The Skyscraper
by Goldberger, Paul
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394505956
- ISBN 13
- 9780394505954
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 1981. x, 180 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Discusses skyscrapers, from the first one constructed in Chicago in 1884 to those of today, and points out the problems skyscrapers have helped solve and create." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The skyscraper vs. the city; Chicago beginnings; New York as theater; The towers come together; The drive for height; Rhythms of the thirties; The triumph of modernism; The battle won: abstraction and public space; Beyond the box.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.
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Details
- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045295
- Title
- The Skyscraper
- Author
- Goldberger, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0394505956
- ISBN 13
- 9780394505954
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Architecture / History; Architecture / Commercial & Industrial; Architecture / Skyscrapers;
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- First Edition
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- Shelfwear
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- Jacket
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