Herbert, William
HOUSES FOR TOWN OR COUNTRY
NY: Duffield & Company, 1907

Octavo. 249 pp; b/w photographs, a few floor plans. Pictorial green cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, top edge gilt. VG, a solid, unmarked copy; light wear at top & bottom of spine, edges of backstrip
Inventory number #009887

Bosoni, Giampiero
DANTE BENINI: Architetture e Progetti 1970-1987
Milan: Mondadori, 1988

First edition. Quarto. 167 pp; color and b/w photographs, illustrations, drawings and plans throughout. Text in Italian. Cloth in dustjacket in slipcase. As new in original shrinkwrap. Many nice examples of modernist residential, commercial, civic and industrial architecture.
Inventory number #009868

Harvey, John
THE GOTHIC WORLD 1100-1600. A Survey of Architecture and Art
London: B.T. Batsford, 1950

Quarto. xii, 160 pp; 295 b/w photographs, plans & line drawings; bibliography; index. Map on pastedowns. Blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine with dustjacket. VG/VG, inscription on reverse of front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket lightly chipped at head & tail of spine and corners, spine darkened.
Inventory number #009759

Hewitt, Mark Alan & Gordon Bock
THE VINTAGE HOUSE: A Guide to Successful Renovations and Additions
NY: W.W. Norton, 2011

Oblong quarto. 304 pp; color photographs, floor plans, drawings throughout; list of resources for vintage house owners, glossary; index. Cloth with dustjacket. A fine copy in fine jacket. A must-have primer for homeowners and professionals, this book presents the first comprehensive survey of its kind on how to achieve truly compatible, stylistically resonant additions and renovations. Richly illustrated with more than 200 color photographs, plans, and drawings from nationally recognized architects, this book offers invaluable analysis and nuts-and-bolts guidance that will help any old-house homeowner or professional preserve the essence of a vintage treasure.
Inventory number #009656

Fulton, Marianne, ed.
THE GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE AND GARDENS
Rochester, NY: Intl Museum of Photography, 1992

Octavo. 81 pp; numerous color & b/w photographs. Dark green cloth with gilt-lettering & border on cover. A near fine, unused copy, white flecks on back cover.
Inventory number #009518

Plymat, Wm., Jr.
THE VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE OF IOWA
Des Moines, IA: Elephant's Eye, 1976

Oblong quarto. 98 pp; b/w photographs throughout. VG, bottom corner of rear panel creased, else a fresh, clean copy. The author, a photographer, spent four months in 1975 traveling around Iowa taking photographs of Victorian buildings. This book is the result, and it is rich in architectural detail. It focuses on homes and commercial buildings, and is organized around the most common styles of the period - Italianate, Second Empire, and Gothic Revival. It's the best visual record of Victorian architecture that I have seen.
Inventory number #009484

Gromort, Georges & Augustin Bernard
PETITS EDIFICES. Normandie. Deuxieme Serie, Constructions Urbaines en Pans de Bois
Paris: A. Vincent, 1927

Quarto. 9 pp text in French; 56 plates of b/w photographs; 8 plates (incl. frontispiece) of pencil drawings by Augustin Bernard. Loose plates, as issued, in portfolio boards with ties. VG, plates are clean & bright, text pp have random foxing, heavy on some pp. Photographs and drawings feature small houses in the Normandy towns of Rouen and Lisieux.
Inventory number #009476

Thurley, Simon
HAMPTON COURT PALACE Souvenir Guide Book
London: No Publisher, 1992

Quarto. Second edition. 47 pp; illustrated throughout with color photographs and images. Paperback. Very good to near fine. This illustrated guidebook by Simon Thurley has a short history of the palace and features 7 self-guided tour routes; The Tudor royal lodgings; the Queen's apartments; the Georgian rooms; the King's apartments; the Wolsey rooms & the Renaissance picture gallery; the Tudor kitchens; and the palace gardens.
Inventory number #009472

Gotch, J. Alfred
INIGO JONES
London: Methuen & Co, 1928

First edition. Octavo. xi, 271 pp, 8-pp adv; 31 b/w plates; appendices; chronology; index. Original red cloth with dj. Very good in vg- dustjacket, edges of boards darkened, light foxing on fore edges and occasional outer margins, spine of dj darkened. 1946 gift inscription on front free endpaper.
Inventory number #009457

Flower, Sibylla Jane
DEBRETT'S THE STATELY HOMES OF BRITAIN: Personally Introduced by the Owners
NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1982

