Architecture Criticism
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Architecture Criticism Books & Ephemera
Alexander Jackson Davis: American Architect, 1803-1892
by Amelia Peck [Editor]
New York, NY: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. Illustrated with drawing and watercolors. Published to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of his death, this book accompanies an exhibition of A.J. Davis's work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Bound in forest green cloth and titled in gold on spine. Previous owner's bookplate. Previous owner's embossing stamp on title page. Illustrated throughout with drawings and...
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£28.49
Sir John Soane's Museum, London
by Stefan Buzas
Berlin: Wasmuth, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Photography by Richard Bryant. This work is part of the Opus series (Architecture in individual presentations). White cloth boards blind-stamped with title on front and titled in gray on spine. Previous owner's bookplate. Illustrated throughout with color photography and line drawings. Bookmark laid in. 64 pp. Photographic dust jacket. Book and dust jacket both in fine condition. Nice copy. Full refund if not satisfied.
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£16.28
Reports and Papers of The Architectural Societies of the County of Lincoln, County of York, Archdeaconries of Northampton and Oakham, and County of Leicester
by C. W. Foster (Editor)
Saltergate, Lincoln: The Lincolnshire Chronicle, Ltd, 1926. Softcover. Good. Illustrated with photographs. Light, light blue cover with black lettering on front cover and spine. 165 pp. Photographs and illustrations such as diagrams and paintings throughout. Front cover is somewhat aged and detached from the rest of the book along with what is left of the spine, however the binding remains overall intact. Back cover is missing. End-pages and edges show foxing, and so do a few pages inside the book,...
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£24.42
The Architecture of Affordable Housing
by Davis, Sam
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. ix, 208 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. "This text is about the design of dignified, affordable housing for those not served by the private sector, and how that housing fits comfortably into our communities. It is a non-technical analysis for everyone interested in the creation of affordable housing. / Sam Davis is Professor and Chair of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and...
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£9.36
Live-In Kitchens (For Your Home)
by Plante, Ellen M
Friedman/Fairfax Pub, 1999. Paperback. Like New. Illustrated. Colorful book full of kitchen design ideas. Paperback. 72pp., index. Illustrated. Full refund if not satisfied.
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£24.42
The Decorative Work of Robert & James Adam. Being a Reproduction of the Plates Illustrating Decoration & Furniture from their "Works in Architecture" Published 1778-1812
by Robert Adam and James Adam
London: B. T. Batsford, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 13 3/4" x 19. Illustrated with drawings by Michael Cunningham. 13 3/4" x 19". Contains 30 plates illustrating their designs. Quarter leather binding with blue cloth cover, gilt lettering on spine. Book is ex library. Cover is a little bumped at corners and edges and shows some markage on back side. Library number painted on spine. Library sticker in front end-page. Pencil note in back end-page. Nice copy. Due to this...
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£65.11
The new moderns
by Glancey, Jonathan & Bryant, Richard
Mitchell Beazley. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 0855337907 . Very clean & tightly bound larger format hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. 192 pages, colour photos in the text, index .
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£10.00
Twentieth-Century Decoration: The Domestic Interior from 1900 to the Present Day
by Stephen Calloway
London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Bound in green cloth titled in gold on spine. Illustrated throughout the text with color and black-and-white photographs, including a color frontispiece. Indexed, 408 pp. Light blue illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket and page edges very lightly foxed, else fine. Full refund if not satisfied.
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£24.42
Architecture, Anyone?
by Huxtable, Ada Louise
New York: Random House, 1986. xix, 345 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Revised and updated collection of articles originally published in the New York Times. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust spotting/top edge. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Cautionary Tales of the Building Art. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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£7.73
Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life
by Blauvelt, Andrew (Curated by)
Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2003. Cloth, 344 pages, colour illustrations; 22 cm. Published on occasion of the exhibition held at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, June 8 to September. 7, 2003; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, November 8, 2003 to February 15, 2004; and Mus e de l'Hospice Comtesse, Lille, France, September 4 to November 28, 2004. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Gently browsed. Dust jacket/wrapper protected in a mylar book cover. "This book features over forty...
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£11.80
Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the Architectural Uncanny
by Molon, Dominic
Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002. 32 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Out of place: contemporary art and the architectural uncanny," held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, June 8 to August 11, 2002. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Fourteen emerging artists: Miriam Backstrom, Monica Bonvinci, Johanna Bresnick, Miles Coolidge, Sam Durant, Julia Fish, Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, Tom Hunter,...
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£24.01
Floating cities: Venice, Amsterdam, Leningrad and Moscow
by Wiltshire, Stephen
Michael Joseph. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 071813480X . Very clean & tightly bound landscape format hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright priceclipped dustjacket which is rubbed at the edges. Appears little used. 148 pages, foreword by Oliver Sacks, photos on plates, illustrations in the text .
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£8.00
L.A. Follies: Design and Other Diversions in a Fractured Metropolis
by Kaplan, Sam Hall
Santa Monica, CA: Cityscape Press, 1989. 239 pages; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Printing. Light edgewear to wraps. Articles from the Los Angeles Times.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.
