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Act of Optimism, An: Building Washington Cathedral


Lewis, Deborah Hart

Softcover. Washington, D.C., The Octagon, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Light blue stapled covers with monotone illustration, introduction by Richard T. Feller, foreword by Herbert E. Striner, 7 full page b&w plates, checklist of objects on loan from Washington Cathedral, glossary.

Record # 806403


Price: $8.00 

 

Agreeable Situations: Society, Commerce, and Art in Southern Maine, 1780-1830


Sprague, ed., Laura Fecych

Softcover. Kennebunk, Maine, The Brick Store, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 289 pages, b & w and a few color photos, very clean, tight copy.

Record # 800687


Price: $15.00 

 

America's Forgotten Architecture


Wrenn, Tony P. & Elizabeth D. Mulloy

Softcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606410


Price: $12.00 

America's Painted Ladies - The Ultimate Celebration of Our VictoriansPomada, Elizabeth/Michael Larsen/Douglas Keister

America's Painted Ladies - The Ultimate Celebration of Our Victorians


Pomada, Elizabeth/Michael Larsen/Douglas Keister

Softcover. New York, Viking Studioo Books, Reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611734


Price: $15.00 


 

American Architecture and Other Writings (2 volumes)


Schuyler, Montgomery

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 2 volumes: 664 pages total, edited by William H. Jordy and Ralph Coe. Dark gray cloth covers with gilt titles, red dust jacket with b&w illustration, 166 b&w illustrations throughout both volumes. Clean covers, light rubbing and edgewear to dust jackets, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding.

Record # 401455


Price: $50.00 

 

American Architecture of the 1980s


Canty, Donald

Washington DC, AIA, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages. Color and black & white photography and illustrations.

Record # 207145


Price: $40.00 

 

American Architecture, 1607-1976


Whiffen, Marcus, Frederick Koeper,

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 495 pages. Blue cloth cover, some wear on edges and spine. Dust jacket is worn on edges and spine. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Inside is bright and clean with many b&w photographs, illustrations and blueprints throughout.

Record # 852589


Price: $18.00 

 

American Art to 1900: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture


Brown, Milton W.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1977, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, History of American art as it has evolved in the modes of painting, sculpture, and architecture. 631 pages, includes full bibliography and index. Features 829 illustrations, 93 of which are in full-color. Cloth bound book and dust jacket are in near fine condition, dust jacket shows slight edge wear.

Record # 805390


Price: $45.00 

 

American Building - The Historical Forces That Shaped It.


Fitch, James Marston

Softcover. NY, Schocken, 2nd, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2nd Edition revised and enlarged. Black & white illust. 350 pages.

Record # 65605


Price: $19.00 

 

American Buildings and Their Architects: The Colonial and Neoclassical Styles.


Pierson, Jr., William H.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY , Doubleday & Company, Inc., reprint, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 503 pages. Brown cloth cover, with wear to corners and edges. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Some highlighting of passages, but only in a few parts, otherwise inside is bright and clean with many b&w photographs throughout. Volume I out of 4 in the American Building and Their Architects series.

Record # 853033


Price: $30.00 

 

American Churches


Kennedy, Roger G.

Hardcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent condition. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new. A magnificent volume, over 100 churches and temples presented, with 200 superb full-color and 50 black-and-white photographs, illustrating the diversity of this country's religious life.

Record # 32299


Price: $25.00 

 

American Colonial - Puritan Simplicity to Georgian Grace


Garrett, Wendell

Softcover. New York, Monacelli Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages. Paperback. Illustrated with full color photographs.

Record # 510620


Price: $21.00 

American Country House, TheAslet, Clive

American Country House, The


Aslet, Clive

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Color photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466599


Price: $19.00 

 

American Country House, The


Moss, Roger W.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 243 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with photographs and drawings in color and black & white. Dust jacket has small tear at bottom front corner, and one inch band of sun fading along left side of cover.

Record # 509832


Price: $15.00 

 

American Family Home 1800-1960, The


Clark, Jr, Clifford Edward

Softcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. 281 pages. Bump to top of spine. Edgewear.

Record # 503981


Price: $18.00 

 

American Farmhouse, The


Kauffman, Henry J.

Hardcover. NY, Hawthorn, Book Club, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color, B&W photos by Kauffman. Floor plans by Tom Callahan. Dust jacket with closed tear, light edgewear. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 301005


Price: $30.00 

 

American Home, The: Architecture and Society, 1815-1915


Handlin, David P.

Softcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 545 pages with 199 black and white illustrations. Complete with bibliographical references and index. Light wear and creases on cover. Interior is very good and clean.

Record # 806629


Price: $12.00 

American Landscape, The Zapatka, Christian

American Landscape, The


Zapatka, Christian

Softcover. New York, NY, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages, illustrations throughout. Spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456512


Price: $30.00 

 

American Victoriana - Floor Plans and Renderings from the Gilded Age


Mitchell, Eugene

San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, 22 color plates, B&W facsimile pages from the Scientific American Architects & Builders Editions. Dust jacket with light edgewear, short closed tears.

Record # 305641


Price: $40.00 

 

Architects of Charleston


Ravenel, Beatrice St. Julien

Hardcover. Charleston , Carolina Art Association , 2nd, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 321 pages. B&w photography throughout. Gilt titles on spine and front cover. Includes extensive bibliography. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Light rubbing and chipping to dust jacket, else clean, tight copy.

Record # 857323


Price: $19.00 

 

Architectural Album, An - Compiled by the Junior League of Lincoln, Nebraska


Gibbs, Dale L./Linda Jones

Softcover. Lincoln, Junior League of Lincoln Nebraska, First Edition, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 129 pages. Softcover. Full page, black & white illustrations throughout. Light marginal shelf wear to covers. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750424


Price: $25.00 

 

Architectural Follies in America: An Illustrated Guide to 130 of the Most Unusual Structures in America


Headley, Gwyn

Softcover. New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated guide to unusual structures in America. 222 pages; photographs in black & white; cover in color. Text by Gwyn Headley, President of the Folly Fellowship in England. In near fine condition;

Record # 806865


Price: $15.00 

 

Architectural Graphics


Ching, Frank

Paperback. NY, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Rep. wraps, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A guide to doing architectural drawing. Many black & white illust. 128 pages. Paperback.

Record # 66804


Price: $15.00 

Architectural Records in Boston: A Guide to Architectural Research in Boston, Cambridge, and Vicinity (Garland reference library of the humanities)Schrock, Nancy Carlson

Architectural Records in Boston: A Guide to Architectural Research in Boston, Cambridge, and Vicinity (Garland reference library of the humanities)


Schrock, Nancy Carlson

Hardcover. US, Garland Publishing, reprint , 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Gilt titles on spine. Includes glossary of terms. Light foxing to top and fore edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 467081


Price: $75.00 

 

Architectural Treasures of Early America: Survey of Early American Design


Whitehead & Brown, Ed., Russell F. & Frank Chouteau

Hardcover. New York, Arno Press, Inc., 1977, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Historical account of architecture in early America. 224 pages, very fully illustrated with black/white drawings, plans, and photographs. Near fine condition; very slight wear on the spine.

Record # 804813


Price: $22.00 

 

Architecture and Design 1970-1990. New Ideas in America


Russel, Beverly

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 143 pages illustrated throughout with 165 plates, including 91 in full color. Black cloth with silver title to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Like new, in shrinkwrap.

