Books on Architecture
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    Bunton, Alice Bice:  Bethany's Old Houses and Community Buildings.  Bethany, Conn.: Bethany Library Association, 1972. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in dark blue, heavy cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small octavo measuring 10" by 7" with a book reservation in the name of the prior owner slip tipped-in on the first free end page. Without a dust jacket as issued. Laid-in at the rear of the book, within a pocket attached to the rear paste down, is a multi-color historical map of Bethany, Connecticut on which each of the homes and buildings cited within the book is located. Unpaginated pages containing text, a chronology, glossary, bibliography and a list of map and a list of owners. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and line drawings.
    TB23739  $125.00




  • Bush, Celeste E.:  The Thomas Lee House, East Lyme, Connecticut.  East Lyme, Conn.: The East Lyme Historical Society, 1935. First Edition, First printing. Very good in light green printed wraps with a double stapled binding. There area a number of white spots (paint) on the front panel and the corners of the text are somewhat curled. Without a dust jacket as issued. Unpaginated but containing 14 pages of text. Illustrated with black and white photographs and line drawings.
    TB22633  $20.00




  • Chamberlain, Samuel:  Open House In New England.  New York: Bonanza Books, 1937, 1948. Reprint. Very good in light gray and red cloth covered boards with the spine tanned. Without its issued dust jacket. 252 pages followed by a two page map. Illustrated with 280 black and white photographs by the author.
    TB17234  $7.00



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    Crosbie, Michael J.:  Centerbrook Reinventing American Architecture.  Rockport: AIA Press/ Rockport Publishers, 1993. Second Printing. Fine in royal blue paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An square small 4to measuring 10 1/4" high by 10 1/4" deep. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket with very slight fading to the spine area. 191 pages of text and illustrated extensively with lavish color photographs and floor plans.
    TB23647  $15.00



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    Crossley, Fred H.:  Timber Building In England from early times to the end of the Seventeenth Century.  London: B. T. Batsford LTD, (1951). First Edition. Very good+ in blue cloth covered boards with gilt text and gilt rules on the spine. A small quarto measuring 10 1/4 by 6 5/8 inches with foxing to the end sheets, and edges of the text block. The pages within the text block are otherwise fine with no foxing or tanning. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket with short closed tears at the ends of the spine area and with the red text on the spine faded which is also tanned. 167 pages including an index and text. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, line drawings and engravings.
    TB28954  $40.00



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    Green, Bryan Clark:  In Jefferson's Shadow The Architecture of Thomas R. Blackburn.  New York: The Virginia Historical Society in Association With Princeton Architectural Press, 2006. First Edition, First Prining. Fine in green cloth covered boards with no text on the spine or front board. A quarto of 12 by 9 inches with a bump to the lower corner of the rear board. In a fine, unclipped (no price) dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page below his printed name without an inscription or date. 272 pages including an index, appendices and text. Illustrated throughout with images from photographs, facsimiles and 120 plates most of which are in color.
    TB31918  $175.00



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    Jones, Herbert:  Frank Lloyd Wright America's Greatest Architect.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1991. Collector's Edition. Fine in full navy blue leather covered boards with three raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both the front and rear boards. The end papers are silk with a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. An octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 1/2" containing 223 pages including an index. Laid-in at the front of the book is the publisher's two page introduction to this volume. With a foreword by H. Allen Brooks. Illustrated with two sections of black and white photographs. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of The Library Of American History series. A beautiful, tight, clean copy with no names, dates, notations or former owner's book plates.
    TB26274  $80.00




  • Kelly, J. Frederick:  Early Connecticut Meetinghouses Being an Account of the Church Edifices Built Before 1830 Based Chiefly upon Town and Parish Records.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. First Edition, First printing. Both volumes in this two volume set are in near fine condition in red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spines and across the upper edges of the front boards. Without dust jackets as issued; however, the books are contained in a very good paper covered and illustrated slip case with little if any wear. Both volumes are quartos measuring 12 by 9 inches and both volumes have a slight musty odor. Volume I contains 332 pages and volume II contains 360 pages including an index. Both are heavily illustrated with black and white photographs some with photographic details such as doors and windows augmented with floor plans and sketches of truss work. A handsome, clean and tight set with no prior ownership markings of any kind. Extremely uncommon. (Roos, 649)
    TB33194  $275.00



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    Lathrop, Elise:  Old New England Churches.  Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Co., Inc., 1938. First Edition, First printing. Very good+ in reddish buckram covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is modestly rubbed. Without its uncommon issued dust jacket. 171 pages including a bibliography, notes and text. Illustrated with numerous, very attractive line drawings by H. T. Welsh of individual churches in the New England States.
    TB22836  $30.00




  • Lathrop, Elise:  Historic Houses of Early America.  New York: Tudor Publishing Co., c1927. Reprint of 1941. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with faded gilt text stamping on the spine and front board and with decorated end papers. A small quarto measuring 11" by 8" with two prior owner's names in pencil on the verso of the fly title page. Without its issued dust jacket. 464 pages including an index of historic houses listed by location, bibliography and text. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs
    TB27429  $10.00




  • Malcarne, Donald:  Houses Of Essex Volume II.  Ivoryton (Essex), Conn.: The Ivoryton Library Association, (2007). First Edition. Fine in printed, heavy paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A quarto measuring 11 by 8 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 179 pages including a list of photographic credits and text. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs of homes in Essex and in Ivoryton. Nearly every page in the book is devoted to a single historic home and provides a history of the building.
    TB29155  $65.00



