American Association of Architectural Bibliographers. Papers Vol. I (1965) - vol. XI (1976). [11 volumes ]

University Press of Virginia, charlottesvilee for the American Association of Architectural Bibliographers, first editions, 1965-1976. 11 vols, cloth, 8vo,. various paginations. The first eleven volumes of a series containing valuable bibliographies of architects, firms and topics. The principal contents are as follows: Papers I : Henry-Russell Hitchcock: The First Thirty Years; Writings by and about Philip C. Johnson (Part I) - The Early Architecture of Virginia (Sources and Books); II Writings by and about Philip C. Johnson (Part II) - Sibyl Moholy-Nagy - Holabird and Roche - The Early Architecture of Virginia (Journals); III Walter Gropius; IV Carol Louis Vanderslice Meeks - Charles-Louis Clérisseau - The Art and Architectural Library at Biltmore - International Expositions, 1851-1900; V Henry-Russell Hitchcock (The Fourth Decade) - Calvert Vaux - Alvar Aalto - Architectural Comment in American Magazines, 1783-1815 - The Adam Style in America, 1770-1820;; VI Thomas Jefferson; VII Sir Nikolaus Pevsner; VIII Pradise Improved – Environmental Design in Hawaii; IX Sir Christopher Wren - Benjamin Henry Latrobe - Frank Lloyd Wright - Walter Gropius (supplement); X Antonio Gaudi and the Catalan Movement 1870-1930; XI cumulative index to Papers I - X. Generally a near Very Good set, save that Volume IV is an ex-library copy with marks and dockets on the endpapers, withdrawn stamp, and a paper spine-label and gluemarks on the front board, otherwise near Very Good. Two volumes have inscriptions of the front free endpapers indicating provenance from the library of George Everard Kidder Smith (1913-1997), architectural writer and photographer.