New York: Moses King, Inc., 1914. First edition. 12mo; 192 pp.; illustrated from photographs and large folding map. A very good copy in original pictorial wrappers. Pocket-sized guide book with cover showing tourists gazing at the recently completed Woolworth Building. King was a major publisher of New York souvenir and.....
New Dehli: Sulabh, N.d. [c. 2000]. Handbook for visitors to the Museum in New Delhi. First edition. 30 cm; 32 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A very good copy or better in wrappers.
Prestel, 2000. Monograph on the Hannover building with an emphasis on demonstrating how it was constructed with sustainability within a range of normal construction costs. Tower designed by Munich firm Thomas Herzog + Partner. Text in English and German. First edition. 30 cm; 64 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and.....
Los Angeles: Paul W. Trousdale, 1947. You know the name from Trousdale Estates. Westdale was an earlier development of 450 single-story tract houses from 1947, offering customizing options based on the original house design by Allen Siple, A.I.A. Located on a former ranch bpordered by Sawtelle, National, and Venice Blvd.....
Large mounted albumen photograph of the Potter Building, 38 Park Row, New York City. Designed in 1882 by Norris K. Starkweather and occupied in 1886. Image size 51.5 x 37.5 cm. [Simple gilt frame available.] Extra shipping charges apply for oversized item.
New York: Jazztone Soc., 1955. First edition. short tear to front wrapper; else a very good copy in original wrappers. 1955 12 pp.; illustrated from photograph and drawings.
Chicago: Wright, (2006). First edition. Oblong 4to; unpaged [50]; illustrated from photographs by Julius Shulman, Marc Joseph, Todd Hido, others. Some rubbing to front board; else a very good copy or better in original black boards without dust jacket, as issued. The auction catalog for the sale of this iconic.....
Chicago: Young & Bro., N.d. (c.1905). Promotional brochure for a new apartment building in Hyde Park by the noted Chicago architect Andrew Sandegren. With a heavy Renaissance theme, one page describes the old-world influence on interiors. Sandegren was an active designer of apartment buildings in Chicago; this 32 apartment building.....
Paris / New York: Mulder, 2016. A collection of photographs by Mulder of buildings by Le Corbusier in the Indian city of Chandigarh, a city designed by Le Corbusier with Albert Mayer. With text by Michael Jefferson. First edition, one of 750 copies; 23 cm; unpaged; illustrated from color photographs.....
Dept. of Health, 1930. "The report of the commission appointed by Dr. Wynne, Commissioner of Health, to study noise in NYC and to develop means of abating it." Car horns, storefront speakers, excavation and construction, the elevated, etc. are measured by commission, effects on health are determined, sollutions and abatements.....
Toledo: The Author, 1938. First edition. Folio (33.5 x 26 cm); unpaginated [66 pp. with images recto only] illustrated from photographs. Minor wear to foot of spine; else a good copy in original printed wrappers. A trade catalogue showing Hoke's work, residential and commercial, in all styles, mostly in and.....
Rindge: Cathedral of the Pines, 1963. Monograph on dedication of monument designed by the Founder, Douglas Sloane, with help from Arlin A. Dirlam. With artistic contributions from Norman Rockwell. 28 cm; 16 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A very good copy in wrappers.
Chicago: Archeworks, 2008. The fifth volume of essays from Tigerman’s design school, this with essays by Bruce Mau, Eva Maddox, Doug Garofalo, and R. E. Somol. First edition. 14.5 cm; 40 pp. A fine copy in embossed wrappers.
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.....
Cambridge: MIT Press, (1963). First edition. Square 8vo; 134 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Shallow damp mark to bottom edges; else a fair copy in original brown printed wrappers. A history of the first 100 years of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
Los Angeles: Earle C. Anthony, Inc., 1929. Program for a 1929 transportation exhibition at the new Packard showrooms of Earle C. Anthony in Los Angeles. The first essay offers a description of the new building, designed by Bernard Maybeck, with details of its design, construction, and coloring. Anthony was the.....
NY: Roche Dinkeloo, 2011. Large format presentation volume with photographs and drawings showing plans submitted to the Landmarks Commission for proposed restorations of the front of the Museum of Natural History in New York. Showing existing and proposed features of the Memorial. 28 cm; 60 pp. printed recto only; illustrated.....
Milan: Sottsass Associati/Memphis, N.d. [1984. 1984 catalog for Memphis Milano, showing furniture designed by Sottsass, De Lucchi, Hollein, Graves, de Pasquier, Sowden, Arquitectonica, Zanini, et al. at their Memphisian peak. Designs for furniture, textiles, porcelain, glass, and silver from 1981-1984, with designers and measurements. 30 cm; 60 pp.; illustrated from.....
Niyogi Books, 2014, 2014. First Edition. A monograph on the Early Chalukya temples, all situated on or near to the Malprabha river in central Karnataka. INSCRIBED by Mitchell. First edition. 28.5 cm; 256 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Minor bumping to bottom corners of covers; else a very.....
New York: American Real Estate Company, 1903. Promotional brochure for the Yonkers community Park Hill, with a desirable prospect overlooking the Hudson, and, in 1903, far enough away from New York to be considered a suburb. This edition almost entirely devoted to 100 photographs of completed houses, houses under construction.....
New York: Bachelor, Inc., 1937. Vol. 1, No. 1, April, 1937. Folio; 82 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Wear to top of spine; else a good copy in original pictorial wrappers. The first issue issue of this men's magazine with a strong gay bent. Zerbe was the photo editor.....
Polycrystal Book Service, 2002, 2002. First Edition. Analysis of the Froebel Kindergarten principles and their influence on the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. First edition. 25 cm; 327 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket.
Almeria: Documentos de Arquitectura, 1996. Moneo's essay on the design and construction of the headquarters of the Fundacion Pilar y Joan Miro, completed in 1992. Text in English and Spanish. Scarce. 32 cm; 61 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Creasing to bottom corner front wrapper; else a very.....
Chicago: Archeworks, 2006. The third volume of essays from Tigerman’s design school, this with an essay, "New Harmony: The Hands Can't Do what the Mind Can't See" by Ben Nicholson, with critical responses from Douglas Garafalo, Eva Maddox, and Tigerman. First edition. 14.5 cm; 115 pp. A fine copy in.....
Daly's Fifth Ave. Theatre. Photograph of the Fifth Avenue Theatre at 31 West 28th Street, New York City. Original structure built in 1868 and rebuilt to a design by Francis Kimball in 1892. Parshley was a well-known Brooklyn-based architectural photographer whose work appeared in leading journals. Mounted photograph. Image size.....
