w photographic reproductions, as well...
New York: Press of the American Institute of Architects, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 50pp., cclxxiii (1) plates. Original blue buckram backed by tan cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated half-title. Extensive art historical architectural surveys by Hartley Burr Alexander, Ralph Adams Hale, Lee Lawrie...
Taliesin Fellowship West *, 1953. Softcover. 8vo. 8pp. Original wrappers protected by modern mylar. Fascinating essay by Lloyd Wright criticizing the "international (architectural) style." "The International Style is neither international nor a style. Internationalism is Totalitarianism. All ISMS are merely derivative. An ISM is only a notion. At most the...
Sahop, (1981). First edition. Hardcover. Lg. 4to. 332pp. Gray paper-covered boards with title in gold on cover and spine with dust jacket. Minor bumping to bottom edge. Creasing, rubbing, chipping and minor closed tears to dj. Decorated endpapers. A fascinating look at Mexican Baroque architecture and art. Richly illustrated with...
Berlin: Rudolf Mosse, 1928. Sixth revised and expanded. Hardcover. Folio (13 1/2 x 9 1/2"). 222, [6]pp. Original quarter black cloth over printed paper covered boards, with black lettering to front cover, and blue lettering to spine. In "Amerika: Bilderbuch eines Architekten" noted Jewish-German architect Erich Mendelsohn published photographs of...
Los Angeles: Southwest Catalogue Company, (1936). Hardcover. Large 8vo. Unpaginated. Black cloth binding with paste-down image to front cover. Collection of catalogues from across the U.S. for home furnishings, repair, and remodeling. Featured are entries from Barker Brothers Home Furnishings, Frigidaire Corporation, Hipolito Company (roller screens; sash & doors), Los...
New York: U. P. C. Book Company, Inc., 1923. Revised. Hardcover. Folio (14 1/4 X 10 1/4"). xlv, [1], 306pp (Text and Indexes) (Vol. 1); [1] leaf (Title), 1-79 leaves (Plates), [1] leaf (Title), 80-154 leaves (Plates), [1] leaf (Title), 155-228 leaves (Plates) (Vol. 2); [1] leaf (Title), 229-341 leaves...
New York: William Helburn Inc., 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. 16x13". [6], 191 plates, [1]. Rebound in red cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Photo-illustrated frontispiece. The book documents the Georgian, Colonial and English style residential architectural work of Dwight James Baum, through 191 plates of b/w...
New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. xlviii, 332, xiii, 360pp. Original bright red cloth with gilt lettering on covers and spines, housed in a black paper-covered slipcase with large photo-illustrated label on cover. "The author's aim, in writing this book, has been to make as...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948. First edition , numbered. Hardcover. Singed and numbered by Saarinen on free endpaper. Folio. xi (i), 153 (1)pp. Original illustrated gray cloth with gray lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece photograph. Half-title with facsimile Saarinen signature. Title page with Saarinen logo design as on...
A. Biffignandi, (1929). Hardcover. From the library of architect German C. Sonntag. Folio. 213pp. Gold-stamped dark green cloth. Beveled edges. Some discoloration and staining to boards, head and tail of spine chipped and rubbed, bumping to parts of edges, small closed tears along spine. Binding separated from book block. Minor...
Buenos Aires: Fundación Banco de la Nación Argentina, 1983. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 4to. 345pp. 257pp. Half leather over beige cloth with gold lettering to cover and spine in original dj. Stiff yellow endpapers. Great work on architecture. Illustrated throughout with b/w maps, plans, sketches and photographs. Some scuffing, rubbing, creasing.....
Los Angeles: Fisher Gallery, University of California, 1998. First edition. Softcover. Short oblong quarto. 55 pp. Original paper wraps displaying color facsimile photographs from the exhibition of Shulman's work at the Fisher Gallery of the University of Southern California which ran from March 4 - April 19, 1998. Entire book...
New York: The Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. 16x12". 212pp. Half dark blue cloth over grey cloth boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Photo-illustrated frontispiece. This visual survey of the work of Philadelphia-based architectural firm Mellor Meigs & Howe, is profusely...
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, (1958). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. x,228pp. Red cloth in original photographic dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece of the architect. Important publication on Frank Lloyd Wright's personal and professional story by G. Carpenter Manson, who Lloyd Wright himself introduced as "Grant Manson, who knows more about...
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 3/4 x 9 3/4"). [1], viii leaves (Text), 189 leaves of plates, as issued. Original gilt and black stamped burgundy cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece. Photo-illustrated title page. A photo-illustrated...
New York: Time, Inc., 1959. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 64pp. Original illustrated blind-stamped wrappers with blue lettering on cover. Exhibition catalog on the occasion of the Centennial Celebration of the American Institute of Architects featuring Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Richard J. Neutra, Alvar...
Chicago: American Face Brick Association, ND (ca 1920). First edition. Softcover. Large quarto. 115, [1]pp. Original decorative stiff wrappers. Frontispiece. This book is meant not only to show how perfectly brick, as a building material, meets the structural requirements of strength, permanence, durability, attractiveness, charm, and beauty, but to serve...
Rotterdam: Ahoy'-gebouw, ca. 1952. Softcover. Square octavo. Unpaginated (24pp). Original photographic wraps of Wright in original glassine. Title-page with same image as front cover. Catalogue on Wright's "Italian Exhibition" in Holland. Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs and architectural plans. Foreword in English by Wright, other text in Dutch. Some...
Jersey City: Snead & Company Iron Works, Inc., 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 271pp. Original gray cloth with blind-stamped decorative frame and gilt lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Gray endpapers. Frontispiece portrait photograph. Publisher's device on title page. This book is published for distribution among architects, librarians and...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XII, 13-318, [4]pp. Modern full cloth retaining the original blind-stamped and gilt-stamped covers, as well as part of the original spine. Gold lettering to spine. Engraved half-title and frontispiece. In 1857, British-American architect and landscape gardener Calvert Vaux published this...
