New York: Sinatra Songs, Inc., 1947. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Sheet Music. Format is approximately 9.125 inches by 12 inches. Four pages (Front cover, interior pages have the words and music to Time After Time, and back cover has and advertisement highlighting several songs from the MGM Picture "It Happened in Brooklyn." Illustrated front cover has photographs of Sinatra, Peter Lawford and Kathryn Grayson, and Jimmy Durante. Cover has some wear, soiling, and a previous owner's name blacked out. The movie's screen play was written by Isobel Lennart based on a story by John McGowan. Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and later called "Ol' Blue Eyes", Sinatra was one of the most popular entertainers of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. He is among the world's best-selling music artists with an estimated 150 million record sales. Sinatra was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997. He received eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Sinatra was included in Time magazine's compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people. American music critic Robert Christgau called him "the greatest singer of the 20th century" and he continues to be regarded as an iconic figure. More

New York: Olman Music Corporation, 1932. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Sheet Music. Format is approximately 9.125 inches by 12 inches. Four pages (Front cover, interior two pages music and lyrics, back cover has partial music and lyrics of two other songs--Just Because Your're You by Cliff Friend and It Used to Be Me by Charles O'Flynn, Howard Phillips and Pete Wendling). Illustrated front cover which has a large photograph of Bing Crosby. Cover has crease, wear and soiling. The cover photograph appears to be by Frederick S. Manning. Pencil notation at top of page 2. Large box with a copyright infringement warning at the bottom of page 3. Ink notation at top of back cover. "Waltzing in a Dream" is a 1932 song recorded by Bing Crosby. Bing Crosby recorded the song in Chicago on April 23, 1932 with Isham Jones and his Orchestra and it was released as a Brunswick 78 single. The recording reached no. 6 on the pop singles chart in the U.S., with a chart run of eleven weeks. Guy Lombardo also enjoyed chart success with the song in 1932. Other recordings were by Enric Madriguera for Columbia Records (catalog No. 2735D), and by Ray Noble who recorded the song in London for HMV with a vocal by Al Bowlly. More

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1956. Presumed First Edition, First printing/Limited Edition. Hardcover. Text is in French. Format is approximately 10 inches by 13 inches. 291, [5] pages. Illustrations (many in color). Annexes (including Bibliographie). This work has a decorative cover, which has some wear and soiling. Somewhat shaken. Full canvas binding cream with arms of the Legion of Honor (reproduction of the plaque of Grand Officier embossed in relief on the first dish). Printing on glossy luxury paper. Ex-library with library bookplate and usual library markings. Edition limited to 7,000 copies. This is a very heavy book and if shipped outside of the United States will require additional shipping costs. Preface by General Catroux. Introduction by Yves Malecot, Directeur des Monnaies. This magnificent volume contains, in addition to all the historical, technical and administrative information concerning the French decorations worn or awarded up to the Fourth Republic (with the Colonial Orders and the Civil Orders of Merit disappeared afterwards), a very abundant iconographic documentation reproducing in particular the ancient and modern medals of the Collection of the Monnaie de Paris. Among the items covered are: Legion d'Honneur, Order de la Liberation, Medaille Militaire, Croix de Guerre, Medaille de la Resistance, Medailles Commemoratives, Orders de Merite Civils, Orders del la France d'Outre Mer, Medailles d'Honneur, and Barrettes. More

Buffalo, NY: Western New York Wares, Inc., 2010. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches. 96 pages. Illustrated front and back covers. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Some sticker residue on the back cover. Jan Sheridan was born and raised in Los Angeles. She attended Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts for two years before transferring to Stanford University in California where she earned her B.A. degree in History. After having moved to Phoenix, Jan earned two M.A. degrees from Arizona State University -- one in Religious Studies, the other in Art History. Jan wrote 35 articles for Phoenix's major newspaper, The Arizona Republic, some of which she collected into a book called Outdoor Sculpture in Metro Phoenix. Jan worked as Exhibition and Program Coordinator for Tempe Arts Center for two years and taught Art History for 12 years at Arizona colleges before moving to Buffalo, New York, in 1990. Jan works in both the secular world and the world of spirituality as a journalist, teacher, spiritual director, and chaplain. She has authored and co-authored four books on art and architecture and one book on spirituality. In 1995 Western New York Wares published her book, Buffalo Treasures: A Downtown Walking Guide to Buffalo's outstanding architecture. Jan contributed 14 articles to Austin Fox's book Church Tales of the Niagara Frontier also published by Western New York Wares. Fodor's 2001 Road Guide to New Jersey and New York includes Jan's descriptions for 21 towns and cities in Western New York. More

San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks [an Archetype Press Book], 1996. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 5.25 inches. [1], 57 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (color). Chronology. Further Reading. Carla Lind worked to preserve Wright's building for more tan two decades. She directed the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio and the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy as well as the restoration of Wright's May house in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was exemplified in Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture." The contents include Apprenticeships, Joseph Lyman Silsbee, Louis Sullivan, Charnley House, McArthur House, Blossom House, Clark House, Walter Gale House, Winslow House, Williams House, Moore House, Rovers House Remodeling, Heller House, George Furbeck House, and Rollin Furbeck House. More

