Rutland & Tokyo: Tuttle, (1973). First edition. 4to; 328 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. With the stamp of architect Der Scutt to endpaper. A very good copy or better in original cloth, in a fine dust jacket, in a fine publisher's cardboard slipcase. The autobiography of the Czech-born.....
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: PPP Editions, 2001. First Edition. First edition. 4to; 305 pp.; illustrated. Edges dusty; else a very good copy or better in original cloth, in a fine dust jacket. Important reference for photography and photobooks. SIGNED BY ROTH (but not the Signed Edition).
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: R. Martin, 1847-9. An instruction and guide sheet published by Shoppell for purchasers of plans from his CBPA, “...to give the owner and his painter an idea of some of the colors now popular where good taste prevails...” In cases where the owner is his own painter, illustrated.....
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.....
London: Lund Humphries, 1967. The final issue of this important journal. With articles on Kurt Schwitters, John Heartfield, others. First edition. 4to; 52 pp.; illustrated. Bump to top corner; else a very good copy in original self-wrappers.
New York: Randolph R. Beam, 1902. Reproductions of thirty-six bookplates designed by women at the turn of the 20th century. A brief history of some of the more prominent women designers is followed by a checklist of designers, with nationality, and rudimentary inventory. #168/400 copies printed. 19 cm; 22 pp.;.....
Leipzig:klinkhardt & Bierman, 1927. Later printing. 8vo; 73 pp.; illustrated rom photographs and drawings. A very good copy in original black cloth. Taut's survey of contemporary (1927) housingand residential architecture. Includes work by Schindler, Oud, Mies, Taut, Corbusier, etc. Text in German.
New York: Bowne & Co., 1851. Published as a guide for "cartmen, hackmen, and those employing them...enabling them to determine with accuracy the distance traveled and the corectness of the charges therefore." First edition. 12 cm; pp. [iv], 7, 107, [i] errata. Owner's penciled name to prelims; else a good.....
Detroit: Timken-Detroit Axle Co., N.d. [c. 1944]. Lurelle van Arsdale Guild. A collection of drawings by Lurelle Guild proposing a new and efficient system of transportation on new and efficient super-highways crossing the country. The heads of Timken, a company building motor vehicle axles, knew where the future lay and.....
New York: Orange Judd and Company, (1870). First Edition. The Swiss-born landscape architect emigrated to the Unites States in 1859, settling in Hartford. This, his first book, "...documents his major commissions...and contains the best surviving evidence of his technical skill in site engineering as well as his taste in landscape.....
New York: Bicknell, 1878. Woollett, an Albany architect, makes suggestions for interior and exterior remodeling of existing houses. Showing, with descriptions, before-and-after drawings of suggested remodeling, turning simple frame houses into stick-style over-carpentered palaces; an elegant brick house of classical form, a Greek revival two-story house, and a proto-shingle-style cottage.....
Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, (1980). Futagawa's photographs of the Imperial Hotel, with an essay by Wright, "Building Against Doomsday: Why the Great Earthquake Did Not Destroy the Imperial Hotel" from his autobiography. Text in English and Japanese. Later printing. Folio; unpaged [48]; illustrated from photographs by Yukio Futagawa and drawings by.....
