Search Results: Architecture & Interior Decoration from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1996. 32 essays. The author, the only woman in her field at the time, wrote for the popular market as well as for professional publications on architecture & landscape design; she is best-remembered for her biography of H. H. Richardson. Hardcover. First edition (first printing) with full number string. Hint of wear to book & jacket, near fine. Text clean; viii, 367 pages; index, bibliography, b/w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

Pretoria: J. L. Van Shaik Ltd., 1956. Study of historical, mostly stone, shelters, walls, buildings & kraals of southern Africa. From the collection of noted scholar Daniel P. Kunene, with his name & date on the free endsheet. Hardcover, full tan cloth, gilt titling. Light wear to book, corners bumped; jacket torn & chipped, missing a few largish chunks, substantially complete; front endsheet & half-title page fore-edge cockled for no obvious reason. Text clean; xi, blank, 170 pages + 113 p/w photos; many figures, plans.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 9" by 11".

Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1934. Eight-page (four of text (in German)) pamphlet with 80 loose plates - nicely-printed gravure photos of German furniture and antiques - in tan cloth portfolio with brown lettering and brown cloth ribbon. Minor edgewear to the plates, some small stains on interior of portfolio; hinges weak, paper liner split on the interior. Plates clean. Text in German.. First Edition. Portfolio. Very Good. 8¼" by 12".

Dallas: Handel & Sons, 1978. Overview of performing arts centers built around the country. Volume 1 only, more may have been intended, but don't seem to have been published. Hardcover, full grey cloth, silver titles. Corners bumped, long gift inscription on the first blank page. Jacket edgeworn and price-clipped.236 pages, index, b/w plates. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8¾" by 11".

London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. Hardcover, second printing. Light wear to book, jacket shows minor chipping.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Loke Wan Tho. 7" by 9½".

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981. Study of ideological considerations underlying Sullivan's decorative designs; the author was a professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; stated first printing (first edition). Light wear to book; jacket shows just a hint of spine fading, couple of dents to rear panel & cover, as if the book were pressed horizontally onto the top of another book. Text clean; xix, blank, 232 pages + colophon; index, bibliography, notes, appendixes, b/w plates.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

Berlin: Paul Neff Verlag, 1931. Study of architecture & ideology. Text in German. Hardcover, blue cloth spine over grey boards, black titling. Light general wear, bottom corners bumped, two small dents on front cover; front endsheet professionally replaced, rear endfsheets tanned; creases & small chip from paper clip on 5 pages, dogears on 5 pages, small tear on corner of 1 page; jacket chipped & rubbed, old private library spine label with matching penciled number on front, no other markings noted. Text clean; 104 pages, 32 photographs. Text in German.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7" by 10¼".

Weybridge: Art Sales Index, Ltd. , 1991. Standard reference, giving prices realized for 82,000 pieces of art. Two volumes, complete. Blue hardcovers, gilt titling, color cover insets. Covers slightly rubbed; small chips/rip to base of spine of volume 1; head of spine on volume 2 bumped; name, date, & place boldly written in ink on the half-title page of each volume. 2287 pages total.. 23rd edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo. Set.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Scholarly & detailed study of the chapels commissioned by Popes Sixtus V and Paul V between 1585 and 1621, their decorations, functions, & sponsors' politico-religious goals. One of the publisher's Monuments of Papal Rome series. Large hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book; jacket shows minor edgewear, hint of spine fade, name or stamp heavily blotted out in black inside front cover. Text clean; [2], xxi, blank, [8] pages color plates (ten color pictures on 8 pages), 385 pages; index, bibliography, notes, appendixes, many b/w figures. A surcharge for expedited or international shipping of this oversize book may be required; please inquire for an accurate quote.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Quarto.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1966. Scholarly study of that Australian cultural institution, the pub, and its denizens, from 1788-1966; the author was Professor of Architecture at the University of New Soutth Wales. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book; price-clipped jacket shows some wear, chipping, short tears & creases, spine faded. Text clean; xiv, 229 pages; index, bibliography, statistical appendixes, b/w photos. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Large Octavo.

Havana, IL: Badger, 1984. One of a series of self-published books on architectural gems of Illinois, this dedicated to barns, with line drawings & comments on their use. Limited edition, # 91 of 200 printed, SIGNED by the artist. Brown 'leatherette' hardcover, brown titling. Light wear, no jacket - possibly as issued; small tape stain affecting the free endsheet & flyleaf. Text & art clean; 54 pages, most with an illustration.. Signed by Author/Illustrator. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by David Alan Badger. 11¾" by 10¼".

