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Capra Press, Santa Barbara, 1980; First Edition, First Printing; Signed; oblong quarto, 297 pages; black leather; gilt titles. First printing of the updated 1980 edition of this study of Santa Barbara architecture from Spanish Colonial times to the present, with 150 additional photographs and many new buildings since the 1975 edition. Text by Herb Andree and Noel Young, sumptuously photographed by Wayne McCall. Includes architects’ biographies, a complete glossary, and alphabetical indexes of all the buildings, architects, and designers. Signed on the title page by Noel Young and Wayne McCall. Fine condition. Clean, crisp, bright, sharp. A sparkling copy.
Early Religious Architecture of America by Cleveland Hydraulic-Press Brick Company - 1898
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Early Religious Architecture of America
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Cleveland: Cleveland Hydraulic-Press Brick Company, 1898. RARE early pictorial survey of Calfornian, New Mexican and Mexican Spanish Mission architecture. With 24 spectacular full page black and white photographs and 8 pages consisting of title page, 6 pages unsigned text and concluding page with information on The Cleveland Hydraulic-Press Brick Company. Photographs signed Franklin Co. Eng. Chi.(cago). Very Good, in string-tied green paper covers, corner chips to covers and a 3" closed tear front cover, stain top corner title page. Starting with the "Oldest Church in America", the Church of San Miguel, Santa Fe and including the Cathedral of Mexico, Missions of San Juan Bautista, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and San Juan De Capistrano among others. . First Edition. String Tied. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
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Santa Barbara Architecture (Signed)
by Andree, Herb, Noel Young, Wayne McCall
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La Variabilité du Gout dans les Arts: Les phases ornamentales de la mode
by Arnoult, Léon
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Léon Arnoult: La Variabilité du Gout dans les Arts. Les phases ornamentales de la mode (The variability of taste in the arts. The ornamental phases of fashion). Printed and published by Devambez "À l'enseigne du masque d'Or". Paris, 1921. ARNOULT Léon - William ABLETT (1877-1937 illustrator). Preowned, Signed. A l'Enseigne du Masque d'Or, chez Devambez, 1921, in-4°, 87 pp + 7 plate illustrations, printed in 303 numbered copies. Sewn, original printed stiff wrapper over blind wrapper. Printed wrapper, interior fine, uncut and unopened copy. Two of the illustrations are mixed technique plates by William Ablett, one is signed in pencil by the artist: a circular engraving with a lithographic image printed on it and heightened with gold. Editorial paperback, Jacket with title to the framed flat, beautiful allegorical friezes, endpapers, eyelet, cover page with the same frieze (antique collection stamp). The quantity of circulation - 303 copies justified, and numbering - №120, a preface paper,…
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Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes.
by LIN, Maya. Essays by Richard Andrews and John Beardsley. Foreword by Lawrence Weschler. Signed by Maya Lin and Lawrence Weschler
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Seattle / New Haven: Henry Art Gallery / Yale, 2006 Signed on the title page by Maya Lin and dated 2006. Additionally signed by Lawrence Weschler, who contributed the Foreword. First edition / First printing. Off White cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The catalogue of Maya Lin's 2006 exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. An attractive production. The cover is embossed with the artist's "Waterline.
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Follies & Grottoes
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London: Constable, 1953. First edition. Octavo. xii, 264 pp; color title page (same as dustjacket), numerous b/w photographs & drawings; index. Purple cloth with silver-lettered spine in dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine, a bright, crisp unmarked copy, erratum slip tipped in; unclipped jacket has touch of wear to spine ends, slight creasing at top of front panel. Bookseller label from Holliday Bookshop affixed to rear board. Written and illustrated by the artist Barbara Mildred Jones (1912-1978). Jones studied Mural Decoration at the Royal College of Art - where she became part of that distinctive group of artists and illustrators of whom John Piper, Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious and Edward Ardizzone are the best known.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.
