Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ex-library with minor markings to end papers. Many black & white plates, 342 pgs. spine with tear at top edge otherwise a sound, internally clean copy.
Softcover. Milano, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 498 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped. Some age yellowing to dust jacket and text pages. Illustration pages still bright white. Covers/spine show a touch of foxing. In very good condition.
Paris, Henri Laurens, 1st , n.d. (circa 1910), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A 136 page monograph (from a series) on the cathedral at Reims. 44 black & white photos, double page plan. With a number of clippings tipped-in & laid-in about the edifice, including its destruction in WW I by the German army. 1914 dated on title page.
Hardcover. Parma, Universita di Parma Istituto di Storia Dell'Arte, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 607 pages. Hardcover INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page, Italian text, stamped 684 of 1000 printed. Front hinge tender. Bright blue cloth with white printed titles to spine. Over 900 plates in b/w & architectural drawings. Dust jacket with light sunfade & shelf wear. Bright clean copy.
Hardcover. Odeon, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 515 pgs. Hardcover. Extensive color photographs throughout Gilt titles on spine. Photo captions in multiple languages. Includes fold out map of archeological sites of Czechoslovakia. Includes extensive chronology. Edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Rose colored fabric covering. In great shape, clean inside and out. From the front flap: "The fascinating story of the missions of North America traces the long trail of 'the friars (who) went forth from Catholic Europe to gain converts among the American Indians...to colonize America for Spain and thereafter to deny its riches to any other Power.' The missions themselves represent a unique example of building on a frontier, memorializing a 'grand endeavor': the westward extension of the great Crusades to the East."
New York , Orion Press, 1st U.S., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages. 177 B&W illustrations. Light rubbing to dust jacket, especially spine.
Hardcover. Munich, Germany, International Publishing Company, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in maroon cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket excellent. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. A hundred monasteries, some much visited, others hidden jewels, are presented here in words and pictures. Over 270 illustrations.
Hardcover. Boston, The Christian Science Publishing Society, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 85 pages, color frontispiece, b&w photographs. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Green and black covers with gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Rough-cut edges. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 291 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners bookplate on front endpaper. Text in English and Spanish. Dust jacket shows wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Paris, Zodiaque, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 341 pages plus index. Color, b&w gravure photographs, plans of churches, cathedrals, abbeys and monasteries in France. Text in French. Ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. Rutland, VT, The Tuttle Publishing Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 171 pages. B&W illustrations throughout. Orange boards with slight fraying to spine and edges. Soiling to all edges. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, Reprint, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 208 pages text followed by 44 plates in black & white & an additional 21 pages of architectural drawings. Frontis illustration, Santiago Cathedral, Spain 1078-c. 1145 in bw. Foldout maps in bw, tipped in. Light foxing to preliminary pages, endpapers & edges. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, The Saint Andrew Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 94 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering on spine, minor wear to corners and edges. Dust jacket has some foxing on back, and fraying on corners and edges. Inside is bright and clean with b&w photographs throughout.
Hardcover. SCOTLAND, Harmony, REPRINT, 1986, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate and signature on end paper. Color pictures. Cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine and front. one inch long abrasion on rear cover, top with tape repair to dust jacket on that spot. Otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with minor wear and light tanning to dust jacket.
Softcover. New York, Quick Fox, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages, illustrated throughout n color and b&w. Foreword by Terence Cardinal Cooke, introduction by Brendan Gill. Light wear to pictorial stiff wrappers and spine, else a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages, plus b&w plates. Dark mauve cloth cover with gilt titles to spine, color illustrated endpapers, 4 b&w figures throughout text, 4 full page color plates, 161 b&w plates at end of text. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Panteon Bollingen Foundation Series, 2nd, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 278 pages. Bollingen Series XLVIII. Tipped-in color plates, b/w images throughout, gilt titles and decoration on spine, gilt decoration on front board. Blue top edge lightly faded. Some wear to dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean inside. Content: "...von Simson undertakes an interpretation of the Gothic cathedral as an image of supernatural reality".
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, First Edition, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 364 pages. Hardcover with maps to endpapers. Frontis illustration, Chateau of Beynac, on the Dordogne, in black & white, over 190 photographs throughout, beautifully presented to accompany text. Publisher's navy cloth boards with gilt illustration & gilt titles to cover & spine. Gilt is faded to spine edge. Tight copy, clean & unmarked with light, natural toning to edges as would be expected for its age. A nice copy.
hardcover. Vatican City, Vatican Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 121 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket. Several light bumps to boards top and bottom edges.
Softcover. Washington, D.C., The Octagon, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Light blue stapled covers with monotone illustration, introduction by Richard T. Feller, foreword by Herbert E. Striner, 7 full page b&w plates, checklist of objects on loan from Washington Cathedral, glossary. Record # 806403
Softcover. New York, Harper Collins, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, New York, Harper Collins, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: None, 357 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.. 370 pages. Record # 467444 Record # 467444
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