ARCHITECTURE from First Folio

New York: Columbia University Press, 1939. First edition. Trifling rubs to spine extremes, else fine in VG+ dust jacket with minor chipping. Ink gift inscription on front pastedown. First edition. 8vo. xvii, 243p. Illustrated from photos. Bound in full green cloth with paper spine label.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1921. Exceptionally nice copies in dust jackets. Books with just trifling rubbing to edges, front panel of Vol. II dust jacket toned. Slipcase perished.. Two volumes. xviii, 260p; ix, 238p. Illustrated. Small 4to. Green cloth with architectural ornaments in gilt on the upper covers, t.e.g. Burnham (1846-1912) was a major Chicago architect… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Murray, 1876. The covers quite fine and bright, interiors with minor light scattered foxing. A two-page ALs wedding gift presentation is tipped into Vol I. Two volumes. 8vo.xii (ii) 375p; v, (ii) 378-790p. Title pages in red and black. Illustrated with 4 frontispieces and titles, diagrams of floor plans for each cathedral, and 105 numbered plates.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: American Institute of Architects, 1925. First edition. Minor spotting to tan cloth, dust jacket with chips to spine crown and some soiling, quite presentable. First edition. 50p. with 5 inserted color plates, and 273 plates in b&w. Folio. Gilt-titled tan over blue cloth, illustrated endpapers. Provenance: Bookplate of George A. Beltemacchi, Associate Architect, University of Chicago… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 1985. First edition. Slight tide mark to spine and gutters with subsequent bleed to the inside of the dust jacket. All else tight and fine. (A very heavy volulme). First edition. Quarto. xxvi, 1078p. Publisher's maroon cloth with silver spine titles. "'...approaches British domestic architecture in the eighteenth and early nineteenth… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: William Helburn, 1927. First edition. The binding is worn with frayed spine ends, complete and sound with clean interior, thus good only. First edition. Tall folio. [xii], 191 plates. Gilt-titled blue cloth. Illustrated from photos and floor plans. Foreword by Harvey Wiley Corbett and Introduction and Commentary by Matlack Price. Quite scarce.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948. First edition. SIGNED by Saarinen and Christ-Janer and hand numbered Number 641 on rear flyleaf. Owner's name stamped on inside front cover, very minor wear. About fine. First edition. SIGNED by Saarinen and Christ-Janer and hand numbered Number 641 on rear flyleaf. Quarto. xii, 54p. Illustrated. Forward by Alvar Aalto. Bound in… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: The Monacelli Press, 1998. First edition in English. SIGNED by GEHRY. Slight lean due to the volume's weight. Fine and bright in like dust jacket. First edition in English. SIGNED by GEHRY. Large quarto. (iv), 614p. Illustrated throughout from color photos and schematics. Bound in black cloth with silver spine title and Gehry's name in blind… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chicago AND London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. First edition. Fine in fine d.j.. First edition. Quarto. xiv, 442p. Illustrated in color. Gilt-titled black cloth. From the series Historical Studies of Urban America.

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969. First edition. About fine. First edition. Quarto. 179p. Printed on coated stock and fully illustrated from photos and drawings. Bound in publisher's gray fabric with titles in black on spine and upper cover.

Detroit: Omingraphics, 1996. Reprint of the 1954 edition. Fine, review copy with review label pasted to front endpaper. Reprint of the 1954 edition. 821p. Red glazed boards with title and designs in black and white. A reprint of "Colvin's 9154 dictionary which covered about 1000 architects of the 1660-1840 period." (Sheehy BE294).

Niles, MI (also Lexington, KY, Berkeley, CA, and Toronto, Canada): Kawneer, 1954. Near fine in very good slipcase with minor rubbing. Oblong quarto with plastic spiral binding. Printed on heavier paper stock, the illustrations in black and white with the legends on blue or brown grounds or color frames. Quite scarce.

New York: Doubleday, Page, 1908. First edition (but with Putnam's imprint on spine). VG. First edition (but with Putnam's imprint on spine). vii, 459p. Illustrated from photos. Folio. Gilt-titled green cloth. A lovely book divided into four sections: Italian Villas, French Chateaux, English Places, and American Places.

Paris: Morel, 1875. First edition. Endpapers chipped, preliminaries dusty, binding with wear, but all quite strong and complete - plates fine. First edition. Two volumes. Large folio. [iv], 28p. Illustrated with 200 engraved plates of facades and floor plans. Volume I bound in quarter maroon morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g., brown spine labels, gilt; volume II… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: F. Lewis (Publishers) Limited, 1937. First edition. About fine in soiled but complete dust jacket. First edition. Large quarto. viii, 101p. Illustrated with 139 plates (plates not figured in the pagination). Tan cloth with gilt titles on spine and upper cover. Includes grates, doors, handles, lighting devices, railings, fittings, etc.

New York: Geo. E. Woodward, 1865. Minor rubbing with minor frays to spine extremes, but VG. Small 8vo. vi, [7]- 188p, [iv, ads]. Also 4 pages of ads inserted between iv and v. Illustrated. Publisher's green cloth with yellow endpapers, gilt spine titles, bands in blind around covers. Early bookseller's embossed stamp on flyleaf. Hitchcock 1431.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1923. First edition. Minor rubbing to extremes, VG+. First edition. xvi, 280p. Illustrated, including 13 plates in color. Thick 4to. Blue cloth with titles and designs in gilt, t.e.g., illustrated endpapers. Bicentenary Memorial Volume published under the auspices of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Versailles: A. Bourdier, 1921. Light fading to spine and edges of wrapper, else fine. Oblong quarto. 20 lovely color plates (8 1/4" X 11 3/4") with accompanying text in English and French. Preface by Fernand Sabatte. Bound in black-printed red wraps.

New York: The Century Company, 1906. First edition. Fine. First edition. Quarto. xviii, 363p. Illustrated from photos and color plates by Jules Guerin. Bound by Erbe, Crombie & Lamothe in half dusty blue crushed morocco with cloth sides and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and panel ornaments of fleur-de-lis.

New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1997. First edition. Fine in d.j.. First edition. Tall quarto. 207p. Illustrated from drawings and color photos. Untitled blue cloth.