Category: Architecture

640 pages; thoroughly illustrated, b&w. "Founded in 1885, when architecture was an emerging profession and formal architectural education was in its infancy, the club provided a setting where aspiring draftsmen could develop their skills by creating a professional network." Clean throughout; tight binding. Small remainder dot on bottom edge.
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Gaudi

By: Hitchcock, Henry-Russell

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, The Museum of Modern Art : 1957

Seller ID: 001274

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

48 pages; 85 b&w illustrations. Clean and tight, about unblemished.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water: The House and Its History

By: Hoffmann, Donald; Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. (Introduction)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Dover : 1978

Seller ID: 001769

ISBN-13: 9780486236711

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

98 pages; 100 illustrations: most b&w photographs;, also reproductions of drawings, plans, etc. This was a new work published by Dover by arrangement with the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.
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The Fashionable Stone

By: Hudson, Kenneth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Park Ridge, New Jersey, Noyes Press : 1972

Seller ID: 003022

ISBN-13: 9780815550020

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

120 pages; b&w illustrations. The complete story of English limestone as a building stone.
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Creating the Cloisters

By: Husband, Timothy B.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art : 2015

Seller ID: 005326

ISBN-13: 9781588394880

Binding: Pictorial Wrappers (softcover)

Condition: Fine

48 pages; numerous illustrations. The well documented - archival photos, contemporary photos, maps, drawings - tale of the creation of the Cloisters. Loosely inserted is a brochure of the Gardens of the Cloisterd as well as papers listing plants in the Herb Garden and the Cuxa Cloister Garden (summer 2014). Clean throughout; tight binding.
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Architecture Anyone?

By: Huxtable, Ada Louise

Price: $13.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1986

Seller ID: 002123

ISBN-13: 9780394529097

Binding: quarter-cloth and paper boards

Condition: Very Good

345 pages; b&w illustrations. A collection of essays by this critic whose name is synonymous with architecture. She covers buildings, cities, people, history; enjoyments, etc.
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Architecture Anyone?

By: Huxtable, Ada Louise

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1988

Seller ID: 002915

ISBN-13: 9780520061958

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

345 pages; b&w illustrations. A collection of essays by this critic whose name is synonymous with architecture. She covers buildings, cities, people, history; enjoyments, etc.
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The Comforts of Home: The American House and the Evolution of Modern Convenience

By: Ierley, Merritt

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Three Rivers Press : 1999

Seller ID: 002172

ISBN-13: 9780609807521

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: As New

287 pages; numerous b&w illustrations. Household infrastructure: how it works and how it's changed. Science, technology, architecture, social, political and commercial affects.
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Modern Architecture - International Exhibition

By: Johnson, Philip; Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr.; Lewis Mumford; Alfred H. Barr, Jr.(Foreword)

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, Museum of Modern Art : 1932

Seller ID: 004439

ISBN: no

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

200 pages; well illustrated, black and white, throughout. Some say this exhibition was a "turning point" for American architecture, an enthusiastic showing of architecture designed by architects from sixteen countries, thus the International Style. Text focuses on nine. Ex Libris copy from a museum - not lending - library. Original wrappered volume bound in maroon cloth-covered boards. Embossed museum stamp appears on the front wrap, title page (cancelled) and on two other pages. Front and back panels of the original wraps are soiled; title page and next preliminary page are dusty; small-han...
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh

By: Kaplan, Wendy (Edited by)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York / Glasgow, Abbeville Press / Glasgow Museums : 1996

Seller ID: 004381

ISBN-13: 9781558597914

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

383 pages; 249 illustrations, color and b&w; 302 items in the Checklist of the Exhibition. A beautiful and informing book about Mackintosh, considered Scotland's greatest architect covering architecture, interior design, furniture design and production, painting and graphic artistry. We learn, too, about Mackintosh's collaborators, the Four. Clean and bright throuhgout; tight binding.
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Splendors of Christendom

By: Kessel, Dmitri; Henri Peyre (Commentary by)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Edita Lausanne : 1964

Seller ID: 003222

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

268 pages. More than 100 tipped-in color photographs; some nearly fill the 13-inch pages. Includes Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic, Baroque , Modern churches in Istanbul, Ravenna, Venice, Vezelay, Autun, Verona, Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe, Bourges, Ulm, Wells, Rome, Zweifalten, Plateau d'Assy, Coventry. Also includes plans and dimensions of each church; Chronological Chart. A beautifully produced book: clean and tight; very light wear to the boards at the edges; no observed flaws among the photographs.
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Early American Rooms: A Consideration of the Changes in Style between the Arrival of the Mayflower and the Civil War in the Regions Originally Settled by the Enaglish and the Dutch

By: Kettell, Russell Hawes (Editor); Frederick Lewis Allen; Elliot W. Bisbee; Joseph Everett Chandler; [et al.]

