Trevian Books
Buffalo: The American Announcer, 1926. A collection of photographic portraits and brief biographies of 118 contemporary radio announcers working in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Cuba. With height and weight, hair amd eye color, and "Phrasing of Greeting", if any. An attempt to personalize the voices of the relatively.....
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.....
St. Louis: Harland Bartholomew, 1921. First edition. 4to; 38 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and maps, three folding. Light wear to top of spine; else a very good copy or better in original printed wrappers. Bartholomew analyzes the problems in Utica's current street and traffic configuration and suggests major street.....
New York: The Biltmore, N.d. [c. 1912]. An early edition of this promotional booklet for the famous New York hotel near Grand Central Terminal, with an essay by Elbert Hubbard. Building designed by Warren & Wetmore. Later edition(s) are illustrated from photographs; this edition with sketches and color renderings only.....
London: Koenig Books, 2017. A collection of montages and collages done by Mies between 1910 and 1965. The photomontages and collages provide insight into the architect's design principles and ideas about architectural space. With essays by the editors, Berry Bergdoll, and others. Text in English and German. First edition. 28.....
Knoxville: TVA, 1946. Number 5, Volume 1 in the series of published technical reports for TVA projects. Volume 2 of this report, when finished, will contain similar information on the other four projects constructed in the Hiawassee River Basin---Apalachia.Ocoee No. 3, Nottely, Chatuge. First edition. 23 cm; 367 pp.; illustrated.....
New York: Chrysler Tower Corp., 1930. Promotional brochure for the recently completed building, having just lost the height competition to the Empire State. A brief history of its construction is followed by descriptions and illustrations of the interior and exterior decoration. Designed by William Van Alen. With photographs of lobbies.....
New York: Joseph P. Day, 1916. Large folding mailer advertising available lots at Day’s Manhattan Beach Estates development on Sheepshead Bay. With plat; bird’s eye view, photographs of existing houses, and colored illustration of shore strollers. Day was active in developing residential property in Queens and Brooklyn at the beginning.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, N.d. [1955], 1955. First American edition. 4to; unpaginated [approximately 25]; 12 photogravure illustrations from photographs by Doisneau. Short tear to bottom margin of six leaves; else a good copy in original red cloth in a dust jacket with some loss to corner of front and rear.....
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1969). Eckbo, a landscape architect, presents an early exploration of the need for environmentally-based design. Later printing. 4to; 223 pp; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in original cloth, with a torn dust jacket.
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.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. A documentation of Flagg's efforts to promote his new house building technique based on stone walls, a modular system of design, and standardized parts and methods. With an enormous number of illustrations based on small houses in a variety of styles for Flagg's Flegg.....
New York: Verdura, (2008). First Edition. Original Wraps. Catalog for the 2008 exhibition of photographs by Gendel featuring the active social life of designer Fulco di Verdura and his friends in Rome, Europe, and America. First edition. 8vo; 113 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in original wrappers...
Library of Virginia, 1992, 1992. Definitive monograph on the work of landscape architect Charles F. Gillette, working primarily in Virginia and North Carolina. Specializing primarily in large residential designs, with an occasional institutional or commercial commission, Gillette was active from 1914 to 1970. First edition. 21.5 cm.; 228 pp.; illustrated.....
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.....
St. Gallen: Tschudy Verlag, 1959. First edition thus. Square 8vo; 71 pp.; illustrated from drawings by Hans Erni. Covers spotted and rubbed; owner's bookplate; else a good copy or better in original laminated boards. Text in German. INSCRIBED by Erni, with a full-page variation on the cover illustration to front.....
New York: NYSID, 2004. First Edition. Based on the catalog for an exhibition of Hadley's drawn work, this edition expanded to include Hadley's own comments on projects, as well as appreciations from colleagues Mark Hampton, Mario Buatta, Thomas Jayne, Bunny Williams, others. First edition. 28 cm; 175 pp; illustrated from.....
Chicago: Marshall Field & Co., 1907. First edition. 8vo; 61 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in original string-bound printed wrappers. An early book of the store with descriptions of operations, a history, photographs of interiors, inventory of retail and warehouse buildings, display windows, delivery operations (cartage), and a......
New York: H. A. Johnson & Co., .n.d. [1887]. Unknown edition. 8vo; 76 pp.; illustrated. Some wear to spine; else a very good copy in original printed wrappers. Johnson was located on West 23rd Street, importing and selling artists' materials, decorative art goods, materials for pastel painting, photograph coloring, Lincrusta-Walton.....
Rome: Edizioni Kappa, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Monograph on Louis Kahn, with interviews with family members, associates, and friends, and with essays, many previously published, by Frampton, Tyng, Huff, the Lobells, others. Text in English and Italian. Inscribed by Latour. First edition. Square 8vo; 442 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans.....
Los Angeles: LACC, 1906. First edition. 8vo; folding sheet of photographs depicting a safe, unshaken Los Angeles; text inside the cover assures readers that unlike SF, LA has never had a killer earthquake, and never will. Light wear to corners of wrappers; small split to fold in photograph sheet; else.....
New York: Harper & Bros., 1892. First edition. 8vo; unpaged; 20 chromolithographs by McVickar. Owner's name; soiling to covers; interior fine with clean bright prints and captioned tissue guards. McVickars look at the elite 400 of New York Society.
New York: Thames & Hudson, 2009. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Published on the occasion of the 2009 exhibitions in Paris and New York featuring the masterpieces of French jewelry made in the art deco era. With essays on major designers of the era, design drawings, period photographs, etc. First.....
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;.....
