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Koln: Taschen, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition flexible hardcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing neither shelf- nor edge-wear to the illustrated covers, in gatefold. 575 pp. The two editors are design consultants of longstanding. Bilingual text, German and English. The transition of design from the Victorian era to the modern age, in architecture, interiors, furniture, glass, metalwork ceramics, lighting, textiles, wall decorations. Another fine contribution to the series published by Taschen, Decorative Arts, focused on the founding of Modernism in design, interiors, and architecture. Profusely illustrated in full color and black-and-white. Interior design, furniture, architecture, assemblage, ceramics and pottery of European origins in the 1970s is treated here. The book measures 10 1/4" x 7 3/4" in height and width.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional… Read More

Paris: Aux Editions Duchartre, 1938. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. This is a sturdy, tightly bound copy of the First Edition, published by Duchâtre, Paris, 1933, complete in two volumes, being bound in a tall, heavy quarto format. The illustrated, simple card stock wraps are covered with original publisher's gate-fold wraps that are quite finely illustrated with logos and drawings including of the S.P.Q.R. logo. Each volume is housed in a Near Fine condition slipcase covered with a very unusual form of almost wallpaper, edges being covered in a kind of electrical tape. This is an unnumbered copy of a Special Limited Edition of 992, having been printed on Simili-Art paper. Between the two copies there are 412 reproductions in simil-engraving and 16 plates printed via electrotyping. The dedication page by the author is to "A Mon Cher Maitre Victor Laloux," his mentor as an architect, and then opposite is a fine black-and-white portrait… Read More

Sante Fe, New Mexico: Ancient City Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Dealer stamp, neatly affixed inside front flap at bottom. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Double-column texts, sharp and distinct photographs of materials and tools. 132 pp. and with many score fine black-and-white illustrations of adobe house construction, start-to-finish.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Milan, Italy: Editzioni 2RC, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Alvar Aalto. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. Tall, stiff cardboard wraps cover in minimally decorated paper fashion, being emblazoned with "Alvar Aalto Ja Italia," being a seriegraphie, the item featuring sewn-in headbands, and the text being printed on a creamy, textured, lovely handmade paper. Bilingual presentation in Finnish and Italian. Flawed only by a half thumbnail-sized blue ink-blotch along top edge and for 1/4 of text-block, not even barely intruding into margins. Unpaginated, but roughly 60 pp. and including duotone drawings and architectural plans and illustrations. Contributions by Luciano Raimondi, Leonardo Mosso, and Bruno Zevi,Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Helsinki, Finland: Kunstannusosakeyhtio Otava Printing Works, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine introduction to the Finnish architect, designer and painter, born in 1898 and died in 1976, presenting nearly his complete works in a single volume. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Handsomely bound in gray cloth over boards, with black stamped lettering (Aalto's name, in cursive) to cover, sharp and distinct black lettering to spine). Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Plentiful descriptions with illustrations of realized and unrealized projects, drawings, musings on urban and regional plans, interiors of churches, houses, theatres, libraries, studios, museums, offices, factories, residential and apartment buildings and other kinds of… Read More

Zurich: Verlag fur Architektur Artemis, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy in hardcover oblong format, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Beautifully produced in a light brown linen cloth covers, sharp and distinct black lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. German, French and English text, replete with over 200 black-and-white illustrations, some being full-page. Introduction by Karl Fleig. [4], 5-275 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York and London: Rizzoli International Publications, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. As New. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition softcover copy in tall trade paperback format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial wraps. Stuffed with full-color and black-and-white illustrations, printed on high-gloss paper. Edited by Bill Lacy and Susan deMenil, with contributions by them and by Frank O. Gehry, Craig Hodetts and Hsin-Ming Fung, Holt Hinshaw PPfau Jones, Frank Israel, Koning Eizenberg, Lubowicki Lanier, Mark Mack, Thom Mayne, Morphosis, Eric Owen Moss, Stanley Saitowitz and Studio Works. 126 pp. and including notes, bibliography and index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: The Architectural Forum, 1938. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Hedrich-Blessing. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, being protected now further in stiff Mylar plastic, over the moderately worn and soiled and a bit chipped illustrated wraps. First Edition, published in New York in 1938. All foldouts are present, the issue being designed and contributed to by Frank Lloyd Wright himself. Photos by Hedrich-Blessing, and complete with fold-outs, bibliography, inded. The issue is devoted to Taliesen III, Unity Temple, Fallingwater, Johnson Wax, and many more houses and installations. Includes 73 additional pp. of publisher's advertisements. Measures 9" X 12".Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Toronto, Canada: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Contributions to this fine collection of essays about libraries and curatorship by Dianna Beaufort, Jonathan Bikker, Kate McCartney, Samantha Mussells, Sandra Richards, and Nicola Spasoff. A collection of essays published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name.Bound handsomely in brick-red stiff card stock wraps, illustrated and printed. Edited and with a Prologue by Pierre de la Ruffiniere du Prey. 46 pp., and flawless of interior. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York, New York / Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Architectural League of New York / M.I.T. Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. Previous owner was Richard Leon Press of Richard L. Press Fine and Scholarly Books About the Arts, and was inscribed to him with great love at half-title by 15 admirers seemingly from some kind of international workshop, as over a dozen countries are represented. Bound handsomely in a light brown linen cloth-over boards, with sharp and distinct yellow lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Structured around four historical periods: 1839-1880; 1880-1930; 1930-1970 1970-the present. 193 black-and-white photographic plates. xii + 203 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Rizzoli, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Square 4to 9" - 11" tall. Allan Greenberg has provided an absorbing and visually rewarding history, buttressed by a Foreword by George P. Shultz, of architecture reflecting the legacy of the American Revolution. Public buildings, the American House, anthropomorphism, influential architects. From the publisher's blurb, "In outlining what, specifically, about American architecture is democratic, and what makes it that way, Architecture of Democracy begins with a close look at seventeenth century building of the early colonies, and then explores the impact of the Revolution on American architecture in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, and shows how political ideals had a formative influence on the development of the American home and on the nation's public buildings." A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean… Read More

