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.....
New York: Privately Printed, 1913. Frank Woolworth’s privately printed edition of Schuyler’s essay on the recently completed building. Book designed by Bruce Rogers and illustrated by Earl Horter (with pencil signed lithograph as frontis.) and published in an edition of 1,000 copies, dedicated to the architect Cass Gilbert. The gothic.....
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.....
New York: Dutton, (1977). First edition. 8vo; 354 pp.; illustrated. Light wear to bottom of spine; crease to front cover; else a good copy or better in original wrappers. Paperback. A survey of new thought and concepts in American architecture and design arising from the spirit of Post-Modernism and a......
Hartford: T. Steel & Son, 1877. First Edition. First edition. 8vo; 62 pp.; illustrated. Insect wear to covers; owner's penciled name; else a very good copy in original gilt-stamped green cloth. "We have had the following catalogue of our goods printed, in order to answer in some degree the question.....
San Francisco: Joseph P. Hiss, (1972). First edition. oblong 8vo; unpaged [80] printed on recto only; 17 illustrations from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in original gilt-stamped brown buckram, in a slightly chipped dust jacket with internal tape repair. A monograph on this San Francisco financial district landmark.....
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.....
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.....
Chicago: The Tribune Company, 1923. First edition. Narrow 4to; 281 plates from drawings, and other illustrations from photographs. Introduction by Louis Sullivan. A good copy only, rebound in brown cloth with gilt label to front board; Original enpapers retained but showing wear. A sturdily rebound copy of this classic title.....
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.....
Hong Kong: Communion w Ltd., 2005. First edition. 4to; unpaged; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A fine copy in original boards with cloth dust jacket. A record of work from 1995-2005 by the Japanese costume designer.
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.....
New York: Bachelor, Inc., 1937. Vol. 1, No. 1, April, 1937. Folio; 82 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Wear to top of spine with old tape repairs; else a good copy in original pictorial wrappers. The first issue issue of this men's magazine with a strong gay bent. Zerbe.....
Tokyo: A& U, 1998. First edition. 4to; 223 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Owner's name covered with white-out; else a very good copy or better in original wrappers. Special issue devoted to work of the Swiss architect, with essays by Zumthor, Friederich Achleitner, and Hiroshi Nakao. Text in.....
