Architecture

Softcover. Notre Dame IN, Theatre Historical Society, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wrappers, 40 pages. Profusely illustrated in b&w. A visual history of the design and building of the Earle Theatre in Philadelphia. Some of the world's biggest stars performed there in it's heyday. Old price sticker on rear cover, otherwise clean, very good.

Softcover. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2nd Ed., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 431 pages. Softcover. Tight copy. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs & architectural illustrations. One interior section includes full page, full color photographs. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press,, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 235 pages. Includes bibliographical references, index, notes, and numerous black and white and color illustrations and maps. Bright dust jacket. light foxing to text block fore-edge.

Hardcover. Ontario CA, Vanwell Publishing St. Catherines, Ontario, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 344 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Tokyo, Japan, Kodansha International Ltd. , 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has a few lamination issues, otherwise very good--no rips or tears. Textured gray cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, blind-stamped design on front cover board. A touch of tanning to edges, pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In excellent condition. Naito traces the historical story of Katsura, while photographer, Nishikawa worked for five years to put together this visual portrait.

Hardcover. Gibbs Smith, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Off the Grid confronts the ecological and cultural problems associated with the way we get and use energy, and explains how it is possible to live in a beautifully designed home using much less--no matter where your home is located. Our homes are connected by a nearly invisible grid of infrastructure that binds us together. It is a system of electrical poles, wire, substations, hydroelectric dams, telecommunication towers, and water extraction and sewage systems. From within this system we work, play, and raise families. We have also created one of the greatest environmental challenges known to modern civilization. The signs of our impact upon the world can be recognized in the reports of environmental changes occurring across the earth, and they can also be seen in the growing failures of the energy grids across the world as the current system is stressed beyond its capacity. Off the Grid beautifully illustrates that this is not just a concept for rural living; examples of homes that are "off the grid" to varying degrees are found in New York City; Ontario, Canada; Stuttgart, Germany; Belmont, California; Pipe Creek, Texas; Clyde Park, Montana; Twin Lakes, Minnesota; Laytonville, California; Venice, California; and New South Wales, Australia.

Hardcover. New York, Monacelli, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 616 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 10.2 x 2 inches. Profusely illustrated with stunning photos, plans, sketches, models of his complete works and projects, project register, biography, exhaustive bibliography, and illustration credits. This first major monograph on Gehry's work contains more than 250 buildings and projects designed throughout his 40-year career.

Softcover. Munich, Prestel/Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 480 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Published in association with the Art Institute of Chicago and in conjunction with an exhibition presented there in the summer of 1988, as well as in Paris and Frankfurt-am-Main in 1987-88. Contributors to the text include Robert Bruegmann, Sally Chappell, Meredith L. Clausen, Joan E. Draper and others.

Softcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages, softcover edition. Edited by Sarah Mollman Underhill. Introductory Essay by Stanley Tigerman. Afterword by John Hejduk. Illustrated with color and black-and-white drawings, photographs and plans.

NY, Hearst Books International, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white and color photos and illustrations. 191 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Universe Publishing, 2nd printing, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Hardcover. Six pages of pop-ups in excellent condition, each page has several smaller pop-ups laid in. Bright cover boards & bright illustrations throughout by illustrator, Anton Radevsky. A magnificent journey through the history of architecture. Featuring amazing three-dimensional replications of famous buildings from ancient to modern times, The Architecture Pop-Up Book showcases artwork, photographs, pop-ups, and detailed text of the ancient Egyptian pyramids; the great constructions of Greece and Rome, such as the Parthenon and the Colosseum; majestic Asian wonders, including the Taj Mahal; Gothic and Neoclassical masterpieces, such as Notre Dame and the Florence Duomo; and the work of such important modern architects as Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Frank Gehry. From a brilliantly elaborate Gothic cathedral nave to a telescoping Chrysler Building skyscraper, the talent and imagination of architects and builders from all eras and from all over the world are displayed and compared here.Clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Hardcover. UK, Phaidon, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 288 pages. A fascinating and informative document of the ways in which houses are constructed, decorated and inhabited around the world written by an internationally respected expert on vernacular architecture. Beautifully illustrated in color and black and white, largely by photographs compiled in the course of the author's field research . Clean copy.

