Search Results: Authors starting with R from Trevian Books

Venezia: Alfieri, 1976 First edition. 2 volumes: 8vo; pp. 1-201, 202-386; illustrated. Owner's stamp to half-title; else a very good set in original wrappers. Documenting exhibitions in the Visual Arts and Architecture section, including the Avant-garde in Spain 1936-1976; the Werkbund; architecture in Fascist Italy; Sottsass, Man Ray, etc. Text in English..

Los Angeles: Tag Front, N.d. (c. 2015) Trade catalog for the Southern California architecture and design firm showing recent residential work. 15 cm; unpaged (approx. 150, 2 pp. text); illustrated from photographs and renderings. A very good copy in embossed wrappers..

Kuala Lampur: Oxford, 1978 Facsimile reprint of Raffles's 1824 brief autobiographical letter tracing his career in Java, west Sumatra, and Singapore. Originally privately printed. Edited by John Bastin. First edition thus. 28 cm; 72 pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket..

Chicago: 1940 Pamphlet with a brief history of the lines, reprinted from Yearbook of Diviision 308. 28 cm; 8 pp.; illustrated from photographs and full-page system map. Folded twice for mailing. A good copy..

Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, (1997) First edition. 4to; unpaged; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. Soiling to wrappers; else a very good copy or better in original printed wrappers. Catalog for an exhibition of the recent work of 4 French firms: Decq & Cornette; Soler; Jourda & Perraudin; Perrault. In essence, 5 collections of texts and graphics allowing each architect to have his own little flip book pasted vertically...oh never mind. Designed by a madman who took the concept of "catalog" to a place where it didn't want to go, and where it will never go again..

Firenze: Alinea, 2005 Monograph on Ponti's 1936 headquarters building for the Montecatini firm in Milan. The design and construction of the huge complex employed an absolute modernization reflected in the exteriors and interiors, including furniture and fittings designed by Ponti. Office furniture from the building now commands prices rivaling those of looted furniture (and manhole covers) from Chandigarh. Text in Italian with summary page in English. First edition. 22.5 cm; 36 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers..

Jerez De La Frontera: Ramirez, N.d. [c. 1895] Folding price card for the Spanish sherry producer and exporter. With illustration of vineyard to front cover, and with form letter. 32.5 x 14 sheet folded twice. Very good..

Barcelona: Ediciones UPC, 1996 A survey of documents, illustrations, and teaching materials at the Barcelona school, dating from its founding in 1871. Text in English, Spanish, and Catalan. First edition. 28.5 cm; 173 pp.; illustrated. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with fading to spine. .

New York: Docomomo US New York Tri-State, 2014 The first issue of this awkwardly-named periodical, with articles about Pei, Lundy, Breuer, Peter Blake, other modernists who built in NY. Will you forgive me if I briefly state how moronic the name of this organization, which I refuse to transcribe with its bizarre collection of meaningless marks, is? First edition. 25.5 cm, 44 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A very good copy in wrappers..

Ann Arbor: The Author, 1955 The story of the development of the fjurniture industy in Grand Rapids, MI, since 1850. First edition. 27.5 cm; 101 pp.; illustrated. A very good copy or better in cloth-backed boards, published without a dust jacket..

Hastings on Hudson: Newington Cropsey Foundation, 2005 Catalog for the 2005 exhibition of the architecural and design work by Cropsey, better known today as an artist of the Hudson River School. Cropsey had a successful practice in New York, designing houses for wealthy clients, as well as designing several elevated train station kiosks in Manhattan. First edition. 27.5 cm; 40 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers..

East Hampton: East Hampton Star, 1937 A history of the Long Island town celebrating its 300th anniversary in 1937. Also enumerating the advantages of living in or visiting the town, which has "every modern aid to comfortable living." With illustration by Childe Hassam, and tipped-in folding map to rear wrapper. First edition. 16.5 cm; 43 pp.; illustrated from photographs, drawings, and map. A very good copy or better in embossed wrappers.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

St. Louis: Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 2016 Catalog for the 2016 exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation of work by the German architectural collaborative Raumlaborberlin, utilizing construction elements from an abandoned house on Enright Ave., to create a "mirror site at the Pulitzer--a two-story skeletal structure that evokes the building's frame and interior...in an area identical in size to the original house, but its interior disrupts expectations." First edition. 23 cm; 36 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers. Paperback..

Detroit: Chrysler Corp., 1952 Promotional monograph for the Chrysler Corp.'s Department of Styling, led by Virgil M. Exner. Presented virtually as a fashion spread by photographer John Rawlings, with Chryslers instead of models, but with models, too. Showing De Sotos, Imperials, C-200, and D'Elegance models. Folio (35.5 x 40 cm); 20 pp.; illustrated from photographs by Rawlings. Smudging and soiling to glossy white covers; contents clean and bright. A good copy or better in original pictorial wrappers..

London: Booth-clibbord Edition, (1999) First edition. oblong 4to; 220 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A fine copy in original pictorial self-wrappers, in a fine translucent plastic slipcase. A monograph on the furniture designs of the Austrailan designer..

Calcutta: CMPO, 1966 First edition. 4to; 176 pp.; illustrated. A good copy in a good dust jacket. An effort to "...present a coherent and carefully thought out prospectus for the regeneration and development of the CDalcuttta Metropolitan District..."over the next 20 years..

London: Allan Wingate, (1949), 1949. First edition. 4to; 291 pp.; hundreds of illustrations from photographs and drawings. Light wear to extremities; else a good or better in original gilt-stamped blue cloth..

Chichester: John Wily & Sons, Ltd., (2000) Monograph on the green and sustainable work of Nikken Sekkei in Japan. First edition. 30.5 cm; 190 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a little bit of wear to top of spine..

Manchester: Cornerhouse Publications: (1990) First edition. Square 4to; 108 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A biographical and critical account of Ray-Jones' life is followed by a collection of 70 images. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Rutland & Tokyo: Tuttle, (1973) First edition. 4to; 328 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. With the stamp of architect Der Scutt to endpaper. A very good copy or better in original cloth, in a fine dust jacket, in a fine publisher's cardboard slipcase. The autobiography of the Czech-born architect, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright who helped supervise the erection of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. He remained in Japan until the war, returning in 1948 after having built up a substantial American practice. Illustrated with examples of Raymond's work, including post-war work, and incidents of his personal life. (Sharp p. 105) .