American Gardens
Boston: Bates and Guild Company, 1902. Hardcover. Rust libray buckram cover and library wrapper. Unpaginated intro plus 112 bw plates. More
Boston: Bates and Guild Company, 1902. Hardcover. Rust libray buckram cover and library wrapper. Unpaginated intro plus 112 bw plates. More
San Francisco, Calif. William Stout Publishers, 2005. Hardcover. Green & gray paper boards, green & gray & illus. dust jacket, decorated flyleaves, 200 pp., many BW & color illus. "Establishes the cultural and landscape design contexts for these two great modern American gardens. An overview of the professional evolution of..... More
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009. Hardbound. Color pictorial boards, 192 pp, profuse color images. From the publisher: "Studies in repetition and order, orchestrations of movement in the landscape, and elements placed in geometric conversation," is how author Mary Myers describes the twenty-five-year career of San Francisco-based landscape architect Andrea..... More
Boston, Mass. National Park Service, North Atlantic Regional Office, 1990. Softcover. Color illus. stapled wraps, 84 pp., 8 BW illus., 5 color plates, maps. The report prepared in order to establish Weir Farm of Wilton, Connecticut, as a National Park. Includes a narrative outlining the significance of the site and..... More
New York: Monacelli Press, 2001. Hardbound. Green boards with silver lettering; black dj with color photographic illustration and white lettering; 231 pp. with profuse color and bw illustrations; with mylar cover. Beautiful photographs, historic drawings, and excellent text about the famed home, now a research and study center, but especially..... More
New York: Abrams, 2004. Hardbound. Pale green boards with darker green lettering and decoration; color dj with brown spine and brown and green lettering; 216 pp. with 167 illustrations, 148 in color. Documents the history of the movement's diverse attitudes toward landscape architecture and brings a fresh perspective and wealth..... More
Charlottesville, Va. University of Virginia Press, 2013. Hardcover. Three-quarters goldenrod boards with brown cloth spine, gilt letters on spine, brown & color illus. dust jacket, 285 pp., BW illus. A biography of Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934), "one of the premier figures in landscape writing and design at the turn..... More
Amherst, Mass. University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. Hardcover. Brown cloth, gilt letters on spine, ochre & BW illus. dust jacket, 396 pp., 150 BW illus. Chronicles the work of Katharine Smith Reynolds (1880-1923), who planned the layout for "Reynolda," her thousand-acre estate in Winston, North Carolina. "Analyzes the singular convergence..... More
New York: Clarkson Potter, 1998. Hardcover. Pale green boards, green ill. DJ. 240 pp. Profuse color plates. Features the gardens created by women from around the United States. Lavishly illustrated. More
Rio de Janeiro: Colibris Editora Ltda. 1964. Hardcover. Olive green cloth with gilt lettering. White dust jacket with black lettering and color illustration on front, BW on back. 155 pp. 222 labeled figures in BW and color. In this book, P.M. Bardi, director of the Museum of Art of Sao..... More
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005. Softbound. Color-illustrated designed wraps. 96 pp., 8 bw and 74 color plates. Biographical and critical essays, as well as a bibliography. Exhibition checklist includes working drawings and models from 12 different projects. More
Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1982. Hardbound. Green cloth. 142 pp plus many text illustrations. More
Washington, DC: Athenaeum of Philadelphia/Dumbarton Oaks, 1989. Hardbound. Green cloth boards with gold lettering, 329pp, numerous BW illustrations. Andrew Jackson Downing was the most important figure in garden design, cottage design, and pomology in America before the Civilo War. Almost singlehandedly he created the profession we now call landscape architecture..... More
ORO Editions, 2011. Hardcover. Color illus. boards, 294 pp., profusely illus., chiefly in color. "Examines the role of the designed landscape in answering some of the most difficult questions facing 21st century cities: How to breathe new life into dying city centers, how to create meaningful neighborhoods in rapidly growing..... More
NY: The Frederick Law Olmsted Association, 1980. Softcover. White illustrated wraps, staple bound. In paper library cover. 22 pp. 17 plates (8 in color). More
New York: Garden Club of America, 1936. February 1936. Softcover. Green stiff wraps with black lettering; 87 pp. with approx. 30 bw illustrations and a map on onion-skin. Includes essays about garden literature, garden miscellany, plant material, foreign gardens (esp. Bermuda), rock gardening, and bulletin articles; a small book chock..... More
San Francisco: Golden Gate National Parks Association, 1996. Softcover. White ill. wraps. 96 pp. Profuse color plates. More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2003. Hardcover. Green cloth, pictorial DJ. 256 pp. 213 bw and color plates. Compelling pictorial account of modern gardens. Examples from Jekyll, Sessions, Sorensen, and Jellico, among others. More
Washington, DC: United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission, 1932. Softcover. Off-white staped wraps. 72 pp. Numerous bw ills. Essays by several historians, who analyze early colonial gardens. More
Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1944. Hardcover. Green cloth binding with green illustrated dust jacket. xv, 704 pp. Approx. 36 B&W plates. Annotated by Edwin Morris Betts. Contents: Early years (1766-1775) -- Revolutionary period (1776-1783) -- Minister to France (1784-1789) -- Secretary of State (1790-1793) -- Monticello interlude (1794-1796) --..... More
Portland, OR: Timber Press, Inc., 2018. Hardcover. Color-illustrated paper over boards, white lettering. 535 pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Photography by Michael D. Garber. "In this sweeping, lushly photographed book, historian Linda Chisholm guides you through 100 notable gardens as she tells the story of how landscape design reflects and..... More
Washington DC: Editions Ariel, 2002. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with green stamped lettering. 150 unnumbered pages. Color and BW illustrations. Contents: Inhabiting circumference -- Landscape rituals -- Urban ground -- Fixed and lengthening positions -- Multisensory experience. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams / Sagapress, 1989. Hardbound. Turquiose cloth boards, turquoise glossy dust jacket with color illustration. The first critical biography of a pivotal figure in the field of landscape architecture. For sixty years, Fletcher Steele practiced landscape architecture as a fine art, designing nearly seven hundred gardens..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams / Sagapress, 2003. Paperback. Color-illustrated wraps with black lettering. xii, 321 pp. BW and color illustrations. The first critical biography of a pivotal figure in the field of landscape architecture. For sixty years, Fletcher Steele practiced landscape architecture as a fine art, designing nearly seven..... More
Amherst, Mass. University of Massachusetts Press, 2007. Revised and expanded. Softcover. Forest-green & color illus. wraps, French flaps, xiv. 373 pp., many BW illus., 8 pp. of color plates. An update to the original 1989 edition. "Offers an insightful inquiry into the intellectual and cultural origins of Mount Auburn Cemetery..... More