architecture history

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages, paperback. Cultural criticism regarding the Weimar Republic. With many color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Examines intellectual life in the Weimar Republic, looks at paintings, caricatures, dance, architecture, and films, and discusses the Nazi rise to power.

Softcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in a cardboard slipcase. A large-scale publication dedicated to the 1950s as captured in the pages of American Vogue. This book is illustrated by fashion's greatest photographs of that period-the era when the magazine became the cultural force it is today. One of only seven editors in chief in American Vogue's history, Jessica Daves has remained one of fashion's most enigmatic figures. Diana Vreeland's direct predecessor in the role, it is Daves who first catapulted the magazine into modernity. A testament to a changing America on every level, Daves's Vogue was the first to embrace a "high/low" blend of fashion in its pages and to introduce world-renowned artists, literary greats, and cultural icons into every issue, offering the reader a complete vision of how design, interiors, architecture, entertaining, art, literature, and culture all connected and contributed to refining and defining taste and personal style. Daves profiled icons of American style, from John and Jackie Kennedy to Charles and Ray Eames, alongside Dior, Chanel, Givenchy, and Balenciaga creations. Organized in multifaceted, thematic chapters, 1950s in Vogue features carefully curated photographs, illustrations, and page spreads from the Vogue archives (with iconic images as well as lesser-known wonders), and unpublished photographs and letters from Jessica Daves's personal archives. Clean, bright copy. Slipcase with minor wear, line in bottom edge. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages with a fold-out plan, 2 other b&w plates. A facsimile reproduction of the 1745 publication. Introduction by Morris R. Brownell. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, England, Gret Western Railway, 1st edition, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 154 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrated frontispiece, color and b/w illustrations, including several fold out blueprint diagrams, throughout. Previous owner's ID stamp on front flyleaf. Red cover boards (some fading), black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Pages unmarked, some light tanning from age. Binding good, spine straight. With additional chapter on "Monastic Life and Buildings" by A. Hamilton Thompson, M.A., D.LITT., F.S.A. Professor of Mediaeval History in the University of Leeds. With One Hundred Illustrations by Photographic Reproduction, fifty-six drawings, thirteen plans, seven color plates and map (in pocket on back endpapers).

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.

Softcover. US, Laurence King Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. This is the first comprehensive survey of Modernist graphic design as it emerged in America in the period from 1920 and 1960 in various media--advertising, information design, brand identity, magazine design, book design, and posters. It examines the great works which by mid-century had defined American graphic design. The book begins with a section devoted to the emergence of Modernism and its major historical influence, such as European avant-garde movements, popular culture, educational innovations such as the Bauhaus School, architecture, industrial design, and photography. The heart of the book includes the key works of mid-century Modernism as it matured into a fully-formed American style, bringing together such great names as Alexey Brodovitch, Lester Beall, Paul Rand, Saul Bass, Will Burtin, and Alvin Lustig. The final section looks at the impact of and reactions to this new movement as graphic design in America matured in the 1960s and beyond.

Hardcover. Woodstock, New York, The Overlook Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Encyclopedic volume featuring the historical evolution of American homes. Hardcover, 320 pages. Over 1000 black/white illustrations, including architectural plans for each variety of home discussed. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, only flaw on the dust jacket is a small blue ink stain on the front.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill , 1st, 1979, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 228 pages. Edgar Tafel was an apprentice who lived and worked with Frank LLoyd Wright. With his insights and insider information, this fascinating history shows a personal, social, and work life, and how Wright's creativity evolved, the processes in his designs, building, and constructions, and more. Clean copy.

Softcover. Anchorage Museum of History and Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 58 pages. Illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings .In original white self-wrappers. Chipperfield's proposal for the Anchorage Museum's addition, completed in 2010. Includes examples of Chipperfield's other museum work, his statement on "Presence" and essays by others on the building process. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, An extraordinary work, unparalleled in its breadth and depth of detail, this three-volume set offers the first comprehensive history of architecture and town planning throughout colonial North America, from Russian Alaska to French Quebec, to Spanish Florida and California, to British, Dutch, and other settlements on the East Coast. Across this vast terrain, James Kornwolf conjures the outlines of the constructed environment as it emerged in settlements and communities, in structures and sites, and in the flourishes and idiosyncrasies of the families and individuals who erected and inhabited colonial buildings and towns. Here as never before readers can observe the impulses and principles of colonial design and planning as they are implemented in the buildings and streets, harbors and squares, gardens and landscapes of the New World. Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's massive work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities-their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes-as they extended their hold on the land. His work conveys for the first time the full scale, from intimate to grand, of their enduring transformation of the natural landscape of North America. NOTE: DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Penguin Books, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket housed in a pictorial cardboard slipcase. 234 pages, 192 b/w plates, glossary, bibliography. Describes the architecture of the period that stretches from the Early Renaissance to the post-Waterloo Greek and Gothic Revivals. Among the great names of those centuries were Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren, Vanbrugh, Robert Adam, and John Nash. During the same period were built Hampton Court, Hatfield, the new St Paul's, the City Churches, the graceful London Squares, and the crescents and terraces of Bath. In addition to the main text there are two long appendices, one on Scottish architecture and the other on the architecture c f the Thirteen Colonies. Numerous plans, the majority of which have been especially drawn for this book, and over three hundred half-tone illustrations form an integral part of the author's account. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Salem, MA, Essex Institute, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Reference guide to historical architecture in Salem, Massachusetts, with reviews of over 350 buildings. 311 pages, fully illustrated with black/white photographs and maps. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, no internal marks; dust jacket has wear at the corners and on the ends of the spine, two rips along the top edge.

