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Large hardcover, Fine with a Fine dust jacket, this volume has never been removed from its original white-board sleeve. Inscribed and signed by RBMarx in 1990.
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1990 reprint. Very clean copy with only light use. DJ has slight soiling, a wrinkle and tear on top rear.

Written by naturalist May Theilgaard Watts, this is a survey of the natural history of Britain and the Continent for travellers to Europe. Arranged by country (France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Britain), 313 pages with a 19-page supplement: a pictorial key to identifying the trees of Europe.
First edition in VG condition with lightly bumped board corners, G dust jacket has small chips along edge. See images for better idea of condition. Email me with any questions.

A remarkable treatise by Walter Gropius, Bauhaus founder, later chair of the Harvard Department of Architecture, and one of the pioneering titans of modern architecture in the 20th century, this slim paperback quarto is the text of a lecture Gropius gave in February 23, 1945 in Chicago under the auspices of the Institute of Design there (founded by artist László Moholy-Nagy in 1937 as the "New Bauhaus" in America). Moholy-Nagy edited the monograph and wrote the introduction, where he paid tribute to Gropius' committment to the "indivisiblity of social responsibility and structural soundness" in his call for an architecture for low-cost housing projects, factories and schools, an architecture for workers not the elite, a revolutionary concept then.
62 pages, with many B&W illustrations, drawings and plans. Very good- copy with soiled covers, rubbing along the spine, previous owner's name and a small crease on upper right front cover, small crease on upper left rear cover. Inside, front cover is… Read More

In Portuguese and English, with photographs by Marcel Gautherot. Second edition, 1985, revised and expanded. Blank page facing front endpaper contains a personal dedication, signature and self-portrait drawn by Roberto Burle Marx in pen, dated 1985.
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Signature of prior owner on first page. slight bending of cover corners otherwise immaculate.

Landscape Views 3 in the series from Princeton Architectural Press and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. As new copy.

Well-kept copy of this comprehensive volume, with a clear dust jacket cover and slipcase. Front cover board bumped in upper and lower right corners; inner front dust jacket flap price clipped and contains a crease and a fold (see photos). Previous seller pencil notation on half title page. Otherwise a wonderful book in wonderful shape.
This is the 1968 English-language translation of the original 1967 Italian-language architectural study. 452 pages with 401 b&w photographic plates and 147 drawings. Because of book size and weight, non-U.S. overseas shipping may be higher than generated at checkout. Overseas purchasers may receive a request for additional postage prior to completion of the order. Please email me with any questions.