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... More
Berlin: Rudolf Mosse, 1928. Sixth revised and expanded edition. 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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
New York: Brentano's, (1927). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 263pp. Red decorated brown cloth with red lettering on spine. "This volume is not intended in any way to record the history of Spanish architecture or to point out its peculiarities and characteristics, except as they offer opportunities for adaptation in the... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 232pp. Original coarse linen with blind stamped geometric figure on front cover and white lettering on spine. Pictorial endpapers. Printer's device on title-page. Fascinating biographical work illustrating the controversial life and work of the great visionary architect. This work includes... More
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... More
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... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Signed and dedicated to Dennis (L. Hickok) by Richard (Meier). Square Quarto. xii, 204 (8)pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Black endpapers. Behind the scenes tour by the American architect of this billion-dollar project that... More
Montevideo: Imprenta Nacional. Instituto Historico Y geografico Del Uruguay, 1950. Softcover. 4to. xiv, 610pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Staining, creasing, discoloration and some rippling to wrappers. Minor pulling to edges of wraps. Rubbing to spine. Pages unopened. Some age yellowing to outer edges of pages not affecting text or plates. An... More
New York: Rizzoli, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Square Quarto (11 1/4"). 311 (1)pp. Original photo-illustrated dustjacket over gray cloth with embossed name of Wright on cover, silver lettering on spine. Orange endpapers. Frontispiece drawing and illustrated title page. "This extraordinary book presents thirty-eight of the most renowned and significant buildings... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co. 1926. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Quarto. (xiii) 68pp. Brown cloth boards, with gilt stamped debossed illustration on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. The book is a photographic survey of the architecture of antebellum Charleston, South Carolina. The publication includes an introduction and notes by... More