Trevian Books
New York: The American Tobacco Co., (1954), 1954. First edition. 4to; 144 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings, many in color. A fine copy in original gilt-stamped red boards. Business card of Paul M. Hahn, President, affixed with clip to front endpaper. A history of the American Tobacco Co., with.....
Boston: American Woolen Co., 1921. Illustrations of the mills with some facts concerning the cities, town, and villages in which they are located. First edition. 8vo; 115 pp.; illustrated from wood engravings and drawings. Title inked to spine; owner's name; else a good copy or better in original wrappers.
London: Hamlyn, (1971), 1971. First English edition. 4to; 175 pp.; 109 color plates from photographs; bibliography. A fine copy in tan cloth in a very good dust jacket with only light wear to top edges in publisher's slipcase. The development of Georgian metalwork from earliest times to the eighteenth century.....
New York: DPW, 1945. First edition. 8vo; 174 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Owner's name; spots of rubbing and discoloration to front cover; else a good copy in original gilt-stamped cloth without dust jacket as issued. Ammann and Robinson performed the survey in 1943-44 to determine the physical condition.....
New York: American Society of Civil Engineers, 1933. First edition. 8vo; 442 pp.; illustrated. Minor rubbing to spine; else a very good copy or better in gilt-stamped brown cloth. The final report on the George Washington Bridge, with the history of its planning and design, the contruction process, and its.....
Berlin: Anah, 2016. Sixth in a series of publications by the German firm, this dealing with concrete. Includes leporello. Text in English. First edition. 24 cm; unpaged; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers.
Guadalajara: University Guadalajara, 2011. A monograph on the Austrian-Mexican architect/engineer, active in Guadalajara in the second half of the 20th century. Zohn designed bold and ingenious structures incorporating hyperbolic parabaloids, as well as more conventional designs for housing, hotels, and other commercial buildings. Text in Spanish. Inscribed by Zohn's children.....
New York: Delano Greenidge, 2002. Important monograph on the development of the design of the page in the first half of the 20th century. First American edition. 31 cm; 388 pp; illustrated. A very good copy in unevenly faded cloth, lacking the dust jacket.
New York: Czech Center, 2008. Catalog for the 2008 exhibition on the world of Czech immigrants in New York City. With a chapter on the history and renovation of the Bohemian National Hall at 321-325 E. 73rd St., built 1895-1897 and designed by William C. Frohne. First edition. 25 cm;.....
Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1981. Catalog for the 1981 exhibition of the work of Premsela, a Dutch textile designer also active in the fields of industrial and interior designer. Text in Dutch and English. First edition. 27.5 cm; 50 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A very good copy or better in wrappers.....
New York: American Art Association, 1931, 1931. First edition. 8vo; 148 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Covers lightly faded, else a very good copy in printed wrappers. The catalogue from the auction in 1931 of the Kaufman Collection of American furniture and decoration and Anglo-American pottery and silver.
N.p.: Beebreeders, 2019. Published by some kind of an architectural competitions clearinghouse, with no known actual location except on the internet. This is Issue 1 with interviews with coroporate figures and manufacturers, design concepts for affordable housing in Hong Kong, NYC, London, and Syndey, and some housing startup profiles. First.....
London: The Bodley Head, (1953), 1953. Later printing. 8vo; 470 pp.; ten full-page illustrations and sixty-four head- or tail-pieces by Rex Whistler. Very good in gilt-stamped and decorated green and white cloth from a design by RW repeated on the endpapers and the dust jacket, in a lightly used dust.....
Denver: B of A, 2013. A Guidebook to the 2013 edition of the Biennial art and architecture program, with an agenda that calls for "fundamentally new visions of urban life...with four temporary architectural projects" being constructed in the downtown core. First edition. 18 cm; 79 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A......
Copenhagen: Dansk Møbelkunst, (2004). First edition. 4to; 47 pp.; illustrated from color photographs. A fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. A catalog of lamps designed by Poul Henningsen.
Skive: Forlaget Wunderbuch, 2014. Eccentricity and edginess have become required hallmarks of most Bienalle catalogs, but here are some nicely illustrated essays, along with Andersson’s deeply personal take on "the value and power of aesthetics in architecture; a verification that this aesthetic power is only achieved through nature; and a......
U.S.A. Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 1983. First Edition. First edition. 8vo; 218 pp.; illustrated. Owner's stamp [Architect Der Scutt]; else a very good copy or better in original wrappers. Selections from the writings of the great critic and educator.
Poggibonsi: Forma, 2013. Trade catalog for this Italian firm active in Asia, featuring 20 projects designed and built since 2005. Text in English and Italian. First edition. 24 cm; 318 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy or better in wrappers.
New York: Italian Cultural Institute, 2009. Catalgo for a 2009 exhibiton on the life and work of the Italian writer Giorgio Basssani, best remembered in this country as the author of "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis". First American edition. 30 cm; 159 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in wrappers.
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, (1974), 1974. First edition. 8vo; 224 pp.; 100 illustrations from photographs; bibliography. A very good copy in original brown cloth, in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. A survey of the industrial activities of the Shakers.
New York: The Author, 1893. First edition, one of 152 copies. 8vo; 115 pp.; illustrated from engravings, drawings, and maps; top edges gilt. Scattered light foxing to preliminaries; owner's bookplate; else a very good copy in original gilt-stamped blue cloth. A reduced facsimile of the Bradford map is accompanied by.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1900. First edition, one of 170 copies on Holland paper. 8vo; thirty-eight pp.; illustrated with three folding maps. A fine copy in original gilt-stamped blue cloth. Controversy surrounds the authenticity of copies of the Bradford Map allegedly printed from the original engraved copper plate.....
Saint-Etienne: l’Universite de Saint Etienne, 2005. Proceedings of the Seventh conference of the international working party for the DOcumentation and COnservation of building sites and neighborhoods of the MOdern MOvement. Text in English and French. First edition. 27 cm; 477 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A very good copy.....
New York: Skira, 2017. Photographic monograph by Anelli on the construction of the Magazzino Italian Art building at Cold Spring, NY. With essays by Campo Baeza, Miguel Quismondo, and Manuel Blanco. First edition. 25.5 cm; 150 pp.; illustrated from photographs by Anelli. A fine copy in a dust jacket with.....
Lisbon: Editorial Blau, 1998. Trade catalog for the Portuguese architect, showing twenty-nine examples of work from 1972 through 1998, each with plans, drawings, photographs, and notes describing the commission. Essays by Angelillo and Solà-Morales. Text in Portuguese. First edition. 28 cm; 194 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A......
