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Cities Books & Ephemera
Every Building on 100 West Hastings
by Stan Douglas
Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery/Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005. Soft cover book with French flaps, 119 pages. Second printing. Stan Douglas has carefully photographed every building on 100 West Hastings in Vancouver, one of the most infamous blocks in Vancouver. Illustrated and Includes reproduction of the original poster in a small format (approx. 3 1/2 by 18 inches) . From the Maurice Forget Collection with red stamp, numeric code in ink on verso of front cover. Very good . Soft Cover. Very Good/No...
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£16.26
Interpretations and Forecasts, 1922-1972
by Mumford, Lewis
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full grey cloth, foil titles on spine & facsimile signature on front board, orange endpapers, x, 522 pp, index. Tape scars to paste-downs. DJ chipped at tail of spine; in Brodart archival cover. Wide-ranging essays by an author best known as an urbanist. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . VG/VG. 24 X 16½ cm.
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£21.94
Micropolis in Transition
by Henry, E. L. (Ed.)
Collegeville, MN: St. John's University, 1971 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in white wraps, red & blue titles & decoration, xi, 395 pp, 10 figures, tables, footnotes, index. Corners of a few leaves creased. Study of St. Cloud, Minnesota, as an example of a small American city. Chapters by the editor (himself a former mayor of St. Cloud), John Redmond, Robert Weber, George Van Cleve, Gertrude Gove, Ken Scholen, John Koch, Tom Trisko, and...
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£25.19
The American City: A Documentary History
by Charles N. Glaab
Homewood,Illinois: Dorsey Press, 1967 Wear and creasing to the covers. Otherwise a clean text, free of markings. . Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket as Issued.
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£3.45
Edge City: Life on the New Frontier
by Garreau, Joel
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, & Auckland: Doubleday, 1991 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth spine with grey boards, gilt titles on spine, xiv, 546 pp, maps, bibliography, notes, index. One corner lightly bumped, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Joel Garreau coined the term "edge city" to give a name to the auto-dominated suburban business centers that contain more jobs than people; their population increases during...
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£26.00
Urbs Bamberga, et Abbates Montis Monachorum prope Bambergam, elegiaco versu descripti
by HOFMANN, Martin (1544-1599)
Nuremberg: Paul Kauffmann, 1595. 4to (198 x 140 mm). Collation: A-K8. [80] pp. Italic (text) and roman types (shoulder notes and preliminary verses), a few words in gothic and greek types, three full-page woodcut coats-of-arm within ornamental borders, woodcut title ornament, head- and tail-pieces and initials, two metalcut tailpieces, type-ornament section dividers. Light spotting to first and last few leaves, overall slight discoloration. Late 19th-century English tan calf, covers with central...
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£3,901.92
Denver: The Queen City of the Plains
Portland, Maine: L. H. Nelson Co.. Good. 1906. Softcover. Purple wrappers, title and decoration in gold on the front. 10" X 8 " : [38] pages. Missing the final page. Souvenir booklet of Denver featuring photographs of prominent buildings on each page with caption; at the center is a two page spread "Panoramic View of Denver." Photographs by Smith-Hassell Co. Damp stain affecting a few pages, front cover faded. .
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£12.19£8.54
Where the People Are: Cities and Their Future
by Gay, Kathlyn
New York: Delacorte Press, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Yellow cloth, red titles on spine, ix, 148 pp, bibliography, index. One corner bumped, plastic jacket cover is taped to paste-downs and boards, usual card pocket & library markings including "Withdrawn" stamp. DJ front flap corners trimmed off, class code sticker, rumpled at bumped corner & spine ends, but not torn, rubbed or faded. From the DJ: "...a lucid,...
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£20.31
The Urban Prospect
by Mumford, Lewis
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. White cloth, green & gold titles on spine, green endpapers, xx, 255 pp. Spots on spine and fore-edge, otherwise very good, slight soiling around edges, corners of rear board lightly bumped, scattered faint pencil marks. A nicely printed collection of articles on cities, originally published in various place from 1925-1968. Mumford does not mince words, as may be seen in the...
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£17.06
Little Town Blues: Voices from the Changing West
by Ringholz, Raye Carleson
Gibbs Smith, 1992. Softcover. Good. Good+. 1992 Gibbs Smith Publisher, Salt Lake City. SIGNED by author (first name only) on half-title page, with a personal inscription. First Edition, stated. First printing. Full number line on verso. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Softcover. Black and white plates. Photographs by K. C. Muscolino. 176 pages. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. There is a chip to the front cover near the spine and a stress crease across the spine at the same...
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£8.13
The Big Sur: Yesterday Today Tomorrow, A Guide to Highway One, from Monteray to Morro Bay
by White, Emil (Editor); Roberts, Patricia (Editor)
Big Sur Guide, 1954. Softcover. Good. Good. 1954 Big Sur Guide. Articles by Henry Miller, Evelyn Gail Gardiner, Jean Hersey, Florence Pfeiffer, Norman Mini, Lynda Sargent, Lillian Bos Ross, and Emil White. Oversized softcover, 9 x 12 inches, with stapled binding. Black, white, and blue covers; black & white photos throughout, by Wynn Bullock and others. 60 pages. NOT ex-library. Covers have moderate edge and surface wear. Spine edge is rubbed, but intact. Covers are discolored from age at the edges and...
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£60.97
Paris
by Edwards, George Wharton
The Penn Publishing Company, 1924. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good+ ; No jacket. 1924 The Penn Publishing Company. Oversize hardcover, 8.2 x 10.8 inches, has black textured cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering and decorations with a red, blue and gold shield. Top page edges are gilt. 24 color and 23 monochrome plates, each with a labeled tissue guard; all are illustrated by the author. 436 pages. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Covers have light surface and edge...
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£36.58
Better Transportation for Your City: A Guide to the Factual Development of Urban Transportation Plans
by National Committee on Urban Transportation
Chicago: Public Administration Service, 1958 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey cloth, red & black titles & decoration on front board & spine, xiv, 96 pp, 15 photos, 15 tables, 18 numbered & 2 unnumbered figures, index. Mimeographed list of Procedure Manuals published by Public Administration Service is laid in. Spatters (perhaps coffee) to title & last pages, some cockling to top corner of last few leaves, otherwise very good. Plain...
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£53.64
The World of Cities: Places in Comparative and Historical Perspective
by Orum, Anthony M. & Chen, Xiangming
Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing. 2003. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xi, 180pp. A concise, theoretical and empirical introduction to urban sociology. . 1st Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback.
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£13.06
Orange Township: Between the River & the Wooded Hills
by Litt, Vel
Arcadia Publishing, 2000. Softcover. Fine. Fine. 2000 Arcadia Publishing. Orange Township, Ohio. A volume of the Images of America series. Softcover. 128 pages. Black and white photographs and illustrations. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Appears to be unread. No visible wear to book. Pages clean and unmarked.
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£4.88
Man's Struggle for Shelter in an Urbanizing World
by Abrams, Charles
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full pale grey linen, blue titles on spine, xii, 307, [1] pp, 12 ff b & w photo plates, footnotes, index. One corner of fpd folded before trimming. This book is a distillation of findings from 14 reports for the United Nations on housing problems that Abrams wrote over about a decade in which he served in UN missions to Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First...
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£17.06
Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History
by Girouard, Mark
Yale University Press, 1987. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£5.37
Cities & People
by GIROUARD, Mark
London: Yale University Press, 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper.
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£28.45
