Ambridge, Pennsylvania: A.M. Byers Company, [circa 1965].. [circa 1965].. Very good. - Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled wraps titled with a black & white illustration of the Yale University Hockey Rink with exposed piping on the front cover. The corners of the covers are slightly creased. 32 pages, profusely illustrated throughout. Very good. From the Skating Library of Arthur N. Foxe, with his stamp on the front endpaper. A psychiatrist and criminologist, Dr. Foxe was an avid collector of skating books and even published a skating bibliography.A typed l... View More...
Ambler, Pennsylvania: Ambler Asbestos Manufacturing, circa [1920's]., [1920's].. Good. - Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled pictorial wraps. The covers are soiled and the spine is rubbed and splitting along the top and bottom. 8 pages, including the covers, with color and black & white illustrations of homes and roofs with English Tatch & Colonial style shingle roofs. The edges of the pages are slightly creased with a horizontal crease across the middle. Good. One of the first asbestos factory towns in America, Ambler, Pennsylvania was home to the Amble... View More...
New York: F.W. Dodge Corporation, 1924.. 1924.. Good. - Small quarto, 10-5/8 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed greenish wraps titled on the front cover and the spine with a vignette on the front cover. The covers are rubbed and soiled and the head and tail of the spine are quite chipped with a piece out from the tail of the spine. 50 and 134 pages, with a full-page monochrome frontispiece after an etching by Charles F.W. Mieletz and profuse black & white illustrations and plates throughout, including pictorial ads. Good. The contents of this monthly architectural pe... View More...
(London, U.K.): Academy Editions, (1992).. (1992).. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 12-1/4 inches high by 10-1/4 inches wide], blue cloth in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is rubbed. 261 pages. Profuse photographic illustrations, drawings & architectural plans in color and black & white. There is a small area of very light soiling to the front endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.
First edition.
A study of the free spirit of architecture in the late twentieth century. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
New York: Atlantic Terra Cotta Company, (1922).. (1922).. Very good. - Small quarto [approximately 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in printed cream wraps titled in black within a decorative black frame on the front wrap. The wraps are soiled & darkened around the edges with a few small stains. The top edge of the front wrap is chipped & the top half-inch of each wrap is detached. [16] pages, including black- and-white full-page illustrations & plates. The contents are very good. View More...
Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989.. 1989.. Very good. - Small quarto [10-3/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. xxvi, [1] leaf & 201 pages plus 8 pages of color illustrations, including 2 double-page. Also with numerous black-and white illustrations. Near fine.
First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
(Fontenay-sous-Bois [France]): Stil Editions, (1977).. (1977).. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 12-1/2 inches high by 11 inches wide], black cloth in a pictorial dust wrapper. The covers are slightly bowed & the dust jacket is slightly darkened. 124 pages plus colophon. Profuse full-page photographic illustrations. Very good. The text is by Rene Fouque and the photographs by Daniel Boudinet. The text is in French.In the Italian town of Bomarzo, the main atttraction is a garden, the Bosco dei Monstri or Park of Monsters, so called after the many larger-than-life sculptures, some sculpted in ... View More...
Venezia: Marsilio, (1999).. (1999).. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 10-1/2 inches high by 9 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. There is some minor soiling to the rear wrap with a price-sticker on its bottom inner corner. 215 pages. 8 pages of color illustrations and profuse illustrations in black & white. Near fine.
A comprehensive and detailed catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museo Civico di Vicenza, Italy. The text is in Italian. View More...
(Milano): Editoriale Jaca Book, (1987).. (1987).. Fine. - Quarto [14-1/2 inches high by 10-1/2 inches wide], light tan buckram, in a printed glassine dust wrapper with a black-and-white illustration on the front panel. The dust wrapper is lightly chipped with the rear panel slightly rippled. 108 pages plus colophon. Profuse black-and-white & color plates printed on tan stock from drawings by Fulvio Cappelletti. There is a price-sticker on the rear pastedown. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.
First edition.
The text is in Italian. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- Quarto, 11-1/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in yapp-edged black wraps titled in black and light green with gilt and green art deco decorations on the front cover and a gilt vignette of an iron fence on the rear cover. The edges of the covers are slightly creased and the top edge is faded. There is a short tear along the bottom edge of the rear joint extending into the spine. 96 pages, with a title leaf and foreword, with profuse full-page black & white illustrations of various styles of architectural iron fences & gates and installations making use of them. The last 2 p... View More...
