Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1964. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 64 pp. Folio. Light soiling and wear to cover boards. Previous owner's name and date of acquisition on first free endpaper, very clean within.
Important early work that turned a light on the growing urban landscape, the management of roads and access points focused primarily on metropolitan Boston, Massachusetts. Very Good. More
Younker, Richard. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1981. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 198 pp. Dust jacket clean with bumps to top corners, now in mylar cover. Black cloth boards with bump to top corners of covers, clean and crisp within. [Bartholomew A4].
Signed by Bowden on the first free endpaper. Very Good / Very Good. More
Boston, MA: Lamson, Wolffe and Company, 1898. Hardcover. First Edition. 23 pp. 57 Plates. Oblong 8vo. Crisp green cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover. Interior very clean with two ownership stamps on front pastedown and copyright page of Marvin I. Adleman (1933-2017), longtime professor of landscape architecture at Cornell University. Three folding maps at rear tipped in: Stony Brook Reservation, Middlesex Fells, and Blue Hills. Stony Brook Reservation has a small tear at crease and in Very Good condition; two remaining maps are Fine.
A fascinating publication by the Olmsted Firm that includes a short report by Eliot but is illustrated by 51 photographic plates that illustrate current conditions at the time of the report. Following the photograhs are six drawings, four of..... More
Washington DC: The Commission of Fine Arts, 1978. Wraps. First Edition. xix, 571 pp. 4to. Considerable scuffing to covers from shelf wear, old price stamp on rear cover. Clean within.
A fascinating survey of the Washington, DC, 16th Street corridor and filled with historic and contemporary photos of interiors, exteriors, and birds-eye views of Washington based around the histories of buidlings past and present. Good. More
Bronxville, NY: Bronxville Centennial Celebration, Inc., 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 351 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1913. Wraps. First Edition. v, 54 pp. Folio. Brown heavy paper wraps with title in dark brown. "Olmstead" [sic} written in ink on upper left corner of front cover, slight soiling, small paint spot at lower right corner. Olmsted Office stamp from 1964 at lower right corner of first free endpaper, interior very clean.
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr's (Senior died in 1903) recommendations for updating civic infrastructure at the outset of the 20th century for Newport, Rhode Island. The Olmsted Family and their landscape planning firm had a long history with Newport, even then, so it is likely that many of these recommendations were enacted. Very Good. More