Search Results: ARCHITECTURE from Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

Sao Paulo, Brazil: Gerth Todtmann, 1948. First Edition. Text in English and in Portuguese. Cloth discolored; very good in a heavily chipped dust jacket.

Atlanta: Arthur M. Blank, 2003. First Edition. A lavishly produced insight into the construction and design of the Blank family beach house. Blank is a founder of Home Depot. Retained by the printer, of an edition of 500 copies printed, this is one of 100 meant to be numbered, and signed by the author, but in which neither was accomplished. Fine in publisher’s cloth and dust jacket.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1970. First Edition (published simultaneously in Canada). Near fine in a very good dust jacket with minor wear and a small chip at the top of the front panel.

Zurich: Editions Girsberger, 1951. First Edition. A bit musty; very good.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948. First Edition. Inscribed in 1948 by the author on the front free endpaper and signed by the author and subject on the final blank leaf, which is numbered 1463. Near fine in a worn and torn dust jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1932. First Edition. Some light staining to the bottom of the front and rear boards, else near fine in an edge-chipped dust jacket.

Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1927. First Edition. Baubucher Band 2. Some age toning, else a fine copy in printed wrappers, and the uncommon pictorial dust jacket.

Cambridge: MIT Press, 1972. First Edition. An exceptional copy of an exceptional book, probably the most important architectural publication of the last fifty years, often described as the manifesto of architectural post-modernism. A fine copy in the printed tissue dust jacket, showing only slight wear; in a custom clamshell box. The book’s design was widely praised at that time, as well as since. If not for the seismic influence of the work itself (although not universally accepted, given controversy and disagreement over its observations, conclusions, and view), it would be celebrated for this alone.

Scarsdale, New York: Morgan & Morgan, 1951. First Edition. Very good or a little better; presentation copy; inscribed by Neutra.

Scarsdale, New York: Morgan & Morgan, 1951. First Edition. Very good or a little better; presentation copy; inscribed by Neutra.

Boston: Ticknor & Co., n.d. [c.1883]. A cloth folder, approximately 10 x 14”, when open displaying a sample cover poster for the periodical (”For Sale Here”), including a mounted “gelatine” photograph detail of Richardson’s Austin Hall at Harvard (”Specimen of Gelatine Plate, Issued with the Gelatine Edition”). Opposite is a printed label instructing the newsdealer to display a new plate weekly. Some staining; very good.

Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1927. First Edition. Die Baubucher Band 1, published two years before Neutra emigrated to the United States. Some offsetting to the printed wrappers; a very good copy.