American Architecture
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American Splendor
by Michael C Kathrens
American Splendor is a series of autobiographical comic books written by Harvey Pekar and drawn by a variety of artists. The first issue was published in 1976 and the most recent in September 2008, with publication occurring at irregular intervals. Publishers have been, at various times, Harvey Pekar himself, Dark Horse Comics, and DC Comics.
Michael Graves, Henry Hornbostel
by Ga: Emory University Museum Of Art and Archaeology, Mar 7 To May 15, 1985 Atlanta
American Architecture Books & Ephemera
Lights Along the Schuylkill
by Rivinus, Marion W
[Philadelphia]: Philadelphia Parks Commission (?), 1967. Hardcover. VG/G+. Dust jacket shows scuffing, light foxing, writing on front flap. Clean contents.. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Blue illustrated dust jacket. ix, 85 pp. Several BW illustrations. This book "is a book of reference about Fairmount Park and not a regular guide book. It tells of the past and present. The author has been intimately connected with the Park and its plans and progress since early youth, owing to her family...
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SGD 41.32
New York's Pennsylvania Stations
by Ballon, Hilary
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002. Hardcover. VG/VG. minor indentations to cover edges; light shelf-wear.. Green cloth, pictorial DJ. 223 pp. Profuse bw and color plates. A nice copy. Looks at the past, present and future of an essential part of New York's transportation infrastructure.
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SGD 41.32
Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture
by Rykwert, John
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1996. Hardcover. VG (boards have light scratches, scuffs & smudges. light edge-wear & rubbing to corners. light to moderate stain to upper edge of textblock; faint to light remnants to pg edges. dustjacket scuffed & smudged; light interior staining to lower edge & spine, does not affect book; light adhesive residue to lower spine w/ small rubbed spots). black cloth boards w/ reflective, lime green printing to spine. book xviii, 598 pgs w/ bw illustration. black,...
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SGD 82.72
New England Meeting House and Church: 1630 - 1850
by Peter Benes and Phillip D. Zimmerman
Manchester, NH: Boston University and The Currier Gallery of Art, 1979. Softcover. VG, shelf wear to covers. Blue ill. wraps. xi, 177 pp. Profuse bw ills. Exhibition catalogue. Text by Peter Benes and Phillip D. Zimmerman. Exploration of early New England Meeting Houses, their structures, features and artifacts. The organizers paid close attention to the interrelationship between meeting houses' physical features and their spiritual function and aesthetic value. Published to accompany the exhibition...
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SGD 41.32
The Hunter House, "Mansion of Hospitality
by Porter, Daniel R
Newport, Rhode Island: The Preservation Society of Newport County, 1976. Softcover. VG. Green/tan illus. card wraps, stapled. 20 pp. with 10 bw images. A history and physical description of one of the most distinguished late colonial residences remaining in Newport.
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SGD 41.32
Victorian America: Classical Romanticism to Gilded Opulence
by Garrett, Wendell and David Larkin
New York: Rizzoli, 1993. Hardcover. VG. Some bumping and wear to spine and corners of wraps.. Color illus wraps, white spine with black lettering. 300 pp., many color illus. "This is Victorian American as it has never been presented before -- over 50 historic homes featured in specially commissioned photographs. Includes the homes of the Vanderbilts, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Alexander Jackson, and other great houses of the period." (publisher). Inscribed to friends from the author on the half-titled.
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SGD 41.36
Hodgetts + Fung: Scenarios and Spaces
by Forster, Kurt Walter
New York: Rizzoli, 1997. Hardcover. New in shrinkwrap.. Black and color-illustrated boards with yellow lettering. 168 pp. Color and BW illustrations. "With backgrounds in theater, film, and industrial design, Craig Hodgetts and Hsin-Ming Fung, the principals of this award-winning Los Angeles-based firm, celebrate architecture's theatricality and the visual, media-oriented culture of Southern California. Hodgetts + Fung's brightly colored, rigorously structured buildings and installations cleverly...
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SGD 48.25
Machado and Silvetti Associates: Firm Profile
Boston, Mass: Machado and Silvetti Associates, 2007. Softcover. VG. Black wraps with silver lettering, unpaginated, profused color images of their projects. A catalogue of architectural projects by this Massachusetts firm, also listing awards and testimonials. Beautiful photography. Beautiful architecture. Major museums.
