ALBUM OF OCEAN GROVE AND ASBURY PARK: by New Jersey, Ocean Grove - Asbury Park - 1882 Louis Glaser, fec.

Somers Point: Wm. A. Haffert, 1914. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Good. (44)pp; illus throughout from photographs, mostly full-page. Views include: Shore Road, Looking North from New Jersey Avenue; Somers' Homestead; Jane Anderson Homestead; Angler's Club; New $250,000 Auto Bridge to Ocean City; Somers Point Fire Company; Wyndgale Residence; Bungalow of Miss Elizabeth Steen; Schick's Hotel; many private residences on Shore Road, Annie Avenue, Maryland Avenue, Cedar Ave, etc.; &c. Wrappers scuffed, bit chipped; contents clean. 5" x 8" 6. [WorldCat locates only the Rutgers U holding of this interesting viewbook.].

Silver Lake, New Hampshire: John F. Chick & Son, Building Material, 1941. First Editions. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. Lot of nine issues, averaging 16pp each; illustrated throughout from photographs, floor plans and elevations. In the original, pictorial wrappers. Approx 11" x 8.5" The thrust of this magazine is "Now is the time to build your own home." Themes of these issues include: Hollywood Hilltops; Simple Dignity Is the Best Architecture; Cape Cod Cottages; Need Four Bedrooms?; Wood Walls; A Place to Eat in the Kitchen; Twin Level First Floor; Fireplace Ideas; The Case for Home Ownership; Colonial Twins; Summer Cottages; Modernizing A House; Plywood Is Perfect Material; Baseball Grows Up [a four-page departure in one issue]; Historic Walls; Suburban Charm; Log Cabin Siding; Ideas for the Roadside Merchant; Two Farm Homes in 1940 Style; Modernizing Your Farmhouse; Duplicate the Charm of Old World Cottages; Underground Storage Easily Built; Three Modern Farm Homes; Small Summer Cottages;… Read More

NY: A. Wittemann, 1891. Early edition. Original Cloth. Good. 30 panels of views from photographs in accordion-fold (leporello) format. Views include: birdseye view of Manhattan with the rivers and riverbanks (double-plate); New York Harbor; Cooper Union; Union Square; Casino; Grand Central Depot; Vanderbilt Mansions; various hotels and churches; East River Bridge; sailing ships in the East River; government and public buldings; City Hall Square and Park Row (double-plate); New York & Brooklyn Bridge (double-plate); Emigrants; Central Park; &c. Many panels have multiple views. Folded into brown cloth case, gilt cover title; several scuffs to plates, archival repairs on versos of some folds. 6" x 7.75

NY: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1985. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Rizzoli, 1985, first printing. Square 4to., 11 1/4" x 11 1/4", 224pp., illustrated with hundreds of photos and reproductions documenting 123 historic residences in black and white and color. 9" x 53" color map of the Hudson River locating the 123 houses enclosed. Very good in very good minus dust jacket with several closed edge tears. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 4to.

London: Phaidon Press, 1999. First edition. Hard cover, no dust jacket as issued. Published London: Phaidon Press, 1999, first printing. Folio, 12" x 12", unpaginated, approximately 180pp. with numerous plates and illustrations. Fine.. 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio.

UH No publication date, circa 1920's. A total of 169 sepia/b&w plates, line drawings and extensive Italian text relating to architectural ironwork from the Neo Classical, Baroque and Renaissance periods. Examples of ironwork covered far ranging including gates, balconies, lights, statues, doorknobs, candlebras, staircases. Green cloth with gilt titling on spine and black and gilt title box on front panel. Bumping and rubbing to corners and head and foot of spine. Carefully repaired split on spine. Owners name on ffep, age darkening to endpapers, text pages clean and bright. A good copy. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Karachi: Elite Publishers, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Near fine in fine dust wrapper in publisher's shipping case. 151 pages. 29 x 22 cm. 262 illustrations, 145 in color. The author a renown scholar, Director of Archaeology, Government of Pakistan casts a new interpretation of the origin and development of the Gandahara art deviating completely from the traditional point of view. A fresh, bright copy, front cover gilt lettering faded.

Somers Point: Wm. A. Haffert, 1914. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Good. (44)pp; illus throughout from photographs, mostly full-page. Views include: Shore Road, Looking North from New Jersey Avenue; Somers' Homestead; Jane Anderson Homestead; Angler's Club; New $250,000 Auto Bridge to Ocean City; Somers Point Fire Company; Wyndgale Residence; Bungalow of Miss Elizabeth Steen; Schick's Hotel; many private residences on Shore Road, Annie Avenue, Maryland Avenue, Cedar Ave, etc.; &c. Wrappers scuffed, bit chipped; contents clean. 5" x 8" 6. [WorldCat locates only the Rutgers U holding of this interesting viewbook.].

Silver Lake, New Hampshire: John F. Chick & Son, Building Material, 1941. First Editions. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. Lot of nine issues, averaging 16pp each; illustrated throughout from photographs, floor plans and elevations. In the original, pictorial wrappers. Approx 11" x 8.5" The thrust of this magazine is "Now is the time to build your own home." Themes of these issues include: Hollywood Hilltops; Simple Dignity Is the Best Architecture; Cape Cod Cottages; Need Four Bedrooms?; Wood Walls; A Place to Eat in the Kitchen; Twin Level First Floor; Fireplace Ideas; The Case for Home Ownership; Colonial Twins; Summer Cottages; Modernizing A House; Plywood Is Perfect Material; Baseball Grows Up [a four-page departure in one issue]; Historic Walls; Suburban Charm; Log Cabin Siding; Ideas for the Roadside Merchant; Two Farm Homes in 1940 Style; Modernizing Your Farmhouse; Duplicate the Charm of Old World Cottages; Underground Storage Easily Built; Three Modern Farm Homes; Small Summer Cottages;… Read More

NY: A. Wittemann, 1891. Early edition. Original Cloth. Good. 30 panels of views from photographs in accordion-fold (leporello) format. Views include: birdseye view of Manhattan with the rivers and riverbanks (double-plate); New York Harbor; Cooper Union; Union Square; Casino; Grand Central Depot; Vanderbilt Mansions; various hotels and churches; East River Bridge; sailing ships in the East River; government and public buldings; City Hall Square and Park Row (double-plate); New York & Brooklyn Bridge (double-plate); Emigrants; Central Park; &c. Many panels have multiple views. Folded into brown cloth case, gilt cover title; several scuffs to plates, archival repairs on versos of some folds. 6" x 7.75