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Gerson, H., and E. H. Ter Kuile.
Art and Architecture in Belgium, 1600 to 1800.
Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books, 1960. 1st printing. Large 8vo (regular
size). xix, 236 pages. 160 pages. of illustrations. Index. Pelican History of
Art.
Exlibrary. Hardcover in acetate-covered dust jacket with all markings. Very
good. #17399. $17.50
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Gloag, Helen and John.
Simple Furnishing and Arrangement.
Illustrated by E. J. Warne and A. B. Read. London: Duckworth, 1921? 165 pages.
Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Frontispiece. First published in 1921. This
may be a later printing.
Slightly worn brown cloth hardcover. Bookplate inside front cover. #21642.
$12.50
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International Architecture Yearbook.
International Architecture Yearbook, no. 6.
Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia: Images Publishing Group, 2000. Millennium
edition. 4to (large book). 256 pages. Color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 1864700661. #22856.
$25
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Itoh, Teiji.
The Elegant Japanese House: Traditional Sukiya Architecture.
Photographs by Yukio Futagawa. New York & Tokyo: Walker/Weatherhill, in
collaboration with Tankosha, Kyoto, 1969. 1st edition. Folio (large book). 218
pages. Index. Black-and-white and color homographs. Plans. A Weathermark
Edition.
Good hardcover; covers and spine damp-stained; some damp staining along top
edges of covers. #28030. $60
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Kuran, Aptullah.
The Mosque in Early Ottoman Architecture.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968. Square small 4to (medium-large
book). 233 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Plans. Publications of the
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2.
Exlibrary: Good decorative hardcover; call number on spine, stamp on top and
bottom edges, stamp on blank front flyleaf, label and pocket on rear flyleaf.
#28292. $25
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Kyusaburo, Kaiyama.
The Book of Japanese Design. Banshoku Shin Hinagata Bijutsu
Oya.
Translation and Commentary by Sylvia Price Mueller. New York: Crown Publishers,
1969. Oblong 8vo (regular size). 186 pages. Index. Illustrations. Inscribed and
signed by the translator.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. #20816. $25
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Landau, Sarah Bradford, and Carl W.
Condit.
Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865-1913.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. 1st printing. 4to (large book). xvi,
478 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Plans.
'Two experts-an architectural historian and a historian of technology-draw on
rich and diverse contemporary sources in order to provide in-depth coverage of
developments in commerce, land use, technology, design, and zoning law as they
related to the New York skyscraper.- Front jacket panel. Very good hardcover in
very good dust jacket. ISBN 0300064446. #26867. $65
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Lawrance, Gary (not Lawrence), and
Anne Surchin.
Houses of the Hamptons, 1880-1930.
Foreword by Jaquelin T. Robertson. New York: Acanthus Press, 2007. 1st
printing. 4to (large book). 354 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black-and-white and
color photographs. Illustrations. Plans. The Architecture of Leisure.
The Hamptons are located on the south fork of New York's Long Island and
encompass the villages of Westhampton Beach, East Hampton, Bridgehampton, and
Southampton, among others. This book explores more than 300 houses created by
America's leading architects as well as less prominent but equally gifted
designers. Illustrated with more than 300 photographs and floor plans. - Front
jacket panel. As new hardcover in as mew dust jacket. ISBN 0926494449.
#26786. $55
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Lightolier Company.
Handbook to Architects' & Decorators' Portfolio of Lightoliers.
New York: Lightolier Company, 1937. Copy 331 'of a limited number of copies,'
but no limitation indicated. 4to (large book). 35 pages. Photographic
illustrations.
The illustrations include two pages of photographs of 'Scenes at Lightolier's
Crystal Factory and Workshop, Oberkritiz-Schoenfeld, Czechoslovakia'. Very good
hardcover with title label on front cover. Edges slightly rubbed. Endpapers are
somewhat discolored, probably from glues used in the making of the book. Some
foxing on the photographic plates. #22250. $200
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McCarthy, Ted.
The Irish Bungalow Book.
Foreword by Liam Kavanagh. Dublin & Cork: Mercier Press, 1985. 7th edition. 4to
(large book). 148 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. On front cover: Planning,
Grants, Finance, Designs, etc. New Designs.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0853427429. #26639.
$20
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Maillard, Elisa.
Old French Furniture and Its Surroundings.
Translated by MacIver Percival. New York: Scribner's, 1925. Large 8vo (regular
size). 128 pages. Illustrations. Photographs. 14 Plates.
Green hardcover. Very good, some of the photographic plates at the end slightly
wrinkled. #15732. $15
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Nevill, Ralph.
English Country House Life.
London: Methuen, 1926. 1st edition. 220 pages. Illustrations.
Very good hardcover. #17197. $17.50
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Noehles, Karl.
La Chiesa dei SS. Luca e Martina nell'opera di Pietro Da
Cortona.
Con contributi di Giovanni Incisa della Roccetta e Carlo Pietrangeli.
Presentazione di Mino Maccari. Roma: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 1969. 1st printing.
Square 4to (large book). 380 pages. Index. Bibliography. 330 color and
black-and-white plates, including some tipped-in plates. Photographs. Plans.
'In occasion del terzo centenario della morte di Pietro da Cortona'.
Text in Italian. Very good hardcover in slightly torn and worn dust jacket.
ISBN 0271001186. #25838. $190
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