Rubin: Studio Works and Murals Scandinavia / New York
Arsta: Dokument, 2016. Monograph on the Swedish muralist Tony "Rubin" Sjoman. First edition. 26 cm; unpaged; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in gilt-stamped boards. INSCRIBED by Rubin.
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Tvastad
Lund: Hans Asplund, (1980), 1980. 4to; 105 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in original pictorial wrappers. SIGNED by Asplund. An early study for Asplund's "Twotown", his plan for a new city type making dense settlements compatible with motorized transport.
The Architecture of John F. Staub: Houston and the South
Austin: University of Texas Press, (1979). First Trade Edition. Cloth. A thorough survey of the Texas architect's work, with approximately one hundred houses described with photographs and plans. INSCRIBED by Staub. First trade edition. 4to; pp. xiii, 363; illustrated from photographs and plans, including twenty-eight in color; chronological list of.....
Bauhaus: 1919-1928.
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.....
Drawing Dreams: Dante Ferretti Production Designer
Rome: Cinecitta Holdings, 2002. First Edition. Catalog for the 2002 exhibition of the cinematic work of Dante Ferretti, featuring his work as production designer with such directors as Fellini, Scorcese, Pasolini, Cavani, Gilliam, others. Ferretti is revered as one of the top production designers in the last part of the.....
The Vertical Garden: From Nature to the City
New York: Norton,, 2012. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Revised and Updated Version. With full-page INSCRIPTION by Blanc. 33 cm; 207 pp.; illustrzted from photogrpahs, lans, and drawings. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket.
Onion Soup and Other Fables
New York: Odyssey, 1964. A collection of work by the mid-centruy illustrator/cartoonist R. O. Blechman, whose work featured in The New Yorker, Punch, London Times, etc., and whose style was influential in contemporary animation. INSCRIBED by Blechman to "Lou, my mentor". First edition. 18 cm; 95 pp.; illus. Some faint.....
Piper's Pony: The Story of Patchwork
New York: Scribners, 1935. First edition. Oblong 4to; unpaged; illustrated by the author. Light damp stain to bottom edges; wear to extremities; stain to gutter at pastedowns; owner's presentation. Binding tight. Not a very good copy but with a signed drawing of a horse by Paul Brown to half-title page.....
Drama and Liturgy
Nerw York: Columbia University Press, 1930. First edition. 8vo; pp. viii, 151. Some soiling to covers; else a good copy or better in original red cloth with paper label to spine. INSCRIBED by Cargill.
Trouville et Deauville: Vus par Charles Mozin 1806-1862 Album Iconographique
Trouville: The Author, 1962. First Edition. Soft Cover. Monograph on the work of Mozin, a renowned 19th-century painter of city- and seascapes, especially of the Normandy coastal towns of Trouville and Deauville. Text in French. INSCRIBED by the author. First edition # 1425/2500 copies. 24 cm; 29 full-page illustrations from.....
Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors
Boston: NYGS, 1982. First edition. 4to; 283 pp.; illustrated from photographs by Siskind. A fine copy in original cloth, in a very good dust jacket with slight fading to lettering on the spine. A critical biograph of Aaron Siskind. SIGNED by Siskind.
Stopping Street Accidents: A History of New York City's Bureau of Public Safety
New York: Bureau of Public Safety, 1925. Collier, "Special Deputy Police Commissioner" and Head of the Bureau of Public Safety, an automobile-oriented anti-pedestrian entity of the NYPD, tries to reduce the numbers of injuries and deaths suffered in street "accidents" every year, without imposing on motorists' rights. Thirty-five pages devoted.....
Let's Build a Monument
London: Pentagram, 1987. Crosby's essay on the monument, ancient and modern. First edition. 21 cm; 30 pp.; illustrated. SIGNED by Crosby. A fine copy in wrappers, in a fine dust jacket.
Nantucket Vanishing
Houston: Bowhead, 2003. A collection of photographs by Dunlap documenting old, weathered, and possibly abandoned houses and buildings on the island, structures perhaps not worthy of preservation but at risk of disappearing from redevelopment, neglect, and possibly shoreline erosion. First edition. 21.5 cm; 85 pp.; illustrated. INSCRIBED by Dunlap...
Noushin: A Memoir
N.p., The Author, 2022. Autobiography of the New York architect. INSCRIBED by the author. First edition. 24.5 cm; 327 pp.; illustr. from photographs. A fine copy in wrappers.
Manila Envelope
Quezon City: Micro Publish (1989). First Edition. First edition. Lacks eponymous envelope; else a very good copy of: Book, "Manila Envelope" #158/1,000 inscribed to historian Edward Said; Folded Posters "Manila Manifesto" and "Ballad of the Shrieking Man"
Money, Manure, & Maintenance: Ingredients for Successful Gardens of Marian Coffin Pioneer Landscape Architect 1876-1957
Weston: Country Place Books, 2002. Monograph on the work of Marian Coffin, a landscape architect active on the East Coast in the first half of the 20th century. 2nd ed., oriinally published in 1995. 25 cm; 127 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy or better.....
Richard Serra: Early Work
New York: Steidel/David Zwirner, (2013). First Edition. Hard Cover. First edition. 4to; 339 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in original cloth-backed boards, without dust jacket as issued. SIGNED by the artist.
Toni Frissell's Mother Goose
New York: Harper & Bros., (1948). A collection of photographs of children in a modern interpretation of the classic stories. SIGNED by Frissell. Edition not stated, but early, if not first. 27 cm; 94 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A very good copy in cloth-backed pictorial boardsin a chipped and worn.....
The Artist and the Country House: From the Fifteenth Century to the Present Day
London: Sotheby's, 1995. Catalog for the 1995 exhibition to benefit the Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture. Inscribed humorously by Harris, not using his real name. Paperback edition. 21 cm; 184 pp.; illustrated. A very good copy or better in wrappers.
A New Look at Humanism: In Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design
San Francisco: Meadowlark, 2015. The author, an architect, examines contemporary relationships among nature, humanity, architecture, and landscapes, and suggests solutions for creating a truly humane built environment. SIGNED by Hart. First editon. 22.5 cm; 263 pp.; illustrated from drawings by Albrecht Pickler. A very good copy or better in a......
Civil War Era Occupational Licenses 1863-1873: A History and Catalog
Morristown: The Author, 2004. New revenue laws to help finance the war included taxes on certain licensed occupations. The author presents illustrations of 107 examples of licenses, as well as a good deal of information related to legislation. Limited ed.,. #139/200 copies printed. 21 cm; 219 pp.; illustrated from photographs.....
Alice Adams: Public Projects 1984-2000
Bronx: Lehman College Art Gallery, 2000. First edition. 4to; 40 pp.; illustrated. A fine copy in original self-wrappers. Catalog for the 2000 retrospecive exhibition of the artist's work. INSCRIBED by Adams.
Intertwining: Selected Projects 1989-1995
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. First Edition. Holl’s essay on "intertwining" is followed by illustrations and text describing 22 projects by Holl to 1995, as well as a bibliography of the architect’s writings and articles about Holl. INSCRIBED by Holl. First edition. 21.5 cm; 176 pp.; illustrated from photographs.....
Louis Benech: Twelve French Gardens
France: Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2013. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Trade catalog for the French landscape architect. "Twelve French gardens designed by Benech, from the Jardin du Soleil et de Nuages at the Chateau de Villandry to Square Nicolas Forestier in Paris, via an estate in the Sologne, a Normandy manor.....