Pan-American Union. Program and Rules of the Competition [& Second Competition]...for the Monumental Lighthouse...in the Dominican Republic to the Memory of Christopher Columbus, together 2 vol., vol.2 ex-library copy with small institutional stamp on title, 1928-30 § Stewart & Company (James) A Century in Construction, limited edition, New York & Chicago, 1944 § Cheney (Sheldon) The New World Architecture, ex-library copy with stamps, 1930 § Schaeffer (Dr. E.) Riesenbuaten Nordamerikas, Zurich, 1930 § Ferriss (Hugh) Power in Buildings: An Artist's View of Contemporary Architecture, New York, 1953, plates and illustrations, some colour, original cloth, boards or cloth-backed boards, the last two with dust-jackets, all a little rubbed; and c.25 others on American 20th century architecture, v.s. (c.30)
⁂ The first features designs submitted for the competition from architects all over the world including Flavio de Rezende Carvalho of Sao Paulo and the Russian constructivists Melnikov and Tarasov.
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