LOEWINSOHN, Ron
architecture & design
[Collection of Seventeen In-Store Signs from a Furrier]
np: nd [ca. 1940]. Printed card-stock broadside advertising. All approx. 16" x 11". Generally very good. Some soil, edge-wear. Small tear here and there. An unusually comprehensive collection of 17 matched in-store signage for a furrier (or possibly department store fur section), all printed text in multiple colors on a......
THE CHINA HUNTERS CLUB
New York: Harper & Bros. 1878. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Gray cloth with red lettering and illustration to front board. Good example. Edgeworn. Cloth rubbed and soiled. Front hinge starting. Else sound and clean throughout. Introduction by W.C. Prime. Early and charming book on China collecting told in a narrative.....
[Photo Album Documenting Construction of Plaza Movie Theater]
Jacksonville, FL: Munn Photography, [ca. 1966-1967]. Hardcover. Oblong folio commercial album measuring approximately 15.5" x 12". Burlap covered boards with matted color photograph mounted to front. 22-ring clasp metal binding. 27 yellow construction paper pages containing 53 approximately 8" x 10" photographs (47 black and white, 6 color) mounted both.....
KENILWORTH, ILLINOIS [Cover Title]. Original Photo Album]
np [Kenilworth?]: nd [ca. 1910]. Oblong 4to. album with pebbled flexible leather boards and gilt titles, 7.25” x 10.75” approx. Seventeen photographs mounted recto only, all 4.5”x 7.5” approx. Remaining leaves blank. Bookplate of George F. Steele to pastedown. Album good only. Hinges cracked, edges worn. Board bowed. Contents however.....
EXPERIMENTS IN MOTION
[New York]: New Museum, 2011. First Edition. Wraps. 12mo. Perfect-bound wraps. Very good plus. Light dampstains to front cover and on three preliminary leaves. Else about fine. Bright, clean, and tight throughout; unpaginated. Uncommon catalogue consisting of archival images of motion in all its forms: animal, human, mechanical, and digital.....
[U.S. Sales and Marketing book for English Ford]
np: [ca. 1957-1958]. Hardcover. 4to. Black three-ring binder with illustrated title label to front, containing 17 loosely plastic covered paper leaves, profusely filled both recto and verso with black and white photographs and materials on the English Ford line of automobiles. More than 35 various scrap and ephemera elements in.....
[Original Scale Model of Proposed Moon Spacecraft WIth Lunar Excursion Module]
[Bell Telephone Laboratories], November 1962. Flat wooden model, constructed in sections with tabs and slot assembly; several parts secured in place with adhesive and metal pins. Front sides printed in different colors, with simplified schematic diagrams and abbreviations of names and functions. Printed paper labels to verso, with additional letters.....
BEITRAGE ZUR GESCHICHTE DER HERALDIK: Schriftenreihe der Reichsstelle für Sippenforschung Band III
Berlin: Verlag fur Standesamtswesen, 1939. First edition. Cloth. 4to. Red cloth. Minor foxing. Light rubbing, edgewear to cloth. Heraldic coats of arm, profusely illustrated. Text in German. 222pp,
British Design & Art Direction 1987
London: Designers & Art Directors Association, 1987. First printing. Hardcover. 4to. Mild rubbing, shelfwear. Else clean, bright and sound throughout. Uncommon 25th annual of the best ad, TV, mag., etc. design and graphics. Profusely illustrated in color and B&W.
Paperweights: Historismus, Jugendstil, Art Deco ; 1842 bis heute
Germany: Morsak Verlag, 1997. First edition. Unknown Binding. 4to. Bright, tight, clean and sharp in like jacket. Appears unread. Trace shelfwear. Else nearly new. The standard reference. First edition; in German.
NOTES ON CONNECTION
Zeeland, MI: Herman Miller, Inc., 1978. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled in folded card wraps. Light toning to wraps with moderate rubbing. Some edge-wear, including a short closed tear to bottom edge. Interior bright and clean. Very good condition. Scarce book of design theory based on the broad concept of.....
MEMOS FROM EGYPT: Joint US-Egyptian Study Group on Building Materials and Building Technology.
Boston: Cahners Books, 1974. First edition. Wraps. First edition. Oblong 8vo. Pictorial wraps. Small tear, light creasing and rubbing to wraps. Very good. Inscribed and signed by author Caudill to Harry Ransom: “To great friend / Harry Ransom / Bill / 30 May 75.”. Caudill is best known for his.....
The English Cathedral Through the Centuries
London: Phoenix House, 1957. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. Very good plus in like jacket. Minor edgewear. Else clean and sound overall, Remains an important source. With many diagrams and photos of the subject. 384pp. with index.
