The Gothic Cathedral

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1956. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very good +. Sm 4to. Navy blue cloth, with gilt spine lettering. With color frontis image. 307 pages, with Appendix ("On the Proportions of the South Tower of Chartes Cathedral", by Ernst Levy), List of Works, and Index. With b/w (and three color) plates, plans, and illustrations. Includes… Read more about this item

Paperback. Good.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1956. First printing. Very Good +. The author provides an insight to the design of the cathedral as an image, and meant to be understood as one and develops the thesis that ecclesiastical architecture represents the reality of which it is a symbol or image in a manner that differs radically from… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's, 1991 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. xvi (iv), 428 pp, list of 32 b&w illustrations, maps, preface, acknowledgments, 18 chapters, appendix: I. the later life of Jane Anderson, II. the quest for Jane Anderson, notes, bibliographi of Conrad, bibliography of Jane Anderson, index. First Edition, 1991. "The author probes the complex life… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. 278 pages, 52 plates (3 in color) , 9 text figs. , index. including list of works cited and index, plus 44 plates with 3 tipped-in color plates of features of Chartres Cathedral, illus., photos, maps, site plans, elevations, and other text figures. Seeks to understand Gothic architecture as an image, more precisely as… Read more about this item

New York: Panteon Bollingen Foundation Series, 1962. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 278 pages. Bollingen Series XLVIII. Tipped-in color plates, b/w images throughout, gilt titles and decoration on spine, gilt decoration on front board. Blue top edge lightly faded. Some wear to dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean inside. Content: "...von Simson undertakes an… Read more about this item

Princeton University Press. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Pantheon Books, New York. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2nd Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($7.50 price intact). Published by Pantheon Books, 1962. Quarto. Black cloth over blue boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Light offsetting to endpapers and spotting… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Harper and Row, 1962. First Harper Torchbook edition. Softcover. VG- (Light wear to extremities; Some pencil and inkstamp markings). BW pictorial wraps; 275 pp.; 9 bw figures; 44 bw plates.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1956. 1st. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Bollingen Series XLVIII. Bound in publisher's original quarter black and blue cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Previous owner's name stamped in black ink on the bottom edge.

Pantheon/Bollingen, 1965. Hardcover. Good. . Dust jacket and edges show light shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

Pantheon, 1/1/1956. Hardcover. Very Good. 11x9x1. A handsome volume, in mylar. Bollingen series, 48. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Jacket sunned. Clean, unmarked pages. xxiii, 307 pages illustrations (part mounted color, 1 folded color in pocket) 26 cm. Contents: Gothic form. --Measure and light. --Suger of Saint-Denis. --The new church. --Sens and Chartres… Read more about this item

NY: Pantheon Books, 2nd edition, 1956. Hardcover. Very good plus condition with text clean and binding sound but lacks a dust jacket.. Size:[lg 8vo] 307pp., fronts., 2 hand-tipped color plates, 44 b&w plates, 9 text figures, biblio., index.

VON SIMSON, Otto. THE GOTHIC CATHEDRAL. (New York): Pantheon Books, (1956). Small 4to. Cloth. Frontispiece, xxiii, ( 307 pages, 44 plates, folding chart. First edition. The Abbey of St. Denis and the Cathedral of Chartres are studied, with illustrations, including measured drawings, and one folding chart, (23.25 x 34.25 inches); a part of the Bollingen Series XLVIII. Very good.… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon Books, 1962. 2nd Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to. Bollingen Series XLVIII. Small 4to, xxiii, 278 pp., tipped-in color frontispiece and two tipped-in color plates, 44 b&w plates, 9 figs. Spine cocked, small chip at head of spine, a couple of small stray marks on front cover, light wear to upper corners of boards,… Read more about this item

1962. 1962 Simson, Otto von THE GOTHIC CATHEDRAL; ORIGINS OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE AND THE MEDIEVAL CONCEPT OF ORDER Bollingen Series XLVIII NY: Pantheon Books, second edition 1962 278pp index, illus color tipped-on plates, b/w 4to Fine bright copy in VG+ d/w.

Harper Torchbook, 1964. First Thus . Soft cover. Good. (1st Harper Torchbook) Larger softcover, heavy wrappers with illustration of gothic arches, design in red and blue on front wrapper, 175 heavy lightly browned pages plus catalog, photo section. Very slight surface wear at top front edge, slight surface wear to spine edges including long spine left edge. Good.… Read more about this item

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974. xx, 275p., b/w illus., stiff wrappers (Bollingen sereis, 48).

Princeton University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1962. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Tight square book, unmarked but for "booksale" stamp to rear endpaper and signature of author/architect to front endpaper; in crisp dust jacket with touches of edgewear. ; Bollingen Series; Vol. 48; 278 pages .

NY: Bollingen/Princeton , 1974. First Bollingen PB of the 1962 Second Edition. Paperback. VG+. Trade paperback with light bumping to lower corners, clean, no spine crease; an unmarked copy with clean pages. Experienced full-time used & antiquarian bookseller since 1994. Images may be added by request. Questions welcome.