Year Book of the Architectural League of New York and Catalogue of the Fortieth Annual Exhibition and the Architectural and Allied Arts Exposition

New York: Architectural League of New York, 1926. Paperback. Good +. 396 p., color frontispiece of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria, Va.: extensively illustrated with black-and-white photographs and drawings; 32 cm. Original grey cloth spine; grey paper covers printed in black and gilt. Cover title and gilt emblem of the Architectural League; back cover has ad for Babcock & Wilcox Co. steam boilers. Inside back cover has ad for cast ferrocraft grilles by Tuttle & Bailey Mfg. Co. Features the work of many architects, designers, artists, and landscape architects including: Ivan Mestrovic; Malvina Hoffmann; Cass Gilbert; Hildreth Meière; Alfred C. Bossom ("Restoration of the Great Pyramid at Tikal, Guatemala"); Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue; Holabird and Roche (interior view of the Apollo Theatre, Chicago -- demolished in 1989); Albert Kahn (Ford Motor Co. engineering laboratories, Dearborn, Mich.); Clara Fargo Thomas; Reginald Marsh; Lauren Ford; George Harding (decoration, Earle Theatre, Philadelphia); Samuel Yellin (screens for Federal Reserve Bank, N.Y.); Stepan de Kosenko; Georg Jensen (silver bowl); Janet Scudder; Harriet W. Frishmuth; Brenda Putnam; Evelyn B. Longman Batchelder; the Architects Small House Service Bureau of the U.S.; Marian Coffin; Mellor, Meigs and Howe; and McKim, Mead and White. Many advertisements, of which two are in color: Cardiff Green Marble Co. and U.S. Tile Flooring. Includes index to advertisements. Scarce. A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority/expedited shipping. In Good+ Condition: light stain along lower edge of front cover; minor loss at ends of spine; cloth is starting to separate along joints; closed 2-cm. tear from upper edge of front cover and first 5 leaves; "1290" stamped on first (blank) leaf; otherwise, pages are clean and tight.