Softcover. Asheville NC, Bright Mountain Books, 2nd Ed., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 224 pages, b&w photos. Cabins & Castles was first completed in 1981, a joint effort of the Historic Resources Commission and the North Carolina Division of Archives and History. The book became enormously popular with natives, tourists, historians, and preservationists as a primary source of knowledge about the richly historic Buncombe County. Cabins & Castles contains a historical overview, as well as the specific record of individual properties built in the area, primarily those constructed prior to 1930. Historical sketches of Buncombe County and Asheville written by John Ager and Talmage Powell are followed by editor Douglas Swaim's essay on local architectural history. Rapid development in the urban and rural areas of Buncombe County makes this record timely and valuable. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, National Historical Society, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy green pictorial boards. No DJ as issued. Volume 10 of the Architectural Treasures of Early America. From material originally published as White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs edited by Russell F. Whitehead and Frank Chouteau Brown. 248 page book with historic photographs and home plans. Clean copy.

Softcover. Fleischmanns NY, Purple Mountain Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages with b&w photos and diagrams. Common features of these barns include a core structure composed of a steep gabled roof, supported by purlin plates and anchor beam posts, the floor and stone piers below. Another distinctive feature of the Dutch barn is that the ends of the cross beams protrude through the columns. These protrusions are often rounded to form tongues. This feature is not found in any other style of barn design. Pages are bright and unmarked, solid binding.

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Art New York, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, clean inside and out.

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 142 pages, 8"x8' . This book documents 100 'decorated sheds' that were built in the 1920s-'40s, including giant cream-cans, flower-potslemons, pumpkins, cats, dogs, owls, Mother Hubbard's boots, etc. Mostly b&w photos.

Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 6th pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. Softcover. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This resource includes hundreds of photographs and interviews tracing the careers of 30 architects who were apprenticed to Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin. Amongst those interviewed are Fay Jones, Aaron Green, John Lautner, Anthony Puttman, Paolo Soleri and Edgar Tafel. 256 pages, color illustrations. Laid in is a large color 28 page brochure "Taliesin West". a color guide to the Wright building in Scottsdale Arizona. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Architectural Book Pub. Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 291 pages. Measured drawings by William Allen Dunn, Many b&w photos, ex-lib but very clean, tight. stamp on foredge, small envelope on back end paper

Hardcover. London, Smith, Elder and Co., Second Edition, 1858, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three hardcover volumes with blue leather covers featuring marbled endpapers, raised bands along brown spines with red title plates, gilt decoration. Second Edition. Black & white, and some color illustrations in all 3 volumes by John Ruskin. Volume 1 - "The Foundations". 400 pages. Top edge gilt. Light, faint pencil marginalia to a few pages. Minor abrasion to covers. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - "The Sea Stories". 394 pages. Top edge gilt. Faint foxing to some pages. a few moderate abrasions to rear cover. Clean, tight copy. Volume 3 - "The Fall". 362 pages. Top edge gilt. Light pencil marginalia scattered throughout. Faint foxing to some pages. Minor abrasions to covers. Clean, tight copy. A nice set.

Softcover. US, Stichting Kunstboek/DAP, 1st, 2005-03-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages with 120 color plates. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Founded in Berlin in 1989, Buro Kiefer is one of today's most important, innovative and respected international landscape design firms. Combining both a mathematic and aesthetic logic, Buro Kiefer's work responds to the ever-expanding responsibilities of landscape design: interaction with the fields of architecture, urban and regional development, and even the cultural tradition of garden art. Presented in this book are many of the firm's important projects, each of which shows a seamless blending of town and landscape, and a contemporary understanding of urban space.

Softcover. Los Angeles, University of California Press , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Large softcover, 100 pages; many illustrations. Clean and tight; fairly unblemished. Stiff card wraps with wraparound jacket. Following the publication of the 3-volume Plan of St. Gall an exhibition was mounted which used selected text, drawings, models, etc. that were used to produce the large work This shorter volume grew out of that exhibition.

