Softcover. Philadelphia, Henry Disston & Sons, 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible leather covers very worn and chipped, 206 pages, Interior is clean and firm with one loose page, and page 60 looks like a photo of a hammer was cut out, otherwise clean, bright pages. Loaded with b&w photos and illustrations of vintage tools from 1911. This is the original printing.
Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli International, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 228 pages, illustrations in color and b/w. Photography by Roberto Schezen. This was the first book to present all of Loos's 180 works and an essay on this architect's relation to the society of his time. Embossed stamp to prelim page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston MA, Joseph Breck & Sons, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages illustrated throughout with detailed b&w engravings. A trade catalog featuring everything from coal forks and cider mills to hay rakes and manure spreaders. Textured maroon cloth with gilt lettering. The book itself is warped but the pages are crisp and clean. An excellent visual resource.
Hardcover. Berlin, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Aitor Ortiz's photographs of buildings such as Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Norman Foster's viaduct in Millau use the most elementary sculptural qualities of their subject matter to create photographic abstractions. This volume is the first overview of the Spanish photographer's work to date.
Softcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages, b&w illustrations. Albert Kahn's contribution to North American industrial architecture is best characterized by a simplicity of expression in his designs of flexible spaces for manufacturing and production. Working in Detroit, Kahn began a long and fruitful collaboration with the automobile mogul Henry Ford, that was based on a shared vision of modernism and industry. Kahn rapidly established himself as an architect capable of responding to the new demands of mass production by employing the patented system of reinforced concrete developed by his brother, an engineer. Guided by functionalist principles and a sense of manufacturing organizations, Kahn anticipated assembly line operations and developed innovative typological characteristics for the modern factory. His projects included Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant, Dearborn, Michigan; Burroughs Adding Machine Company, Detroit, Michigan; Tractor Plant, Stalingrad, Russia; General Motors Building, Chicago World's Fair; and Kellogg Company, Battle Creek, Michigan. Through incisive text, Albert Kahn - part of a growing series with Adalberto Libera and Adolf Loos - brings to light the novelty of Kahn's designs and his advancement of the machine aesthetic. Over ninety black-and-white photographs and drawings illustrate the extensive number of projects realized by "the architect of Ford."
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 300 pages. This book accompanies a major traveling exhibition that showcases works by some of the most visionary designers and architects, from chairs and tables to jewelry and entire buildings.
Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. For most of his life as a photographer, David Plowden has admired and photographed barns. In recent years, as their disappearance accelerated, he made it his mission to document these beautiful structures, before they too are lost. The result is this beautiful book, his hymn to the American barn. 160 pages, 140 duotone photographs.
Hardcover. Woodstock, New York, The Overlook Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Encyclopedic volume featuring the historical evolution of American homes. Hardcover, 320 pages. Over 1000 black/white illustrations, including architectural plans for each variety of home discussed. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, only flaw on the dust jacket is a small blue ink stain on the front.
Hardcover. New York , McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, large folio, 159 pages, index, 60 beautiful tipped-in color plates of ancient Mexican sites after photographs by Irmgard Groth. Original gilt-lettered burgundy cloth in original color pictorial dust jacket that has a small chip to top of spine. The author of this book, Ignacio Bernal (1910 - 1992), was an eminent Mexican anthropologist and archaeologist. Bernal excavated much of Monte Alban, originally starting as a student of Alfonso Caso, and later led major archeological projects at Teotihuacan. In 1965 he excavated Dainzu. He was the Director of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology 1962-68 (at the time of this publication) and again 1970-77. In 1965, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bernal was awarded the Premio Nacional in 1969. He was a founding member of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 1983. This book includes 60 hand-mounted colour plates and 1 map (all framable); each chosen by Bernal photographed by Mrs. Irmgard Groth, a gifted photographer whose special field was Mexican archaeology. In these plates we see the extraordinary sculpture of the Omecs; the Pyramid of the Moon of Teotihuacan; the Maya temples of Palenque; the Pyramid of the Niches of Tajin on the Gulf Coast; the temples at the great city of Chichen Itza; the gold ornaments of the Mixtecs at Monte Alban; the temple carved by the Aztecs out of the Cliffside at Malinalco; and many other buildings and artifacts, the surviving testimonials - sometimes exquisite, sometimes aw-inspiring - to the greatness of a long-vanished culture.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Rizzoli International Publications, 1st, 2000, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 197 pages, color photographs throughout. Very clean and tight copy. This is the first book to put together all of the extraordinary houses designed by Antoine Predock. Each of the twelve remarkable private houses featured here--ten from Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, and two from California--harmoniously blend with their landscape in ways for which Predock is now so renowned. Characterized by environmentally conscious design, the houses display both exquisite refinement and an ingenious level of invention.
