Search Results: Architecture from Dale Steffey Books, ABAA

Cambridge at the University Press: Cambridge Press, 1965. Two volumes bound in original teal cloth with red leather labels and gilt lettering and designs, map end papers, Near Fine, tidy prior owner name front end pages, tiny rubs to cloth at corners, in Near Fine dust jackets, front flaps corner-clipped with publishers price stickers at bottom corners, small rubs at spine ends. A handsome set. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Charleston, SC, 1935. Bespoke project documentation book for the Works Progress Administration restoration of the Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, South Carolina, with the architect Douglas D. Ellington's. personal bookplate. Housed in an embossed calf binder with string tie, gilt lettering. 48 pages listed in table of contents which refer to 48 labelled sections, each with items such as a summary of the project, folder of photographs taken in Stoll's Alley, newspaper clippings, theatre programs and broadsides, research, records of holders of the property, maps, plans, photographs, drawings, and other related ephemera. Very Good, the leather binder with wear at spine ends and folders. Douglas D. Ellington (1886-1960), was a Native of North Carolina and trained at the Ecole des Beauv Arts, being the first American to win the top honor for decorative competitions at the École. In addition to his work on this theatre project, he designed numerous churches, residences, and government… Read More

Los Angeles: John C. Brasfield No Date, circa 1940's. Very Good, small edge tears and rubbing to covers. Prior owner blind stamp front end page.. Numerous photographs by Maynard L. Parker. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Fair Association, 1955. SCARCE, excellent resource book for mid-century modern California design, and uncommon in Fine condition. Unpaginated, 38 pp., featuring numerous black and white photographs displaying the works of 112 'designer-craftsmen'. . Short essay "The Designer-Craftsman" by Richard B. Petterson at last page. Furniture designers featured include Herman Miller, Sam Maloof, and Hans Wegner among several others. . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Illus. by Burton Frasher, Jt., Photographer . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: The Architectural League of New York and American Federation of Arts, 1970. RARE in either of its printings. Second Printing, July 1, 1971. Near Fine, tiny corner crease top corner, in Very Good thin cardboard portfolio, sun fading and small edge tears Title Page, Introduction by Herb Greene, "Architecture Is Art" by Bruce Goff, List of Buildings and Projects 1918-1968, List of Prints, and 22 Prints, a complete set. . Second Printing. Portfolio. Near Fine/Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" Tall.

No Place: Herman Miller Furniture Company No Date, circa 1974, the year Herman Miller introduced Chadwick modular seating. A set of 12 grapic posters, designed to hang separately or as a group, each poster measuring 12" square, in pastel colors and with unused sticky tabs for hanging on back. Complete with square white sheet with explanatory details, this set was designed as promotional material, and is RARE. The set is Fine, explanatory sheet a few small wrinkles and 1 corner curl. . 12" x 12" .

California: QRS Corporation (?), 1966. A collection of 5 architectural drawings, all bearing logo of "QRS Corporation", four measuring 14 1/2" x 20" and the fifth, 16" x 20". Pen and ink with watercolor and marker on textured drawing boards with taped edges. Three have drawings for different concepts for Carnation Ice Cream Fountain - Lunch, each signed Tennant in pencil . The fourth, Grist Mill Health Foods, is signed PET in pencil bottom right. The fifth, 16 x 20, is for First California Federal, pencil signed R. Carlson '66. All are Fine. Given that the Carnation Ice Cream Cafe located in Yesterland, Disneyland, is housed in a Victorian era building, and First California Federal was not incorporated as the first federal credit union in California until 1980, these are most likely student works completed for an architectural drawing class in the mid 1960s. No record of a QRS Corp. architectural firm found. As a group a striking collection of mid-century California… Read More

Mexico City : Arte Mexicano, 1933. SCARCE. Very Good, vertical crease to front wrapper, light soiling rear wrapper. 47 pp. with 11 prints of watercolors of important architectural sites by Ignacio Gonzalez Mermosilla, The English language version, by George Godoy. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press, 1956. 11" h x 17 1/2" w oblong, colo pictorial paper front wrapper with white spiral binding, 22 pp. plus numerous home design possibilities, illustrated. Near Fine, small scrape rear white wrapper. The first 22 pages of text are followed by 24 pp. of farmhouse floor plans that are split down the middle, ..."Notice that the divided sheets are made so that any one of the plan sections on the left side can be put together with any one of the plan sections on the right side to form a complete floor plan. Since there are 24 sections on each side, you can choose from a total of 576 possible house plan combinations. In addition, you can reverse the whole plan or either half sheet independently of the other and still have a workable floor plan. Still more variations are possible, because most of the combinations offer alternatives in the choice of basement, garage, or porch. Among so many arrangements you are almost sure to find one that you… Read More

San Francisco: California Tomorrow, 1972. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR and guest editor Nathaniel A. Owings, on page 1 - " For My Chancellor- Bill Bachman F.A.I.A with his co-author;s regards Nat Owings April 3- 76". Nat Owings was a founding partner in the prestigious and influential architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. He contributed the article " The City Go slow, go slow" starting at page 3, and is also listed as a director for California Tomorrow. Other contributors to this issue include, Paolo Soleri, Daniel P. Moynihan, and Nathan Glazer, among others. Near Fine, top corners small creases, faint impression top edge from paper clip. Fabulous Mark Adams cover art. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Magazine. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1940. Near Fine, slight spine lean, in a Very Good SCARCE dust jacket, small chips and creases at top and bottom edges. Jacket photograph by Paul Kramer, illustrated with numerous black and white photographs. An important mid-century work on design and architecture, uncommon in collectible condition. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Wide 8vo.

