The Culture of Cities by Mumford, Lewis - 1938

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1970. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harvest Books, 0000-00-00. paperback. Used: Good.

Secker & Warburg, 1940. Hardcover. Good. 1940. 530 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Heavy tanning to spine and edges.

London: Secker & Warburg,, 1946 Reprint hardback without dustwrapper. 8vo. xii, pp530 incl. index. Orig. blue cloth, bright gilt titled to slightly faded, lightly bumped, spine. Slight spotting to foredges & top edges blue & a tad dusty, foxing to eps o/w VG.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and company, 1938. First edition. . Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Binding exposed at front hinge. Staining to back cover. Edges clean. All pages clean & unmarked. xii, 586 p. plates. 24 cm. Includes Plates. Bibliography: p. 497-552.

Secker & Warburg, 1944. Hardcover. Good. 1944. Reprinted. 530 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.

Secker & Warburg, 1946. Hardcover. Good. 1946. Reprinted. 530 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owner's inscriptions to pastedowns and front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Sticker to front board. Paper residue and stain to rear board.

Secker & Warburg, 1945. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1945. Reprint. 530 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains black and white plates. Pages are visibly tanned with minor foxing throughout and occasional thumb-marks. Dust stains to text-block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surface. Minor scratches to boards. Moderate sunning to spine and boards edges with noticeable crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is slightly darkened. Book has forward lean.

Secker & Warburg, 1945. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1945. Reprint. 530 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing. Moderate cracking to gutters.Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking and mottling to boards. Notable sunning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Large water stains to front board.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1940. Hardcover without dust jacket, in good condition for its age. Reprinted on war economy paper in 1942. Boards are marked and spine is sunned. Board edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed, and spine is cocked. Page block is tanned and blemished. Pastedowns and endpapers are tanned and foxed, and hinge break noted at the title page. Binding remains sound and pages are clear. LW. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Used.

Boston, 1903. Covers rather brittle and chipped, some short tears to page edges.. 13.5" x 9"; viii, 25-32, ix-xvi pages; Stapled magazine.

First printing (number line contains "1").
Book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new, slight wear at bottom end cap.
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Casa del HerreroHouse of the Blacksmithstands today as one of the most fully developed and intact examples of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture. It was designed and built between 1922 and 1925 as a second house for George Fox Steedman, a St. Louis industrialist. Thought principally to be the work of George Washington Smith, the architect, Steedman himself generated many ideas during the initial design phase that were both a blessing and curse to Smith. Steedmans vision prevailed, and throughout the decade following the houses initial completion, he continued to rework both house and garden, engaging the architects Lutah Maria Riggs, Edwards, Plunkett & Howell, and Floyd Brewster, and garden… Read More

Hugo, Victor. Undated. Circa 1950. William J. Hill Co., Inc. Chicago, Ill. Not an illustrated edition. USED. VG/No DJ Included. Adventure Fiction Romance/Horror. Sorry about the group photo, but please see stock photo of binding for William J. Hill editions for the item being offered here. Blue Boards, gilt titling and red ornamentation on spine. 380 pages. 5 ½ X 8 ¼. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love. A clean, square, solid copy.

Hugo, Victor. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Modern Library ML 35) Undated, circa 1950, Random House. States complete and unabridged. USED. VG/VG price-clipped original publisher's DJ. Sorry about the group photo, but Please see the item listed for sale here at 2nd book lower row. Front cover illustration depicts Quasimodo atop a moonlit gargoyled roof-top. Red boards, black topstain. 416 pages plus adverts. 4 3/4 X 7 3/8. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love.

Gibson Guitar, n. Soft cover. Good. Very Good.

Silver Lake, New Hampshire: John F. Chick & Son, Building Material, 1941. First Editions. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. Lot of nine issues, averaging 16pp each; illustrated throughout from photographs, floor plans and elevations. In the original, pictorial wrappers. Approx 11" x 8.5" The thrust of this magazine is "Now is the time to build your own home." Themes of these issues include: Hollywood Hilltops; Simple Dignity Is the Best Architecture; Cape Cod Cottages; Need Four Bedrooms?; Wood Walls; A Place to Eat in the Kitchen; Twin Level First Floor; Fireplace Ideas; The Case for Home Ownership; Colonial Twins; Summer Cottages; Modernizing A House; Plywood Is Perfect Material; Baseball Grows Up [a four-page departure in one issue]; Historic Walls; Suburban Charm; Log Cabin Siding; Ideas for the Roadside Merchant; Two Farm Homes in 1940 Style; Modernizing Your Farmhouse; Duplicate the Charm of Old World Cottages; Underground Storage Easily Built; Three Modern Farm Homes; Small Summer Cottages;… Read More

Washington DC: Standard Homes Co., [1956?]. Stapled wraps. Good. 31p. Wrap and pages lightly thumb creased, front wrap fore edge creased and torn. A promotional booklet for houses designed by Standard Homes Company containing examples of more than 40 dwellings, each accompanied by layouts and a photograph or drawing of frontage. These houses come in a variety of styles designed with consideration to cost-saving construction using standard sizes for materials such as lumber, windows, and doors to reduce waste. Intercounty Savings and Loan Association of Philadelphia was the distributor of this copy. A letter dated June 27, 1956, from the savings and loan is laid in. B&w illustrations and halftone photographs. (11-1/2"x8-1/2")

Inbel, Bruxelles: Ducolot, 1989. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Folio. 276 pp. Bound in full green cloth, stamped in gilt on cover and spine, in Illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated, chiefly color, including frontispiece and several fold outs. Text in French. Includes bibliography. Near Fine, bright, clean copy, in Very Good+ dust jacket with wear and rubbing to extremities, overall scuffing.

BRACEBRIDGE HALL 1887 Macmillan & Co. By Washington Irving. Ralph Caldecott Illustrated Edition. First Edition Thus. Sequel to "Old Christmas". Used. Good Condition/ No DJ is included if issued. 284 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 1/2. Bright gold gilt top-stain, titling and ornamentation. 1" Dark green end-papers. Summary: "Bracebridge Hall, written by the esteemed author, Washington Irving, is a collection of location-based character sketches, detailing the lives and personalities of the occupants of a countryside manor in Yorkshire, England, owned by a squire."

Georgetown, Guyana: S.M.H. Aniff and Universal Bookstore, 1997. Staple-Bound Paperback. Fine. Very slight corner wear, otherwise As New. Not from a library. 40 pages. Illustrated, one color map. 8.5 x 11.5 inches.