Old Wives' Lore for Gardeners
London: Bodley Head, (1980), 1980. Later printing. 12mo; 64 pp.; illustrated. Fine in dust jacket. A delightful collection of absolutely unscientific instructions for gardening and planting.
London: Bodley Head, (1980), 1980. Later printing. 12mo; 64 pp.; illustrated. Fine in dust jacket. A delightful collection of absolutely unscientific instructions for gardening and planting.
N.p.: The Author, 2017. A design manual providing necessary data for a selection of sex positions, using annotated scale drawings and informative descriptions.
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1970), 1970. First American edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Berlin: Aedes, 1999. An MVRDV sponsored monograph on the project for 100 residences for elderly people built in Amsterdam, notable for an innovative solution for fitting 100 units in a block that, by regulation, could only accommodate 87. Text in English and German. First edition. Square 8vo; 48 pp.; illustrated.....
Milan: Domus, 2004. The results of the international competition for the redevelopment of the International Trade Fair grounds, the old Quatiere Fieristico, won by the Citylife consortium of Isozaki, Libeskind, Hadid, and Maggiora. Text in English and Italian. First edition. 4to; 63 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A......
Downers Grove: BBN, n.d. (c. 1971). Catalog for the performing arts consulting group, assisting architects in "evolving definitive programs and imaginative design solutions for all types of performing spaces," including civic centers, arenas, stadiums, auditoriums, theatres, classrooms, broadcasting studios, etc. With elaborate staff CVs and a list of the company’s.....
New York: The Arno Press, 1967, 1967. First edition thus. 8vo; pp. x, 228. A fine copy in original cloth-backed boards with gilt-stamped spine label. Stoies of shooting and fishing. A volume in the Abercrombie & Fitch Library, a reprint of a sporting classic originally published in 1954.
Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1975. A study of the reactions to the Barcelona Pavilion by contemporary laymen, journalists, critics, and historians. Text in English, French, Spanish, and Russian. First edition. 21.5 cm; 127 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Light wear to foot of spine; else a very good copy.....
Cambridge: HGSD, 1971. First edition. Oblong 8vo; unpaged; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Crease to front wrapper; inkstamped price; else a good copy in original plastic comb-bound wrappers. 1971 student publication of the Graduate School of Design with spirited essays on modern aesthetics, fiction, something to do with French literature.....
London: Hutchinson, N.d. [1943], 1943. First edition. 8vo; 80 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Bottom corner rear wrapper lacking; else a good copy or better in original picotrial wrappers. Preface by Max Beerbohm. Essays and remembrances of the music hall by Noel Coward, James Agate, others. (Gallatin 68).
Buenos Aires: Manzi Publicidad, (1996), 1996. First edition, # 967/3000. 4to; 109 pp.; illustrated from color photographs. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. A promotional piece for the ITT Sheraton Park Tower Hotel, documenting the elegance and luxury available to all in Buenos Aires. Accompanied by brief.....
Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, (1969). First edition. Square 8vo. 72 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A very good copy or better in a good dust jacket with tape to tope of spine. A collection of objects reflecting distinctive Japanese style. Text in English, Spanish, French and German.
Firenze: Galleria Michaud, 1978. First edition. 4to; 47 pp.; illustrated. Light spotting to rear cover; else a very good copy in original pictorial wrappers. Ctalog for the 1978 gallery exhibition in Florence. Text in English and Italian.
Boston: Association Publishers, 1916, 1916. First edition. 12mo; ninety-five pp.; color frontispiece tipped-in and fourteen illustrations. A very good copy in wrappers. An early guide to the Boston Public Library with emphasis on its mural decorations.
Boston: Boston Rubber Shoe Co., 1895. Catalog men's and ladies' overshoes, hip boots, storm slippers, etc. Illustrated with chromolithographic vignettes of the product in use. 21 cm; 24 pp.; a very good copy in original staple-bound wrappers.
Bogota: EME, 1994. First Edition. First edition. Large Folio; 119 pp.; illustrated from color reproductions of posters by Botero. Multi-lingual text.A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Lugano: Banco Gottardo, 1988. Botta contributes a brief essay, "A Bank and its City," in this promotional booklet which is filled mostly with photographs of interiors, though a few do show the striking Bottavian monumentality of the project. Text in English, French, German, and Italian. 21 cm; 20 pp.; illustrated.....
San Francisco: SFMMA, n.d. [c. 1995]. Pop-up card showing 3D rendering of the Museum by Botta. 13.5 cm; minor soiling. No envelope.
Barcelona: GG, 1991. Trade catalog for the Botta firm showing work and projects from 1980-1990. First edition. 30 cm; 223 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers.
New York: Rizzoli, 2021. First Edition. Hard Cover. A photo-documentation of the reconstruction of the collapsed Morandi Bridge in Genoa, with a new design by Piano, and completed in a little more than 15 months. First edition. 30 cm; 201 pp.; illustr. from photographs. A fine copy in flexible pictorial.....
New York: Macmillan, 1948. First edition. 8vo; 174 pp.; illustrated from plans and drawings. Owner's stamp everywhere; else a good copy or better in dust jacket.
Paris: The Authors, 1954. First edition. 4to; unpaged [approx. 200]; illustrated from photographs. A good copy or better in cloth-back boards, in a chipped dust jacket. A history of the art of silversmithing is followed by a survey of the leading silversmiths and manufacturers of the world. Text in English.....
A. Scheibli 1999. Autochrome photographs from a private French family collection, 1903. Later printing. 31 cm; unpaged. Illustrated from color photographs. Bizarre binding of wrappers inside illustrated boards. Text in English and French. A fine copy.
Princeton: The Princeton architectural Press, 1983. First edition. 8vo; 186 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Rubbing to covers; else a very good copy in original wrappers. First issue of this journal fromthe Princeton School of Architecture. With articles by and/or about Graves, Tschumi, Tsien, Agrest, Platus, Vidler, others.....
London: Fine Arts Society, 2008. First edition. 8vo; 63 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. Catalog with price sheet laid-in for an exhibition of drawing by architects of the main aesthic movements of the 19th century. Showing work by Hardwick, Barry, Wilkins, Viollet-le-Duc, Owen Jones, Butterfield, Godwin.....