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

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

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 about Amerika: Bilderbuch eines Architekten

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... More about The Georgian Period: Being photographs and measured drawings of Colonial work with text. 6 Parts...

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... More about Early Connecticut Meetinghouses: Being an Account of the Church Edifices Built before 1830 Based...

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 about Frank Lloyd Wright to 1910. The First Golden Age

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 about Form Givers at Mid-Century

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... More about Library Planning Bookstacks and Shelving