Trevian Books
Paris: Paul Ollendorf, Éditeur, 1891. Third edition. 8vo; 321 pp.; more than 150 ilustrations. Wear and crude tape repairs to original wrappers; else a very good copy in later gilt-stamped red buckram with original wrappers bound in. A French perspective on the history of the bicycle, illustrated with caricatures, technical.....
New York: Interborough Rapid Transit Company, 1904. First edition. Folio; 154 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Uneven fading to front cover and to spine; else a very good copy in original gilt-stamped green cloth. A volume to celebrate the completion of the Interborough Rapid Transit railroad, begun in 1900.....
London: Andre Deutsch, (1983). Articles from Brown's years as editor of the English rag "The Tatler". First edition. 23.5 cm; 168 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Some short tears or slicing to the fore edge of the last 50 pp., and to the rear cover; else a good copy in wrappers.....
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.....
Brooklyn: Bulkley & Horton, 1928. Folding sheet with elevation drawing and plans for first, second, and an upper floor, and a page of sales prose. Penciling and fading to prose page, else a very good copy.
Barcelona: Edittion Poligrafa, 2007. First American Edition. Hard Cover. A monograph on the non-architectural work of Jean Prouve, a volume in the series devoted to objects and furniture designed by architects. Introduction by Mathias Remmele. Text in English. First English edition. 21 cm; 127 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962. A photographic essay on the Katsura Palace, with essays by Gropius on the significance of Japanese architecture in the twentieth century, and by Tange on the Palace's history and architectural features. Fourth printing. Square 4to; pp. vi, 36; illustrated from photographs by Yasuhiro Ishimoto.....
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: 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.....
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.....
The MIT Press, 1988, 1988. First Edition. Cloth. Monograph on Gordon Bunshaft, American modernist and designer of the Lever Building, Chase Bank Plaza, and other iconic works of 20th century American architecture. First edition. 26 cm; 357 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in a fine.....
Boulougne: 1948. A hors series issue devoted to Le Corbusier, describing his work since the first such issue in 1934. Designed and written by Le Corbusier and with the theme, Unité, combining art, architecture, and town planning in a new graphic format that became an important feature of Corbusier’s later.....
New York: Hugh McAtamney & Company, 1913. First edition. 4to; 75 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings, including five in color. US Steel stamp to title page; else a very good copy in original gilt-stamped and embossed blue cloth. Written by Woolworth's PR firm and basically a tribute to all.....
New York: Abrams 2003. First Edition. Cloth. Large monograph on Perriand's work in furniture design. The French designer's career spanned a half-century of French modern design, including Art Deco, machine-age modernism,serially produced metal and wood products of the 50s and 60s, and plastic and prefabricated bathroom and kitchen units of.....
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.
N.p.: N.p., (1955). Edition limited to 500 numbered copies; this copy marked "extra". Folio (38 x 28); thirty-two plates from drawings by Mendelsohn, loose as issued in brown paper wrappers. Plates fine, wrappers with some edgewear, and light chipping to spine ends. A collection of thirty-two of the great architect's.....
Hastings-on-Hudson: Morgan Press, N.d. [c. 1970]. Morgan's expanded catalog of wood type specimens which, Morgan claims, "represent a complete showing of American wood-type styles from 1826 to the present [1970]." The original catalog published in 1964 had 111 pages of specimens; this edition with 155 pp. Morgan's collection influenced mid-20th.....
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;.....
Knoxville: TVA, 1942. Volume 6 in the series of published technical reports for TVA projects. First edition. 23 cm; 451 pp.; illustrated. Owner's name; else a very good copy in gilt-stamped brown buckram.
N.p.: American Distilling Company, 1934. Promotional booklet of cocktail recipes with stylish illustrations by Patterson. Recipes call for company's products Old Colony Dry Gin, Meadwood Bourbon, and 3 Monks Rye. First edition. 17 cm; 20 pp.; illustrated from drawings. Rubbiing to front wrapper; minor creasing and wear; a good copy.....
New York: Rizzoli, 2008. Published on the occasion of Prince's "Canal Zone" at the Gagosian Gallery. With text by James Frey. First edition. 27.5 cm; 80+ pp.; illustrated from photographs and from paintings by Prince. Very slight wear to edge of rear board; else a very good copy or better.....
