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East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1899. First Roycrofter. Suede. Brown suede covers with brown leather label printed in gilt. Very good. 11 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Limited editions, copy 241 of 1000 signed by Hubbard. Printed in red and black. Silk moire endpapers. Interior clean, wear to front cover fore-edge at lower portion with some slight loss. … Read more about this item

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pale pink illustrated boards and yellow cloth spine in original clear acetate dust wrapper. Fine. Crumb, Robert. 17 pages. 27.5 x 19.5 cm. One of 400 copies signed by Bukowski and Crumb and laid-in the mauve colored Broadside/ Flyer No.12 announcing the publication of the short story. … Read more about this item

East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1900. Suede. Brown suede covers decorated and lettered in gilt. Yapp edges. Very good. 31 pages. 21 x 16 cm. Ads at rear. Illustrated with workers at the Roycrofters. Printed in red and black. Some loss at front cover corners. Silk moire inside covers.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth spine with paper label and illustrated beige cloth in original clear acetate dust wrapper. Fine. Crumb, Robert. 14 pages. 27.5 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition copy 69 of 376 numbered copies signed by Charles Bukowski and R. Crumb on limitation page. Hand bound by Earle Gray.… Read more about this item

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1998. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth spine and illustrated boards. Fine. Crumb, Robert. 144 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 183 of 326 signed by Crumb in pencil and handbound by Earle Gray each containing an original color serigraph portrait of Charles Bukowski by Robert Crumb. Plus, there are additional black and… Read more about this item

East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1903. Suede. Brown suede covers decorated and lettered in gilt. Yapp edges. Near fine. 66 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Bright, clean copy. Silk moire inside front and back covers. Borders designed by Samuel Warner, typography by Newell Q. White and presswork by George Parker.

East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1922. First edition. Suede. Brown suede covers decorated and lettered in gilt. Yapp edges. Very good. 103 pages. 16 x 20.5 cm. Initial letters printed in red. Bright, clean copy. Red silk moire inside front and back covers. Nicks to yapp edges.

East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1898. First edition. Suede. Brown suede covers lettered in gilt. Yapp edges. Very good/near fine. 67 pages. 13 x 21 cm. Initial letters printed in colors, red, blue, some heightened in gold. Bright, clean copy. Gold silk moire inside front and back covers.

New York: Cooperative Building Plan Association, Architects, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated taupe cloth lettered in red, beveled edges. Very good. 3 pages in text. Folio, 35 x 28 cm. 700 illustrations, each plan is priced and accompanied with letterpress details. Our copy is No. 9640, attesting that the purchaser can request a loan from the publisher… Read more about this item

Hartford: Case, Tiffany And Burnham, 1847. leather_bound. Contemporary calf over boards. Two Vols. in one. Very good. Folio, 40.5 x 30 cm, 96 pages in text. Thirty-eight wood engravings and fifty lithographed plates, some are double-paged. This edition contains the only published architecture designs of Henry Austin [five plates]. The frontispiece shows a view of the Wadsworth Athenaeum… Read more about this item

Boston: Published by The Proprietors, 1832. Third edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter brown calf and boards, marbled endpapers. Very good. 119 pages. 27.5 x 22.5. Sixty-four copper engraved plates. Glossary of Architecture Terms. This was unquestionably his most popular work. It went through at least seventeen issues before 1860. HITCHCOCK 119. "The word 'containing' is omitted from the… Read more about this item

New York: A.J. Bicknell & Co, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pebble grained brown cloth, backstrip gilt designs bright and fresh. Front cover lettered in black. Near fine. Unpaginated. Folio, 35 x 27 cm. Seventy five lithographs plates (most with multiple images) plus lithographic frontispiece -- many plates are tinted, Included are forty-five perspectives, elevations and plans of… Read more about this item

New York: Geo. E. Woodward, 1869. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt. Near fine. 144 pages. 16.5 x 12.5 cm. 144 wood-engravings, fifty-eight designs; cottages, farm houses, various farm out-buildings, a Doctor's residence, ornaments in landscape gardening, a country schoolhouse, grape arbor, etc. HITCHCOCK 1420. "A new issue of the 1867 item, with title:… Read more about this item

New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1846. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's, forest green cloth. Very good. 594 pages. 20 x 12.4 cm. More than 210 text illustrations. Extensive Index to the Different Fruits. General Index. Abbreviations and Books Quoted.Downing notes, "there are more peaches exposed in the markets of New York, annually, than are raised in all of France;" a… Read more about this item

New York: Orange Judd Agricultural Book Publishers, 1865. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth front cover and spine decorted in gilt. Near fube. 576 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Enlarged, Revised and Newly Illustrated. With a Supplement by Henry Winthrop Sargent Frontispiece, Host of full page and smaller wood engraved illustrations. Downing is widely considered the be the… Read more about this item

New York: Orange, Judd, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Very good/Near fine. 287 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Approximately 150 engravings, including model homes, floor plans and drawings. "Atwood's designs illustrate well the tendency at this period of American building to regard architectural style as a kind of overlay... There are designs… Read more about this item

Chicago: Radford Architectural Co, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated light brown cloth, front cover lettered in white. Teg. Near fine. 255 pages. 20 x 16 cm. Perspective views and floor plans of 100 low and medium priced houses. Every plan illustrated presents complete working plans and specifications. Adverts at rear. A bright, fresh and very clean copy.… Read more about this item

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray pictorial front cover lettered in white and black. Very good. 108 pages. 26 x 18.5 cm. 114 photographs: examples and American adaptations of the Dutch Colonial style. Ideal designs for small buildings. Most of the houses illustrated are in Bergen, Passaic, Essex and Hudson Counties in NJ,… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary quarter black roan and midnight blue speckled boards Very good. Lafever, Minard. 139 pages in text. 27 x 18 cm. Forty-eight engraved plates. The rare first edition. This monograph consists of a section entitled "Architectural History" extracted from Elmes's DICTIONARY, a glossary of names and terms used… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1866. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's cloth with front cover gilt decoration bright and clean. Very good. 148 pages. 30 x 24 cm. Sixty-six plates, most of which are colored lithographs, and one, a large fold-out [uncolored]. Glossary. Geometrical Definitions. The second edition is identical to the first, published in 1859. KARPEL B295. "Before this… Read more about this item