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American Artists
Farmington Hills, MI Macmillan Reference Usa/Gale Group 2001 0028655249 / 9780028655246 First Edition Thus Hardcover New
Hardcover has blue ground and white lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight; this is a new book. Illustrated with 100+ b/w drawings and photographs. Artists are listed alphabetically; timeline; sources; glossary, index. Covers different movements/genres and collections: Op Art; Photorealism; Hudson River School Precisionism; National Museum of American Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Pop Art; Folk Art; Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum; Color Field Painting; Minimalism; Norman Rockwell Museum; Rothko Chapel; Ashcan School; Abstract Expressionism; San Ildefonso Watercolor Movement; American Regionalism. ; Macmillan Profiles Series; B & W illustrations; 7 1/4 x 10 1/4; 487 pages
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Miguel Angel Roca: Architectural Monographs #36
Northbrook, IL Academy Group 1994 1854902768 / 9781854902764 First Edition Printer Wrapper Fine with no dust jacket
Cover has some scufifng, rubbing, edge wear. Stiff boards have front and back flaps. Pages are clean and tight; printed on high quality, glossy paper. Black remainder mark on side of pages. Richly illustrated with 100+ color photos and drawings. Has essays on how civic architecture fits in urban life, the city center as cathedral, and architecture and commitment. 120 pages covering Roca's projects in Argentina and Bolivia; a chronology of his works and a biography. Oversized. ; Remainder; Color Illustrations; 4to ; 144 pages
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San Antonio In Pictures
(san Antonio, Tx?) No Publisher Listed. N.D. Softcover Very Good
Cover is stapled wraps. This is a guide book to historic San Antonio, Texas. Pages not numbered. No date given, but appears to be from 1940s, probably during World War II. There are 93 b/w photos. Quite a few pictures with emphasis on military training, including pictures of P-39, C-60, P-40, etc. , all relating to the Randolph Field's Central Instructors' School [of aviation]. Nice souvenir booklet, blast from the past kind of title. ; B&W Photographs; 7 1/2 x 10 1/2; Unpaginated pages; Cover has shelf wear, rubbing/scuffing, light bumping, some color flaked off from underpaper at spine, creasing on back cover.
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10.25 USD
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William Alsop And Jan Stormer: Architectural Monographs #33
London Academy Group 1993 1854902644 / 9781854902641 First Edition Soft Cover Near Fine
Cover has some scuffing and rubbing, light edge wear. Pages are clean and tight; printed on high quality, glossy paper. Has 100+ color and b/w photos, drawings and diagrams. Includes a section with biographies, selected projects and awards. Oversized, 4#. ; Academy Editions Series; Photographs; 4to, 10 x 12; 144 pages
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0'Doherty, Brian Inside The White Cube The Ideology of the Gallery Space
San Francisco, CA The Lapis Press 1986 0932499058 / 9780932499059 Hardcover Near Fine
Cover is wraps. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with b/w drawings and photos. "....is a brillant analysis of the sociological, economic, and aestethic context within which we experience art. O'Doherty examines the critical relationships of context to content and with wit and irony exposes the myth of the neutrality of the gallery or museum space. These essays mark a turning point in artistic perception', as per Barbara Rose. ; B&W Illustrations; 8 x 8; 91 pages; Light shelf wear and rubbing.
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Aikman, Lonnelle Rider With Destiny: George Washington
Mclean, VA Link Press, Publishers 1983 0912991011 / 9780912991016 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good+
Softcover is heavy cardboard; black ground with gold lettering on front and spine. Blue monochrome endpapers. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with dozens of b/w drawings and photographs. Sections are: Behind Myth and Monument; a Capital is Born; "My Own Vine and Fig Tree"; bibliography; index. Oversized, 3#. ; B & W illustrations; 9 x 12; 173 pages; Cover has shelf wear, light rubbing/scuffing, bumping and some minor, shallow scratches towards the bottom of the rear cover.
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9.50 USD
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Alexander, Christopher The Timeless Way of Building
New York Oxford University Press 1979 0195024028 / 9780195024029 Eighteenth Printing; Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Environmental Structure Series Series; Vol. 1; B&W Illustrations; 7.90 X 5.60 X 1.20 inches; xv, 552 pages; Cover has slight bumping. DJ has light shelf wear, sunning, rubbing; in a mylar cover. Hardcover is burgundy with gold lettering on front and spine. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. "Now, at last, here is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself. ..is the introductory volume in the Center for Environmental Structure series.....presents in it a new theory of architecture, planning, and building which has at its core that age-old process by which the people of a society have always pulled the order of their world from their own being. Sections are: the Quality; the Gate; the Way. Illustrated with many b/w photographs, plans, drawings.