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£6.10
Lusitania: A Brief Introduction to the Material History of Portugal considered in its Total Environment (Signed First Edition)
by Harold N. Cooledge, Jr
Clemson, SC: The Clemson Architectural Foundation, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Illustrated. Signed by the author. Signed by the author on front free end paper. Illustrated. 76pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
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£28.49
British architecture 1984
by Papadakis, Andreas (ed)
Architectural Design Profile. Very Good. 1984. First Edition. Softcover. 0312100361 . Clean and tightly bound paperback original, no inscriptions, spine uncreased, appears little used. 96 pages, illustrations in the text .
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£8.00
John Soane (Architectural monographs)
by John Soane
London | New York: Academy Editions | St. Martin's Press, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Illustrated with photographs. Glossy, pictorial cover. 123 pp. Top corner bumped. Spine sunned. Owner's book plate and name in ink. Text body is free from underlining, highlighting, or notes. Full refund if not satisfied.
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£12.21
The meaning of Mercian sculpture
by Bailey, Richard N
Leicester: University of Leicester. Very Good. 1990. First Edition. Softcover. 0901507407 . A5 format, clean and tightly bound paperback, stapled spine, pictorial card cover, no inscriptions, appears little used. 16 pages, illustrations in the text, bibliography. The 6th Brixworth Lecture, 1988 and Vaughan Paper no. 34 .
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£6.00
Palladio and Northern Europe: Books, Travellers, Architects
by Guido Beltramini; Howard Burns; Kurt W. Forster; Werner Oechslin; Christof Thoenes
Milan, Italy : Skira, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/Near Fine. Beautiful pictorial cover. Fold-out end papers. Ex libris inside front cover. Contains illustrations and photographs throughout the text. Indexed. 237 pp. Near fine condition with minor shelf wear on cover. Full refund if not satisfied.
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£61.04
Chartres
by Emile Male
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 1983. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 11x8x0. Glossy paper cover featuring photograph of Chartres on front; title in blue front and spine. Normal shelf wear, slight rubbing, tight binding. A portrait in text and color and black and white photos of Chartres, how it was built, the plan, architecture, sculpture and stained glass windows. 189 pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
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£20.35
Lutyens and the Great War
by Tim Skelton; Gerald Gliddon; Gavin Stamp [Foreword]
Frances Lincoln Limited, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 10" x 12. Illustrated with photographs. Lutyens was one of the key architects for the then Imperial War Graves Commission, and his work on the Western Front was instrumental in setting the standards for the British and Commonwealth war cemeteries." - from dust jacket. Lovely dark blue boards, titled in silver on spine. Illustrated end sheets with photograph. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs...
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£162.78
Transactions of the Cambridge Camden Society - Part I, Part III
by Unknown
Oxford/London: John W. Parker (Vol. I); John Thomas Walters (Vol. III), 1841/1845. Paperback. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 13" x 10. TWO ISSUES. PART ONE: A selection from the papers read at the ordinary meetings in 1839-1841. Blue paper covers, black print on front; damp stain on front. Significant soiling both covers, shelf wear. Cover and first nine pages detached from body; every two pages are uncut at top. Approximately 59 pp.<br><br>PART III: Tan paper covers, black print title on...
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£24.42
Paul R. Williams, Architect: A Legacy of Style
by Karen E. Hudson
New York : Rizzoli International Publications, Inc, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Los Angeles architect Paul R. Williams designed over 3,000 projects, including homes for stars of the entertainment industry. His stylistic ease with the historical styles popular in Southern California and modern design reflected in public buildings, hotels, country clubs and banks are featured in this handsome volume. Generously illustrated with color and b/w photographs including construction documents, biographical...
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£183.13
The Works of the Adam Brothers Decoration Architecture
by Adam Brothers
Jersey City, NJ: H.C. Perleberg, c.1910. Loose-leaf . Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Green cloth covers with two cloth strands to tie the book shut. Pages are loose-leaf. 43 plates. Covers have a few stains here and there. Cloth strands are frayed and one is cut short. Ex-library (some plates have a hole-punched library stamp). End-papers and title page browned. Very slight foxing/staining inside, but text is mostly clean. Text body is free from underlining, highlighting, or notes. Full refund if not...
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£69.18
Social Spaces, Volume 1: A Pictorial Review
by Images Publishing Group
Images Publishing Dist Ac, 2000. Hardcover. New/Fine. Illustrated. This delightfully playful publication features spaces where people meet for a variety of reasons from business to leisure pursuits. Projects are represented in full colour and biographical information is given on featured firms. New copy. Illustrated. Solid copy. Full refund if not satisfied.
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£12.21
handbook of fasting in joining of metal parts
by Vallory H Laughner,Augustus D Hargan
* handbook of fasting in joining of metal parts-McGraw-Hill book Company in 1956, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Fair/ D/J none. Extremely heavy biblical book about fabricating things with metal it has extensive information about types of screws, assembly methods specialty fasteners, integral fasteners, brazing soldering or welding with pressure, riveting, setting, staking, using the practical considerations in the design of screw fastening.. There is an entire supplemental chapter in the book for...
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£30.11
