American Architecture
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American Splendor
by Michael C Kathrens
American Splendor is a series of autobiographical comic books written by Harvey Pekar and drawn by a variety of artists. The first issue was published in 1976 and the most recent in September 2008, with publication occurring at irregular intervals. Publishers have been, at various times, Harvey Pekar himself, Dark Horse Comics, and DC Comics.
Michael Graves, Henry Hornbostel
by Ga: Emory University Museum Of Art and Archaeology, Mar 7 To May 15, 1985 Atlanta
American Architecture Books & Ephemera
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architect's Other Passion
by Meech, Julia
New York: Japan Society / Harry N. Abrams, 2001. Hardbound. VG-/VG- minor corner bumping to book, light curling to dj edges and light corner wear. May have slight soiling to covers and owner's sticker on ffep.. Pale blue paper on boards with design, grey DJ with color illustration; 304 pp; 219 illustrations. Includes images of some of the stunning examples of Japanese art in Wright's collection as well as its place in buildings and examples of his architectural design. From the publisher: "This is the...
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£60.71
The Michael Graves Exhibition: New Projects, 1978-83
by Graves, Michael
Miami: Visual Arts Gallery, Florida International University, 1983. Paperback. Good, wear to corners and edges, moderate sunning to wraps.. Purple wraps with white lettering and color illustration. 31 unnumbered pages. Color and BW illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from October 28 to November 23, 1983. Includes bibliographical references.
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£24.26
Year Book of the Architectural League of New York and Catalogue of the Forty-Fifth Annual Exhibition
New York: The Architectural League of New York, 1930. Softcover. G- (Book has aged overall, with a few small pieces missing to front cover, pages have aged and are clear.). Grey/brown paper wraps, 320 pp. Profuse bw plates. Title on front cover: Architectural League of New York, 1930. Represents the work of architect and designer members of the league. Includes vintage photos of various buildings, interiors and exteriors, as well as select sculptures and decorative art embellishments. Includes many...
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£64.76
Year Book of the Architectural League of New York and Catalogue of the Thirty-seventh Annual Exhibition
New York: The Architectural History Foundation / MIT Press, 1922. Softbound. Good+ (shelfwear to wraps, light age toning but pages are otherwise clear and clean.). Paper printed wraps. 288 pp., profusely illustrated in BW. Architectural League of New York, 1922. Represents the work of architect and designer members of the league. Includes vintage photos of various buildings, interiors and exteriors, as well as select sculptures and decorative art embellishments. Includes many advertisements for...
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£40.48
The Vanderbilt Homes
by King, Robert B. and Charles O. McLean
New York: Rizzoli, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good. DJ has general wear. Bookblock has age toning.. Rust color stamped cloth, xiii + 194 pp., many BW & color illus. "Linked to wealth, power, and opulent, gossip-worthy living since the 1860s, the Vanderbilts have often been regarded as America's 'royal family.' Nowhere is this more evident than in the houses they built for themselves during the country's Gilded Age, the height of Vanderbilt preeeminence. [This book] features twenty-four of the most...
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£30.76
Philip Johnson: Architecture (Artchitecture)
by Lewis, Hilary (curator)
Washington, DC: The Kreeger Museum, 2008. Softcover. VG- (Some soiling and rubbing to wraps; Bottom right corners slightly bent in one copy; Interior is clean and tight). White illus. stapled wraps; Unpaginated, 30 pp.; Profusely illustrated with color and bw figures. From a 2008 exhibition at The Kreeger Museum; Includes an essay by Hillary Lewis and a list of projects attributed to Philip Johnson. The words "Art" and "Architecture" are superimposed in title.
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£16.19
Work In Progress: Herzog & De Meuron's Miami Art Museum
Miami: Miami Art Museum, 2007. Softbound. VG. Color wraps. 64 pp., profusely illustrated in color. A wonderfully illustrated examination of this museum. Catalogue of an exhibition held December 1, 2007 - April 6, 2008 at the Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida.