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33.50 USD
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Alexander, Christopher & Sara Ishikawa & Murray Silverstein, et al. A Pattern Language Towns, Buildings, Construction
New York Oxford University Press 1977 0195019199 / 9780195019193 Twentieth Printing; Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Hardcover is burgundy with gold blind lettering on front and spine. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Illustrated with dozens of b/w diagrams, drawings and photographs. "...is a working document for such an architecture. It is an archetypal language which allows lay persons to design for themselves. 'I believe this to be perhaps the most important book on architectural design published this century. Every library, every school, every environmental action group, every architect, and every first-year student should have a copy'." [Tony Ward, Architectural Design]. ; Cess Center for Environmental Series; B & W diagrams, figures; 7.90 X 5.90 X 2.10 inches; xliv,1171 pages; Cover has slight rubbing, bumping; first two leafs have the bottom torn, but they appear to have been blank in that area. DJ has light shelfwear, rubbing, sunning; in a mylar cover.
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31.50 USD
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Allen, Kevin Mr. & Mrs. Hockey: Signed Copy A Tribute to the Sport's Greatest Couple
Wayne, MI Immortal Investments Publishing 2004 0972363718 / 9780972363716 Hard Cover Very Good+ with no dust jacket
SIGNED BY MR. & MRS. GORDIE HOWE, with an inscription. Hard cover is red with gold lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight. Extensively illustrated with dozens of color and b/w photographs. Foreword by Mike & Marian Ilitch, the longtime owners of the Detroit Red Wings [although not during the Howe era]. Howe is such an institution, a true 'Living Legend' in Detroit, that the name 'Mr. Hockey' is copyrighted. When Howe played for the Red Wings, it was at the now leveled Olympia Stadium. "Howe was an ambidextrous player, able to use the straight sticks of his era to shoot left or right-handed. He received his first taste of pro experience at fifteen years old ...A year later, he was noticed by Detroit Red Wings scout Fred Pinckney. He was signed by the Red Wings and assigned to their junior team, the Galt Red Wings... In 1945, however, he was promoted to the Omaha Knights of the minor professional United States Hockey League (USHL) , where he scored 48 points in 51 games as a seventeen-year-old. While playing in Omaha, Frank Selke of the Toronto Maple Leafs organization noticed that Howe was not properly listed as Red Wings property. Having a good relationship with Detroit coach Jack Adams, he notified Adams of the clerical error and Howe was quickly put on the team's protected list. Signing with the Red Wings for his first season...Howe made his NHL debut in 1946 at the age of 18, playing right wing for the Detroit Red Wings, #9 which he would wear for the rest of his career; and which is one of the few retired Red Wings player's numbers. Howe quickly established himself as a great goal scorer and a gifted playmaker with a willingness to fight. In fact, he fought so often in his rookie season to the point that he was told by coach Jack Adams, "I know you can fight. Now can you show me you can play hockey?" The hockey term, Gordie Howe hat trick, which includes a goal, an assist, and a fight, was coined after Howe in reference to his penchant for fighting. Using his great physical strength, he was able to dominate the opposition in a career that spanned five decades. In a feat unsurpassed by any hockey player, Gordie Howe finished in the top five in scoring for twenty straight seasons. Although famous as #9 during his long career, 18-year old Gordon Howe actually wore #17 throughout his rookie season with the Detroit Red Wings in 1946–47. Howe led Detroit to four Stanley Cups and to first place in regular season play for seven consecutive years (1948–49 to 1955–56) , a feat never equaled in NHL history. During this time Howe and his linemates, Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay, were known collectively as "The Production Line", both for their scoring and as an allusion to Detroit auto factories. The trio dominated the league in such a fashion that in 1949–50, they finished one-two-three in league scoring. Howe had been in his prime during a defensive era, the 1940s and 1950s, when scoring was difficult and checking was tight. " Growing up in a sports loving Detroit family, heard many a tale of Howe and his amazing hockey abilities, from family and neighbors. A great piece of Detroit and sports history. ; Photographs; 1.1 x 9.2 x 6 Inches; xviii, 265+ pages; Hardcover has minor shelf wear and bumping. Missing DJ. ; Signed by Biographee
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14.00 USD
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American Institute Of Steel Construction Detailing for Steel Construction
Chicago American Institute of Steel Construction 1983 Hardcover Very Good+
Hardcover is red with gold lettering on front and spine, along with the logo for the AISC. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Pages are numbered within each chapter. Extensively illustrated with hundreds of b/w plans, formulae, diagrams, drawings, 20 fold out figures, etc. Sections are: Drafting Equipment and Drafting; Procedures; Structural Steel; Detailing and Fabricating Structural Steel; Fundamentals of Structural Engineering; Connections--Bolted; Connections--Welded; Columns; Framing for Industrial Buildings; 4 appendices: Predesigned bolted framing angle connections; single plate framing connections; colum splices: lifting and alignment devices; as-shown and opposite-hand columns. Oversized; 4.5#. ; Charts & Tables & b/w photographs; 8 3/4 x 11 1/4; xii, 200+ pages; Cover has very slight bumping; original owner's name stamped, as a seal, and embossed on title page.
