Category: Architecture

Gothic Revival

By: Aldrich, Megan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Phaidon Press : 1994

Seller ID: 005086

ISBN-13: 9780714836317

Binding: Card Wrappers (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

240 pages; numerous color and b&w illustrations. While easily associated with 'church architecture' the book " concentrates on the domestic forms of the style, from its use in castles and country houses to its influence on villas and cottages from the old world to the New World". Clean and bright throughout; tight binding.
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

By: Alexander, Christopher; Sara Ishikawa; Murray Silverstein; [et al]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press : 1977

Seller ID: 004687

ISBN-13: 9780195019193

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

1171 pages; b&w illustrations. A discussion of patterns affecting far more than a building's design, but that also. Rather, the patterns of daily life and how best to preserve or dseign new patterns for humanity's gratification. Text block clean and tight; endpapers show some damping that has not migrated inside; binding tight; boards clean; dustjacket soiled.
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Looking for History in British Churches

By: Anderson, M.D.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1951

Seller ID: 003021

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

328 pages; b&w illustrations, including photographs.
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Architecture in New York, a Photographic History

By: Andrews, Wayne

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Icon/Harper & Row : 1973

Seller ID: 002542

ISBN: 064300420

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

190 pages; 255 b&w photographs. The architecture of New York State.
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Back to the People: An Integrated Development Plan for the Rejuvenation of Old Dublin

By: Anonymous

Price: $22.00

Publisher: South Inner City Community Development Association : 1989

Seller ID: 003926

ISBN: no

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

50 pages; numerous illustrations. The redevelopment plan for the inner city Dublin neighborhoods known as Medieval Dublin and Liberties. Clean throughout. Photocopies of newspaper articles from the Irish Times library loosely laid in.
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Glasgow, Richard Drew Publishing : 1987

Seller ID: 004411

ISBN-13: 9780862671914

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

96 pages; a wealth of illustrations, color and b&w, including many photographs. The Mackintosh House; the Glasgow School of Art; the Hill House; the Tea Rooms; Queen's Cross Church; Scotland Street School. Chronological Table; Bibliography; Buildings Open to the Public. Loosely laid-in is a multi-panel pamphlet, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, His Buildings In & Around Glasgow. Book and pamphlet clean throughout; tight binding.
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Las Murallas Romanas de la Ciudad

By: Anonymous

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Ayuntamiento de Barcelona : 1958

Seller ID: 004231

ISBN: no

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

not paginated but 30 pages each with b&w illustrations, usually photographs. Clean throughout, tight binding; the cover panels are torn across the top with some material lost; previous owner's name on the first page.
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What is Modern Architecture?

By: Anonymous

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Museum of Modern Art : 1942

Seller ID: 003905

ISBN: no

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

36 pages; 78 b&w images. The first publication, 1, in the Introductory Series to the Modern Arts. Clean throughout, pages lightly age darkened; wear to the corners of the wrappers.
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World Architecture. No. 20, November 1992

By: Anonymous

Price: $16.00

Publisher: London, Cheerman Ltd : 1992

Seller ID: 002506

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

96 pages. Memoirs of Pierre Vago; Biographical sketch of Vago; archive of Vago projects. Also, The Miracle of Jena, geodesic domes predating Buckminster Fuller. Carl Zeiss works; Cranfield; Young Rio architects; Sandy Brown Associates..
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Painted Ladies, San Francisco's Resplendent Victorians

By: Baer, Morley (Photographs); Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen (Text)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton : 1978

Seller ID: 004153

ISBN-13: 9780525475231

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

80 pages; dozens of color photos: Pacific Heights; The Western Addition; Haight Ashbury and Noe Valley; The Mission District and Potrero Hill. Clean throughout.
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Art Nouveau in Prague

By: Balajka, Petr

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ASCO d.i. PRAHA

Seller ID: 003671

ISBN-13: 9788085377095

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

c.1990. Unpaginated but 32 pages. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. A concise survey of Art Nouveau in Europe and in Prague specifically. Attention is directed to the architecture, architectural decoration and sculpture. An easy-to-carry and informative guide for the tourist. Clean throughout. English text.
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The Cloisters / The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