Record # 805446


Price: $22.00 

 

Architecture and the American Dream


Whitaker, Craig

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages, with photographs throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456659


Price: $15.00 

 

Architecture in New York: A Photographic History


Andrews, Wayne

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 188 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Black cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges and spine, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606245


Price: $12.00 

 

Architecture in Salem: An Illustrated Guide


Tolles, Jr. & Tolles, Bryant F. & Carolyn K.

Hardcover. Salem, MA, Essex Institute, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, Reference guide to historical architecture in Salem, Massachusetts, with reviews of over 350 buildings. 311 pages, fully illustrated with black/white photographs and maps. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, no internal marks; dust jacket has wear at the corners and on the ends of the spine, two rips along the top edge.

Record # 804857


Price: $51.00 

 

Architecture of the Old South: North Carolina


Lane, Mills, Illust. by: Gene Carpenter

Savannah GA, Beehive Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages, b&w Photographs and illustrations. Special photography by Van Jones Martin. Drawings by Gene Carpenter.

Record # 512063


Price: $70.00 

 

Architecture of the Old South


Lane, Mills

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Hardcover brick cloth boards in very good condition. Bright dust jacket with full color photography, Frederick Stanton house, Natchez, Mississippi. Full page, full color photographs throughout. Clean & bright copy.

Record # 750194


Price: $25.00 

 

Architecture Of The Western World


Raeburn, Michael (Ed.)

hardcover. NY, Popular Press, Rep, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white color photos and illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear and soil.

Record # 202046


Price: $18.00 

 

Architecture Worth Saving in Rensselaer Country, New York


Arch, Bernd Forester M.

Softcover. New York, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages. Color illustrated covers, perfect binding, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Rubbing to covers; otherwise a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806279


Price: $20.00 

 

Art and the Industrial Revolution


Klingender, F. D.

Softcover. New York, Schocken Books, 1st pb, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. Red pictorial wrappers with a few wrinkles to covers and light wear to edges and spine, previous owner's inscription in front, else a nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 605746


Price: $10.00 

 

Art in America: July-August 1966


Lipman (Ed.), Jean (Philip Johnson)

Softcover. New York , Art in America Inc., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, softcover, color illustrated wraps. B&w illustrations, some color. Articles on 37 artists: New Talent USA, mobile architecture, Philip Johnson, film-maker Len Lye. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 406793


Price: $15.00 

 

Art in America: May-June 1968


Lipman (Ed.), Jean (David Von Schlegell)

Softcover. New York , Art in America Inc., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, softcover, color illustrated wraps. B&w illustrations, some color. Articles on the Mesh Canvas, New Chicago Architecture, Surrealism in Gascony, sculptor David Von Schlegell. Previous owner's signature on contents page otherwise clean, bright copy.

Record # 406796


Price: $15.00 

 

Art, Crafts and Architecture in Early Illinois


Madden, Betty I.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 297 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. White pictorial wrappers, black titles. No dust jacket. Slight wear to spine and corners, else a nice, clean, tight copy.

Record # 805316


Price: $10.00 

 

Art, Crafts, and Architecture in Early Illinois


Madden, Betty I.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 297 pages. B&w and some color illustrations. Oblong. Dark blue cloth spine, cream cloth boards, gilt lettering. Pictorial dust jacket with slight shelf rub, small tear to front cover. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 605325


Price: $16.00 

 

Arts in America, The: the Colonial Period


N/A

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 368 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Cream cloth with gild decoration to front cover. Gilt lettering to red leatherette spine. Dust jacket edge wear with tiny tear to bottom right edge, otherwise a very nice, clean and tight copy.

Record # 605191


Price: $19.00 

 

Arts of the United States: A Pictorial Survey


Pierson, William H. & Martha Davidson

Hardcover. Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia Press, Reprint, 1966, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, 452 pages illustrated with over 4000 plates in b&w. Folio. Black cloth spine with gilt title and blue boards. White pictorial dust jacket with red and blue titles, with light wear to edges and spine and slight soiling to covers. Overall a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 605865


Price: $10.00 

 

At Home in Manhattan: Modern Decorative Arts, 1925 to the Depression


Davies, Karen

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of various furniture and decorative pieces in Manhattan from 1925 up until the Depression. Text by Karen Davies; 124 pages; photographs of pieces in black & white (2 are in color). Cover in color; design based on a rug by Ruth Reeves called "Electric." In near fine condition.

Record # 401081


Price: $35.00 

 

Barns of the Genesee Country, 1790-1915


Fink, Daniel

Hardcover. Geneseo, James Brunner, 2nd Printing, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 528 pages. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs. 1st edition/2nd printing. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610262


Price: $63.00 

 

Barns of the Genesee Country, 1790-1915


Fink, Daniel

Hardcover. New York, James Brunner, 2nd printing, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 526 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Photographer and historian Daniel Fink illuminates the social, economic and architectural history of New York's Genesee country barns using contemporary records and original photographs. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Heavy age toning to top text block edge. Mild age toning to front endpapers and front flyleaf top edge. Hundreds of black-and-white illustrations and photographs throughout. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951737


Price: $63.00 

 

Berkshire Lost


Chesterwood, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Softcover. Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Chesterwood, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 30 pages. Historical catalog. White stapled wrappers, profusely illustrated with large b&w plates of historical buildings, acknowledgments by Paul Ivory, introduction by Cornelia Brooke Gilder, roster of historical architecture lost since 1900 within 100-mile radius of Chesterwood. Small light brown markings to front, pages very crisp; overall, a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 807927


Price: $12.00 

 

Brick Architecture of the Colonial Period in Maryland & Virginia


Coffin, Jr., Lewis A./Arthur C. Holden

Hardcover. New York, Architectural Book Publishing Co./Wenzel and Krakow, 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 29 pages of text and drawings followed by large section of black & white photographs and drawings of architectural details and houses. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover, gift inscription on preliminary page. Front and rear interior hinges are tender. Spine with fraying to cloth, repair to cloth at some point. Due to weight of book, and previous use - binding is weakened. All pages present. Good reference copy.

Record # 612661


Price: $75.00 

 

Building a National Image: Architectural Drawings for the American Democracy 1789-1912


Lowry, Bates

Softcover. New York, National Building Museum, 1st, 1985, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 228 pages. 91 b&w reproductions and over 100 color plates. Oblong folio. Brand new copy, still in original shrink wrapping. In mint condition.

Record # 605232


Price: $22.00 

 

Building a National Image: Architectural Drawings for the American Democracy, 1789-1912


Lowry, Bates

Softcover. Washington DC, National Building Museum, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 228 pages, illustrations and color plates throughout. Minor foxing along fore edge and front and rear flyleaf. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Otherwise, a clean and tight copy.

Record # 852512


Price: $25.00 

 

Buildings of Iowa


Gebhard, David & Gerald Mansheim

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 565 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Blue cloth with silver titles to front and spine. Blue pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to edges, else like new.

Record # 606162


Price: $16.00 

 

Buildings: Architecture in American Modernism


n/a

Softcover. New York , Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 92 pages. Color and B/W reproduction of paintings from October-November 1980 exhibition. Includes works by Ault, Billings, Spencer, O'Keefe, etc. Light soil on edge of front cover otherwise clean. Remnant of sticker on back cover.

