Corner James Soderholtz (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Second Edition. Large folio with a number of interesting photographic plates featuring early American domestic architecture. Contains 46 plates, Missing plates #29, #32, #43, #46. Bound in cloth. Covers lightly worn.

Hardcover. First Edition. Three-quarter bound red leather with brown covers; 3 preliminary leaves, 50 plates. This book is being sold AS IS. All plates are present. AS IS (Covers are detached and heavily worn; spine strip is missing; there are penciled notes, etc., in the margins; textblock is toned and smudged; interior is toned and smudged; pages are chipped at the edges; textblock is cracked; all plates are present.).

Slipcased. Folio of brown marbled boards with 3/4 moss green cloth. Gilt lettering on left-hand side of front cover. Contents of loose, single sheets of heavy stock: title page, introduction, and list of plates (4 pp. total) followed by the 50 bw plates (complete). All housed in a fawn buckram chemise and slipcase with gilt lettering. Heavy (8 pounds) and a bit oversize and will require extra shipping. The two-page introduction accompanies full-page photographs. Each plate includes the architectural feature being shown, the name of the house, its location, and year built. A lovely set. Ex-lib. copy with plate inside front cover and perforation stamp on title page. Plates are VG and clean but with number stamp on reverse. "Reference" stamp on reverse of Plate 50. No bleedthrough to front side. Folio beautiful but with general shelf wear/rubbing and with white call number on lower spine. Inventory sticker on slipcase.

Condition: Very Good+ binding. First Edition. Worn Portfolio; with titling stamped on the upper board; lacking the tie; with 3 leaves of text followed by 50 photographic plates; there is a one and a half inch tear to the hinge of the portfolio; some foxing and a bit of loss to the front patedown; scattered foxing to the plates but overall they are bright. Very Good+ binding.

CORNER, James M., and E.E. Soderholtz. EXAMPLES OF DOMESTIC COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE IN NEW ENGLAND. Boston: Bates & Guild, 1901. Folio. Half-calf. (8) pages, 50 plates. This is the first of a series of books produced by Corner and Soderholtz that photographed existing examples of colonial architecture. Their photographs a thought to be the first to document early American architecture in book form. Spine and tips professionally repaired, else a very good copy.