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£24.26
Keith Sonnier: Public Commissions, 1990-1999
by Zschokke, Walter and Keith Sonnier
Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000. Paperback. VG- light corner and edge wear, minor soiling to wraps.. White and color-illustrated wraps with green spine and multi-colored lettering. 147 pp. Color and BW illustrations. Text in German. This volume features all of Keith Sonnier's larger works commissioned between 1990 and 1999, among them the permanent light installations for the Munich airport (Lichtweg, 1989-1992) and Miami (Miami Heliotrope, 1996).
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£24.26
Wood, Brick, and Stone: The North American Settlement Landscape; Volume 2: Barns and Farm Structures
by Noble, Allen G. and Margaret M. Geib
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.Light shelfwear overall. Light fading to dj.). Tan cloth boards with brown lettering; brown dj with white and black lettering and illustration, mylar cover; 186 pp; illustrated in bw. Volume 2 only of a 2 volume set. Illustrated with 560 floor plans, drawings, and photographs.
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£44.52
Josep lluis Sert
by Cheviakoff, Sofia and Alberto Duarte
Gloucester, MA: Rockport Publishers, 2003. Hardcover. VG/VG. Navy boards with gilt stamped lettering. Glossy color-photographic dust jacket with blue and white lettering. 79 pp. Color illustrations, maps. Looks at various projects by the Spanish-born architect, including the Mirâo Foundation in Barcelona, the Holyoke Center in Boston, and the Science Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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£16.19
Early Architecture of Delaware
by Bennett, George Fletcher
Wilmington, DE: Middle Atlantic Press, 1985. Hardcover. VG/VG (dust jacket has light wear and scuffing). Light blue cloth with black lettering on spine, blue dust jacket with bw illustration and white lettering. 213 pp, profusely illustrated in bw. Study of the Dutch, Swedish and English architectural influences found throughout the region. Originally published in 1932.
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£24.26
Arts & Culture: Selected Projects
by Chang, Vincent
New York: Grimshaw. Softcover. As New. Grey illus. wraps with black lettering on yellow spine. 102 pp. with color/bw illus. throughout. A look at some of the world-wide architectural projects by the Grimshaw firm and information about, mostly, its New York office. Stunning images.
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£24.26
Our Changing White House
by Garrett, Wendell
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995. Hardcover. VG. Pine green cloth, gilt letters on spine, gilt decoration on front cover, beige and color illus. dust jacket, 250 pp., BW and color illus. A collection of 10 illustrated essays exploring various aspects of America's Presidential palace. Essays are: The White House: plans realized and unrealized / William Seale -- Crafted from stone / Lee H. Nelson -- Social seasons and rituals of entertainment / Barbara G. Carson -- Decorated in the most...
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Year Book of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Architectural Exhibition Philadelphia 1925
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Chapter AIA and T Square Club, 1925. Hardbound. G- (Has moderate wear to bindings; text block clean and tight but may have half of spine material missing or quite loose; boards, however, seem secure and page surfaces are clean.). Brown paper over boards, with gilt lettering and design; 276 pp. with mostly bw illustrations and advertisements throughout. Represents the work of architect and designer members of the clubs. Includes vintage photos of various buildings, interiors...
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Modern Suburban Houses: A Series of Examples Erected at Hampstead & Elsewhere, from Designs by C.H.B. Quennell, Architect
by Quennell, C.H.B
London and New York: B.T. Batsford / John Lane Co, 1906. Hardcover. Poor. General shelf wear to cloth. All pages are detached from spine but are all included and neatly set into covers. Pages are tanned with age but are overall clean except for some minor smudges. Edges of pages that were once bound to spine are now chipped and tanned. Some writing on endpapers.. Blue-green cloth over baords, gilt lettering and design. xii pp, BW frontispiece + 43 BW plates. Contains a preface by the architect,...
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£157.85
Penn's Landing: A Master Plan for Philadelphia's Downtown Waterfront
Philadelphia: The City of Philadelphia, 1963. Softcover. Good- (Clean, tight text block but with light age toning to page edges and bumps to corners of covers/pages. Cover stained and soiled. Signature of former owner on front [John Fatula, Philadelphia architect]; title page (first sheet) pulled away from rest of text but adhered to cover.). Glossy white wraps with color image and aqua lettering. Decorative end papers. 75 pp. with bw photos and duotone line drawings throughout. 1 foldout illustration....