- Quarto, 11-3/4 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Red cloth titled in white on the spine, in a pictorial gray dust wrapper. The corners of the covers are lightly bumped and there is some rubbing with a tiny chip to the front edge of the dust jacket's front panel. 255 & [1] pages, with profuse illustrations from Corrado Fanti's photographs reproduced in color and black & white throughout, including many full page. Very good. First edition. The text is in Italian. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
(Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 1997).. 1997).. Fine. - Small quarto [7-1/2 inches square], softcover bound in color pictorial folding wrappers. 90 pages with the text printed in white on silver stock. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Near fine. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Signed in full by Russell Forester on the front fold of the wrappers and numbered "111/500". The text includes an essay "Russell Forester: Art Beyond Architecture" by Michael Zakian and "Filmic Dissolves on Russell Forester" by Alan J. J. Cohen. After serving in the Army Corps of Engineers in t... View More...
- sc - A 32-1/2 inch high by 22-3/8 inch wide (80,4 cm high by 57 cm wide) color poster designed by Werner Nerlich for the third Bauhaus Colloquium. The poster, titled "3. Internationales Bauhaus Kolloquium 5-7 Juli 1983 : Hochschule fur Architektur und Bauwesen Weimar" is illustrated with Herbert Bayer's isometric rendering of the Bauhaus director's office designed by Walter Gropius. The image is framed by color & shading scales along the top and bottom and is reproduced in offset lithograph on glossy paper from what is apparently a photograph by Eberhard Renno. There are heavy creases to the... View More...
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (1970).. (1970).. Good. - Small quarto [approximately 10 inches high by 8 inches wide], softcover bound in decorative wrappers. The binding is lightly bumped & soiled. 36 pages. Full-page & textual illustrations in black & white. The top corner of the 2nd leaf is creased & a few page corners & top edges are lightly bumped. Very good. Catalog for a traveling exhibition which opened at the Museum of Modern Art on March 10, 1970. Hector Guimard [1867-1942] was the leading French architect-designer in the Art Nouveau style. Though best known for the subway entra... View More...
(New York): The Monacelli Press, (1996).. (1996).. Very good. - Small quarto [9 inches high by 7 inches wide], softcover bound in folding pictorial wrappers. The wraps are rubbed. 72 pages. Profuse illustrations in color and black & white, including architectural plans & elevations. There is a small crease & chip to the front edge of 1 leaf. Very good.
This book documents the designing of a house built for a Swiss businessman in the village of Zumikon, near Zurich, to house his family and his art collection. View More...
Frankfurt-am-Main: Verlag von Waldemar Kramer, (1968).. (1968).. Fine. - 4to, brown cloth titled in gilt, in dw (lightly soiled; dw spine darkened with small stains; short tear to top edge of front panel), in brown cloth covered slipcase (lightly rubbed; extremities slightly faded; top corners frayed; light staining to top edge). 215 pp. B&W pictorial endpapers & profuse full-page B&W illustrations from photographs by Anselm Jaenicke.Boxed together with: (Jaenicke, Anselm). Vogt, Gunther. GENIUS LOCI. Nachtwort von Benno Reifenberg. Frankfurt-am-Main: Verlag von Waldemar Kramer, (1966). 4to, g... View More...
- Quarto, 11-1/4 inches high by 9 inches wide. Softcover, bound in color pictorial wraps. There is some minor staining to the rear cover. 98 pages, profusely illustrated throughout. Very good. A special issue devoted to the architect Philip Johnson with an article titled "Form and Procession" by Paul Goldberg about several of Philip Johnson's buildings, illustrated with photographs and floor plans, and an illustrated article by Johnson himself titled "Beyond Monuments". View More...
(Sao Paulo, Brazil): Companhia Editora Nacional/Editora da Universidade de Sao Paulo, (1974).. (1974).. Fine. - Quarto [12-3/4 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], dark green cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine, in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with its top edge lightly creased & chipped. xii, [1] leaf & 138 pages plus colophon. Illustrated with profuse black-and- white plates after drawings by Renee Lefevre. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. Inscribed and signed in full on the half-title by Roberto Cardoso Alves, President of the "Camera Municipal de Sao... View More...
- Octavo, 9-1/2 inches high by 6-5/8 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed peach wraps. The edges of the soiled covers are heavily chipped with several pieces out and a large tear to the rear cover. Portions of the head and tail of the spine have perished. [i]-ii, pages [1]-122, and 1-46, profusely illustrated throughout including many full-page photographs and plans. There is a piece out from the bottom front corner of the first few pages, and tears to the top edge of the last 2 leaves. Fair. Particularly noteworthy is the article on "The Cathedral of St. John the Divine", illustrated with... View More...
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