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49.50 USD
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Andrew, Ian & Dugald Steer Egyptology: Search For The Tomb Of Osiris: Being The Journal Of Miss Emily Sands, November 1926
Cambridge, MA Candlewick Press 2004 0763626384 / 9780763626389 Hardcover New Illustrated by Emily Sands, Nick Harris, Helen Ward
B & W and Color; 1.1 x 12 x 10.3 Inches; 32 pages; Hardcover is gold with gold lettering on front and black lettering on spine. Multi-colored bird in center of front. Pages are clean and tight. Lavishly illustrated with maps, drawings, photographs, letters in envelopes, moveable pieces, etc. "Written as an amateur Egyptologist's travel journal from 1926, each spread covers a distinct area of antiquity and is mainly factual in content, except for the author's chatty asides. The type resembles that of an old manual typewriter and the photos, reproductions, and sketches make the journal seem more realistic. There are papyrus pull-outs, pop-up art, minibooks, and fold-out maps and an envelope in the back with period postcards, ticket stubs, etc. " by Carol Wichman. Very oversized, 5#.
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13.50 USD
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Anonymous Disneyland - the First Thirty Years
No Place Walt Disney Productions 1985 First Edition (?) Hardcover Very Good+
Hard cover is purple with gold lettering on front and spine; gold decoration and color photo paste down on front cover. Purple end papers. Pages are clean and tight. Lavishly illustrated with 100+ color and b/w photographs, including renderings of early sketches of the theme park. ; Photographs; 0.6 x 11.3 x 8.8 Inches; 122 pages; Cover has very minor bumping.
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18.50 USD
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Ballard, C. Ray The History of Huntington Woods The City of Homes
Huntington Woods Study Club 1993 Second Revised Edition Hardcover Very Good+
Hardcover is faux, burgundy leather with gold lettering on front and spine. Front end pages are a map of the city. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Illustrated with many b/w photographs, drawings, charts. Huntington Woods is one of those magical cities that time appears to essentially leave untouched. Growing up just a bike ride or walk away, it was always a 'fantasy future' to reside in. That hasn't changed; almost as if stepping back in a time warp. A great variety of architectural styles, gorgeous old trees and landscaping, and just across the road is the Detroit Zoo, another favorite place to bicycle to in the summer. The world may be rapidly changing, but the charm and unique ambience of Huntington Woods is as magical today as to when I was a child. ; B&W Illustrations; 6 1/4 x 9 1/2; 168 pages; Very slight bumping; gift inscription inside rear cover. Upper corner page crease on leaf 30/31.
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19.50 USD
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Bark, Jaspre Journal of Inventions Leonardo Da Vinci: Pop-Up Book
San Diego, CA Silver Dolphin Books 2009 1592239080 / 9781592239085 Hardcover Very Good+
All pop-ups in working order. Hard cover is bound with a magnetic 'buckle' that closes over the open side of text. Pages are clean and tight. Pages not numbered, 14 pages, including the front and back covers/end pages. The unique genius of the Renaissance giant Leonardo da Vinci is prominently displayed in these working, pop-ups of his vast range of inventions. Pictures in brown/white/black. Hard to think of a more fun, informative and nifty pop-up book. If you love pop-ups, and Leonardo, here is the perfect combo book for you! ; Pop-Up; Color Illustrations; 1.4 x 11.3 x 9.7 Inches; Unpaginated pages; Cover has minor bumping; 1.5" closed tear at bottom of front, by hinge.
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11.75 USD
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Bergeron, L. & M. T. Maiullari-Pontois Industry, Architecture And Engineering: American Ingenuity 1750-1950
New York Harry N. Abrams 2000 0810934736 / 9780810934733 Hardcover
This is a brand new book, still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Book and DJ are NEW. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with dozens of photographs. Comprehensively showcases the way America was transformed in architecture and civil engineering by the Industrial Revolution. Among the important sites featured and discussed are textile factories, steel mills, and the Hoover Dam, all of which, in turn, transformed how America and Americans saw themselves, their place on this continent and in the world, standards of living, everyday technology, and so forth. Covers America from before the USA existed, when transportation was by water, foot or horses and oxen, through the age of trains, to the age of automobiles and airplanes. Absolutely fascinating study of American history from a very unusual point of view. Very oversized, 5#. ; Photographs; 10 x 11 1/2; 287 pages; New.
