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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.
1975A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 192 pages. 4 1/4"w x 7"h. Black and white line drawings by James Meyers.
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.
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.
1987Book is in excellent condition with some price sticker residue on front. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 64 pages with b&w and color illustrations throughout.
1998A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Tall format: 6 1/8"w x 13"h. 166 pages. Black and white photos - one to a page, faced with a quotation about New York on the opposite page. Small indentation to about six pages.
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."
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.
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.
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.
1991A book with a tight binding. Some highlighting-- see photo. Crease on cover. Previous owner's label inside. Oblong format: 11"w x 8 1/2"h. 152 pages. Many b&w and color photos.
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.
2006Book is in excellent condition, as new with previous owner's name on front end paper as the only blemish. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 136 pages with large color photos throughout of state of the art winery warehouses, storage facilities and tasting rooms, often of avant-garde design, in USA, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and other parts of Europe.
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.
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.
2010A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 256 pages. Many color photos. 9 1/2"w x 12"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....
1946Book show very light wear only in light blue cloth with gilt embossed print at spine and cover, sunned 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. 315 pages with glossy page section of b&w photos, maps, architectural drawings, floor plans, elevations and includes sections on: Whig and Tory landowners, Public buildings under George II, Architects of the Golden Age: 1763 - 1793 Building during the French wars, Great estates, John Nash, Theatres, Greater Georgian London, etc.
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.
1976A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 100 pages. 10 3/4"w x 8 1/2"h.
1979Book's covers show light shelf wear only. Large format , 352 pages with architectural drawings, elevations, photos, floorplans throughout. Heavily illustrated. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Chapters include the architectural investigation of Theatres, Libraries, Museums, Hospitals, Prisons, Hotels, Exchanges and banks, Warhouses adn office buildings, Railway stations, Market halls, exhibition buildings, Shops stores and department stores, Factories et al.
1986Book 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. 214 pages with map, b&w photos throughout of exteriors, interiors, a garden or two. Contents include St. George's, St. Giles, St James, St. John's St. Annes, Holy Trinity, Brompton, All Saints, St. Dunstans, and more than 90 individual churches.
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.
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.
