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Architectural Life, An: Memoirs & Memories of Charles W. Moore


Keim, Kevin P.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 291 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Remainder line bottom edge.

Record # 602994


Price: $35.00 

 

At Home on the Prairie: The Houses of Purcell & Elmslie


Legler, Dixie; Korab, Christian

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with color pictures throughout.

Record # 2233373


Price: $23.00 

 

Autobiography, An - Frank Lloyd Wright


Wright, Frank Lloyd

Hardcover. New York, Horiaon Press, Reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 620 pages. Hardcover. Facsimile page of Frank Lloyd Wright's handwriting & revisions to text endpapers. Dust jacket with light toning & small tears to edges. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750455


Price: $25.00 

Boston Bohemia: 1881-1900 Ralph Adams Cram: Life and ArchitectureShand-Tucci, Douglass

Boston Bohemia: 1881-1900 Ralph Adams Cram: Life and Architecture


Shand-Tucci, Douglass

Softcover. Amherst, Mass, University of Massachusetts Press , reprint, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 569 pages. B&w frontispiece and b&w images throughout. Some fading to spine. Corners of front cover are creased. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855852


Price: $15.00 

 

Bucky: A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller


Kenner, Hugh

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 2nd pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages, b&w illustrations, lovely copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 401986


Price: $40.00 

 

Busiest Man in England, The: A Life of Joseph Paxton, Gardener, Architect & Victorian Visionary


Colquhoun, Kate

Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st US, July 1, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages, b&w and color illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 452641


Price: $20.00 

 

Charles Baillairge: Architect & Engineer


Cameron, Christina

Hardcover. Montreal, McGill-Queens Univ., 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 201 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 52033


Price: $9.00 

 

Charles Reilly & the Liverpool School of Architecture 1904-1933


Sharples, Joseph

Paperback. Liverpool, Liverpool University Press , 1st wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. Paperback catalog for a 1997 exhibition. Black & white photography.

Record # 204819


Price: $20.00 

 

Charles Reilly & the Liverpool School of Architecture 1904-1933


Sharples, Joseph

Paperback. Liverpool, Liverpool University Press , 1st wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. Paperback catalog for a 1997 exhibition. Black & white photography.

Record # 204818


Price: $20.00 

Clearing in the Distance - Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century, ARybczynski, Witold

Clearing in the Distance - Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century, A


Rybczynski, Witold

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 480 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613139


Price: $25.00 

 

Collections of the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum, The


Ketchum, Jr., William C.

Softcover. Rochester, Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum; includes biography of the museum and photographs of decorative arts, furniture, arts and crafts, and other collectibles. 66 pages; in both color and black & white. In very good condition.

Record # 401093


Price: $10.00 

 

Deutschland in den Grenzen vor 1937


Siegner, Otto and Dr. Adrian Mohr

Hardcover. Munchen, Ludwig Simon, 1st, nd(early 1960s), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Vintage (pre- World War II) b&w photographs of German towns, landscapes. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Nice in a dust jacket with a cardboard box.

Record # 601836


Price: $8.00 

 

Famous Sculptors of America


McSpadden, J. Walker

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. 16 full color reproductions of family members in Colonial costumes. Intact and very clean.

Record # 805130


Price: $22.00 

 

Frank Lloyd Wright - A Biography


Secrest, Meryle

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, Reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 634 pages. Softcover. Copious illustrations in black & white throughout. Minimal, light shelf wear to covers, crease to rear cover. Clean & unmarked. A nice copy.

Record # 750414


Price: $13.00 

 

Frank Lloyd Wright: A Visual Encyclopedia


Thomson, Iain

Hardcover. London, England, PRC Publishing Ltd., 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations throughout. Glossy decorated cover boards. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, wrapped in protective, clear-plastic brodart.. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf bottom. Binding tight, spine straight. Some minor moisture staining to edges and endpapers, doesn't affect inside pages, illustrations or text. Provides a fascinating and comprehensive guide to Wright's life and times, features over 1,000 stunning photographs.

Record # 32291


Price: $25.00 

 

Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect - An Illustrated Biography


Boulton, Alexander O./Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

Hardcover. New York, NY, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover profusely illustrated in full color & black & white. Majority of photographs provided by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Dust jacket with only light, marginal wear to edges. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 6670030


Price: $15.00 

 

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: HIS LIFE AND HIS ARCHITECTURE


Twombly, Robert C.

Hardcover. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 444 pages. Profusely illustrated throughout text with over 150 b/w photographs of Wright's personal life, his architectural works and genius, schematic drawings, extensive footnotes, and the most exhaustive bibliography of Wright's published books available. Pages are clean and bright. Light browning on top edge of text block. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Spine slightly cocked. Minor wear to top and bottom of spine. Color pictorial dust jacket with minor edgewear, one large chip at bottom of spine. B/W photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright on back cover. Lightly toned.

Record # 220694


Price: $16.00 

 

Gleanings from Old Shaker Journals


Sears, Clara Endicott

Hardcover. Meriden, CONNECTICUT, The Meriden Gravure Company , Reprint, 1959, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 298 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue cloth with white title to spine, no dust jacket. Very nice copy. Like new.

Record # 805677


Price: $19.00 

Great and the Gracious on Millionaire's Row, The: Lake George in its GloryO'Brien, Kathryn E

Great and the Gracious on Millionaire's Row, The: Lake George in its Glory


O'Brien, Kathryn E

Hardcover. US, North County Books, reprint , 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 278 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Wrinkling to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466965


Price: $13.00 

 

Gropius: An Illustrated Biography of the Creator of the Bauhaus


Isaacs, Reginald

Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages, b&w illustrations. Like-new.

