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Leipzig: Koehler & Amelang, 1949. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards and cloth. Very good. 250 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Frontispiece. Translated into German by Oskar P. Trautmann from the second Russian edition, Moscow, 1946. Signed presentation copy from Peter Amelung to Bernard H. Breslauer. Text embrowned.

Kristiana: Aschehaug, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Brown buckram. Very good. Folio, 57 x 42 cm. Nos. 1-3 complete, each with nine black and white multiple illustrations per page, mostl with images to scale. Woodwork examples from the early Norse period. Index of plates, text in Norwegian. Only copy located in USA at New York Public Library. Ex-lbrary, plates unmarked. Some minor nicks to plate edges, plates are clean and bright, wear to cover corners and backstrip extremities, binding tight.

NY: Gallery Books, 1979. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good in near fine dust wrapper. 390 pages. 377 color plates. Glossary. Index of Names and Works. Bibliography.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth spine and patterned boards. Fine in fine plain maroon dust wrapper.. Unpaginated. Folio, 40 x 26 cm. Limited edition, one of 400 printed at the Grabhorn Press. 28 plates, one double-paged. with descriptive text for each plate representing seventeen master artists of this genre. Very clean, bright copy. 2nd copy without dust wrapper.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Hardcover. Three quarter dull red morocco and marbled boards. Slight spine fade. Near fine in very good gray slipcase, spine darkened. Covarrubias, Miguel. 294 pages. 27 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 622 of 1500 copies signed by Covarrubias in red ink. Introduction by Raymond weaver, illustrated with 16 full page lithographs by Covarrubias. Printed by the Harbor Press. Interior contents crisp and fresh.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated and laminated boards. Very good. [4] 64 pages. 24 x 19 cm. This first printing has the three illustrations on pages. 21, 35 and 63, which were omitted from later printings. Bright, fresh copy. Book label J. Bay, 16 Mount St. front cover pastedown. Owner inscription first leave after endpaper dated Nov/79. Slight rubbing to extremities.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated and laminated boards. All edges yellow. Very good. [4] 64 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Total of thirty nine color plates printed and engraved by Edmund Evans. This first printing has the three illustrations on pages. 21, 35 and 63, which were omitted from later printings. Bookseller labels of D.B. Friend, Brighton, and Myers & Co., Bond Street, London. Interior contents clean and fresh, endpapers match border color, a few cover nicks.

Paris: Olympia Press, 1959. Hardcover. Orig. green silked cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Near fine. 123 pages. 25 x 17 cm. Now completed by John Glassco. Host of full-page black and white illustrations by Beardsley. Limited edition, copy 1970 of 3000 copies. Backstrip slightly sunned.

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth, front cover border fillets in black, frame interior rectangular designs also in black with back covers a design mirror, but in blind. Very good. 2 vols. 360 & 400 pages. 23 x 14 cm. Twenty-seven lithographed plates including the frontispieces, eleven are folding, plus large fold-out color map, and twenty-eight text illustrations. Index. Burton noted this work as a "pot-pourri" on "Unexplored Syria," containing articles by Burton Drake, Mrs. Burton and others -- rather than a continuous and smooth narrative -- compiled during sundry desert explorations Burton was Consul in Damascus from 1865-197, and Drake came to Syria under the auspices of the Palestine Exploration Society. PENZER 85-88. Scarce set in original cloth, interior contents clean, a few map folds reinforced with archival tape, light cover soiling, a few corners bumped, two small cloth puckers (approx. one by one inches) cover of Vol.I and back cover Vol.II.

London: J.M. Dent, 1938. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. salmon wrappers printed inblue. Fine in the original printed, matching sleeve. Latter is lightly spotted, very good. Tegetmeier, Denis. Unpaginated, approximately 24 pages. Text by Gill with eleven full-page illustrations by Denis Tegetmeier, his son-in-law. Printed by Hague & Gill for Dent. An usually crisp copy, but more important, the often lacking printed sleeve is present and more than serviceable. GILL37.

New York: Helmsman, 1958. First edition. Boards. Orig. embossed black boards. Fine in slightly worn slipcase. 125 pages. 26 x 18 cm. Preface by George Jean Nathan. Index.

New York: Grolier Club, 1942. First edition. Boards. Orig. blue/gray boards lettered in gilt with front cover pictorial inset. Near fine. 158 pages. 4to, 28 x 20 cm. Fifteen plates and 295 entries. Limited edition, one of 700 copies. Index.

Akron: The Werner Company, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pebble grained brown cloth decorated pictorially and in gilt. Teg. Near fine. 241 pages. Oblong folio, 45 x 34 cm. 43 chromolithographs (25 Army and 18 Navy), army and navy uniforms from the Revolution through the Spanish-American War with lettered tissue guards printed in red. Title page printed in red and black. Appendices include The Ships of the United States Navy by class, some were wood gunboats. BENNETT, p.109. Minor nicks to backstrip extremities, a very fresh, clean copy with beveled edges.

Np: Unity Universalist Church, 1942. First printing. Wraps. Orig. printed wrappers. Fine. 4 pages. 11.5 x 15.5 cm. Celebrates Universalist Church opening on September 13, 1942 with a tribute to their pastor, Dr. Frank Durward Adams with his tipped in photograph. Back cover with tipped-in photograph of the church designed by FLW in 1906.

New York: Abrams, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth. Near fine in fine dust wrapper. 552 pages. Small folio, 28 x 22 cm. 894 illustrations, with 163 in color. Foreword by James N. Wood. Artists, Catalogue of Prints, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. History of the legendary print publishers Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) that sparked the revival of printmaking in America.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 288 pages. 25.5 x 18.5. 238 illustrations. Index. The essays here span a period of forty years, from 1940 to 1981, and the constitute, in effect, the sequel to the author's HEAVENLY MANSIONS.

Leipsig: Verlag Von Gerlach & Wiedling, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Very good. 179 pages. 24 x 28 cm. 882 black and white photographs depicting folk designs, interior and exterior, but mostly the latter: doors and other architectural details. Mostly a pictorial essay.

Francestown: Typographeum, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream cloth spine and tan boards, paper spine label. Fine. 24 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Limited ediiton, copy 54 of 80 signed by the author in ink.

New York: Weybright &Talley, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine. 426 pp. Introduction by Dwight W. Hoover. Twenty-three essays by experts; an effort to aid in understanding urbanization and its consequences.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in slightly toned, very good dust wrapper. 243 pages. 26 x 22 cm. Foreword by Charles A. Blessing. Voluminously illustrated by the author with drawings and plans. Bibliography. Index. This book traces the history of urban design to date. The monograph has become a classic. POWELL 2714.