Search Results: Pennsylvania from Royoung bookseller, Inc.

Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 78 pages in text. Introduction by George B. Tatum. With thirty-three photographs of Hutton's work, most of them by Cortlandt van Dyke Hubbard. Notes. Index. Chronological Commissions of Addison Hunter. A microcosm of most of the essential elements for a history of American architecture from 1850-1900. Orig. black cloth. KARPEL B1111. "...drawn upon her own memories...of his life and career.

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Book Clinic, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson and blue cloth with front cover paper label. Very good. 30 pages. Illustrated. Ex-library. A Keepsake publication to commemorate Soule's direction of the University of Pennsylvania Press on the eve of his retirement. Limited edition, copy 135 of 250. Nicked at backstrip head.

New York: Architectural Book, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Miller, M. Luther. 248 pages. With measured drawings by M. Luther Miller and an Introduction by Joseph Hergesheimer. Voluminously illustrated with photographs, floor plans and detailed drawings. KARPEL B842. "Contains excellent photographs and some measured drawings." ROOS 2404. In a bright and very crisp dust wrapper.

New York: William Helburn, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. vermillion cloth slightly rubbed at backstrip extremities. Very good. 290 pages. Folio, 10 3/4" X 14". Introduction by Fiske Kimball. More than 400 photographs; eighty-one full-page plates selected from the most representative of 105 measured drawings. Two, three, or four drawings are devoted to important buildings. In all cases floor plans, principal elevations, details and molding profiles are presented. Fold-out map at rear. List of Structures. General Index. Bibliography. Limited edition, copy 140 of 1000. KARPEL B828. "It is an excellent regional architectural survey, quite superior as a work of scholarship to Eleanor Raymond's study of eastern Pennsylvania architecture.

Germantown: Site & Relic Society, 1926. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth and boards. Very good.. 167 pages. 12mo, maps and drawings. Index. More than thirty-six historic buildings are discussed, twenty-four are illustrated in line drawings. Bookplate.

Germantown: Site and Relic Society, 1926. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth spine, brown boards, front cover paper label. Very good. 15.5 x 12.4 cm. Discusses the history of the settlement of Germantown with 36 individual historic buildings of which 24 are illustrated with charming line drawings. A number of sites presented have since been razed. Title printed in red and black. Bookplate.

New York: David McKay, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned brown cloth. Teg. Fine in fine slipcase. 344 pages. Abundantly illustrated with nearly seventy-five photographs. Index. Limited edition, copy 238 of 1050. Unusually fresh and bright copy, very clean, bookplate.

Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1970. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper. 249 pages. Color and black and whitephotographs by Thomas M. Jarrett. Introduction by A.W. Robertson. A cultural history of Western Pennsylvania.

New York: American Studio Books, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. persimmon cloth. Very good `in chipped dust wrapper. 136 pages. Voluminously illustrated, mostly in black and white, but with color plates of brilliant fidelity. Bibliography. KARPEL I1532. "General historical and sociological background is provided, nevertheless, placing the various motifs in the proper religious and ethic context.

New York: Hudson Hills, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Very good in near fine slipcase. 2 vols. 180 pages in text, Vol. I, and with illustrations in the text. Vol. II, plate volume in facsimile of Denig's bible -- sixty full-page, ink and watercolor plates, dated 1784, portrays biblical scenes and religious emblems and is accompanied by explanatory notes written in the everyday German of colonial Pennsylvania. Backstrip feet rubbed, otherwise fine.

Np: Np, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Orig. burgundy cloth.Fine.. 14 pp.

Albany: J.B. Lyon, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth lettered in gilt with New York seal in glit front cover. Fine. 488 pages. 27 x 20 cm, Almost as new copy. Approx. 75 illustrations, two large fold-out plates at rear cover. Index. Owner stamp in lower margin of title page.

New York: Harbor Press, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth, gilt escutcheon front cover.Teg. Near fine. 224 pages. 25.5 x 18 cm. History of Somerton, an 18th century mansion near Philadelphia, occupied by Charles Thompson, Secretary of the Continental Congress, rebuilt in 1798, and acquired by the Fairmount Park Commission after the Civil War, restored in 1931. Illustrated with portraits of previous owners. Signed presentation copy. Bookplate.

Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Orig. navy cloth. Fine in orig. but chipped glassine overwrapper. 38 pages.