Search Results: Architecture from Brillig Books

Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, (1995)., 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Folio, putty colored cloth covered boards. 299pp. plus biographical chronologies. Generously illustrated in black and white and color with plans, elevations, models and photographs. A very fresh, clean and unread copy with a very minor bump at upper rear spine tip. A beautiful copy..

New York: Rizzoli, 1986. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Small quarto, blue cloth covered boards. 279 pp. plus index. Generously illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Laid in is a card complimens of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center. A tight, clean, fresh, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, tight, dust jacket with light yellowing at top edge of the white jacket front and rear, else fine. Fine in near very good plus to near fine dust jacket..

Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1997. Book. As New. Hardcover. Later Printing. Quarto, dark blue paper covered boards with gilt spinet titles. 333pp. including index of architects, bibliography, index and glossary. With over 1000 black and white illustrations of domestic architecture in America from the indigenous up through "Space" dwellings for the 21st century. A classic survey of American homes including plans and elevations and historical notes of changing styles. This copy is very clean, fresh, bright, unmarked, unblemished and apparently unread in a crisp, sharp, bright, tight dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Virtually as new..

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Quarto, rust colored cloth covered boards with silver decorative title and spine titles. 228 pp. including index and appendix listing selected publicly owned buildings open to the public. Very generously illustrated throughout with hundreds of color and black and white photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright and his buildings, exterior, interior, sketches, drawings and even some of his graphic art copy for magazines. A fascinating biography and memoir with commentary on the working style and the architetural achievements of one of America's most famous architects, by an established and renowned architect who worked at Wright's side as his apprentice and colleague for 9 years. A very tight, clean, bright, unmarked and unread volume with fresh cloth and sparkling titles in a crisp, very tight, clean, glossy, unclipped dust jacket with one closed edge tear at rear panel near spine. Fine in near fine dust jacket..

New York.: Whitney Library of Design, 1981. Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition, first printng. Quarto, beige cloth covered boards. 200pp. Very generously illustrated throughout with 174 plans, elevations and drawings with 24 in full color. A book for architects and for art lovers which shows how drawings for buildings constitute an important element in the development of architecture even for buildings which do not get built. An anthology of famous designs and drawings from leading modern architects. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, clean, unblemished dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket..

New York: Whitney Museum/Watson-Guptill, 1985. Book. Fine. Original Cloth. First Edition. Square quarto, grey cloth covered boards. 128pp. including index and bibliography. Generouslly illustrated throughout with 100 color and 50 black and white illustrations, primarily photographs but also diagrams, reproductions and designs. An essential guide to the architectural history, techniques and perceptual factors in using color in the design of buildings. Strong on both theory and practical advice and examples. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, tight, bright dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket..

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Oblong small quarto, white glazed paper covered boards. 161 pp. including reference chart. Generously illustrated throughout. A manual of drawing and rendering techniques for the architect. A tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, very tight, sharp, glossy unclipped dust jacket. Finie in fine dust jacket. Virtually AS NEW..

Englewood Cliffs, NJ U.S.A.: Prentice Hall, 1988 Book. As New. Soft cover. F. First Edition, first printing. Oblong quarto, black, white and red illustrated stiff wraps (paperback). 166pp. Illustrated throughout with plans, elevation, diagrams, patterns and drawings. A careful perceptive analysis of the fundamental levels of the architect's task of visual representation of projects. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, square, crisp, unmarked volume with a flat uncreased spine. Fine. Virtually AS NEW..

Nashville, TN: American Association For State And Local History, 1981. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Quarto, black cloth covered boards. 132pp. including index. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. A technical guide for professional photographers, historians, preservationists and urban planners. An in depth treatment of photographic techniques for documentation of historic architecture. A tight, clean, fresh, volume with unobtrusive short gift inscription in upper corner of ffep, else fine in a crisp, bright dust jacket with a few superficial flecks of white from minimal rubbing. Near fine in near fine dust jacket..

New York: Watson-Guptill, 2000. Book. As New. Soft cover. First Edition. Quarto, illustrated stiff self wraps (trade paperback). 191 pp. Very generously illustrated througout with color photographs and sketches and plans. A tight, square, bright, clean, crisp, stiff, glossy, unmarked and unread volume. FINE. Flawless. AS NEW..

Washington, D.C: Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1994. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. First prnting. Quarto, black cloth covered boards with white titles and spine titles. Illustrated endpapers. 224 pp. Very generously illustrated throughout with fulll color (many full page) photographs of the residences of famous modern architects in America, along with plans, elevations, detail photographs and many photographs of the architects. Includes, Neutra, Kalkin, Philip Johnson, Gehry, Faia, Gropius, Gwahtmey and many more. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, sharp, bright, glossy, unclipped dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 1986. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, red cloth spine over blue paper covered boards with gilt spine titles. 190pp, including index, bibliography and directory of architectural painters working in the United States. Very generously illustrated throughout with full color photographs and of the renaissance of architectural painting in the United States, including details of interior and exterior work, trompe l'oeil painting and restoration. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, sharp, tight, sparkling dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Flawless. AS NEW..

