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Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 504p, over 800 photos (21 in color) and plans. Indexed. Text and captions in Italian, French, English, and German. Without the jacket. A very comprehensive and heavily illustrated survey of theater and concert hall design from antiquity into the 1950s, worldwide.  A great..... More
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New York: American Art Association / Anderson Galleries, 1935. First edition. Soft cover. 45p, no ills. Unpriced. Unused bid sheet laid in. Auction catalogue of 271 lots, held March 6, 1935. Architecture, sculpture, ornament, furniture, textiles, porcelain, other fine arts, and modern French illustrated books. Breck was the curator of..... More
Philadelphia: Philadelphia College of Art, 1978. Armajani, Siah. First edition. Soft cover. 20p, several ills. Text by curator Kardon and several short statements by Armajani. This installation was one of the Projects for PCA. More
San Francisco: San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, 1999. Schwarcz, June. First edition. Soft cover. 96p, ca. 40 large color plates. Text by enamelist/jeweler William Harper. Survey of the artist's work, chiefly vessels of electroformed copper foil and enamel. With short statements by the artist inserted in the chronology..... More
London: Weinreb, 1986. First edition. Soft cover. 160p, several ills. Antiquarian bookseller catalogue of 1038 well-described books and periodicals, of or about the 19th century. Chiefly British and European, some American. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
London: B. Weinreb Architectural Books, 1975. First edition. Sewn soft cover. 319p, many ills. Catalogue of 1,979 books and other sources on furniture, interior design, murals, mosaics, ceilings, exhibitions, ceramics, metalwork, jewelry, textiles, vases, ornament, and some original drawings and watercolors. Chiefly British and European titles of the 18th-20th centuries..... More
London: Weinreb, 1978. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., several ills. Antiquarian bookseller catalogue of 500 well-described items: 459 books, 41 engravings and drawings. Chiefly ancient, Renaissance, and Baroque, also going into the 19th century. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
London: B. Weinreb Architectural Books, 1987. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., several ills. Catalogued by Hugh Pagan. Antiquarian bookseller's catalogue of 296 books and other material on theater design of all kinds. Includes recent secondary references as well as original items from the 17th century on. Can be sent outside..... More
New York: New York Public Library, 1933. First edition. Soft cover. 60p, no ills. Reprinted from the library's June-August 1933 Bulletin. Over 1000 entries, chosen largely for their illustrations. Grouped into Bibliographies, Periodicals, Plant Forms as Motives and Pattern, Plant Forms in the Applied Arts, Plant Forms in the Fine..... More
Rome: Capitolium (Revista di Roma), 1968. First edition. Soft cover. Special issue of the journal Capitolium. Over 250p (some numbered separately), hundreds of photos + ca. 10 folding maps and plans in flat colors. Covers worn, outer pages dogeared, but text block is secure and sturdy. The maps are generally..... More
Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum of Art, 1981. Armajani, Siah. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., many ills., several in color. Exhibition of selected pieces that Armajani built around the US in 1980, plus a new piece, "Office for Four," "which extends his investigation into the capacities and possibilities of a...... More
New York: Dutton, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. 142p, many line ills. on 64 plates. Owner's small bookplate. Jacket is chipped. Introduces the principles of all-over and border geometric patterns. Many good ideas for quilters here! In the publisher's series of wide-ranging "Education of To-Day" books. The front flap advertises An..... More
Saint-Remy-en-l'Eau: Editions d'Art Monelle Hayot, 1994. Cazaux. First edition. Hardcover. 160p, many ills., most in color. Photo is cropped on the sides. Definitive monograph on this inter-war French ceramist and sculptor and his wide variety of work. A beautiful production. More
Cambridge, MA: Charles B. Wood III, n.d. [1980s-90s]. First edition. Soft cover. 97p, many black-and-white ills. Bookseller catalogue of 397 antiquarian books and other printed materials on art conservation and restoration, all described in detail. Chiefly American, British, and French. Can be sent outside the US for less than the..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 116p, over 100 photos and line ills., 1 folding. Jacket is shelf-scuffed. (Yale Publications in the History of Art, 21, ed. by Vincent Scully). Detailed analysis of this previously lost mid-12th-century bas-relief and "its importance for an understanding of the Saint-Denis..... More
New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983. First edition. Soft cover. 123p, many ills., many in color. Exhibition catalogue of 81 items made by New York artists, or for New York clients or consumption--furniture, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, etc. Grouped into the categories Using the Past, Modern Art, Urban Life, Promoting..... More
Omaha, NE: Joslyn Art Museum, 1980. Armajani, Siah. First edition. Soft cover. [8]p, 1 ill. Presents Armajani's Reading Garden #2, then installed on the lawn of the Joslyn Art Museum. One in the museum's I-80 Series. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate... More
Dakar [Senegal]: No stated publisher, 1966. First edition. Burlap-covered limp boards. [14]p + over 100 line drawings, on inconsistently numbered plates. Reproduced typescript and handlettering, printed on rectos. In French. A short survey of the arts and crafts of Chad, issued on the occasion of the Festival des Arts Negres..... More
Houston: Hooks-Epstein Galleries, 1996. Dogancay, Burhan. First edition. Soft cover. [8]p, several photos by Dogancay. Ex-museum-lib: ink name on front cover. Hair-raising photos of iron workers perched atop New York structures, including the Brooklyn Bridge and the Citicorp Building. Dogancay photographed alongside them, as he recounts in his text, "How..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 225p + over 200 plans and photos, many never before published. Jacket back is sunned. Photo is a little cropped. Detailed, insightful comparison of Rio and Brasilia, by a renowned architectural historian who spent much time there. "Both cities are typically..... More
Innsbruck: Wagner'sche Universitat, 1891. First edition. Soft cover. 55p, 3 line ills. In German. On wood construction in antiquity--Assyria, Egypt, Greece--based on ancient texts and other evidence. Passing references to Gottfried Semper. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate. Reference copy... More
Beverly Hills, CA: Gagosian Gallery, 1999. Gehry, Frank. First edition. Unbound card stock. One folded sheet, 1 line ill. by Gehry ("preliminary drawing"). Ex-museum-lib. (ink name on front, ink stamp on back). Announcement for Gehry's "A Study" (gallery installation made of wood and lead). Can be sent outside the US..... More
Chicago: American-Marietta Company, 1960. No stated edition. Comb-bound soft cover (2 links broken off). 16p, many color ills. (1 folding) and several wood chips. Part of the glassine guard page has adhered to part of the sample of varnished mahogany. A.I.A. File No. 25-D-6. Principles of harmonizing the finishes of..... More
Santa Barbara: University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005. Linesch, Joseph H. (architect); Soo Kim (photos). First edition. Soft cover. [8]p, many small color photos by Soo Kim. Presents planner Joseph H. Linesch's "design and landscaping of four oil drilling platforms built between 1965 and 1968 in the..... More
Southborough, MA: Yankee Colour Corporation [printer], 1978. No stated edition. Stapled soft cover. 16p, many color photos. Self-mailing booklet advertising the carnivorous joys of Frank Giuffrida's late lamented Hilltop Steak House, Route 1, Saugus, MA. The photos show the dining rooms, exterior, butcher shop, 1000-car parking lot, and, yes, the..... More