Record # 802230


Price: $8.00 

 

Buildings: Architecture in American Modernism


York, Richard T.

Softcover. New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 96 pages illustrated throughout in color and b&w. White pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear and foxing to covers and top edge, copy slightly warped by moisture (no stains). A nice tight copy.

Record # 606404


Price: $12.00 

Built in USA: Post-war ArchitectureHitchcock, Henry-Russell

Built in USA: Post-war Architecture


Hitchcock, Henry-Russell

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Some fading to spine and to edges of covers. Spine slightly cocked. Foxing and fading inside front end papers.

Record # 2230929


Price: $23.00 

 

Chair, The: Art or Architecture? An Index of Current Production Designs, 1860-1970


American Institute of Architects Foundation

Softcover. Washington, D.C., American Institute of Architects Foundation, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with silver covers; minor rubbing and scratching. Staple wrappers tight. Pages clean and crisp, though very slightly bent in corner. 44 b/w plates of chairs from a century of design, shown in chronological order. Introduction discusses form versus function and chairs as art versus architecture.

Record # 808187


Price: $16.00 

 

Charleston - Photographic Studies by F. S. Lincoln


Lincoln, F. S./E. Milby Burton

Hardcover. New York, Corinthian Publications, Inc., 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs by F. S. Lincoln. Dust jacket shows standard wear. jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610817


Price: $25.00 

Chicago Architecture 1872-1922 Birth of a MetropolisZukowsky (Ed.), John

Chicago Architecture 1872-1922 Birth of a Metropolis


Zukowsky (Ed.), John

Softcover. Munich, Prestel/Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 480 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Published in association with the Art Institute of Chicago and in conjunction with an exhibition presented there in the summer of 1988, as well as in Paris and Frankfurt-am-Main in 1987-88. Contributors to the text include Robert Bruegmann, Sally Chappell, Meredith L. Clausen, Joan E. Draper and others.

Record # 415216


Price: $38.00 

 

Chicago Ceramics & Glass: An Illustrated History from 1871 to 1933


Darling, Sharon S., Illust. by: Walter W. Krutz

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Chicago Historical Society, 1st, 1979, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, History of the art of glass and ceramics in Chicago. Focuses on both small-scale, decorative works and larger, architectural pieces. Illustrated with 221 photographs (mostly black/white, few color). Dust jacket in very good condition, shows slight rubbing on the back, but cloth bound book in near fine condition with virtually no flaws.

Record # 804749


Price: $64.00 

 

Chicago's North Michigan Avenue: Planning and Development, 1900-1930


Stamper, John W.

Hardcover. Chicago IL, The University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. New insight into the history of Chicago. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Many black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 4450068


Price: $25.00 

 

Classic Savannah: History, Homes and Gardens.


Mitchell, jr, Willian Robert

Hardcover. Savannah, Georgia, Golden Coast Publishing Co, 4th, 1991, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 144 pages. 150 photographs, including 124 in color. Color maps, bibliography, and index. Photography by Van Jones Martin. Beige cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. Like new.

Record # 605297


Price: $22.00 

Clearing in the Distance - Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century, ARybczynski, Witold

Clearing in the Distance - Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century, A


Rybczynski, Witold

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 480 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613139


Price: $25.00 

 

Collections of the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum, The


Ketchum, Jr., William C.

Softcover. Rochester, Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum; includes biography of the museum and photographs of decorative arts, furniture, arts and crafts, and other collectibles. 66 pages; in both color and black & white. In very good condition.

Record # 401093


Price: $10.00 

Colonial homes in the Southern States: From material originally published as the White pine series of architectural monographs, edited by Russell F. Whitehead ...No Author

Colonial homes in the Southern States: From material originally published as the White pine series of architectural monographs, edited by Russell F. Whitehead ...


No Author

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages, b&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Red covers w/ light rubbing to corners. Small stain on fore-edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451400


Price: $12.00 

 

Colonial Williamsburg - Its Buildings and Gardens


Kocher, A Lawrence & Howard Dearstyne

Hardcover. Williamsburg, Colonial Williamsburg, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, B&w photographs, 104 pgs, dj w/ eadgewear, fade to spine

Record # 29357


Price: $10.00 

 

Comfortable House: North American Suburban Architecture 1890-1930


Gowans, Alan

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass, The MIT Press, 1st, October 2, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Pale green cloth covers, pink dust jacket with color illustration, numerous b&w illustrations. Price-clipped, dust jacket lightly discolored at spine and edges, otherwise in very good condition, pages crisp and unmarked, clean covers, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 452670


Price: $35.00 

 

Contemporary American Architects - Volume IV


Jodidio, Philip

Softcover. Koln, Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1st Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Softcover. Full page, full color illustrations throughout. Light toning to preliminary page edges. Bright, clean copy with only minor shelf wear.

Record # 750176


Price: $25.00 

 

Covered Bridges of Pennsylvania Dutchland


Horst, Mel and Elmer L. Smith

Softcover. Lebanon, PA, Applied Arts Publishers, 8th printing, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages. Text by Elmer Smith, photographs by Mel Horst. Stapled wrappers completely illustrated in color, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Clean wrappers, pages crisp and clean; a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 807940


Price: $12.00 

 

Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake - Architecture and History of a Pioneer Health Resort


Gallos, Philip L.

New York, Historic Saranac Lake, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.186 pages. Black & white photography. Dust jacket has some small tears.

Record # 206345


Price: $60.00 

 

Dolley and the Great Little Madison


Hunt-Jones, Conover

Softcover. Washington, DC, American Institute of Architects Foundation,, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 148 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w with a few color plates. Blue pictorial wrappers. Light wear and rubbing to covers and spine, else a nice, tight copy.

Record # 606440


Price: $25.00 

 

Downtown USA: Urban Design in Nine American Cities


Halpern, Kenneth

Hardcover. New York, Whitney Library of Design, 1st US, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Dust jacket edge wear, fade, and rubbing. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 853046


Price: $20.00 

 

Drawing Toward Building: Philadelphia Architectural Graphics 1732-1986


O'Gorman, James F., Jeffrey A. Cohen, George E. Thomas, G. Holmes Perkins

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 295 pages, illustrated throughout, some in color. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 852515


Price: $20.00 

 

Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright, The


Drexler, Arthur

Hardcover. New York, Bramhall House, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages illustrated with 303 b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light yellowing to spine, top edge.

Record # 405478


Price: $23.00 

Dwelling of Colonial America, TheWaterman, Thomas Tileston

Dwelling of Colonial America, The


Waterman, Thomas Tileston

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Some fading to spine, slight foxing to covers. Spine very slightly cocked but tight. Clean copy. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in lower corner of front end papers.

Record # 2230931


Price: $23.00 

 

Early American Architecture: From the First Colonial Settlements to the National Period


Morrison, Hugh

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 4th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-green cloth stamped with white lettering on spine, 619 pages, many b&w drawings and photographs. Clean, bright copy lacking dust jacket.

Record # 412339


Price: $25.00 

 

Early American Homes for Today: A Treasury of Decorative Details and Restoration Procedures


Congdon, Herbert Wheaton

Hardcover. Ruland, VT, Charles Tuttle, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 236 pages. Hardcover. b&w photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp on cover. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 24294


Price: $30.00 

 

Early American Homes for Today: A Treasury of Decorative Details and Restoration Procedures


Congdon, Herbert Wheaton

Hardcover. Rutland, Vt, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 2nd, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 236 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to price clipped dust jacket and faint foxing to top edge.

