Architecture / Urbanism, Cities & City Planning from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Nan A Talese; Doubleday, 2001. xxvi, 801 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated First Edition in the United States of America. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's… Read more about this item

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Cloth, v, 382 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Translation of: Venedig, die Kunst der Renaissance. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with a small corner crease/front flap, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "In the first contemporary… Read more about this item

New York and London: Liveright Publishing Corporation; W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. 606 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Bumped corners. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis… Read more about this item

New York: Rizzoli, 2014. 255 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This lavish book represents the modern movement in Cuban architecture, from art nouveau and art deco to the flowering of… Read more about this item

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

Wellington: Grantham House, 2009. [48] pages, all illustrations (chiefly colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "Napier today is a tourist destination for New Zealanders and overseas visitors, a popular port of call for tourist ships. In 1931 the population of the town was just over 16,000, today the population is over 57,000. It is one of New Zealand's… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1967. Cloth, 316 pages, illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Stated First Edition. Price-clipped dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: The city and its citizens; A turning-point; The classical ideal; The republic and the Medici; Man whole… Read more about this item

New York: Basic Books, 2000. xxvii, 706 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author. A near-fine copy of the first printing, spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "In the political history of the past century, no city has played a more… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. Pictorial boards, 281 pages, illustrations (some colour); 17 cm. An Alphabet City Media Book. Tight, clean copy. A fine copy of the first printing. "Artists and writers investigate the proposition that we are what we throw away." Refuse and refuse disposal in art. "Looking at how we are defined by what we waste, this work… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday; Random House, 2003. xxiv, 336 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. One leaf dogeared. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. "The greatest living chronicler of Venetian history brings to life the city's magical charm in a beautifully illustrated and captivating book. John Julius Norwich, the author of the acclaimed A History of Venice,… Read more about this item

New York: Ecco Press, 2006. xxv, 322 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers - and fortune hunters - than the lost city… Read more about this item

Charleston, SC: History Press, 2015. 223 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the authors, with a personalized inscription. A fine copy of the first printing. Profusely illustrated with vintage photographs. CONTENTS: Overview, by C. Robert Ullrich, Jane K. Keller and Joseph R. Reinhart; Immigration, xenophobia and bloody Monday, by John E. Kleber; Catholic churches, by William C. Schrader;… Read more about this item

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1992. 75 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. ISP papers, no. 1. Organized by the following Helena Rubinstein Fellows in the 1991-92 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program: Cristel Hollevoet, Karen Jones, Timothy Nye. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's blind stamp/half-title page, otherwise unmarked. CONTENTS: Conceptual art: a spatial perspective, by Timothy Nye; Wandering in… Read more about this item

New York: Newsweek; Wonders of Man Ser., 1982. Cloth, 172 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

New York: New American Library; A Meridian Book, 1970. 255 pages, illustrations, plans, portrait; 21 cm. F1035. Tight, clean copy. Small open tear/back cover. Browning. City planning. . Paperback. Good. 8vo.

New York: Dia Art Foundation; New Press, 1999. 312 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Discussions in contemporary culture, no. 6. Tight, clean copy. First thus. "This volume documents the present crisis in American urban housing policies and portrays how artists...within the context of neighborhood organizations, have fought against government neglect, shortsighted housing policies and unfettered real estate speculation. Through essays, photographs,… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Cloth, 402 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour); 24 cm. Originally published: London: Viking, 1999. Tight, clean copy. Stated First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. . 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Random House, 2003. viii, 276 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations, map; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The plague first sailed into San Francisco on the steamer Australia, on the day after New Year's in 1900. Though the ship passed inspection,… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1995. 214 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

London and New York: Routledge, 2011. xvii, 444 pages, illustrations, maps; 26 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Providing a full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events, this substantially revised and enlarged edition builds on the success of its predecessor. Its coverage takes account of important new scholarship as well as adding reflections on the experience of… Read more about this item