The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage.
Emeryville, CA: Greenery Press, 2001. Wraps. First Edition. 163 pp. 4to. Very light scuffing to covers, clean within. Very Good. More
Emeryville, CA: Greenery Press, 2001. Wraps. First Edition. 163 pp. 4to. Very light scuffing to covers, clean within. Very Good. More
Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1969. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition of the English Translation. Scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, the number "5" written in blue ink at base of front dust jacket flap, jacket now in mylar cover. Black cloth boards with silver embossed titling to spine, small bump at base of front board. Clean within.
An English translation of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's (1895-1946) treatise on the three mediums of the title originally published as a Bauhaus of 1925-27. In republishing the designers were attentive to the imporatance of design and typography to the original German production in getting Moholy-Nagy's ideas across and replicated as best they could in this production. An important book by an important member of the Bauhaus..... More
Tokyo, Japan: Kenchiku Planning Center Co., Ltd., 1970. Hardcover. First Edition. 210 pp. Folio. Slight wear and scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Red cloth boards with black embossed title in English on cover board, black embossed titling in English and Japanese on spine. Interior text in Japanese and English. The rare orange cardboard slipcase with titling in English and Japanese is in Very Good condition with light scuffing from shelf wear. An essay by Joe Price appears at rear. Laid in is an original 4"x6" color photograph of the Ford House taken in 1995 by Sidney Robinson, the owner. Sidney Robinson is an architect and writer.
An important early work on the breadth of Bruce Goff's (1904-1982) career. Goff started early in..... More
New York: The Science Press, 1914. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. viii, 624 pp. 8vo. Dark burgundy three-quarter leather bindings with peddled cloth insets to front and rear boards. Considerable scuffing and wear overall. Gold embossed tilting to spine. Interior clean.
Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945) was an American geneticist and embryologist. This article describes Morgan's theories about the pivotal roles of genese and chromosomes in the process of evolution, which he describes in more detail in his famous 1915 boopk, "The Mechanism of Mendelian Inheritance." Morgan won the Nobel Prize for Physiology of Medicine in 1933. Good. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xxvi, 545 pp. 8vo. Red cloth boards with gold embossed titling, front endpapers are decorated with a map of Rhode Island. Clean within. Folding map inserted into tipped in envelope at rear cover is in Fine condition.
An early volume in the WPA supported American Guide Series. Very Good. More
New York: Museum of American Folk Art, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 239 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with price clipped dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed by the then-director of the Museum of American Folk Art, Gerard C. Wertkin to the previous owner. Fine / Fine. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xviii, 613 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Watkins, Carleton. Los Angeles, CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. 82 pp. 4to. Gift inscription to previous owner on the first free endpaper. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued.
49 plates detail the work of Carleton Watkins (1829-1916), the first photographer of Yosemite from the 1860s-1880s whose work helped pave the way for the park we enjoy today. Fine. More
New York: Martin and Johnson, [c. 1850]. Three Quarter Leather. 516, 604 pp. 4to. 230 Engravings. Three quarter brown leather binding with brown cloth inset into front panels, gold embossed titling to spine. Light wear overall to covers and spine. Marbled endpapers with very light foxing to prelims. Many of the tissue guards facing plates have darkened but it has not impacted the plates themselves.
A thorough and heavily illustrated dictionary that must have been a valuable reference tool for architects and builders in the 19th century. Very Good. More
Manikakis, Vasilis. Greece: Mytilene, Ministry of the Aegean, 2000. First Edition. 217 pp. Folio. Translucent dust jacket the protects the photographs printed on the cover has slight wear and scuffing, small tears and chips. Slight sunning to spine of cover, otherwise clean and sharp within and out.
A scarce monograph of Vasilis Manikakis of Ai Stratis, the small island where he grew up in the southeastern Aegean. Published in an edition of 1,000 copies, OCLC lists in the holdings of one library. More
Galway, Ireland: National University of Ireland, 1999. Wraps. First Edition. xii, 333 pp. 4to. Slight scuffing to covers, clean within. Very Good. More
Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., 1995. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. xiii, 442 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with the dust jacket in a mylar cover. Light sunning to spine of dust jacket, winner of the Julia Child Cookbook Award with sticker on front cover.