Hardcover. Salem, MA, Essex Institute, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Reference guide to historical architecture in Salem, Massachusetts, with reviews of over 350 buildings. 311 pages, fully illustrated with black/white photographs and maps. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, no internal marks; dust jacket has wear at the corners and on the ends of the spine, two rips along the top edge.
Softcover. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Historical and biographical volume on the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. 544 pages. Includes drawings, notes, and writings by Frank Lloyd Wright. Near fine condition; book is still in shrinkwrap that has some tears near the spine and on some corners.
Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages. Oversized. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Some light wear on dust jacket corners. Color photographs throughout. A bright, clean copy. A foreword by Johnson himself, an essay by his biographer Hilary Lewis, and nearly 400 vivid color and b/w photos accompanied by detailed building descriptions presented in chronological order.
NY, Hearst Books International, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white and color photos and illustrations. 191 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 68 pages, b&w illustrations. Introduction by Edmund Pillsbury. INSCRIBED BY BROWN on front fly leaf. Light rubbing to front edge of embossed dust jacket. Published on the occasion of the opening of the building.
Softcover. Munich, Prestel, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages. Softcover. Features full color and black & white illustrations. Features the German design groups best work 1965-1997. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor bump to bottom right corner.
Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 110 pages, in a bright dust jacket. Photographer Stanley Greenberg explores the anatomy and engineering of some of our most unusual new buildings, helping us to understand our own fascination with what makes buildings stand up, and what makes them fall down. An historical and critical essay by Joseph Rosa and an afterword by the author.The 80 captivating and thought-provoking images collected here focus on some of the most high-profile design projects of the past decade.
Hardcover. New York, H.N. Abrams, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 606 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white photographs throughout.
Hardcover. New York , Quantuck Lane, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, color photographs. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The North Fork is the roughly sixty-mile-long spit of New York's Long Island that runs from Riverhead to Orient Point. With the fairly well protected Long Island Sound on the North and Peconic Bay on the South, it was a logical place for some of the earliest English immigrants to settle and build barns. It is still home to more working farms than any other part of the island. And from the timber-frame barns of the British farmers of the seventeenth century to the pole barns of the twentieth, the variety is stunning. In a survey sponsored by the Old House Society in Cutchogue, Mary Ann Spencer spent the last few years making a comprehensive inventory and photographing more than six hundred barns on the North Fork. Two hundred of them are still in use, although their fate is by no means certain. Here in their glory (and sometimes less than that) are the most interesting barns,which reveal, among other things, their functional development, their often haphazard fenestration, their soft patina of age, and their fit in the landscape. Spencer's complete survey forms a second part of this book, which provokes feelings of nostalgia and raises our fears for the future of these wonderful structures. More than 150 color photographs.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into their own, when fortunes were made and lost importing luxury goods from China. It was a secretive, glamorous, often brutal business--one where teas and silks and porcelain were purchased with profits from the opium trade. But the journey by sea to New York from Canton could take six agonizing months, and so the most pressing technological challenge of the day became ensuring one's goods arrived first to market, so they might fetch the highest price. "With the verse of a natural dramatist" (The Christian Science Monitor), Steven Ujifusa tells the story of a handful of cutthroat competitors who raced to build the fastest, finest, most profitable clipper ships to carry their precious cargo to American shores. They were visionary, eccentric shipbuilders, debonair captains, and socially ambitious merchants with names like Forbes and Delano--men whose business interests took them from the cloistered confines of China's expatriate communities to the sin city decadence of Gold Rush-era San Francisco, and from the teeming hubbub of East Boston's shipyards and to the lavish sitting rooms of New York's Hudson Valley estates. Clean, like new copy.
Hardcover. Milwaukee WI, Bruce Publishing, reprint, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong brown cloth with black lettering and design, 62 pages illustrated with b&w illustrations and photos. Detailed instructions on building birdhouses. Foxing to endpapers otherwise a clean copy.
Softcover. Boston, E.G. Bradshaw Company, 1905, Book: Fair, Softcover, 96 pages stapled. Minus wrappers, if it ever had any. A fascinating sales booklet, listing farms for sale n the New England area. Detailed descriptions, prices. Some with photos. Exterior pages worn, soiled chipped.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 11th ed., 1946, Hardcover, black cloth in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Small sticker on dj spine. 169 pages, b&w illustrations, Practical reference data on materials, design, and construction methods employed in brick construction; for contractors, builders, architects, engineers, and students...".
