Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good
Price:
$15.00
Ferriday, Virginia Guest
LAST OF THE HANDMADE BUILDINGS: Glazed Terra Cotta in Downtown Portland
Portland, OR: Mark Publishing Co., 1984
Quarto. 149 pp; numerous b/w photographs; chronological inventory; map; bibliography; index. Paperback. VG, light edgewear & wear at base of spine. Inscribed by author to NYC landmark preservationist Harmon Goldstone in year of publication.
Inventory number #012919
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$225.00
Ahlin, Janne
SIGURD LEWERENTZ ARCHITECT, 1885-1975
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987
First edition. Folio. 191 pp; 16 color & numerous b/w photographs, drawings, plans & elevations; index. Red-lettered black cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket lightly chipped at top & bottom of spine, 1/2-in. tear at top corner fold, several tiny edge tears, edges of spine lightly rubbed.
Inventory number #012857
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None
Price:
$25.00
Canaan, Gershon
REBUILDING THE LAND OF ISRAEL
NY: Architectural Book Publishing, 1954
First edition. Quarto. 205 pp; well-illustrated with b/w photographs, drawings, diagrams & floor plans; chronology; bibliography; index. Original silver-lettered blue cloth, no jacket (rear panel laid in). VG, except for architect rubber stamp on ffep an unmarked copy, spine slightly faded, light fraying to spine ends.
Inventory number #012712
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Price:
$20.00
Rosen, Laura
TOP OF THE CITY: New York's Hidden Rooftop World
NY: Thames and Hudson, 1982
Quarto. 167 pp; fully illustrated with 27 color & 141 b/w photographs. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean copy with no markings, minimal shelf wear to covers.
Inventory number #012707
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$65.00
Snodin, Michael, Ed.
KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL: A Universal Man
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991
First edition. Quarto. 218 pp; 75 color & 125 b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket shows minor wear, tiny tear at top of jacket spine. This volume serves as the catalogue for an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, July 31 to October 27, 1991.
Inventory number #012602
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: As New
Price:
$65.00
Fox, Justin, Paul Kotze et al
REVEL FOX: Reflections on the Making of Space
South Africa: R. Fox, 1998
Quarto. 183 pp; profuse color & b/w photographs, floor plans & elevations. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. This is a catalogue for an exhibition of work by the award-winning South African architect Revel Fox, with essay contributions by leading international architects and colleagues.
Inventory number #012601
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$65.00
Le Corbusier
CONCERNING TOWN PLANNING
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1948
First American edition. Octavo. 127 pp; over 60 drawings by the author. Grey cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, top edge a bit dusty; unclipped jacket has a quarter inch loss at head of spine extending 0.75 inch onto back panel, small chip at base of spine, spine & back panel lightly soiled & small tan stain near bottom edge, edge of spine lightly rubbed; all in all a very respectable jacket.
Inventory number #012592
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$35.00
Johnson-Marshall, Percy
REBUILDING CITIES
Chicago: Aldine Publishing, 1966
Large quarto. vi, 375 pp; profuse b/w photographs, plans & diagrams; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket has light wear to extremities, small edge tear on back panel.
Inventory number #012587
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Price:
$40.00
Musson, Jeremy
PLASTERWORK: 100 Period Details from the Archives of Country Life
London: Aurum Press, 2000
First edition. Square octavo. 108 pp; fully illustrated with b/w photographs; index of houses. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. The b/w photos are high quality, and show many close-ups of decorative elements of English ceilings, walls, doors, windows, and overmantels. Included are examples of approx. 75 houses of the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 20th centuries, as well as examples from five 19th-century houses.
Inventory number #012585
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None
Price:
$30.00
Youngson, A.J.
THE MAKING OF CLASSICAL EDINBURGH 1750-1840
Edinburgh: Edinburgh at the University Press, 1993
Reissue; first published in 1966. Octavo. xv, 338 pp; 82 b/w photographs, 80 figures, appendix; notes; index. Publisher's cloth with gilt-lettered spine. VG+, a clean, unmarked copy; spine gilt bright, light soiled area on back cover. This book features the Georgian 'New Town' part of Edinburgh, built in the space of 75 years, from 1766 to 1840. The author has studied in detail how it was planned, financed, and brought into being.
Inventory number #012317
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Price:
$15.00
Beharrell, C.H.
