Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue-Architect and Master of Many Arts by Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor - 1925

NY: The Century Company, 1909. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo. 4pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 4 drawings of architectural interest by the author, including a plan of the grounds, waterstaining noted at page bottoms about 2 inches, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXVIII, #6, October, 1909. A typical contemporary village inn after designs by the author. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve..

Paperback / softback. New.

San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, Publishers, 1916. Hardcover. Octavo, vii, x, 154 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine marbled brown with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Exterior shows moderate wear including age toning, slightly rubbed joints/fore edges and minor chips to the head/tail edges. Boards have mild wear and slight cocking to the spine. Text block has age toned edges. Deckled fore/tail edges. Marbled end papers. Previous owner's information to the flyleaf. Frontispiece. Some uncut pages. Illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column D, ND-D. 1377059. FP New Rockville Stock.

Paul Elder and company, 1916. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. Mild shelfwear. Ink marks on edge of covers.

Hardback. New.

New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co, 1917. Hardcover. G- (Substantial soiling and heavy wear to covers; spine strip is half-missing; covers are loose; textblock is cracked; page margins have tanned or aged; plates are clear.). Rust colored cloth, 11 pp. of text, plus 107 leaves of BW plates. Austin Whittlesey won the Le Brun Traveling Scholarship, and set out to photograph these examples of Spanish architecture. "He at once found his path strewn with all manner of obstacles; yet, nothing disheartened, made his way to Gibraltar in defiance of mines, submarines and nervoulys suspicious officials. ... After three months of such sketching, measuring and photographing amid the comparative serenity of semi-barbarism, he learned that, following the course of all the other great civilized nations, his native land had declared war against the modern Attila and his hordes; whereupon he promptly put patriotism before his profession, turned his steps homeward as swiftly as was possible under the… Read More

San Francisco, CA: Paul Elder and Company, 1916.. 8vo. 154 pp., Brown Cloth, Good with edge wear to covers at spine, corners, & elsewhere; binding detached at back end papers; minor damp-staining to text. Plates. Some pages Uncut. First Edition.Described by Carleton Monroe Winslow, A.I.A.; together with an essay by Clarence S. Stein ; illustrated from photographs by Harold A. Taylor ; with an introduction by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, F.A.I.A., advisory and consulting architect of the exposition.

San Francisco: Paul Elder and COmpany, Publishers, 1916. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 9 x 6; pp. [12], vii-x, [2], 3-154, [4]; brown cloth over boards, printed in gilt; speckled, brown DJ; illustrated with numerous tipped-in photographic images; two tiny spots to cloth and very minor wear to edges - in very good to near fine condition. Jacket with a few small cuts and nicks ro edges.The Panama-California Exposition, later renamed Panama California International Exposition, was held in San Diego from 1915 to 1917, celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal and of San Diego being the first US port of call for ships going westward through the canal. Bertram Goodhue (1869 - 1924) was a renowned architect and type designer, known for his works in Gothic Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles.

San Francisco: Paul Elder, (1916). First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn in dustjacket with some fading to spine and rear panel, else very good. Original tan linen with gilt titles; octavo; x, 154 pp. Frontispiece and 68 tipped in illustrations from photographs, each with facing page of descriptive text. Dustjacket. San Diego's "Panama California International Exposition" was held the year following San Francisco's "Panama-Pacific International Exposition." While both events celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, both also had secondary purposes: San Francisco to showcase the city's resurrection from the ashes of the 1906 earthquake and fire; San Diego to showcase its fine seaport, the first US port of call to ships coming through the Canal.

San Francisco, California: Paul Elder and Company, 1916. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Taylor, Harold A.. A verbal & photographic chronicle of the Panama California Exposition, designed both as a World's Fair & as a way to highlight the beauty of the growing city of San Diego, the nearest Pacific port in the US to the newly opened Panama Canal. In 154 pages, with 68 duotone illustrations from photos + frontispiece tipped in, all by Harold A. Taylor, who was just making his way as a notable Western photographer. In his Introduction, architect Bertram Goodhue explains why some of the park's features were designed to be temporary ("essentially the fabric of a dream"), & should be razed after the fair, & some should become permanent fixtures in what endures today as Balboa Park. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, from 1916 (the fair had opened the previous year & would close on 1 Jan 1917), this hardcover 8vo is bound in a nubby tan cloth… Read More