Skeleton Construction in Buildings with Numerous Practical Illustrations of High Buildings by Birkmire, William H - 1907

London: A & C Black, 1904. First edition. Hard cover in original patterned cloth. Published London: A & C Black, 1904. 4to., 9" x 10 3/4", xxvi+153pp., illustrated with 125 black and white and color, full page plates, all with tissue guards, top edge gilt. Four inch split to rear outer hinge cloth, some soil and fade to the covers and spine. Pages and plates clean and bright, internally very good. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket. 4to.

NY: John Lane, 1910. Vol. 39, Comprising November, December, 1909, January, February, 1910, Numbers153, 154, 155, 156 as originally published in the cloth edition. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: John Lane, 1910. 4to., 8 1/2" x 11 1/2". 340pp.+civ, profusely illustrated with b/w plates, some in color. Brangwyn, J.P. Campbell, Stickley, Gilbert, Pennell, Lucas, Ricketts, three illustrations by F.L. Wright. Sweating indications to lower rear cover and page block with slight wrinkling to a portion of the last 100 or so sheets, spine moderately darkened, else Very good. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to. Magazines & Periodicals.

Léon Arnoult: La Variabilité du Gout dans les Arts. Les phases ornamentales de la mode (The variability of taste in the arts. The ornamental phases of fashion). Printed and published by Devambez "À l'enseigne du masque d'Or". Paris, 1921. ARNOULT Léon - William ABLETT (1877-1937 illustrator). Preowned, Signed. A l'Enseigne du Masque d'Or, chez Devambez, 1921, in-4°, 87 pp + 7 plate illustrations, printed in 303 numbered copies. Sewn, original printed stiff wrapper over blind wrapper. Printed wrapper, interior fine, uncut and unopened copy. Two of the illustrations are mixed technique plates by William Ablett, one is signed in pencil by the artist: a circular engraving with a lithographic image printed on it and heightened with gold. Editorial paperback, Jacket with title to the framed flat, beautiful allegorical friezes, endpapers, eyelet, cover page with the same frieze (antique collection stamp). The quantity of circulation - 303 copies justified, and numbering - №120, a preface paper,… Read More

London: Cassell, 1998. First edition thus. First English edition (UK). Trade softcover. Published London: Cassell, 1998, first printing. Large 8vo. wrappers, 6 1/4" x 9 1/4", xvii+200pp., illustrated with b/w and color plates. Near very fine, crisp, tight.. 1st. Soft Cover. Near Very Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

Zurich: Bruno Bischofberger, 1988. First edition of an edition of 2,000 copies. Softcover in dust jacket. Published Zurich: Bruno Bischofberger, 1988, first printing. Black, blind stamped 8vo. wrappers in printed brown paper dust jacket. 203pp., illustrated with plates. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Soft Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1890 IN GOOD CONDITION, with a protective mylar cover. viii, 578pp, bound in original tan/brown cloth, includes half-title, frontis and folding illustration in back. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT. Covers show corner wear, edge splits to top/heel of backstrip, darkened spine, foxing on prelims, front hinge cracked, back hinge taped. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Third and Enlarged Edition.

1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Oblong copy in slipcase, NF/NF, 1st edn, luxury redevelopment project in Shanghai, scarce, well illustrated, maps, floor plans, unpaginated, lovely colour panoramic views of buildings along harbour line, orange spine in black case.Best guess at publication date 2010.

1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good only as cloth folio in battered condition, text and 39 of 40 cps (plate 67 of the Arab group is missing); this is Vol. II only (there were originally four portfolios)--Christian Primitive(4 plates), Byzantine (18) and 17 Arabic decor/arch., Italian text, 42 b/w figures in text booklet. Color of plates bright. Many plates have small tears at margins, creases, occasional taping from rear and two (56 and 57) a bit of margin soiling. 41cm x 31cm (plates= 32cm x 24cm).

1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Vol. XVI--Bound in 6 issues, Jan-June, all the ads and covers included and sl. trimmed as ex library--buckram covers, VG, copy 1.

1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Softcover, 4to, grand opening of this hospital which resembles an art deco styllate 20s German hospital, floorplans, technical data, rare glimpse into place for lung and heart patients and who knows what else during Hitler's time? Sprache: German, 123pps + many ads in the Bauhaus design. VG.