Hardcover. North Hollywood CA, National Association of Theatre Owners, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Lavish and marvelous pictorial on movie theatres and how movies were presented including the publicity and all the hoopla that surrounded the movie going experience from the first nickelodeons to the majestic movie palaces and all the wonderful small neighborhood theatres. Loaded with 100's of b&w photos publicity material and more with many color photos.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 580 pages. 1965-1969: A Break from the Past, a Nod to the Future. The late 1960s, when a radical change took place in the fields of architecture and design, are the focus of this volume. Old values such as functionality, elegance, and faithfulness to materials, which had been relevant for nearly half a century, lost their importance and made space for the ideas of pop culture and the sociocritical experiments of a new generation of architects and designers who no longer wanted to live within the styles of their fathers and grandfathers. Groups of architects and designers like Archizoom and Archigram questioned long-established status symbols, fashion, and consumption and created provocative alternative designs, which were reflected in Anti and Radical Design. Volume VI in the domus series features designs by Joe Colombo, Ettore Sottsass, Gae Aulenti, Olivier Mourgue, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Verner Panton, Kenzo Tange, Luigi Moretti, Oscar Niemeyer, and Gio Ponti.

Hardcover. Buffalo, N.Y., Prometheus Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 137 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page and front fly leaf. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Foxing to top edge, otherwise clean, tight copy. Dancing Naked in the Material World, a unique and illuminating photo-documentary, allows us to look beyond the exotic, sometimes grimy surface of the world of striptease and into the lives of the women who perform there. The dancers, whose humanity and intelligence is graciously depicted in Marilyn Futterman's brilliant black-and-white photographs, describe in their own words how they feel about themselves, their marginal profession, and the men who support it. How does such a sexual, competitive occupation affect the self-esteem of these women? What are their fears, hopes, and ambitions?Futterman, after deciding to do a photographic series on strippers, became a waitress in one of the clubs in Atlanta, Georgia. Working with and interviewing the dancers enabled her to better understand their diverse and complex lives. She witnessed first-hand the strippers' working environment, the people met there, and the relationships between the women.

Softcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. Color illustrations throughout. In excellent condition. Covers still very shiny, like new. Front cover has a bit of price tag residue on it. Very clean inside and out. Photographs of the colorful and eccentric Victorian architecture of San Francisco.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 152 pages illustrated in color. A richly illustrated book by landscape architect Julie Campoli and aerial photographer Alex S. MacLean helps planners, designers, public officials, and citizens better understand how residential density can help save energy, dollars, and the environment. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 516 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. This volume documents Fenn's prolific career from the 1860s until his death in 1911. Sue Rainey also recounts his adventurous sketching trips in the western United States, Europe, and the Middle East, which enhanced his reputation for depicting far-flung places at a time when the nation was taking a more prominent role on the world stage.

Hardcover. Newtown CT, Taunton Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 202 pages illustrated in color. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Moscow, Sovietsky Khudozhnik, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Russian text only. Profusely illustrated in full color and black & whiite. A survey of Russia's brief Art Nouveau movement in architecture. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket. In a plain cardboard slipcase.

