Item 3559The Architectural Forum
New York: Time, Inc., 1938. spiral bound. 4to. 73pp. +108pp. Frank Lloyd Wright insert special. Volume 68 No. 1, January 1938. #03625.
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Item 1441How to Build Garden Structures
New York: Sheridan House, 1950. Book Club Edition. hardcover. 8vo 384pp. BCE from front flap: "Out of his prolific imagination and know-how, Henry Aul has produced the 80 chapters of this comprehensive book on home garden construction, It is a gold mine of ideas for every home owner and gardener.....
Item 2009Dens, Dadoes and Doorjambs
Baldwin, NY: Barnell Loft, 1972. Picto-Cabulary Series. softcover. 8vo unpaginated. from To The Student: "When you finish reading this booklet and the five booklets in the Words To Meet series, you will be an authority on shelter. you will know about types of buildings, parts of buildings, and special functions.....
Item 2010Footings, Frames, and Foundations
Baldwin, NY: Barnell Loft, 1972. Picto-Cabulary Series. softcover. 8vo unpaginated. from To The Student: "When you finish reading this booklet and the five booklets in the Words To Meet series, you will be an authority on shelter. you will know about types of buildings, parts of buildings, and special functions.....
Item 3321Chartres Cathedral
New York: WW Norton & Company, 1969. softcover. 8vo 278pp. Norton Critical Studies in Art History. see pictures for synopsis. #03386.
Item 3414The City is the People
New York: WW Norton & Company, 1962. softcover. 12mo 204pp. see pictures for synopsis. #03480.
Item 2955The Cathedral Church of Lichfield
London: George Bell and Sons, 1898. hardcover. 12mo 135pp. from General Preface: "This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to the great English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustrated guide books at a popular price. The aim of each writer has been to produce a work compiled.....
Item 1760The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
London: Folio Society, 2009. Folio Society. hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo 376pp. + 519pp. + 458pp. Second printing. This commemorative edition of the 1938 Edward MacCurdy compilation includes writing on almost every subject imaginable: anatomy, medicine, engineering, optics, architecture, hydraulics, botany and natural history. His personal notes offer insights into his passions.....
Item 260Touraine and Its Chateaux
Medici Society Limited, 1931. first thus. papercover in wraps. Octavo 203pp. #00285.
Item 2039Style in Ornament
London: Oxford University Press, 1950. first edition. hardcover. 12mo 63pp. from Preface: "We take patterns too much for granted. We should learn to plunge our minds into them, as we do into the sea of poetry, and to receive as sharp an impression of an age from its ornament as.....
Item 3555What Your House Tells About You
New York: Pocket Books, 1973. mass market paperback. 16mo. 189pp. see pictures for synopsis. #03621.
Item 3584The Art of Buda and Pest in the Middle Ages
Budapest: Akedemiai Kiado, 1971. first edition. hardcover. 4to. 146pp. + 140 B/W photographic plates. from front flap: "Reent large-scale reconstructions in the town of Budapest made extensive excavations possible, from which the exploration of the one-time Royal Palace stood out in significance. The latter was conducted by the author who.....
Item 1018History of Architecture
London: Longmans Green and Company, 1904. fifth edition. hardcover. 8vo 453pp. from endpapers: "History of Architecture by Alfred D.F. Hamlin, A.M., Adjunct Professor of Architecture, Columbia College, New York. With Frontispiece and 229 Illustrations and Diagrams, Bibliographies, Glossary, Index of Architects, and a General Index." part of the College Histories.....
Item 2953The Cathedral Church of Chester
London: George Bell and Sons, 1897. hardcover. 12mo 96pp. from General Preface: "This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to the great English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustrated guide books at a popular price. The aim of each writer has been to produce a work compiled.....
Item 2433Modern and Modernism
New York: Atheneum, 1985. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 456pp. from front flap: "In wide-ranging discussions of art, literature, music, science, dance, architecture, psychoanalysis and much else, Frederick R. Karl traces the provenance and myriad paths of Modernism, throwing light on what has often seemed a murky and confusing subject and.....
Item 1977All Pompeii
Firenze: Bonechi Editore. softcover. 8vo 63pp. full color illustrated guide to the ancient city of Pompeii with history, preserved artifacts, archaeological findings. map of the city laid in. #02039.
Item 3560Dublin Views
Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1981. softcover. 8vo unpaginated. Introduction by Maurice Craig. see pictures for synopsis. #03626.
Item 599I Have Loved England...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1941. first edition. hardcover. 4to, unpaginated. from front flap: Primarily a book of photographs (and such photographs!)--it is illumined on every page by the comments of Mrs. Miller, sometimes an appropriate poem, sometimes a personal episode, sometimes a quotation from Evelyn's Diary--or Pepys's. The mood varies, and.....
Item 1843The Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 596pp. from Preface: "...This encyclopaedic dictionary is intended to help. but the problem is that anyone who does not know that a dove (not a pigeon) is a symbol of the Holy Ghost is not likely to find the answer to.....
Item 1074Art in the Western World
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949. Revised Edition. hardcover. 8vo 1045pp. b/w illustrations/pictures, few color pictures. Second, revised edition. #01149.
Item 2415Homes of the Brave
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. Mary Petty. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 113pp. from Chapter 1: "For over one hundred years Americans have been searching for an indigenous American house. This book tells the story of that search and of the houses and furniture left in its wake." #02480.
Item 3585Paris
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983. softcover. 4to. 350pp. foreword by Rosamund Bernier. #03651 OVERSIZE ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING.
Item 2954The Cathedral Church of Winchester
London: George Bell and Sons, 1897. hardcover. 12mo 132pp. from General Preface: "This series of monographs has been planned to supply visitors to the great English Cathedrals with accurate and well illustrated guide books at a popular price. The aim of each writer has been to produce a work compiled.....
Item 1656Japanese Style
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1989. Gilles De Chabaneix (photographer). first edition. hardcover. 8vo unpaginated. from Introduction: "During the last decade American and English designers have embraced the Japanese esthetic with gusto, but the style of Japanese life has often eluded Westerners. To comprehend the Japanese mind one must understand that.....
Item 3377Shades of the Alhambra
London: Folio Society, 1984. hardcover. 8vo 127pp. #03443.