Dark Harbor: Building House and Home on an Enchanted Island.
New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2003. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 272 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Fine / Fine. More
New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2003. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 272 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Fine / Fine. More
Wellesley, MA: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. 247 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / fine. More
Utica, NY: Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, 2010. Wraps. First Edition. 44 pp. Clean, crisp copy.
Catalog from an exhibition of the same name at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute that traces Philip Johnson's (1906-2005) design of that institution's building in the late 1950s as well as other art museums Johnson designed in the United States. Exceedingly rare for such a recent publication. Fine. More
Washington DC: Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1935. Hardcover. First Edition. v, 246 pp. 4to. Green cloth boards with dark brown embossed titling to cover and spine. Scuffing overall from shelf wear, fraying to head and foot of spine, text block shaken with some pages reinforced. Ex-library with catalog number in pencil on Table of Contents page, "Date Due" slip pasted to rear first free endpaper.
The original title that began to set the design standards for what we now view as "Park Service Architecture." Everything from sign standards to amphitheater design, welcome centers, picnic tables, and rustic chandeliers. Includes hundreds of photographic examples as well as measured drawings. This edition was expanded to a three volume publication in 1938 entitled "Park and..... More
Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. 4to. Minor wear and scuffing to dust jacket, 1" closed tear at head of front panel, now in mylar cover. Previous owner's name and place of purchase written in ink on first free endpaper. Clean within.
Signed by Helen Nearing (1904-1995) on the illustration page preceding the Introduction. The chronicle, in quotes and photographs, of the planning and construction of the back-to-the-land icons Scott and Helen Nearing in Harborside, Maine. Fine / Very Good. More
New York: Whitney Library of Design/Watson-Guptill Publications, 1979. Hardcover. First Edition. 191 pp. 4to. Scuffing, small chips and tears to edges of dust jacket from shelf wear, now in mylar cover. Very clean within. Fine / Good. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, 384 pp. 8vo. Light scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, tiny chips at edges, slight darkening from age, now in mylar cover. Gray cloth boards and clean within.
The title says it all, Neutra's approach to a livable society. Very Good / Very Good. More
Scottsdale, AZ: The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 1967. Wraps. First Edition. 89 pp. Oblong Folio. Light blue paper wraps with blind embossed titliing on front cover, dark blue plastic come binding. Losses to edges of upper right and lower left corner of front cover, lower left corner of rear cover. Contains maps, space diagrams, transportation plans, mechanical services, etc.
Controversial from when Wright first proposed it in 1938, this schamatic represents a second pass at the project that came very close to moving forward in the late 1960s. Finally built in a modified version and opened in 1997, only the convention center was built, the extensive parklands along Olin Park and Turville Point to the southwest were not part of the final project. Very Good..... More
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1984. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. Folio. Dust jacket is clean and crisp, slight sunning to spine, now in mylar cover. Red cloth boards with black embossed titling to spine. Minuscule foxing spots to endpapers only. 266 plates of Wright's renderings for both finished buildings and unfinished projects. Text in English and Japanese.
Volume 9 of the landmark work undertaken by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and the A.D.A. Edita publishing company. The original Monograph encompassed 12 volumes. Fine / Very Good. More
Pfeiffer, Walter. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 254 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Prince, Bart. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1991. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xiii, 100 pp. 4to. Minor wear and scuffing to dust jacket, creasing and slight color loss at head of spine, now in mylar cover. Clean within.
A survey of the work of Bart Prince at the midpoint of his career. Prince is an architect who was deeply influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright and worked an assistant to architect Bruce Goff (1904-1982). Designing in a highly animated, organic style, his works uses the topography of the site, climate, and other inspirations from nature to design structures that are arresting in site and have high energy efficiency despite their often fanciful appearance. Laid in is a brochure from a 2015 exhibition at..... More
Paris: Editions Charles Moreau, 1925. Portfolio. First Edition. Unpag. Elephant Folio. Portfolio includes 8 pp of text with an introduction and list of the 32 plates. Plates and text are laid into publisher’s portfolio, original cloth ties missing. Binding has a water stain to front cover that bled through and has left a stain on the cover and has bled through to the first four pages of the half-title and title page. No damage to plates within, interior text and plates very clean and sharp. All text is in French. Oversize portfolio, may require additional postage.
