Architecture

Milan: Electa Architecture, 2005. Signed by Waro Kishi. First edition / First printing. Black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Roanoke, VA: Allied Arts Guild, 1992. SIGNED first edition, limited to 1500 copies. Published Roanoke, VA: Allied Arts Guild, 1992, first printing. Square folio, 13 1/4" x 12 5/8", 192pp., illustrated with reproductions of 60 historical drawings and 18 prints that mark the city's transition into architectual "modernism". Inscribed by author to artist Diana Kan on half title. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed by Author. 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. Folio.

Tokyo: Shokokusha Publishing Co 1964. Signed on the title page and dated by the author. Additionally Inscribed: Aug 26, 1965 To: Frank Jones Best Wishes Masao Kinoshita. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth with gilt title on front cover in English and Japanese title in white on the spine. Fine in very good slipcase With rubbing and wear. Clear plastic jacket is not present. Both white paper flaps with author information in English and Japanese are present and are in near fine condition. Text in English and Japanese. Kinoshita worked with Sasaski, Walker and Associates; Eero Saarinen and Associates, and other prestigious firms and schools.

NY: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1985. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Rizzoli, 1985, first printing. Square 4to., 11 1/4" x 11 1/4", 224pp., illustrated with hundreds of photos and reproductions documenting 123 historic residences in black and white and color. 9" x 53" color map of the Hudson River locating the 123 houses enclosed. Very good in very good minus dust jacket with several closed edge tears. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 4to.

Istanbul: Imprimerie et Lithographie Centrales, 1873 Book. Illus. by SEBAH,MONTANI EFFENDI,BOGHOS EFFENDI,CHACHIAN AND MAILLARD. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. (VII) GERMAN AND FRENCH TEXT OF TITLE AND INTRODUCTION IN TOW COLUMNS. 3 SUBTITLE PAGES IN FRENCH AND GERMAN: L'ARCHITECTURE OTTOMANE, PREMIERE PARTIE. INCLUDES THREE PARTS: (PART II) PRECIS HISTORIQUE (OTTOMANISCHE BAUKUNST, ERSTER THEIL, HISTORISCHER UEBERBLICK). (PART III) DOCUMENTS HISTORIQUE (TECHNISCHE DOCUMENTE). DEUXIEM PARTIE, INCLUDES EIGHT PARTS: (1) MONOGRAPHIE DE YECHIL-DJAM DE BROUSSE (2) SULEYMANIE A CONSTANTINOPLE (3) SELIMIE D'ANDRINOPLE (4) YENI-DJAMI DE CONSTANTINOPLE A EMIN-EUNU (5) TURBE DE SULTAN SULIMAN LE LEGISLATEUR (6) TURBE DU CHEH-ZADE (7) LA FONTAINE DE SULTAN AHMED III A BAB I HUMAIOUN (8) FONTAINE D'AZAB KAPY. TROISIEME PARTIE, CONTAINS THREE PARTS: (1) FLORE ORNEMENTALE ET METAMORPHOSES (2) NOTICES SUR L'ORNEMENTATION OTTOMANE (3) NOMENCLATURE DES OEUVRES DU CELEBRE… Read More

Seattle / New Haven: Henry Art Gallery / Yale, 2006 Signed on the title page by Maya Lin and dated 2006. Additionally signed by Lawrence Weschler, who contributed the Foreword. First edition / First printing. Off White cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The catalogue of Maya Lin's 2006 exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. An attractive production. The cover is embossed with the artist's "Waterline.

Tokyo Shuppan: Toto, 2008. Signed with a lovely drawing on the front free endpaper by Tadao Ando. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Text in Japanese and English. Tadao Ando is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 1995.

Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 2003. Signed by Tadao Ando with the addition of an original drawing. First edition / First printing. Illustrated wrappers with French flaps. Very fine. Clear archival mylar jacket supplied. Tadao Ando is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 1995.