Lengthy inscription by the author on title page. Fine / Fine. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. Very Good. First Edition. xv, 131 pp. 8vo. Dark brown dust jacket with light scuffing overall, small losses at corners, head and base of spine, 2-1/2" closed tear at upper left corner of front panel, now in mylar cover. Green cloth covered boards with gold embossed titling to spine, cloth and embossing as sharp as the day it was printed. Interior very clean with previous owner's name in ink on half-title page.
Rare in a dust jacket that has survived in any condition, this volume was the first in the later publication, "Forty Years of Landscape Architecture." Very Good. More
Lautner, John. New York: Rizzoli, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 234 pp. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fascinating design of the book in that the front cover board has a very lightly raised embossed sketch by Lautner of one of his most iconic housese, the Chemoshphere. Thin line dimple across the front board from a binding anomaly, same to rear. Does not impact the book in any way.
What has become a highly collectible book on the life and work of the legendary architect, John Lautner (1911-1994) who was known for his mid-century architecture that tested the boundaries of curves and reinforced concrete. Lautner was one of the few architects who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright that created their own..... More
Montreal, Canada: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1982. First Edition. 282 pp. Oblong Folio. Lights scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1963. Hardcover. First Edition. 1434, LV pp. 4to. Green library binding, ex-library with stamp of "Technical Library, U.S. Naval Propellant Plant, Indian Head, Maryland" on first free endpaper, title page, and final free endpaper. No other library markings present Clean within.
An early paper by James Peebles (b. 1935) who was named a Nobel Laureate in Physics in 2019 for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.
Volume also contains J. Tuzo William's article, "Did the Atlantic Close and then Re-Open?” (pp. 676-681) where Wilson first proposes the theory of "Continental Drift." Very Good. More
n.d. Wraps. As. 23 pp. 8vo. Muted yellow wraps with illustration of San Jose de Tumacacori on cover. Minor scuffing from shelf wear. Clean within and illustrated with numerous black & white photographs.
President Theodore Roosevelt designated Mission of San Jose de Tumacácori a National Monument in 1908, in 1990 it became part of the newly established Tumacácori National Historical Park. Likely dates to the 1930s, Frank Pinkley died in 1940. Very Good. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1963. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Printing, 1982. xvii, 421 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has tiny closed tears at head of spine, very clean and sharp, now in mylar cover. Interior clean and crisp.
Volume I of Forrest Pogue's magisterial 4-volume biography of George C. Marshall. Fine / Very Good. More
Portland, ME: Portland Museum of Art, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
New York: Merrimack Publishing, nd. Wraps. As. Miniature books that measure 2"x1-1/2" with one staple at spine and in clear lucite box with lid. 44 pp. each. Fully illustrated in color. Wonderful set. Fine. More
New York/London: R. R. Bowker Company, 1968. Hardcover. First Edition. xiii, 227 pp. 8vo. Ex-library with white call number on the red cloth spine. A few stamps within, remnants of the checkout card slot at rear. Very Good. More
Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, 1958. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 249 pp. 8vo. Originial glassine dust jacket has many chips and tears but still intact. Marble paper boards, red cloth spine with gold titling has minor sunning at head and foot of spine where missing portion of dust jacked allowed the lightening, clean within. Brown paper covered slipcase has slight chipping at edges, wear, but in Very Good condtion.
One of the special edition of 975 copeis produced for private distribution to friends of the publisher. Very Good / Good. More
Collier, Michael. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1980. Hardcover. First Edition. xii, 64 pp. Oblong 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Co., 1977. Hardcover. First Edition. First Kraus Edition. xxxii, 490, xx, 408, xxxii, 454 pp. Clean, tight reprint edition in red cloth boards. Folding plates as frontispiece in each volume.
An affordable edition of an extremely rare set. Fine. More
Syracuse, NY: Privately Published, 1917. Hardcover. First Edition. xiv, 437 pp. 8vo. Red cloth boards with blind and embossed border to front and rear boards, gold embossed titling to spine; minor wear to covers. Previous owner's signature and ownership stamp within, ex-library stamp at base of copyright page. A very clean copy with a small rough spot at head of half-title page where that page and first free endpaper and stuck together at some point.
Fascinating work on the various stone and clay building materials, how they are quarried, made, shaped, and installed. Heavily illustrated with 303 copper halftones and 10 zinc etchings. An important reference item for anyone interested in restoration or architectural history. Signed by Richardson, "With compliments of/the Author" Very Good... More