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The President as Architect : Franklin D. Roosevelt's Top Cottage [Signed]
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Albany: Mount Ida Press, 2001. Signed first edition. Softcover. Published Albany, NY: Mount Ida Press, 2001, first printing. 4to. wrappers with French flaps. 8 1/2" x 11", 158pp., illustrated with b/w photographs. Inscribed by author on flyleaf, along with accompanying post-it note from his wife. Fine, as new. . Signed by Author. 1st. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to.
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English Chimney-Pieces: Their Design and Development From the Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century
by Rothery, Guy Cadogan and A.L. Kocher
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New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co./John Tiranti, 1927. Book. Very Good. Portfolio. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. ribbon-tied portfolio covers containing xi-16pp text and table of contents in an edgebound leaflet, and 190 illustrations on 97 loose (as issued) plates. closed tear to binding strip of leaflet. mild age-toning to portfolio covers, light bump to top edge, and slight corner wear to portfolio corners. plates lightly age-toned and with light edge and corner wear..
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l'Arca Plus. Number 12. Grandi progetti urbani. (Urban Planning).
by KOOLHAAS, Rem
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Milano: l'Arca Edizioni spa, 1997. Signed by Rem Koolhaas at the article on the Lille Euralille project. First edition / First printing. Pictorial wrappers. Very fine. Rem Koolhaas is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 2000.
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Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes.
by LIN, Maya. Essays by Richard Andrews and John Beardsley. Foreword by Lawrence Weschler. Signed by Maya Lin, Richard Andrews and Lawrence Weschler
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Seattle / New Haven: Henry Art Gallery / Yale, 2006. Signed on the title page by Maya Lin and dated 2006. Also signed by Henry Art Gallery Director and essayist Richard Andrews and Lawrence Weschler, who contributed the Foreword. Weschler's signature has spattered a bit. First edition / First printing. Off White cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The catalogue of Maya Lin's 2006 exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. An attractive production. The cover is embossed with the artist's "Waterline.
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Frank O. Gehry: EMP: Experience Music Project: The Building.
by GEHRY, Frank O. Signed by Frank O. Gehry.
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Seattle: Experience Music Project, 2000. Signed by Frank O. Gehry. First edition / First printing. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. Uncommon signed. Frank O. Gehry is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 1989.
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Antonio Sant'elia; The Complete Works
by Caramel, Luciano (With Alberto Longatti.)
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New York: Rizzoli [0-8478-0964-1] [1988]. (4to) 312pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrations, photographs, color plates, bibliography. (Architecture, Architects--Italy, Architecture).
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Early Religious Architecture of America
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Rare, oversize oblong folio in green cloth library binding, copyright 1898; first edition in good+ condition; contains evocative b&w photos of early religious edifices from around the country; withdrawal from college library with only one sticker and one stamp as ex-library indicators; text block tight and square in sturdy folio boards; a few pages show tape repairs to edges, but most photos are in remarkably good condition; final page contains a prospectus for the Hydraulic Press Brick Company; verso of last page shows some soiling; approximately 60 thick, glossy pages 5-BNB-top.
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HOMES FOR YOUR STREET AND MINE: STANDARDIZED TO AVOID WASTE
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Washington DC: Standard Homes Co., [1956?]. Stapled wraps. Good. 31p. Wrap and pages lightly thumb creased, front wrap fore edge creased and torn. A promotional booklet for houses designed by Standard Homes Company containing examples of more than 40 dwellings, each accompanied by layouts and a photograph or drawing of frontage. These houses come in a variety of styles designed with consideration to cost-saving construction using standard sizes for materials such as lumber, windows, and doors to reduce waste. Intercounty Savings and Loan Association of Philadelphia was the distributor of this copy. A letter dated June 27, 1956, from the savings and loan is laid in. B&w illustrations and halftone photographs. (11-1/2"x8-1/2")
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THE AMERICAN ARCHITECT AND BUILDING NEWS, APRIL 15, 1903, VOL. LXXX, NO. 1426
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Boston, 1903. Covers rather brittle and chipped, some short tears to page edges.. 13.5" x 9"; viii, 25-32, ix-xvi pages; Stapled magazine.
