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New Haven, Connecticut: Yale School of Architecture, by Yale University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. Foreword by Robert A.M. Stern, Introduction by Kurt W. Forster, Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. ix [2], 2-174 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Elephant Folio 23" tall. An absolutely gorgeous copy of this elephant-folio format copy in hardcover, bound handsomely and then housed in a black paper-covered slipcase, fully and appropriately illustrated. The volume is bound in a cream linen cloth and with sharp and distinct gold lettering to spine. Nearly 150 full-color or black-and-white plates, the color plates being neatly tipped in. This is the English language version of the series Musee des Grandes Architectures. The interior is brilliantly white, clean and unmarked. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. Gift-quality condition, inside and out.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris: Editions Tel, 1947. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of the printed card stock covers, in gate-fold, less to the text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Presentation de Lucien Wilter. 108 pp. plus a Table of Contents. Thirty different works of French architecture covered with the help of 105 black-and-white illustrations and photographs in toto. Quite an evocative, engaging item, equal parts nostalgic and illustrative.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Roloff Beny. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, very slight sunning along top interior edge, else, not price-clipped, now protected by a plastic coat. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Bound handsomely in gray cloth with white lettering to spine. Well over 150 fine photographs by Roloff Beny and text by Peter Gunn. [8], 9-288 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Contemporary Jewish Museum / Rizzoli International / Skira Editions, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Daniel Libeskind . Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Fine and due homage to the Jewish architect Daniel Libeskind, edited by Connie Young, and with contributions by the architect himself and also Mitchell Schwarzer and James E. Young. Remains the definitive book of Daniel Libeskind's powerful Jewish museums, released on the eve of completion of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco but also built upon the fame and influence he gained for the Jewish Museum he built in Berlin. Sumptuously illustrated throughout in full-color and black-and-white, printed on high-gloss paper. 124 pp. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography..Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional… Read More

Leipzig, Germany: Hiersemann, 1912. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Albrecht Kurwelly. Published in Leipzig, Germany, by Hiersemann, 1912, with bound by Emil Herrmann, Sr., in Leipzig. Translated into English as The portrait in Leipzig from the end of the 17th century to the Biedermeier period. Panel tape [binding].Published on behalf of the Stadtgeschichtlichen Museum zu Leipzig 1912 veranstalteten Portraitausstellung. Von ordentlicher Erhaltung. Folio format, with a series of vii + 68 pages of German-language text bound in simple card stock folder, perfect-bound, showing only the very lightest of wear or soiling, and then 162 plates featuring 174 different illustrations. Each plate is mounted on stiff card stock and then protected by tipped-in tissue-guards (affixed at both head and foot of guard). Dr. Albrecht Kurzwelly contributed the Introduction, written in Leipzig in 1912, and then ensues 68 pages of biobiblographical portraits of sort, followed by a list of… Read More

New York: Rizzoli, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. As New. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Bound in glossy pictorial covers, and paying due homage to the interior design and architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, a piece broken into three long chapters beginning with The Early Years (1916-1950); The Projects (1950-1990; The Legacy, complete with a project list, bibliography and index. Double-column text, and replete with black-and-white and full-color reproductions printed on high-gloss paper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Cambridge, University: MIT Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Published by the M.I.T. Press, bound in overlarge octavo format. Bound in grey cloth with gold lettering to spine. xxvii + 561 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Vercelli, Italy: Whitestar Publishers, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Another fine contribution to the series Art & Architecture, this being focused on the imperative to develop sustainable forms of habitation and architecture. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Big, tall, black cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn but for slight along bottom edge. Assembled by Sabrina Leone, Leone Spita, and Gianpaola Spirito, and with an Introduction by Antonio Terranova. Magnificently illustrated in full-color, quarter- , half- and full-page fashion, quite fine. 304 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1985. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Alan Gore. Big, tall, handsomely bound Imperial octavo hardcover format copy, Stated First American Edition, with "1" in number line present. A fine and engrossing survey of the English house from Medieval dwellings to the present-day. Pea-green cloth over boards, with gilt lettering to spien, quite sharp and distinct. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Regency squares, Georgian villas, and Victorian terraces. Sumptuously illustrated in black-and-white and full-color, printed on high-gloss paper, many in full-page. [6], 7-288 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Washington, D.C: National Gallery of Art, 1989. Softcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Studies in the History of Art, being Volume No. 25, comprising the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Contributions by Henry A. Millon, John Harris, Pierre Du Prey, John Wilton-Ely, Damie Stillman, Brinsley Ford, St. John Gore, Francis Russell, John Cornforth, Oliver Impey, and Anny Somers Cocks, among others. [6], 7-417 pp. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris: Charles Massin et Cie, Editeur. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Elephant Folio 23" tall. Hector D'Espouy. Scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional sets, complete in two volumes, available on-line. Another fine, collectible set by the same author as of Fragments D'Architecture Antique. Collated as complete in two massively heavy, oversized folio-format volumes. They measure 18 1/2" x 13 1/2" in height and width, respectively, both in First Edition state. 100 fine heliogravures / photogravures in sepiatone by Hector D'Espouy (1854-1929) to each volume. Bound in publisher's original half (i.e., nearly complete) red cloth over burgundy-colored, pebbly, seeming leather in portfolio, with still sharp and distinct gilt lettering to cover and spine. Several of the silk linen cloth ties are absent. Covers are considerably worn, not much soiled, plentiful scuffing to and some cloth loss thereof, else structurally sound but with splits to spine… Read More

