New York: Norton, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 311p, many photos, plans, elevations, and other line ills. (many previously unpublished). "By tracing the powerful flux of ideas at Harvard's Graduate School of Design in the 1930s and 1940s, Anthony Alofsin reveals a radically novel picture of how American modernism emerged, struggled..... More
Kyoto: Hoshino Publishing, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 332p, ca. 300 black-and-white photos + 2 color plates of decorative patterns. Slightly shaken, first gathering detached, guardsheets over color plates torn, pencil scribbling on endpapers and in some margins, ink stamp of former owner. Covers rubbed. No jacket, if issued. Photographic survey..... More
![Item #30484 Northampton Street, Easton, Pa. [windowed souvenir mail card]. Anonymous Photographer](/pictures/thumb/30484.jpg?v=1633973598)
New York: Rotograph Co., 1905. No stated edition. Postcard. Souvenir mail card featuring a windowed set of smaller views. Here the metal clasp holds an accordion-folded strip with 12 photos of sites in and around Easton--The Circle, Delaware River Bridge, Court House, Library, and Lafayette College (several). The main scene..... More
New York: Viking Penguin, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 216p, many ills. + 8 color pls. Pioneering survey of prominent women artists and designers in many fields, "ranging over the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, the Glasgow School of Art, the Russian Constructivists, the Bauhaus, the Wiener Werkstatte, the great..... More
Manchester, UK: Manchester City Art Gallery, 1975. Wood, Edgar; Sellers, James Henry. First edition. Soft cover. 96p, ca. 30 photos and line ills. Covers rather soiled from handling; internally nice and clean. From the library of architect James Stirling, with his bookplate. Exhibition catalogue of the buildings and furnishings by..... More
Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, 2004. First edition. Soft cover. 272p, over 1000 color photos. The landscape designer-authors assembled this book from the more than 1,000 gardens they visited in 21 countries. They discuss how to choose, site, and maintain arbors, birdhouses, beehives, bollards, boot scrapers, bridges, drains, fences, fountains..... More
New York: Reinhold, 1956. Second printing (1st pub. 1955). Hardcover. 200p, many photos (6 in color), line ills., and 2 pages of mounted chips of "functional colors" for factories, offices, schools, and hospitals, and "decorative colors" for stores, hotels, restaurants, and homes. Jacket soiled, foxed, torn (edge tears not shown..... More
New York: Cooper Union, 1928-1951. Mostly first editions. Hardcover (buckram, spine gilt-stamped). Variously paged and illustrated (chiefly text). From the library of E. Maurice Bloch, with his bookplate. Typed contents page glued in. The museum is now the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Contents: "Proposed Plan of the Cooper Union Museum..... 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
New York: Princeton Architectural Press for New York Chapter/American Institute of Architects, 1987. Rodchenko, Alexander. First edition. Soft cover. [32]p, many black-and-and white ills. Exhibition catalogue. Texts by Bowlt, Alexander Lavrentjev, and Vieri Quilici on Rodchenko's photographs and graphic design, architectural language, and constructivist theory. Can be sent outside the..... More
![Item #31146 Property from the Estate of John Rewald [Catalogue 7934]. Christie's](/pictures/thumb/31146.jpg?v=1664882767)
New York: Christie's, 1994. First edition. Soft cover. 100p, many ills., some in color. Lots 401-570, following a morning art sale (not Rewald's). Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Modern drawings by Cezanne, Valadon, Giacometti, Morandi, Brauner, Balthus, Hockney (the catalogue cover), and many more; a few prints and paintings; African objects; fine..... More
Sausalito, CA: Windgate Press, 1985. Moulin, Gabriel. First edition. Hardcover. 208p, 171 large photos. Cover edges sunned, outer pages slightly foxed; bottom fore-edges stained. Moulin (1872-1945) was a prominent society and architectural photographer, who documented the lavish private estates and gardens of wealthy San Francisco Bay Area families--first with glass-plate..... More