New York/Cambridge/London: Architectural History Foundation / MIT Press, 1985. Monograph on this important architect, noted for his "inventive traditionalism" and resistance to the Beaux Arts and Modernism. Hardcover in jacket, the stated second printing, two years after the first. Light wear to book, ink name & address inside front cover, opposite gift note, corner bumped; jacket shows light edgewear, minor rubbing, minor creasing, light interior foxing. Text clean; xii, [2], 297 pages; notes, project list, index, many illustrations, plans, b/w photos. . Second Printing. Very Good/Very Good.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1978. The Jacobs family built two houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, including the first 'Usonian' house, and the more exotic 'Solar Hemicycle', and here recount their experiences including living in the houses and doing much of the work on the second house, after Wright was offended by a comment in one of the author's earlier books. Jacobs was a writer and reporter whose books include accounts of life in Wisconsin and a biography of Wright. INSCRIBED by the authors on the title page: "For Allan and Marjorie, with warmest love. April 20, 1979 Herb and Kick[?]" Allan and Marjorie [Kreilick] McNab were artists and an art administrator/professor then living in Madison. Oblong hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, but discolored patch on front cover where jacket was stuck - inner jacket delaminated, no visible damage externally, no damage to book interior; bookplate; jacket does show some edgewear including light creasing,… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Scholarly study of the post-war American housing boom, its influence on the environment, and how that contributed to the growth of the environmental movement. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, likely as issued. Light wear to book, ISBN sticker on rear cover, minor scuffs. Text clean; xvi, 299 pages; index, bibliography, b/w photos. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.

London: Oxford University Press, 1933. Scholarly study of bells, bell towers, bell music, bell-founding, the construction & playing of carillons, carilloneurs, their audience, future of the art; extant and lost carillons. Hardcover, full blue cloth, black titling. Light wear to book, bookplate, old seller's note/price in pencil; jacket shows some chipping, price-reduction label to spine, a few light stains; endsheets tanned. Text clean; [12], 228 pages, 37 b/w plates + map showing the location of Dutch & Belgian carillons then extant.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Leonard Eldon Shore. Octavo.

Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1929. Account of the manufacture of portland cement, some of its uses, and similar materials. Field Museum Geology Leaflet 12. Stapled pamphlet, tan covers, black titling. Unused old stock, as new. Text clean; 15 pages, 4 b/w photo plates.. First Edition. Pamphlet. As New. 5½" by 8½".

Dublin: History Press Ireland, 2012. Memoir of the fading days of Irish aristocracy by the last generation of children to grow up in this giant house, built in 1722 by William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish Parliament, who made his fortune in land speculation, dealing in land seized by the Crown from Irish supporters of James II. The mansion, by then dirty & in poor repair, was sold by the authors' father in 1965 (when the authors were in their 20s), farm income and the amount of land available to sell to pay for repairs no longer sufficient. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book & jacket, minor bumping to corners, discoloration from binding glue to inner hinges, ink note opposite last page, noting the birth of a relative being born there; otherwise near fine. Text clean; 240 pages; notes, appendixes including recipes & formulas, family trees, family career notes; b/w & some colour photos, illustrations. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1941. "A New Book on Landscaping", emphasizing groupings, form, color & distance, to fit specific settings. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, paint smudge to upper edge, couple of other minor stains, corners lightly bumped; jacket smudged, torn, rubbed & heavily chipped, with paint smear to upper corner; endsheets tanned. Text clean; 246 pages; index, drawings, plans, b/w plates, one color plate. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. Illus. by Margrette Oatway Dornbusch, Frank Polito, Vories Fisher. Quarto.

New York: The Craftsman, 1910. Two small scarce booklets, one touting the quality & benefits of Stickley's Craftsman homes, 32 pages; and the other presenting a variety of house plans, as published in The Craftsman, 1905-1910, 24 pages.. First Edition. Staple Bound Pamphlet. Very Good. 4½" by 8".

Paris / Leipzig: Verlag Henri Jonquières, 1930. Study of the New Objectivity in (mostly) German architecture & interior design, with a lengthy essay by Casteels, foreword by Henry van de Velde (text in German); many monochrome photos of works by Le Corbusier, Gropius, Jeanneret, Mallet-Stevens, Guevrekian, Dudok, Berlage, Fischer, Gaspard, Perret, Haesler, van de Velde, Wils, Oud, Neutra, van der Rohe, Gaudi, Breuer, others. Hardcover, full tan linen, black titling. Light wear to book; endsheets tanned; jacket shows some chipping, short tears, creases. Text clean; [126] pages, 144 gravure photos. Text in German. A surcharge for expedited or international shipping of this oversize book will be required; please inquire for an accurate quote.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Quarto.