ARCHIGRAM EIGHT [8]: Popular Pak Issue
(London): (Archigram), (1968). First Edition. 8vo. Original stapled folding envelope holding nineteen sheets: fourteen 8" by 5.5" approx.; five 16" by 5.5" (folded in half, as issued). Envelope very good, with an inch-long tear at head of spine, some light creases and touches of soil. One staple separated. Sheets about.....
THE JERSEY DEVIL DESIGN/BUILD BOOK
Layton, UT: Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., 1985. First Edition. Wraps. Square 8vo. Wraps. Minimal shelfwear, clean interior. Near fine. 96pp. Illustrated throughout with diagrams, drawings, and photographs of Jersey Devil buildings in both color and black and white. Includes interviews with the four architects: Steve Badanes, John Ringel, Jim Adamson.....
TAYLOR INDUSTRIES [Custom Van Parts Catalogue]
San Diego: Taylor Industries, 1974. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Saddle-stapled photographic wraps. Very good plus. Small abrasion to upper edge of spine on front cover. Else clean and sharp throughout. Printed in B&W with color covers, both recto and verso. 16pp. Catalogue advertising parts for extremely deluxe shaggin' wagons. Includes.....
[Production Archive of Knoll Designs from Olga Gueft]
(New York and East Greenville, PA): (ca. 1967). Production archive for a 1967 article on the Knoll company by Olga Gueft. Collection includes 65 original photographs of the Knoll workshop and designs, with contact prints (dated 7/66) and negatives; several production sheets with layout and markup; notes and ephemera; a......
GONE: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. First Edition. Wraps. Oblong 8vo. Blue-green photographic wraps. Faint wear to corners. SIGNED by Fitch on title page. A hint of toning to page borders. Near fine. 178pp. Interiors of abandoned homes and public buildings on the Great Plains, left behind by settlers.....
Ulm's Kunstleben im Mittelalter: Ein Beitrag zur Culturgeschichte von Schwaben
Ulm: Stettin'sche Buchh, 1840. First edition. Boards. 8vo. Marbled boards. Spine label faded, wear to edge of boards. Plates have some minor foxing. Else a clean, sound example. 6 plates, all tissues present. 78pp. Art and architecture in the Ulm region during the Middle Ages. [Andres 256].
TRADE-MARKS
New York: Caxton Press, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Full red cloth, with beveled boards and designer’s relief logo medallion mounted to front. Ornate gilt decoration and lettering to spine. With 53 trademark illustrations. One of 750 copies, this #120, numbered and SIGNED by Hornung to colophon. Thomas Maitland.....
DESIGNS FOR PARSONAGE HOUSES, ALMS HOUSES, ETC. ETC.: With Examples of Gables, and Other Curious Remains of Old English Architecture
London: Henry G. Bohm, 1841. Hardcover. 4to. Black spine over dark green cloth boards, stamped in gilt. Edgewear and scuffing, with considerable chipping and tears to spine ends. Corners bumped. Ownership signature to ffep. Pages lightly toned, with mild to moderate foxing throughout. Very good. Illustrated with 21 black and.....
SAMPLES OF WALL PAPER FOR 1927
Minneapolis, Minn. M.W. Savage Co., 1927. First Edition. Wraps. 8" x 11" approx. in original wraps, containing instructions for hanging wallpaper, 2pp. sample images in color of borders, and 60 full-page samples with product information printed at verso. 6pp. paint and accessories at rear and windowshades at interior of rear.....
A NEW LOOK OF COLOR
n.p. Duron Paints and Wallcoverings, n.d. [circa early 1970s]. First Edition. Wraps. 15.5" x 11.25" approx. wire-bound in white plastic-coated wraps. Introductory text and 720 color samples on 24 pages, in four sections with tabs. Illustrations at first page of section in full color. Heavy rubbing to wraps. Interior bright.....
ISKOLAI IVÓKUTAK [Report on "School Drinking Fountains"]
[Budapest]: 1959. Hardcover. 4to. Gray bubble-grain cloth album, with design gilt-stamped to front board. Thirteen leaves, mimeographed rectos only with introductory text, followed by seventeen thick card leaves with mounted photographic prints (6.75" by 5") depicting sketches of fountains, one photo montage of fountains, and a pasted-in card of color.....
ARCHITEC-TONICS: The Tales of Tom Thumtack, Architect
New York: The William T. Comstock Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt and red to front, gilt lettering at spine. Color frontispiece and title page, profusely illustrated in partial-page, black-line woodcuts throughout. Spine cloth, lettering faded. Front illustration shelf rubbed, areas.....