Designed Landscape Forum I
Lakewood, New Jersey, U.S.A. Whitney Library of Design, 1998. First edition. Sqaure 4to; 213 pp.; illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Landscape Architecture
Architecture of Luis Barragan
New York, New York, U.S.A. Museum of Modern Art, 1986, 1976. Catalog for the 1976 MOMA exhibition on the work of the Mexican architect. First edition paperback. INSCRIBED by Ambasz. 4to; 128 pp.; illustrated. Light wear to wrappers; else a very good copy in original pictorial stiff wrappers.
Illustrations of Work of Members
New York: J. Hayden Twiss, 1932, 1932. 4to; 332 pp.; illustrated from photographs and plans. A little damp to the upper corner, else a good copy in original gilt-stamped blue wrappers. 212 illustrations (many full-page) of the works of members, which includes residences, campuses, golf courses and roadways. With a......
Landscape Architecture: A Quarterly Magazine
New York: Lay, Hubbard & Wheelwright. 1915, 1915. Vol. 6, No. 1, October 1915. 4to; 60 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Occasional minor spotting; else a very good copy in original printed wrappers. An early issue of this influential publication, this number containing articles byFletcher Steele on city.....
Landscape Architecture: A Quarterly Magazine
New York: Lay, Hubbard & Wheelwright. 1915, 1915. Vol. 5, No. 2, January 1915. 4to; 56 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Occasional minor spotting; covers detached but present; else a good copy in original printed wrappers. An early issue of this influential publication, this number containing articles on.....
Foundation and Home Ground Planting Made Easy: For Do-It-Yourself Gardeners
Dansville: Kelly Bros. Nurseries, 1956. Aul, garden writer for the Herald Tribune, writes the manual with suggestions for different types of houses including the split level and ranch, as well as other suggestions and instructions for the “home ground.” Includes a large scale grid sheet, a sheet of planning cutouts.....
Bamboo
New York: Weatherhill, (1970), 1970. Later printing. 4to; 215 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings, many in color. A fine copy in original gilt-stamped green cloth, in a vey good dust jacket. Largely a handsome photo essay on the varied functions of bamboo, including its use in the garden, with.....
The Standard Cyclopedia of Horitculture
New York: Macmillan, 1945, 1945. Later printing. Three volumes. 4to; 3839 pp.; illustrated. A bright, clean set in chipped dust jackets, in a used slipcase. Along with "Hortus", Bailey's most enduring work, and still one of the best horticultural references ever published. With a complete list of American horticultural books.....
Landscape Works
Tokyo: Process Architecture Publishing Co., 1998. First edition. 4to; 112 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in original pictorial wrapper. No. 133 of Process: Architecture, a Japanese publication, devoted to the work of landscape architect Diana Balmori. Text in japanese and English.
Uncommon Ground
New York: ORO, 2015. Trade catalog for the New York landscape architect showing projects and completed work. Balsley's work in the city includes parks as well as projects for scraps of land and the post-industrial waterfront, along with work all over the US and in Asia.
The Well-Furnished Garden
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1986), 1986. First American edition. Square 8vo; 192 pp.; more than 600 illustrations from photographs and drawings; bibliography; listing of retail sources in Europe, UK and US. A good copy in a good dust jacket. Suggestions for using paths, pavilions, beds, borders, statues, pots, iron.....
The Princeton Journal: Thematic Studies in Architecture Volume Two Landscape
Princeton: The Princeton architectural Press, 1985. First edition. 8vo; 230 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Rubbing to covers; else a good copy or better in original wrappers. Second issue of this journal fromthe Princeton School of Architecture. With articles by and/or about Mary Miss, Graves, Ambasz, Tschumi, others.....
Jardins de Touraine
Tours: Arrault & Cie., (1947). Later printing. 4to; 362 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A very good copy in gilt-stamped green cloth. A survey of the gardens in the Touraine province of France. Originally published in 1940. Photographer Jerome Zerbe's copy.
shaping the American Landscape: New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Project
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, (2009). First edition. 4to; illustrated. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Pioneers of American Landscape Design: An Annotated Bibliography
Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.A. Accents Pubns Service, 1993. VG copy in original pictorial wrappers.
Patrick Blanc: Vertical Garden
Busan: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2018. A documentation of the creation and installation of Blanc’s Vertical Garden as the Inaugural Exhibition at the Busan Museum. With essays by Blanc. Text in English, Korean, and French. Signed by Blanc. First edition. 27 cm; 135 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings.....
Architecture and Nature: The Work of Alfred Caldwell / Architektur Und Natur
Basel: Birkhaeuser Verlag, (1984). First edition. Oblong 4to; 159 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawing. Some spotting to edges; else a very good copy in original pictorial laminated boards. Monograph on the landscape architect. Text in English, German, and French.
The Formal Garden in England
London: Macmillan & Co., 1892, 1892. 8vo; pp. xii; 244; sixty-seven illustrations from drawings by F. Inigo Thomas. Owner's name; offsetting to endpapers; light foxing throughout; else a good copy in white, gilt-stamped cloth which is darkened from age. A history of garden design in England. Blomfeld was an architect.....
The Formal Garden in England
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Timber Pr, 1985. FACSIMILE REPRINT. FINE COPY IN DUST JACKET.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF THE METROPOLITAN PARK COMMISSIONERS: December 1914
Boston, 1915. First edition. 8vo; 113 pp.; illustrated. VG in original gilt=stamped brown cloth.
New Designs of Small Properties: A Book for the Home-Owner in City and Country
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.
The Baroque Landscape: Andre Le Notre & Vaux le Vicomte
New York: Rizzoli, 2004. First American Edition. Hard Cover. The chateau and gardens at Vauxle Vicomte, begun 1653, were the first great landscape designed by Le Notre and mark the beginning of the baroque tradition in garden design. First American edition. 26 cm; 191 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and.....
European and Japanese Gardens: Papers Read Before the American Institute of Architects
Philadephia: Henry T. Coates, 1902. First edition. 8vo; 162 pp.; illustrated from photogrtaphs and drawings.A very good copy in original cloth. Reports on gardens in Italy, England, France, and Japan.
Modernism at Mid-Century: The Architecture of the United States Air Force Academy
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. A monograph on the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, designed by SOM and opened in 1958. A collection of essays analyzing all aspects of the Academy's planning, construction, and design. The controversial campus has been described as the final triumph of the International.....
A Regency Visitor: The English Tour of Prince puckler-Muskau, Described in His Letters 1826-1828
Nerw York: E. P. Dutton, (1958). First American edition 8vo; 384 pp.; illustrated. Good copy.