Architecture from JimsOldBooks

Dublin: Dublin City Council, 2015. Hardback edition. A small tear to top edge of front panel of unclipped dustwrapper, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Deals with the twenty-four bridges in Dublin city and county that span the river Liffey. A heavy book, packaged weight is about 1200g, so extra postage will… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Canongate, 2017. Very slight creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Autobiographical memoirs from the author, and his favourable opinions on modern architecture. A heavy book, packaged weight would be about 1200g, so extra postage will be required… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1951. Rebound in red boards with gilt titles on spine. Slight scuffing to corners of boards and to bottom end of spine, minor fading to spine but gilt titles thereon are still bright, some yellowing to the pages as would be expected, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. An early volume… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976. No dustwrapper, a small mark to outer edge of front board and to spine, possibly from the book being part of a bundle tied with string, minor bumping to corners, a slight crease to the spine, a previous owner's name on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally published in… Read more about this item

London: B T Batsford, 1954. Some creasing and small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, also some rubbing to sides of spine of same. Minor bumping to spine ends of blue boards and some fading to ends of same. Original owner's embossed stamp on f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Originally… Read more about this item

London: B T Batsford, 1905. No dustwrapper, some bumping to spine ends and corners of dark green boards, gilt titles on spine are rubbed but still readable, the black titles and decoration on front board is all clear. Contains 100 full-page b&w pictures of houses from photographs taken by W Galsworthy Davie; and an introductory account by E Guy… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. Very slight creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, also some corrugation to bottom edge of same where it has got wet at some point, though with no damage to the illustration. A tiny bit of bumping to corners of black boards, again a little bit of corrugation to bottom edge of outer pages,… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969. Price-clipped dustwrapper has creasing and tears to the edges, some bumping to spine ends and corners of brown boards, a previous owner's name on half-title, otherwise a good tight copy of this hard-cover book. The author looks at Gothic architecture and other detail as found in English mediaeval churches (in the first half of… Read more about this item

London: B T Batsford, 1946. Second edition from 1946. Creasing and small tears to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper, with a few small bits missing along the edges and a larger tear to the front panel. Some bumping to spine ends and corners of red boards, a previous owner's name (scribbled out) on f/ep, otherwise a good clean… Read more about this item

London: Batsford, 1982. Paperback edition from 1982. Minor creasing to spine, a crease to the first page, some pencil notes and underlining in the text by a previous owner, otherwise a good tight copy of this soft-cover book. Deals with the architecture of the Roman Empire from the time of Augustus in the first century AD up to… Read more about this item

Krakow: Universitas, 1991. A small crease to the spine and minor wear to the edges of the cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this Polish-language book. Written in Polish. Title translates as ''The Art of Crakow and Galicia in the Nineteenth Century''. A collection of ten essays by different authors. 160pp plus 64pp b&w… Read more about this item

Riga, Latvia: Avots, 1991. No dustwrapper (as issued), previous owner has written ''Riga'' on the otherwise blank spine, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Shows old postcards of Riga in Latvia from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, at the time that the country was still part of Imperial Russia. Text in Latvian,… Read more about this item

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1968. No dustwrapper. Ex library copy with white numbers on spine of blue cloth-covered boards, labels inside front board, ink stamps on f/ep, title page and rev, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A ''selective'' guide to buildings of architectural interest in Illinois. 304pp, 150 b&w illustrations..… Read more about this item