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Gibson Guitar Catolog 50's (reprint???)
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Casa Del Herrero: The Romance of Spanish Colonial
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First printing (number line contains "1").Book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
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Casa del HerreroHouse of the Blacksmithstands today as one of the most fully developed and intact examples of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture. It was designed and built between 1922 and 1925 as a second house for George Fox Steedman, a St. Louis industrialist. Thought principally to be the work of George Washington Smith, the architect, Steedman himself generated many ideas during the initial design phase that were both a blessing and curse to Smith. Steedmans vision prevailed, and throughout the decade following the houses initial completion, he continued to rework both house and garden, engaging the architects Lutah Maria Riggs, Edwards, Plunkett & Howell, and Floyd Brewster, and garden… Read More
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HOME" - An Interesting Monthly Magazine Sent to You Each Month by Your Lumber Merchant: Lot of Nine (9) issues, 1938-1941
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Silver Lake, New Hampshire: John F. Chick & Son, Building Material, 1941. First Editions. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. Lot of nine issues, averaging 16pp each; illustrated throughout from photographs, floor plans and elevations. In the original, pictorial wrappers. Approx 11" x 8.5" The thrust of this magazine is "Now is the time to build your own home." Themes of these issues include: Hollywood Hilltops; Simple Dignity Is the Best Architecture; Cape Cod Cottages; Need Four Bedrooms?; Wood Walls; A Place to Eat in the Kitchen; Twin Level First Floor; Fireplace Ideas; The Case for Home Ownership; Colonial Twins; Summer Cottages; Modernizing A House; Plywood Is Perfect Material; Baseball Grows Up [a four-page departure in one issue]; Historic Walls; Suburban Charm; Log Cabin Siding; Ideas for the Roadside Merchant; Two Farm Homes in 1940 Style; Modernizing Your Farmhouse; Duplicate the Charm of Old World Cottages; Underground Storage Easily Built; Three Modern Farm Homes; Small Summer Cottages;…
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Historical Georgetown, Guyana
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Georgetown, Guyana: S.M.H. Aniff and Universal Bookstore, 1997. Staple-Bound Paperback. Fine. Very slight corner wear, otherwise As New. Not from a library. 40 pages. Illustrated, one color map. 8.5 x 11.5 inches.
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Original Resopal; The Aesthetics of Surface
by Schneider, Romana and Ingeborg Flagge
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Modern Library ML 35)
by Hugo, Victor
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Hugo, Victor. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Modern Library ML 35) Undated, circa 1950, Random House. States complete and unabridged. USED. VG/VG price-clipped original publisher's DJ. Sorry about the group photo, but Please see the item listed for sale here at 2nd book lower row. Front cover illustration depicts Quasimodo atop a moonlit gargoyled roof-top. Red boards, black topstain. 416 pages plus adverts. 4 3/4 X 7 3/8. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love.
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Bracebridge Hall
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BRACEBRIDGE HALL 1887 Macmillan & Co. By Washington Irving. Ralph Caldecott Illustrated Edition. First Edition Thus. Sequel to "Old Christmas". Used. Good Condition/ No DJ is included if issued. 284 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 1/2. Bright gold gilt top-stain, titling and ornamentation. 1" Dark green end-papers. Summary: "Bracebridge Hall, written by the esteemed author, Washington Irving, is a collection of location-based character sketches, detailing the lives and personalities of the occupants of a countryside manor in Yorkshire, England, owned by a squire."
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Hunchback of Notre Dame (Modern Readers Library)
by Hugo, Victor
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Hugo, Victor. Undated. Circa 1950. William J. Hill Co., Inc. Chicago, Ill. Not an illustrated edition. USED. VG/No DJ Included. Adventure Fiction Romance/Horror. Sorry about the group photo, but please see stock photo of binding for William J. Hill editions for the item being offered here. Blue Boards, gilt titling and red ornamentation on spine. 380 pages. 5 ½ X 8 ¼. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love. A clean, square, solid copy.
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