Comstock, William Phillips
Bungalows, Camps and Mountain Houses: Containing of a large variety of designs by a number of architects,...
NY: William T. Comstock, 1908

First edition. Quarto. 111 pp; b/w photographs & floor plans throughout. Green cloth-backed boards. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; minor wear to spine ends, fore edge rubbed with occasional loss to top layer of paper.
Inventory number #013790

Stowell, Kenneth Kingsley
MODERNIZING BUILDINGS FOR PROFIT
NY: Prentice Hall, 1935

First edition. Large quarto. xiv, 231 pp; profuse b/w photographs, floor plans, diagrams; index. Red-stamped black cloth. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; corners bumped.
Inventory number #013789

Brunner, A.W. & Wm. Paul Gerhard
COTTAGES or Hints on Economical Building containing Twenty-Four Plates of Medium and Low Cost Houses, Contributed by Different New York Architects...
NY: William T. Comstock, 1884

First edition. Octavo. 71 pp plus 24 plates, adverts. Original gilt-lettered green cloth. VG, dampstain along fore edge of pp, causing rippling, mostly at top corner, else clean, unmarked copy; covers show light wear to extremities, bumped corners, not affecting text block.
Inventory number #013788

S.H. Kress & Co.
Old New York
NY: S.H. Kress & Co., 1935

Oblong octavo. Unpaginated; profuse color illustrations. Stapled wraps with gilt reproduction of bronze plaque on the Kress store on back cover. Very good to near fine, staples a little rusty. Commemorative pamphlet of 28 Edward Trumbull & Maurice Gautier murals of old New York taken from the original murals decorating the cafeteria walls of the Kress store at 444 Fifth Avenue. Includes 4-pp foreword, loose as issued. All in original mailing envelope, envelope somewhat tattered around edges.
Inventory number #013759

Kokomo Fence Machine Co.
Tenth Annual Catalogue of Ornamental Fence
Kokomo, IN: Kokomo Fence Machine Co., n.d.

Oblong octavo. 40 pp; b/w photos & drawings throughout. Pink illustrated stapled wrappers. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers soiled, narrow 2" abraded area on front cover, short split at head of spine. Features the company's ornamental fences & gates which received a gold medal at the Greater America Exposition in Omaha in 1899. Illustrated with drawings & specifications, as well as b/w photos of fences installed at residences, parks, cemeteries, and churches. Incl. a residence in Havana, Cuba.
Inventory number #013751

The Union Metal Manufacturing Company
Union Metal Columns for Porches, Pergolas, Interiors
Hamilton, OH: The Republican Publishing Co, 1911

Quarto. 27pp; illustrated throughout in b/w. Stapled wraps. Very good- deep toning to edges of spine, former owner name in block letters on front cover, top edge. Includes a short intro on the products, followed by photographs of residental and civic buildings built with Union Metal's classic architectural columns. The photos are predominately of residences, mostly mansion sized and featuring massive and/or numerous columns. The catalog is a nice blend of ornate historic houses and the many uses for the company's classical columns
Inventory number #013742

Alpha Portland Cement Co.
ALPHA PORTLAND CEMENT
Easton, PA: Alpha Portland Cement Co., 1913

Folio (12" x 9"). 48 pp; duo tones throughout. Embossed stiff card covers. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; light edgewear to covers, creased corners. Photos include one residence, bridges, state courthouse, Terminal buildings in NYC, apartment house, power house, factory, dam, cemetery wall, and Pennsylvania Station, NYC.
Inventory number #013735

Paine Lumber Company
PAINE MIRACLE DOORS
Oshkosh, WI: Paine Lumber Company, Ltd., 1924

Quarto. 54 pp; many full-page color illustrations. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy, light dampstain visible at top corner of front cover, more visible along edges of back cover, light rippling to corner of first 24 pp. Catalogue of illustrations, descriptions, specifications and representative illustrations of the company's wood doors.
Inventory number #013728

Trade Catalogue
AMERICAN GREENHOUSES
Chicago: American Greenhouse Mfg. Co., 1928

Folio (15" x 12"). 384 pp; Illustrations, plans and elevations of hundreds of greenhouses used for commercial and residential purposes. Green cloth with color illustration of greenhouse interior laid on front cover. VG+, a clean, unmarked copy; 1.5" tear to edge of spine, front bottom corner gently bumped, front cover a bit bowed.
Inventory number #013721

Trade Catalogue
Fenestra Residential Windows
Detroit: Detroit Steel Products Co., 1925

Quarto (11" x 8.5"). 24 pp; b/w photos & measured drawings throughout. Illustrated stapled wrappers. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; spine rubbed with 6" split, top inner corner gently bumped, edge loss & abraded area on back cover. Catalogue featuring Fenestra casement windows for residences, apartment buildings, etc. Measured drawings of installation details alternate with b/w photos of buildings using the windows.
Inventory number #013720

Clark, Judith
SPECTRES: When Fashion turns Back
London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 2005

