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](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30484.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
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
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
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
London: B.T. Batsford, 1944 (1st pub. 1943). Whistler, Rex. "Second Impression, with corrections, Spring 1944" Hardcover. 148p, several line ills. + 42 ills., 1 in color. Jacket by Rex Whistler is torn and soiled. Inscribed "To Miss Eileen Trans with friendly regards from Harry Batsford Opening Day, N.Y. 1948." Chiefly..... More
Fribourg: Edita-Denoel, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 200p, ca. 300 ills., 120 in color. In French. Overview of the leading 19th-century and early 20th-century French glass artists and the development of the techniques and styles of their vases, bowls, bottles, tableware, etc. Large and heavy; shipping/handling may be extra. Please keep..... 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
New York: Pantheon, 1979. First American edition. Hardcover. 232p, many ills. Photo is slightly cropped. Very informative history of women artists and their roles in the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain and America--design education for women, ceramics, embroidery and needlework, lace making, jewelry and metalwork, wood carving, furniture and..... More
Cambridge, MA: Charles B. Wood III, n.d. [1980s-90s]. First edition. Soft cover. 97p, many black-and-white ills. Bookseller's 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
Boston: Library of the Boston Athenaeum, 1981. Stone, Arthur J. First edition. Soft cover. 24p, many ills., including photos of marks. Exhibition catalogue devoted to the work of "one of the last independent designers and master silversmiths of New England" (1847-1938). Includes information about his workshop. Checklist of a wide..... More
![Item #31146 Property from the Estate of John Rewald [Catalogue 7934]. Christie's](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31146.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
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. 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
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
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
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
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
Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1985. Armajani, Siah. First edition. Soft cover. 96p, many photos, many in color. Substantial exhibition catalogue of Armajani's impossible yet logical living spaces, furniture, installations and other structures, chiefly in wood. This was the late artist's first comprehensive museum show. "Armajani has..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1964. First edition. Soft cover. 96p, many ills., a few in color. Cover shows a Luis Barragan garden. A pioneering survey of mid-century outdoor rooms, parks and plazas, flower gardens, constructed landscapes, and more. Works by Barragan, Burle Marx, Le Corbusier, Noguchi, SOM, Wright..... More
Darmstadt: Alexander Koch, 1921. First edition. Hardcover (boards). 190p, many large photos, 2 in color. A few marginal tears, all neatly mended. Pictorial survey of contemporary rooms devoted to food--breakfast and tea rooms, dining areas, buffets and credenzas, silver and glassware, table settings, and kitchens and cooking facilities. Interior decor..... 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
