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2006No inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright laminated boards with a faint indent to rear, light creasing to ffep and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased. 159pp. English, Welsh and Scottish churches pictured and discussed region by region, lavishly illustrated with notes on architectural history, landmark historical events, celebrated men and women and packed with legends and tales of the saints.
1981No marks or inscriptions. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight surface rubbing to rear. Scarce in the UK. 219pp. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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.
195512 pages. Retirement of Tom Carson. Louis Salter retires; Calgary Golfers Capture McCordick Trophies - golf story and photos; Mrs. Joy Young becomes company welfare nurse. Details of new company mail order catalogue which gives first composite picture of Eaton's Canada - all 392 buildings in Canada. New Eaton Group Life Insurance Plan. Mrs. Louise Longoz judges needlepoint at CNE. Published monthly in the interests of employees of the T. Eaton Co., Western Ltd., Edmonton. Additional employee news. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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.
194550 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Christmas at Fort Pitt; Hobby for Booklovers - the Canadiana book collection of D'Alton C. Coleman; The House That Mac Built - the log buildings erected by the North West Company in the north and west originated in French Canada - interesting photo-illustrated article on early building styles; Redcoats at Fort Garry - nearly a century ago, 300 foot soldiers, with artillery and engineers, came from England to Red River, brought by the HBC to stand on guard for Canada; The Cowichan Sweater - photo-illustrated article; Mining in the North; Sled Journey - photo study; Peter Rindisbacher - Red River Artist; Chief Factor Dr. John McLoughlin's Letters, 1844-46; Arctic fur show - photos of Eskimo ladies wearing fur fashions; Atmospheric Defence - how HBC 'brass-pounders' heled guard our northern approaches during WWII - fascinating photo-illustrated article; Veteran of Two Wars - the good ship 'Nascopie'; Vintage back cover two-colour (orange and black) ad for the HBC's Imperial Mixture of tinned pipe tobacco. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
2010A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 256 pages. Many color photos. 9 1/2"w x 12"h.
1918481-584, [90] ads, pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Printed upon glossy stock. The many pages of ads include an abundance of nostalgic photos and illustrations. Features: The Residence of Allan S. Lehman, Esq., Tarrytown, N.Y., John Russell Pope, Architect; The Work of Olmsted Brothers - Part II; The New Office Buildings at Washington, D.C. for the Navy and War Departments; Modern Industrial Plants - Part II; Architectural Etching; The Red Cross Headquarters at Washington, D.C.; The Government's Housing Activities; The Architect's Library - Recent French Books; Notes and Comments. Unmarked with above-average external wear. Binding intact. Two small binding holes near spine. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
1996Book is in excellent condition in embossed black vinyl covers, no print at spine. Page block is made of heavy, glossy paper with a great many full page, full color photos throughout of exteriors, interiors, detail photos and some architectural drawings and paintings. 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 edge wear with chipping and small tears. Contents include: The house in historical perspective, with subsections: Early Anatolia, The Pre-Anatolian Turks, The influence of Byzantine architecture, The Seljuks and Beyliks (Anatolian Lordiness / Principalities).; Factors in the development of the vernacular house, with subsections: The physical environment; climate and terrain, local building materials and structural; The cultural environment; Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Persia, Caucasia. The house and its units; The room, sofa, service areas and storeys. Evolution of Anatolia house plans; Plans without a sofa, Exterior sofa plans, through sofa plans, central sofa plans.; Regional characters of Anatolian vernacular house, with subsections: Centers of development; Anatolia and Rumelia. Northern Anatolia; Marmara and Thrace; Western Anatolia; Central Anatolia; Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia, etc. 296 pages with a 16 page supplement.
1965No marks or inscriptions and very minor creasing to covers adjacent to spine. A very clean very tight booklet with unmarked very slightly foxed boards, unrusted staples and no bumping to corners. 17pp. History and description of St Germans Church, Cornwall. Illustrated.
1983Book 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. Black and white diagrams throughout, charts, graphs, many fold-out pages, mathematical formulae. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contents include: Detailing and fabricating structural steel ( Erection plans, Typical details, job standards, layouts and calculation sheets, Lists of bolts, Calculation of weights, ) The fabrication of structural steel, Fundaments of structural engineering, Connections -- bolted, Connections -- welded, ( welding processes, Weld types, Joint prequalification, Welding positions, Welding symbols, ) Columns, Framing for industruial buildings, (trusses, bracing systems, Roof and wall framing, Crane runway girders.) Approx. 200 pages with four appendices.
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.
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.
