Search Results: Titles starting with T from modern-ISM

Barcelona: Dau al Set Galeria d'Art, 1986. First Edition . Wraps. Very Good. 4to. A crisp, clean copy with some light rubbing and cracked lower edge of spine.. 30 pp., 23 color and b&w plates, and exhibition checklist. Text in Spanish. Scarce.

London: Beaux Arts, 2000. First Edition . Wraps. Near Fine. 4to. Unpaginated (about 30 pp.), essay, exhibitions. Color opening announcement laid in. Shelf wear.

Harvard Univ Graduate School of, 1993. First Edition . Stiff Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. Foreword by Jose Rafael Moneo. Inscribed and dated by Mayne. First Edition. 4to. Spiral Bound Stiff Wrappers. Architecture Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued.. 72pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Designed by Anita Meyer. Published in conjunction with a 1989 Harvard University Graduate School of Design exhibition, this is thespiral bound monograph devoted to Morphosis principal architect Thom Mayne's "Sixth Street House" project. A handsome example of this uncommon item additionally inscribed and dated by Mayne on the first page. Owner's signature inside front cover. Bookstore sticker inside front cover.

U.S.A.: Historical Society of Southern California, 1992. Second Edition . Hardcover. Fine -/Very Good -. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 357 pp. Book has miniscule foxing at top, DJ has general rubbing, mainly on back, now in mylar cover.

University of California Press, 1944. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine. A crisp, clean Fine copy with owner's name and date in ink at top of front free end paper. No dust jacket. 49 pp., preface by William C. Hays, Professor of Architecture at UC-Berkeley, includes lectures titled "Architecture In a World Crisis; "Architecture Today"; and "Architecture In a Rebuilt World." 121 b&w thumbnail photo illustrations of work by Mendelsohn, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Richard Neutra, Alvar Aalto, Mies van der Rohe, Gerritt Reitveld, and others. Laid in are an excerpt from one of the three lectures "Architecture Today" clipped from an issue of Arts & Architecture where it was serialized in 1947; an unidentified residential project by Mendelsohn-Dinwiddie-Hill with photos of the three architects, a model of the house and a rendering from another issue of Arts & Architecture; and an article from the November 19, 1946 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle… Read More

Los Angeles: Enton Publishing, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Oblong 4to. Friedkin, Anthony (photographs). A crisp, clean, unread copy. Signed by Friedkin on the half title page. viii, [132] pp., 64 stunning high quality b&w plates, introduction by Julian Cox of the Getty Museum Department of Photography where 40 of Friedkin's prints reside, thumbnails and descriptions of plates, and chronology. Friedkin's images are also in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and San Francisco and Los Angeles County Mueum of Art collections. Gallery card from the Stephen Cohen Gallery November 13 - December 31, 2003 show "Anthony Friedkin: Timekeeper, A Thirty-Five Year Retrospective" and print price list laid in. Also inserted are copies of 11-30-2003 L.A. Times Magazine and a 3-12-2006 Los Angeles Times West Magazine feature articles on Friedkin.

New York: Lippincott, 1960. Thirteenth Impression . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good -. 8vo. Pulitzer Prize-winning book in a thirteenth printing. Light foxing, silverfish marks to edges, bumped spine edges and light fading. A few pages have small coffee spots. DJ is thirteenth printing with "The Pulitzer Prize Novel 1961"circle on cover. has some tears, small chips. DJ in protective mylar cover.

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1945. Third Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. A Very Good copy (owner's name in ink on front pastedown) in a Very Good mylar-protected dust jacket with a small piece missing from the crown of the spine. 214 pp., including a listing of architects and designers whose work appears in this book, and a listing of photographers whose pictures appear. A comprehensive room by room planning guide for designing a modern house using pictorial examples from the work of the period's leading modern architects. One of George Nelson's earliest books written as a consultant to the prestigious Architectural Forum Magazine and co-authored by Henry Wright, then managing editor. Some chipping to price-clipped DJ edges and top of book spine. Owner's bookplate on ffep, darkening to rear endpaper and pastedown, and light foxing to edges.

Memphis, TN: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 1989. First Edition . Wraps. Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A crisp, clean copy. 64 pp., profusely illustrated, essay by Phillip Dennis Cate, catalogue annotations by John E. Buchanan and Joseph M. Fury.

