Trevian Books
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.....
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.....
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.
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.....
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.....
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......
New York: Architectural Catalog Co., 1940. Trade catalog for Gilmore D. Clarke, showing his work at Bryant Park, the Central Park Zoo, the World's Fair and other Moses projects, Parkchester in the Bronx, plans for Washington Square and City Hall parks, and the Westchester County Park System. Ex-library copy stamped.....
New York: Bureau of Public Safety, 1925. An analysis by Collier, "Special Deputy Police Commissioner" and Head of the Bureau of Public Safety, an automobile-oriented anti-pedestrian entity of the NYPD with a plan that reduces the numbers of injuries and deaths suffered in street "accidents" every year. thirty-five pages devoted.....
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.....
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.....
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.
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.....
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.
Culver City: MODAA Gallery,2007. Catalog for the 2007 exhibition of the work of Los Angeles architect Jerrold Lomax. Traces the architect's career from his time at Craig Ellwood's studio, to his own firms and partnerships, to his eventual move to the Monterey peninsula in 1995. First edition. Oblong 12.5 cm;.....
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.;.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Dept. City Planning, 1971. In the middle of the 20th century, the city of Los Angeles would take your front lawn and your street trees to widen the roads and accommodate the never-ending increase of traffic. While unable to solve the traffic problem the City Planning Department in.....
Los Angeles: Dept. City Planning, 1971. In the middle of the 20th century the city of Los Angeles would take your front lawn and your street trees to widen the roads and accommodate the ceaseless increase of traffic. While unable to solve the traffic problem the City Planning Department in.....
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. "A vast collection of designs consisting of garden houses, tool houses, & bath houses. With much attention given to ornamental and plain privies reflecting the great changes in style Colonial, Gothic, Tuscan, French, & Swiss." Illustrated with 245.....
New York: Architecture Catalog Co., 1959. Trade catalog showing recent work to 1959 by Innocenti & Webel, a landscape firm based on Long Island and active on the East Coast since the 1930s. Showing gardens for houses on L.I., Florida, Connecticut, Washington DC; includes midcentury modern houses; gardens for institutions.....
Brussels: Aux Archives Architecture Moderne, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Monograph on the German architect and high Nazi government functionary's work between 1932 and 1942. Text in French and English. First edition. 32 cm; 245 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in red cloth with image.....
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.....
Paris: Librairie Plon, (1937). First trade edition. 8vo; 325 pp.; illustrated from maps and from drawings by the author. Covers spotted; occasional light spotting to text leaves but mostly clean; a good copy or better in original pictorial wrappers. A chronicle of Corbusier's visit to the New World. (Sharp p......
New York: BRC, 1979. There was a time when few people wanted anything to do with the many brownstone houses in different neighborhoods in the city. Most were broken up into apartments, rooming houses, or vacant, and they could be had for a song. The BRC, starting in 1968, worked.....
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.....
