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198368 pages. A collection of uncommon historical pictures and their descriptions. Chapters include: First Peoples; Mining; Other Industries; Transportation; People; Buildings and Services; Recreation; Local Government; Military; Development. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Illustrated brown card covers. An excellent overview of the history of this dynamic city. Book
1975258 pages. "...Transform an abandoned store, single or multi-family unit, garage or warehouse into rentable and salable housing." - from front cover. Above-average wear externally but contents clean and unmarked. Decent working copy. Very practical information. Book
1990176 pages. Footnotes. Oblong 9.25" x 12.25". A collection of vintage photos by Leonard Frank who documented the development of British Columbia. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy of this wonderful compilation. Book
2006215 pages with 396 colour and 187 black and white illustrations. "Discusses the most important trends in modern architecture and, at the same time, documents increasingly intensive exchanges on an international level, portraying outstanding, future-oriented museum buildings and projects from 2000 to 2010 on four continents... A closer look at twenty-six projects, either completed, planned or still under construction provides a broadly based overview of current museum architecture." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A high-quality copy. Book
199395 pages. Kluckner has "drawn inspiration from his travels around the province, in most cases not from 'the days when I was drawn like a moth to the candle of a doomed building, or a doomed piece of landscape'... Records the mansions, cabins, churches, front porches and gardens, roadside shacks and grand panoramas that are the essence of the province." - from front flap. Somewhat above-average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
1987224 pages. Index. Select bibliography. Reference notes. "Like Beacon Hill in Boston and Nob Hill in San Francisco, Montreal's Square Mile was a golden enclave for the rich and powerful in the halcyon days before income tax, a small geographic area whose inhabitants controlled two thirds of the nation's wealth. The Square Mile was the cradle of Canada's commercial aristocracy home of the McGills and McTavishes (furs), Molsons (beer), Redpaths (sugar), Ogilvies (flour), and scores of families that came after them to live on the elm-shaded streets in the shadow of Mount Royal." - from dust jacket. Wonderful and abundant black and white archival photographs. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding sound. A solid reference copy. Book
200295 pages. Recommended reading list. "A comprehensive illustrated guide to a national treasure, the freize in the centre of the foyer of Canada's Parliament buildings." - from dust jacket. Includes the origins of the project and a sketch of the artist, Eleanor Milne's, life. "An illuminating souvenir of one of Ottawa's most original works of art." - from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked. Original sales receipt taped inside back free endpaper. Light wear to dust jacket. A nice copy. Book
1975Features: New Brunswick Heritage; Biographical Studies in New Brunswick; New Brunswick Indian Crafts; Acadian Village - Preservation of a Heritage (bilingual); Early Silversmiths; Two New Brunswick Furniture Craftsmen - Thomas Nisbet and Alexander Lawrence; New Brunswick Before History; Architecture in New Brunswick - an Historical Survey; Of Ships and Shipbuilders; Heritage Under the Sea; Some Historic Buildings; The Acadian Museum of the University of Moncton (bilingual); Kings Landing; Stone Church - St. John's; George Neilson Smith - The Artist in New Brunswick; The Best of Pine and Maple; The Town of St. Andrews; A New Brunswick Contribution to Canadian Potting - Courtenay Bay Pottery; Capturing Canada's Past - The J.C. Webster Collection; The Creek and the Corner - a History of Woodstock, N.B.; New Brunswich Artists - a rapid glance at 18th, 19th and 20th century painting; Museums and Historic Sites. Date hand-written on front cover. Details blacked out on address label atop back cover. Average wear. Moisture exposure has resulted in gentle undulations to most pages, otherwise a sound copy of this very informative issue. Magazine
1992Features: Tin Town - West Bros.' (Brothers) Lithographed Buildings; Ingeborg Riesser; Karl Blindheim; Lauran Stevens; Jim Fainges; Jo Moore Stewart; An 1880 London Townhouse; The grand tour on a small scale; Lagniappe's 1/4" scale little sister ended with 19 fabulous rooms; Making Wheels; Along the Mall XV - an around the world import shop; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
1977188 pages. Index. "... Step-by-step it details office landscaping methods and techniques, and describes the differences between planning for small, medium, and large organizations." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's details atop front free endpaper and initials atop subsequent two pages else book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is pric-clipped. Quality copy. Book
2008144 pages. Features: The Home of Howard and Marjie Wilson in Durango, Colorado; The affordable arts and crafts of Jill and Michael Clark; Syracuse businessman's 3-Storey Adirondack Summer Retreat; Reclaiming the buildings of Stinesville, IN; The Delahunt House of Portland; Theodore Ellison's "Decatur" line of windows; Diana Mausser's native roots; and more. Unmarked. with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
1972Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a double-page map as frontispiece, 103 plates on 64 and several illustrations in the text, neat scholarly annotation on rear free endpaper; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed (without material loss) at head and tail of backstrip. Buildings of England BE 44. Cherry HB4, HJ3.
