Traversi, Gino
ARCHITETTURA PALEOCRISTIANA MILANESE
Milan: Casa Editrice Ceschina, 1964

Quarto. 169 pp; 8 color & 78 b/w plates. Text in Italian. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket has a few shallow edge tears with old tape residue on reverse, spine & small area of front panel toned.
Inventory number #012136

Dobney, Stephen
SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL: Selected and Current Works, 1984-1994
Mulgrave, Victoria: Images Publishing Group, 1995

Quarto. 256 pp; full of color photographs & drawings; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. New/New, a crisp, unmarked copy; jacket bright.
Inventory number #012132

Hurrell, George
ESQUIRE'S NEW DATE BOOK
Chicago: Esquire Inc., 1943

7" high x 5" wide. 104 pp; many color & b/w photographs, including 21 by George Hurrell. Stiff card covers with plastic spiral binding. VG, a clean, unmarked copy. The photos of glamour girls/pin-ups include: Leslie Brooks, Alma Carroll, Marguerite Chapman, Margaret Hayes, Rita Hayworth, Gayle Melott, Maria Montes, Lilly Norwood (Cyd Charisse), Elaine Shepard, Lenore Simon, Ursula Usher, and many others. Includes Esquire magazine features - Here's How by Lawton Mackall, How do you do? Scoring system for girls, and others.
Inventory number #012115

Wheary Trunks
WHEARY WARDROLA
Racine, WI: Wheary Trunks, n.d.

n.d., ca. 1935. Measures 6.25" x 3.5" when folded; 6.25" x 14" when open. Sheet folds to 8 pages. VG, light wear at folds. This advertising pamphlet features two halftones of popular stage star Ann Pennington and her new Wardrola. Besides the Wheary Wardrola ($65-$500), the trunks featured include the Wheary Airplane Wardrolette (price $22.50-$75), a wardrobe trunk about the size of a suitcase. It fits under a Pullman seat, on the running board of a car, in a steamship or airplane cabin, in a taxi or motor bus. The other trunks are the Wheary Double-Duty Wardrola- two trunks in one (price $60-$200), and the Wheary Universal Cushioned Top wardrobe trunk (price $35-$150).
Inventory number #012113

M. Wile & Company's KAMPUS KLOTHES
Easton, PA: Quiri & Messinger, 1913

6.75" x 5". [16] pp, 15 b/w illustrations. Printed wrapper with color illustration on cover. VG, short tear to one page, slightly rubbed. The drawings show models at horse race, golf course, in automobile, fishing, playing tennis, at beach, baseball game, etc.
Inventory number #012110

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
PITTSBURGH COLOR DYNAMICS FOR YOUR HOME
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., 1949

Quarto. [24] pp, color illustrations of exterior, interiors of living room, dining room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom. Stapled booklet. Good, covers lightly soiled, bit rubbed.
Inventory number #012107

Trade Catalogue
SASH AND DOOR Catalog No. 23, February 1, 1923
Los Angeles: Patten & Davies Lumber Co., 1923

7" x 5.25". 262 pp; full of b/w illustrations, some color. Stiff card covers. VG, cover worn, soiled, covers a bit loose. This catalogue contains illustrations of sashes and doors - entry, interior, screen, garage, china closet doors, side lights, mirrored cabinets, houses, storefronts, windows, shutters, and leaded glass.
Inventory number #012104

Crispolti, Enrico
Mobili di Fabio de Sanctis e Ugo Sterpini
Rome: Officina Undici, 1963

First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Full of color photographs and b/w drawings. Text in Italian, English, French & German. Illustrated boards. VG, lamination on boards lightly crazed, edges rubbed. A bit musty. Limited edition - #1788/2000 copies. Catalogo n. 1, 1963-64
Inventory number #012102

Bacon, Leonard
THE LEGEND OF QUINCIBALD
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1928

First Edition. Limited. Octavo. 76 pp. Linen-backed boards with paper spine labels. Signed and inscribed and outside numbered by the author. VG- Call number on spine in ink, plc bookplate on pastedown. call number on corner of front free endpaper, several small plc blindstamps in the text, catalog card affixed to back board with paper strap. Author dedication to the plc collection on ffep, signed and numbered 0/0 on limitation page by author. Ex library Philadelphia Library Company research library and deaccessioned in the 1930s.
Inventory number #012093

Burns, Robert
THE GEDDES BURNS
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1908

