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Twenty-Seven Original Photographs by Fred R. Dapprich of Santa Barbara Residences [ALL WITH ORIGINAL SIGNATURE BY PHOTOGRAPHER] with Letter from Frank A. Hellenthal regarding addition to E. D. Griffith's home (2 Portfolios). Fred R. Dapprich, photogr.

Twenty-Seven Original Photographs by Fred R. Dapprich of Santa Barbara Residences [ALL WITH ORIGINAL SIGNATURE BY PHOTOGRAPHER] with Letter from Frank A. Hellenthal regarding addition to E. D. Griffith's home (2 Portfolios)

Dapprich, Fred R. (photogr.)

NP: ND. Hardcover. Portfolio 1) Ten fiber-based silver prints & four glossy silver prints resting in half-cloth over color decorative paper-covered portfolio with folding flaps. Business card of Dapprich pasted on front and rear of portfolio cover as well as on verso of the photographs. Ten photographic prints of "The... More

Price: $2,750.00

El Papaloapan Obra del Presidente Aleman [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR]. First and second edition. 3-vol. set (Complete). Alfonso Villa Rojas, Text, Miguel Covarrubias, Color, Walter Reuter, Elizabeth Timberman.

El Papaloapan Obra del Presidente Aleman [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR]. First and second edition. 3-vol. set (Complete)

Villa Rojas, Alfonso (Text); Walter Reuter and Elizabeth Timberman (Photographs by); Miguel Covarrubias (Color map by)

Mexico: 1949-1952. First edition & Second revised and expanded. Softcover. Large oblong quarto (First edition + second edition, revised and expanded), oblong octavo (second edition, smaller format). [104]pp, [14], 64, [12]pp, 73, [1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers for the first edition volume. Original photographic wrappers for the second edition, large format... More

Price: $2,250.00

The Architectural Digest: A Pictorial Digest of Outstanding Architecture, Interior Decoration and Landscaping. n/a.

The Architectural Digest: A Pictorial Digest of Outstanding Architecture, Interior Decoration and Landscaping

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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

Price: $1,250.00

Arroyo Seco Parkway Corridor Management Plan [WITH] Arroyo Seco Parkway. Los Angeles to Pasadena County. 2 Vols. n/a.

Arroyo Seco Parkway Corridor Management Plan [WITH] Arroyo Seco Parkway. Los Angeles to Pasadena County. 2 Vols.

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Washington DC: Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, 1999. Original study. Softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Ring folders with illustrated b/w Xerox copies as title pages slipped into transparent cover pockets and 8 1/2 x 11 content sheets. Documentation of the efforts to admit the Arroyo Seco Parkway into the National... More

Price: $1,250.00

Art Work of Washington County, Pennsylvania. NA.

Art Work of Washington County, Pennsylvania

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Chicago: The Gravure Illustration Company, 1905. Hardcover. Folio. Published in nine parts, all in gold decorated original wrappers. The nine volumes are resting in a cloth portfolio with ties and title in gold on cover. Bottom right edge of portfolio split but still firmly holding. Some scuffing and staining to... More

Price: $1,250.00

Municipal Architecture in Boston from Designs by Edmund M. Wheelwright, City Architect, 1891 to 1895 (2 Volumes). Francis W. Chandler.

Municipal Architecture in Boston from Designs by Edmund M. Wheelwright, City Architect, 1891 to 1895 (2 Volumes)

Chandler, Francis W. (editor)

Boston: Bates & Guild Company, 1898. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Folio. Half-cloth over paper-covered boards portfolio with string ties and cover-plate, as issued. Rebacked. "The designs presented in this book are those made by Mr. Edmund March Wheelwright, in the four years from 1891 to 1895, when he was City... More

Price: $950.00

Amerika: Bilderbuch eines Architekten. Erich Mendelsohn.

Amerika: Bilderbuch eines Architekten

Mendelsohn, Erich

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

Price: $750.00

Paul László Member of American Society of Industrial Designers. George Nelson, Ed Rees.

Paul László Member of American Society of Industrial Designers

Nelson, George (Introduction by); Ed Rees (Essay by)

Beverly Hills, CA: Industrial Designer A.S.I.D. 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 1/4 x 9 5/8"). Unpaginated. [76]pp. Original quarter cloth over pictorial paper covered boards, with black lettering to spine and front cover. B/w photographic frontispiece portrait of Paul László. Introduction by George Nelson, and a one-page essay on... More

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Paul László Member of American Society of Industrial Designers. Ed Rees, Introductory.

