Hardcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent condition. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new. A magnificent volume, over 100 churches and temples presented, with 200 superb full-color and 50 black-and-white photographs, illustrating the diversity of this country's religious life.
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.
Softcover. Karl Robert Langewiesche, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A pictorial review of Germany's grandest Gothic churches, inside and out. 112 pages, paperback. German text. Record # 601839
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. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 78 pages of text followed by large section of black & white photographs illustrating cathedrals and churches of the Rhine region. Front endpaper missing. Dust jacket shows standard wear with slight age darkening along top edge. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press, 2nd Pr., 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 412 pages, hardcover. Covers have damaged corners, paper boards are otherwise clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is an English-language study on the architecture and art of medieval France, in the Romanesque and Gothic periods between 1000-1500 AD. Previous owner's signature is present on the front end page. This is a large-format volume, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34712
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. 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."
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. NY, Newsweek, Inc., 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 172 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some very minor discoloration on the rear. Covers and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color photography and illustrations throughout. This book is an illustrated history of the famous Gothic cathedral in Paris, which has been a center for important events and a masterpiece of architecture for more than eight hundred years. One of the "Wonders of Man" series, published by Newsweek. This is a large-form book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 33964
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. Paris, Henri Laurens, Editeur, 1st (?), 1925, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Poor, Guidebook about "L'Eglise de Brou" a famous church in France. 40 gravures, 1 plan of the church and artwork within. Cover nearly detached. Internally Very Good. Previous owner's note (neatly 1 1/2 lines) on half title. 2 contemporary sepia postcards of paintings of historical figures associated with De Brou (the duke and duchess of Savoie, Philibert Le Beau and Marguerite d'Autriche laid-in. Frontis is a floorplan of the chruch. Part of series, "Petites Monographies des Grands Edifices de la France. French language. Record # 125619
Hardcover. London, Elek, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 537 pages, illustrated throughout with 420 plates, including 86 in full color. Very large, heavy book. Light edgewear, rubbing and de-lamination to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Vendome Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. Color photographs. Price-clipped dust jacket shows sun fading on spine. Tight copy.
Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.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
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. 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".
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.
Boston, Boston Univ. Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of essays, color photos on stained glass window art located in various chapels. 207 pages.
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