THE GREATEST BOOK OF RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTUREIllustrated with 205 large woodcuts, including 74 full-page and 7 double-page blocks; magnificent allegorical woodcut title border; large woodcut head-pieces and large floriated and grotesque woodcut initials; leaf I4 slightly taller than the rest of the text block, to accommodate a tall column woodcut, with about 2 cm section at top folded in. Royal Folio. 19th-century ¼-vellum over marbled boards; spine decorated and lettered in gilt; edges gilt. Paris: Fédéric Morel, 1567. First Edition. First Issue. The most influential and most lavishly illustrated handbook of French Renaissance architecture. The first and only published volume. A second volume was planned by the author but never completed.Mortimer, Harvard College Library Cat.: French 16th-Century Books, no.355; Brunet, Supple. I, 888-9; Fowler Architect. coll. 99; Clouzot, Philibert de l'Orme, pp. 90-107; Berliner Ornamentstichkatalog 2362; Pettegree, French Vernacular Books 15434; cf. Adams L… Read More

New York: Rizolli, 1986. Signed by the architect on the half-title page. Additionally inscribed: New York 1988 For Eric Klock from Robert A M Stern. First edition / First printing. Green cloth. Near fine, with mild sunning to the top edge of the boards, in near fine dust jacket with slight fading to the spine, and a surface scratch to the rear panel. Eric Klock is a Snohomish, Washington based Architect, founder of KPA Associates.

New York (1999): Rizzoli Publisher's promotional poster, no date (1999), featuring a Paul Rocheleau color photograph of Falling Waters, the famous Wright-designed home in Mill Run, Pa. Near Fine, faint creases in margins. A lovely poster, highly suited for framing. All posters shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tubs. . Poster. 20" x 30".

New York: Monacelli Press, 1995. Signed on the title page by Rem Koolhaas. First edition / First printing. Black and yellow ink over metallic cloth. Light wear, near fine. Rem Koolhaas is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 2000.

Cape Goliard Press. London. 1968. LIMITED EDITION. (12 x 10 inches). One of just 100 numbered and signed copies (this number 4) from a total edition of 500. Printed at the Trigram Press, London, in four colours. 8pp, plus colour printed laminated card covers, designed by Paul Vaughan, and frosted paper wraps with the title printed in blue to the front. The whole booklet is held together with the original white metal clasp spine. First page with a Buckminster Fuller design, printed in bright yellow and with red lettering, the other pages printed in blue and showing detailed diagrams of four of his invented construction ideas. A sharp and bright copy of this rare edition.

Two volumes of Presuhn's souvenir books with 75 vibrant chromolithographs of wall paintings discovered in PompeiiLes Decorations Murales de Pompeii, 1878.With 24 chromolithographs after original drawings by Geremia Discanno, lithographed by Victor Steeger, and 51 pages of text in French translated from the German by A. Giraud-Teulon. Bound with Choix des Plus Belles et Interessantes Peintures de Pompei, avec Plan de la Ville, 1882With 50 chromolithographs after original drawings by Emile Presuhn and Geremia DiscannoAlong with wall paintings from all four eras of design, the plates depict floor mosaics, portraits, statues, plaster-casts of bodies, and plans of houses and the excavations. Presuhn (1844-1881) was a German archeologist who lived and worked in Italy for almost decade from 1870 publishing books illustrating the latest murals, mosaics and discoveries made in the excavations in Pompeii. Discanno (1839-1907) was an Italian artist and painter who worked in Naples and Pompeii.Red cloth binding… Read More

This library is specialized in primarily residential architecture but also includes general architecture, landscape architecture and a very limited number of interior design titles. It generally spans from c. 1900 to the present, with a small number of late 19th century titles. It is believed that only a single title is a low-quality, print-on-demand edition. Many are unavailable for purchase anywhere. I have been assembling this collection for 50 years. Anyone requesting to examine the collection will have to confirm their identity. I am willing to consider selling individually selected titles.
A number of international titles are from numerous countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia, thus the collection is broadly representative of worldwide architecture. Although a number of common titles are included, some are extremely rare, some valued over $1,000, and many are still shrink wrapped, so there is a broad diversity of titles. An Excel listing is available on request, although ISBN numbers have… Read More