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Blue cloth, silver titles. Pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to cover, else like new.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 220 pages. This book provides a fascinating history of the planning, design, and construction of the six-building Getty Center in Los Angeles, one of the great cultural complexes to be built in our time. Writing with wit and passion, Richard Meier takes us behind the scenes of the thirteen-year-long, one-billion-dollar project.
Hardcover. Salt Lake City, Gibbs Smith, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 229 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. In "Building with Nature: Inspiration for the Arts & Crafts Home" Freudenheim weaves together the lives and philosophies of William Morris, John Ruskin, Frederick Law Olmsted, John Muir, Greene & Greene, Irving Gill, Bernard Maybeck, and others with the dramatic economic, social, design and cultural changes that took place in America between 1876 and 1916. Chronicling both intellectual theory and architectural history, this ground-breaking book will appeal to general readers as well as to those enthusiastic about the Arts and Crafts Movement, its architecture and furniture. Freudenheim demonstrates how the "simple life" manifested in the rustic architecture found in Yosemite, English cottages, Japanese barns, and Swiss chalets, became the basis for the design of the American Arts and Crafts home advocated by these pioneering thinkers. Their devotion to simplicity for both the interior and exterior design of these houses also helps to explain why they embraced plain, sturdy Mission Style furniture. Freudenheim points out how numerous individuals, both American and British, helped spread these ideas across America.
Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 6th pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. Softcover. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean tight copy.
Hardcover. Milwaukee, Kalmbach Publishing, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket, bound in black cloth with gold gilt lettering on spine. Text block edges stained red. Facsimile reprint of 1940 edition. Very good condition, 1352 pages. Incomparable reference work on industrial and passenger railroad cars just before World War II. The extensive sections on Pullman and sleeping cars, private cars, motor trains, lighting, provide excellent details on the railroads of the period. Hundreds of detailed photos and dimensioned construction drawings. All types of rolling stock is covered: Box, Hopper, Gondola, Reefer, Stock, Flat, Passenger-Pullman, etc. Details of braking systems, draft gear, trucks, coupler styles and more. Distributorstamp on front fly leaf otherwise tight and clean.
Hardcover. NY, Simmons-Boardman, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 1308 pages. Definitions and typical illustrations of railroad and industrial cars, their parts and equipment. Profusly illustrated with b&w photos, detailed measured drawings. Name on iside front cover otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. Nineteen essays, by a diverse group of historians and others who experience and study Gilbert's buildings in their professional lives, detail the intricate relationship between Gilbert's work and the long-standing tradition of public architecture in America.This volume examines Gilbert's work in five unique categories: the building of a national practice, an evaluation of his Minnesota State Capitol as "a defining moment" in American civic architecture, his New York career, his response to civic ideals in his plans for towns and universities, and his work in the public domain. Illustrations, some in color.
Hardcover. London, The Great Western Railway, 1st, 1926, Hardcover, maroon boards with black cloth spine, 230 pages. The result of two interesting journeys, devoted to castle-seeking, one in 1924, covering Wales and the English counties along the Welsh border; and the other in 1925 devoted to Somerset, Devon and Cornwall ".The text is accompanied by 105 illustrations, 77 drawings, 1 Plate, 2 colored Plates, and 2 Maps, a color map folded into rear pocket inside cover. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 9th pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY MACAULAY on the half title page. Black & white illustrations by Macaulay. Lavishly illustrated Caldecott Honor book about the construction of an imaginary French Gothic cathedral. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and sun-fade to spine. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Clean, tight copy. Briefly traces the career of this contemporary American architect and shows examples of his houses, apartment buildings, libraries, museums, schools, hotels, churches, and conference centers.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, leather label on spine with gilt lettering. Number 950 of 1030 copies printed. Intoduction by Stoney and 61 b&w photographs of old Charleston by Wootten. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Munich, Prestel/Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 480 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Published in association with the Art Institute of Chicago and in conjunction with an exhibition presented there in the summer of 1988, as well as in Paris and Frankfurt-am-Main in 1987-88. Contributors to the text include Robert Bruegmann, Sally Chappell, Meredith L. Clausen, Joan E. Draper and others.
Softcover. Mystic CT, Mystic Seaport Museum, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 195 pages. detailed plans of 16 designs selected by the author which include all the information the "independent" boat builder needs for laying out and building each of these; profusely illustrated with highly detailed line drawings; b & w photos and tables. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Helburn, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale green cloth stamped in dark green, 135 plates. B&w photos of homes including exterior and interior views, detailed drawings in rear section. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Architectural Book Pub. Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 291 pages. Measured drawings by William Allen Dunn, Many b&w photos, ex-lib but very clean, tight. stamp on foredge, small envelope on back end paper
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press,, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 235 pages. Includes bibliographical references, index, notes, and numerous black and white and color illustrations and maps. Bright dust jacket. light foxing to text block fore-edge.
