Search Results: architecture from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

London: Architecture Association, 1986. A near-fine copy, internally bright and clean, with light soiling to the box. Square folio. 28-page pamphlet in wrappers; 20 silkscreens; together in black cloth clamshell box. FIRST EDITION, number 29 of 1000 copies signed by Holmes on the cover of the box.

London: Thames and Hudson, 2001. A near-fine copy; jacket lightly rubbed. 11.25 x 9.25 inches. 340 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white and color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, with 356 illustrations included.

Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2002. Some staining to acetate; generally a clean copy. 18 x 13.25 inches. 440 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original illustrated boards; printed acetate covering. First edition. "Modernist experimental homes. Prototypes for everyone The Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences that could be easily and cheaply constructed during the postwar building boom. The program's chief motivating force was Arts & Architecture editor John Entenza, a champion of modernism who had all the right connections to attract some of architecture's greatest talents, such as Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen. Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to re-define the modern home, and… Read More

New York: Rizzoli, 1990. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket that is slightly toned along the spine. 4to. 288 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by Pelli on the half-title, and with the recipient's address label affixed to title. A fine monograph on the Argentinian-born American architect, including a study of the World Financial Center in Battery Park, the renovation of the Museum of Modern Art, and the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles.

Lugano: Banca della Svizzera Italiana, 1985. Jacket with a few small tears at edges but generally bright and clean, internally clean and unblemished. Text in Italian and English. Folio (12.5 x 11 inches). Illustrated in black-and-white and color. Cloth; dust jacket. Limited edition, number 84 of 198 numbered copies from an edition of 1200. A monograph on the architect Claudio F. Pellegrini's work in Lugano, lavishly printed and illustrated. WITH: Nag Arnoldi. [Untitled]. Etching, 7.5 x 6.25 inches image, 12 x 10.5 inches sheet, numbered 84/99 and signed and dated NAG 85 in pencil. Arnoldi was a post-war and contemporary Swiss sculptor whose outdoor sculptures are featured in the text.

(Friends of the) Presidio Terrace Association, 1995. A fine copy in a near-fine lightly toned jacket that has a little light wear and a few small marks. 11.25 x 14.25 inches. 96 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Inscribed by the architect on the title-page and with a typed letter signed by the architect laid in. First Edition. A collection of photographs by Patrick McGrew of the Presidio Terrace.

Oslo: H. Aschehoug, 1944. 4to. 117 pages, including a number of illustrations. A very good copy in original printed paper wrappers.

New York: W. W. Norton, 1932. A near-fine copy with a few small areas of discoloration to cloth, in a very good price-clipped jacket with losses at ends of spine and at lower rear panel. 4to. 240 pages. 82 full-page photographs of contemporary buildings, accompanied by plans. Cloth; dust jacket. Provenance: Samuel M. Nickerson (pencil inscription dated Sept. 11 1934 on front free endpaper), possibly a descendent of Samuel M. Nickerson (1830-1914) of Chicago, banker and owner of the famed Gilded Age Nickerson House, now the home to the Richard H. Driehaus Museum. FIRST EDITION of this seminal book on Modernist architecture, designed by Werner Helmer. The book illustrates buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, J. J. P. Oud, Mies van der Rohe, Raymond M. Hood, Howe & Lescaze, Richard J. Neutra, and other architects. It was published on the occasion of MoMA's exhibition "Modern Architecture, International Exhibition," and includes an introduction by the museum's director Alfred… Read More

London, New York, San Francisco: Pentagram Design, 1970. Light wear to wrapper edges, but a fine copy. Oblong (7 x 9.5 inches). Original printed wrappers. The Kingswalden Notes are Quinlan Terry's journal recording the deign and building of Kings Walden Bury, a new country house in Hertfordshire, which was completed in 1971.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962. 8vo. 372 pp. Plates. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. A near-fine copy with light wear to jacket, a few minor spots to sheet edges. FIRST EDITION. A fine association copy, inscribed by Richard Neutra to the photographer Barbara Morgan on the half-title: "To Barbara Morgan and her husband - who have suffered making the best book about a man, who deserves only the third best - Most cordially and sincere wishes to them and theirs Richard Neutra." Further inscribed by the artist Annita Delano on the front free endpaper: "To Barbara Morgan and to William Morgan to my mind two of the happiest people I have ever known, Annita Delano." The noted photographer Barbara Morgan - a co-founder of Aperture magazine - taught at UCLA with Neutra and Delano in the 1920s. Barbara Morgan at this time also assisted her husband, the writer Willard Morgan, in photographing the modern architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra, including a full… Read More

Paris: Gustave Barba, [nd]. Pale foxing, first few leaves with some light damp staining.. 4to. 380 pages. Frontispiece with 25 engraved plates throughout. Marbled paper over boards with gilt-stamped spine. FIRST EDITION. Text in French.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001. First edition. Slightest rubbing to dj, generally fine. Folio. Profusely illustrated in color. Original grey boards; dust jacket. New photography by Roberto Schezen. 185 illustrations, including 100 plates in full color.

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. Spine faded with some associated fading on front and back, owner's ink inscription on front free endpaper. 10.5 x 9.5 inches. 20 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original orange cloth; dust jacket. First edition. "These churches have never before been photographed so thoroughly, with such meticulous attention to their exuberant detail and splendor, providing a glimpse of the setting in which people lived, worked and worshipped in colonial Mexico" (the publisher).

John Wiley & Sons, 1995. Hardcover. A fine copy. 12.25 x 10.5 inches. 144 pages. Cloth; dust jacket.

Paris: Imprimerie des Hospices Civils, 1803. Three parts in one volume, 4to (250 x 197 mm). viii, 200; [2], 67; [2], 16 pp. Half-title. Folding table at end. Late 19th-/early 20th-century boards. Provenance: Bibliothèque Imperiale (inkstamp on some text leaves and table, duplicate stamp). FIRST EDITION. Contains a "report on the administration of home help" and a "report on the office of hiring and direction of nannies." Scarce. NLM Index-Catalogue, p. 607; Tourneux, 'Bibliographie de l'histoire de Paris pendant la Révolution française,' 20522. See also our inventory numbers 403054 and 403055.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1989. Hardcover. A fine copy. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. 343 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. "Looks at natural towers, famous towers of the past, church towers, cathedrals, Islamic towers, pagodas, bell towers, communications towers, and skyscrapers.

New York: Phaidon Press Inc, 2009. First edition. Jacket with one short tear and some toning. Folio. 231pp. Profusely illustrated. Original pictorial boards; die-cut dust jacket.