History Of The Development Of Building Construction In Chicago
by Randall, Frank A.
Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Near fine.. 388 pages.26 x 18 cm. More than seventy illustrations. Names of Buildings. Locations of Buildings. Architects and Engineers. General Index. A detailed history of the structures, the foundation engineering and construction methods, and the planners and builders who developed Chicago from 1830 to 1948.... Read More
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New York Advancing World's Fair Edition; The Result Of Five Years Of Progressive Administration In The City Of New York F.H. LaGuardia, Mayor Together with an Official Guide to the City of New York Exhibit Building
by Rankin, Rebecca Browning
New York: The Publisher's Printing Co, 1939. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 270 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Illustrated. Index.
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The Architect, A Series of Original Designs, For Domestic and Ornamental Cottages and Villas Connected With Landscape Gardening, Adapted To The United States; Illustrated By Drawings of Ground Plots, Plans, Perspective Views, Elevations, Sections and Details
by Ranlett, William H.
New York: William H. Graham, 1851. First edition. Vol. 1 wear to corners, Vol. II rebacked in black cloth with gilt front cover design replicated on vol. 1. cover but not colored. Very good. 2 Vols. Folio, 37" x 28 cm. Sets of both volumes are rare. HITCHCOCK 971. Notes scattered holdings of Volumes I and II, but no complete... Read More
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Donum Estonicum Poems in translation
by Rannit , Aleksis
New Rochelle: Elizabeth Press, 1976. First edition. Paperback. Orig. printed stiff wrappers. Near fine. 67 pages. 23 1/2 x 16 cm. Limited edition, one of 900 copies printed by Martino Mardersteig on rag paper by Stamperia Valdonega. Signed presentation copy to Roy Young. Poems in Estonian with English translation.
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The People's Architects
by Ransom, Harry S (Editor)
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned cloth. Very good in very good dust wrapper. 120 pages. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Published for Rice University with articles by I.M. Pei, Pietro Belluschi, Vernon DeMars, Charles M. Goodman et al: a total of eigh tessays. Stamp on front free endpaper.
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I Pisano e il Gotico
by Raspi, Joselita Serra
Milano: Fratelli Fabbri, 1968. First edition. leather_bound. Nearly fifty color plates. Text in Italian. Capolivori Della Scultura #6. Orig. illustrated boards. Near fine. 87 pages.
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Karl Hofer Das Graphische Werk
by Rathenau, Ernest
New York: Rathenau, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated tan cloth. Fine. Hofer, Karl. Unpaginated. 30 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 156 of 600. Catalogue raisonne of prints. Important German expressionist. German text.
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Secrets Of The Samurai; A Survey of the Martial Arts of Feudal Japan
by Ratti, Oscar & Adele Westbrook
Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle, 1980. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth front cover lettered in Japanese. Very good in slightly nicked dust wrapper. 483 pages. 26.5 x 19 cm. Illustrated in black and white with text figures and 18 Charts. Bibliography and Index. Two small spots to front cover/.
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Twenty Four Plates; Introduction and notes by Allen S. Weller
by Rattner, Abraham
Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Text volume housed in decorated box with red and black lettering. Fine. 19 pages. 42 x 31.5 cm. Host of illustrations in red and black in text volume. 24 Notes on the Plates provide dimensions and media. Laid-in are the twenty four plates mentioned previously. Rattner was an expressionist... Read More
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Photos In + Out City Limits Boston
by Rauschenberg, Robert
WestIslip: Ulae Inc, 1981. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig.stiff white wrappers. Very good in near fine slipcase. Approx. 90 pages in text. Forty-five full-page photographs by Rauschenberg printed recto only. Introduction by Richard Ackley. Some cover wear.
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Gluts October 12 - November 24, 1990
by Rauschenberg, Robert
Chicago: Feigen, 1990. First edition. Original Wraps. Fourteen full-color plates. Orig. printed blue wrappers. Near fine. 16 pages. 17.5 x 17.5 cm. Introduction by Rosetta Brooks.
