Trevian Books
New York: Otis, 1939. Promotional booklet published for the World's Fair, documenting the history of the company and recent achievements, such as the installation of 67 elevators in the Empire State Building. First edition. 21.5 cm; 12 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A fine copy in pictorial wrappers.
Bethlehem: Bethlehem Steel, 1958. Designs for nine houses with steel framing taken from mid-1950s issues of Architectural Record, House & Home, others. After the war steel companies had actively promoted the use of steel framing, especially in the west, with limited success. Showing steel-framed work by Eichler, Koenig, A. Quincy.....
Palm Springs: Palm Springs Preservation Foundation, 2005. An early monograph on the Palm Springs architect, published in association with a 2005 event commemorating his career. First edition. 21.5 cm; 32 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers.
New York, Corcoran, n.d. [2005]. Promotional brochure for the property at Fifth Ave. & 82nd St., built in 1901, subsequently restored and in 2005 again for sale. With biographical information on the family, floor plans, photographs of details, etc. 23 cm; 24 pp.; illustrated from photographs and plans. A very.....
New York: Architecture & Design, 1940. Trade catalog of Weber's work showing primarily traditional houses in the Chicago suburbs. "Much of the work illustrated...was created during the partnership of White and Weber. After 1936 Mr. Weber continued the partnership name until 1939." First edition. 33.5 cm; unpaged [60, printed recto.....
N.P. [Pleasantville or New York City], n.d. [1934]. A trade catalog showing work by architect Oscar Vatet. Vatet studied architecture at Cornell and in 1905 began working in the MMW offices. By 1912 he had formed his own firm in New York City. This volume is labeled Vol. V Progress.....
Washington, DC: Roosevelt Memorial Association, 1925. A collection of six drawings from Pope's winning entry for the proposed [and unbuilt] permanent memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. First edition. Folio (29 x 35 cm); 19 pp.; illustrated with six detailed drawings from the winning design made by Otto R. Eggers. Ex-library copy.....
Paris: Knoll International France, 1970. Catalog for Knoll's 1970 posthumous homage to Mies, a collection of photographs of work and plans and drawings gathered from major international holdings of Mies material. Text in French. First edition. 22 cm; 146 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy.....
Summit: Kuhn & Drake, n.d. [c. 1965]. Trade catalog for the NJ firm showing commercial work as well as modernist houses and summer houses built between 1961-1965. First edition. 28 cm; 48 pp.; illustrated from photographs and plan. Some editing to staff listing; else a very good copy in plastic.....
Basel: Birkhauser, 1994. A documentation of Kahn's complete works as organized by the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Originally published in the same unusual format on the occasion of the exhibition, Louis I. Kahn, Dokumentation von Arbeitsprozessen, held.....
Buffalo: Burchfield-Penny Art Center, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Catalog for the exhibition of the work of Buffalo architect E. B. Green, exploring Green's eclectic mix of architectural influences, including Romanesque, Beaux-Arts, Greek Classical, Colonial Revival, and International styles. Greene's domestic work includes Delaware Ave. area mansions; civic work includes structures.....
Boston: Branford, 1959. The very comprehensive catalog of the 1938 MOMA exhibition chronicling the years of the Bauhaus in Weimar in Dessau. With Gropius's 1923 essay The Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus. Bayer assembled and installed the exhibition and laid out this book; Gropius supervised the exhibition and book.....
Hartford: Travelers Insurance Co., 1921. A monograph with a brief company history, on the company's headquarters building designed by Donn Barber and occupied in stages of completion from 1909 to 1919. With drawings of interiors, including employees in offices, and exteriors by Vernon Howe Bailey. First edition, 35 cm; 37.....
Chicago: Burnham Library Art Institute, 1981. Catalog for the 1981 exhibition of plans and details for Alschuler's 22-story London Guarantee and Accident Company Building/Stone Container Building, completed in 1923. First edition. 28 cm; 8 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A good copy in unevenly faded wrappers.
Zurich: Les Editions d'Architecture Artemis, 1963-1990. Early Printing. Hard Cover. The collected works of Finnish modernist Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) featuring his architectural work and furniture designs, in three volumes. Covering the years 1922 until the architect's death in 1976. Text in English, German, and French. Volume I: 1922-1962. 275 pp.;.....
Chicago: IIT, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. A history of the development of the architectural program at ITT begun with the arrival of Mies van der Rohe in 1938. Assisted by Ludwig Hilbersiemer and Walter Peterhams, Mies developed a program of study which, after the war, blossomed into an education.....
Paris: Archeology & Architecture Press, 1929. Mujica's massive monograph on the development of the skyscraper. Mujica was a proponent of his own Neo-American style of skyscraper design, suggesting, according to John Sloan's Foreword, the "application of the work of primitive peoples on the American continent" to the skyscraper, a purely.....
Miami: Miami Beach CDC, 2003. Taking advantage of the late 20th-century interest in Art Deco Miami, local civic and architectural history interests sought to expand the documentation of 196 buildings to aid preservation efforts and promote cultural tourism. Published as a draft copy with poor image reproduction. 27.5 cm; unpaged.....
New York: Reinhold, 1960. An examination of the relationship of the architectural letter to architecture itself; a discussion of the Roman, sans-serif, Egyptian, Tuscan, lower case, black letter, etc. types and their uses; three-dimensional designs, and lettering for classical and modern styles of buildings are considered. With 270 examples from.....
Helsinki: 1966. A survey of twenty-four terraced houses (townhouses), private houses, cottages, and saunas recently (1966) built in Finnish country landscape settings. Photographs show interiors and exteriors and the structures' relationship to the environment. Text in Finnish with English translation. First edition. 26 cm; 113 pp.; illustrated from photographs and.....
New York: A. J. Bicknell & Co., 1878. To continue the subtitle: "Also Summer Houses, Sea Side Cottages, Boat Houses, Street Views of Twelve Dwellings, Etc. Etc." Showing work by A. P. Cutting, G. E. Harney, J. A. Wood, E. A. Sargent, Putman & Tilden, J. W. Eidenmann, W. W......
Hamilton: Bermuda Monuments Historical Trust, 1948. Part one shows seven plans for cottages with perspective drawings, prepared by the Trust in the accepted Bermuda style. Includes work by Onions, Abbot, et al. A second section shows floor plans and photographs of old Bermuda cottages together with "suggestions of interiors in.....
New York: Avery Library Columia University, 1996. First edition. 4to; 99 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A big inscription; else a very good copy or better in original pictorial wrappers. Catalog for the 1996 exhibit at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia, A survey of the use of.....
New York: The De Leeuw Riehl Publishing Co., N.d. [1910]. A collection of photographs showing the buildings and houses on both sides of Broadway from Bowling Green to Central Park, with period advertisements liberally interspersed. Featured in Christopher Grey's NY Times story about rare NYC Books: "Both Sides of Broadway.....
Tehran: Museum of Contemporary Art, n.d. [c. 1978]. Catalog for an exhibition of photographs, plans, and drawings documenting early 20th-century Iranian industrial architecture. Text in English and Arabic. First edition. 23 cm; 67 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in pictorial wrappers.