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£28.33
Moravian Architecture and Town Planning: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Other Eighteenth-Century American Settlements
by Murtagh, William J
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1967. Hardcover. VG- (Slightly aged overall, still nice.). Teal cloth, gilt letters on spine, tan & illus. paper dust jacket, 145 pp., 66 BW illus. "Although Moravian customs and culture are discussed when they have a direct relation to the style of a building or the arrangement of a town, this work is primarily a study of the distinctive Moravian architectural style and the rigidly controlled development of the villages. Particular emphasis is given...
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£24.26
One Hundred Country Houses: Modern American Examples
by Embury, Aymar
New York: The Century Company, 1909. Hardcover. G, moderate wear to covers including a hole in the cloth on back and some corner/edge wear, a bit of foxing, age toning to end papers. Olive cloth boards with BW-embossed illustration and black lettering. xvi, 264 pages. BW illustrations. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. -Google Books Chapters include: New England Colonia, Southern Colonial, Classic...
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£141.66
Misiones jesuíticas
by Cisneros, Jaime and Alvaro Romero
La Paz, Bolivia: Jaime Cisneros & Hugh Richter, 1998. Second. Hardcover. VG/VG-. Dj shows wear and fading. Contents are clean and tight, with minimal tanning of page edges.. Black boards with color illus and orange spine lettering. Black french fold dj with same. 111 pp. Many color illus. Text in Spanish and English. Beautifully illustrated volume which discusses the exterior and interiors of Jesuit missions.
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£44.52
Antoine Predock, Architect
by Collins, Brad
New York: Rizzoli, 1994. Paperback. VG-. Color-illustrated wraps with gray and blue lettering. 232 pp. BW and color illustrations. From the beginning, Antoine Predock's architecture has drawn from his surroundings: the desert Southwest, with its sparse beauty, its special qualities of light and air. This book presents, chronologically, twenty-nine of Predock's most important buildings. In the text, he discusses the pertinent aspects and idiosyncrasies of each scheme. The organization thus shows the...
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Puerto Rican Houses in Sociohistorical Perspective
by Jopling, Carol F
Knoxville, Tenn: University of Tennessee Press, 1988. Hardcover. VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Binding is tight and pages are crisp and clean.). Aqua cloth boards with black lettering; white dust jacket, blue and black lettering; bw illustration; xxiii, 300 pp; bw frontispiece, illustrated throughout in bw. "(this book) is the first work to describe the architecture of an entire complex society, from the inventive self-built...
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£121.42
Ornamental Ironwork: An Illustrated Guide to Its Design, History, and Use in American Architecture
by Southworth, Susan and Michael
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, Inc, 1978. Softcover. VG (Some minor scuffing to covers). BW illus. wraps; 205 pp.; 191 bw figures. An in-depth look at the history of ornamental ironwork and ironworkers in American architecture; Well illustrated with many photos; An interesting and attractive book. This is the second printing, 1980.
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£24.26
Peter Cook: Six Conversations
by Cook, Peter
London: Academy Editions, 1993. Paperback. VG. Glossy black and color-illustrated wraps with white lettering. 144 pp. Mainly color illustrations. This monograph follows Peter Cook's career from his earlier work with the famous Archigram Group, through to his highly successful partnership with Christine Hawley. It provides an insight into his aims and achievements, his individual projects and collaborations with others. -FirstSearch.
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£24.28
Louis Henry Sullivan
by Manieri-Elia, Mario
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. Hardcover. VG/VG. Navy cloth boards with silver stamped lettering. Glossy illustrated dust jacket with cream lettering. 188 pp. Mainly BW illustrations. Louis Henry Sullivan, author of the maxim "form follows function," is one of the best known and most important American architects of the nineteenth century. A mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, he was a pioneer of the Chicago School and the tall office building. Famous for the elegance and exquisite...
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Architectural League of New York Yearbook and Catalogue of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition
New York: Architectural League of New York, 1910. Hardbound. G (Shows moderate wear to covers with some soiling like small paint marks on covers; some material missing at heel of outer spine; hinges are loosening; first page carries lavish signature of former architect-designer owner; page surfaces are clean.). Original red cloth with black decoration on front cover, 308 pp., color frontispiece and profusely illustrated in bw. On spine: 1910. Represents work of architect and designer members. Features...
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£80.95