Paul László Member of American Society of Industrial Designers

Rees, Ed (Introductory text by)

Beverly Hills, CA: Industrial Designer A.S.I.D. 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (11 1/4 x 9 5/8"). Unpaginated. [110]pp. Original quarter cloth over photo-illustrated paper covered boards, with black lettering to spine, and white lettering to front cover. Introductory text (The Art of Paul László) by Ed Rees. Promotional work self-published... More

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction. Essays on the Fundamental Principles of Design and descriptive Articles on Construction

Flagg, Ernest

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Hardcover. Elephant folio. xi,152pp. Green cloth with title-plate. Heavy age wear and staining to binding, abrasions on title-plate. Ex-libris of Arnold Hartman on inside of front board. Hinges starting. Some pulling on half-title-, and title page. "The object of this work is to improve... More

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Small houses. Their economic design and construction

Flagg, Ernest

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

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Some Data in Regard to Foundations in New Orleans and Vicinity Collected and Compiled by the Soil and Foundation Survey as Requested by the Louisiana Engineering Society. A Project of the Works Progress Administration of Louisiana. Volume I. Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Administrator, James H. Crutcher, State Administrator.

Some Data in Regard to Foundations in New Orleans and Vicinity Collected and Compiled by the Soil and Foundation Survey as Requested by the Louisiana Engineering Society. A Project of the Works Progress Administration of Louisiana. Volume I

Hopkins, Harry L. (Federal Administrator); James H. Crutcher (State Administrator)

New Orleans: Board of State Engineers of Louisiana, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. 277, [1]pp. Original burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. A fascinating study of the foundations of the major buildings in New Orleans. The WPA (Works Progress Administration) was declared unconstitutional before a.... More

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Los Angeles Now. Barbara Goldstein, Peter Cook.

Los Angeles Now

Goldstein, Barbara; Peter Cook

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

Price: $375.00

Growth of a Museum: Proposal for the development of the Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum

Hassid, Sami (ed.)

Berkeley: Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, 1973. First edition. Softcover. Oblong Quarto. Unpaginated, 29 leaves. Original blue spiral-bound wraps with black lettering on cover. Compilation of four proposals by six students for staged development alternatives for the Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum generated by a Graduate Architectural Class at the... More

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/ The Kentiku: A Monthly Journal for Architects and Designers, No. 126, 1971-3 (March) Frank Lloyd Wright Special issue. Kunio Miyajima.

/ The Kentiku: A Monthly Journal for Architects and Designers, No. 126, 1971-3 (March) Frank Lloyd Wright Special issue

Miyajima, Kunio (ed)

Tokyo: Chugai Publishing Co., Ltd. 1971. First edition. Softcover. Large quarto. 142, [8]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers, with purple and white lettering and b/w photographic portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright on front cover. Photo-illustrated ads on inside of both covers. The Kentiku, previously known as Kokusai-Kentiku was a rare monthly Japanese... More

Price: $375.00

Die amerikanischen Turmbauten, die Gründe ihrer Entstehung, ihre Finanzierung, Konstruktion und Rentabilität. Karl F. Stöhr.

Die amerikanischen Turmbauten, die Gründe ihrer Entstehung, ihre Finanzierung, Konstruktion und Rentabilität

Stöhr, Karl F.

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

Price: $375.00

Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. Architect and Master of Many Arts.

Whitaker, Charles Harris

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

Price: $375.00

In the Cause of Architecture

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Price: $375.00

The Construction and Control of Buildings and the Development of Urban Areas in the United States of America

Forrest, G. Topham

London: London County Council, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 109pp. Red cloth with black leather label with gold lettering. Frontispiece. Rare report by the Architect to the Council, G. Topham Forrest on the construction and control of buildings in America. The report deals with 8 principal subjects: 1) General Building... More

Price: $350.00

Stars, Moguls, Magnates: The Mansions of Beverly Hills. Michael Regan.

Stars, Moguls, Magnates: The Mansions of Beverly Hills

Regan, Michael

Los Angeles: Regan Publishing Company, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 80 [1] pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over green cloth with yellow lettering on front cover and spine. Remarkable survey of some of the most sumptuous mansions of Beverly Hills. It is magnificently illustrated throughout with breathtaking b/w photographic reproductions of... More

Price: $350.00

A Life in Architecture

Yamasaki, Minoru

New York: Weatherhill, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 195pp. Silver decorated gray cloth. Small stain on top of dj. Yamasaki's architectural autobiography profusely illustrated with color photographs of his buildings, both interior and exteriors, b&w site plans, floor plans, etc. and a color image of a watercolor done in 1956... More

Price: $325.00

Mexico Barroco

Teresa, Guillermo Tovar de

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

Price: $300.00

Amerika: Bilderbuch eines Architekten. Erich Mendelsohn.

Amerika: Bilderbuch eines Architekten

Mendelsohn, Erich

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

Price: $275.00

Owners' Home-Building Catalogues: A Volume of Building Material, Home Equipment and Home Furnishings Catalogues for the Owner Planning or Building a New Home

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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

Price: $250.00

Spanish Influence on American Architecture and Decoration. R. W. Sexton.

Spanish Influence on American Architecture and Decoration

Sexton, R. W.

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

Price: $225.00

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