Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. XVI, [2], 188, [2]pp. Original printed glassine dust-jacket over cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Color photograph pasted on front cover. Front free endpaper signed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. In 1968 Robert Venturi and Scott..... More
New York: Henry T. Child, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Double Elephant Folio (26 1/2 x 14 1/4"). (1) 23 plates. Original bolted ochre cloth with black lettering on paper label of cover in black double frame. Title page with black lettered, double-framed paper label. Promotional prospectus (self-published) featuring twenty-three architectural..... More
New York: Horizon Press, 1963. First American edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio (25-1/2" x 16"). With the (32)pp. Text booklet (17" x 11"), and the portfolio of 100 drawings and plans of buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Half black cloth over printed boards with mounted red & white label on..... More
Boston: R. P. & C. Williams for the author, 1816. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. Hardcover. Quarto. iv, 5-104pp. Original rebacked calf with gilt lettering on original red label with gilt ruling on spine. On practical geometry; the origin of building; the five orders of architecture; of their particular parts..... More
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
New York, Philadelphia: D. Appleton & Company. Geo. S. Appleton, 1849. New edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 80pp., (48) 48 plates. Rebacked retaining original dark brown leather at spine and corners over brown cloth. Illustrated by forty-eight original engraved plates, designed expressly for this work; all plates with descriptive, printed text on..... More
Cresswell, Oregon: H. H. Waechter, 1971. Original document. Softcover. Oblong Octavo. (2) 18 leaves text, 35 plates. Original light brown wraps with original lithograph of architectural design in red and yellow on cover. Prospectus of the offices of German-born architect Heinrich Hormuth Waechter (b. 1907 in Berlin), describing office services..... More
Worcester, Boston et al: Edward Livermore, Benjamin B. Mussey et al, 1852. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. iv, 7-148pp., LXIX plates. Rebacked with modern leather over original calf with gilt lettering on red leather label on spine; raised bands. Frontispiece engraving. Includes also a description of the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian..... More
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..... More
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1845. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 83pp., lxvi plates. Bound in calf with gilt lettering on black leather label, and gilt ruling on spine. Distinguished work designed principally for builders residing at a distance from cities without the assistance of a regular architect. Contains the necessary and..... More
San Francisco: Trinity Properties, 2016. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Folio. 609 (1)pp. Original textured blue cloth with three color photographic inlays immersed into columns shape as a Roman three, with blind-stamped lettering on cover and spine. Housed in a matching slipcase with same photographic inlays. Ted endpapers with white printing..... More
Long Beach: NP, No date (1950s). Spiral_bound. Small Folio. 9 boards. Original spiral-bound photo-illustrated album with clear plastic covers. Photographic documentation of a Long Beach single family home in eighteen full page back-to-back exterior and interior views in photogravure. The 5,383 square foot house was built in 1937. It contains..... More
Boston: & Co., 1848. Hardcover. Quarto. viii, 9-119pp. 64 plates, missing 12. Brown leather rebacked with over-painted linen tape retaining original black leather label with gilt lettering on spine. Benjamin publication induced by response to previous of his publication and the want of a practical treatise for the present style..... 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
Helsinki: Finnish Literary Society's Printing House, 1945. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 69pp. Original photo-illustrated wraps with white lettering on cover. Catalog of the exhibition of American architecture at the Stockholm Ateneum June 6–21, 1945, organized by the Finnish Association of Architects and the Finland- America Association. Cover photo of the..... 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
Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 164pp. Original illustrated ochre cloth with green lettering on cover and spine. Color frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's device on title page. With frontispiece in color and 97 plates of Spanish houses and their details. Intended as a...... More
Houston/Taliesin West (Scottsdale, AZ): Taliesin Press, 1949-1951. First edition. Broadside. Square octavos (when folded). Folded broadsides. Issue #13: 7pp. Issue #15: 5pp. Tan printed wrappers with black and orange lettering on the covers. Two issues from the series of irregularly published broadside manifestos and short essays by American architect Frank..... More
Los Angeles: John C. Brasfield, 1929. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 180pp. Original photo-illustrated textured tan wraps with white lettering on cover. Decorative border and publisher's device on title page. Printed to heavy tan paper. Beautifully illustrated with sepia-toned photographs and one architectural plan for most projects, highlighting the Kellogg Ranch..... More
New York: F. W. Dodge Corporation, 1932. First edition. Softcover. Large Quarto. 25 (1), (2) 283-344, 27-58pp. Original mustard color stiff wraps with modern typeset and logo in black and white. The country house number of The Architectural Record is embedded in twenty-six pages of mostly illustrated advertising at front..... 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
Pasadena, CA: Waldo and VanWinkle Publishers, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto (9-1/2" x 12-1/4"). 336pp. Index and bibliography. Later acetate dust wrapper over embossed black faux morocco, front cover & spine lettered in gilt. Profusely illustrated with photographs, including 28 colored reproductions of lithographed postcard views. Contents: Saloon interiors..... More