Los Angeles, Ornamental Iron Manufacturers Assoc., 1927. A catalog showing work by the Association members. With examples of grilles, railings, gates, lighting fixtures, furniture, bank fixtures, doors and store fronts, elevators, marquises, etc., and work by Wallace Neff, Kem Weber, George Washington Smith, Myron Hunt, Morgan and Walls, others. With.....
Boston: NYGS, 1974. First American edition. Square 4to; 14 pp.; 120 illustrations from photographs by Tony Ray-Jones. A very good copy or better in original pictorial wrappers.
Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2005. Comprehensive illustrated survey of Team 10 events, project documentation, and chronological documentation of meetings. Also with analyses of their efforts by Frampton, Boyer, and others, and interviews with former members, including De Carlo, Erskine, van Eyck, Hertzberger, and the Smithsons. First edition. 24 cm; 370 pp.;.....
New York: Greenberg, 1927. A collection of views of prominent locations in Manhattan as rendered by Sarg, a well-known commercial illustrator and puppeteer. 32.5 cm; [ii] pp.; 24 colored lithographic illustrations. Wear to spine ends and to tips; small repair to front hinge; else a good copy or better in.....
Philadelphia: Assoc. of American Portland Cement Manufacturers, 1907. Large portfolio of competition entries for designs of smaller houses and duplexes using cement. Bond & Abbott of Boston took the most prizes in the six categories judged; Mellor & Meigs the only familiar entrant. Showing 24 prize- winning and Mentionable entries.....
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Company, Inc., 1926. First Edition. Cloth. Massive compendium of contemporary work in large apartment buildings, mostly in New York City but with examples from Chicago and other large cities. Sexton discusses the development of the apartment building type and illustrates it with work by virtually.....
Rockford: Skandia Furniture Co., 1909-1913. Skandia was a wholesale manufacturer of household furniture, primarily of oak, from the late 1880s until 1940. Two bound two-volume catalogs of the company’s furniture for the Spring and Fall Seasons 1909 and 1913: Spring 1909 (per penciled note on cover), 86 photographic plates with.....
Cambridge: MIT Press, (1968), 1968. First American Edition. First American edition. 4to; 112 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Small stain to front cover; else a very good copy in a good dust jacket with a closed tear to front panel. A collection of articles, essays, and diagrams which.....
New York: Horizon Press, N.d. [1967]. "This is at last the age of the architect." Stone's trade catalog showing recent work and projects, including the Kennedy Center, General Motors Building, colleges, stadiums, civic centers, residences, etc. A mid-century architectural wet dream, much of which never got built, and too much.....
New York: The 71st Regiment, 1894. First edition. Oblong 8vo; 108 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Owner's stamp to title page; wear to spine, some staining and bubbling to rear board; else a good copy or better in original silver-stamped leatherette covers. A souvenir book commemorating the new armory at Fourth.....
Paris: Emile-Paul Freres, 1919. First edition. #136/500 copies [after 36 copies with accompanying suite of engravings]. 4to; 161 pp.; illustrated from plans and woodcut engravings by Paul Vera. Offsetting to endpapers from flaps of self-wrappers; short one-inch split to front joint bottom of spine;same to top of spine; top corner.....
New York: Vollmer Assoc., 1969. Lower Manhattan was David Rockefeller's town. Nelson could have Midtown, and the rest of the state, for that matter, but David Rockefeller ran downtown Manhattan. From 1958 on, his Downtown-Lower Manhattan Commission initiated and oversaw plans for expansion and redevelopment of the business into oblivion.....
Miami: The Author, n.d. [c. 1926]. Promotional book for realtors and decorators highlighting seventy-seven of the city’s major residences, most in the Spanish colonial/Mediterranean revival style. With illustrations from photographs by Robert C. Clyde featuring exteriors, interiors, and gardens, and identifying owners and addresses; no other text except bonus page.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1886. First edition, Folio (37.5 x 31.5); pp. xi, 105; more than 100 illustrations from etchings, sketches and drawings by the members; top edge gilt. Wear to spine with loss of raised bands; else a fair copy in lightly-soiled original gilt-stamped and decorated cloth, designed by.....
New York: Studio Museum of Harlem, 1982. Catalog for the important 1982 exhibition of the photographs of Van Der Zee, a Black photographer working in Harlem in the first half of the 20th century. First edition. 20 cm; 24 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Studio Museum of Harlem price sticker to.....