First edition. Quarto. 167 pp; profusely illustrated in color & b/w. Black cloth-backed illustrated boards. Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; covers clean with no wear. Published to coincide with the groundbreaking exhibition 'Malign Muses,' initiated by ModeMuseum, Antwerp, and later on view under the title 'Spectres' in the Victoria and Albert Museum's Contemporary Space. Details of historic dress and images of 19th-century fairground architecture lead into the work of contemporary designers such as Viktor & Rolf, Maison Martin Margiela, Veronique Branquinho, Hussein Chalayan, and others.
Inventory number #013653

Hewitt, Mark Alan
THE ARCHITECT & THE AMERICAN COUNTRY HOUSE 1890-1940
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990

First edition. Quarto. xiii, 312 pp; 308 color & b/w illustrations; extensive bibliography. Cloth with dustjacket. Near fine in near fine jacket. Wealthy Americans began building opulent country estates in the late 1880s and continued for the next 50 years. The author explores the architects who designed these houses, the clients who commissioned them, and their historic significance. Architectural photographs by Richard Cheek.
Inventory number #013629

Sale, Edith Tunis
COLONIAL INTERIORS: Southern Colonial and Early Federal. Second Series
NY: Bonanza, n.d.

Reprint. Quarto. 7-pp list of plates + 159 full-page b/w photographs & measured drawings from the mid-17th to early 19th centuries. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, endpapers toned, else a clean, unmarked copy, top edge of boards lightly soiled; jacket has light wear at top edge & corners. The book contains examples of the early architecture of Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. "The architecture of these states is of particular interest, because it displays certain characteristics not found in the Colonial work of New England and the northern states.
Inventory number #013614

Russell, Frank, ed., with David Watkin & Robert Maxwell
QUINLAN TERRY
London: Architectural Design, 1981

Quarto. 48 pp; heavily illustrated with b/w drawings. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers browned, top corner lightly creased. Quinlan Terry (born 1937) was a leading figure in the revival of classical architecture in Britain.
Inventory number #013613

Economakis, Richard, ed.
QUINLAN TERRY: Selected Works. Architectural Monographs No. 27
London: Academy Editions, 1993

Quarto. 143 pp; profuse color photographs, floor plans, elevations; list of buildings & projects. Paperback with flaps. VG, a clean copy, no marking inside; covers bright with no wear. Among the buildings featured in this monograph are the Regents Park villas; Paternoster Square; Richmond House, Cambridge; Brentwood Cathedral; and the state rooms at No. 10 Downing St.
Inventory number #013612

Turpin, John K. & W. Barry Thomson. Intro. by Mark Alan Hewitt
NEW JERSEY COUNTRY HOUSES : The Somerset Hills. Vol. 1
Far Hills, NJ: Mountain Colony Press, 2004

Quarto. xv, 248 pp; illustrated with nearly 250 vintage b/w and contemporary color illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; jacket bright with no wear. This book chronicles sixty country estates that were built in the countryside of Somerset and Morris counties from the 1870s up to World War I. It describes the wealthy families who built or owned the houses and the architects and landscape architects who designed them. Somerset Hills includes the greatest concentration of the domestic commissions of George Browne Post and his sons, as well as houses by Carrere & Hastings, Delano & Aldrich, Cross & Cross, Guy Lowell, Mott B. Schmidt, and many others.
Inventory number #013572

Turpin, John K. & W. Barry Thomson. Intro. by John H. Beyer
NEW JERSEY COUNTRY HOUSES : The Somerset Hills. Vol. 2
Far Hills, NJ: Mountain Colony Press, 2005

Quarto. Illustrated with nearly 300 contemporary color & vintage b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; jacket bright with no wear. This book chronicles the estate-building activity in the countryside of Somerset and Morris counties between the wars. Noted architects whose work can be seen are George B. Post and his sons, Carr
Inventory number #013571

Rykwert, Joseph
THE PALLADIAN IDEAL
NY: Rizzoli, 1999

Quarto. 226 pp; full of color photographs. Gilt-lettered brown cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine in same jacket. A clean, unmarked copy; bright jacket with no tears. This volume celebrates Palladio's architectural achievements and his lasting influence on subsequent centuries of design.
Inventory number #013564

Duboy, Philippe
LEQUEU: An Architectural Enigma
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987

First American edition. Large quarto. 367 pp; hundreds of b/w & color illustrations; inventory of Lequeu material; index. Gilt-lettered sienna cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy, binding tight; jacket with minor shelfwear. This book combines hundreds of intriguing drawings, many in color, with meticulous research to decipher the riddle of this 18th-century maverick artist.
Inventory number #013540

Gilborn, Craig
DURANT: The Fortunes and Woodland Camps of a Family in the Adirondacks
Blue Mountain Lake, NY: Adirondack Museum, 1986

Second printing. Quarto. 170 pp; 101 b/w photographs; fold-out map; sources; appendices; index. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; covers have minor soiling, spine slightly sunned. This book tells of a prominent New York family and of the "grand camps" that were built by members of the family in the Adirondacks during the last quarter of the 19th century.
Inventory number #013537