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1976A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. 64 pages. 8 1/4"w x 10 7/8"h. "This handbook is intended to complement the present thematic exhibition, Decline and Fall: The Architecture of Kingston and Frontenac County."
1982A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Wear to cover. 145 black and white photos of architectural details. Oblong format: 10"w x 8 1/2"h.
1999A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 190 pages. Brand new, still in shrinkwrap. This is a book with large format photos of "resident's cum creators" who have devoted all their ingenuity, energy and determination to constructing what they percieve to be the ideal domestic universe, many with fantastic eccentric flair. These include Ludwig II of Bavaria's Linderhof, the Facteur Cheval's Palais Ideal, Hearst Castle, Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, Salvador Dali's villa in Port Lligat, the Watts Towers, Edward Jame's villa in Mexico, Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta, etc....
1975A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full brown cloth boards. Light wear to cover. Small tears and wear to jacket. 11 1/8"w x 8 3/4"h. 160 pages. Black and white historical photos.
1980A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small tears and edge wear to dust jacket. 10 7/8"w x 8 1/2"h. 212 pages.
1998A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards. Slight wear to dust jacket. 240 pages. 9 1/2"w x 11 1/2"h.
1994A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 366 pages. 6 7/8"w x 9 7/8"h. Black and white photos and illustrations.
1951Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous plates, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in darker blue, mild age-stain at head (not affecting text), a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with mild age-stain (just affecting boards) at head of backstrip.
19864to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and plans in the text, and endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. With a copy of the booklet 'Seven Horsham Houses' (Town Trail Series) loosely inserted.
1969No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 128pp. A study of significant approaches to architecture taken by contemporary architects in Africa including innovations which link the present with the immediate past. Very well illustrated. Scarce in the UK.
1982Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers and spine, one slightly bumped lower corner and very light shelf wear are only flaws, otherwise as new. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 175 pages with a great many b&w photos of over 95 buildings including St. Peter, All Saints, St. Barnabas, St. Andrew, Bridgwater House, St. Giles, Royal Exchange, Christ church, Reform Club, Paddington station, Bethnal Green Museum, Royal Opera House, St. Simon Zelotes, St. Alban, Grosvenor Hotel et al. 4 pages of maps at front.
19798vo., First Edition, with 2 double-page maps as frontispiece, 101 plates and several plans in the text; series binding of red cloth, upper board blocked in guilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1953Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations and double-page map in the text; original printed wrappers, backstrip very lightly browned else a near fine copy. No dustwrapper was issued with the first edition. The cloth version followed some eighteen months later. Buildings of England, BE8. Cherry 8; PC1.
2003In-folio (cm. 25), hardocover, dustjacket, pp. 469, illustrated (b/w and colour), ISBN 158685237X. In buono stato di conservazione (good copy).
1969A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 174 pages. Full grey cloth boards. 11 3/8"w x 11 1/2"h. Many b&w photos. Edge wear and tears on dust jacket. A bit musty smelling. Black and white photographs of rural Ontario with two essays on the social and architectural history of southern Ontario.
1986A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full beige cloth boards. 328 pages. 8 5/8"w x11 1/4"h. Inscribed by William Dendy.
1991A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 326 pages. 7 7/8"w x 10 1/4"h. Many b&w photos. "Today's suburban metropolitandevelopment of single-family homes, shopping centers, corporate offices, and roadway systems constitues what Peter Rowe calls a 'middle landscape' between the city and the country. Looking closely at suburban America in terms of design and physical planning, Rowe builds a cae for a new way of seeing and building suburbia--complete with theoretical underpinning sand a basis for design."
1979A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full beige cloth boards. Edge wear to dust jacket. Slight discoloration to endpapers. 224 pages. Many illustrations in b&w. Maps, glossary, and chronological table.
1988A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Wear to cover. 48 pages. 9 3/8"w x 8 5/8"h. Illustrations reproduced from the Rome Aeterna (set of 100 engravings of views of Rome) by Peter Schenck, the eighteenth century German printseller and publisher who lived in Amsterdam.
1994A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 166 pages. Many line drawings and black and white photos.
1973Sm. 8vo., Second Edition, with double-page map as frontispiece, 104 plates on 64 and illustrations in the text; black cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities and chipped (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. First published in 1965. Buildings of England, BE28. Cherry 28; HB2, HJ2
1946No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to top of page edges and end papers and bumping to all corners. Slightly dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little sunning and with nicks to corners and top of spine. 662pp. A study of the basic laws of architectural design through the paths of history. It is in two sections, the first dealing with the state of architecture from the earliest times to the mid 20th century and the second looking at architectural decoration and ornament.
1972Book is in excellent condition with light shelfwear/spotting to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Spiral bound, Oblong, illustrated card covers with white plastic coil binding, unpaginated, approx. 80 pp. Pen and ink drawings of historic houses , usually one drawing every other page with short history of the house. In 1972 a survey was conducted to assess the historic architecture of the town of Pictou. Entire 19th century neighborhoods have been preserved. 140 buildings were researched and 55 drawn for publication.
19848vo., Second Edition; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Revised version of the original edition of 1976.
1980Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 400pp. A detailed study of American architecture from pre-historic times to the late 20th century. An excellent introduction to American architecture. Enhanced with around 300 illustrations. Second corrected edition.