New York: The Co-operative Building Plan Association, 1886. Leather. First Edition. 63 plates are present out of original 100. Folio. The "Hand Book," which is extremely rare, is missing, but the "Supplement" and a stiff "Card of Approximate Contract Prices" are both present. The individual plates are enclosed in the original, rare, leather portfolio with buckle closure. The portfolio is of black grained leather with crimson leather spine and corners which have blind-stamped, decorative rules. The spine is quite deteriorated. The front cover has "Builders' Portfolio No. 2." blind-stamped in faded gilt. Portfolio end papers and fold-over flaps are of covered with floral paper. The portfolio is somewhat aged, soiled and worn. The plates are slightly aged, soiled, and/or foxed. Even without all of the..... More

New York: The Grolier Club, 2013. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 286, [2] pp. 4 pp index laid in. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Catalog for the exhibition of the same name held at The Grolier Club in New York December 11, 2013-February 7, 2014. Printed in an edition of 1,500 copies. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine / fine. More

Boston, MA: Marshall Jones Company, 1930. Hardcover. First Edition. 242 pp. 8vo. Light scuffing and soiling to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean within. Very good / very good. More

Shepherd, Thos. H. London: Jones & Co., 1827-1829. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. 160, iii; vi, 12 (Subjects), 172, ii (List of Engravings). Both volumes have red leather spine with five slightly raised bands, gold embossed titling and decoration, losses at head and foot of spine. Volume I front board hanging by one cord, considerable foxing to frontispiece engraving and first title page with engraving of Temple Bar, From the Strand. Volume II front board detached. Marbled endpapers, considerable foxing to frontispiece engraving and first title page with engraving of Sussex Place at Regent's Park; this title page appears to have suffered water damage and was re-backed with another sheet of paper by a binder, second title page undamaged. Light foxing throughout, including the numerous..... More

Madison, WI: Jones Books, 1993. Trade Paperback. First Edition. 105 pgs. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.
An important work on Wright's contribution to book and graphic design. Fine. More

Park Forest, IL: The Prairie School Press, 1967. Wraps. First Edition. 23 pp. 4to. Very minor scuffing to covers, clean within.
An important early journal in the study of Prairie School Architecture with its origins in the American Midwest. The articles in this issue are "The Brief Career of a Sullivan Apprentice: Parker N. Berry" by Donald Hoffmann, "Ethics of Ornament" by Frank Lloyd Wright, & "The Edward W. McCready House; Spencer and Powers, Architects" by J. William Rudd. Very Good. More

Rio di Janeiro/Salvador, Brazil: Livraria Kosmos Editora Ltda/Fundacao Cultural do Estado da Bahia, 1986. Hardcover. First Edition. 146 pp. 4to. Light wear and chipping to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. White glossy cover boards with gray titling to cover and spine. Clean within. Heavily illustrated survey of decorative tiles of the Bahia region of Brazil. Very Good / Very Good. More

New York: Sears Publishing Company, 1932. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. viii, 305 pp. 8vo. Bright orange covers with very light darkening to spine, bumping to corners and light scuffing. Oddly, publisher printed on base of spine, Dodd, Mead & Company, is not the same as Sears Publishing Company printed on title page. Nevertheless, a scarce volume. Very Good. More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing, 1999. 216 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
A stunning book of modern architecture filled with iconic images by the great architectural photographer Ezra Stoller. Fine / fine. More

Philadelphia, PA: The Society of Architectural Historians, 1991. Wraps. First Edition. 4to. Dark rust paper covers with very light scuffing.
Siry's important article on an early project by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is explored on pp. 235-265. The Abraham Lincoln Center was started by Wright, but finished by Dwight Heald Perkins after Wright's falling out with his uncle and patron, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, over design details. Fine. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1878. Hardcover. First Edition. v, 756 pp. 31 plates. 4to. Recent brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy title patch with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, decorative stamp in each compartment without titling, blind embossed borders to front and rear boards. Table of Contents has a horizontal tear mid-page on p.[v], triangular piece missing from lower right corner of p. 163. Interiors clean. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
John Tyndall (1820-1893) found that increasing temperature on objects killed or reduced the number of endospores produced by bacteria that lead to infection. The autoclave was developed out of this research and Tyndall's work, along with Louis Pasteur..... More

New York: Bramhall House, 1965. Hardcover. First Edition. First Bramhall House Edition. 164 pp. Folio. Light scuffing to dust jacket, rippling at lower left corner of front panel which has caused slight bubbling to the plastic paper coating, now in mylar cover. Light beige cloth boards with red title block on spine, very clean within. Text in English, French, and German.
A reproduction of the original bound volume published by Wijdeveld in 1925 (Sweeney 165 & 1604). Fine / very good. More