Hardcover. New York , Quantuck Lane Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Oversized hardcover, 168 pages. A stunning collection of photographs immortalizing one of the most ambitious efforts at historic preservation ever undertaken. In the 1970s, Adelaide de Menil and Ted Carpenter began acquiring, restoring, and moving to their East Hampton property historically significant buildings of Long Island. Four decades later the eighteen buildings were moved several miles away, where architect Robert A. M. Stern interconnected and reinterpreted the buildings as East Hampton's Town Hall. 36 four-color and 63 black-and-white photographs
Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1903 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1903 and 1904) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1903: 373 pages plus 13 full-page b&w and color plates. Part two for 1904: 354 pages plus 14 b&w (including 2 fold-outs). Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine.
Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1905 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1905 and 1906) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1905: 382 pages plus 13 full-page b&w plates and 1 color fold-out. Part two for 1906: 303 pages plus 16 b&w and 2 color plates. Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine.
Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1913 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1913 and 1914) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1913: 410 pages plus 22 full-page b&w plates. Part two for 1914: 362 pages plus 20 b&w plates. Plus a 164 page catalogue of lantern slides in the Society's collection. Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine.
Hardcover. London, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 1st, 1915 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two years (1915 and 1916) bound in one volume. Handsome half black calf with raised bands on spine along with red label and gilt lettering. Part one for 1915: 290 pages plus 9 full-page b&w plates. Part two for 1916: 417 pages plus 9 b&w plates. Former university library with minimal stamping to edge of text block and on bookplate inside front cover. Sticker residue to bottom of spine. Chip to calf at top of spine.
Hardcover. New York, Aperture/SADEV, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 104 pages, b&w photographs, small format catalogue with extensive notes. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket. Bridges made aerial photographs of the earthworks in Peru, Yucatan and Chiapas, and in the U.S. in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Mississippi, South Dakota, as well as France and England. Preface by Haven O'More. Essays by Maria Reiche, Charles Gallenkamp, Lucy Lippard, Keith Critchlow. Clean, bright in an unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. College Station, Texas, Texas A&M University Press, 1st Edition, 1994, Book: Very Good, 314 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in green cloth, black title on spine, just a touch of chipping at top and bottom of spine and top of front cover board. Dust jacket unclipped, has a small (patched from underneath) 1" tear at top of front cover (see image), some small creasing at top of front cover, as well (see image) otherwise very good. Previous owner's name at top of front endpaper and stamp on front flyleaf. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean. A guide to the study of the most marvelous structures ever built by humankind--wooden ships and boats a value to historians, authors, model builders, and other interested in the design and construction of wooden watercraft of the past.