Record # 856972


Price: $15.00 

 

Early American Mills


Zimiles, Martha & Murray

Hardcover. New York , Bramhall House, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 290 pages. Dust jacket with fading, edge wear, and foxing. B&W and some color photos throughout. Foxing on page edges. Otherwise, tight copy.

Record # 454253


Price: $12.00 

 

Eighteenth-Century Houses of Williamsburg, The


Whiffen, Marcus

Hardcover. Williamsburg, VI, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Revised , 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 289 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt decoration to front cover. Pictorial endpapes. White pictorial dust jacket with tiny tear to upper right corner and minimal wear, otherwise like new.

Record # 605532


Price: $19.00 

 

Elie Nadelman: sculptor of modern life


Haskell, Barbara

Softcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Softcover. Extensive color photography throughout. Includes extensive chronology of exhibitions. Includes extensive bibliography. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 469063


Price: $31.00 

 

Envisioning Better Communities - Seeing More Options, Making Wiser Choices


Arendt, Randall

Hardcover. Chicago, American Planning Association, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 228 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Light wear to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613171


Price: $31.00 

 

Famous Colonial Houses


Hollister, Paul M. , Illust. by: James Preston

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company Publishers, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Famous colonial houses with descriptions of their historical significance. Full-page color illustrations by James Preston. 170 pages. Paper shows some age toning. Blue cloth covers with gold gilt title. The cloth shows wear around the edges and has small piece torn loose at the top.

Record # 805106


Price: $29.00 

 

Famous Sculptors of America


McSpadden, J. Walker

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. 16 full color reproductions of family members in Colonial costumes. Intact and very clean.

Record # 805130


Price: $22.00 

 

Farmhouse, The


Irvine, Chippy

Hardcover. Toronto ; New York, Bantam, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 242 pages. Blue cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has light wear to edges and corners. Many color photographs by Dennis Krukowski throughout. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 455883


Price: $15.00 

 

Forts and Firesides of the Mohawk Country


Vrooman, John J.

Hardcover. Johnstown, Baronet Litho Co., Inc., 2nd Printing, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name stamp at top of front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Postcards and black & white photographs related to featured sites have been laid-in; in the case of photographs (circa 1966) tipped-in. Light wear to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611770


Price: $50.00 

 

Frank Lloyd Wright - An American Architecture


Kaufmann (Editor), Edgar

Hardcover. New York, Horizon, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 269 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with chipping, wear along edges, chunk of paper missing at top of spine - now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611549


Price: $44.00 

 

Frank Lloyd Wright Companion, The


Storrer, William Allin

Hardcover. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2nd, 1993, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 492 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket. Plans, photographs, drawings, and commentary regarding Frank Lloyd Wright's nearly 500 known works. Many black-and-white illustrations and photos throughout. Slight cocking to spine. Slight bowing to front panel as well. Rubbing to spine, light bumping to corners. Mild age toning to top text block edge. Unmarked. A clean copy.

Record # 951594


Price: $48.00 

 

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: HIS LIFE AND HIS ARCHITECTURE


Twombly, Robert C.

Hardcover. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 444 pages. Profusely illustrated throughout text with over 150 b/w photographs of Wright's personal life, his architectural works and genius, schematic drawings, extensive footnotes, and the most exhaustive bibliography of Wright's published books available. Pages are clean and bright. Light browning on top edge of text block. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Spine slightly cocked. Minor wear to top and bottom of spine. Color pictorial dust jacket with minor edgewear, one large chip at bottom of spine. B/W photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright on back cover. Lightly toned.

Record # 220694


Price: $16.00 

 

Frontier of Freedom: The Portrait of an Extraordinary Village, Old Deerfield, Massachusetts


Chamberlain, Samuel and Henry N. Flynt

New York, Hastings House, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 170 pages. Contains numerous black & white photography of inside and outside of houses in Old Deerfield. Some pages signed by current occupants (1958) of historic houses. Dust jacket with chipping, light soiling.

Record # 508681


Price: $20.00 

 

Frozen Music: A History of Portland Architecture


Bosker, Gideon and Lena Lencek

Hardcover. 1st, November 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 331 pages, b&w illustrations. Dust jacket w/ edge wear, tears, 1/2 inch piece missing from top back edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451348


Price: $25.00 

 

George Washngton's Mount Vernon - At Home in Revolutionary America


Dalzell, Jr., Robert F. and Lee Baldwin Dazell

Hardcover. NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages. Hardcover Color frontis, black & white illust. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, tight copy on spine.

Record # 53464


Price: $20.00 

 

Gleanings from Old Shaker Journals


Sears, Clara Endicott

Hardcover. Meriden, CONNECTICUT, The Meriden Gravure Company , Reprint, 1959, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 298 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue cloth with white title to spine, no dust jacket. Very nice copy. Like new.

Record # 805677


Price: $19.00 

 

Glossary of Colonial Architectural Terms, A


Isham, Norman Morrison

Softcover. Watkins Glen, NY, American life Foundation & Study Institute, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Classic Guidebooks to the Visual Arts. Textured brown stapled wrappers, gilt titles to front cover, numerous b&w illustrated figures throughout. Slight edgewear, pages crisp and unmarked; a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 808618


Price: $15.00 

 

Granger Homestead


Granger Homestead Society, Inc.

Softcover. Canadaigua, New York, Granger Homestead Society, Inc., 1st, unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 16 pages. Text by Mrs. Byron H. Delavan. White stapled wrappers with color illustration, profusely illustrated with color and b&w plates. Slight wear to wrappers, pages crisp and ummarked.

Record # 807930


Price: $13.00 

 

Great American Houses and Their Architectural Styles


McAlester, Virginia and Lee, Illust. by: Larry Boerder

New York, Abbeville Press, 1st ed, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 348 pages. Color photography by Alex McLean. Drawings by Larry Boerder. Floor plans by Carol Boerder-Snyder. Dust jacket with edgewear, light soiling.

Record # 508489


Price: $63.00 

 

Great Houses of Washington, D.C.


Miller, Hope Ridings

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages, with photographs throughout by Charles Baptie and illustrated slipcase. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853941


Price: $15.00 

 

Gustav Strickley: The Craftsman


Smith, Mary Ann

Hardcover. Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 186 pages. 116 b&w illustrations throughout. "The first serious study of totality of Strickley's accomplishments, especially his architecture". Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Book in Near fine condition. Looks brand new.

Record # 605126


Price: $22.00 

 

H. H. Richardson - Architectural Forms for an American Society


O'Gorman, James F.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609072


Price: $12.00 

 

Hearst Castle: San Simeon


Aidala, Thomas R./Curtis Bruce

Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages. Illustrated with color and black & white photographs and floor plans. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 603583


Price: $22.00 

 

Henry Lloyd's Salt Box Manor House


Osann, Jean B.

Softcover. New York, Lloyd Harbor Historical Society, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages, paperback. The history and restoration of the Henry Lloyd Manor House in Long Island, New York. With b&w photographs throughout. Light rubbing to wraps. A bright and clean copy.