Hardcover. London, Conran/Octopus, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 220 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. Clean, tight copy. Vast, obsolete buildings are now taking on new life as people seek out living space. This work presents an international collection of conversions, including those of architects and designers such as Andree Putman and John Pawson. Through the designs and accompanying text, the reader witnesses how empty shells are transformed into unconventional homes.
Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, More than a century ago, when Abbot Kinney built his Venice-of-America with its network of canals and fanciful buildings, cultural aspirations were high. Over the years, this aura of fantasy and imaginative possibility endured as integral to the zeitgeist of the place. Today, this spirit of innovation and creativity is richly expressed in the vintage bungalows and cottages that have been embraced and brought back to life by homeowners more in love with place than size. Stalwart survivors of the ebb and flow of the area's fortunes over a century, these small homes channel the creative spirit of the place and provide a welcome counterpoint to oversize houses. Color, landscape, treasured collections, personal narrative, contemporary overlays and additions, art and craft, and inventive design--all combine in various ways to produce domestic environments with unique and deeply personal points of view.
Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 192 pages illustrated in color. A complete guide to using wood in the home offers practical information and hard knowledge about types of wood and their uses, as well as inspiration on the uses for wood, complete with a buying guide and 250 color photos.
Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 580 pages profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Italian.
Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: N, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 792 pages. This volume covers the second half of the 1970s, an era marked by the oil crisis and the related global economic crisis. For the first time, architecture and design dealt with alternative resources, ecological building methods, and recyclable materials. Nevertheless synthetics remained present in many fields, especially in interior design. Examples of projects featured are the postmodern and lightflooded buildings by Richard Meier, the modernistic buildings by Foster Associates, the Centre Georges Pompidou by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, and the buildings of the Japanese architects Arata Isozaki and Kisho Kurakawa. The industrial design of modern transport systems, office machines, and electrical appliances is also highlighted.
Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 580 pages. The International style of the late 1920's and 1930's is the focal point of this volume. Along with groundbreaking buildings, interior decoration, and furniture by international architects and designers such as Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Robert Mallett-Stevens, Alvar Alto, and Richard Neutra, is above all the work of the Italian avant-garde, including names like Giuseppe Terragne, Carlo Mollino, Gio Ponti, Melchiorre Bega, Franco Albini or Studio BBPR, that provides precise insight into the formative decade of Modernism. Text in English and Italian. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Taschen's Domus collection is a major publishing achievement and a must-have item for all design and architecture teaching institutions, practicing architects, designers, collectors, students, and anyone who loves design. /// The first half of the 1990s represented a generational change in architecture and design.//// This title covers the years 1990-1994 - the next generation. The first half of the 1990s, this volume's focus, marked a shifting of the generations in architecture and design. "domus" - up to date as always - documented the work of this new generation with elaborate articles and reports. The architects Tadao Ando, Jean Nouvel, David Chipperfield, Philippe Starck, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman, Jacques Herzog, and Pierre de Meuron made their debuts in domus during this period. In addition, established architectural greats like Frank O. Gehry, Mario Bellini, Richard Meier, Renzo Piano, Norman Foster, Santiago Calatrava, and Zaha Hadid were also featured. In product design, Marc Newson, Rodney Kinsman, Jasper Morrison as well as the brothers Fernando and Humberto Campana appeared in the spotlight.
Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 580 pages. 1950-1954: Architecture of the Avant-Garde. This volume covers the first half of the 1950s, a time characterized by great optimism. The consequences of World War II had largely been overcome, the most urgent needs of the population were satisfied, and economic prospects looked bright. Architecture and design looked for new forms of expression, for new materials and their applications - and the possibilities seemed limitless. Volume III shows contemporary trends of the time through detailed reports on the ninth Triennial in Milan and about designers like Tapio Wirkkala, Finn Juhl, Carlo de Carli, Carlo Mollino, Piero Fornasetti, Marco Zanuso, Harry Bertoia and George Nelson. Via features on Le Corbusier's famous Unite d'Habitation in Marseille, the groundbreaking Case Study Houses by Charles and Ray Eames, the efforts of Richard Neutra in California, the work of Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil, and the futuristic Olivetti Showroom by Studio BBPR in New York. In publisher's shrink wrap.