Resultados de búsqueda: Architecture / Urbanism, Cities & City Planning from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Houston, TX: Hutchins House, 1985. vii, 248 pages, [32] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the author Marie Phelps McAshan on the verso of the half-title page, no dedication. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Houston, TX: Houston Chapter, American Institute of Architects, 1972. 168 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Scarce.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

San Francisco: Cameron and Company, 1992. Cloth, 159 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 x 36 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Slight vertical rippling to leaves. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Oblong.

Munich and Chicago: Prestel, 1993. Cloth, 479 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 30 cm. Companion volume to: Chicago Architecture, 1872-1922, an exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago, June 12 to August 29, 1993. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Foreword, by James N. Wood; Acknowledgments, by John Zukowsky; INTRODUCTION. The Burden of History: Chicago Architecture before and after the Great Depression and World War II, by John Zukowsk. ARCHITECTURE AND INFRASTRUCTURE. "The Best Lighted City in the World": The Construction of a Nocturnal Landscape in Chicago, by Mark J. Bouman; "Forever Inadequate to the Rising Stream": Dream Cities, Automobiles, and Urban Street Mobility in Central Chicago, by R. Stephen Sennott; "All Airplanes Lead to Chicago": Airport Planning and Design in a… Leer más

Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1988. Cloth, viii, 198 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 x 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket with light edgewear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Oblong.

Berlin: Jurgen Schacht, 1993. Cloth, 72 pages, colour illustrations; 33 x 32 cm. Text and captions in German and English. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Superb, crisp images of Berlin's famous architectural monuments. Large-format book.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio.

London and New York: Architectural Design; St. Martin's Press, 1982. 112 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top left corner bumped.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Serial.

St. Paul, MN: Living Historical Museum, Macalester College, 1978. 110 pages, [2] leaves of plates, illustrations; 24 x 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Wraps lightly soiled, age toning. St. Paul's historic Summit Avenue is billed as the Best Preserved Victorian Boulevard in America.. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

Tiverton, Devon: Halsgrove, 2004. Cloth, 144 pages, colour illustrations, 1 colour map; 23 x 24 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.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oblong.

Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc., 1979. xxiv, 150 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Hotel life. The great row; Magnificence in the Loop; Northern lights; Player with railroads. Go Pullman; One Grand Station; On the town. Concert halls and theatres; Dance halls; Movies; Many mansions. Lake Shore palaces; Houses of talent; Prairie pavilions and castles in the air. Villas; Apartments; Two streets. State: emporiums of delight; La Salle: halls of commerce; Clubland Public spaces. Where the people rule; Vaults of civilization; Where the people worship; Rooms to remember.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1987. Cloth, 247 pages, illustrations (some colour); 35 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. A collection of nearly 200 photographs of Chicago's architectural masterpieces.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio. Collectible.

Malibu, CA: Marian Hall, 2009. Pictorial boards, 160 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 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. "Longtime Malibu resident Marian Hall relates the legend, lore and history of one of America's most beautiful coastal enclaves -- from the earliest explorers who communed with the Chumash Indians, to today, showing and telling why it has become among the most-expensive beach and mountain property in the world, home to the rich, the famous, the party-folk and the quiet types, up-and-comers and old-timers. " - Publisher.. 2nd. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1978. vi, 215 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Exhibition held at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, March 17 to April 23, 1978. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong. Collectible.

Los Angeles: Donahue Publishing, 1987. 192 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour); 23 x 31 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the author Jeffrey Stanton on the title page, no dedication. A near-fine copy, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Venice, California was considered the "Coney Island of the Pacific" during the first half of the 20th century.. SIGNED. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong. Collectible.

Florence: Bonechi, 2004. 127 pages, colour illustrations, colour maps; 28 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

Barcelona: Olimpiada Cultural Barcelona '92 Ajuntament de Barcelona, 1990. 131 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Text in Spanish/Texto en espanol. MUY BIEN+. Tight, clean copy. Spine slightly faded. El "Quadrat d'Or": 150 casas en el centro de la Barcelona modernista: guia = The "Quadrat d'Or" (Golden square): 150 houses in the centre of modernist Barcelona: guidebook. Focuses on Art Nouveau architecture in Barcelona by Gaudi and others.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Guidebook.

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. Cloth, 98 pages, colour illustrations; 32 x 38 cm. A near-fine copy with light shelfwear to boards. Top edge & half-title page lightly soiled. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "As new towns and cities spread across the American frontier in the nineteenth century, itinerant artists soon followed, documenting these growing urban centers by drawing aerial perspectives, also known as bird's eye views. Commissioned by land speculators, local businesses, civic organizations, and individual citizens, these renderings fostered both civic pride and local commerce. The use of color lithography, a recent invention popularized by such prominent publishers as Currier & Ives, allowed the inexpensive reproduction of the highest-quality drawings, so that a bird's eye view was within the financial budget of even the smallest towns. These extraordinarily… Leer más

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1967. Cloth, lvi, 308 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Edited, with annotations, a life of Lister, and a Lister bibliography, by Raymond Phineas Stearns. Facsimile of the copy of the 3rd edition in the Library of the University of California at Davis. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket, toned, protected in a mylar cover.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Chicago: Karina Wang, 2017. 148 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Guidebook.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1993. 223 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Principal photographer, Julius Shulman; book designer, Dana Levy. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, no dedication. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "A fully illustrated evocation of the rich architectural history that has given Los Angeles its unique character. A loving, provocative appeal to the rising pride and design consciousness of Angelenos, and anyone who has ever been entranced by the City of Angels.Full-color and black-and-white photographs." - Publisher.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.