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The Hansom Cab And The Pigeons Being Random Reflections Upon The Silver Jubilee Of King George V by L.A.G. Strong
by Ravilious, Eric (Illustrator)
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue morocco spine and marbled boards. Near fine. Ravilious, Eric. 43 (3) pages. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 114 of 212 in Perpetua type on hand made paper signed by Strong. There were also 1000 unnumbered and unsigned copies. illustrated by Ravilious with a full... Read More
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Century Book of The Long Island Historical Society
by Rawls, Walton H (Editor)
Brooklyn: Long Island Historical Society, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. rust linen cloth and patterned boards with green and red spine labels. Portions of the green spine label faded. Near fine in fine black slipcase. 206 pages. 25.5 x 18.5 cm. Title page printed in red and black, eighteen plates printed on glossy stock, a centennary celebration with... Read More
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A Collection Of English Words Not Generally Used; with their Significations and Original, in two Alphabetical Catalogues, The One of such as are proper to the Northern, the other to the Southern Counties, With Catalogues of English Birds and Fishes: An an Account of the preparing and refining such Metals and Minerals as are gotten in England
by Ray, John
London: H. Bruges, 1674. First edition. Hardcover. Later half sheep and marbled boards. Very good. 15.5 x 10 cm. A4, B8-K8-L2 (without the first and final blanks). Title page printed in red and black. First edition, this issue with comma after "Ray" but not "words" of the title page, without continuous test despite irregular pagination. The "Country Words"... Read More
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Photographs 1920-1934 Paris; With a Portrait By Picasso -- Texts By Andre Breton * Paul Eluard * Rrose Selavy * Tristan Tzara -- Preface By Man Ray
by Ray, Man
Hartford: James Thrall Soby, 1934. Second Edition. Original Wraps. Orig. illustrated front cover. Near fine. Unpaginated. 30 x 23 cm. 104 full-page black and white gravure reproductions of photographs and photograms. This title sold at Christie's, May 18, 2006 for $8928.00 with the following note, "This has the cancel title bearing the fictitious statement of `second edition'. According... Read More
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Perpetual Motif The Art of Man Ray
by Ray, Man
New York: Abbeville, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. ruby cloth. Fine in chipped dust wrapper. 348 pages. 29 x 25 cm. Nearly 300 illustrations in color and duotone, many of the latter published here for the first time. Bibliography. Essays by experts.
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Modern Painting
by Raynal, Maurice
Geneva: Skira, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper.. 343 pages. Large 4to, 33 x 24 cm, 200 full-page colorplates. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert.
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Modern French Painters
by Raynal, Maurice
New York: Tudor, 1934. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine. Translated by Ralph Roeder. Bibliographical Notes.
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History of The California Academy of Medicine 1930-1960
by Read, J. Marion
San Francisco: The California Academy of Sciences, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated gray cloth. Very good. 86 pages. List of Officers, 1930-1960. Membership Roll. Biographies of deceased pastpresidents, fifteen in total. Index. Partly unopened. Limited edition, one of 1000 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy.
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A History Of The California Academy Of Medicine 1870 To 1930
by Read, J. Marion
San Francisco: California Academy of Medicine, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. marbled boards and niger back. Very good. 186 pages. Eighteen full-page photographs. References. Index. Four page facsimile pamphlet on tan paper inserted. Limited edition, one of 970 copies, printed by the Grabhorn Press. Spine darkened. GRABHORN PRESS 141.
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Tommy Brayshaw: The Ardent Angler-Artist
by Read, Stanley E.
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, front cover and spine printed in gilt. Fine. 94 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Copy 1193 of 2000. Illustrated with color drawings and a host of color plates. Printed on quality stock. Title page printed in red and black.
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American Architecture Of The Twentieth Century A Series Of Photographs And Measured Drawings Of Modern Civic, Commercial And Industrial Buildings
by Reagan, Oliver & Lewis Mumford (Editors)
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Green cloth spine and gray boards. Very good. Parts 1-7 in 6 Vols. Folio, 50 x 37 cm. The complete set. Two title pages and 140 full page plates of measured drawings and half tones. Buildings by York & Sawyer, A. L. Harmon, Raymond Hood (American Radiator... Read More
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Picasso
by Arles. Musee Reattu
Arles: Musee Reattu, 1971. First edition. Paperback. Fifty-seven drawings incolor and black and white. Orig. white wrappers. Fine. Picasso, Pablo. 112 pages.
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Louis G. Redstone From Israeli Pioneer to American Architect
by Redstone, Louis
Ames: Iowa State Univ. Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 182 pages. Abundantly illustrated with photographs. Foreword by James A. Kelly. A biography of a celebrated architect: his previous five resource books have focused on the significance of art in architecture and on public art.
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Orozco
by Reed, Alma
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. Orozco, Jose Clemente. 308 pages. Thirty-two half-tone illustrations, including reproductions of a few of Orozco's less well-known works and several early photographs of the artist which have never been printed. FREITAG 7166.
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