New York: Da Capo Press, 1968. First Edition Thus, 1968, an unabridged republication of the two-volume first edition published by Houghto Mifflin in 1921. Near Fine in green cloth, stamped gilt lettering and decorations that mirror the First Edition, prior owner gift inscription front end page, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket, front flap price-clipped, 2" closed tear bottom edge rear panel, a few small chips and light edge wear. . Reprint. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Thick 8vo.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1941. Limited and Numbered First Edition, # 165 of 900 copies printed, 850 of which were for sale. With the inked ownership inscription of The North Carolina Society for the Preservation of Architecture, Inc., which was existent from 1939-1974. Very Good Plus, toning associated with only the first few pages front and rear, interior clean and lovely, no slipcase or jacket. Blue buckram with gilt device front cover, xxxv, 290 pages, with numerous black and white photographs, map end papers. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Buckram. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition.

Cleveland: Cleveland Hydraulic-Press Brick Company, 1898. RARE early pictorial survey of Calfornian, New Mexican and Mexican Spanish Mission architecture. With 24 spectacular full page black and white photographs and 8 pages consisting of title page, 6 pages unsigned text and concluding page with information on The Cleveland Hydraulic-Press Brick Company. Photographs signed Franklin Co. Eng. Chi.(cago). Very Good, in string-tied green paper covers, corner chips to covers and a 3" closed tear front cover, stain top corner title page. Starting with the "Oldest Church in America", the Church of San Miguel, Santa Fe and including the Cathedral of Mexico, Missions of San Juan Bautista, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and San Juan De Capistrano among others. . First Edition. String Tied. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

London: A. Pugin, 1830. 1831 and 1830. Quarter green leather at spine with leather tips, green cloth boards, five raised bands, gilt titles and decorations, red leather spine label. . Examples of Gothic Architecture, 66 pages, 73 plates. A Series of Views, by Joseph Nash, with letter-press descriptions by W.H. Leeds, 22 glorious full plage plates and 20 pages of text. Light foxing throughout, with title page of first part heavier foxing. Book is oversize and weight and will require additional postage. . Very Good Plus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Berlin: Verlag von Ernst Wasmuth, 1889. SCARCE with both volumes present and complete. A two volume set, Vol. I published 1889, Volume II, 1896. In original publisher's quarter cloth spine over paper covered boards, complete with ribbon ties. The portfolios Very Good, Vol. I boards soiling and showing some wear Vol. II small tears with small holes to cloth at spine, light wear to edges of boards, some plates with dampstain bottom margins not affecting plate images,. Complete with 12 pages text Vol. I and 15 pages of text Vol. II, with 160 chromolithograph plates total, 80 per volume. Internally quite lovely, the plates with brown tissue guards, a few tissue guards missing or creased. A stunning set of plates. . First Edition. Portfolio. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall.

Manchester, UK: Manchester: The University Press, 1937. Very Good, spine a bit sunned, light foxing to end pages. 28 plates, 10 folding plans, 306 pp. British Society of Franciscan Studies, Vol. XVIII (Vol. for 1933-34). . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

University of Illinois : Committee of Architectural Heritage, 1965. Near Fine, faint crease rear wrapper, light rubbing at spine, prior owner blind stamp. A gallery exhibition catalog, black pictorial wrappers, 32 pages.. First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

Los Angeles: Hollis Christensen, 1949. SCARCE iconic mid-century design journal. Very Good, 1" tear to wrappers top edge at spine, light soiling to wrappers, a few pages with small bottom or top corner creases. Unpaginated, 32 pp. divided into sections on Furniture, Lighting, Accessories, and Interiors. With 1 pp. essay titled "Potters and Craftsmen" by Beatrice Wood and 2 pp. essay, "the new and the good" by Alvin Lustig; a section titled "Personalities in Design" with portrait photos and short bios of Maurice Martine, Edward J. Wormley, Edith Kiertzner Heath, George Nakashima, Beatrice Wood, Isamu Noguchi, and Hendrick Van Keppel and Taylor Green; and a 2 pp. Retailers' Directory. Illustrated with black and white photographs. . First Edition. Binder. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949. First Edition stated on copyright page. Wright's intimate account of his personal and aesthetic relationship with architect Louis H. Sullivan, with 39 hitherto unpublished drawings by Sullivan. Fine in Very Good dust jacket, chips at spine tips (1/2" paper loss at head of spine), 2" chip along spine, rear panel soiled. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.