Search Results: Architecture from Arroyo Seco Books

Harry N Abrams Inc, 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 272 Pp. Black Cloth Lettered In Red. First Printing. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket

Pantone, 1991. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Three Ring Binder With Prelims And 131 Pp Of Color Swatches. Near Fine. International Shipping Requires A Box And Will Be Charged At Considerably Higher Than Listed Rate.

Richard Neutra Circa 1950, 1950. Soft cover. Near Fine. Postcard Sized Map On Card Showing Directions To His Workshop On Silverlake Boulevard. From The Stock Of The Neutra Studio Where His Heirs Held A Sale About 2000. Light Aging.

Pasadena/ Stuttgart: Pasadena Art Museum / Wurttenbergerischer Kunstverein, 1970. First American Edition . Soft cover. Very Good +/Good Jacket. 8 3./4" Square. Color and B/W Plates. 365Pp Catalog Of The Pasadena Showing Of This Exhibit. Clean, No Names Or Marks.Very Good + In Good Only Dj With Edge Wear And A 31/2" Tear Down Front Top Spine Edge.

Carmel / San Francisco: Lawton And Alfred Kennedy (About 1980) / Scenic Road Press, 1980. 1st Edition . No Binding. Fine. Single Card, Folded Twice, Printed In Red And Black By Lawton And Alfred Kennedy. With, Broadside Reproducing A William Morris Letter, With Envelope, One Of 200 Copies. The Huntington Library Holds The Correspondence And Research Files Reflecting The Activities Of California Architect Sanford L. Berger (1919-2000) In The Mid-To-Late 20Th Century As A Collector, Student, And Enthusiast Of Objects And Knowledge Related To 19Th Century English Artist, Decorator, Poet, And Printer William Morris (1834-1896), His Circle, And His Involvement With The Pre-Raphaelites And English Arts And Crafts Movement.

Yosemite: Yosemite Park And Curry Co., 1984. 4th Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Photographs. 56 Pp. Large Format Softcover. Stated Revised 4Th Printing, Apparently The Last Revision. Fine.

Folkwang-Verlag, 1920. First Edition . Stapled Wrappers. Good. 11 " Tall. 8 pp including wrappers printed on both sides, the prospectus for the forthcoming book Alpine Architektur, with prices listed for before and after March 15 1920 publication date. Very scarce prospectus for a scarce book.

The Vendome Press / The Library Of America, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 224 Pp. Red-Brown Clth, Gilt. First Printig, 2004. Fine, No Wear. Dj With A Few Slight Scratches To Rear Panel. Book With Owner's Oriental Name Stamp And Two Sets Of Ephemera And Articles Relating To Two Authors' Homes She Visited.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1928), 1929. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. Photographic Plates Throughout. Xxxi, 401 Pp Including Excellent 22 Pp Bibliography At End Citing A Variety Of Sources. Red Cloth, Gilt. Stated Second Printing, 1929. Excellent Survey By The Then Dean Of The Faculty Of Architecture At Harvard. Light Wear, No Names Or Marks, All Gilt Still Bright, Slight Fading Of Cloth On Spine Which Is Still Red. Hinges Solid. Small Bookseller's Label, Cambridge, On Front Endpaper, Probably The Original Seller.

New York: Horizon Press, 1955. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. <no13 1/4" x 13"t specified>. Photographs And Drawings. 269 Pp. Well Illustrated, Large Format, Orange-Red Cloth. First Printing. Near Fine, Bright And Clean And Unworn, Small Tape Ghosts On Front Free Endpaper. Dj Complete, Not Price-Cliped, Tape Ghosts At Corners, /2" Tear With Associated Wrinkling At Base Of Spine, 1/4" Tear And Associated Minute Loss At Bottom Two Tips, Very Slight Fading To Spine Panel.

London: T. Payne and J. White, 1805. Second Edition . Boards. Good. 8 7/16" Tall. Xxiv, 470. Ancient Blue Paper Apparently Over Earlier Full Calf, Later Paper Spine, Paper Label With Handwritten Author And Title, And London 1805 Handwritten Below On Spine. A Few Short Pencil Notes On Endpapers, No Other Names Or Marks. Quite Worn, Frayed And Chipped At Corners. Pages With Light Foxing In Text Block, A Few Tiny Spots, Otherwise Clean And Crisp, Edges Of Page Block Retain Original Polish. Per Wikipedia, Richard Payne Knight ( 1751 - 1824) Of Downton Castle In Herefordshire, And Of 5 Soho Square, London, England, Was A Classical Scholar, Connoisseur, Archaeologist And Numismatist Best Known For His Theories Of Picturesque Beauty And For His Interest In Ancient Phallic Imagery. He Served As A Member Of Parliament For Leominster (1780-84) And For Ludlow (1784-1806). An Analytical Inquiry Into The Principles Of Taste, 1805, Was Knight's Most Influential Work In His Lifetime. This Book Sought To… Read More

