Urbanismo indigena y espanol en el siglo XVI by Leonardo Meraz Quintana - 2012: El caso de Calpan

Washington DC: Standard Homes Co., [1956?]. Stapled wraps. Good. 31p. Wrap and pages lightly thumb creased, front wrap fore edge creased and torn. A promotional booklet for houses designed by Standard Homes Company containing examples of more than 40 dwellings, each accompanied by layouts and a photograph or drawing of frontage. These houses come in a variety of styles designed with consideration to cost-saving construction using standard sizes for materials such as lumber, windows, and doors to reduce waste. Intercounty Savings and Loan Association of Philadelphia was the distributor of this copy. A letter dated June 27, 1956, from the savings and loan is laid in. B&w illustrations and halftone photographs. (11-1/2"x8-1/2")

Boston, 1903. Covers rather brittle and chipped, some short tears to page edges.. 13.5" x 9"; viii, 25-32, ix-xvi pages; Stapled magazine.

Gibson Guitar, n. Soft cover. Good. Very Good.

Silver Lake, New Hampshire: John F. Chick & Son, Building Material, 1941. First Editions. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. Lot of nine issues, averaging 16pp each; illustrated throughout from photographs, floor plans and elevations. In the original, pictorial wrappers. Approx 11" x 8.5" The thrust of this magazine is "Now is the time to build your own home." Themes of these issues include: Hollywood Hilltops; Simple Dignity Is the Best Architecture; Cape Cod Cottages; Need Four Bedrooms?; Wood Walls; A Place to Eat in the Kitchen; Twin Level First Floor; Fireplace Ideas; The Case for Home Ownership; Colonial Twins; Summer Cottages; Modernizing A House; Plywood Is Perfect Material; Baseball Grows Up [a four-page departure in one issue]; Historic Walls; Suburban Charm; Log Cabin Siding; Ideas for the Roadside Merchant; Two Farm Homes in 1940 Style; Modernizing Your Farmhouse; Duplicate the Charm of Old World Cottages; Underground Storage Easily Built; Three Modern Farm Homes; Small Summer Cottages;… Read More

First printing (number line contains "1").
Book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new, slight wear at bottom end cap.
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Casa del HerreroHouse of the Blacksmithstands today as one of the most fully developed and intact examples of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture. It was designed and built between 1922 and 1925 as a second house for George Fox Steedman, a St. Louis industrialist. Thought principally to be the work of George Washington Smith, the architect, Steedman himself generated many ideas during the initial design phase that were both a blessing and curse to Smith. Steedmans vision prevailed, and throughout the decade following the houses initial completion, he continued to rework both house and garden, engaging the architects Lutah Maria Riggs, Edwards, Plunkett & Howell, and Floyd Brewster, and garden… Read More

Inbel, Bruxelles: Ducolot, 1989. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Folio. 276 pp. Bound in full green cloth, stamped in gilt on cover and spine, in Illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated, chiefly color, including frontispiece and several fold outs. Text in French. Includes bibliography. Near Fine, bright, clean copy, in Very Good+ dust jacket with wear and rubbing to extremities, overall scuffing.

Georgetown, Guyana: S.M.H. Aniff and Universal Bookstore, 1997. Staple-Bound Paperback. Fine. Very slight corner wear, otherwise As New. Not from a library. 40 pages. Illustrated, one color map. 8.5 x 11.5 inches.

Jovis, 2006. Hardcover. New. Hardcover New.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 4to. xvi, 316, [2] pp. Bound in full lime green cloth, title stamped in gilt on red on spine. Black and white frontispiece photograph, black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Very Good, spine very slightly cocked, light foxing to spine, top edges of boards, heavier foxing on top edge of text block, not affecting interior which remains clean, photographs and illustrations sharp, in Very Good dust jacket with 1/2" tear on front cover near tail of spine, wear to top edge.