Search Results

Searching for
    1277 books found. Your results are sorted by most recent

Sort by

Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine


Price:
$100.00

Bossaglia, Rossana & Valerio Terraroli
MILANO DECO: La Fisionomia della Citta Negli Anni Venti
Milan: Skira, 1999

First edition. Quarto. 208 pp; profuse color & b/w illustrations; biographies of designers; bibliography; index. TEXT IN ITALIAN. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy
Inventory number #012299



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$25.00

Rorschach, Kimerly
THE EARLY GEORGIAN LANDSCAPE GARDEN
New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 1983

Quarto. 107 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine, a crisp, clean copy. Exhibition catalogue with 85 entries.
Inventory number #012284



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$15.00

Meade-Fetherstonhaugh, Margaret & Oliver Warner
UPPARK AND ITS PEOPLE
London: Century, 1988

Octavo. 118 pp; frontispiece & 14 b/w illustrations; index. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, crisp copy, spine sunned. The authors relate the history of the successive people who lived at Uppark, drawing on letters and documents preserved in the house.
Inventory number #012267



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$15.00

Onassis, Jacqueline
IN THE RUSSIAN STYLE
NY: Viking Press, 1976

Quarto. 184 pp; 8 pp of color photographs & hundreds of b/w illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. VG, a clean, unmarked copy; light wear to covers.
Inventory number #012265



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$20.00

Dunlop, Ian
CHATEAUX OF THE LOIRE
NY: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1969

First American edition. Octavo. xxxi, 215 pp; [32] pages of b/w illustrations from paintings, drawings & photographs; appendix; bibliography; index. Red cloth with gilt titles with dustjacket; illustrated endpapers. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, bottom edges rubbed with a couple of white flecks; unclipped jacket has one short closed tear to bottom edge, a couple light scratches on back panel, spine ends lightly chipped.
Inventory number #012263



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None


Price:
$15.00

Meshover, Leonard
YOU VISIT A FIRE STATION, POLICE STATION
Chicago: Benefic Press, 1965

Square octavo. 48 pp; b/w photographs throughout by Eve Hoffmann. Illustrated boards. VG, "Paid" stamp & "50" in top corner of front free endpaper, top corner of first 12 pp lightly creased, light wear to spine ends, white spine shows light soil.
Inventory number #012253



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$20.00

Sotheby Parke Bernet
DANCE, THEATER, OPERA: Costume & Decor Designs, Sculpture, Prints and Books. November 24, 1978
NY: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1978

Square octavo. Unpaginated. 114 lots; b/w & color illustrations throughout. Paperback. Near Fine, back cover shows light edge wear, else a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #012243



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None


Price:
$150.00

Rathbone, Hannah Mary
So much of the diary of Lady Willoughby as relates to her domestic history, & to the eventful period of the reign of Charles the First
London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1846

Fourth edition. Twelvemo. 220 pp; illustrated with coat of arms. Blind-stamped full leather with four raised bands on spine with five blind-stamped ornament device or gilt-stamped lettering; beveled edges, white inlay lettered panels to boards on which is hand-printed the title (front) and dates of the diary entries: 1635-1648 (rear); all edges gilt gauffered in checkerboard pattern; marbled endpapers. VG, front joint moderately worn, rear joint less so; corners & spine ends lightly rubbed; paper insets are soiled and lightly worn. The present work is a fiction in the guise of an historical document. First published anonymously in 1844; a second and a third edition followed in 1845, and a New York edition in the same year.
Inventory number #012231



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: None


Price:
$65.00

Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut
GUTENBERG AND THE MASTER OF THE PLAYING CARDS
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966

Quarto. 83 pp; 38 color & b/w figures; index; large folded table (in pocket on rear pastedown). Two-tone cloth with gilt-lettered spine in clear acetate jacket. Includes vertical paper title band. Near Fine/VG
Inventory number #012227



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: None


Price:
$275.00

Cary, Melbert B., Jr.
WAR CARDS: A Prolusion
NY: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1937

Limited edition of 250 copies. Octavo. 92 pp; 67 color & b/w illustrations; chronology of cards discussed in the text. Quarter red morocco and gray cloth with gilt title, top edge gilt. Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; light rub at top of spine, minor rub at base, and one tiny nick to edge of spine. #29 of 250 copies.
Inventory number #012226