Softcover. Washington and Lee University, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages. The 2005 issue, Volume 12, of Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture: The Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum contains the articles: "Selling Domestic Space: The Boarding House in the Southern Mountains" by Michael Ann Williams; "La Casa Alamense: The Mexican Hacienda as Urban Dwelling" by John Messina; "Unraveling the Benjamin Deyerle Legend: An Analysis of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Brickwork in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia" by Michael J. Pulice; "Orson S. Fowler and a Home for All: The Octagon House in the Midwest" by Rebecca Lawin McCarley; and "Roadside Shrines and Granite Sketches: Diversifying the Vernacular Landscape of Memory" by David Charles Sloane.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. Through all-new, full-color photography, Stanford White, Architect is the first book to explicitly feature the work of the principal genius of the illustrious American architecture firm of McKim, Mead & White. The firm was also a prime mover in the realm of residential design, with Stanford White as its visionary head. As an architect of opulent houses--in Newport, Rhode Island, along the Hudson, on the Long Island Gold Coast, and elsewhere--Stanford White had few peers. His genius for this form is expressed nowhere more wonderfully than in such personal masterpieces as his country home Box Hill and his city home in Gramercy Park. Along with residential commissions for such eminent American families as the Vanderbilts, Astors, Pulitzers, Paynes, and Whitneys, Stanford White lent his eye and hand to New York's Pennsylvania Station, Brooklyn Museum, The American Academy in Rome, and the Boston Public Library, as well as many diverse commissions, including social clubs, public buildings, churches, monuments, university buildings, and many other forms, each of which is represented in this landmark volume.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 419 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white drawings from the architectural design sketchbooks of Paolo Soleri. Light wear to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 208 pages. Debate and banter between the irascible Philip Johnson and the equally articulate and opinionated Robert A. M. Stern generates a provocative combination of astute commentary and personal observation on the state of architecture in the twentieth century. Philip Johnson's multifaceted career as an architect, curator, and collector extended from the early 1920s to his death in 2005. Captivated by the work of the European modernists Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe, Johnson assembled the seminal exhibition "Modern Architecture--International Exhibition" at the Museum of Modern Art in 1932. Among his most notable achievements are the famous Glass House in Connecticut, designed for his own use, and the Seagram Building in New York, in association with Mies van der Rohe.Recognized as the dean of American architecture, Johnson had a profound influence on the next generation of architects, including Robert A. M. Stern. Stern has conducted a series of ten interviews with Johnson, each covering a decade of his life, that provide an illuminating assessment of a significant period of American architecture. No dj issued.

Hardcover. US, Tuttle Publishing, 1st, 2003-04-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 178 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Three scratches to fore-edge. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Haarlem Holland, Jon. Enschede En Zonen, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. A delightfully written and whimsically illustrated history of the Netherlands and its contributions to world history. Illustrated boards, 123 pages. Light rubbing to the edges and a little age-toning to the spine and tiny portion of the front cover, good hinges, sound text block, very clean pages free from names or other markings.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs, several color plates and architectural drawings by Vitale. Foreword by Horace Havemeyer III. Ferruccio Vitale is America's forgotten landscape architect. Though his works like Skylands and Longwood Gardens are well known, his name has been eclipsed by his contemporary, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. Yet Vitale's influence on the modern direction of landscape design and his promotion of it as a profession is arguably more significant than Olmsted's. His unique designs and philosophy, which challenged the then-dominant pictorial mode of landscape architecture, influenced generations of followers, and is still felt today. Vitale (1875-1933) developed his rationale designs, based on the principles of composition from the fine arts and architecture, in both civic commissions and, most notably, at the country estates of captains of industry and finance. He introduced an idealized and abstracted type of formal design that created beautiful spaces, structured large sites, and reflected informal and relaxed plant compositions. Ferruccio Vitale tours over 40 of his masterworks, photographed by some of the best landscape photographers of the time, including Samuel Gottscho. It recounts the compelling story of a life in the early twentieth century, influenced by immigrant dreams, social clubs, and professional connections, and its culmination in some of the greatest landscapes of the 20th century.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 245 pages, b&w and color photographs and illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy. The move to liveable communities--ideal ``small towns'' and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to place--is on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new ``small towns'' in Peter Katz's The New Urbanism. You'll discover the amazing potential for this kind of work as well as case studies, site plans, project analyses, and 180 beautiful photographs. This unique reference also tackles--and answers--the critical issues of crime, health, traffic, environmental degradation, and economic vitality and opens a startling window on the look and feel of future communities.

Hardcover. NY, Monacelli, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, color illustrations throughout. Highlights structures, both in the planning and executed stages, designed in the 1990s by the firm of Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects, that demonstrate the firm's sculptural achievements, including Da Monsta and the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. Introduction by Paul Goldberger. In a bright dust jacket, clean.

