Architecture / History from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Santa Barbara, CA: Viejo Press, 2012. 46 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 x 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. Oblong.

New York: Da Capo Press, 1976. xxi, 50 pages, [100] leaves of plates, illustrations; 27 cm. Abridged. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, age toning. First paperback edition. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2006. Pictorial boards, 576 pages, illustrations, maps; 31 cm. Photography by John Reynolds. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards & dust jacket. Protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "The stately and historic buildings, monuments, and structures of London come alive in this… Read more about this item

San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press, 1999. Cloth, 300 pages, colour illustrations; 37 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. Cloth, ix, 366 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket, with a creased front flap, protected in a mylar cover. "Through much of the Scientific Revolution, between 1650 and 1750, Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Constructed initially to solve the pressing problem of providing an… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1961. Cloth, 318 pages, illustrations (some colour); 33 cm. Photographs by Edwin Smith. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket price-clipped on the front flap, with its back cover torn & taped, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Folio.

Lincolnwood, IL: Publications International, Inc., 1990. 256 pages, colour illustrations; 33 cm. Firm binding, unmarked. Dust spotting/edges, more pronounced on the top edge. Dust jacket, with a slightly sunned spine (bold & legible titles), protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

London: Academy Editions; St. Martin's Press, 1994. 144 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 28 cm. Papers based on material presented at an international conference/exhibition on post-modernism and national cultures which was held at the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, in October 1993. Firm binding, clean inside copy. CONTENTS: Moscow, October 4, 1993, 10:10 am: Modernity is Dead, by Charles Jencks; Apocalypse and Utopia… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. Cloth, xx, 283 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Revised edition of Bauhaus-Architektur: die Rezeption in Amerika, 1919-1936. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "After the Bauhaus's closing in 1933, many of its protagonists moved to the United States, where their acceptance had to be cultivated. In this book Margret Kentgens-Craig shows that… Read more about this item

Washington D.C.: Published for Cooper-Hewitt Museum by Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978. 144 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's blind stamp/half-title page, otherwise unmarked. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, age toning. . 1st. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Gizeh; Giza: Abydos Publications, 2010. 1 volume [96 pages], colour illustrations; 22 x 22 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First edition. Profusely illustrated. . 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1965. 112 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. MIT 21. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Missing blank flyleaf. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "One of the most important books on the modern movement in architecture, The New Architecture and the Bauhaus poses some of the fundamental problems presented by the relations of art and industry… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994. Cloth, 171 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "The intense fascination with the golden age of Newport, Rhode Island, where the wealthy families of turn-of-the-century America… Read more about this item

New York: Free Press; Simon & Schuster, 2010. xiv, 496 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Free Press hardcover edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The definitive account of the epic construction of the Hoover Dam, one of the the twentieth century's most… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2004. Pictorial boards, 239 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 30 cm. Photography by Noah Sheldon. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: Introduction: why Colonial Revival?; Explorations: 1781 to the Civil War. Vassall-Craigie Longfellow… Read more about this item

New York: Monacelli Press, 2008. Pictorial boards, 207 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. A Buell Center/Columbia book of architecture. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First edition. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Encounters with Philip Johnson: a partial memoir, by Robert A. M. Stern; Upbringing; MoMA and the international style; The right; Architecture school and military service;… Read more about this item

New York: Abrams, 2008. 511 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 17 cm. Tight, clean copy. A fine copy of the first printing.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 12mo. Collectible.

London and New York: Thames and Hudson; World of Art Ser., 1992. 376 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. First published, 1980. Tight, clean copy. Superb survey. Profusely illustrated with 362 illustrations.. 3rd. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Washington D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1992. ix, 84 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. CONTENTS: The first capitol dome; The new dome; "Honor, name, family": the Megis-Walter troubles; The dome's redesign of 1859; Contract and war clouds; "That magnificent dome".. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Cloth, 329 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Photographs by Morley Baer, Roger Sturtevant, and others; architectural drawings by Randolph Meadors and Floyd Campbell. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First Edition. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.… Read more about this item