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Hardcover. Very good. Sketchbook containing 12 highly accomplished ink drawings of the interiors of different styles of homes, as well as one incomplete sketch. Book measures 6.25" x 8.25" and shows moderate external wear. Internals very good, with minor soiling. "Mr. A.M. Jesing" is written on the front pastedown, and one drawing is dated 1909. Presumed to be English, based on London stationer's label and the identification of one drawing as the staircase and hall at "Barn House" in Whitstable, Kent. The artist is likely Albert Max Jesing (1870-1963), a native of Kent who worked as a maker of oak furniture. Captions include "Mission Interior," "A Stuart Bed," "Modern Interior," "German Interior," "A Modern Hall," "Corner Fitment," and "Fitment for Fire Place." Each drawing contains a wealth of detail reflecting the corresponding style of furniture, decorative arts, and design.

Scranton, NJ: International Textbook Company, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good -. Part I: iv, 46 pp, with illustrations, plate xi in rear pocket. Part II: vi, 52 pp, with illustrations,18 plates in rear pocket. Both volumes show light general wear and soiling to boards, rubbed corners, name of front free endpapers; contents clean and sound. No dust jackets. Due to size, shipping charges may be more than standard for priority or international orders.

London: Publishing Office, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Three bound volumes, 13" x 8.5", covering the full years of 1846 (624 pp + index), 1850 (624 pp), and 1852 (816 pp). All bound in original three-quarter leather and marbled boards -- all with considerable wear to boards, with scuffing and staining to leather, much of the marbled paper worn or torn away. 1846 volume has a cracked rear hinge and 1852 has a broken front hinge, otherwise internals are very good. The Builder was founded in 1842 or 1843 (sources differ) by Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803 -1882), a British architect and inventor of the Hansom cab. Architect George Godwin (1813-1888) took over as editor in 1844 and developed the magazine into "the most important and successful professional paper of its kind with a readership well beyond the architectural and building world.... Each weekly issue carried detailed reports of new building works and architectural debates plus articles on history, archaeology, and the arts. Above all,… Read More

London: J.M. Dent, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 11" x 8.5", xiii, 184 pp, with 52 mounted color plates, in original pictorial cloth, top edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities, with a tiny bit of fraying to the cloth, some pale staining bottom 1/4-inch of front board, internally clean and sound. The author describes his intent for the book in the Preface: "In this book we have tried to understand why we admire the beauties of rural scenes, of the cots by the wayside, and in what their merit consists, and so to enable ourselves to appreciate more fully their charming character. The artist, Mr. Quinton, has depicted some of the most beautiful examples of rural homes that England affords. These I have tried to describe, to discover the secrets of their attractiveness, and to compare them with modern dwellings which lack their comeliness.

Tübingen: Ernst Wasmuth, 1966. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. pp 142 + 234 (plates) + 8 folding plans. Rear hinge a bit wobbly, else a fine copy in original cloth. Dust jacket shows general shelf wear and a few short tears. Text in German. Extensively illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings. Due to size, shipping charges may be more than standard for priority or international orders.

Hanau, Germany: Dausien, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 215 pp + illustrations, with maps, architectural plans, illustrations, illustrated endpapers. Very light general wear to boards; contents clean and sound; in cardboard slipcase. Dust jacket shows very light shelf wear; bottom 1/3 of front flap crease is starting to peel slightly. Text is in German. An extensively illustrated study of the Angkor temple complex in Cambodia. Due to size, shipping charges may be more than standard for priority or international orders.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 326 pp, with illustrations (photographs, plans), maps, index. Very light wear to edges; else fine, in fine dust jacket protected by a mylar cover. From the dust jacket: "Modern Jerusalem is one of the most fascinating laboratories for urban development. These studies, conducted in 1980-1984 by teams of faculty, students, consultants, and advisors from the Jerusalem planning community and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, provide a unique sense of Jerusalem's natural and built environment, its livability, cultural diversity, and political and religious tensions." Due to size, shipping charges will be more than standard for priority or international orders.

New York: G.P. Putnam, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. viii, 366 pp, with 19 steel-engraved plates (portraits and views of the authors' homes), 14 wood-engraved vignettes (of which 7 are printed in color), and 16 facsimiles. A handsome copy in publisher's full morocco with stamped decoration and raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Some scuffing to the leather, occasional light foxing; else very clean and sound. Includes chapters on Audubon, Paulding, Irving, Bancroft, Bryant, Dana, Prescott, Sedgwick, Cooper, Everett, Emerson, Simms, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Webster, Kennedy, and Lowell. The chapter on Emerson also includes some discussion of Thoreau, who "lives in the berry-pasture upon a bank over Walden Pond, and in a little house of his own building." BAL 1345; Bennett p. 58.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981. Softcover. Near fine. First paperback printing. 8.5 x 11 inches.xvii, 276 pp, with index, bibliography, resume of buildings and projects by K.S. Melnikov, 1914-67, and 259 illustrations. Slight cover wear, else a fine copy. Clean, tight, unmarked. Account of the life and work of Konstantin Melnikov, one of the most active figures in Soviet architecture in the two decades following the Russian Revolution.

Pomona: California State Polytechnic Institute, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 8.5 x 8.5 inches, 32 pp, in original stapled wrappers. Corners lightly bumped, minor shelfwear. Inscribed on the title page "To Sonya in appreciation, Cordially, Dione Neutra, X-mas 1985." Richard Neutra (1892-1970) was one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. He and his wife, Dione, lived in the first home he designed for them until 1963, when it was destroyed by fire. It was reconstructed with the aid of their son Dion, also an architect, and both father and son had offices there. In 1980 the family gave the home to Cal Poly Pomona.

London: C. and J. Ackers, 1753. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 11.25 x`9.25 inches, pp [14], v, 78, [1] (ad), with 13 leaves of plates (one folding). Illustrations engraved by Pierre Fourdrinier after Francis Price. Contemporary calf boards, rebacked with new spine with raised bands, original black leather spine label. Armorial bookplate of British civil engineer and architect W.C. Mylne (1781-1863) on front pastedown. Boards show moderate scuffing and general wear, rear board has staining to the lower quadrant near the spine. Binding sound, text and plates very clean, though slightly rippled. Price was an architectural surveyor who held the position of "surveyor and clerk of the fabric of Salisbury Cathedral" for seventeen years. This was one of the first serious architectural studies of a Gothic building.

Why not add twenty years of health?" asks this brochure for Celotex fiberboard insulation.  How can you do this? By spending more time relaxing in the great outdoors after constructing an affordable, comfortable, well-insulated summer cottage made of Celotex. "The entire cabin, except the framing, roof, and floor can be built with Celotex. The strength, stiffness, and texture of Celotex make is especially fitting for side walls, ceiling, roofs [yes, they did just say you couldn't use it for the roof], partitions, and interior finish and trim." To help you envision yourself in a charming Celotex cottage, they would provide free blueprints for any of the cabins pictured here. It all sounded great in the 1920s. Unfortunately, one of the main components of Celotex was asbestos--making it more likely you'd lose twenty years of health than gain them by spending your summers in in a Celotex home. 3.5" x 6" brochure, unfolding to 12" x 13.75". Near fine, with minor handling wear.