First American edition. Quarto. 240 pp; color & b/w illustrations; appendix; bibliography; index. Gilt-stamped cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy in price-clipped jacket. This book features 20 of Great Britain's most beautiful country houses, chosen as fine examples of their period and each introduced by the present-day owners.
Inventory number #009449

Raulet, Sylvie
SALON INDIEN: L'influence de l'Europe sur L'architecture
Paris: Hazan, 1996

First edition. Folio. 293 pp; profusely illustrated with color photographs; bibliography. Text in French. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, jacket has light wear at top edge. This book focuses on the influence Europe has had on Indian architecture, decorative arts, and the Indian way of life by featuring twenty of the Maharajas' palaces.
Inventory number #009391

O'Gorman, Patricia
PATIOS AND GARDENS OF MEXICO
Stamford, CT: Architectural Book Publishing, 1979

Quarto. xv, 254 pp; over 300 b/w photographs & drawings. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. The photos in this book record a myriad examples of outdoor planning and decoration in gardens representing a wide range of periods of Mexican architecture from the 16th-century colonial through contemporary. Included are gates, entrances and paths, walls, terraces, stairs, water fountains, swimming pools, sculpture, furniture, lighting, balconies, roof gardens, and more.
Inventory number #009390

Brolin, Brent C.
FLIGHT OF FANCY: The Banishment and Return of Ornament
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1985

Octavo. 338 pp; over 250 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. This book explains why ornament was banished in the 1920s, and why it was revived in the last few years.
Inventory number #009359

James, Theodore, Jr.
THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
NY: Harper & Row, 1975

First printing. Octavo. 180 pp; many b/w illustrations; appendix: statistics; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, remainder mark on top edge; jacket has small chip at top edge, now protected in mylar.
Inventory number #009283

Taylor, Henrika Dyck
THE CLASSICIST No. 7
NY: The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America, 2007

Quarto. 203 pp; numerous b/w illustrations. Paperback. A new copy, still in shrink wrap. This issue focuses on the civic realm and includes essays by Francis Morrone, David Mayernik, and Dino Marcantonio, as well as portfolios of student and professional work. No. 7 features a cover drawing by architectural renderer, Andre Junget, which celebrates the ingenuity of Grand Central Station engineer William Wilgus.
Inventory number #009241

Hibbard, Don, Glenn Mason, Karen Weitze
HART WOOD: Architectural Regionalism in Hawaii
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2010

Octavo. 276 pp; nearly 200 b/w photographs & floor plans; notes; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a new unused copy. This illustrated book traces the life and work of Hawaiian architect Hart Wood (1880-1957). He arrived in Hawaii in 1919 as a partner of C. W. Dickey before a solo career. An outspoken leader in the development of a Hawaiian style of architecture, Wood incorporated local building traditions and materials in many of his projects and was the first in Hawaii to blend Eastern and Western architectural forms in a conscious manner.
Inventory number #009065

Jotisalikorn, Chami & Annette Tan
THAILAND CHIC: Hotels, Restaurants, Shops, Spas
Singapore: Archipelago Press, 2006

Square octavo. 232 pp; color photographs throughout; index. directory. Paperback with flaps. Near Fine. Almost 50 hotels, spas and shops are presented in detail, each selected for its style appeal. Includes descriptions of architecture, ambience and cuisine of the various regions.
Inventory number #008942

Menzies, Elizabeth G.C.
MILLSTONE VALLEY
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1969

Quarto. 308 pp; illustrated throughout in b/w; notes. Cloth in unclipped dustjacket. Very good in Very good jacket; one small closed tear to top edge of back panel.
Inventory number #008815

Cummings, Abbott Lowell
ARCHITECTURE IN EARLY NEW ENGLAND
Sturbridge. MA: Old Sturbridge Village, 1968

Octavo. unpaginated [32] pp; b/w photos and illustrations. Stapled wraps. Near Fine. Part of the Old Sturbridge Village booklet series.
Inventory number #008803

Waite, Diana S.
ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS: The Technological Revolution
NY: Bonanza, 1976

Quarto. Unpaginated; full of b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, former owner's ink stamp on front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy; short tears at top of jacket spine. A reproduction of six 19th-century trade catalogues of American architectural details. Manufacturers include Marshall Lefferts & Brother, 1854; Buffalo Eagle Iron Works, 1859; Morris, Tasker & Co, 1860; Philadelphia Architectural Iron Co, 1872; Keystone Mantel & Slate Works, 1872, and George O. Stevens, 1879.
Inventory number #008717