A beautiful set of collection of early Art Moderne sculpture that is found not only as sculpture, but as bas relief, interior mouldings for buildings, as well as columns..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc., 1947. Spiral Bound. Second Edition. 119 pp. 4to. Heavy brown papers with a rattan pattern, white plastic comb binding that allows book to lay flat, which is important for the interior photographs and drawings. Light chipping and wear, very clean and overall which is not always the case with this book.
Originally published in 1937, the Raymonds were displaced from Japan by World War II, but upon their return after the war resumed their architectural practice in the country. In 1947 they updated and republished this book which highlights both their designs for buildings, furniture, and interiors, as well as traditional Japanese architecture with both photographs and cross section drawings. An important piece by Antonin and Noémi Raymond..... More
Washington DC: U.S. General Services Administration, 2003. Wraps. First Edition. Second Printing, 2005. Clean, crisp copy.
One often forgets that the Federal Government commissioned, built, and was a proponent of much of the Modern Architecture built in the US and abroad during the time period covered in this volume. A fascinating survey of a crucial time when architectural theory and practical applications came together. Fine. More
New York: Princeton University Press, 1999. Wraps. First Edition. xi, 148 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with small chip at the head of the spine on rear panel. Fine. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 220 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
A fabulous survey of the work of David Adler (1882-1949), based in Chicago but architect of significant grand homes throughout the United States. Attention is also paid to the interiors designed by his siser, Frances Elkins (1888-1953), a notable designer in her own right. Fine / Fine. More
Yosemite, CA: Flying Spur Press, 1984. Wraps. Second Edition. 80 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. Fine. More
Stoller, Ezra. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing, 1999. 216 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
A stunning book of modern architecture filled with iconic images by the great architectural photographer Ezra Stoller. Fine / fine. More
Washington DC: White House Historical Association/National Geographic Society, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. 1224 pp. (601 pp., 622 pp.). Green cloth covered boads with gold embossed image of the White House front doors on each volume. No dust jacket as issued. Slipcase in Very Good condition with light stain across image of White House portico. Fine. More
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 176 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Philadelphia, PA: The Society of Architectural Historians, 1991. Wraps. First Edition. 4to. Dark rust paper covers with very light scuffing.
Siry's important article on an early project by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is explored on pp. 235-265. The Abraham Lincoln Center was started by Wright, but finished by Dwight Heald Perkins after Wright's falling out with his uncle and patron, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, over design details. Fine. More
Vertikoff, Alexander (Photographer). San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 240 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with slight sunning to front panel edges of dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Fine / Very Good. More
Smither, James G. Sri Lanka: Academy of Sri Lankan Culture, 1992. Limited Edition. Facsimile Edition. 64 pp. 67 Plates. Elephant Folio. Very minor scuffing to covers, clean within. Plates consist of measured drawings, sketches, and photographs. Many of the plates are folding. Slipcase in Fine condition. Oversize book, will require additional shipping costs.
Documentation by James Smither (1833-1901) who served as Ceylon's (Sri Lanka) first "Architect to the Government of Ceylon" from 1865 to 1883. Smither's measured drawings and descriptions some of the sacred structures of Abhayagiri Vih ra which was an important monastery site for Mahayana, Theravada, and Vajrayana Buddhism and remains one of the most sacred sites in Sri Lanka for Buddhist pilgrimage. Originally published in 1894, this facsimile edition was printed in..... More
Rochester, NY: International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, 1981. Wraps. First Edition. 24 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy.
Beautful exhibition catalog that presents high quality reproductions of Heidrich-Blessings iconic work in architectural photopgraphy. Buildings by Wright, Saarinen, Holabird & Root, A. Khan, and others. Fine. More
Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art/University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. vii, 218 pp. Oblong Folio. Light wear to dust jacket, creasing to upper right corner of front panel, sunning to spine and left side of rear panel, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within. Fine / very good. More