Philadelphia: Moore College of Art, 1979. Duckworth, Zeisler. First edition. Stapled soft cover. Two texts bound dos-a-dos, each 36p; over 50 ills. total, 2 in color. Joint exhibition catalogue: 20 ceramic sculptures by Duckworth and 21 fiber works by Zeisler. Foreword by Drutt; texts by McTwigan. With checklists of exhibited..... More
Innsbruck: Wagner'sche Universitat, 1891. First edition. Paperbound. 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
Santa Barbara: University of California Santa Barbara Art Galleries, 1969. First edition [1 of 600 copies]. Paperbound (printed foil). 108p, 113 photos and line ills. One of 600 copies; designed by David Gebhard. (Two later editions were issued.) Covers scuffed, spine faded; internally very good. The photo is too pale. ..... More
![Item #30277 The Making of the South Kensington Museum [in Journal of the History of Collections];...](/pictures/thumb/30277.jpg?v=1633973542)
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. First edition. Soft cover. Vol. 14, no. 1. 176p, many photos. Slight shelf wear. Articles on the founding and first decades of the Victoria and Albert Museum by Clive Wainwright, Anthony Burton, Martin Levy, Paul Tucker, and others. The Government Schools of Design and the..... More
Zeeland, MI: Herman Miller, 1991. No stated edition. Soft cover, spiral bound. [24]p (several folding), many light-hearted watercolor ills. Several blank pages for notes at the end. Ca. 9 x 11 inches. Sales brochure promoting the Miller line of office furniture and how it helps diverse users to be "comfortable..... More
Chicago: Chicago University of Commerce, 1913. No stated edition. Hardcover. 293p, many photos and line ills. Some offsetting from the plates. No jacket (as issued?). Textbook, with test questions at the end. Chapters by Thomas A. Bird, Homer J. Buckley, Henry S. Bunting, E.N. Ferdon, and Samuel C. Dobbs. On..... More
Zuirch: Bodmer, 1987. Chamberlain, John. Limited edition. Soft cover. N.p., many full-page photos and line ills., a few in color. In English and Spanish. One of 3500 copies. Introduction to the collection of, and plans for, this ambitious museum-studio of installation art in Marfa, Texas. Works by Judd, Dan Flavin..... More
Bethlehem, CT: June 1 Gallery, 1980. Arms, Pennell, Eby, Lewis, Chamberlain. First edition. Stapled paperbound. 32p, many ills. Sale catalogue of 116 prints by Arms, Pennell, Eby, Lewis, Chamberlain, and many other portrayers of buildings as they "actually look." Grouped by Italy, France, Spain, England, Other European Places, Small Town..... More
Tokyo, New York, San Francisco: Kodansha, 1975. Hamada. First edition. Hardcover. 305p, 88 ills., many in color. Laid in: a slip describing the binding, which was used only on this first edition--silkscreen designs on hand-laid paper over boards. In original clear plastic jacket. The first extensive English-language study of the..... More
Nanjing: Yilin Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover (plasticized boards). 176p, dozens of color photos and short captions. No jacket, as issued. Photographic survey of dark red pottery teapots, a specialty of Yixing in China's Jiangsu Province. Includes traditional examples from the 16th-century Ming Dynasty on, and many contemporary examples. Heavy;..... More
No place (printed in San Mateo, CA): San Carlos Villagers, n.d. [1967-68]. First edition. Hardcover. 117p, several photos and line ills. Covers are splayed due to cross-grain binding. No jacket, as issued. . San Carlos lies between San Francisco and San Jose, in San Mateo County on the San Francisco Peninsula. ..... More
London: Marlborough Rare Books, n.d. [1950s?]. First edition. Soft cover. 64p, a few ills. Bookseller catalogue with 423 items, including "festival books, colour plate books and topographical views." Chiefly 18th-19th century works; also a 16th-century Flemish album of architectural drawings and other Renaissance drawings. Can be sent outside the US..... More
![Item #26447 The National Architect [July 1916, St. Charles Hotel, Atlantic City]. Master...](/pictures/thumb/26447.jpg?v=1633973479)
Philadelphia: National Architect, 1916. First edition. Stapled paperbound. 40p, many large photos and line ills. Features the work of Hewitt & Granger, Architects: St. Charles Hotel in Atlantic City and the YWCA Building in Kensington, Philadelphia. Also 4 watercolors of church and civic interiors in Belgium, one (all?) by Louis..... More
