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Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive color photography throughout. Illustrated endpapers and fly leaves. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 350914

NY: Rizzoli International, 1982. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 228 pages, illustrations in color and b/w. Photography by Roberto Schezen. This was the first book to present all of Loos's 180 works and an essay on this architect's relation to the society of his time. Embossed stamp to prelim page, otherwise clean. Record # 377829

New York, NY: Rizzoli International Publications, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover, 197 pages, color photographs throughout. Very clean and tight copy. This is the first book to put together all of the extraordinary houses designed by Antoine Predock. Each of the twelve remarkable private houses featured here--ten from Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, and two from California--harmoniously blend with their landscape in ways for which Predock is now so renowned. Characterized by environmentally conscious design, the houses display both exquisite refinement and an ingenious level of invention. Record # 455454

NY: Praeger, 1971. revised ed.. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover,192 pages. Illustrated in color, b&w. Dust jacket with light edgewear, soil. Small quarter-size stain to front cover. Record # 600443

New York: Rizzoli, 1990. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 304 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Price tag residue on front cover. Yellow dot sticker on front flyleaf. Clean inside. In very good condition. Record # 30931

NY: Public Affairs, 2011. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 329 pages. When Katharine Greider was told to leave her house or risk it falling down on top of her and her family, it spurred an investigation that began with contractors' diagnoses and lawsuits, then veered into archaeology and urban history, before settling into the saltwater grasses of the marsh that fatefully once sat beneath the site of Number 239 East 7th Street.During the journey, Greider examines how people balance the need for permanence with the urge to migrate, and how the home is the resting place for ancestral ghosts. The land on which Number 239 was built has a history as long as America's own. It provisioned the earliest European settlers who needed fodder for their cattle; it became a spoil of war handed from the king's servant to the revolutionary victor; it was at the heart of nineteenth-century Kleinedeutschland and of the revolutionary Jewish Lower East Side. America's immigrant… Read More

Pittsburgh, PA: Madison Books, 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 177 pages, with photographs and illustrations throughout. Spotless, bright and tight copy. Record # 457313

New Haven: Yale University, 1977. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 68 pages, b&w illustrations. Introduction by Edmund Pillsbury. INSCRIBED BY BROWN on front fly leaf. Light rubbing to front edge of embossed dust jacket. Published on the occasion of the opening of the building. Record # 512211

Paris: Presses d'Ile de France, 1955. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, unpaginated (appox. 200 pages), b&w drawings and photos throughout. Slight tanning to edges of cover wrapper, otherwise a clean copy. FRENCH TEXT. Record # 412894

Baltimore MD: Penguin Books, 1965. 2nd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket housed in a pictorial cardboard slipcase. 234 pages, 192 b/w plates, glossary, bibliography. Describes the architecture of the period that stretches from the Early Renaissance to the post-Waterloo Greek and Gothic Revivals. Among the great names of those centuries were Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren, Vanbrugh, Robert Adam, and John Nash. During the same period were built Hampton Court, Hatfield, the new St Paul's, the City Churches, the graceful London Squares, and the crescents and terraces of Bath. In addition to the main text there are two long appendices, one on Scottish architecture and the other on the architecture c f the Thirteen Colonies. Numerous plans, the majority of which have been especially drawn for this book, and over three hundred half-tone illustrations form an integral part of the author's account. Clean copy. Record # 382193

New York: H.N. Abrams, 1986. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 606 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white photographs throughout. Record # 2230141

Munich: Prestel, 1997. 1st . Softcover. Very Good/None. 271 pages. Softcover. Features full color and black & white illustrations. Features the German design groups best work 1965-1997. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor bump to bottom right corner. Record # 67588

New York: Universe Publishing, 2009. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Anton Radevsky. Non paginated. Hardcover. Six pages of pop-ups in excellent condition, each page has several smaller pop-ups laid in. Bright cover boards & bright illustrations throughout by illustrator, Anton Radevsky. A magnificent journey through the history of architecture. Featuring amazing three-dimensional replications of famous buildings from ancient to modern times, The Architecture Pop-Up Book showcases artwork, photographs, pop-ups, and detailed text of the ancient Egyptian pyramids; the great constructions of Greece and Rome, such as the Parthenon and the Colosseum; majestic Asian wonders, including the Taj Mahal; Gothic and Neoclassical masterpieces, such as Notre Dame and the Florence Duomo; and the work of such important modern architects as Gaudí, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Frank Gehry. From a brilliantly elaborate Gothic cathedral nave to a telescoping Chrysler Building skyscraper, the talent and imagination… Read More

New York : Rizzoli, 2010. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 240 pages. Photographer Ian Macdonald-Smith has captured more than forty of the most characteristically innovative extant houses designed by M.H. Baillie Scott (1865-1945), as well as their gardens, in color photographs that express the craftsmanship and planning of this early-20th-century master. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Record # 350819

Larkspur Landing: Lapis Press, 1985. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 157 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Wrinkling to bottom right corner of page 147/148. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy. Record # 613337

NY: McGraw-Hill, 1946. 11th ed.. Hardcover. Hardcover, black cloth in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Small sticker on dj spine. 169 pages, b&w illustrations, Practical reference data on materials, design, and construction methods employed in brick construction; for contractors, builders, architects, engineers, and students...". Record # 374992

London: Seven Dials, Cassell & Co., 2000. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 224 pages. Softcover with French flaps. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Previous bookstore price tag on back cover. Edges of pages slightly yellow, otherwise very clean inside and out. Record # 30925

Budapest: Municipal Information Office , 1931. 1st. Softcover. Good/None. various . 28 pages, soft cover with string binding. Tipped-in plate on cover. 14 color paintings with tissue guards throughout. Some slight wrinkling on several pages. Edge and self wear. All pages clean and legible. Record # 857204

Chennai India: Dakshinaa Publishing, 2001. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 8 1/2 X 11", 436 pages, b&w illustrations. The science and technology of Vaastu Shastra, archetypal building forms illustrated and explained. The text is enhanced by measured drawings. A work of scholarship by India's leading authority on the subject. Scarce. Record # 378394

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover, 72 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edge wear and creases to dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Record # 852672