Record # 951516


Price: $19.00 

 

Hideaways - Cabins, Huts and Tree House Escapes


Faure, Sonya

Hardcover. Paris, France, Flammarion, First Thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with Illustrated boards & black titles to spine. Profusely illustrated in full color throughout. Dust jacket with only light marginal wear. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751351


Price: $15.00 

 

Historic American Buildings Survey of New Jersey


Bassett, William B.

Softcover. Newark, The New Jersey Historical Society, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of the measured drawings, photographs, and written documents in the survey. Foreword by Robert A. Beck, president of The New Jersey Historical Society; edited by John Poppeliers. 210 pages; in very good condition.

Record # 401091


Price: $35.00 

 

Historic American Buildings Survey, Michigan


McKee, Harley J.

Softcover. Michigan, Historical Society of Michigan/Michigan Society of Architects, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Originally published in Michigan History, 1966. Stapled wrappers with blue illustration, foreword by William K. Alderfer, 18 b&w photographic plates, record of historical buildings in the state of Michigan. Mild rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 807932


Price: $40.00 

 

Historic American Buildings Survey: District of Columbia Catalog


Swartz, Nancy B. Compiler

Hardcover. Washington, DC, University Press of Virginia for the Columbia Historical Society,, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine, no dust jacket. Slight scratch to top edge, else like new.

Record # 606298


Price: $12.00 

Historic Georgetown: A Walking Tour (SIGNED)Carrier, Thomas J.

Historic Georgetown: A Walking Tour (SIGNED)


Carrier, Thomas J.

softcover. Mount Pleasant, SC, Arcadia Publishing, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 469964


Price: $19.00 

 

Historic Houses of Early America


Lathrop, Elise

Hardcover. New York, Tudor Publishing Co , reprint , 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 464 pages. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Illustrated front end paper and fly leaf. Illustrated frontispiece. Decorative stain to top edge. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Includes extensive bibliography and appendix of houses by state. Some pages untrimmed. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857385


Price: $31.00 

 

Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley


Eberlein, Harold D. & Cortland Van Dyke Hubbard

NY, Bonanza, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Orig. Pub. in 1942. 200 black & white photos, 208 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, small piece gone.

Record # 200431


Price: $20.00 

Historical Report: Faneuil Hall, Dock Square and Merchants Row, Boston, Massachusetts 1742Amadon, Elizabeth Reed

Historical Report: Faneuil Hall, Dock Square and Merchants Row, Boston, Massachusetts 1742


Amadon, Elizabeth Reed

Softcover. Boston, MA, Architectural Heritage Inc., 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 20 pages. Softcover report in clear plastic binder.

Record # 33522


Price: $44.00 

History of the United States Capitol (Two Volumes in One)Brown, Glenn

History of the United States Capitol (Two Volumes in One)


Brown, Glenn

Hardcover. New York, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 volumes in one. 113 and 255 pages, b&w illustrations. Light brown covers w/ gilt lettering; bottom right corner lightly bumped. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451357


Price: $40.00 

 

Homes of American Authors


n/a

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam, 1st, 1853, Book: Good, 366 pages. Leather cover with raised bands and ornate decoration. Gilt all edges and marled endpapers. B&w frontispiece with tissue-guard and b&w and color illustrations with tissue guards throughout. Color illustrations on tipped-in plates. Rubbing and wear to cover edges and some light foxing throughout. Else a clean, good copy.

Record # 851595


Price: $200.00 

 

Houses of Old Cuba, The: Photography by Jean-Luc de Laguarique


Llanes, Llilian

Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st American, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, clean inside and out. No rips or tears, edges only slightly age-yellowed (shelf wear).

Record # 30716


Price: $25.00 

 

Houses Of St. Augustine 1565-1821


Manucy, Albert

Paperback. Gainesville, FRENCH LANGUAGE, University of Florida, reprint Wraps, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new paperback. Black & white illustrations.

Record # 202498


Price: $12.00 

 

Hudson Heritage - An Artist's Perspective on Architecture


Smith III, Kark Beckwith

Paperback. Cold Spring, NY, Salmagundi Press, 1st wraps, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 50 black & white drawings of historic buildings along the Hudson River.

Record # 63034


Price: $15.00 

 

Images of American Living: Four Centuries of Architecture and Furniture as Cultural Expression


Gowans, Alan

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. 16 full color reproductions of family members in Colonial costumes. Intact and very clean.

Record # 804810


Price: $22.00 

 

Important American Architectural Designs and Commissions including Arts and Crafts


n/a

Softcover. New York, Christie's, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 66 pages, b&w and color photographs. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851032


Price: $30.00 

 

Important American Architectural Designs and Commissions


n/a

Softcover. New York, Christie's, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 81 pages, b&w and color photographs. Bottom right corner of pages worn. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851031


Price: $20.00 

 

Important American Architectural Designs and Commissions


n/a

Softcover. New York, Christie's, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages, b&w and color photographs. Light edge wear. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851030


Price: $20.00 

 

Important American Art, Pottery, Arts and Crafts, and Architectural Designs and Commissions


n/a

Softcover. New York, Christie's, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 75 pages, b&w and color photographs. Slight creases to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851029


Price: $18.00 

 

Iron and Brass Implements of the English and American House


Lindsay, J. Seymour

Hardcover. London, Alec Tiranti, Revised, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 82 pages with text + numerous un-marked pages with 480 b&w illustrations. Light edgewear, soil to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855162


Price: $35.00 

 

Jefferson and Monticello - The Biography of a Builder


McLaughlon, Jack

Paperback. NY, Henry Holt, pbk rep, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&W Illustrations. 481 pgs

Record # 70617


Price: $12.00 

 

Jekyll Island Cottage Colony, The


McCash, June Hall

Hardcover. Athens, July 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 316 pages, b&w photographs. Light rubbing to dust jacket, sticker residue on rear. Pages slightly warped. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451552


Price: $35.00 

 

Jersey Diners


Genovese, Peter

Hardcover. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press , 2nd printing, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear, scuffing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 854805


Price: $15.00 

 

John Taylor Arms: American Etcher


Bassham, Ben L., Illust. by: John Taylor Arms

Softcover. Madison, WI, Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalogue for an exhibition featuring the etchings of John Taylor Arms. Includes black/white illustrations and an essay by Ben L. Bassham. Some soiling/rubbing on the covers, but interior has virtually no flaws. Good condition.

Record # 804653


Price: $13.00 

 

Just For Fun!, a celebration of architecture


American Institute of Architects Foundation

Softcover. Washington, D.C., AIA Foundation, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages. Bright green stapled covers with black title and white die-cut stapled overlay of architectural skyline, profusely illustrated with b&w photographic plates, introduction by Jeanne Butler Hodges. Light rubbing to covers, tear to right corner of architectural die-cut overlay; otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 806303


Price: $11.00 

 

Las Vegas the Success of Excess


Anderton, Frances/John Chase

Softcover. London/Cologne, Ellipsis/Konemann, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. Large format softcover. Covers show light rubbing along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609101


Price: $12.00 

 

Legacy From the Past - A portfolio of Eighty-eight Original Williamsburg Buildings


N/A

Paperback. Williamsburg, VA, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation , 4th pr. wraps, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 78 pages of color photos. Paperback Edition.

Record # 301625


Price: $25.00 

 

Lighthouses of Maine


Caldwell, Bill

Softcover. US, Down East Books, 1st, 2002-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 465803


Price: $11.00 

 

Litchfield - Portrait of a Beautiful Town


Shepard, Henry L.