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SGD 41.32
Designing for Industry: The Architecture of Albert Kahn
by Hildebrand, Grant
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1974. Hardcover. VG- clean content but with some shelf rubbing to covers; art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks.. Tan cloth/oblong boards; silver lettering. Missing dust jacket. xvii + 232 pp. with 99 bw images. Albert Kahn designed his first factory in 1903; by 1918, when he began the Rouge River Ford Plant, he had become the foremost industrial architect of the United States. His reputation soon became international; between 1929 and 1932 Kahn and his staff...
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SGD 268.85
Annapolis Houses 1700-1775
by Davis, Deering
New York: Bonanza Books, 1947. Reprint. Hardcover. VG/VG, DJ upper and lower edges slightly torn. Bluish cloth, blue-green DJ. 124 pp. Profuse bw plates. Foreword by Joseph Mullen. Includes annotated plates of notable historic buildings. This book printed circa 1974 and is an exact reprint of the 1947 edition.
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SGD 41.32
Wright for Wright
by Howard, Hugh
New York, NY: Rizzoli, 2001. Hardcover. VG (first page carries lavish signature of architect-former owner; slight foxing to edge of book block; surfaces are clean.). Dark salmon stamped cloth, black & red & color illus. dust jacket, 160 pp., color illus. "The building of Frank Lloyd Wright exercise a kind of architectural magic on the people who visit them, inspiring a sense of wonder at their visual elements, dramatic energy, and ingenious compositional features. These qualities are no more evident...
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SGD 41.32
Frederick Law Olmsted Designing the American Landscape
by Beveridge, Charles E.; Paul Rocheleau and David Larkin
New York: Rizzoli, 1995. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (shelf-wear to board edges. bump & crease to spine tail. light wear to cloth. dustjacket front, lower flap has an approx 1.5 flapped tear; lower spine roughly creased & torn; spine top creased; scuffs, scratches). Green cloth with blind stamping on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 276 pp, richly illustrated in mostly color. Photo is of a previous copy. "A man of passionate vision and drive, Frederick Law Olmsted defined and...
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SGD 55.15
Inca Architecture
by Gasparaini, Graziano and Luise Margolies
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1980. Hardcover. VG-/VG-. Minor edge wear to dj, creasing to front flap. Light tanning along edges of cloth. Owner's writing on ffep, otherwise clean and tight.. Brown cloth with red cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine. White and BW-illustrated dust jacket, red lettering; mylar cover. xv; 350 pp. Filled with BW illustrations. English edition. Translated by Patricia J. Lyon, foreword by John V. Murra. "Separate chapters are devoted to technical and formal...
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SGD 55.15
American Renaissance: A Review of Domestic Architecture
by Dow, Joy Wheeler
New York: William T. Comstock, 1904. Hardcover. Fair (heavy wear to boards, soiling to block, library plate inside front cover, library stamped throughout pages, illustrations and text are otherwise clear.). Green cloth with gilt lettering; bw illustrated frontispiece; 182 pp. 96 bw plates;. The author seeks to define and characterize an American style of architecture resulting from available materials, climate and taste, among other variables. Wheeler discusses many houses throughout New England and...
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SGD 55.15
Year Book of the Architectural League of New York and Catalogue of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Exhibition
by Architectural League of New York
New York: The Architectural League of New York, 1914. Hardcover. Good (shelfwear to boards , age toning to pages but text and plates are otherwise clean and clear.). Grey/brown boards w/ gold emblem. 312 pp. Profuse bw plates, several color plates. Title on front cover: Architectural League of New York, 1914. Represents the work of architect and designer members of the league. Includes vintage photos of various buildings, interiors and exteriors, as well as select sculptures and decorative art...
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SGD 103.40
New York on the Rise: Architectural Renderings by Hughson Hawley
by Hawley, Hughson and Janet Parks
New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1998. Paperback. VG- (light wear to wraps, interior is otherwise clean and clear.). Brown wraps with color illustrations and white lettering, 63 pp, illustrated throughout in bw and color. Catalog essay by Janet Parks. Issued in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Museum of the City of New York, Nov. 25, 1998 through April 4, 1999. Includes bibliographical references.
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SGD 41.36
The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays
by Rowe, Colin
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1980. Softcover. G, covers show wear and pages edges have foxing. Pages clean.. Illustrated soft cover. 223 pp. with 83 bw plates. Additional essay titles include: Mannerism and Modern Architecture; Character and Composition, or Some Vicissitudes of Architectural Vocabulary in the 19th Century; Chicago Frame; Neo-'Classicicm' and Modern Architecture I (and II); Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal (with Robert Slutzky); La Tourette; and The Architecture of Utopia....
