Trevian Books
New York: Architectural Terra Cotta Society, n.d. (c. 1920). Large brochure featuring recent work using terra cotta for decoration in American school buildings. Decoration was deemed important in school construction in the early 1900s, with classical motifs and details predominant. Though ideally made of stone these elements, when made of.....
New York: Atlantic Terra Cotta Co., 1926. Showing primarily recent work on the Daido Bldg., Osaka (W. M. Vories), and work in Kobe and Tokyo by Setsu Watanabe. Illustrated. A fine copy in wrappers.
New York: Atlantic Terra Cotta Co., 1928. Issue featuring work by Cass Gilbert, Warren & Wetmore, C. W. & Geo. L. Rapp, Fred French (Tudor City), Sloan & Robertson. Also Air Marks for City Roofs. Fine in wrappers.
San Francisco: Golden Gateway, 1965. Prospectus for apartments in the two high rises being constructed as part of the the Golden Gateway development in San Francisco. Folded card (28 x 21.5 cm) with floor plans, perspective drawing, and separate rental schedule laid-in. Small stain to rental schedule; else very good.....
San Francisco, Golden Gateway, n.d. [c. 1965]. Large folding sheet 46 x 28 cm) promoting the Golden Gateway planned development consisting initially of three apartment houses and thirty-eight garden town-houses, with more to be built, at Yerba Buena Cove. With a huge sketched view of the proposed development, idealized views.....
Los Angeles: LAHA, 1948. Chapter titles: There's Nothing Sentimental About Your Cash Register; Bad Housing is Bad Business; Public Housing is Good Business. The case made by local civic leaders for slum clearance and the creation of good public housing based solely on increased municipal revenues. Chavez Ravine is cited.....
Fresno: The Author, 1920. Trade catalog of completed schoolhouses designed by Kump and built in different localities throughout central California. Kump favored one-story elementary schools and two-story high schools, built mostly in the Spanish style appropriate to the climate. By 1920 he had designed over 30 school buildings and was.....
Chicago: Ricker-Murphy, 2012. Sales prospectus showing sixteen representative floor plans from one bdrm/one bath to three bdrms/three baths. One map of the area; photos showing day and night aerial views. A no-nonsense prospectus for Lagrange's no-nonsense condo building in Chicago, completed in 2012. 28 cm; 24 pp.; illustr. from photographs.....
Brussels: Louis De Waele Societe Anonyme, N.d. [c. 1910]. First edition. 4to; 4 pp.; 20 chromolithographic plates. Minor wear to bottom spine; else a very good copy or better in original wrappers with illustrations affixed to front cover. Trade catalog for Belgian manufacturer; this catalog containing 41chromolithograph designs for parquet.....
New York: National Sheet Metal Roofing Co., 1890. Trade catalog for the New York sheet metal roofing company offering builders and homeowners advice on foundations, cellars, kitchens, chimneys, cisterns, brickwork, mortar, heating and ventilation, the roof, etc., and many items of interest to builders.With elevations and plans for eight two-story.....
New York: New York Trade Schools, 1891. Catalog for the school at First Ave. and 67th St. in New York City offering evening and day classes in bricklaying, plastering, plumbing, carpentry, house and sign painting, fresco painting, stone-cutting, blacksmith's work, and tailoring. With a detailed description of classes, illustrated with.....
Boston: Broad Exchange Building, N.d. [1903]. First edition. Folio (35 x 45 cm); 12 pp. [printed recto only]; illustrated from plans and one drawing. A very good copy in original printed wrappers. A rental prospectus for the Broad Exchange Building at 88 Broad St. in Boston. Most likely designed by.....
Hong Kong: New City Cultural Service Limited, (1987). First edition. Oblong 4to; 172 pp; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Rose's last, and least common book, featuring illustrations of his commissions and his own house.
Los Angeles: Balcony Press, 2000. First Thus. Cloth. Reprint edition. Introduction by Richard Neutra. Shulman's reprint of his 1962 book defining the style of architectural photography for the rest of the century. SIGNED by Shulman. First reprint edition. 4to; 154 pp.; illustrated from photographs.
Philadelphia: Solidon Products, 1929. "This booklet explains Solidon, the material that takes the place of plaster." An attractive little flyer promoting the doomed plaster substitute developed to replace plaster in interior construction. Applied like plaster, Solidon can have textured effects and be painted--the product's advantages include the ability to be.....
San Francisco: SPDC, N.d. (c. 1980). Proposal from the early 1980s to develop SP's property into a "new town downtown" to include housing, office, commercial, retail and R&D activities, employment opportunities, etc. I. M. Pei led the design team with the help of Gruen and others. With loose sheets to.....
San Francisco: Stoneson, n.d. [c. 1964]. Brochure advertising houses to be built by Stoneson at Montclair West, in San Jose CA. While no house is actually shown, photos of details suggest a lot of cedar shingles and roofs. With four floor plans, list of suppliers---Congoleum, GE, Nutone, Kawneer, Schlage, etc......
Ann Arbor: U. Michigan, 1998. A documentation of Thompson and Rose's collaborative studio with the faculty and students at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Michigan. During the winter semester the architects served as visiting critics, made an exhibition of work, and directed a graduate architecture design studio.....
Brussels: Commission Royale, 2002. Transcripts of twenty-six papers on architecture as represented in European stained glass windows, delivered at an international colloquium in Brussels in 2002. Text in French. First edition. 29.5 cm; 292 pp.; illustr. from photographs. Small bump to bottom spine; else a very good copy or better.....
Semur-en-Auxois: Editions Spiralinthe, 2006. A survey of treillage as used in the great gardens and chateaux of France from the early 18 th- until the 21st -century. With hints on construction and suggestions for use in modern gardens. Text in French. Scarce. First edition. 28 cm; 216 pp.; illustr. from.....
Stevens Point: Vetter, n.d. [1920]. Promotional flyer for the book "Architectural Economy" published by the Lumber Service Bureau, a conglomeration of wood businesses like Vetter supplying building products. Showing colored photographs of nine small and mid-sized bungalows and two-story houses, whose plans, specs, and prices are available in the office's.....
New York: Orange Judd and Company, (1870). First Edition. The Swiss-born landscape architect emigrated to the Unites States in 1859, settling in Hartford. This, his first book, "...documents his major commissions...and contains the best surviving evidence of his technical skill in site engineering as well as his taste in landscape.....
New York: Wilbur Smith Assoc., 1968. The shuttle was part of the Queens-LI Mass Transportation Demonstration Program which ran from 2/65 to 7/66, offering bus service from the Hunters Point RR Station to East Side locations in midtown Manhattan. The shuttle had mixed success, always at the mercy of tunnel.....