Softcover. Litchfield, Litchfield Historical Society, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Wes Paul Studio. Covers show minor rubbing and wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606787


Price: $15.00 

 

Log Cabin in America, The - From Pioneer Days to the Present


Weslager, C. A.

New Brunswick, Rutgers University, 1st , 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages. B&W photos, illustrations. Review slips laid-in. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 303023


Price: $40.00 

 

Look at Architecture, A: Columbus, Indiana


Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce

Softcover. Columbus, IN, Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce, 5th, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear, soiling to wrappers; else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850079


Price: $12.00 

 

Louis Sullivan: The Shaping of American Architecture


Connely, Willard

Hardcover. New York, Horizon Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 322 pages, b&w illustrations. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket with light edgewear, rubbing.

Record # 405136


Price: $25.00 

 

Magnificent Battells, The : An Architechtural Legacy: Norfolk, CT


Dance, Robert Havemeyer Ann;

Hardcover. US, Norfolk Historical Society, 1st, 2006-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 66 pages, b&w photos. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464459


Price: $75.00 

 

Main Street To Miracle Mile - American Roadside Architecture


Liebs, Chester H.

Softcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 2nd Printing, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 259 pages. Softcover with light toning to covers. Black & white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750191


Price: $15.00 

 

Maine Forms of American Architecture


Thompson (editor), Deborah

Hardcover. Camden, Maine, Downeast Magazine, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages. Dark orange cloth cover, black spine with gilt lettering, color illustrated dust jacket, color frontispiece, 132 b&w and color illustrations. Light rubbing to cover to dust jacket surface, small half inch tear to top front cover of dust jacket, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 605473


Price: $26.00 

 

Mall in Washington 1791-1991, The


Longstreth, Richard

Softcover. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. Illustrated with color and black & white photographs and reproductions related to the planning and layout of the Mall in Washington, D.C. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 603660


Price: $22.00 

 

Miklos Suba, Line by Line: A Portfolio of Brooklyn Drawings


N/A

Softcover. New York, James Graham & Sons, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Exhibition catalog. Color illustrations (mostly of black-and-white drawings) throughout. Bottom left corner of rear cover peeling very slightly. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 856459


Price: $13.00 

 

Mission: The History and Architecture of the Missions of North America


Kennedy, Roger S.

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Rose colored fabric covering. In great shape, clean inside and out. From the front flap: "The fascinating story of the missions of North America traces the long trail of 'the friars (who) went forth from Catholic Europe to gain converts among the American Indians...to colonize America for Spain and thereafter to deny its riches to any other Power.' The missions themselves represent a unique example of building on a frontier, memorializing a 'grand endeavor': the westward extension of the great Crusades to the East."

Record # 30449


Price: $19.00 

 

Mississippi Valley Architecture: Houses of the Lower Mississippi Valley


Schuler , Stanley

Hardcover. Exton, PA, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1st, 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 231 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w and color. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Minor wear to upper edges, else a beautiful copy. Like new.

Record # 606151


Price: $19.00 

 

Moffatt-Ladd House - Its Garden and Its Period 1763 - Portsmouth, New Hampshire, The


Orcutt, Philip Dana

Hardcover. Portsmouth, NHSCDA, 2nd, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607564


Price: $15.00 

 

Moffatt-Ladd House: Its Garden and Its Period:1763, The


Orcutt, Phiilip Dana

Softcover. Portsmouth, NH, The New Hampshire Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Blue-cloth backed boards with black spine, laid in pamphlet on the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, numerous b&w plates. Wear to cover edges and spine, discoloration along cover edges due to age, light chipping to some pages; a tight, clean copy.

Record # 806052


Price: $20.00 

 

Moravian Architecture and Town Planning: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Other Eighteenth-Century American Settlements


Murtagh, William J.

Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 145 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 801701


Price: $19.00 

 

Morse-Libby Mansion, Portland Maine, The : A Report on Restoration Work 1973-1977


Phillips, Morgan W.

Softcover. Washington, D. C., Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, National Park Service, U. S. Department of the Interior, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 55 pages. Gray stapled covers with b&w illustration, foreword by W. Brown Morton III, 83 b&w illustrated plates with accompanying descriptions. Mild rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806664


Price: $20.00 

 

Mr. Jefferson Architect (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Guinness, Jr. Desmond; Trousdale Sadler, Julius

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY DESMOND GUINNESS on TITLE PAGE with INSCRIPTION "My Thanks!" Otherwise, a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230261


Price: $38.00 

 

New World Architecture, The


Cheney, Sheldon

Hardcover. New York , Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 404 pages, 389 b&w illustrations, black cloth spine over brown cloth with gilt design. The gilt has faded on spine and covers. Internally clean, some related news clippings laid in, causing some light tanning to prelim pages.

Record # 405797


Price: $38.00 

New York LandmarksBurnham, Alan

New York Landmarks


Burnham, Alan

Hardcover. Middletown, CT, Weslyan University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 430 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Some fading to spine, bump to upper cover corner. Otherwise light normal wear. Clean and tight copy. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in lower corner of front end papers.

Record # 2230932


Price: $15.00 

Observations on American ArchitectureChermayeff, Ivan.

Observations on American Architecture


Chermayeff, Ivan.

New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Fading from former dust jacket flaps inside front and back covers. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Tight copy. Color and black & white images throughout.

Record # 470996


Price: $25.00 

 

Old and New Architecture: Design Relationship


N/A

Washington DC, Preservation Press: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 280 pages. Contains black & white photography and illustrations of architecture. Dust jacket with edgewear.

Record # 508193


Price: $20.00 

 

Old Houses of New England


Mixer, Knowlton

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan , 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 346 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Black & white photographs. Degree of darkening to spine cloth. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613810


Price: $23.00 

 

Open House: A Guided Tour of the American Home 1637-Present


Ierley, Merritt

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Co, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 317 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very light foxing to top text block, otherwise clean tight copy.

Record # 30969


Price: $13.00 

 

Out of Harm's Way : Moving America's Lighthouse


Booher, Mike

Hardcover. US, Eastwind Pub, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 123 pages, photos in b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460736


Price: $15.00 

Out on the Porch: An Evocation in Words and PicturesPrice, Reynolds

Out on the Porch: An Evocation in Words and Pictures


Price, Reynolds

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 5th pr., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 122 pages, b&w illustrations. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 407381


Price: $10.00 

 

Paris Along The Nile


Myntti, Cynthia

Hardcover. Cario , American University In Cairo Press , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Illustrated chapter headings. Silver gilt titles on spine. Previous owner's inscription on title page. Shelf wear to dust jacket covers, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857509


Price: $25.00 

 

Pennsylvania's Architecture


Richman, Irwin

Softcover. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical Association, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Pennsylvania History Studies: No. 10. White stapled wrappers, small color photographic plate to front cover, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Very slight wear to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 807747


Price: $18.00 

 

Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, II


Wells (Ed.), Camille

Softcover. Columbia, Missouri, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages. Illustrated throughout. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Minor cover edge wear, otherwise, in great condition.

Record # 852506


Price: $20.00 

Philadelphia Preserved: Catalog of the Historic American Buildings SurveySurvey, Historic American Buildings

Philadelphia Preserved: Catalog of the Historic American Buildings Survey


Survey, Historic American Buildings

Softcover. 2nd, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 445 pages. Wrinkle to spine, else a nice, tight copy.

