Architecture from Blue & Grey Book Shoppe

From back cover: "One April 27, 1806, during his second term as president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson confided to his friend Elizabeth Trist, 'I am preparing an occasional retreat in Bedford.' The property was a tract of land more than 4,000 acres that he had owned for over thirty years but had visited just four times - a… Read more about this item

From back cover: "A comprehensive guide to making dolls' houses in 1/24th scale Features plans for six models including a thatched cottage, Georgian house, Victorian shop and Tudor manor house Chapters on essential tools and equipment and recreating authentic architectural details Life-size plans for making period furniture and ideas for furnishing and accessorising the finished models Near Fine condition. Very minimal cover, edge, or corner… Read more about this item

From the Author's Preface: "In the past, books about historic preservation written for general readers tended to be one of two types. Either they were coffee-table volumes, lavishly illustrated...or they were tales of lament full of speckled documentary photos or stark mugshots of venerable old buildings..." "The structures and sites pictured in this book have been hidden not only by misconceptions… Read more about this item

From the back cover: "Waldo has taken quite a journey from a wide patch of the Santa Fe Trail to one of Kansas City's preeminent neighborhood centers. Since 1841, it has been a battlefield, railroad hub, mill town, border town, suburb, urban hotspot - and always a place where anything could happen..." New book in New condition. Clean. Tight. Please use… Read more about this item

From the back cover: "Brookside's burgundy-and-blue-striped awnings represent both a quaint corner of Kansas City where you can tread the creaky wooden floors of the Dime Store and a pragmatic philosophy that changed the way America planned its cities. Renowned developer J.C. Nichols's 'plan for permanence' was built on his conviction that if a community could offer its… Read more about this item

From the back cover: "One of the grand experiments of American Urban Planning lies tucked within the heart of Kansas City. J.C. Nichols prized the Country Club District as his life's work, and the scope of his vision required fifty years of careful development. Begun in 1905 and extending over a swath of six thousand acres, the project… Read more about this item

From the front dust jacket flap: This book celebrates the history of the city by focusing on the architecture of the homes, businesses, and neighborhoods. The book invites the citizens to look at their surrounds with awakened interest in their historic value and rich heritage. The book tells us in over 100 photographs what we must work at preserving… Read more about this item

From the front dust jacket flap: "For all its scholarship, this is no historian's source book, no dry text. The excitement inherent in the story of a lusty young nation would itself ensure engrossing reading. But every talent has been pressed into revealing that story as the gripping and meaningful one it really was. The wealth of pictures includes famous… Read more about this item

From the dust jacket: front flap, "The book takes the reader from the frontier and trading days through the era of President Harry Truman to the many worlds of the modern metropolis: its financial clout, its jazz tradition, its architecture and museums, the hotbed of its politics, its growing scientific and medical importance, its superb restaurants,… Read more about this item

Amazing compilation of vintage, sepia-toned photographs of Kansas City's places, people, and events. Includes some long, narrow "cirkut" photos - and has pictures of the rotating camera that takes that kind of photo. Very Good condition. Front cover has a few diagonal scratches impressed into the cover. They are only obvious from certain angle. Text is clean. A couple of… Read more about this item

From back cover: "As MIDNIGHT STRUCK on December 1, 1904, World's Fair President David R. Francis stood before a hushed crowd of 100,000 in Forest Park in St. Louis. He then threw a switch that extinguished forever the fair that had been a magical kingdom for seven months." This book tracks down some of the lost treasures of the Louisiana Purchase… Read more about this item

From back cover: Lara Copeland provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Kansas City through photos and captions. This book captures unique and rare scenes as depicted in more than a hundred historic black and white photographs. From the Civil War, to the turn of the century, to the building of a modern… Read more about this item

From the Introduction - This collection of historic photos was taken by two Kansas City photography firms: Tyner & Murphy Photographers and Anderson Photographers. The author has tried to be as factual as possible, but apologized in advance for any errors. Every page is filled with sepia toned photos. Book - Near Fine condition. Brown leather over boards with gold gilt… Read more about this item

Sellers note: I lived just a few blocks away from Crown Center and had just been to an event at the Hyatt the week before this disaster happened. When I heard the news of the skywalk collapse, it was hard to believe. The news spread fast and within hours I had friends from all over the country checking in… Read more about this item

From the Introduction: "This history is a panoramic view of the last hundred years as seen through the eyes of that keen and concerned observer of society - the advertiser. In presentations of food, clothing, housing, cigarettes, cosmetics, liquor, new inventions, travel, sport, art, and entertainment, we see how we have looked, lived, and thought from the days of the… Read more about this item

From back cover: "The Joy of Mathematics is designed to help the reader become aware of the inseparable relationship of mathematics and the world by presenting glimpses and images of mathematics in the many facets of our lives." - Science News." Other quotes mentioned it as "easily readable by all". Please see photo of Contents page - lots of interesting… Read more about this item

From inside front flap: "Art, in any form, has the capacity to change how we perceive the world around us. ...The medium of art glass is not bound by the restrictions that apply to many other artistic works. True, a stained glass window is the creation of an artist. But there is a divine quality added to the mix; each… Read more about this item

From back cover: "It's exciting to have such a well-researched and comprehensive guide to Kansas City's built environment that celebrates both the familiar icons and the hidden gems in our metro area." - Dawn Taylor, The American Institute of Architects/Kansas City Fine condition except for soft bends on both front and back covers. Otherwise clean and tight. Very minimal edge/corner… Read more about this item