Architecture from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

New York: American Heritage Publishing Co. / Bonanza Books, 1981. Hardcover. Chapter introductions by editor Marshall B. Davidson. 4to. Black paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 832pp. Extensive illustrations. Very good/very good. Most minor of wear only, else tight and internally near fine. First of this 2-in-1 edition of an in-depth study first published… Read more about this item

Chicago: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc, 1981. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 94pp. Numerous illustrations and floor plans. Near fine. Handsome first volume of this short-lived revival of the earlier Chicago Architectural Club, with ten articles on Chicago architectural matters.

New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1941. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark grey cloth with red lettering. 210pp. Numerous line drawings, tables. Very good. Quite mild binding edgewear; internally tight and fine. Attractive first edition of this business how-to by the famed Boston architect and master and popularizer of the Cape Cod house and the Colonial Revival (1895-1962), complete with humorous, tongue-in-cheek… Read more about this item

New York: American Heritage Publishing Co, 1978. 4to. Red and tan cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 352pp. Extensive illustrations (some color). Near fine/very good. Slightest bit of jacket edgewear only. Handsome, tight copy of this (to cite front jacket flap) "intimate look at the most fantastic private homes in the world and the remarkable… Read more about this item

Glorieto, NM: The Rio Grande Press, Inc, 1973. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pale green cloth withred, green, and copper metallic lettering and decorative stamping. (9pp), (5pp), v-xx, 203pp. Illustrations, map. Near fine. Front pastedown 1993 ownership signature. Tight and nice first of this facsimile reprint of the study first published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1912.

Athens: Dim. Papadimas Reg't Co, 2008. Hardcover. Wide small 4to. Glossy pictorial paper over boards with metal spiral binding. 108pp. Map, extensive small color illustrations, numerous full-page color plates with clear/pictorial overlays. Fine. Superb first edition of this guided tour through Greece's major ancient cities, with major surviving structures pictured as they appear today ("now") with overlays showing how… Read more about this item

London: Cambridge University Press, 1966. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xiii, 180pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations and line drawings (3 foldouts). Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear and age toning. Tight, attractive first edition of this exceptionally in-depth archaeological and historical examination of the first Greek temple discovered (1959-60) in the southwest corner of… Read more about this item

Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1987. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pale grey cloth with blue lettering and decoration (no dust jacket, as issued). xi, 340pp. Numerous line drawings, floor plans, illustations. Near fine. Bright and tight first edition of the first volume in a projected 5-volume set that apparently never came to fruition (although Anchor Press did publish his… Read more about this item

New York: British Heritage Press, 1983. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 120pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Light abrasion to front pastedown. Tight and handsome first U.S. edition of this well-illustrated survey first published in London in 1978.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1922. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Folio. Full black blind-ruled morocco with gilt lettering, rules, raised bands. xi, 382pp; vii, 387pp. Top edges gilt. Captioned tissue guarded color frontispieces, extensive illustrations. Very good. Though internally both volumes are tight and bright and fine, the volume I hinges are a tad worn but strong; head and… Read more about this item

Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2001. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 160pp.Extensive illustrations (some color). Near fine/near fine. Wonderfully tight and bright first edition of these essays chronicling this residential style unique to Chicago.

Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books, Inc, 1998. Hardcover. 4to. Brown cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 144pp. Color frontispiece, extensive illustrations (most color), decorative endpapers. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition, tight and lovely, of this study of Frank Lloyd Wright interiors.

New York: The Viking Press, 1972. Hardcover. Square 8vo. Purple cloth with silver spine lettering. 173pp. Color frontispiece, extensive illustrations (some color). Near fine. Lacks dust jacket. Attractive first edition of this survey of award-winning homes grouped into such categories as "The Contemporary Idiom," "The Small Space Age," "The Unusual Dwelling," "Do-It-Yourself," etc. Boldly inscribed and signed in black… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. Hardcover. Photographs by Alexander Vertikoff. 4to. Pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 223pp. Extensive color illustrations, color pictorial endpapers. Fine/fine. Pristine and tight first edition of this lavishly illustrated study.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2001. Hardcover. Square small 4to. Black cloth with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 791pp. Extensive illustrations (some color), large foldout chart in rear pocket. Fine/fine. Absolutely pristine first edition of this mammoth study featuring nine heavily illustrated essays by that many van der Rohe scholars. One of the definitive works on this… Read more about this item

Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 1996. Hardcover. 4to. Brown paper over boards with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 160pp. Extensive color illustrations, floor plans. Fine/near fine. Ever-so-faintly sunned jacket spine. Handsome first edition of this superbly-illustrated history and study.

Barre, MA: Barre Publishers, 1968. Hardcover. Illustrations by Suzanne Carlson. Narrow folio. Beige cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 205pp. Extensive line drawings, text endpapers. Fine/very good. Jacket faintly edgeworn, with spine lightly sunned. Handsome, tight first edition of this study of colonial-era architects, those of the north and those of the south, and the major structures… Read more about this item

London: Trefoil Books, 1985. Hardcover. Wide small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 224pp. Extensive illustrations, map. Fine/fine. Large front pastedown ownership signature and tiny name/address inkstamp. Reprint edition, tight and bright, of this thorough, well-illustrated survey of the university city's innumerable historic structures.

Paris: Bonne Presse, n.y.. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter brown calf with gilt lettering, decorations and raised bands and green pebble-grain cloth. vi, 634pp. Extensive illustrations, floor plans, green decorative endpapers. Near fine. Tight, quite attractive later printing ("Nouvelle Edition"), undated but circa 1920, of this well-illustrated survey, with text entirely in French.

Galena: Carl H. Johnson Jr., 1977. Hardcover. Edited by Sandra J. Hirstein. Illustrations by Carl Johnson. Wide 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial gilt. x, 189pp. Numerous illustrations (many color), pictorial endpapers. Fine. First trade edition (second printing after a limited edition of 500 signed, numbered copies), tight and bright and boldly signed by Johnson in black… Read more about this item