London: Allen & Unwin, 1975. First edition. Hardcover (printed boards). 160p, many photos and line ills., several in color. In original acetate jacket. Laid in: softcover guide to the Victoria & Albert centenary Liberty's exhibition (14p, several ills.). Published for Liberty's 100th anniversary. Comprehensive history of the shop, its artists..... More
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 (many previously unpublished).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
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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
No place [Buffalo?]: No stated publisher, 1987. First edition. Soft cover. Six reproductions of photographs, printed in duotone on glossy card stock, laid in folder. Short texts by Reyner Banham, Anthony Bannon, and the photographer. Ca. 6 x 9 inches. Folder lightly soiled; price sticker removed from back; photos are..... More
Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 286p, several photos. Slight wear to jacket. History of the innovative curriculum at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University from 1900 on, through a study of the administrations of the first six art directors (Charles F. Binns, Charles..... 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
Beauchamp, UK: Richard Dennis, 2003. Leach, David. First edition. Soft cover. 120p, many ills., dozens in color. Cooper's detailed biography is followed by Nibelett's summary of the pots made at Dartington Hall, the Leach Pottery, and Lowerdown Pottery; the techniques used; pots and potters who inspired Leach (especially his father..... 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
London: John Murray, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 110p + many photos. on 64 pls. Lacks jacket. Owner's ink name. The first comprehensive survey of modern English studio and functional pottery, from the 1920s on. With historical chapters, "How Pottery Is Made," "Learning to Distinguish Good Pottery," and "Some Opinions on..... 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
Boston: Little, Brown, 1915. First edition. Hardcover (boards, cloth spine). Introd. by Bruce Porter. 95p + 25 photographic pls., 4 in color. No jacket. Chapters on 12 mansions in the San Francisco Bay Area, Montecito, Los Angeles, and other California locations--some preserved, some gone. Includes New Place (Crocker), Hacienda del..... 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
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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
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1953. Rand, Paul. Third edition, revised. Soft cover. 48p, many ills. Cover design by Paul Rand. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name. An iconic presentation of paintings, sculpture, photographs, graphic design, and furniture in the categories of abstract geometric form, geometrically..... More
London: Pavilion, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 224p, many ills., many in color. "A definitive centenary celebration" of this British ceramic artist, acclaimed for her vibrant Art Deco "Bizarre" ware. Very informative, drawing on much previously unknown material. 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
Cologne: Taschen, 1997. Hundertwasser. First edition. Hardcover. 320p, hundreds of color photos, elevations, models, and plans. Includes a short text by Wieland Schmied; Hundertwasser's manifestoes, speeches, writings; illustrated case studies of 12 projects; the Hundertwasser House in Vienna; and documentation of various other projects. A beautiful copy, complete with 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
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
New York: Nancy Hoffman Gallery, 1994. Frey, Viola. First edition. Soft cover. 40p, 69 color ills. including cover. Photo here is cropped on the sides. Traveling exhibition catalogue of 69 of Frey's expressionistic plates, which Kuspit describes as both funk and hallucinatory. Large; shipping/handling may be extra. Please keep this..... More