Zurich, Switzerland: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Square 4to 9" - 11" tall. Gillian White. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in an oblong format, in black paper over boards, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. A lovely collection of the four decades-long career of Gillian Louise White, based on "Tanz in Eisen, Werke aus 40 Jahren. Zur Ausstellung Gillian White. Tanz in Eisen im Kunstmuseum Olten 26. April bis 21. Juni 2009." Congtributions by the various editors. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the… Read More

Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, staple-bound, of an artist exhibit catalog for an exhibition that ran from December 7, 1979 - January 20, 1980, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear and only a very small dot-stain to front wrap, illustrated. 21 pp. and reproducing 55 black-and-white reproductions of Ganso's work, complete with notes and bibliography and captioned paintings.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The M.I.T. Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 390 pp., and with plentiful black-and-white illustrations.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Santa Monica, California: The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Texts and documents from a number of prominent German architects, including Heinrich Hubsch, 1828; Rudolf Wiegmann, 1829; Carl Albert Rosenthal, 1844; Johann Heinrich Wolff, 1845; Carl Gottlieb wilhelm Botticher, 1846; and Heinrich Hubsch, 1847. Introduction by Wolfgang Herrmann. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [1], 2-202 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: Reaktion Books, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Published in First Edition state by Reaktion Books November, London, 1999. According to the publisher's blurb, "Between 1710 and 1770, the inventive, ornate Rococo style should, in the natural course of events, have been Britain's prevailing decorative style. This is the first book to describe and explain its oddly frustrated course in England and, in vivid contrast, its brilliant flourishing in Ireland. The authors' controversial claim is that Ireland not only… Read More

New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1995. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine looking copy in octavo hardcover format, being a reprint of the 1932 edition that was reprinted in 1965, featuring a bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. unread, [12], 13-269 pp. Philip Johnson has added a new Foreword to this edition, too. Preface by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., illustrations galore in black-and-white, complete with notes, bibliography, diagrams, appendix, an an index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Basel, German: Birkhauser - Publishers for Architects, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Erika Sulzer-Kleinemeier. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Original publisher's gray cloth, lettering stamped to spine, in tall, heavy quarto format. 385 pp. Replete with black-and-white and full-color, often full-page photographs, taken by Erika Sulzer-Kleinemeier. Bilingual text, French/English. The publisher's rear jacket blurb has it that "Jean Prouve (1901-1984) was one of the most renowned design engineers of the 20th century. This volume, the third in… Read More

Tubingen, Germany: Wsmuth, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Josef Paul Kleihues. Signed by Author. SIGNED, being inscribed to the influential Lake Forest, Illinois-based architect and art critic and historian from Lake Forest College, Professor Franz Schulze, in German, by Josef Paul Kleihues himself. Glossy pictorial wraps, in gate-fold. Interviews with the German architect with Claus Baldus, Ursula Frohne, Dankwart Guratzsch, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, and Werner Oechslin. Introductory essay by Fritz Neumeyer. Many score fine reproductions in black-and-white, printed on high-gloss paper. [8], 9-126 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.