Record # 450198


Price: $10.00 

 

Philip Johnson Writings.


Stern, Robert A. M., Vincent Sully, Peter Eisenman,

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 292 pages. White cloth cover, with very little wear, but has some smudges. Dust jacket has a small tear and general fraying on edges. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Frontispiece is an Andy Warhol print of Philip Johnson. Inside is bright and clean, with many b&w illustrations and photographs throughout.

Record # 852590


Price: $40.00 

 

Photogrammetric Recording of Cultural Resources


Borchers, Perry E.

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, National Park Service, U. S. Department of Interior, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 38 pages. Gray stapled covers with black titles and b&w illustrated plates, 29 b&w illustrated figures and diagrams. Mild rubbing to covers; a clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 806662


Price: $8.00 

 

Pictorial History of Architecture in America, A


Kidder Smith, G. E., Illust. by: G. E. Kidder Smith

Hardcover. New York, American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, A set of 2 volumes that strive to create a comprehensive account of American architecture as a whole. Includes buildings from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, all of which the author personally visited. Fully illustrated with hundreds of black/white photographs. Both volumes are in fine condition; hardcover slipcase has very slight wear to the corners and slight rubbing.

Record # 804823


Price: $18.00 

 

Picture History of the Brooklyn Bridge, A


Shapiro, Mary J.

Paperback. NY, Dover, 1st wraps, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 black & white illustrations, 122 pages.Paperback.

Record # 175855


Price: $18.00 

 

Politics of Architecture, The: A Perspective on Nelson A. Rockefeller


Bleecker, Samuel E., Illust. by: Ezra Stoller

Hardcover. New York, The Rutledge Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The relationship between architecture and politics in the life and projects of Nelson A. Rockefeller. 255 pages, illustrated with photographs and drawings (both color and black/white). Very good condition; only wear appears on the dust jacket as light rubbing.

Record # 804816


Price: $16.00 

 

Porches of North America


Visser, Thomas Durant

Hardcover. Hanover, NH, University Press of New England, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 294 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. How porches in their many forms have evolved through innovations, adaptations, and revivals. Many b&w photos and illustrations throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951335


Price: $48.00 

 

PUBLIC BUILDINGS


Wright, Frank Lloyd

Hardcover. New York, Library of Contemporary Architects?, 1st US, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Intro by Martin Pawley. 68 architectural photographs by Yukia Futagawa. 129 pages. Illustrated with line drawings by Frank Lloyd Wright. Royal 8vo. Black cloth, gilt. Price clipped, color dust jacket with light marking.

Record # 220762


Price: $19.00 

 

Pueblo Architecture of the Southwest - A Photographic Essay


Current, William/Vincent Scully

Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 97 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by William Current. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610187


Price: $31.00 

 

Pueblo Architecture of the Southwest: A Photographic Essay


Current (Photographer), William, Vincent Scully (Text)

Hardcover. Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 97 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Minor spotting on front and back endpapers, light edgewear and fading to dust jacket. Otherwise, a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 852637


Price: $30.00 

 

Pump and Circumstance: Glory days of the Gas Station


Margolies, John

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Company, 5th printing, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, wrapped in protective clear, plastic brodart. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. A rich and lively celebration of that icon of American roadside culture: the gas station. Margolies traces the entertaining and significant tradition of gas station design, history, and lore.

Record # 32297


Price: $25.00 

Racecourse ArchitectureRoberts, Paul

Racecourse Architecture


Roberts, Paul

hardcover. London, Turnberry Consulting ; New York, NY : Acanthus Press, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color and b&w photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Includes extensive glossary. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469603


Price: $50.00 

 

Raymond Loewy: (Designs Heroes)


Jodard, Paul, Martin Pawley (Series Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Taplinger Publishing, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Fuchsia cover boards, gilt title on spine. Beautiful copy. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean and bright. Looks nearly new and barely read. Jodard restates the case for Loewy as a heroic figure in American design and in the development of the design profession.

Record # 32122


Price: $19.00 

 

Recording Historic Buildings


McKee, Harley J.

Hardcover. Washington DC, U. S. Department of the Interior, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages. Hardcover. Full page, black & white illustrations throughout, including measured drawings, photographs. Off white canvas boards with light toning. Toning to preliminary pages. Otherwise, clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Record # 750184


Price: $15.00 

 

Report of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department 1884


Bell, M. E.

Hardcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1884, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 text pages plus many engraved plates of government buildings, each with a tissue guard. Brown cloth covers with gilt type on front.

Record # 502304


Price: $70.00 

 

Restorations of Classical Buildings


Stevens, Gorham Phillips

Softcover. Princeton NJ, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Revised Ed., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Second Edition, enlarged with two extra b&w plates (22 total), gray paper wrappers. Clean, light bumps to corners.

Record # 406271


Price: $15.00 

 

Reusing Railroad Stations, Book Two: A Report from Educational Facilities Laboratories and the National Endowment for the Arts


Educational Facilities Laboratories

Softcover. New York, NY, Educational Facilities Laboratories, Inc., 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of uses of old railroad stations; glossy white covers, minor scratches. Paper wrappers. Numerous b/w plates, in various cities, of railroad stations put to new use. Extensive text is divided by use of station and city. 59 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 808437


Price: $12.00 

 

Richard Haas: Architectural Projects 1974-1988


Filler (essay), Martin

Softcover. New York and Chicago, Brooke Alexander and Rhona Hoffman Gallery, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32-page, staple-bound pamphlet. Exhibition catalog. Mostly black-and-white illustrations, with eight in color. Light shelf- and edge-wear. Nice, unmarked copy.

Record # 856605


Price: $15.00 

 

Savannah Revisited - History, Architecture, Restoration


Lane, Mills

Hardcover. Savannah, Beehive Press, 3rd, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 214 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Illustrated with black & white photographs and reproductions relating to the architecture and history of Savannah, Georgia. Clean, Tight copy.

Record # 603639


Price: $38.00 

 

Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy


Quigley, David

Hardcover. US, Hill and Wang, BC Ed., 2003-01-16, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages, b&w photos. Light sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465870


Price: $13.00 

 

Shape and Environment: Furniture by American Architects


Whitney Museum of American Art

Softcover. New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 pages. Exhibition catalog. Dark blue stapled covers with white titles, profusely illustrated with b&w plates, introduction by Lisa Phillips with 23 b&w figures. Slight rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806290


Price: $10.00 

 

Shaping a Nation: Twentieth Century American Architecture and Its Makers


Wiseman, Carter

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 412 pages, illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456480


Price: $20.00 

 

Shingle Styles. Innovation and tradition in American architecture, 1874 to 1982


Roth, Leland M

Hardcover. US, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1999-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462263


Price: $38.00 

 

Small Towns Book, The


Robertson, James/Carolyn Robertson

Softcover. Garden City, Anchor Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Some small spots of price sticker residue on upper right corner of front cover. Remainder spray on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609150


Price: $20.00 

 

Some Historic Houses: Their Builders and Their Places in History


Fitzpatrick (ed.), John C.

Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering, color dust jacket, upwards of 50 b&w plates. Light foxing to dust jacket, light chipping and wear to dust jacket edges, previous owner's inscription to endpaper; overall a tight, clean copy.