Record # 512049


Price: $50.00 

I.M. Pei: Manadrin of ModernismCannell, Michael

I.M. Pei: Manadrin of Modernism


Cannell, Michael

Hardcover. New York , Carol Southern Books, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 402 pages, b&w illustrations. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 407382


Price: $31.00 

 

Le Corbusier in America: Travels in the Land of the Timid


Bacon, Mardges

Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 406 pages, b&w illustrations.

Record # 512055


Price: $55.00 

 

Le Corbusier, The Noble Savage - Toward an Archeology of Modernism


Vogt, Adolf Max

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, MIT, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 365 pages, illustrated in b&w. Translation by Radka Donell.

Record # 1035


Price: $25.00 

 

Life of Georgio Vasari, The: A Study of the Later Renaissance in Italy


Carden, Robert W.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Henry Holt & Co., First Edition, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 365 pages. Gilt top edge. Bright gilt decoration to front cover board. Faded gilt titles to spine. Crack to front half title page but the binding is very tight throughout. Wonderful illustrations in black & white with no markings. Faint toning to pages throughout. Maroon coloured boards with light wear to edges, light wear to crown & heel of spine. Clean pages, some uncut.

Record # 751576


Price: $75.00 

 

Louis Sullivan: The Shaping of American Architecture


Connely, Willard

Hardcover. New York, Horizon Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 322 pages, b&w illustrations. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket with light edgewear, rubbing.

Record # 405136


Price: $25.00 

Man About Town: Frank Lloyd Wright in New York CityMuschamp, Herbert

Man About Town: Frank Lloyd Wright in New York City


Muschamp, Herbert

hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, reprint, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 214 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Dust jacket price clipped. Foxing to dust jacket interior. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 469587


Price: $13.00 

 

Mr. Jefferson Architect (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Guinness, Jr. Desmond; Trousdale Sadler, Julius

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY DESMOND GUINNESS on TITLE PAGE with INSCRIPTION "My Thanks!" Otherwise, a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230261


Price: $38.00 

New York apartments: private viewsGregory, Jamee

New York apartments: private views


Gregory, Jamee

hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color photographs throughout. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Illustrated title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469583


Price: $25.00 

On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher WrenJardine, Lisa

On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren


Jardine, Lisa

Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 624 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Small stains to dust jacket front. An otherwise clean copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Color images throughout.

Record # 471483


Price: $15.00 

 

Pritzker Architecture Prize - 1991 - Robert Venturi - Formal Presentation Palacio de Iturbide, Mexico City, Mexico - May 16, 1991, The


Hyatt Foundation

Softcover. Los Angeles, Jensen & Walker, Inc., 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Softcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 613253


Price: $31.00 

 

Pritzker Architecture Prize - 1992 - Sir Norman Foster, The


Hyatt Foundation

Softcover. Los Angeles, Jensen & Walker, Inc., 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Softcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 613257


Price: $31.00 

 

Pritzker Architecture Prize - 1993 - Fumihiko Maki, The


Hyatt Foundation

Softcover. Los Angeles, Jensen & Walker, Inc., 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Softcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 613255


Price: $31.00 

 

Pritzker Architecture Prize - 1994 - Christian De Portzamparc, The


Hyatt Foundation

Softcover. Los Angeles, Jensen & Walker, Inc., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 613254


Price: $31.00 

 

Pritzker Architecture Prize - 1995 - Tadao Ando, The


Hyatt Foundation

Softcover. Los Angeles, Jensen & Walker, Inc., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Softcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 613259


Price: $38.00 

 

Pritzker Architecture Prize 1989 Frank Owen Gehry - Formal Presentation Todai-ji Buddhist Temple, Nara, Japan - May 18, 1989, The


Hyatt Foundation

Softcover. Chicago, Hyatt Foundation, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Softcover. Illustrated with full color photographs. Minor darkening to bottom 1/3 of front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 613252


Price: $31.00 

 

Raymond Loewy: (Designs Heroes)


Jodard, Paul, Martin Pawley (Series Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Taplinger Publishing, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Fuchsia cover boards, gilt title on spine. Beautiful copy. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages and edges clean and bright. Looks nearly new and barely read. Jodard restates the case for Loewy as a heroic figure in American design and in the development of the design profession.

Record # 32122


Price: $19.00 

 

Speer: The Final Verdict


Fest, Joachim

Softcover. Mariner Books, 1st thus, November 10, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 419 pages. Light shelf-wear, scuffing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458302


Price: $13.00 

 

Thomas Archer: Architect of the English Baroque.


Whiffen, Marcus

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages. Red cloth cover, gilt lettering on spine, and no visible wear. Dust jacket has some fading to corners and edges. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Inside is bright and clean, with many b&w illustrations, photographs and blueprints throughout.

Record # 852690


Price: $12.00 

 

Wadsworth-Longfellow House, The


Goold, Nathan

Softcover. Portland, Maine Historical Society, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The Wadsworth-Longfellow House was the childhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In 1963, it was designated as a National Historic Landmark. 44 pages, black and white photographs of the home. Originally published in 1908. Included are 6 color postcards. Very good condition.

Record # 806130


Price: $25.00 

 

William Morris: His Life, Work and Friends


Henderson, Philip, Allan Temko (Forward)

Hardcover. New York, NY, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 388 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. With 82 b/w illustrations and 8 color plates. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear (see image). Decorated cover boards. Pages slightly tanned, edges have light foxing. No rips. Binding tight. Spine straight. In very good condition. Very attractive old book. Henderson is the editor of the Morris family letters and has written the first full-length portrait of Morris since Mackail's heavily censored 'official biography' of 1899.

Record # 32192


Price: $23.00 

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