Category: Architecture

American Interiors, New England and the South

By: Peirce, Donald C.; Hope Alswang

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum : 1983

Seller ID: 004955

ISBN-13: 9780872730953

Binding: Card Wrappers (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

64 pages; color and b&w illustrations. The various period rooms installed at the Brooklyn Museum. Twenty-eight rooms ranging from a 1675 Dutch house from Flatlands, Brooklyn to a 1928 Art Deco library from a New York Park Avenue apartment. This book is limited to rooms from New England and the South. All are 18th-century, the last crossing into the 19th-century. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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The House with Sixteen Handmade Doors

By: Petroski, Henry

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company : 2014

Seller ID: 005130

ISBN-13: 9780393242041

Binding: Paper boards

Condition: Fine

297 pages; b&w photo-illustrations. The history of a handbuilt house on Arrowsic Island, Maine; the story authored by an engineer of more than a dozen books who has been called the poet-laureate of engineering. Clean and bright throughout; tight binding.
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The Sistine Chapel

By: Pittaluga, Mary

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Roma, Edizioni Del Drago : 1960

Seller ID: 000424

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good.

56 pages. Clean and tight; light wear to spine and wrappers..
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Persian Architecture: The Triumph of Form and Color

By: Pope, Arthur Upham

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, George Braziller : 1965

Seller ID: 001987

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

288 pages; 404 illustrations, 33 color. Persian architecture as a fine art tracing its history and development, meanngs and importance of forms and colors. The book was completed when the country was under the rule of Reza Shah at which time non-Muslims were permitted access to previously prohibited sanctified sites.
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A Treasury of Early American Homes

By: Pratt, Richard

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill : 1949

Seller ID: 002408

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

136 pages; filled with color photography. Houses in New England, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Louisiana. Originally appeared in installments in the Ladies' Home Journal. Clean and tight: pages are fresh and bright, boards are lightly worn.
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The English Country Town

By: Quiney, Anthony

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Thames & Hudson : 1987

Seller ID: 001367

ISBN-13: 9780500014059

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine.

192 pages; thoroughly illustrated in color. More than fifty towns in every corner of England are visited.
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Glory in Glass: Stained Glass in The United States.: Origins, Variety, and Preservation

By: Raguin, Virginia Chieffo

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, The Gallery at the American Bible Society : 1998

Seller ID: 005089

Binding: Pictorial Wrappers (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

243 pages; numerous illustrations, All manner of information: structure, conservation, style, creativity, experiences, who, where, how. Extensive bibliographies and checklists. Clean throughout, no markings or tears; tight binding. Covers are rubbed at the edges and worn at a corner.
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A First Book of Architecture, a Brief Survey

By: Reed, G.H., M.A.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, A & C Black Ltd. : 1928

Seller ID: 003817

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

32 pages; numerous b&w illustrations. Clean within throughout; tight sewn binding. Head and foot of the back are worn; light spots on the front cover panel.
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A Second Book of Architecture

By: Reed, G.H., M.A.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, A & C Black Ltd. : 1936

Seller ID: 003818

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

32 pages; numerous b&w illustrations. Clean within throughout; tight sewn binding. Wrappers clean, head and foot of the back are lightly worn.
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A Third Book of Architecture, The Parish Church

By: Reed, G.H., M.A.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, A & C Black Ltd. : 1937

Seller ID: 003819

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

32 pages; 108 b&w illustrations. Clean throughout; tight sewn binding. Wrappers clean, head and foot of the back are very lightly worn. Nearly as new.
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The Mackintosh House

By: Reekie, Pamela

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Glasgow, Hunterian Art Gallery : 1987

Seller ID: 004407

ISBN-13: 9780852611869

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

not paginated but 28 pages with text and color illustrations. A room-by-room guide of 78 Southpark Ave, the early home of the Mackintosh couple redesigned and renovated by Mackintosh. Demolished around 1963 it was rebuilt with interior spaces and furniture as it is thought Mackintosh had designed it, including furnishings which were salvaged before the demolition. Clean throughout, tight binding; no tears, marks or folds.
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Cities on Stone: Nineteenth Century Lithograph Images of the Urban West

By: Reps, John W.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum : 1979

Seller ID: 001428

ISBN-13: 9780883600511

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

99 pages; 50 color plares; descriptive exhibition checklist; bibliography; the author one of the foremost authorities on city views. Clean and tight throughout; crease in wrapper's rear panel
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Germany: Architecture, Interiors, Landscape, Gardens

By: Richthofen, Christa von; Oliver Benn (Photographs)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, Phoenix Illustrated : 1998

Seller ID: 002517

ISBN-13: 9780753801512

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

256 pages; over 400 color photographs. A beautiful comprehensive overview of design accomplishment in Germany.
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Tall Buildings

By: Riley, Terence (Preface); Guy Nordensen (Essay)

Price: $32.00

Publisher: New York, The Museum of Modern Art : 2003

Seller ID: 002100

ISBN-13: 9780870700958

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

191 pages; numerous illustrations. 25 projects are featured; located worldwide.
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Lights Along the Schuykill

By: Rivinus, Marion W.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: (Privately Published) : 1967

Seller ID: 000920

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

85 pages. "... a reference book of buildings and beings which cast a light upon the River Schuykill, in Fairmount Park." Not a guide book.The author was an official of the City Parks Association and the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks as well as a civic leader and author of several books about the Philadelphia area. Endpaper maps.
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Framing American Cities (Design Quarterly 151)

By: Robbins, Mark

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mit Press : 1991

Seller ID: 003925

ISBN: 0011-9415

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

38 pages; numerous illustrations, including one color foldout. San Francisco, Columbus and Manhattan. "... a young architect's romantic, episodic view of American history told with references to urban evolution, architecture, and social change." Clean throughout.
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The Four Inns of Court. The Tuilleries Brochures, Volume II, Number 5, May 1930

By: Robertson, Howard, F.R.I.B.A.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, Ludowici-Celadon Company : 1930

Seller ID: 004258

ISBN: no

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

pp. 131-143; 19 b&w illustrations. Essay and photographic essay of the Inns: Gray's, Lincoln's, Middle Temple, and Inner Temple. Clean throughout; binding tight. Tear at the head of the spine; repaired chip at the top edge of the front panel.
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Art Nouveau Architecture

By: Russell, Frank (Edited by)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Arch Cape Press : 1986

Seller ID: 004306

ISBN-13: 9780517619773

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

332 pages; 68 color, 500 b&w illustrations.Architects of the fin de siècle with sometimes contradictory aesthetic beliefs: Liberty, Jugendstil, Modernism, Secessionstil. Ornament lives. Organized by country, each chapter written by a well-known authority in the field. Clean throughout; tight binding. Page margins are lightly age-toned. Otherwise, nearly fine condition.
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Decorative Art and Modern Interiors : Volume 69, Environments for People

By: Schofield, Maria

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company : 1980

Seller ID: 005058

ISBN: 1980

Binding: Brown cloth

Condition: Fine

188 pages; numerous illustrations, including color photos, line drawings, floor plans, section views, etc. Homes, offices, sacred spaces, furniture. Clean throughout; tight binding. Dustjacket lightly wrinkled at head of the spine, not torn.
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Architectural Details from Old New England Homes

By: Schuler, Stanley

Price: $16.00

Publisher: West Chester, Pennsylvania, Schiffer Publishing : 1987

Seller ID: 002720

ISBN-13: 9780887401145

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

176 pages. Numerous color and b&w photographs of exterior and interior architectural details; also, architect's elevations, moulding profiles, hardware line drawings.
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Category: Architecture