Los Angeles Ca: American Public Works Association, 1965. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 10 Pp, In Large Oblong Yellow Wrappers With Plastic Comb Binding. Fine. A Tour-Guide Description Of Los Angeles North Of Wilshire And South Of The Hills, Largely In Terms Of Real Estate Values Emphasizing Their Rapid Increases. The Watts Riots, Sometimes Referred To As The Watts Rebellion Or Watts Uprising, Took Place In The Watts Neighborhood And Its Surrounding Areas Of Los Angeles From August 11 To 16, 1965. No Members Of Apwa Were Present, Or Even Aware That Watts Was An Integral Part Of The City Of Los Angeles. Today, Everyone Has Heard Of Watts; No One Has Heard Of Apwa. But Apwa Is Accountable To No One; Average Incomes Of Apwa Members Far Exceed The Average Incomes Of Watts Residents, And Their Health And Longevity Is Still Incomparably Better.

Los Angeles: Rosebud Books, 1981. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Color And B/W Photographs Throughout. 239 Pp. Green Cloth. Light Use, Gilt Bright, No Marks. No Dust Jacket.

San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1915. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth, Gilt. Near Fine. Photographs. 202 Pp. First Edition. Photographic Plates Tipped In. Pages Have Deckled Edges. Top Edge Of Page Block Appears Irregular/Wavy, But This Is Unavoidable Due To Tipped In Pates In This Book. Frayed Along Top Edge Of Book (Cat Attack When Book In Boxed Storage).

Savannah: Beehive Press, 1997. 2nd Edition, revised 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Photographs By Van Jones Martin, Drawings By Gene Carpenter. 251 Pp. Second Edition, Revised, Of A Book First Published By Beehive In 1984, Reprinted By Abbeville, And Here Published With Revisions In 1997

Pasadena / Los Angeles: Roland E Coate, 1952. First EditionNear Fine . Printed Brown Wrappers. Near Fine. Coate's Printed Specifications For His Own Residence In Pasadena, Circa 1952/1953. This Residence, With Guest Room And Bath Across The Courtyard, Was Built On A 36,150 Sq Ft Lot. Printed "Copy No." On Front Cover Followed By Handwritten "1"; Handwritten "Revised 10/20/.1952 At Top. Descriptive, 14 Pages, Not The Plans. Extensive Pencil Revisions Throughout. With A Hand Drawn Illustration Laid In Loosely, A "Recess" About 24" X 36", With A Brass Fish Box Filled With Plants.

London: B. T. Batsford / The Burlington Magazine, 1896. First Edition, First Printing . Red Cloth. Very Good. Plates and Photographs and Reproduced Illustrations. 155 pp + catalogue at end. TEG. Cloth worn, mainly spine, with fraying across top edge of spine. Contents clean, no marks except handwritten ownership information on half-title: "Edward B. Lee / Architect / Pittsburgh Penna___ / rebound 1916", all in the same hand. Endpapers, in a grey flower pattern, appear original, and binding is original. Edward B. Lee studied architecture at Harvard at the end of the nineteenth century. He then practiced architecture in Pittsburgh as a true tri-state architect, with numerous commissions in northern West Virginia (e.g. Morgantown), eastern Ohio (e.g. Ashtabula, Massillon) and outlying western Pennsylvania towns (e.g. Butler, Greenville, Washington). Lee practiced independently, but was also variously associated with Bilquist and Lee; Palmer, Hornbostel & Jones; James P. Piper; and… Read More

New Castle, Delaware, U.S.A.: Oak Knoll Pr, 1999. 1st Edition 2nd Printing, revised and Expanded. Hardcover. Fine/New. 221 Pp. New. Second Printing, Which Is Revised And Expanded.

Pantheon, 2006. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 280 Pp. Hardcover. First American Printing Indicated. Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $25.00, Front Cover Lightly Dusted/Soiled.

The Architectural League Of New York, 1911. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 8 Pp. 8 1/2" X 11" Information About The League, Procedure For Submitting Exhibits, Etc. From The Collection Of Pasquale Napolitano, Muralist And Artist.