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Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 238 pages. Copiously illustrated with photographs and drawings. Bibliography. Index. Glossary of Structural Forms. This monograph covers sixty-seven different house types and successfully describes 96% of the houses surveyed.

New York: Marlborough, 1983. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers slightly creased. Very good. 28 pages. 11 x 8 1/2". 22 plates, many in color.

London: Henry Colburn, 1827. New Edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown calf and dark salmon boards. Very good. 136 pages. 19 x 11.5 cm. Six colored aquatint plates, one a large foldout. HENREY Vol.II, p.583. "No author's name appears on the title page......in the later editions the author signed her name and address" (rear of book). ABBEY LIFE p.13. Wide text margins, generally clean interior, tight and firm binding., nicks to corners.

London: John Murray, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. half vellum and green cloth. Teg. Very good. 189 pp. 8vo, sixteen plates, thirty-seven illustrations in the text. Index. Bookplate, owner inscription.

Aldershot: Committee of the United Service Club, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth with front cover decoration in gilt. Near fine. 132 pages. 25 1/2 x 16 cm. Sixteen illustrations. Index. History of the reknown English officer's club.

New York: David McKay, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned brown cloth. Teg. Fine in fine slipcase. 344 pages. Abundantly illustrated with nearly seventy-five photographs. Index. Limited edition, copy 238 of 1050. Unusually fresh and bright copy, very clean, bookplate.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. First edition. Boards. Orig. gray boards. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 188 pages. 29 x 24 cm. 149 illustrations, 32 in color. Artist Biographies. Owner inscription.

Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1961. leather_bound. Orig. navy morocco covers decorated in gilt. Aeg. Fine. 63 pages. 7 x 5 cm. Illustrated with drawings. Printed on "Antiqua" paper by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland and bound by Albracht. As new copy. backstrip lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers.

New York: Praeger, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth lettered in white. Fine in fine illustrated dust wrapper. Jacoby, Helmut. Unpaginated. 28 x 22 cm. Profusely illustrated in black and white, drawings and photographs of his buildings on glossy stock. Signed presentation copy in blue ink "For Mr. & Mrs. August Heckscher in the appreciation of the hospitality given to me and my family ((Parks Commissioner under Mayor John V. Lindsay who was long active in public affairs). Heckscher also maintained a printing office at High Loft on Mount Desert Island, Maine.

New York: Fowler And Wells, Publishers, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth embossed in blind and gilt, front cover and spine gilt lettering bright and fresh. Very good. 176, (xii) pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. 123 wood engravings. With numerous original plans designed by F.E, Graff et al. Contains a pot-pourri of designs: a log cabin, a hexagonal house, southern, western Italian, English, suburban, gothic, symmetrical and semi-southern cottages; a circular planned house, a southern villa in the Palladian style, an octagonal gothic villa and numerous other unconventional types. Index. List of publisher adverts at rear. Text and engravings generally clean, slight rubbing to backstrip head and foot. Free front endpaper with scribbles. HITCHCOCK 628.

Brattleboro: Stephen Daye Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. tan linen cloth. Fine. 105 pages. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. With an illustration of each bridge described, and a curious chapter on why they were covered.

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, front cover lettered and decorated in gilt. Fine. 401 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Clean, bright and very fresh copy.

New York: Heritage Press, 1967. Hardcover. Orig. mauve cloth with decorated spine. Fine in very good slipcase. (xi) 516 pages. 25.5 x 16 cm. Sixteen full page color plates Sandglass laid-in. As new copy.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1948. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Near fine. 619 pages. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. This his definitive edition, revised from the first edition published 1890. Small book label of The Holiday Bookshop, New York.

Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1900. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated cloth front cover decorated in gilt. Fine. Pennell, Joseph. 350 pages. 20 x 13 cm., illustrated by Joseph Pennell with more than 60 full page plates. Index. Interior contents fresh and clean.

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1997. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. tan lettered cloth. Fine. Dine, Jim. 67 pages. 32 x 22.5 cm. With an introduction by Arthur C. Danto and a photogravure by Jim Dine. Limited edition, copy 111 of 125 signed by Jim Dine. Laid-in, an accordion fold announcement of the book by Arion Press explicating the genesis of the tale. James had not yet published a novel, this story appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in the spring of 1873.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Very good. 2 vols. 329, 435 pages. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. The novel explores one of James's favorite themes: the cultural clash between naive Americans and sophisticated, often decadent Europeans. Bright, fresh copy. BAL 10647.

Cincinnati: Union Central Life Insurance, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated in black and white. Orig. blue cloth. Fine in rubbed dustwrapper.. 161 pp.

Paris: L. Janet, 1800. First edition. leather_bound. Full black calf, gilt arabesque border panels, spine and covers. Aeg. Near fine. 271 pages. 20 x 13 cm. All plates with tissue guards. From the Library of Betsy Flagg Melcher, American miniature portraitist, daughter of Ernest Flagg, noted American architect in the Beaux-Arts Style. The book is from the Studio and Libraries at Yellow House, Northeast Harbor, Maine. Text in French. OCLC: 1490305. LC: PQ1245. Light scattered foxing throughout.

Amsterdam: Production Joost Elffers, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth decorated in blind. Fine in publisher's shipping case with front cover printed label. 25.5 x 18.5 cm. No text. Pop-up accordion book of ten variations of stairs by noted Dutch architect Rein Ransma. Clean, fresh copy.