Hardcover. Salt Lake City, Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive color photography throughout. Illustrated endpapers and fly leaves. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Historical and biographical volume on the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. 544 pages. Includes drawings, notes, and writings by Frank Lloyd Wright. Near fine condition; book is still in shrinkwrap that has some tears near the spine and on some corners.

Hardcover. London, Country Life, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete, large folio (15" X 12"). 344 and 361 pages plus 100 appendix and index pages. pale green cloth with gilt lettering and design, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece in Volume II, profusely illustrated with about 700 b&w illustrations, plans and drawings. Clean, bright set. First edition of Arthur T. Bolton's monumental monograph on the architecture of Robert (1728-1792) and James Adam (1732-1794), two Scottish brothers who were renowned neoclassical architects, interior and furniture designers.

Hardcover. London, Batsford, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A history of the evolution of the Arts of Building, Decoration and Garden Design under classical influence. Many b&w photos, Illustrations. 528 pgs. Some sun-fading to spines, else a clean, tight set.

Hardcover. New York, H.N. Abrams, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 606 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white photographs throughout.

Hardcover. Notre Dame IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black and gilt. 227 pages plus a section of b&w plates in rear.. A series of nine papers delivered at a conference with the same name in 1988 at the University of Notre Dame. It considered the relationship between politics and the literary and visual arts. Political scientists and anthropologists focus on the institutions that express power relationships. The aim of the Notre Dame Conference was to consider the relationship between politics and the literary and visual arts. The visual arts considered in this volume range from the traditional fine arts categories of painting, sculpture and architecture to minor art objects such as medals, badges, banners and seals. In general terms, the study of politics denotes the study of power relationships. Within this larger framework political scientists and anthropologists have chosen to focus on the institutions and structures that express these relationships and/or the actions that are undertaken by individuals and groups to define, alter, or reinforce them. Clean copy.

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. This gorgeous volume was published in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition "Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861." Its 636 pages include a stunning array of prints and photographs. A painted overlook of New York City wraps around the front and back cover. The front cover has a small crease at the top left edge. On page 240, type is slightly out of register but remains readable.

Softcover. Paris, Books & Co., 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 169 pages. A volume on French Art Nouveau design, architecture and interior decoration. Features designs by Emile Galle, Alphonse Mucha, Paul Signac and others. Color illustrations throughout.

Softcover. Bright Mountain Books , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 358 pages, b&w illustrations throughout, Sometimes called the Paris of the South, Asheville, North Carolina, is known for its grand mountain views, rich and diverse culture, deep-rooted artistic heritage, historic architecture, and the legendary Biltmore Estate. Asheville: Mountain Majesty is an excellent source for discovering, or rediscovering, these and other facets of the city and its history.A lifelong resident of Asheville and regional historian, author Lou Harshaw offers a firsthand look at the history and development of this magnificent city by drawing upon a host of historical sources as well as an extensive oral tradition. She follows the development of Asheville from village to town to city, always reflecting the feeling of the times. The result is a journey through time, documenting the evolution of one of the most intriguing cities in the United States.Asheville: Mountain Majesty is enhanced by a wealth of period images, complemented by the author's contemporary photography.

Middlesex, Baltimore, Victoria, Penguin Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, burgundy cloth covers in an edgeworn dust jacket. 370 pages, 200 black-and-white illustrations, 32 figures as drawings (floor plans, sectional and frontal views, etc), maps. Translated from the German by Elisabeth Hempel and Marguerite Kay. Clean. No slipcase.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st , 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dustjacket. Ground plans of the Indian villages of New Mexico and Arizona with aerial photos & scale drawings.

Softcover. London, Seven Dials, Cassell & Co., 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Softcover with French flaps. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Previous bookstore price tag on back cover. Edges of pages slightly yellow, otherwise very clean inside and out.