Trevian Books
New York: Metropollitan Museum of Art, 2015. First Edition. Soft Cover. Catalog for the 2015 installation on the roof of the Met Museum by Pierre Huyghe. With dust jacket that unfolds to be a poster. First edition. 18.5 cm; 63 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy.....
London: Bruna/Deutsch, (1959). First Edition. First edition. 8vo; 64 pp.; 86 illustrations from photographs by Marc Riboud. A good copy or better in original pictorial wrappers. Paperback.
Zurich: ABC Verlag, 1964. A documentation of the range of graphic art used by large federal enterprises and semi-public concerns, from simple letter heads to catalogs, prospectuses, and posters. Showing work for the Red Cross, Swissair, tourist agencies, transport, exhibitions, media, etc. Showing work by Hans Erni, Celestino Piatti, Max.....
Austin: University of Texas Press, (1979). First Trade Edition. Cloth. A thorough survey of the Texas architect's work, with approximately one hundred houses described with photographs and plans. INSCRIBED by Staub. First trade edition. 4to; pp. xiii, 363; illustrated from photographs and plans, including twenty-eight in color; chronological list of.....
Detroit: Detroit Convention and Business Men's League, Ltd., 1898. First edition. 8vo; 96 pp.; illustrated from photographs; colored photograph frontis. Light wear to spine; else a very good copy in original pictorial wrappers. Before it was the Motor City Detroit bragged of its parks and water-based amenities, its lodgings, its.....
Busan: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2018. A documentation of the creation and installation of Blanc’s Vertical Garden as the Inaugural Exhibition at the Busan Museum. With essays by Blanc. Text in English, Korean, and French. Signed by Blanc. First edition. 27 cm; 135 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings.....
Paris: Purple Institute, 2015. Special Edition for Purple Fashion # 23, spring summer 2015. 4to; 66 pp.; illustrated from photographs and from drawings by Condo. A fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. Condo + The Three Stooges + cigarettes + giving up smoking + Purple.
London: Thames & Hudson, 1986. First English Edition. Cloth. A large, elegant, and thorough monograph on the art and writings of the 18th century French artist Jean Jacques Lequeu. "His extraordinary and beautiful drawings have served to mark the beginnings of stylistic eclecticism, of bad taste, of picturesque asymmetry in.....
Los Angeles: The authors, 1923. The Medical Edition of the building’s rental prospectus, showing sixteen plans and variations for medical offices in mock blueprint format, including plans for an eye specialist, an otolaryngologist, one-man and two-man office arrangements, etc. Designed by the Los Angeles firm of Walker & Eisen. Far.....
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. "...holds a well-deserved place at the top of the pantheon, and should be studied assiduously by any photographer attempting the tricky business of compiling a coherent photobook." (Parr, Photobook I p. 114) First edition. 8vo; 198 pp.; illustrated from.....
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1854. Field's essay "On the Principles of Design in Architecture", which contains a discussion of contemporary buildings in New York City, is followed by the twenty plates, with descriptions, of a variety of Italianate-style buildings including houses, stores, hotel, bank, theatre, ferry house, church.....
East Hampton: Guild Hall Museum, 1988. Catalog for the 1988 exhibition on early modernist architecture built on Long Island. Featuring work by Frey, Percival Goodman, Peter Blake, Andrew Geller, Chareau, Johnson, etc.; and showing selected commercial projects, the 1939 Fair, Idlewild, etc. First edition. 28 cm; 36 pp.; illustrated from.....
London: Batsford, 1942, 1942. Limited edition, one of 100 copies signed by the author and by the illustrator Rex Whistler. 4to; eighty pp.; twenty-two illustrations by Rex Whistler, with two in color. Owner's name, else a very good copy in original quarter leather with gilt backstrip. A country house story.....
New York: Harrison, Ballard & Allen, 1950. The firm’s proposal for the revision of the pioneering 1916 New York City Zoning Resolution. The post-war realization of the city’s growth and the need for modern large-scale planning necessitated a new zoning ordinance. The Ballard plan revised population estimates, considered planning developments.....
New York: Rizzoli, (1990). A collection of Hejduk's projects and designs from 1947 to 1983. Paperback edition, same format and identical size to the hard cover edition. 4to; 463 pp.; hundreds of illustrations from photographs, plans, and drawings, many in color; bibliography. A very good copy or better in original.....
Baltimore: I. C. Isaacs Co., 1941, 1941. 1941 edition. Folio; 12 pp.; illustrated from drawings; fabric swatches. A very good copy, complete with all swatches and added ephemera, in plastic comb-bound pictorial wrappers. 1941 catalog for this riding outfitter based in Baltimore, with locations in LA and NY. Showing riding.....
New York: Acanthus Press, (2002). First Edition. Cloth. A monograph on the residential architecture of Trumbauer, active in the first decades of the 20th century and an acknowledged master of the classical revival style in America. With essay by Henry Hope Reed. First edition. 30 cm; 335 pp.; illustrated from.....
New York: Moses King, Inc., N.d. [c.1915]. Folio (10 x 15 inches); pp. viii, 96; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Wear to extremeties; some minor soiling; else a good copy in original pictorial cloth boards with beveled edges. The largest (to date) and most richly illustrated of the King's New.....
Chicago: Marshall Field & Co., 1933. First edition. Folio; 47 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Minor wear to front wrapper; else a very good copy in original wrappers. Book on the store designed for the visitors to the Century of Progress World's Fair.
Los Angeles: LACMA, (1967). First edition. Square 8vo; unpaged [54]; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Some spotting to front cover; else a very good copy in original pictorial wrappers. McCoy's catalog for the 1967 LACMA exhitibition o the work of 10 contemporary Italian architects: Gardella, Albini, Belgiojoso and Rogers, Michelucci.....
Punkaharju: Retretti Museum, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. Catalog for the 1993 exhibition of (perhaps) intimate family photographs typified best by the work of Sally Mann, who provides an introduction. First edition. 21 cm; 44 pp.; illustrated from photographs by Mann, Lartigue, Batho, Callahan, Gowin, Tremmorin, Stieglitz, and Vishniac. Text.....
Milan: La Rivista Illustrate Del 'Popolo d' Italia', 1937. "The best Italian propaganda photobook from the fascist era...the ultimate guide to the Italy of Benito Mussolini, the Italian equivalent of the great Russian propaganda photographic books." ("The Photobook" Parr & Badger p. 175) Text in Italian. First edition. Folio; 624.....
New York: Actar, 2014. First Edition. The third volume in Moussavi's "Function" series, "providing an updated approach to style which can be used as an invaluable and highly productive tool by architects today." First edition. 22 cm; 595 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Slight bump to bottom spine;.....
Brooklyn: YMCA, 1902. Souvenir booklet for the opening of the Naval Branch YMCA in Brooklyn at 167 Sands St., designed by Wainwright Parish and J. Langdon Schroeder of New York City. With a description and floor plan for every floor. Now an apartment building. First edition. 17.5 cm; 33 pp.;.....
Knoxville: TVA, 1941. Volume 3 in the series of published technical reports for TVA projects. First edition. 23 cm; 431 pp.; illustrated. Owner's name; else a very good copy in gilt-stamped brown buckram.
