Kimball Jacobs (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good - Cash. Minor rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages. Still great condition. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. lxvii, 760 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm OCLC 52073501 This reprint of the first edition of Sweet's Catalog commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Sweet's business."--Foreword ; "In offering to the public, and especially to the architects of the United States, the first edition of Sweet's Indexed Catalogue of Building Construction, the publishers have realized at the very outset the importance of stating clearly, first, what the book is, and secondly, the reasons for commending it to the architectural profession for their use and support. .to explain in a few words the character and purpose of the work, . a embodied in these first successful efforts toward a really scientific standard catalogue and index of building materials and construction. Let the matter be looked at entirely from the point of view of the architect. For a period of a dozen years, every possible method of collecting, sorting, classifying, filing and indexing all the catalogues and circulars of building materials was conscientiously given a fair trial, and after a thorough test, every method was just as conscientiously abandoned. They were abandoned because they did not work well in the specification room. They were not practicable. Everything was tried, arrangements of shelves, bookcases, pasteboard boxes, filing cases, patent binders, filing cabinets, cases of drawers, indexing schemes and " index- rerums. " At first, all the big books were put together in one place and all the little books in another place; and then all the big and little books were mixed up together, and indexed according to subject. Some had four pages, and some had four hundred pages. Barely two were of the same shape or superficies. The little ones would not stand up, and could not be gotten at when laid flat. Another elaborate system was introduced, and a voluminous cross-index started, but the big books contained too much useless matter, and the little books got lost or mislaid or could not be found just when wanted. Then the writer decided, after much time and expense, that the present system of publishing and distributing catalogues, as far as the architect is concerned, might be rightly termed " The Catalogue Delusion, " and that the only solution of the problem must lie in a scientific standard catalogue and index of building materials and construction, gradually developed toward an ideal result by the co-operation of manufacturer and architect. Briefly, then, what is Sweet's Indexed Catalogue of Building Construction? It is a scientific catalogue book system ( a volume or series of volumes) , as easy to refer to as a dictionary, consisting of groups of catalogues from which as much unnecessary matter as possible has been eliminated, carefully indexed and cross- indexed, and sent out gratuitously by the publishers to every architect of good standing. Each catalogue in the work is organically arranged in its parts. It proceeds in a regular order from fact " A " to fact " Z " . Illustrations of a certain class are all grouped and arranged according to some obvious plan. " Literature " and " mere writing " are omitted, as an architect has no time in his office for either."; authors and compilers include Wm. Martin Aiken, Claire Allen, J. M. Baillie, Charles I. Berg, Otto Block, Claude Bragdon, Arnold W. Brunner, George Cary, Henry M. Congdon, James B. Cook, Francis W. Cooper, R. L. Daus, Robt. E. Dexter, A. F. D'oench, Gustav W. Drach, Wm. S. Eames, Stephen C. Earle, E. J. Eckel, John H. & Wilson C. Ely. George B. Ferry, Clellan Waldo Fisher, W. E. Fisher, Herbert W. Foltz, Henry Lord Gay, Arthur N. Gibb, Robert W. Gibson, Chas. Sumner Greene, Fred. B. Hamilton, George F. Hammond, Samuel Hannaford, Olof Hanson, H. J. Hardenbergh, W. S. Hebbard, Charles Henry, J. G. Howard, Wm. B. Ittner, Elmer F. Jacobs, Clarence H. Johnston, Harry W. Jones, E. A. Kent, Thos. R. Kimball, Edward Kneezell, Theo. C. Link, W. E. Mansur, Thos. H. Morgan, Wm. G. Nolting, J. O'Rourke,; FINE. Book.…

154 pp.; 30.4 x 22.8 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size 60000; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; The May - June 1970 issue of Art in America magazine with a special focus on Mormon art in America. Edited by Jean Lipman. Contents include: "A Panorama of Mormon Life," by Carl Carmer; "Mormon Art and Architecture," by Mahonri Sharp Young; "Mormon Society - A Photo Story," with a note by Kimball Young; "Collectors: Dr. and Mrs. Irving Levitt," by Milton Esterow; "Eleven Sugar Cubes," by Dan Graham; "At Home With Art: The Lawrence Bloedel Guesthouse," photographed by E.E. Le Claire; "Presenting Mike Selig," by Robert A. Ewing; "Three New Theaters," by John S. Margolies; "Art Under $500," by Nan R. Piene; "Boston - New Directions," by Christopher Andreae; "The Artist Speaks: Robert Morris," by E.C. Goossen; "Paris: Unrolling the Red Carpet," by John Russell; "To MOMA, From Germany," by Nan R. Piene; "Canada's Group of Seven," by Mario Amaya: "Letters to the Editor;" "The State of Taste: Meet Me in the Lobby," by Russell Lynes; "New York Gallery Notes: Collectible vs Conceptual," by Grace Glueck; "Forum: Black Creativity in Quest of an Audience," by Henri Ghent; "Graphics '70: Alexander Calder," presented by Donald H. Karshan; "West Coast Report: L.A. - The Stuccoed Box," by David Gebhard and "Books: The Dispossedded Muses," by Jay Jacobs. Cover by Carl hcristian Anton Christensen. Includes an original offset lithograph by Alexander Calder, printed by Triton Press, published (folded) in Art and America in an edition of 60,000. Very Good. Light edge-wear with curling of covers and bumping of corners. 5 mm. tears to top and bottom corners of spine. Light yellowing of pages, contents clean and unmarked. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.…