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    Millar, John Fitzhugh:  The Architects of the American Colonies or Vitruvius Americanus.  Barre, Mass.: Barre Publishers, 1968. First Edition, First printing. Very near fine in ivory cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and printed end sheets and with the top edge of the text block stained a light yellow. A folio measuring 14 by 9 inches with spots of foxing and light soiling on the covers and the spine and there is a small prior owner's book plate on the second free end pag.e In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket with 1/4" deep chips across the upper edge of the spine area which is faded as is the upper two inches of the front panel. 205 pages including an index, glossary and text. Illustrated throughout with over 200 scale, line drawings.
    TB23657  $45.00




  • Reznikoff, S. C.:  Specifications for Commercial Interiors Professional Liabilities, Regulations, and Performance Criteria.  New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1979. Second Printing of 1981. Near fine in white paper covered boards with red text stamping on the spine and on the front board with only a hint of bumping at the head and heel of the spine. In a near fine dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap with a tiny 1/8" closed tear at the upper edge of the rear panel. 302 pages including an index, a list of selected readings, a glossary, chapter notes, text and illustrated with sketches, drawings and photographs.
    TB16288  $10.50



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    Schuler, Stanley:  The Cape Cod House America's Most Popular Home.  Exton, Penn.: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, (1982). First Edition. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and the same on the front board. A quarto of 11 by 8 3/8 inches with minor, faint spots of foxing to only the title page and the last page of the text. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and wear to the upper edge of the spine area and at the fore corners of the panels over the tips of the boards and a 1/2" closed tear at the upper edge of the front panel. 144 including an index and text. Illustrated throughout with 143 images from black and white and color images from photographs.
    TB30666  $20.00



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    Sloane, Eric:  An Age of Barns.  New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1966. Third Printing. Fine with a reinforced binding at the hinge in decorated dark red cloth boards with silver color text stamping on the spine and with the decoration of a barn sketched on the front board. An oblong small quarto of 10 1/4 by 12 1/8 inches. In a very good-, unclipped dust jacket with heavy rubbing to the ends of the spine area and to the fore corners of the panels over the tips of the boards and a one inch closed tear at the upper edge of the front panel. A folio with wonderful color plates throughout. Still a collectable copy of one of Eric Sloane's more widely recognized books. 93 pages of text, illustrations and full color plates.
    TB33320  $60.00




  • Sloane, Eric:  American Barns and Covered Bridges.  New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1954. 4th Printing. Near fine in decorated tan cloth covered boards with a dated gift inscription on the front paste down behind the jacket flap. In a very good- dust jacket with a price clipped front flap with a number of closed tears around the edges and 1/3" deep chips at the ends of the spine area. One of Eric Sloane's earliest books dealing with Americana. This one is a classic as it includes his now famous sketches of barn and covered bridge details that no one else has illustrated as well.
    TB24425  $20.00



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    Swanson, Leslie C.:  Old Mills In The Mid-West (Illinois and Iowa).  Moline, Illinois: Self-published, 1963. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the front board. Without a dust jacket. Signed by the author on the first page of text. 42 pages of text illustrated with maps and numerous black and white photographs.
    TB24148  $15.00



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    Tristram, W. Outram:  Moated Houses.  London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1910. First Edition, First printing. Very good in the publisher's original dark red cloth covered boards with text and elaborate tool wok on the spine. The cloth at the heel of the spine is rubbed and worn but has not started to fray. The hinges and joints are tight and strong. Without its issued dust jacket. 402 pages including an index followed by 31 pages of ads by the publisher. Illustrated by Herbert Railton with seventy-five etchings and line art drawings.
    TB22641  $45.00



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    Unknown Photographer:  Photograph of Henry Whitfield House, Guilford, Connecticut.  n.p.: unknown publisher, circa 1930s. . A near fine, original, black and white photograph of the Henry Whitfield House which is the oldest house in Connecticut as well as New England's oldest stone house. It was built in 1639, has undergone restoration and is now owned by the State of Connecticut as a museum. The photo dates from approximately the late 1930's. There is a slight blemish in the upper right of the image of the building in the sky area. And, the lower corner was cut and has been repaired. It is mounted on heavy card stock and measures 13 7/8 by 10 15/16 inches edge to edge.
    TB28685  $50.00



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    Various Authors:  Homes Of American Statesmen: Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches.  New York: G. P. Putnam And Co., 1854. First Edition. Very good in 1/2 black leather and marbled paper covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with faded gilt text and gilt tool work in the compartments and double gilt borders on the boards with the edges of the text block marbled and with marbled end sheets. An octavo of 8 3/16 by 5 3/4 inches with the leather rubbed and worn at the head and heel of the spine as well as over the tips of the boards. There is an early prior owner's book plate on the front paste down. With the exception of tanning to the engraved title page (a result of offsetting from the frontispiece even thought there it was interleaved) the contents are clean and free of foxing and tanning. The hinges and joints remain tight and strong. 469 pages of text followed by a fold-out facsimile letter. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph (more on that in a moment) with images throughout from wood engravings and facsimiles of correspondence. The frontispiece represents an early application of using a photograph to illustrate a book. In this case beneath the image in pencil is written: "Hancock House Boston: An Original Sun Picture" which refers to an early form of transferring a photograph to paper. The image was cut out and pasted to the leaf facing the engraved title page.
    TB32252  $480.00



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    Way, Thomas R. and Frederic Chapman:  Architectural Remains of Richmond Twickwenham Kew Petersham and Mortlake.  London: John Lane, 1900. First Edition, First printing. Good in the publisher's original decorated green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is worn through, there is a 2" dampness stain on the front board near the spine and the cloth is worn through at the bottom edges of the boards. Tipped-in at the front free end paper is a gift letter dated April 1901 to a previous owner. One of only 400 copies and this one is noted as copy number 172 and initialed by the illustrator on the verso of the fly title page. 127 pages of text illustrated with 24 pencil sketches of views from Richmond, Twickenham, Ken, Mortlake and Petersham.
    TB19160  $175.00






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