Architecture from Cat's Cradle Books

Leipzig: Karl Robert Langweische, 1929. Softcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Book is in the German language using fraktur. Sound binding, clean pages lightly tanned. Wrappers have light edge rubbing. DJ is tanned with edge rubbing and light handling wear. ; Many black and white photographic illustrations of fortresses and castles in Germany with introductory essay.… Read more about this item

Raleigh, NC: Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina and State Capitol Foundation, 2000. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have small discolored area at top front where a sticker had been removed; overall light handling wear. Exhibition catalog of architectural history, illustrated with color and black and white photographs. ;… Read more about this item

New York: Scribner, 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has light shelf wear. ; Biography of 19th century American landscape artist Frederick Law Olmstead. 9.5" tall; 480 pages.

London: Constable Publishers, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, slightly tanned pages. Paper over boards is clean with bright silver lettering on front and spine. DJ is tanned with light edge wear. ; Study of English Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian architecture, the influence of Pugin and other… Read more about this item

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ is price clipped with edgewear at top. ; History of high Victorian Gothic architecture, its emergence, its dominant period, and its disappearance. ; The Johns Hopkins Studies in Nineteenth-Century Architecture; 9.75"… Read more about this item

Portland, Maine: Maine Citizens for Historic Preservation, 1995. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Illustrated by Richard Cheek. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Light handling wear to wrappers. Documents every known architectural project in Maine by Boston architect William R. Emerson. ; Photography; 11" oblong; 147 pages.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Pencilled writing on ffep. Pages clean, lightly tanned. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ has general handling wear, edge wear, clipped corner. ; Thorough history of the Gothic Revival, both buildings and architects, as applied to… Read more about this item

Bath, UK: Parragon Publishing, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has minor shelfwear. ; Presents 120 of Wright's most important buildings and looks in detail at all aspects of his architectural style. ; 11.5" tall; 256 pages.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ is darkened at spine area with edge wear and light overall shelf wear. ; Complements traveling exhibition of the Plan. Shows the design of a Carolingian monastery, giving a sense of how… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Pictorial paper over boards is clean, bright. DJ has minor edge wear. ; Examines American architecture in relation to five themes: community, nature, technology, money, and art. ; Oxford History… Read more about this item

Rome: Loescher & Co, 1909. 2nd Edition revised and enlarged. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. 2nd Edition revised and enlarged. Book is in the English language. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings throughout. Cover spine area is detached from front and back, repaired with tape. ; First part… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding, front hinge cracked but holding. Pages clean, tanned. Paper over boards is heavily scuffed and worn with tearing and chipping at spine area. ; Descriptions of Athens at different points in its history. Illustrated with black and white plates. Ex-Library; 6.5" (16.5… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1975. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First American Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages illustrated with photographic plates throughout. Paper over boards is lightly edge rubbed. DJ has very light shelf wear. ; Examines the world of Homer through literary and archaeological evidence. ; 9.75"… Read more about this item

Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. First Edition. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers clean with minor edge rubbing. ; The design and construction of the Art Institute of Chicago's largest architectural expansion since its original building opened in 1893. ; 9.0" tall; 52 pages.

Lausanne, Switzerland: Structura Mundi, 1992. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Presented in English, French and German. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. ; Contents: Micro- and macrotheories. The present relevance of the primitive in architecture. Architectural anthropology: outlines of a constructive human past. Appendix: research series - title and contents.… Read more about this item

Fort Tryon Park, NY: International Center of Medieval Art, 1970. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Pages clean, slightly off-white. Wrappers have light overall shelf wear. ; Contents: Papers on the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century read at the Symposium held in the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, May 14 and 15,… Read more about this item

Fort Tryon Park, NY: International Center of Medieval Art, 1990. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Pages clean and bright. Wraps have light overall shelf wear. ; Contents: Wharton, Rereading Martyrium: the modernist and postmodernist texts. de Vegvar, The origin of the Genoels-Elderen ivories. Boyer, The humble profile of the regal chariot in medieval… Read more about this item

Fort Tryon Park, NY: International Center of Medieval Art, 1979. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Pages clean, slightly off-white. Wraps have light overall shelf wear. ; Contents: Papers related to objects in the exhibition Age of Spirituality, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (November 1977-February 1978). Weitzmann, Introduciton. Breckenridge, Three portrait gems. Childs, The Achilles… Read more about this item

Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has light edge rubbing, overall light shelf wear. ; Armchair tour of 119 scenic and historic lights along the east and west… Read more about this item

Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages that are slightly rippled throughout. Paper over boards is edge worn with chip at upper spine, bumped corners, overall shelf wear, tanning and soiling. ; Contents: Seven senses of a room. Clean and organic: a… Read more about this item