Limited facsimile edition of 473 copies. Octavo. 26, xlviii, 368 pp; frontispiece, 32 b/w photo reproductions of original. Full calf with gilt rules and titles in original slipcase with felt-lined inner slipcase. VG in VG- slipcase. Ex-library, duplicate copy from the Philadelphia Library Company's Loganian Library. PLC bookplate on front free endpaper, light wave to following pages. sticker at top of spine and slipcase spine, small card and paper strap on back board. De-accessioned in the 1930s.
Inventory number #012086

Saunders, Frederick
SALAD FOR THE SOLITARY AND THE SOCIAL: Redressed and compounded with sundry additional esculents, succulents, and Condiments
NY: De Witt C. Lent and Company, 1872

Octavo. viii, 526 pp; 52 original designs from contemporary American artists. Original rust cloth with gilt-lettered spine, gilt & black lettering on cover. VG minus, a clean, unmarked copy, binding split in middle but held in place by the stitching. Cover has black ink thumbprint at fore edge, top & bottom of spine lightly frayed with small chips, bottom edge has small split at corner, covers lightly soiled overall.
Inventory number #012051

Brown, Richard & Stanley Brett
THE LONDON BOOKSHOP: Being Part Two of a Pictorial Record of the Antiquarian Book Trade: Portraits and Premises
Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 1977

Oblong quarto. 75 pp; full of b/w photographs. Dark gray cloth with gilt-stamped titles on burgundy labels with original glassine jacket. Near Fine/VG, a crisp clean copy; glassine has several short tears. Edition of 2000 copies.
Inventory number #012011

Blaser, Werner
Begegnungen: An Architect Meets Architects
Basel: Birkhauser, 2000

Octavo. 116 pp; b/w photographs & drawings; list of books by the author. Text in German & English. Hardcover. Near Fine, white covers lightly soiled, else a clean, unmarked copy. A book of impressions of fifty architects the author has known personally in his 50-year career, including Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Helmut Jahn, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Phyllis Lambert.
Inventory number #012005

Bricker, Lauren Weiss
THE MEDITERRANEAN HOUSE IN AMERICA
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2008

Quarto. 239 pp; profuse color photographs, floor plans; bibliography; index. Hardcover with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket clean & bright, with no chips or tears.
Inventory number #012003

Hunt, Rachel McMasters Miller
WILLIAM PENN: Horticulturist
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1953

Limited edition of 999 copies. Octavo. 38 pp. Blue cloth with gilt titles. VG, a clean, unmarked copy. Inscribed by author.
Inventory number #011989

Fraser, Antonia, Angus Stewart, Bridget Riley et al
JEAN MUIR
Leeds: Leeds Art Galleries, 1980

Quarto. 32 pp; profusely illustrated in b/w & color. Stapled paperback. Near Fine, a clean, a unmarked copy. Announcement for 1981 exhibition at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, laid in. Published to coincide with the opening of the exhibition 'Jean Muir' at Lotherton Hall, May 1980. Text by Antonia Fraser, Angus Stewart, Bridget Riley, Jean Muir, Claude Brouet, Marylou Luther, and Beatrix Miller. Jean Muir (1928-1995) was a British fashion designer.
Inventory number #011987

Mead and Gilbert Papers
SEPTEMBER, A MONTH OF DAYS
Dayton, OH: Mead Paper Company, 1988

Sixteenmo. Unpaginated. Profuse color illustrations. Paperback. VG, covers slightly soiled. Design by Pentagram for Mead and Gilbert Papers.
Inventory number #011974

Artists Guild, Inc.
ARTISTS GUILD ANNUAL. A Yearly Exhibit in Book Form of Work by Members of the Artists Guild of New York
NY: The Artists Guild, 1939

World's Fair edition. Quarto. 111 pp; profuse b/w illustrations; index. Black cloth. VG, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #011969

Cox, Warren E., editor
GRAPHIC ARTS
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, 1936

Quarto. xix, 318 pp; color frontispiece, 5 color & numerous b/w illustrations; bibliographies. Cloth, no jacket. VG.
Inventory number #011968

Hirth, Mary
CYRIL CONNOLLY'S ONE HUNDRED MODERN BOOKS: From England, France and America 1880-1950
Austin: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1971

Oblong octavo. 120 pp; b/w illustrations; index. Blue cloth with red lettering. VG, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #011967