Rykwert, Joseph & Anne
ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM: The Men and the Style
NY: Electa/Rizzoli, 1985

First American edition. Octavo. 223 pp; well illustrated with b/w & color illustrations; list of executed works; bibliography; index. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, light toning to edges of white covers.
Inventory number #011105

COLOR AND ITS USE IN INTERIOR DECORATION. Lesson 2
NY: New York School of Interior Design, 1963

Revised edition. Octavo. 47 pp; 2 color charts. Stapled paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #010987

Bonet Correa, Antonio
Bibliografia de arquitectura, ingenieria y urbanismo en Espana (1498-1880)
Madrid: Turner Libros, 1980

Two volumes. Octavo. 595 pp; a total of 3404 entries. Text in Spanish. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; base of Vol. 2 spine bumped; jacket of Vol. 1 has light stain on front panel, back panel of Vol. 2 soiled. The standard bibliography of Spanish architecture.
Inventory number #010969

Dorsey, Leslie & Janice Devine
FARE THEE WELL: A Backward Look at Two Centuries of Historic American Hostelries, Fashionable Spas & Seaside Resorts
NY: Crown Publishers, 1964

Quarto. 328 pp; profusely illustrated; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket has light wear at top of spine and corners.
Inventory number #010967

Tavernor, Robert
PALLADIO AND PALLADIANISM
NY: Thames & Hudson, 1991

Octavo. 216 pp; 163 color & b/w illustrations. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; a touch of yellowing to edges of back cover. Part of the World of Art series.
Inventory number #010949

Waetzoldt, Wilhelm
Einfuhrung in die Bildenden Kunste. Zweiter Band
Leipzig: Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn, 1912

Octavo. 116 pp; 194 b/w illustrations. Tan cloth with red lettering. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine & edges of covers toned. Volume 2, the plate volume of two-volume overview of the arts - architecture, sculpture, painting, graphic arts, and decorative arts.
Inventory number #010806

Stowell, Kenneth K.
HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, October 1940
NY: Hearst Magazines, 1940

Vol. 82, No. 10. Folio (13 in. x 10 in.). 136 pp; full of color & b/w illustrations. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. Cover photograph by Leslie Gill.
Inventory number #010774

Shaver, Peter & Preservation League of New York State
The National Register of Historic Places in New York State
NY: Rizzoli, 1993

Quarto. 248 pp; numerous b/w photographs; appendixes - historic districts; multiple property submissions; U.S. Post Offices; National Historic Landmarks; list of architects, landscape architects, builders & engineers; indexes. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; cover shows minor edge wear.
Inventory number #010767

Roberts, Mary Fanton, ed.
ARTS & DECORATION, Vol. 46, No. 3, May 1937
NY & Boston: Arts & Decoration Publishing, 1937

Folio (14" x 10"). 48 pp, incl ads; full of b/w photographs. Paperback. VG, moderate wear to spine, light edgewear. Cover from a painting by Frederick C. Frieseke, "Knitting.". Articles by Elsie de Wolfe
Inventory number #010707

Bernardo, D. Joseph Di
PAINTING AND DECORATING. A Handbook of Tools, Materials, Methods, and Decorations
NY: D. Van Nostrand, 1945

Octavo. 98 pp; 32 b/w figures; index. Brown hardcover with black spine lettering. Good, spine ends & corners rubbed, 1-in. split at top of backstrip, front cover scratched.
Inventory number #010636

Scully, Vincent
ARCHITECTURE: The Natural and the Manmade
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1991

Quarto. xiii, 388 pp; 507 color & b/w illustrations; index. White cloth with copper lettering & drawing of columns in dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a fresh, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has 2 short edge tears, light soil.
Inventory number #010630

Sharp, Dennis
THE PICTURE PALACE and other Buildings for the Movies
NY: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969