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SGD 41.36
American Architecture of the Twentieth Century: A Series of Photographs and Measured Drawings of Modern, Civic, Commercial and Industrial Buildings. Volume One and Volume Two
by Reagan, Oliver (Ed.)
NY: Architectural Book Publishing Co. (Paul Wenzel and Maurice Krakow), 1929. Hardcover. Good (overall shelfwear to covers, cloth spines torn, light chipping and age toning mainly along page edges, all plates are present). Oversized brown and burgundy cloth portfolios Vol 1: 60 bw plates of Parts 1, 2 and 3. Vol 2: 60 bw plates of Parts 4, 5, and 6. Survey of modern American architecture, mostly of the 1920s and many in revival styles, with floor plans, elevation drawings, and bw photo illustrations....
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SGD 551.48
Lost Examples of Colonial Architecture: Buildings That Have Disappeared of Been so Altered as to be Denatured: Public Buildings,Semi-Public Churches, Cottages, Country Houses, Town Houses, Interiors, Details
by Howells, John Mead and Fiske Kimball
New York: William Helburn, Inc, 1931. Hardcover. VG/Good (instances of speckling to covers. edge-wear to covers. spine ends worn. heaving foxing to textblock edges; remnants to pg edges. dustjacket smudged & scuffed; foxing to edges; edge-wear; small puncture to spine edge). Blue boards with gilt lettering. 20 pp, BW frontispiece, 244 BW plates on 122 leaves. grey paper dustjacket w/ black printing. Heavy foxing to front endpaper, then recedes to a few instances to title page and others; primarily to...
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SGD 49.63
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (American Monograph Series)
by Oliver, Richard
New York: The Architectural History Foundation / The MIT Press, 1985. Second printing. Hardbound. G- (Bottom edge of binding has some paint; edges of book block have foxing; page surfaces are clean; inside front cover has mark from former bookplate.). Light brown cloth boards, teal dj with bw pictorial, [xiv] 297 pp, 160 bw images. "The name of Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (1869-1924) stands for a number of widely different accomplishments. ... Severely criticized by some for his opposition to the...
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SGD 151.66
Frank O. Gehry: Selected Works, 1969 to Today
by Mathewson, Casey C. M
Buffalo: Firefly Books, 2007. Hardcover. G (Ex-art library, with scuffs to mylar cover, which can be removed; labels on book; i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages; interior is crisp and clean.). Blue and illustrated boards in mylar cover; 600 pp., profusely illus. in color and BW. "Documents the inquisitive exploration of an architect for whom 'architecture is an obsession.' Designing in elements of light and shadow, using poised geometry to create sculptured chaos, and building in...
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SGD 41.32
Baltimore's Washington Monument
by Miller, J. Jefferson II
privately printed, 1962. Hardbound. Fair. Some wrinkling to a few pages. Has not been taken the best care of during it's existence.. Bound into a heavy duty binder. 235 photocopied pages with some illustrations. This is a copy of the author's thesis for a Masters of Arts from the University of Delaware.
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SGD 137.87
Year Book of the Twenty Fifth Annual Architectural Exhibition held by The Philadelphia Chapter of The American Institute of Architects and The T Square Club of Philadelphia
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Chapter AIA and T Square Club, 1922. Hardbound. G- (Shows moderate age, soiling and edge wear; pages are generally clean and clear.). Brown paper over boards, 256 pp. with mostly bw illustrations and advertisements throughout, 1 color plate as frontispiece. Title on spine: Philadelphia Architectural Exhibition, 1922. Represents the work of architect and designer members of the clubs. Includes vintage photos of various buildings, interiors and exteriors and some floor plans,...
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SGD 44.12
Julia Morgan, Architect (Revised and Updated)
by Boutelle, Sara Holmes
New York, New York: Abbeville Press, 1995. Revised and updated. Softcover. VG- (Spine creased, small black marker dot on bottom text block, minor sticker residue on front cover). Color pictorial wraps; 271 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw and color. An updated edition of the original 1988 book; An in-depth examination of the work of architect Julia Morgan, who designed over seven hundred buildings, including William Randolph Hearst's "castle" at San Simeon, California, several YWCA buildings, churches,...
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SGD 27.57
Legorreta + Legorreta: Tomo I - Proyectos
by Cervantes, Miguel (ed.)
Ciudad de Mexico: Mandato Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, 2005. Softcover. VG. Orange and cinnamon card wraps with yellow lettering. French flaps. 54 pp. with illustrations. Projects of contemporary Mexican architecture by the celebrated father/son team of architects. Stunning photos with architectural plans and details in Spanish.
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SGD 27.57