By: Barnard, George Grey

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art : 1979

Seller ID: 001808

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Good

52 pages, generously illustrated in color and in b&w. MMA Bulletin Summer 1979. Clean but a 2-inch clean cut as with a razor to the front cover and the first two leaves; repaired with tape.
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Saulieu of the Morvan. The Tuilleries Brochures, Volume IV, Number 1, January 1932

By: Belloc, Hilaire

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, Ludowici-Celadon Company : 1932

Seller ID: 004847

ISBN: no

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

pp. 98-112; b&w photo-illustrations. The Brochures, a series of monographs on European architecture. Essay and photographs of buildings, views and architectural details in Saulieu, Cote d'Or, France, "Public Pump at Saulieu (Cote d"Or)" is accompanied by an architectural scale plan and elevation drawing.. Clean throughout; tight binding; wrappers are age faded and rubbed along edges.
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Manhattan Architecture

By: Berenholtz, Richard (Photographs); Ellen Posner (Introduction); Donald Martin Reynolds (Text)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Prentice Hall : 1988

Seller ID: 002079

ISBN-13: 9780135519875

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

256 pages; numerous color photographs of Manhattan buildings, closeups of decorative details, great rooms and other indoor spaces; a gorgeous book.
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Philip Johnson

By: Blake, Peter

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Basel, Switzerland, Birkhauser Verlag AG : 1996

Seller ID: 000488

ISBN-13: 9783764353933

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine.

254 pages; over 100 projects are illustrated. Format is catalogue: each building illustrated with an adjoining full entry describing it. Preceding that is a 20 page introduction. Text simultaneously in German and English.
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The New Japanese Architecture

By: Bognar, Botond; John Morris Dixon (Introduction); Hajime Yatsuka and Lynne Breslin (Essays)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Rizzoli : 1990

Seller ID: 002453

ISBN-13: 9780847812257

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

224 pages; numerous illustrations displaying the work of 23 architects preceded by two essays.
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Exploring Parish Churches

By: Bonham-Carter, Victor

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul : 1961

Seller ID: 004957

ISBN: no

Binding: Maroon cloth

Condition: Fine

214 pages; numerous drawings, some b&w photo plates. The evolution of the parish church in England from the time of Christianity arrival through Saxon, Norman, Gothic, Reformation and Renaissance, Classical, Georgian and Victorian, then since 1900. A small section at the back includes comments on "church appurtanances" including, altar, linens, vessels, candles, etc. Light pencil mark on front endpaper, otherwise clean throughout; tight binding.
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The Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi - Glory and Destruction

By: Bonsanti, Giorgio; Stephen Sartarelli (translated from the Italian by)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams : 1997

Seller ID: 002936

ISBN-13: 9780810927674

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

100 pages; 69 color photographs; drawings and floor-plan diagrams. The earthquake of September 26, 1997, which caused devastating damage to the Basilica. The photographer, Ghigo Roli was completing photographing the interior of the Upper Basilica when the earthquake struck once, then again, then again. The third tremor brought down a main vault and destroyed other frescoes. Roli's diary of the tremors is printed.
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The Building of The Vatican: The Papacy and Architecture / The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

By: Boorsch, Suzanne

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art : 1982

Seller ID: 004197

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good.

64 pages; well illustrated. MMA Bulletin Winter 1982/83. Clean and tight, nearly as new.
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An Analysis of Gothic Architecture - New Edition - 2 Volumes

By: Brandon, Raphael and J. Arthur

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, John Grant : 1903

Seller ID: 003206

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

"Illustrated by a Series of Upwards of Seven Hundred Examples of Doorways, Windows, Mouldings, Roofs, Arches, Crosses, Panels, Butresses, Seats, Screens, Etc., and Accompanied with Remarks on the Several Details of an Ecclesiastical Edifice." Vol. 1, 120 pages of text, including Index to Churches Referred to and Index to Illustrations followed by plates. Vol. 2, entirely plates, not paginated. The cloth of both volumes is heavily worn at the joints, probably from rubbing along the desktop; the joints, themselves, and the hinges are strong. Corners are also worn. Pages are well-bound: tight an...
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Category: Architecture