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New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2002. First Thus: Originally published as American Shelter: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home Preface by Charles Moore 4to size black clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 333 pages including index. Profusely illustrated with black and white drawings. From jacket: "(This book) is the definitive illustrated survey of American Housing styles, from the Native American Tipi, to the New England Salt Box, to the Old West False Front, to the 1950s pre-fab, and much, much more. The perfect reference for enthusiasts of architecture, history and American studies. (It's) also the ideal inspiration for anyone who dreams of owning an American home, or just living in one." Styles include: Earth Lodge Pueblo Hogan Plank House Spanish Cottage Log Cabin Stone Ender Dutch Colonial Garrison House Plantation Colonial Swiss Cottage Queen Anne Richardson Romanesque Craftsman Prairie Colonial Revival Art Moderne Rammed Earth Quonset Hut…
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American Homes: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Domestic Architecture
by Walter, Lester
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Architectural Elements: The Technological Revolution
by Waite, Diana S. (editor)
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New York: Bonanza Books, 1972. From jacket: "The turned balustrades, newel posts, columns, scrolls, mouldings (moldings) leaf work, cut and ground glass and so on, serve ...to illustrate the look and feel of an era." Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated with black and white plates. Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out; jacket covered with mylar. Mylar is wrinkled in back and we note some tape transfer marks on back of jacket and endpapers. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.
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Architectural Photography
by Veltri, John
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New York: Amphoto, 1974. Horizontal 4to size black clothbound hardcover with photo illustrated dust jacket; 192 heavyweight glossy pages profusely illustrated with black and white and some color photographs, many full-page. From dust jacket: "(The author) an experienced architectural photographer, shifts the emphasis away form portraying architecture in the old static way. He instead takes a humanistic people-oriented approach. The works of any major architects such as Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Edward Durell Stone, Frank Lloyd Wright, I.M. Pei and R. Buckminster Fuller are excellently and excitingly illustrated." Contents include: The Photographic Approach to Architecture Equipment and Its Uses Film and Negative The Printing Process Wear to dust jacket including some small tears and a crease on front, contact stain on inside front cover and fep from a now gone piece of paper. No extra shipping charges if sent via US Media Mail. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your…
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The Art and Architecture of Mexico: From 10,000 BC to the Present Day
by Rojas, Pedro
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Middlesex, England: Paul Hamlyn, 1968. From jacket flap: "Modern Mexico inherits not one, but many civilizations which have evolved, flowered, declined and risen again in new guise ever richer and more brilliant." Ex-library with typical treatments, some blacked out; jacket covered with mylar. 146 heavy, glossy pages with color and black and white photographs. Small nick to jacket and mylar on front cover and small tear to jacket underneath mylar on back cover; shaken; several small tears opposite title page. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.
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Baroque Churches of Central Europe
by Bourke, John
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London: Faber and Faber, 1978. 309 bright, white pages with some black and white photographs and illustrations. Sunned spine, wear to covers. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase supports charity and benefits literacy and lifelong learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Finkenstaedt, Thomas. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Cathedrals of Britain
by Hammond, Muriel
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London: Ian Allen, 1963. 95 glossy pages with black and white illustrations throughout. Tanned margin on back cover and some light wear to covers. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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English Architecture Through the Ages: Secular Buildings
by Ison, Leonora & Walter
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New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1967. Ex library book with stamps and markings. A description once clipped from the dust jacket is paperclipped to the front flyleaf, the paper clip has marked subsequent pages. Lavishly illustrated with black and white drawings and floorplans. 124 pages including index. From description: "This beautifully illustrated history of English secular architecture provides a comprehensive guide to the subject ranging from the earliest buildings to the most recent modern architecture. Every important type of public and private building is represented, from town halls to office blocks, and the domestic field embraces castles, manor houses, great country houses, as well as town houses, flats and housing estates...With over 400 drawings.". First American. Buckram. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Ison, Leonora. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
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New York: New American Library, 1960. Selected by Edgar Kaufmann and Ben Raeburn. Contents include: Prairie Architecture 1893-1910; Taliesin 1911-1916; Japan 1916-1922; Great Projects and Small Houses 1920-1929; World Architecture 1946-1959; more. 346 pages with black and white illustrations. Wear and light soil to covers. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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The Georgian Group Journal Volume VII 1997
by Hewlings, Richard (editor)
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1997. 171 pages to this illustrated journal. Curl to bottom corner. Contents include: Architects, Poets, Palaces, Churches, Parks, Seats, Speculation and more. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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History of the House
by Camesasca, Ettore
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New York: Putnam, 1971. Dust jacket has some wear and chipping and is sun faded across the top spine and front. Slight fade to the very top of cloth hardcover underneath dust jacket. 432 pages, including index. Original price $25.00. Loaded with black and white and color photographs and illustrations. Contents include: What is a house; A roof over a man's head; Mud and granite; The power of reason; The Asiatic tradition; Reason and beauty; The baroque imagination; Elegance and informality; Revivals and fantasies; Mechanized living in the Twentieth Century; The anatomy of the house. From dust jacket: "This book has been compiled by an international group drawn from professors and staff at various universities, major institutes and museums." Foreword by Sir Robert H. Matthew. No additional shipping charges if sent via US Media Mail. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase…
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians March 1971 Volume XXX Number 1
by Overby, Osmund (editor)
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Philadelphia: Society of Architectural Historians, 1971. 95 pages with some black and white illustrations and photographs. Heavy orange cardstock covers have stain on top of front and bumped bottom corner. Pencilled price on fep. Contents include: New uses for the artistic patrimony; Viollet le Duc and historic restoration; Traditional earthquake-resistant contruction on a Greek island; Board and batten siding and the balloon frame: their incompatibility in the ninteenth century; The four Mormon Temples in Utah; Plankwall framing, a modern wall construction with an American history; Stratford and the Lees. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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La France Glorieuse Au Moyen Age
