New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002. 10.5 x 8.8 inches. 180 pages. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial boards. Essays by Jeffrey Kipnis, Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis. Foreword by Sherri Geldin. Foreword by Terence Riley. Introduction by Terence Riley. The publisher: "Perfect Acts of Architecture collects six sets of highly inventive.....
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928. Folio (42 x 27 cm; 16½ x 10¾ inches). 5 pages text, 24 full-page plates including frontispiece. Original quarter white patterned muslin, blue boards, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine; portions of dust jacket preserved. Provenance: Charles R. Lamb (1860-1942), American sculptor and architect.....
Philadelphia, Richmond, Lexington: Robert and William Care for Johnson and Warner. 4to (245 x 205 mm). 43 (of 44, lacking the final plate of Christ Church) engraved plates, some folding. Contemporary sheep, gilt-ruled on spine. Covers bowed and stained; characteristic foxing and offsetting. Second edition, following the exceedingly scarce first.....
Australia: Images Publishing Group, 2010. 8vo. 240 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "Gyo Obata is an internationally recognised architect and one of the founding partners of HOK. This book not only tells the story of the various buildings that Obata designed, but also encourages the belief in good design.....
Oslo: H. Aschehoug, 1944. 4to. 117 pages, including a number of illustrations. A very good copy in original printed paper wrappers.
Tarrytown, NY: Sleepy Hollow Press, 1983. 11 x 8.5 inches. 310 pages. Fully illustrated in color. Original brown cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
Paris: Daumont, circa 1770. 6 parts in one volume, folio (458 x 305 mm). 30 engraved plates including 6 titles and 12 engraved plates by Voisord after Delafosse of trophies from various other countries; 10 engraved plates after Delafosse of mantelpieces laid in. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. Some wear at extremities.....
Madrid: Ivory Press / Carré d’Art, 2013. 4to. In French and English. 420 pages. Decorated cloth. FIRST EDITION. "To mark the 20th anniversary of the Carré d’Art Musée d’art contemporain, in Nîmes, Norman Foster has been invited to curate the exhibition Moving. Norman Foster on Art, which will open on.....
Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 2005. 4to. 160 pages. Color photographs. Printed boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "More than 125 gorgeous photographs showcase the beauty of award-winning stonemason Lew French's work in eight different homes, illustrating how rounded fieldstone, gray slate, rough granite, and even curvy driftwood can be incorporated.....
Augsburg: Johann Schultes and Mathias Rembold, 1641. Folio (300 x 203 mm). Letterpress title printed in red and black (torn and repaired), 15 double-page or folding engraved plates or plans by Matthäus Rembold (1629–1657), on guards. Contemporary vellum. Some plates trimmed closely. Provenance: purchased from Ars Libri, 1990. FIRST EDITION.....
Tehran: National Land and Housing Organization, 1975. Folio. 229pp. Text in Arabic and English. Illustrated in color. Original white boards; pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy with modest wear to the jacket, internally clean and bright. FIRST EDITION. One of 5000 copies.
Jaap Rietman, 1977. 4to. Loose sheets in a cardboard portfolio.
London: Architecture Association, 1986. Square folio. 28-page pamphlet in wrappers; 20 silkscreens; together in black cloth clamshell box. FIRST EDITION, number 29 of 1000 copies signed by Holmes on the cover of the box.
New York: Phaidon Press Inc., 2009. First edition. Folio. 231pp. Profusely illustrated. Original pictorial boards; die-cut dust jacket.
London: Architectural Association, 1985. Square cloth folding case (12 x 12 in.) containing: nine plates, three on board, including the use of silkscreen, relief sculpture, embossed paper, and printed acrylic. And 28-page illustrated text in glazed paper portfolio. FIRST EDITION of this scarce work on the Japanese architect and artist.....
Paris: Gustave Barba, [nd]. 4to. 380 pages. Frontispiece with 25 engraved plates throughout. Marbled paper over boards with gilt-stamped spine. FIRST EDITION. Text in French.
[Circa 1788]. 29 plates (of 40) including title, plates 345 x 220 mm, sheets 495 x 330 mm. Some printed on tinted blue paper. Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards. Plates 26-28 with some pale staining. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, a rare proof copy before changes to the title. A CHARMING.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. First edition, inscribed by the author. Quarto. Original grey cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by Maya Lin on the half-title. Best known for creating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., artist and architect Maya Lin opened her studio in 1987. This is.....
New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2015. Folio. 148 pages. 150 color illustrations. Pictorial wrappers with bolted leather spine enclosures. FIRST EDITION.
San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1961. 12 x 9 inches. Black-and-white photographs. Original white wrappers. The catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition of the architect's work at the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego. Includes texts.....
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962. 8vo. 372 pp. Plates. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. A near-fine copy with light wear to jacket, a few minor spots to sheet edges. FIRST EDITION. A fine association copy, inscribed by Richard Neutra to the photographer Barbara Morgan on the half-title: “To Barbara Morgan and.....
Paris: Imprimerie des Hospices Civils, an XI [1802-1803]. Three parts in one volume, 4to (250 x 197 mm). viii, 200; [2], 67; [2], 16 pp. Half-title. Folding table at end. Late 19th-/early 20th-century boards. Provenance: Bibliothèque Imperiale (inkstamp on some text leaves and table, duplicate stamp). FIRST EDITION. Contains a......
[Paris]: 1785-1786. 4to (231 x 183 mm). 44pp. Three large folding engraved plates. Late 19th-/early 20th-century boards. Intermittent foxing. Provenance: with contemporary ink annotations in French on the title identifying designers of other plans; Bibliothèque Imperiale (inkstamp on some text leaves and plates, duplicate stamp); Louis Greenbaum (bookplate). [BOUND WITH:].....
New York: Rizzoli, 1990. 4to. 288 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by Pelli on the half-title, and with the recipient's address label affixed to title. A fine monograph on the Argentinian-born American architect, including a study of the World Financial Center in Battery Park.....
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London, New York, San Francisco: Pentagram Design, 1970. Oblong (7 x 9.5 inches). Original printed wrappers. The Kingswalden Notes are Quinlan Terry's journal recording the deign and building of Kings Walden Bury, a new country house in Hertfordshire, which was completed in 1971.