Automobile Club of Southern California, 1933. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. General overall wear. Splittting to top and bottom of spine, vertical crease in magazine likely when mailed. 42 pp, richly illustrated with articles Features include "Over the Sierra from Sequoia to Whitney"; "The Lure of the Verdant San Juans"; "When Kino led the Way to California"; "Television for the Home (is just around the corner)"; "Those Galapagos" and many more

Los Angeles: Automobile Club of Southern California. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 66 pp., Duncan Gleason painting of San Luis Rey Mission on the front cover, articles include "Cathedrals of the Wilderness" on the northern-most missions in Lower California by John S. Gorby, "Voyager Cook" by Hinda Teague Hill, "Days - and Nights - in Old Panamint" by Philip Johnston, "Antoine Robidoux, Southwestern Fur Trader" by Joseph J. Hill, "The Valley of the Monuments" by Bernice Eastman Johnston, "The High Priest of Flora" on Willis Linn Jepson by Harold D. Carew, "A Pageant of Tradition" by Junius Cravens on Maynard Dixon's mural for the California State Library in Sacramento and six historical murals of the Los Angeles Public Library by Albert Herter, "The House of the Frog Pond" by Marjorie T. Wolcott on Rancho Guajome, "Land of the Lei" by David Heenan, Jr., great period ads and much more. Chipping and… Read More

Getty Research Institute, 2007. Second Edition, First Printing . Illustrated Boards. As New. A crisp As New copy inscribed by noted architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen who also did the introduction. Translated from the original French by John Goodman. 341 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography and index.

Los Angeles: Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1979. First Edition . Wraps. Near Fine. 8vo. A crisp, clean copy with a tiny damp stain to the bottom corner of back cover and a tiny scrape at the bottom corner of front cover. 46p., 24 color photo plates. Detail catalog of 46 well described & illustrated items. Useful reference source. A very nice exhibition catalog, from the June 1979 show. It illustrates and covers some 48 individual items, with text.

Santa Fe, NM: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. Soft cover. Near Fine. A crisp, clean slightly soiled Near Fine copy. 57 pp., profusely illustrated, notes, exhibition list.

Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 399 pp. Text in Spanish. Version Castellana Mario Pittaluga. Preceded life of Leonardo, written by Giogrio Vasari , and the essay on Leonardo and philosopher, Paul Valery. Illustrated with fifty sheets in black, thirty eight and four in sepia colors. Beige cloth cover, lettering in red and gold gilt logo and spine lettering. Book tanned, foxed fore edges. Very rare to find this classic edition.

New York: Architectural Record, 1954. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Very Good/Very Good. A crisp, clean Very Good copy in a Very Good mylar-protected dust jacket. Small piece missing from crown of dust jacket. Owner's name and date in ink on ffep. 215 pp., profusely illustrated, index.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: New Directions, 1981. 5th Printing . Wraps. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Corr, Michael (illustrator). Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry for 1975.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1964. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 94 pp. 139 b/w photographic illustrations of instruments, buildings, towers, columns and roofs, vaults and domes, bridges, roads, tunnels, dams, spillways and earthworks. Introduction by Arthur Drexler. Edges has some silver fish damage. Creases in front and back upper corners. Insides clean and tight.

New York: Aperture, 2003. First Edition . Cloth. As New/As New. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A crisp As New copy in an As New mylar-protected dust jacket. The photographer's ninth collection and fifteenth book. Originally appeared as the Special Section of The New Yorker's Family Issue 2003. Together with Richard Avedon, Mary Ellen Mark is the resident photographer of the magazine. An austerely elegant production, beautifully designed by Wendy Byrne, printed and bound in Germany. Mustard cloth boards with deepgray embossed titles on spine, as issued. Foreword by Mary Ellen Mark. Interviews of the twins conducted, transcribed and excerpted by Mary Ellen Mark and appended at the end. 1-11-2004 L. A. Times interview with Mark on this book laid in.

Sydney: Horwitz, 1980. First Edition . Wraps. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 56 pp., Signed by Seidler on the half-title page. Fabulously illustrated. A must for completists of Seidler's work. Rubbed, general wear.