2003In-folio (cm. 25), hardocover, dustjacket, pp. 469, illustrated (b/w and colour), ISBN 158685237X. In buono stato di conservazione (good copy).
1995No 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. 166pp. A gazetteer approach to the history of part of Scotland, of the area stretching either side of the Forth and Clyde valleys with details of properties, archaeological sites and artefacts, churches, csatles, engineering heritage and monuments.
1987Pages 352-468. Features: Technique in American watercolors from the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachussetts; The Ximenez-Fatio House in Saint Augustine, Florida; A Charleston, South Carolina playbill of 1794; The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch on historical blue Staffordshire - Part II - the later buildings, 1810-1832; John Seymour in Portland, Maine; and more. Above-average but not excessive wear. Damage to lower corner of front cover. A worthy reference copy. Book
1948156 pages. Features: Is your soil building human health; Co-operative feeder sales; Home-grown buildings; The Enloe Family builds a home - Archie and Dal Enloe farm in Arizona's Gila River Valley - article with great color photos; A Woman's touch on tenant land - Mrs. Clarence Denison on the H.E. Brewington Farm, Farmer City, IL; Bluestem Beef; Kennebec - a potato that fights its own battles; Rearranging the rain - California's bold schemes to channel water hundreds of miles nears completion; Shipping research pays off; You walk right in - Ohio's Brueggemeier's cold storage unit; Photo of Acie Miller with his mule which foaled a horse colt; B.F. Goodrich ad with photo of Earl and Lloyd Becker who farm near Koncoln, Logan County, IL; Plymouth cars; and more. Ads: Texaco ad with photos of John Peterschick of Plaza, WA and his inventions; For trucks (color); Chesterfield cigarettes ad with Alan Ladd illustration plus farmer Leavitt Roberts of Paris, KY; Ferguson tractors; Dodge cars (beautiful one-page in color); International Harvester cominges (color photos); Wheaties ad with photo of Carol Tarrant, of Atchison, KS, Queen of Royal Live Stock and Horse Show; Color Studebaker car ad features Chelsea C. Taylor of Cass County who was named Corn King of Illinois in 1946; Jeep; New Holland baler; Blue Bell denim with photo of Garfield Gaskell; Cone Denim; Swan soap with color photos of young blonde; Lipton Tea ad with color photo of Alexis Smith; Nice color GMC truck ad inside back cover; Back cover color-photo ad for Camel cigarettes features roller skater Raven Malone; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Missing pages 77-80. Two pages loose but present. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
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.
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.
2006Book in near mint condition. 191pp. Japanese exteriors, interiors, design.
199664 pages. Features: Museums in Historic Buildings; The Process of Compromise - A Team Approach to Conservation Environments; Humidity and Moisture in Historic Buildings - the origins of building and object conservation; Quantified Risk Reduction in the Humidity Dilemma; What Made Lucy Rot? - a case study of cyclical moisture exposure; The Cabildo in New Orleans; and much more. Bit of writing atop front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
1950156 pages plus 61 detailed plates. Index. The six parts include: General Principles governing provision of accommodation in a base and L of C; Hutted Accommodation; Camps; Installations; Work for the RAF; Maintenance of Permanent Buildings. Contains a broad range of detailed and practical instructions to provide infrastructure for a camp of up to 500 men, including various hut designs, storage buildings, military prisons, latrines, incinerators, disinfestor, disinfector, Grease trap and soak pit, ammunition depot, veterinary hospital, stables, and much more. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average external wear. Bit of faint writing atop front cover. Ink stamp of Chief Engineer's Branch, Singapore, atop first leaf. No other markings noticed. A sound copy of this fascinating and very practical work. Book
1968No 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. Dust jacket not price clipped with small tears to very well rubbed edges. 502pp. A vast number of black & white photographs plus some drawings covering the fifty years of Soviet architecture since 1917, some one to a page, usually more. Covers four periods - 1917 to 1932, 1933 to 1941, 1941 to 1954 and 1955 to 1967. Main descriptive text in Russian over 58 pages.. Introduction also in English and French. All pictures with Russian, French and English captions. Publisher uncertain. Extremely scarce. From the Personal Library of the late John Dumbreck, Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Dumbreck's Collection including some signed and authored works.
1932Name/date on title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked boards, light rubbing to oversize parts of covers, very old price sticker to front and no bumping to corners. 32pp. A series of photogravure photgraphs mainly of buildings plus towns and beauty spots in these parts of North Yorkshire, including Knaresborough, Beverley, Ripon and Ripley.