The U. N. Building [United Nations]
New York: Thames & Hudson, (2005). First American Edition. Cloth. First American edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.
New York: Thames & Hudson, (2005). First American Edition. Cloth. First American edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.
San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001. Catalog for the 2001 SFMMA exhibition documenting four site-specific temporary installations commissioned by the museum. Showing work by Kathryn Gustafson, Hargreaves Associates, Hood Design, and Tom Leader Studio. First edition. 25 cm; 104 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A......
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988, 1988. First edition. Oblong 8vo; 275 pp.; 125 illustrations, including forty-one in color; bibliography. Fine in original gilt-stamped blue cloth, in a fine dust jacket. The catalogue for an exhibition of German drawings and watercolors at the Morgan. Includes work by Caspar David Friedrich.....
New York: Arts Commission of the City of New York, 1983. First edition. 4to; 54 pp.; printed recto only; illustrated. Crease to front cover; else a very good copy in original pictorial wrappers. Monograph on the restoration of the three-room suite in New York's City Hall.
New York: Cooper Union, 1992. First American Edition. Catalog for the 1992 exhibition at the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Photography at Cooper Union of recent book design in Prague. With printed material on verso of dust jacket. First American edition. 29.5 cm; 20 pp. plus dust jacket;.....
Newcastle/London: R.E. Bewick and Longman & Co., 1847. Later printing. 8vo; pp. xxxix, xxxvi, 374, [1]; illustrated from wood engravings by Bewick. Newspaper clipping to front endpaper; light wear to extremities; contents clean and tight; a good copy or better in original gilt-stamped green cloth. Originally published in 1797. This.....
London: The Folio Society, 1981, 1981. First edition thus. 8vo; 192pp.; sixty-seven illustrations from wood engravings and thirty-one color illustrations from watercolor drawings. A very good copy in original gilt-stamped, cloth-backed boards. The memoirs of the great artist-engraver and naturalist.
Middletown: Grantha, 1998. First American Edition. Cloth. A monograph on the major Hill Stations in India, including Simla, Naini Tal, Mussoorie, and Ootacamund. First American edition. 30 cm; 192 pp.; illustrated from photographs, drawings, and maps. Owner's inscription; else a very good copy or better in a lightly used dust.....
Paris: Gallimard, 2013. The Princesse was a great friend and devoted correspondent of Marcel Proust. Text in French. Later printing. Originally published in 1928. 19 cm; 142 pp. Soft crease to front cover; else a good copy or better in wrappers.
New York: Sylvan Bien, n.d. [c. 1939]. Five “blueprints” for this late pre-War apartment buildingat 28 E. 73rd St., probably used for promotional purposes and distributed to brokers, potential buyers, and the real estate and architectural press. Five sheets showing cellar plan, first floor plan, second or typical floor plan.....
Detroit: Detroit Convention and Business Men's League, Ltd., 1898. First edition. 8vo; 96 pp.; illustrated from photographs; colored photograph frontis. Light wear to spine; else a very good copy in original pictorial wrappers. Before it was the Motor City Detroit bragged of its parks and water-based amenities, its lodgings, its.....
New York: Department of Health, 1912. First edition. 8vo; 61 pp.; illustrated. Ex-library with “withdrawn” indication, bookplate, perforated stamp to two leaves; else a good copy, tight and clean in original cloth-backed boards. A report on recent construction at New York City’s municipal hospital facilities. Showing plans, elevations, and photographs.....
Wabern-Bern: Benteli, 2000. First Edition. Soft Cover. A documentation of the five versions of Bill's "Endless Ribbon" sculpture from 1935 to 1995. With essays by Max Bill, Jakob bill, Dietmar Guderian, and Michael Hiltie. Text in English and German. First edition. 25.5 cm; 102 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings.....
New York: Basic, (1983). First edition. 8vo; pp. xx, 306; illustrated. Owner's name; else a vry good copy in good dust jacket. The author's survey of engineering structures as art forms.
Vancouver: Bing Thom Architects, Inc., 2004. Bing Thom’s proposal for the redevelopment of the Trinity Uptown district of Fort Worth, including environmental restoration, land-use plans, transportation planning, water quality initiatives, recommendations for parks, school, community facilities, etc. Bing Thom now Revery Architecture. First edition. 28 cm; 60 pp.; illustrated from.....
London: Academy Editions Ltd, 1996. First edition. 112 pp.; illustrated. A very good copy in original wrappers. Monograph pon the drawings of the architect Christopher Nicholson.
London: SAVE Britain's Heritage, N.d. [c. 1980]. First edition. Oblong 4to; 72 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A very good copy in original illustrated wrappers. An argument for the preservation of the textile mills of Yorkshire's West Riding and South Lancashire whihc, according to Binney, "are the grandest series of buildings.....
Paris: Binoche et Goudeau,1986. Catalog for auction of Russian books, including children's books, and examples of graphic art from 1910-1930. First edition. 8vo; 35 pp.; illustrated. Owner's inscription; else a very good copy in original laminated boards. [Bound dos a dos with auction catalog for "150 gouaches originales par Sonia.....
Lyon: La Manufacture, 1985. Brief essays on the design of the convent by Biot and Perrot are followed by a collection of seventy-six photographs by Jacqueline Salmon. Text in French. First edition. 8vo; 136 pp.; illustrated from sectional drawings and from photographs. A fine copy in original wrappers.
New York: Dun & Bradstreet, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover. A monograph on the PA analyzing its purpose, accomplishments, and plans for the future which are mostly concerned with building and expanding airports.. First edition. 26.5 cm; 191 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Paper clip mark to prelims., spotting.....
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, (2009). First edition. 4to; illustrated. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.A. Accents Pubns Service, 1993. VG copy in original pictorial wrappers.
New York: Prange Company, (1948), 1948. Second edition. 8vo; unpaginated [24]; illustrated in color. Owner's name; else a good copy in original wrappers. A guide for color harmony and identification, this edition published to serve mebers of garden clubs and horticultural societies. Originally published in 1939. Birren Collection 42 [first.....
Cudahy: The Author, 1978. A documentation of the San Carlo Opera Company, founded in 1913 by Fortune Gallo and a steady touring company that provided the only exposure to grand opera for millions of americans in small towns and cities in the South and West, while also appearing in New.....
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1972, 1972. First edition. 4to; 516 pp.; more than 950 illustrations;. bibliography. Some wear to lower edge of covers and backstrip, else a very good copy in gilt-stamped green cloth in a lightly soiled and price clipped dust jacket. An important reference work, divided into fifteen.....