Fresno, CA: Word Dancer Press, 1995. Book. Fine. Original Wraps. Second Edition. Second Edition. Oblong small quarto, photo-illustrated stiff wraps (paperback). 112 pp. including photograph section and list of his office/studio colleagues and engineers, index, "architectural chronology". Generously illustrated throughout with full color and black and white reproductions of Dyson's drawings and full color photographs of his buildings. A tight, clean, fresh, bright and unmarked volume with a flat uncreased spine. No marks, no tears, no stains etc. Barely noticeable soft crease on last five pages (just a very slight deformation not a crease per se), else fine. Very near fine. A great copy. Quite uncommon..

New York: Rizzoli, 1997. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Quarto, blue cloth covered boards. 160 pp. Gorgeously illustrated throughout with color photographs of vivid and imaginative uses of glass in contemporary architecture with examples of kiln formed, graphic, float and sculptural glass featuring such artists as Danny Lane, Jose Fernandez Castrillo, Narcissus Quagliata, Stephen Knapp, Jamie Carpenter etc. A tight, clean, fresh, bright and apparently unread volume with a dimiinutive very neat 7 word gift insciprtion on free front endpaper else fine in a very tight, clean, glossy, sharp, cirsp, unclipped dust jacket. Very near fine in very fine dust jacket..

Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1924. Book. Very Good. Original Cloth. First Edition. Small quarto, cream cloth covered boards with black spine titles. 51pp. plus six folding plans and construction drawings in rear. Also illustrated with a folding map and 9 black and white plates (three folding) and a folding construction diagram of broadway widths. A very tight, sound copy with mostly very clean unmarked interior pages, crisply folded and undamaged drawings and plates. Gently ex-library with bookplate on pastedown and perforation to title page but only one or two nickel sized roundstamps at page corners. NO marks to images (except one of the two roundstamps in corner of one folding drawing at rear not affecting image). NO card pocket, NO circulating stickers etc. Cover soil of ancient library dust and darkened spine. A VERY SCARCE historical document of the building of one of Washington D.C.s key bridges..

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1998. Book. As New. Cloth. Quarto, deep green cloth covered boards with gilt title and gilt spine titles. 304 pp. including index, bibliography and notes. Very generously illustrated throughout with color reproductions of period paintings, portraits, prints and engravings. A beautiful book production which tells the story of daily domestic life in the American family between the lat colonial period and the end of the 19th century. Using the window of the art of the period and the frame of the rooms of the bourgeois house, (dining room, parlor, bedroom, etc.) the authors analyse and illustrated what actual daily life was like in the period. This is a beautiful collector's copy with very fresh, rich, dark green cloth with sparkling gilt title and spine titles, unmarked and unread, in a crisp, very tight, fresh, glossy, unblemished dust jacket. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

Lavergne, Tennessee, U.S.A.: Taschen, 1996. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Quarto, white illustrated stiff self-wraps (trade paperback). 256 pp. including index, notes, bibliography and biographical notes and photographs of some of the leading artists of the Bauhaus. Very generously illustrated throughout with color and black and white reproductions and photographs, drawings and designs. A tight, clean, unmarked, stiff, square, crisp, sharp volume with a tinge of yellowing at extreme edges, else fine. Near Fine..

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Riverhead Books, 2004. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, illustrated coated paper covered boards with glossy half wrap around dust jacket. 288 pp. plus acknowledgments and photo credits. Illustrated with full page color photographs and blacka and white studio studies and black and white in-text photographs. A very tight, clean, crisp, fresh, unmarked and unread volume with bright, sharp, glossy wraparound. Fine in fine dust jacket. Flawless. AS NEW..

New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1980. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Square small quarto, grey coated paper covered boards. 127pp. including chronology, Generously illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs, plans, elevations and drawings. A challenging survey and consideration of the work of this highly influential modern american architect. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked volume in a tight, clean, crisp dust jacket. with a couple of very short very closed edge tears. Fine in near fine very good plus dust jacket..

Spain: Arco Editorial, 1999. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio, pale olive green illustrated paper covered boards in matching slipcase. Includes projects from Crosby Arboretum by Edward L. Blake, Jr., to the restoration projects of Richard Haag, such as Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington, and the Bloedel Reserve in Bainbridge Island, Washington A beautiful unread volume in a pristine slipcase. BRAND NEW..