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Dover Publications : 1967

Seller ID: 003056

ISBN: 486-21633-0

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

200 pages; 72 illustrations, including 13 in color. An unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1936 by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press. A tour of twelve rooms that reveals "not only the rooms but the history, attitudes and biases, the entertainments and amusements, the architecture, the furniture style, and the mode of dress that characterize each period." Clean and tight showing very little wear.
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Old Brooklyn Heights - New York's First Suburb; Including Detailed Analyses of 619 Century-Old Houses

By: Lancaster, Clay

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Rutland, Vermont, Charles E. Tuttle : 1961

Seller ID: 003787

ISBN: no

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

183 pages; numerous b&w illustrations, including photographs; three-fold street map of the Heights showing all pre-Civil War buildings extant in 1960. The neighborhood just across the East River from lower Manhattan was New York City's "leading and fashionable residential district" prior to the Civil War period. It was laid out around 1814 and fully developed by 1860. Clean, tight and bright throughout; slight fade to the top edge of the front board; foldover ends of the dustjacket with blurbs are attached to the back endpapers.
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Aircraft

By: Le Corbusier

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, The Studio Ltd. : 1935

Seller ID: 004448

ISBN: no

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

16 pages followed by 124 b&w illustrations, most are photos. "Aircraft" was the publisher's title, Corbusier added his own, "L'avion accuse ..." "The airplane indicts". He loves the airplane for itself (form and function, material use) and as a metaphor for what it and its like will do for humanity. He extolls "The Birds-Eye View" of what man has created and what man must change. Clean throughout. The front free-endpaper is missing; its removal has caused the hinge to be roughened with some loss of paper over the hinge at the bottom. Also, the pastedown endpaper has some surface loss at a corn...
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The Decorative Art of Today

By: Le Corbusier; James I Dunnett (translated and introduced)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press : 1987

Seller ID: 002191

ISBN-13: 9780262121187

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

214 pages; numerous b&w illustrations. "The first English translation of Le Corbusier's densely illustrated polemic against the crafts tradition and superfluous ornament in interior decoration."-publisher
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Classic French Wrought Iron

By: Lecoq, Raymond; Richard J. Wattenmaker (Foreword); Gregory P. Bruhn (Translated by)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company : 2005

Seller ID: 005136

ISBN-13: 9780393731576

Binding: Blue paper covered boards

Condition: Fine

128 pages; densely illustrated in b&w. All manner of leafwork, grillework, hinges, handrails, balconies, ballustrades, locks, keys, bolts and more. Includes forge techniques well illustrated with variously shaped hammers and swages. Originally published in 1999 in Paris. Clean and bright throughout; tight binding.
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Chateaux de la Loire / Chateaux de la nuit

By: Levron, Jacques

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Np, Arthaud : 1954

Seller ID: 000828

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

50 pages plus 52 heliogravure plates and foldout map. Black and white photographs of chateaux illuminated at night. Previous owner's name in ink on front free endpaper; small chips to edge of covers; otherwise, clean and tight.
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American Country Houses of the Gilded Age (Sheldon's "Artistic Country-Seats")

By: Lewis, Arnold

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Dover : 1982

Seller ID: 001424

ISBN-13: 9780486243016

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

unpaginated; 100 houses illustrated in b&w and with text. This volume "a republication of all the illustrations from Artistic Country-Seats: Types of Recent American Villa and Cottage Architecture with Instances of Country Club-Houses, by George William Sheldon, published in 1886-1887." Text is entirely new. Clean and tight throughout.
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Coup d'OEil at Beloeil and a Great Number of European Gardens

By: Ligne, Charles-Joseph, Prince de; Basil Guy (Translated and Edited)

Price: $56.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1991

Seller ID: 001052

ISBN-13: 9780520046689

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine.

295 pages; 158 text illustrations. One of the Press' "Centennial Books", examples of the Press' "finest publishing and bookmaking traditions" celebrating the beginning of their second century. A beautiful printing of this classic on ecru paper using black and green inks, decorative endpapers, green cloth boards, gilt titles. Dustjacket lightly shelf-soiled.
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Category: Architecture