Hardcover. Editorial Gustavo Gili, SA, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Previous owners initials on upper right endpapers. front dust cover has former bookstore price tag residue. Very clean inside and out. In excellent condition. A collection of houses in which the 'residents-cum-creators' have devoted all of their ingenuity, energy and determination into constructing what they perceive to be the ideal domestic universe. They include Ludwig II of Bavaria's Linderhof, the Cesar Manrique Villa in Lanzarote, Salvador Dali's villa in Spain, Edward James' villa in Mexico, Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta, Alex Jordan's house on the rock and William Randolph Hearst's Xanadu.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Clean copy. The topic of streets and street design is of compelling interest today as public officials, developers, and community activists seek to reshape urban patterns to achieve more sustainable forms of growth and development. Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities traces ideas about street design and layout back to the early industrial era in London suburbs and then on through their institutionalization in housing and transportation planning in the United States. It critiques the situation we are in and suggests some ways out that are less rigidly controlled, more flexible, and responsive to local conditions.

Softcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1st pbk, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 50 pages of text, followed by hundreds of b&w illustrations. The original edition of Early Victorian Architecture in Britain was published in two volumes, one containing an extensive discussion and appreciation of early Victorian architecture by Mr Hitchcock, and the other containing a list of the illustrations the author had collected and the plates themselves. This single-volume paperback edition includes the original Preface, Acknowledgements, and first chapter of the original, as well as the illustrations. Clean, bright copy, small ownership stamp to front fly leaf.

Softcover. Portand ME, Maine Citizens For Historic Preservation, 1st, 1993.00, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 104 pages, oblong format, b&w photos. Scarce monograph on the historical architecture of the reclusive summer colony on the Maine coast. Prominent families such as the Cabots, Saltonstalls, the Lamonts and the Morrows transformed the small fishing village into an exclusive summer retreat and the homes erected for these "rusticators" are examined in detail. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 4th pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 241 pages illustrated in b&w. Foreword by Charles A. Blessing. Voluminously illustrated by the author with drawings and plans. Bibliography. Index. This book traces the history of urban design to date. The monograph has become a classic.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The seventh volume of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted presents the record of his last years of residence in New York City. It includes reports on the design of Riverside and Morningside parks and Tompkins Square in Manhattan, as well as his comprehensive plan for the street system and rapid transit routes of the Bronx. It records his continuing work on Central Park and presents his final retrospective statement, The Spoils of the Park. In addition, volume seven contains an annotated version of the journal in which Olmsted recorded instances of political maneuvering and patronage politics in the years before his dismissal from the New York parks department in 1878. Later documents chronicle the early stages of his planning of the Boston park system--the Back Bay Fens, Arnold Arboretum, and Riverway. Other major commissions, each with its own political complications, were the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, the completion of the new state capitol in Albany, the designing of a park on Mount Royal in Montreal, and construction of the park system of Buffalo, New York. The volume also presents Olmsted's commentary on issues of the times including federal Reconstruction policy and civil-service reform.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 220 pages. This book provides a fascinating history of the planning, design, and construction of the six-building Getty Center in Los Angeles, one of the great cultural complexes to be built in our time. Writing with wit and passion, Richard Meier takes us behind the scenes of the thirteen-year-long, one-billion-dollar project.

NY, William Helburn, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth covers stamped in gilt. 153 b&w plates, mostly photographic. American domestic interiors, homes from New Jersey, Delaware, southeastern Pennsylvania, and Maryland pictured in detail. An exceptional reference book in excellent condition, clean.

Softcover. Paris, ACAER/GPC, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 68 pages. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. French and English text. Black & white photographs. From the introduction: "This catalogue has been re-edited by advanced reading copy wraps en reve architecture centre with the Georges Pompidou Centre, for the presentation in France of the exhibition "Warchitecture-Sarajevo, a wounded city". The exhibition and the catalogue were prepared by the architects of the Sarajevo association, members of the associations of Architects of Bosnia-Herzegovina DAS-SABIH". Light rubbing to cover edges, minor creases at corners. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations. Like-new.