Park Forest, Illinois: A Prairie School Press Reissue, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Big, tall, folio-sized reissue of an important homage to the so-called Chicago School of drafting and architectural drawing, with a special focus on the works of W.R. Hasbrouckm Thomas Tallmadge, Louis H. Sullivan, Jens Jensen, Frank Lloyd Wright and others. 21 pp. of text in double-columns, black-and-white drawings and illustrations throughout. Stape-bound, lightly sunned along panel edges.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Rizzoli International, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. But for the tape-repair of a short closed tear to upper front panel of the illustrated dust jacket, this is a gift-quality condition copy of a fine homage to design and architecture. Stated First Edition. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in black buckram cloth, with sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Photo credits, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography and index. [8], 9-254 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: Abelard-Schuman, 1968. First England Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sumptuously illustrated volume that will make you want to travel. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear but for some half-toning at first free endpaper; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Handsomely produced in an oatmeal cloth cover, sharply and distinctly stamped brown letters to cover and spine. Stated first England Edition, having been translated by Edith Anderson. [4], 5-36 pp., followed by 211 plates, mostly black-and-white but with additional in full-color, all printed on high-gloss paper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: Batsford, 1962. First English Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Another fine contribution to the series, Buildings of Europe, with an Introduction by James Lees-Milne, commentaries on the voluminous illustrations by Eva-Maria Wagner. Stated First English Edition, the original German having been translated in the same year. The paintings of Rubens, the music of Handel, and the Baroque tradition in architecture, art and manners in a multitude of European cities. A superior copy inside and out, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. xxiii pp. of text and then a very lengthy series of fine black-and-white plates.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards.… Read More

Munchen, Germany: Bayerische Hypo- u. Vereinsbank, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall. A glowing homage to Czech architecture and architects, in the original German, and with contributions by Wolf Tegethoff, Jorg-Uwe Albig, Milos Pistorius, Hana Hamplova, and Zdenck Lukes, about the works of architects such as 48 examples of cubist buildings and other edifices in Prague, complete with location maps and biographies of architects. Features buildings and furbishings by A. Belada, K. Dvorak, B. Fuchs, V. Fultner, O. Gutfreund, J. Gocar, V. Hofman, B. Homolac, R. Hrabe, P. Janak, J, Kotera, E. Kralicek, L. Kysela, O. Liska, L. Machon, O. Novotny, J. Stepanek, R. Stockar, J. Stursa, J. Syriste, O. Tyl, J. Zasche. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound in a square hardcover format, glossy… Read More

Basel, Germany: Birkhauser - Publishers for Architecture, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Bilingual texts in German and English and with extensive frontis matter by executives at Bayer. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial covers; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. A gorgeous primer in design and architecture, with black-and-white and full-color reproductions printed on high-gloss paper. Unpaginated, but roughly 60 pp. and with full notes and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Institut Francais de l'Architecture, 1997. Second Impression. As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial wraps. French language text, with contributions by several heavy hitters in art history and specifically architecture, for example, Francois Chaslin, Jonna Drew, Ivor Smith, Jean-Claude Garcias, Martin K. Meade, Berthold Lubetkin, Jean-Louis Cohen, Peter Coe, Malcolm Reading. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [6], 7-232 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Basel, Germany: Birkhauser Verlag, 1998. First English Edition. Hardcover. As New. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bound in orange buckram cloth, with white and black titles and details, no jacket, but protected in stiff Mylar. Complete with indices, bibliography, glossary and replete with black-and-white photos and a few in full color. Arranged geographically and thematically and even includes material on Spanish architects outside Spain. [7], 8-400 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. First Edition copy, published also in the same year in the U.S. by Houghton Mifflin. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bumping to spine head and foot. Bound handsomely in blue cloth and with gilt lettering over spine. Bumping to spine head and foot. xiv + 165 pp. and including architectural plans for excavation in foldout. Complete with a list of the black-and-white illustrations, an Introduction, seven chapters, then a series of Appendices i-v, an Index. Thirty-two illustrations.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.