by Aubert, Marcel
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Paris: Robert Laffont, 1947. 179 numbered pages, plus index, plus glossy black and white photographs of architecture and statuary. Some pages have not been cut open at the top, a publisher's defect. Light soil to photo illustrated covers. In French. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Massachusetts Beautiful
by Nutting, Wallace
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Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co. Inc., 1935. Massachusetts Beautiful - written, illustrated and photographed by Wallace Nutting Flat Signed by author on fep. Second edition. One of the States Beautiful Series. 4to size clothbound hardcover with dust jacket. Two color jacket has black and white photo illustration. The author's photograph and brief biography appear on the back of the dust jacket. 250 pages with illustrations and photographs by the author covering all of the counties in Massachusetts. Many photographs and drawings illustrate a snapshot in time of a bygone landscape, now "re-developed" away. After his early retirement as a Congregational minister due to ill health, Wallace Nutting began taking landscape photographs. His photography business was incredibly successful, selling more than 10 million prints. Nutting was also an artist (you can see his work within this volume) who authored several books about beautiful landscapes in New England and…
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Michelangelo Draftsman
by Hirst, Michael
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Milan: Olivetti, 1988. 168 heavy stock cream colored pages with full page color, sepia and black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated cover with slight wear to top corner. We noted some very, very light spotting to outside pages. From an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in 1988. We have several other related volumes, including Michangelo Architect. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefity charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Michelangelo Architect: The Facade of San Lorenzo and the Drum and Dome of St. Peter's
by Millon, Henry A. & Craig Hugh Smith
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Milan: Olivetti, 1988. 197 heavy stock cream colored pages with black and white, sepia and color illustrations (many full page) throughout. Illustrated cover with slight edgewear to top. We noted some very, very light spotting to outside pages. From an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in 1988. We have several other related volumes, including Michangelo Draftsman. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefity charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartes
by Adams, Henry
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. Privately printed in about 1905, this is the 1913 publicly available edition. Name and price on blank fep. Illustrated with black and white drawings and black and white and color engravings. The first page of the first chapter is miscut at the top, however, it appears that no text is missing. 400 pages including index. Extra shipping charges apply to this heavy volume; shipping is $6.00 via media rate. Some wear and tear to covers, shelf wear to bottom. A few areas of foxing noted in the margins of the first few unnumbered pages and those two pages are separated about two inches at the bottom. A few pages havings spotting or staining in the margins. Some separation damage to spine. From editor's note: "Greater perhaps than his grasp of the singular entirety of madiaeval civilization, is Mr. Adams's power of merging himself in a long dead time, of thinking and feeling with the men and women thereof, and so breathing on the dead bones of antiquity…
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Morphosis: Buildings and Projects
by Cook, Peter & George Rand
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New York: Rizzoli, 1989. 4to size softcover; 249 heavyweight pages illustrated with color photographs and drawings. From back: "Winners of numerous awards and the subject of exhibitions from Tokyo to Berlin Los Angeles to New York, Morphosis architects Thom Mayne and Michael Rotondi are leaders in the avant-garde movement of the new architecture of California... The works of Morphosis have encompassed wide range of building types, including the single-family house and multiple-unit housing, medical facilities and offices, restaurants and retail spaces. In all projects, a hallmark of their work is always a clean, crisp coolness expressing their almost uncanny ability to turn the most ordinary materials into surfaces and details of astonishing power and grace." Edgewear, crease and ink mark on back cover. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Multi-Use Architecture in the Urban Context
by Zeidler, Eberhard H.
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New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983. 4to size hardcover with photo illustrated dust jacket; 158 pages profusely illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. 2nd Edition From jacket: "Less urban space is available than ever before, yet our cities' populations continue to grow. With this influx of people comes a concurrent increase in the number of services required to support the population - and an increase in the number of buildings required to house these services. How can we provide ample building space for offices, stores, entertainment facilities and residences for a growing urban population when the amount of space is so limited? Based on his extensive experience as an architect... (the author) examines the multi-use building as an urban structure of the past and of the future." Light wear to the top of the jacket, creased bottom of back of dust jacket. . 2nd. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Nineteenth Century Architecture in Britain
by Turnor, Reginald
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London: Batsford, 1950. Probable first edition. In overall good condition with bumped lower read corner, some shelfwear, inside cover and front end page have library stamp. Paper clipped to end page is the description cut from the dust jacket describing book and author - the paper clip has left a depression and several pages. Pencilled numbers on front end page. From description: the book has 127 illustrations...among them are some of the most famous buildings of the century..." including "Regent Park terraces, terraces at Reading and Ramsgate, churches by Pugin, Scott, Barry and Butterfield..Houses of Parliament, the Crystal Palace, the British Museum, St. George's Hall, Liverpool are all well illustrated" and many more. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. First Edition. Buckram. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Kersting, A.F.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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People and Spaces: A View of History through Architecture
by Abramovitz, Anita
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New York: Viking Books for Young Readers, 1979. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 207 bright, white pages with black and white illustrations From jacket: "(The author) shows us exactly how social, cultural, and economic changes through the centuries have influenced the look, the use, the feel of a building. The author challenges us to look at the buildings of the past and to see them not as crumbling ruins or echoing empty monuments but as life-containing, useful structures... From the arch to the ziggurat, from basilica to adobe house, here is a detailed story of the always evolving art of architecture." Edgewear, light wear to jacket, owner's embossed stamp on fep. . First. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Kelly, Susannah. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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