1954Mm 120x170 RARO - Prima edizione. Collezione "Architetti del movimento moderno" diretta dagli architetti Lodovico Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, Ernesto N. Rogers - Brossura editoriale con bandelle, 158 pagine stampate su carta patinata con 40 tavole fotografiche in bianco e nero. Minimo ingiallimento a margine delle carte e lievissimi segni di usura all'esterno, nel complesso ottimo esemplare di un'edizione non comune.
1972Book shows very light scuffing only. Gilt lettering on spine. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. First English Edition. Translated from the Russian by Kathleen Cook. Fascinating account of buildings, secular and sacred, in Northern Russia. Chapters include Transonega, the White Sea Coast, Rivers Svid and Onega, Vologda and Lower Vychegda, the Northern Dvina and Pinega and along the River Mezen. The ubiquitous use of timber is especially interesting. Profusely and beautifully illustrated with full page photographs in colour and b/w. Gold endpapers printed with mediaeval images of builders. Very clean book. 322 pages with table of contents at back. Previous owner's inscription on title page.
1961A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full gray cloth boards. 8 3/4"w x 11 3/4"h. 248 pages. Previous owner' stamp inside. Many b&w photos and floor plans with descriptions of specific buildings.
1997Book is in excellent condition, as new in 1/4 blue cloth covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 354 pages with b&w illustrations throughout, floor plans, elevations, architectural detail.
1976Oversize book: 14 1/2" H x 11" w, is in excellent condition with a little corner wear, creaseless covers and spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Piranesi's masterful representations of architecture are now reprinted in large format alongside corresponding contemporary photographs. Monuments of ancient, early Christian, Renaissance and Baroque Rome, the Colosseum, Forum, fountains, etc. with auxiliary notes on both the etchings and photographs. 82 plates.
1980Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 337 pages with graphs, charts, tables, formulae, mechanical drawings. Table of contents include: Materials: Quality, Standards of quality; Non-loadbearing brick masonry: Lateral support; Stuctural design of brick masonry: Allowable stresses in non-reinforced brick masonry (and reinforced, and stresses in reinforcement) Shear on bolt and anchors, Design of walls and columns, Flexural design of reinforced brick masonry; Construction: Placing masonry, placing reinforcement, support of masonry, anchorage of, Bonding of non-reinforced walls, Chases and recesses, Arches and Lintels, Corbelling, Parapet walls, Protection during erection, Design of bearing wall buildings: Diaphragms, Lateral load distribution, Axial load distribution, Floor-wall connections, Intersecting walls, Coupled shear walls, Foundations, Differential movement, Design examples; Geuide specifications for engineered brick masony (with nine sections); Materials, (with seven sections) Workmanship (with eighteen sections); etc.
2009Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 229 pages with b&w photos, drawings, elevations, architectural drawings, landscapes throughout.
1963Book is in excellent condition with lightly bumped corners, very light edge wear to dark red cloth covers with gilt print at spine. Binding is solid and square, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows extensive edge wear, small tears at hinge, top spine, scuffing, small stain. Contents include: Organization of the profession, The Japanese hotel, Transport and tourism, Town planning in evolution, Architectural education The architects, etc. Featured buildings or sights include Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel, Diet Library, Gakushuin University, Museum of western art, memorial hall at Hiroshima, Sakakura's art gallery, Town hall, Gotsu, museum at Matsue, Dentsu building Osaka, Hasshokan hotel at Nagoya, Kenzo Tange hotel at Atami and a great many others. Architects featured in chapter "Architects" : Antonin Raymond, Togo Murano, Junzo Sakakura, Isao Sibaoka, Tsutomu Ikota, Hideo Kosaka, Kunio Maekawa, Kenzo Tange, Hirosohi Oe, Takamasa Yoshizaka, Yoshinobu Ashihara, Kiyonori Kikutake, and many others. Copyright 2011 Pistil Books
1993A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full brown cloth boards. Previous owner's inscription inside. Slight edge wear to dust jacket. 8 5/8"w x 11 1/4"h. 364 pages.
2005Book has lightly bumped lower corners as the only flaw to blue/grey cloth HB covers. .Binding is solid and square, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is marked occasionally wtih lines along margin, previous owner's name, note, at front. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear, 1/2" tear bottom front corner. Color photos, drawings, architectural illustrations, elevations floorplans throughout.
1956Book is in excellent condition, with very light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. High quality production printed on heavy, glossy paper, decorated, aluminized endpapers. A giant brochure for the industry, packed with large, b&w photos of every aspect of aluminum construction at the time. Contains Aluminum in modern buildings to page 226 then Conversations with noted architects. 255 pages, including sections on Factories, Offices, Residences, Schools, Churches, General: bridges, halls, hangars, Coulee dam, airports, shopping centers, etc. Copyright 2011 Pistil Books
1963Stamp and school bookplate inside. Many b&w photos. Clean and unmarked. 370 pages.
1992A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Signed by author. Previous owner's bookplate inside. 401 pages. 7"w x 10 1/4"h. Many b&w photos. "From Viking structures to Renaissance housing projects, medieval stave churches to modern crematoriums, Architecture in the Scandinavian Countries presents the most complete survey of Nordic architecture available today." Bibliography.