First edition. Quarto. 224 pp; 5 color & profuse b/w illustrations; selected list of cinemas in Great Britain and the United States; bibliography; index. Cloth with gilt-lettered spine in dustjacket. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has 1 3/4" closed tear at top of spine, spine & back panel lightly soiled. This is an entertaining and well-researched history of the movie house - from nickelodeons and Kinetoscope parlors to drive-ins, from the picture palace to the art theater - in America, England, and continental Europe. It features the colorful 1920's, the depression years of the 1930's, and the post-World War II era, with the trend toward small, intimate, simply decorated theaters. The author treats problems of sight lines, ventilation, acoustics, projection, and decoration; discusses the styles and innovations of important theater architects such as Thomas W. Lamb, John Eberson, and Ben Schlanger.
Inventory number #010437

Berger, Molly W, ed.
The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 25: THE AMERICAN HOTEL
Miami Beach, FL: The Wolfsonian - Florida Intl Univ, 2005

Octavo. 315 pp; full of color & b/w illustrations. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. Ten illustrated essays look at the architects, designers, and social forces that created the large American hotel from Gilded-Age New York to 1950s Miami Beach. Includes an article on the many hotels designed by Dorothy Draper.
Inventory number #010198

Boydell, Christine et al
THE MODERN HOUSE REVISITED. Twentieth Century Architecture 2
London: Twentieth Century Society, 1996

Quarto. 128 pp; color & b/w illustrations. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; top corner on rear cover gently bumped. The second in the 20th Century Society Journal series features essays on modern houses open to the public - Harbour Meadow in Sussex, Dorich House in Kingston, Villa Savoye, essays on patrons, textiles and plastics of the modern house, an interview with Elisabeth Benjamin, and a discussion on F.R.S. Yorke.
Inventory number #010187

Gallos, Philip L.
CURE COTTAGES OF SARANAC LAKE: Architecture and History of a Pioneer Health Resort
Saranac Lake, NY: Historic Saranac Lake, 1985

Quarto. 186 pp; b/w photographs; bibliography; map; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; top of jacket spine lightly chipped, two closed tears at top edge of front panel; several edge tears & corresponding creasing on back panel. Limited edition of 2000 copies.
Inventory number #010067

Cooper Hewitt Museum
THE ROYAL PAVILION AT BRIGHTON
NY: Cooper Hewitt Museum, 1977

Quarto. 48 pp; color & b/w illustrations; catalogue. Stapled wraps. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; top front edge has been trimmed 1/4-in., minor edge wear.
Inventory number #010062

Watkin, David, Antony Ratcliff, Nicholas Thompson & John Mills
A HOUSE IN TOWN: 22 Arlington St, Its Owners and Builders
London: Batsford, 1984

Quarto. 201 pp; 35 color & 248 b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy. This book tells the story of 22 Arlington Street, the great town house designed by William Kent for Henry Pelham in the 1740s. Prints, drawings, plans and photographs enhance the book's documentary value.
Inventory number #010023

Gallet, Michel
CLAUDE-NICOLAS LEDOUX Vu par Holger Trulzsch
Paris: Musee Carnavalet, 1985

Quarto. 59 pp; full of b/w photographs. Text in English & French. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, edges of cover & page edges lightly yellowed or toned; no wear to covers. Charles-Nicolas Ledoux was the most prolific French architect between 1762 and 1788, yet by the publication of this catalogue, only 6 or 7 of the 80 Paris buildings that Ledoux conceived remain.
Inventory number #010000

Arslan, Edoardo
GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN VENICE
London: Phaidon, 1971

First American edition. Quarto. 409 pp; 288 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, solid copy; jacket chipped at top of spine & one corner, small tear at base of spine, light wear to corners, overall lightly rubbed.
Inventory number #009972

Hansen, Hans Jurgen
ARCHITECTURE IN WOOD: A History of Wood Building and Its Techniques in Europe and North America
NY: Viking Press, 1971

Quarto. 288 pp; numerous color & b/w photographs; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has 2 closed tears at spine ends, edge tear on back panel, jacket edges a bit yellowed.
Inventory number #009962