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35.00 USD
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Bindman, David; Contributors Aileen Dawson and Mark Jones The Shadow of the Guillotine Britain and the French Revolution
No Place Published for the Trustees of the British Museum 1989 0714116378 / 9780714116372 Soft Cover Very Good+
Softcover is heavy, glazed, purple paper withi white lettering on the front and a white spine with black lettering. Pages are clean and tight. This is an exhibition catalogue. Lavishly illustrated with 200 b/w pictures, and 8 color plates. Sections: Before the Revolution; the first year of liberty: Bastille to Federation; the collapse of the French monarchy; the first year of equality, September 1792- June 1793; the second year of equality: France under the guillotine, June 1 1793 - July 1794; British artists and writers and the Revolution; Thermidor to Brumaire, July 1794 - November 1799; Sovereignty of the king and sovereignty of the people; the 'emigres'; Retrospect: the view from the 19th century; notes; abbreviated references and bibliography; chronology; glossary; index. Oversized; 4#. ; Exhibition Catalogue Series; B&W and Color Illustrations; 8 1/2 x 11; 232 pages; Soft cover has light shelf wear, bumping, rubbing/scuffing.
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49.50 USD
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Bishai, Wilson B Humanities in the Arabic-Islamic World
Dubuque, Iowa W. C. Brown Co. 1973 0697031047 / 9780697031044 First Edition (?) Soft Cover Very Good-
Soft cover has black spine with white lettering. Pages are clean and tight; shows signs of light use; no underlining or highlighting. Illustrated with 14 b/w photographs, as well as 3 maps, a page of music and a chart . Sections: Background of the Arabic-Islamic Culture; Islam as a religion and way of life; Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd: a Muslim theologian and a philospher speak out; Arabic language and literature; pictorial art, architecture and music; the changless and the changeable in the Arabic-Islamic Culture: glossary of Arabic terms: index. ; Studies in Ethnic and Non-Western Cultures Series; B&W Photographs & maps; 8.90 X 6 X 0.50 inches; xii, 147 pages; Cover has shelf wear, rubbing/scuffing, sunning, light creasing, bumping. Former owner's name tidily written inside front cover.
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13.50 USD
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Blake, Robin Anthony Van Dyck A Life 1599-1641
London Constable & Company Ltd. 1999 009479720X / 9780094797208 First Edition Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Cover is dark blue with silver lettering on spine. Blue endpapes. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book. Illustrated with 62 b/w photographs. "This new biography re-evaluates the man not only as a remarkably individual portratist, but as a fully rounded Baroque artist of memorable power...an engrossing account of the public and private life of an unusually driven genius [who started as an apprentice to Sir Peter Paul Reubens]...keeping up a punishing work-rate. He knew most of the great men and women of his day, but his story is also enlivened by glimpses of lesser figures..." Van Dyck was a man who defined himself almost entirely through his work...." For anyone who is a fan of Van Dyck, as am I, this is a must have title for your collection--I've got a copy for myself. An artist whose lifetime output was enormous, varied, influential and, at its best, mesmerizing and magnetic. ; B&W Photographs; 6 1/4 x 9 1/2; xii, 433 pages; DJ has slight rubbing/shelfwear; in a mylar cover.
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29.50 USD
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Bradshaw, Percy Come Sketching
London The Studio Publications 1949 First Edition (?) Hardcover Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket
B&W Illustrations; 7 1/4 x 10; 96 pages; Cover shows signs of damp spots along front and back covers. Green with gold lettering on front and spine. DJ has shelf wear, bumping, rubbing/scuffing, creases, tears, upper edge of front flap is clipped. DJ is entire; in a mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight. Lavishly illustrated with 100+ b/w drawings by "two Royal Academicians and an ARA, the presidents of 3 famous Art Societies, 2 outstanding architectural draughtsmen, an illustrator of unique individuality, and an artist who has won a wide reputation by his animal drawings..." [Sir Frank Brangwyn; Sir William Russell Flint; Sydney R. Jones; Francis Marshall; Bertram Nicholls; Fred Taylor; C. F. Tunnicliffe; Norman Wilkinson.
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Brander, Michael The Georgian Gentleman
England Saxon House 1973 0347000053 / 9780347000055 Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Hard cover is green with gold lettering on spine. Brown and white monochrome end papers. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with dozens of b/w pictures and 5 color plates. "...Brander penetrates the myths of the Georgian gentleman to show in graphic detail the clothes he wore, his education and travels, hunting, shooting, gaming, wagering, clubbing, duelling, entertainment, servants, wenching, his diet and sanitary habits, the pretence, the financial scrambling, the ailments which only the fit and hearty could survive..." Chronological appendix; bibliography. ; B&W and color Illustrations; 1 x 9.3 x 6.5 Inches; xii, 223 pages; Hard cover has light bumping, shelf wear, previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. DJ has light shelf wear, rubbing/scuffing, bumping.
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