Hardcover. Thistle Hill Publications & Vermont Folklife Center, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 108 pages, 68 b&w photographs. Granite and Cedar represents an unusual collaboration between a documentary photographer and a writer of fiction to produce a haunting portrait of the people and the land of Vermont's most rural area, often referred to as the "Northeast Kingdom." Veteran photographer JOHN M. MILLER uses his brilliant collection of elegiac, but unsentimental, images dating from the 1970s to evoke the disappearing folkways, the rugged people, and the desolate and abandoned landscape of his native corner of the Green Mountain State. Miller's austere, black-and-white photos richly detail the erosion and the breakup of the small farms of the region and of the families who worked those farms. While they emphasize the stark beauty of the land, they also pay homage to the innate dignity and fierce pride of the people who live in such hardscrabble circumstances.
Softcover. Van Nostrand Reinhold , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 128 pages, b&w illustrations. A instructive handbook that divides interior design into seven parts: space, scale, structure, materials, sound, light and color. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Whitney Library of Design, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, color plates. A collection of fine color illustrations and text describing conversions of a variety of structures (a barn, firehouse, power station, martello tower...) to residential use. Exciting and refreshingly different homes. Great ideas in a charming book.
Hardcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1wt, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. full blue cloth, silver lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W and color photographs and reproductions. A visual tour of the great country English houses through the ages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright. lightly worn dust jacket. 240 pages illustrated in color. A full-color survey of the architectural firm of Greene & Greene that almost single-handedly defined the Arts & Crafts aesthetic in America in the first decades of the 20th century. An in-depth tour of 25 magnificent homes examines the creative evolution of their style as well as surveying their greatest works. Light tape repair to spine of dust jacket.
Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor foxing to front flyleaf. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Black and white photographs throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF.
Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 364 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Wandering the streets of Harlem for the past forty years, Camilo Vergara has noticed and miraculously recorded those moments of great human invention that have been largely overlooked by the official chronicles of architecture and urban history. For this reason, his photographs are unique and indispensable.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 364 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Photographer Camilo Jose Vergara has been chronicling the neighborhood for forty-three years, and Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto is an unprecedented record of urban change. Vergara began his documentation of Harlem in the tradition of such masters as Helen Levitt and Aaron Siskind, and he later turned his focus on the neighborhood's urban fabric, both the buildings that compose it and the life and culture embedded in them. By repeatedly returning to the same locations over the course of decades, Vergara is able to show us a community that is constantly changing--some areas declining, as longtime businesses give way to empty storefronts, graffiti, and garbage, while other areas gentrify, with corporate chain stores coming in to compete with the mom-and-pops. He also captures the ever-present street life of this densely populated neighborhood, from stoop gatherings to graffiti murals memorializing dead rappers to impersonators honoring Michael Jackson in front of the Apollo, as well as the growth of tourism and racial integration. Woven throughout the images is Vergara's own account of his project and his experience of living and working in Harlem. Taken together, his unforgettable words and images tell the story of how Harlem and its residents navigated the segregation, dereliction and slow recovery of the closing years of the twentieth century and the boom and racial integration of the twenty-first century. A deeply personal investigation, Harlem will take its place with the best portrayals of urban life.
Hardcover. NY, Prestel, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 104 pages. Ever since Fidel Castro came to power as the leader of Cuba's communist regime in 1959, Havana has remained all but impenetrable to the outside world. The revolution cut Cuba off from the West, but at the same time preserved a century of built substance and style through the accident of fmancial stagnation. Without capital investment, time stood still, and five epochs of architectural style have survived to the present day. From the majesty of colonial city palaces to the half-hearted hope of heroic modernism, Engels' photographs show a city in silent transition, a microcosm of architecture through the ages. All of the structures picttired here were built in the twentieth century, but for the most part they have suffered from neglect in the form of peeling paint and stucco, &M grime, and abandonment. Yet there is utter beauty and dignity here-a sense of being trapped in time-that is no longer evident in America's everchanging cities. Like the structures he photographs, Engels uses a timeless approach to the artistic and technical aspect of his work. He uses a Sinar catnera with a 4 x 5 inch format, standing under a darkening cloth, just as photographers did a century ago. Using a Polaroid image to feel and see the light, Engels takes a single shot of each building. Most of these images were taken during die month of February, in 1997 and 1999 respectively. These photographs of apartment dwellings, office buildings, private residences, and places of worship tell a story on their own. Their haunting images seem to speak about more than just the men who made them or the materials they are made of. The buildings and streetscapes depicted in Havana speak to us of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 pages illustrated in b&w. Printed card wrappers, staple bound. Exhibition shown from March to May 1970. Architect Hector Guimard is the best-known representative of the French Art Nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Delano Greenidge Editions, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 396 pages, lavishly illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Guimard is the pre-eminent architect of Art Nouveau in France. He influenced French architecture and design in the first half of the 20th century. He was also the architect of a number of Paris Metro entrances. He was regarded as an architect who wielded the greatest influence on the popular imagination in Paris during the late 19th- and early 20th centuries.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with bright gilt lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated with 56 reproductions of etchings, aquatints, and drawings by John Taylor Arms, each with a captioned tissue-guard.. A delightful travelogue with exquisite artwork of John Taylor Arms. He specialized in portraying the gothic architecture of France and Italy. Traveling the back roads and visiting the then out-of-the-way towns of northern Italy by car, he visually captures the look and feel as his wife provides a charming travelog. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Santa Monica CA, Arts & Architecture Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 172 pages. Building in the hills is an enterprise full of unpleasant surprises and traps just waiting to snare the inexperienced. Arthur Levin, a structural engineer and architect who has been involved in more than 2,000 hillside projects, offers a distillation of his 35 years of experience that will help the uninitiated to avoid the otherwise inevitable pitfalls and traps. The book has many real life examples of the unexpected encounters with unstable land, surface drainage problems, subterranean water, demanding owners, uncooperative building inspectors, inexperienced contractors, and other examples of the author's triumphs and occasional enlightening failures. All of these brief histories are instructive and guaranteed to be of invaluable help to the first or second time hillside designer and builder. More than 110 line drawings illuminate the text.
Softcover. Newark, New Jersey Historical Society, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue pictorial wrappers, lettered in white on the spine and front cover. Illustrations nearly every page with one or more b&w photographs of historic buildings (old houses, barns, churches, schools, prisons, floor plans, interior and exterior views, etc.) plus architectural details, plans and measured drawings. Clean copy.
Softcover. Montpelier VT, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers with slight crease and sun-fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Montpelier VT, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, green wrappers, 309 pages, b&w illustrations. Building by building description of the pre-20th century residential and commercial building stock of each town in Addison County Vermont. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 527 pages, with 316 illustrations throughout, gilt top edge and titles on green cloth board. Minor corner bumps and edge wear and fade, frontispiece page loose, and previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf. Overall, clean and tight copy, a limited edition. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1880, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 331 pages, with gilt top edge and titles. Minor corner and edge wear, light crack along spine but no loose pages, overall, clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Florida, Brevard County Historical Commission, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 271 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Gilt decoration on cover. Gilt titles on spine. Small tear to bottom corner of dust jacket repaired with tape. Light wear to dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Architectural Press, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 487 pages. Oversized book. Black & white photography of English architecture. Light spinewear. Dust jacket with soiling and chipping. Small chunk missing from top of spine.
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. Gloucester, MA, Quarry Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 144 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, glossy, excellent. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful, nearly new condition. This book guides readers through all the aspects of creating a beautiful and comfortable home that elegantly takes advantage of media-related furnishings and emerging technologies.
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