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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 

 

Recording Historic Buildings


McKee, Harley J.

Hardcover. Washington DC, U. S. Department of the Interior, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages. Hardcover. Full page, black & white illustrations throughout, including measured drawings, photographs. Off white canvas boards with light toning. Toning to preliminary pages. Otherwise, clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Record # 750184


Price: $15.00 

 

Report of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department 1884


Bell, M. E.

Hardcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1884, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 text pages plus many engraved plates of government buildings, each with a tissue guard. Brown cloth covers with gilt type on front.

Record # 502304


Price: $70.00 

 

Restorations of Classical Buildings


Stevens, Gorham Phillips

Softcover. Princeton NJ, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Revised Ed., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Second Edition, enlarged with two extra b&w plates (22 total), gray paper wrappers. Clean, light bumps to corners.

Record # 406271


Price: $15.00 

 

Reusing Railroad Stations, Book Two: A Report from Educational Facilities Laboratories and the National Endowment for the Arts


Educational Facilities Laboratories

Softcover. New York, NY, Educational Facilities Laboratories, Inc., 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of uses of old railroad stations; glossy white covers, minor scratches. Paper wrappers. Numerous b/w plates, in various cities, of railroad stations put to new use. Extensive text is divided by use of station and city. 59 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 808437


Price: $12.00 

 

Richard Haas: Architectural Projects 1974-1988


Filler (essay), Martin

Softcover. New York and Chicago, Brooke Alexander and Rhona Hoffman Gallery, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32-page, staple-bound pamphlet. Exhibition catalog. Mostly black-and-white illustrations, with eight in color. Light shelf- and edge-wear. Nice, unmarked copy.

Record # 856605


Price: $15.00 

 

Savannah Revisited - History, Architecture, Restoration


Lane, Mills

Hardcover. Savannah, Beehive Press, 3rd, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 214 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Illustrated with black & white photographs and reproductions relating to the architecture and history of Savannah, Georgia. Clean, Tight copy.

Record # 603639


Price: $38.00 

 

Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy


Quigley, David

Hardcover. US, Hill and Wang, BC Ed., 2003-01-16, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages, b&w photos. Light sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465870


Price: $13.00 

 

Shaping a Nation: Twentieth Century American Architecture and Its Makers


Wiseman, Carter

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 412 pages, illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456480


Price: $20.00 

 

Shingle Styles. Innovation and tradition in American architecture, 1874 to 1982


Roth, Leland M

Hardcover. US, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1999-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462263


Price: $38.00 

 

Small Towns Book, The


Robertson, James/Carolyn Robertson

Softcover. Garden City, Anchor Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Some small spots of price sticker residue on upper right corner of front cover. Remainder spray on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609150


Price: $20.00 

 

Some Historic Houses: Their Builders and Their Places in History


Fitzpatrick (ed.), John C.

Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering, color dust jacket, upwards of 50 b&w plates. Light foxing to dust jacket, light chipping and wear to dust jacket edges, previous owner's inscription to endpaper; overall a tight, clean copy.

Record # 806351


Price: $18.00 

 

Southern Architecture - 350 Years of Distinctive American Buildings


Severens, Kenneth

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with short tears along top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610227


Price: $15.00 

 

Speaking a New Classicism: American Architecture Now


Smith College Museum of Art

Paperback. Northampton, MA, Smith College Museum of Art, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edge wear, previous price sticker on back cover; else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 808855


Price: $15.00 

 

Springboard in the Pond, The: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool


Van Leeuwen, Thomas A.P.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1st Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cover boards bound in teal cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean and bright. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new and barely read. Van Leeuwen Explores the human relationship to water from a variety of viewpoints: social, religious, artistic, sexual, psychological, technical, and above all, architectural.

Record # 32300


Price: $25.00 

 

St. Patrick's Cathedral - A Centennial History


Cook, Leland

Paperback. NY, Quick Fox, 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pgs. Foreword by Terence Cardinal Cooke, Intro by Brendan Gill. Color, black & white illustrations. Slight curling to front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 105010


Price: $15.00 

The Houses We live In: An Identification Guide to the History and Style of American Domestic ArchitectureHowe (ed.), Jeffrey
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The Houses We live In: An Identification Guide to the History and Style of American Domestic Architecture


Howe (ed.), Jeffrey

Hardcover. California, Thunder Bay Press, 3rd, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 448 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Dust Jacket lightly yelowed. Very clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap, "...a comprehensive guide to the ways we have designed our living spaces."

Record # 30204


Price: $38.00 

 

The Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia


Kimball, Fiske

New York, F.W. Dodge, reprint, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 458 pages. Black & white photographs. Front hinge cracked.

Record # 204338


Price: $15.00 

 

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello


Malone, Dumas (Foreword), Robert Llewellyn (Photography), Charles Granquist (Commentary)

Hardcover. Charlottesville, VA, Thomasson-Grant, Inc, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in dark blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Binding tight, pages clean. Spine straight. An intimate look at Thomas Jefferson's home and final resting place, complete with floor plan.

Record # 32324


Price: $15.00 

 

Three Centuries of Notable American Architects


Thorndike, Jr, Joseph J. & Vincent Scully

Hardcover. New York, American Heritage Publishing Company, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 348 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Pictorial black slip case, no dust jacket. Light wear to slip case, book spine slightly sunned, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606349


Price: $70.00 

 

Tidewater Maryland Architecture and Gardens


Forman, Henry Chandlee

Hardcover. New York, Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated cover boards, Black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Decorated endpapers. Dust jacket price clipped, has some age tanning and wear about the edges. Pages also have a touch of tanning. In great shape for its age. "In a series of concise monographs on Tidewater Maryland's buildings and gardens, classified regionally, Dr. Forman shows the beauty of a time and place which are sadly changed and have very nearly vanished." Illustrated by author.

Record # 31623


Price: $25.00 

 

Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon


Sagalyn, Lynne B.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1st edition, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 620 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Red endpapers. Cover boards bound in black cloth, red title on spine. Pages and edges clean and bright. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new. Sagalyn debunks the myth of an overnight urban miracle performed by Disney and Mayor Giuliani, to tell the far more complex and commanding tale of a twenty-year process of public controversy, nonstop litigation, and seemingly interminable delay.

Record # 32328


Price: $23.00 

 

Treasury of Early American Homes, A


Pratt, Richard

NY, Whittlesay House, unknown, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many color photos. 136 pages.

Record # 65299


Price: $25.00 

 

Treasury of Great American Houses, A


Williams, Henry Lional and Ottalie K.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 400 black & white, 47 color photos. 295 pages. Light foxing to endpapers and on top edge of pages. Dust jacket with tape repaired tears on back of jacket and rubbing/ small tears at top of spine. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 69314


Price: $25.00 


  
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