CLAREMONT LANDSCAPE GARDEN Surrey
London: National Trust, 1994
Reprint. Octavo. 38 pp; 24 b/w illustrations; bibliography. Staple-bound illustrated stiff card covers. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; no cover wear.
Inventory number #012316
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Price:
$75.00
Weber, Bertram A.
ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN. This Issue is Devoted to the Work of Bertram A. Weber, Architect, Chicago, Illinois
NY: Architectural Catalog Co., 1940
Vol. IV, No. 9, April 1940. Folio. [30] pp, printed recto only, [18] pp advertisements; full of b/w photos of exteriors and interiors. Original printed wrappers. Fine, a bright, crisp copy. Trade catalogue showing the firm’s residential & commercial work, including 26 residences and country houses, two churches, a chapel, funeral home, library, post office, hospital, housing project, and a design submitted for a memorial, all in the Chicago area. The adverts are from companies in the Chicago building industry before World War II.
Inventory number #012307
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$100.00
Bossaglia, Rossana & Valerio Terraroli
MILANO DECO: La Fisionomia della Citta Negli Anni Venti
Milan: Skira, 1999
First edition. Quarto. 208 pp; profuse color & b/w illustrations; biographies of designers; bibliography; index. TEXT IN ITALIAN. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy
Inventory number #012299
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Price:
$15.00
Meade-Fetherstonhaugh, Margaret & Oliver Warner
UPPARK AND ITS PEOPLE
London: Century, 1988
Octavo. 118 pp; frontispiece & 14 b/w illustrations; index. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, crisp copy, spine sunned. The authors relate the history of the successive people who lived at Uppark, drawing on letters and documents preserved in the house.
Inventory number #012267
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$20.00
Dunlop, Ian
CHATEAUX OF THE LOIRE
NY: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1969
First American edition. Octavo. xxxi, 215 pp; [32] pages of b/w illustrations from paintings, drawings & photographs; appendix; bibliography; index. Red cloth with gilt titles with dustjacket; illustrated endpapers. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, bottom edges rubbed with a couple of white flecks; unclipped jacket has one short closed tear to bottom edge, a couple light scratches on back panel, spine ends lightly chipped.
Inventory number #012263
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Very Good
Price:
$35.00
Ramuz, C.F.
PAYS DE VAUD
Lausanne: Editions J. Marguerat, 1943
First edition. Quarto. 102 pp; 81 gravure photographs by Maurice Blanc. Text in French. Tan cloth with title on cover & spine with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a crisp, unmarked copy; jacket lightly chipped at top of spine with several short edge tear, minor wear at base of spine & corners. Photographs of the architecture, landscape, and people of Vaud, Switzerland by Maurice Blanc. Part of the series: "Merveilles de la Suisse."
Inventory number #012220
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Jacket: None
Price:
$50.00
Owen, Robert Dale
HINTS ON PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE
NY: Da Capo Press, 1978
Second edition of 1000 copies. Quarto. xvii, 119 pp; 6 lithographs with tissue guards, 9 wood engravings, and 99 woodcuts in the text. Green cloth with gilt-lettered spine & column in gilt on cover. Fine copy. #468/500 numbered, facsimile bound copies of the original edition published in 1849. It features views and plans of the Smithsonian Institution, along with an appendix relative to building materials employed in public edifices in Washington, DC.
Inventory number #012193
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Jacket: Fine
Price:
$60.00
Pennoyer, Peter & Anne Walker
THE ARCHITECTURE OF WARREN & WETMORE
NY: W. W. Norton, 2006
First edition. Quarto. 256 pp; 40 color & 300 duotone photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. A new, unused copy. At the turn of the 20th century, Beaux-Arts-trained Whitney Warren and lawyer Charles D. Wetmore put their stamp on New York City with Grand Central Terminal. Their mansions, clubs, hotels, apartment houses, and office buildings were powerful emblems of the era.
Inventory number #012172
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine
Price:
$65.00
Liu, Gretchen
CHINESE ARCHITECTURE
London: Academy Editions, 1989
Quarto. 297 pp; color photographs and b/w plans throughout. Cloth in dust jacket with Rizzoli imprint. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Inventory number #012151
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None
Price:
$125.00
Laprade, Albert
CROQUIS Quatrieme Album, Region Du Centre
Paris: Vincent, Freal & Cie, 1957
Oblong quarto. 4 pp text; list of plates; 70 plates of line drawings, elevations, facades and architectural details, text in French. Loose as issued in portfolio with ties. Very good condition. Some toning to cloth spine.
Inventory number #012146