New York: Wittenborn and Co., 1970. First edition, first printing, American issue, published simultaneously in Germany and America. Signed by Hilla Becher on the title page. Near Fine with light splaying to the boards and light toning to contents. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning, rubbing..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1838. Second edition. Rebound in early 20th century calf with gilt ruling and lettering, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, all edges gilt. Elephant folio. Ex-library copy, noncirculating, with bookplates on paste down and front free endpaper, perforation to title page, call number stamped in..... More
San Francisco, CA: The Arion Press, 1984. Limited edition. One of 400 copies, signed by the illustrator Michael Graves. Bound in publisher's grey pictorial boards over green cloth spine with grey paper spine label. Housed in a green cloth slipcase with gray paper onlays depicting the front and back entrances..... More
Alexandria: Whitehead Morris Limited, 1938. Second edition. Number 72 of 250 limited copies signed by E. M. Forster. xii, 218 [1 blank] and folding map; numerous plates and smaller folding maps throughout. Bound in publisher's orange boards lettered in black. Very Good+ with slight lean to binding, light fading to..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1938. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original bronze cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with light soiling to cloth, light wear to spine ends, pages tanned. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light soiling and light edge wear, slight fading to..... More
Detroit: Service Section General Motors Corporation, [1948]. First edition. [x], 142 pp. Illustrated with diagrams and color plates. Bound in publisher's oblong illustrated boards. Measures 9.75" x 13.5". Near Fine with light toning and rubbing to boards, minor wear and bumping to corners, former owner's name embossed in front board..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955. First edition, first printing. Signed by Walter Gropius and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's grey cloth stamped in black and white. Near Fine with light worming and light toning to cloth. Paged toned and endsheets offset..... More
Munich: Albert Langen, 1929. [ca 1929] Second edition. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth stamped in red. Very Good with light splaying to boarsd, cloth lightly soild and faded, scuff to rear cover. Pencil markings to contents. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. First edition. Signed by Victor Gruen on front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner in the year of publication. 368 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth blue and gilt stamping. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with wear along top edge, two tiny..... More
London: [No publisher], 1896-1938. 41 volumes. Bound in varying blue cloth bindings, most stamped in gilt. Includes handwritten diaries for 1896-1899, 1901-1911 and 1913-1938. Very Good+ with light shelf wear, a few volumes have staining to the covers else fine. Various ephemera laid-in including a note relating to his Czech..... More
New York: Random House, 1984. First edition, first printing. Signed by Jana Jacobs and inscribed to a former owner on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Near Fine with faint splaying to boards, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a...... More
New York: Random House, 1984. First edition, first printing. Signed by Jana Jacobs and inscribed to a former owner on the half-title page, "Best wishes to Brian Newman Portland May 2004". Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Very Good with light bowing to boards, minor..... More
New York: Random House, 1961. First edition, first printing stated. Signed by Jane Jacobs and inscribed to a former owner on fly-leaf with date Jan. 1962. [xii], 458 pp. Bound in publisher's black patterned cloth with spine lettered in gilt and red, red topstain. Very Good with faint lean to..... More
New York: Random House, 1969. First edition, first printing. Signed by Jane Jacobs on the half-title page and inscribed "This is my best book (I think)." Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in blue and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light foxing to textblock edge, in a Near Fine..... More
London: Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen, 1856. First edition of one of the greatest illustrated books of the 19th century. Imperial folio, bound in publisher's brown half morocco over brown cloth boards, Egyptianate pictorial stamping to spine and matching gilt-stamped morocco panel to the front board, all edges..... More
Philadelphia: Published by The Falcon Press, 1962. First edition. A lovely association copy, signed by Louis I. Kahn on the title page and inscribed "To Jean France whose truth of spirit prevails in every art of her being. I owe my own devotion to the work of interpreting the spirit..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. First edition, first printing. Signed by Rem Koolhaas on the half title page in 2011. Bound in publisher's pink cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in black. Near Fine, with bumping to corners, and light fading to cloth at edges. In a Very Good+ dust..... More
Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press & Harvard University Press, [1965]. Signed by Kevin Lynch on the front free endpaper, inscribed to Donald Schon, a fellow MIT professor whose bookplate is laid in, once attached to front paste down, glue remnant. Schon was a philosopher who invented the concept of..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert Moses as Bob, and inscribed to a former owner on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original dark blue leather stamped in gilt, with gilt spine titles blocked in pinkish-red, top edge gilt. Fine, in acetate wrapper..... More
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[no place]: [no publisher], ca. 1930s. Two photography albums consisting of 764 black and white images of the (then) 48 state capitol buildings plus the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. Compiled by an unknown photographer and neatly arranged in two identical string-bound black paper-covered boards decorated in blind and titled..... More
London: Printed by John Watts, for the Author, 1715. First English edition, first printing. Bound in full period-style crimson Morocco leather with elaborately gilt ruled edges and spine compartments; black Morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, all edges speckled, four volumes, 11x17", tall folios. Book 4 is divided into 2..... More
Grand Rapids, MI: Conant Ball Company, ca. 1950. A fantastic mid-century modern furniture showroom catalog from one of America's former leading manufacturers of maple wood furniture. 14 x 10.75". Twenty-five black and white photographs with rigid transparent plastic covers in original plastic comb binding. With five additional black and white..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1874. New edition, limited to 1,500 copies signed by John Ruskin at the end of the preface. Three volumes. Bound in contemporary full pebbled morocco with heavily gilted spines with raised bands, wide turn ins with dentelle, all edges gilt. Bindings lightly rubbed. A beautifully..... More
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1972. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Robert Venturi to previous owners "A graphics monstrosity for Tom and Marjorie with our thanks for a heavenly day / Bob and Denise / April '81" with Denise Scott Brown's signature ("and Denise") added to Venturi's..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1904. First edition, first printing. xii, 270 pp, 52 in-text and full-page illustrations in color and black and white, of which 26 are plates by Parrish. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with pictorial stamping in color and gilt. Very Good with moderate rubbing to..... More