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$35.00

Ramuz, C.F.
PAYS DE VAUD
Lausanne: Editions J. Marguerat, 1943

First edition. Quarto. 102 pp; 81 gravure photographs by Maurice Blanc. Text in French. Tan cloth with title on cover & spine with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a crisp, unmarked copy; jacket lightly chipped at top of spine with several short edge tear, minor wear at base of spine & corners. Photographs of the architecture, landscape, and people of Vaud, Switzerland by Maurice Blanc. Part of the series: "Merveilles de la Suisse."
Inventory number #012220



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Jacket: None


Price:
$50.00

Owen, Robert Dale
HINTS ON PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE
NY: Da Capo Press, 1978

Second edition of 1000 copies. Quarto. xvii, 119 pp; 6 lithographs with tissue guards, 9 wood engravings, and 99 woodcuts in the text. Green cloth with gilt-lettered spine & column in gilt on cover. Fine copy. #468/500 numbered, facsimile bound copies of the original edition published in 1849. It features views and plans of the Smithsonian Institution, along with an appendix relative to building materials employed in public edifices in Washington, DC.
Inventory number #012193



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: As New


Price:
$25.00

Carver, Beth S. & Eileen M. Casey
SILVER BY PAUL DE LAMERIE at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1978

Octavo. 56 pp; numerous b/w photographs; glossary; abbreviations for hallmarks; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine, former owner on front free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #012191



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None


Price:
$65.00

Decker, Amelia Stickney
THAT ANCIENT TRAIL [The Old Mine Road]
Trenton, NJ: Privately published, 1962

Third revised edition. Octavo. 151 pp; more than 75 engravings & illustrations; index. Black pebble cloth. VG, a clean, unmarked copy. LAID IN: 3-pp typed itinerary of the Old Mine Road, prepared by C.P. Grummon, Frances van Etten Hulbert, and C.V. Crane. It lists landmarks along the road, giving date, and town, referencing C.G. Hines' book for those in NY state, and this book for those in NJ. Also 16-pp booklet - The Early History of Sussex County. Great book on local history of this ancient road which stretched 104 miles from Kingston, NY to Flatbrookville, NJ.
Inventory number #012181



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Jacket: Fine


Price:
$60.00

Pennoyer, Peter & Anne Walker
THE ARCHITECTURE OF WARREN & WETMORE
NY: W. W. Norton, 2006

First edition. Quarto. 256 pp; 40 color & 300 duotone photographs. Cloth with dustjacket. A new, unused copy. At the turn of the 20th century, Beaux-Arts-trained Whitney Warren and lawyer Charles D. Wetmore put their stamp on New York City with Grand Central Terminal. Their mansions, clubs, hotels, apartment houses, and office buildings were powerful emblems of the era.
Inventory number #012172



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine


Price:
$65.00

Liu, Gretchen
CHINESE ARCHITECTURE
London: Academy Editions, 1989

Quarto. 297 pp; color photographs and b/w plans throughout. Cloth in dust jacket with Rizzoli imprint. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Inventory number #012151



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None


Price:
$125.00

Laprade, Albert
CROQUIS Quatrieme Album, Region Du Centre
Paris: Vincent, Freal & Cie, 1957

Oblong quarto. 4 pp text; list of plates; 70 plates of line drawings, elevations, facades and architectural details, text in French. Loose as issued in portfolio with ties. Very good condition. Some toning to cloth spine.
Inventory number #012146



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None


Price:
$125.00

Laprade, Albert
CROQUIS Troisieme Album, Region du Midi
Paris: Vincent, Freal & Cie, 1950

Oblong quarto. 4 pp text; list of plates; 70 plates of line drawings, elevations, facades and architectural details, text in French. Loose as issued in portfolio with ties. Very good condition. Some toning to cloth spine.
Inventory number #012145



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None


Price:
$125.00

Laprade, Albert
CROQUIS Deuxieme Album, Region De L'est
Paris: Vincent, Freal & Cie, 1942

Oblong quarto. 5 pp text; list of plates; 60 plates of line drawings, elevations, facades and architectural details, text in French. Loose as issued in portfolio with ties. Very good condition. Some toning to cloth spine.
Inventory number #012144



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine


Price:
$35.00

Mignot, Claude
ARCHITECTURE OF THE 19TH CENTURY
Cologne: Evergreen, 1994

Large quarto. 322 pp; over 500 b/w & color illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket bright, with no chips or tears. With examples of Neo-Gothic, Neo-Classic, Romantic and eclectic styles, this book features the types, problems and history of over 500 European buildings.
Inventory number #012138