Record # 806351


Price: $18.00 

 

Southern Architecture - 350 Years of Distinctive American Buildings


Severens, Kenneth

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with short tears along top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610227


Price: $15.00 

 

Speaking a New Classicism: American Architecture Now


Smith College Museum of Art

Paperback. Northampton, MA, Smith College Museum of Art, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edge wear, previous price sticker on back cover; else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 808855


Price: $15.00 

 

Springboard in the Pond, The: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool


Van Leeuwen, Thomas A.P.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1st Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cover boards bound in teal cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and bright. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new and barely read. Van Leeuwen Explores the human relationship to water from a variety of viewpoints: social, religious, artistic, sexual, psychological, technical, and above all, architectural.

Record # 32300


Price: $25.00 

 

St. Patrick's Cathedral - A Centennial History


Cook, Leland

Paperback. NY, Quick Fox, 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pgs. Foreword by Terence Cardinal Cooke, Intro by Brendan Gill. Color, black & white illustrations. Slight curling to front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 105010


Price: $15.00 

The Houses We live In: An Identification Guide to the History and Style of American Domestic ArchitectureHowe (ed.), Jeffrey

The Houses We live In: An Identification Guide to the History and Style of American Domestic Architecture


Howe (ed.), Jeffrey

Hardcover. California, Thunder Bay Press, 3rd, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 448 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Dust Jacket lightly yelowed. Very clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap, "...a comprehensive guide to the ways we have designed our living spaces."

Record # 30204


Price: $38.00 

 

The Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia


Kimball, Fiske

New York, F.W. Dodge, reprint, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 458 pages. Black & white photographs. Front hinge cracked.

Record # 204338


Price: $15.00 

 

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello


Malone, Dumas (Foreword), Robert Llewellyn (Photography), Charles Granquist (Commentary)

Hardcover. Charlottesville, VA, Thomasson-Grant, Inc, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in dark blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Binding tight, pages clean. Spine straight. An intimate look at Thomas Jefferson's home and final resting place, complete with floor plan.

Record # 32324


Price: $15.00 

 

Three Centuries of Notable American Architects


Thorndike, Jr, Joseph J. & Vincent Scully

Hardcover. New York, American Heritage Publishing Company, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 348 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Pictorial black slip case, no dust jacket. Light wear to slip case, book spine slightly sunned, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606349


Price: $70.00 

 

Tidewater Maryland Architecture and Gardens


Forman, Henry Chandlee

Hardcover. New York, Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated cover boards, Black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Decorated endpapers. Dust jacket price clipped, has some age tanning and wear about the edges. Pages also have a touch of tanning. In great shape for its age. "In a series of concise monographs on Tidewater Maryland's buildings and gardens, classified regionally, Dr. Forman shows the beauty of a time and place which are sadly changed and have very nearly vanished." Illustrated by author.

Record # 31623


Price: $25.00 

 

Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon


Sagalyn, Lynne B.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1st edition, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 620 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Red endpapers. Cover boards bound in black cloth, red title on spine. Pages and edges clean and bright. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new. Sagalyn debunks the myth of an overnight urban miracle performed by Disney and Mayor Giuliani, to tell the far more complex and commanding tale of a twenty-year process of public controversy, nonstop litigation, and seemingly interminable delay.

Record # 32328


Price: $23.00 

 

Treasury of Early American Homes, A


Pratt, Richard

NY, Whittlesay House, unknown, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many color photos. 136 pages.

Record # 65299


Price: $25.00 

 

Treasury of Great American Houses, A


Williams, Henry Lional and Ottalie K.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 400 black & white, 47 color photos. 295 pages. Light foxing to endpapers and on top edge of pages. Dust jacket with tape repaired tears on back of jacket and rubbing/ small tears at top of spine. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 69314


Price: $25.00 

Twentieth Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American LandscapeGutfreund, Owen D.

Twentieth Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape


Gutfreund, Owen D.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 297 pages. b&w illustrations. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket. A nice, clean tight copy.

Record # 452812


Price: $15.00 

 

Under Live Oaks - The Last Great Houses of the Old South


Seebohm, Caroline/Peter Woloszynski

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson Potter, 2nd Printing, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 610226


Price: $15.00 

 

Unreal America, The - Architecture and Illusion


Huxtable, Ada Louise

Softcover. New York, The New Press, 1st Edition, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 188 pages. Softcover. Full color & b/w illustrations throughout. Featured in the New York Times, among other publications, essays on America's preference for invented environments. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750193


Price: $15.00 

 

Urban Wilderness, The: A History of the American City (Classics in Urban History)


Warner, Sam Bass

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st paperback, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.

Record # 2230426


Price: $19.00 

 

Victorian Home in America, The


Maass, John

Hardcover. New York , Hawthorne Books, Inc., 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 235 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Spine slightly shaken, light edgewear and small tear to lower edge of dust jacket lower spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855167


Price: $23.00 

 

Victorian Resorts and Hotels: Essays from a Victorian Society Autumn Symposium


Wilson, Richard Guy(ed.)

Softcover. Philadelphia, Victorian Society in America, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Illustrated with b&w photos. Minor wear on front cover and on spine. The pages are clean and in very good condition.

Record # 802489


Price: $8.00 

 

Washington the National Capital


Caemmerer, H. Paul

Hardcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, An architectural history of Washington D.C. Many black & white illustrations. 736 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering and decorations to front and spine. Rear cover scratched and slightly soiled, corner lightly bumped. Faint foxing to edges and first and last pages.

Record # 108128


Price: $50.00 

 

Washington: Houses of the Capitol


Moore, Derry & Henry Mitchell

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs in b&w. Foreword by Gore Vidal. Gray cloth, gilt title to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Slight wear to edges and spine, else like new.

Record # 606318


Price: $150.00 

 

White House, The: An Historic Guide


n/a

Softcover. Washington, D.C., White House Historical Association, 3rd, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 129 pages. Color illustrations throughout. Some wear, rubbing to cover.

Record # 851700


Price: $12.00 

 

Wish You Were Here: A Tour of America's Great Hotels During the Golden Age of the Picture Post Card


Zaid, Barry

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light wear to dust jacket, clean, tight copy.

Record # 453209


Price: $15.00 

 

World of Antiques, Art, and Architecture in Victorian America, The


Bishop, Robert & Patricia Coblentz

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 495 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Cream gilt-stamped cloth spine and blue boards, edges lightly sunned. Pictorial dust jacket with light wear to edges and spine. Overall a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 606395


Price: $12.00 

 

Writings on Early American Architecture: An Annotated List of Books and Articles on Architecture Constructed before 1860 in the Eastern Half of the United States.


Roos, Jr.,, Frank J.

Hardcover. Columbus, Ohio, The Ohio State University Press, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering, lettering is faded on spine, bumped edges and fraying along spine, smudge on back cover. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 852592


Price: $30.00 

Written in the Bricks: A Visual and Historical Tour of Fifteen Mississippi HometownsMiller, Mary Carol

Written in the Bricks: A Visual and Historical Tour of Fifteen Mississippi Hometowns


Miller, Mary Carol

Hardcover. US, Quail Ridge Pr, reprint , 1999-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages. Extensive color photographs throughout. Includes extensive bibliography. Faint odor, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466498


Price: $23.00 


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