San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks [an Archetype Press Book], 1996. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 5.25 inches. [1], 57 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (color). Chronology. Further Reading. Carla Lind worked to preserve Wright's building for more tan two decades. She directed the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio and the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy as well as the restoration of Wright's May house in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was exemplified in Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture." The contents include Features, Unity Temple, Rookery Remodeling, Johnson Wax Building, Florida Southern College, Unitarian Meeting House, Morris Gift Shop, Price Tower, Beth Shalom Synagogue, Humphreys Theater, Guggenheim Museum, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, and Marin County Civic Center. More

San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks [an Archetype Press Book], 1994. Fifth Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 5.25 inches. [1], 57 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color). Further Reading. Carla Lind worked to preserve Wright's building for more tan two decades. She directed the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio and the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy as well as the restoration of Wright's May house in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was exemplified in Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture." The contents of this work includes A Natyrak Chukdhiidm The Oak Park Years,, Turbulent Times, Revitalization, Final challenges, Chronology, Home and Studio, Taliesin, and Taliesin West. More

San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks [an Archetype Press Book], 1995. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 5.25 inches. [1], 57 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color). Further Reading. Carla Lind worked to preserve Wright's building for more tan two decades. She directed the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio and the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy as well as the restoration of Wright's May house in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was exemplified in Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture." The contents of this work includes The Dining Space, furnishing, craftsmanship, early features, later features, dining rooms, prairie style, midcareer rooms, usonian houses, public dining spaces, and commercial furniture. More

Buffalo, NY: Martin House Restoration Corporation, 2004. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 9 inches by 9 inches. Decorative cover. [2], 36, [2] pages. Illustrations (some in colors). Frank Lloyd Wright described the Martin House as "...the most perfect thing of its kind in the world - a domestic symphony, true, vital, comfortable." This little book describes the extensive prairie style Martin House Complex in Buffalo, New York from its inception in the early 1900's to it's current restoration; the relationship between Frank Lloyd Wright and his patron and client, Darwin Martin; the buildings with their extraordinary art glass; and the relationship of Frank Lloyd Wright and Buffalo. More

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1978. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. ix, [1], 276, [2] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Sources. Decorative covers. Ink notation on half-title page. The authors are a husband and wife team who first achieved national attention in an illustrated article in the January 1976 AIA Journal. This book is their personal response to the physical landscape of these gritty cities. More

New York: Whitney Library of Design [an imprint of Watson-Guptill Publications], 1990. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.75 inches by 12.25 inches. 192 pages. With essays by Michael Sorkin and Richard Rush. Illustrations (some in color). Bibliography. Index. Among the architects and their projects addressed are: Swanke Hayden Connell; Helmut Jahn; Johnson and Burgee; Cesar Pelli; Booth and Hansen; Hugh Stubbins; Emilio Ambasz; Attia and Perkins; Kohn Pedersen Fox; Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum; Edward Larabee Barnes; James Stewart Polshek; Fox and Fowle; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Kevin Roche, and I. M Pei. This illustrated (mostly black and white) anthology of four dozen exemplary buildings is set within the context of the author's critical analysis of recent skyscraper construction, itself framed within the history of the genre since its beginnings in the last decades of the 19th century. Fulvio Irace (Salerno, May 12, 1950) is an Italian architect and architecture historian. Since 2000 he has been a full professor of History of Architecture at the Milan Polytechnic. His historical and critical research activity is characterized by numerous studies on Italian architecture of the years between the two world wars and after the war, with monographic works on the leading architects of that phase (for example Giovanni Muzio, Gio Ponti, Carlo Mollino, Franco Albini, Luigi Caccia Dominioni and Vico Magistretti) who have tried to deepen the relationship between international culture and local culture in the development of the idea of modernity in Italian architecture; he also touched on the themes of contemporary design and architectural historiography. More

Stamford, CT: Reinhold Publishing Company, 1976. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Wraps. Format is approximately 9 inches by 12 inches. 124 pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Illustrations (many with color). This issue as a focus on Philadelphia. Contents include Editorial: Philadelphia Perceived; Philadelphia Story: Twenty-five years (almost) after the Chinese Wall; From sodhouses to PSFS; Philadelphia's Phantom School' Philadelphia '76; Of Transitions; New crystal palace: Interior architecture: From the people who brought you good taste; Specifications clinic: The architectural representative; and Open and shut. An architecture graduate of MIT, John Morris Dixon, FAIA, left the drafting board in 1960 for architectural journalism, eventually becoming editor-in-chief of Progressive Architecture (P/A) from 1972 to 1996. He has chaired the AIA’s national Committee on Design, on which he remains active, and is involved in preservation of modern architecture as a board member of Docomomo New York/Tri-State. More

New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 127, [1] pages. Illustrations. Index. Two column format. Portions of this book originally appeared, in slightly different form, in New Criterion, Volume 1, Number 3, November 1982. Scrutinizes the skyscraper as art, as business, and as the product of politics and speculation, surveying its history and its probable future developments. Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman; March 14, 1921 – January 7, 2013) was an architecture critic and writer on architecture. Huxtable established architecture and urban design journalism in North America and raised the public's awareness of the urban environment. In 1970, she was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In 1981, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger, also a Pulitzer Prize-winner (1984) for architectural criticism, said in 1996: "Before Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture was not a part of the public dialogue." "She was a great lover of cities, a great preservationist and the central planet around which every other critic revolved," said architect Robert A. M. Stern, dean of the Yale University School of Architecture. More