Search Results: Architecture from Minotavros Books

London: Vintage, 2002. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 276 pp. Numerous photographs. Slight tilt to spine, light edge toning, else fine. Growing up in California, Dennis Severs fell in love with the England he saw in old black and white movies. At seventeen he came to London, looking for a home with a heart. In 1979 he found one -- a run-down silk-weaver's house in Spitalfields -- and over the next twenty years he transformed it into an enchanted time capsule, transporting us back to the eighteenth century.

New York: Weatherhill, 1991. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo (super). Soft cover. 139 pp. Numerous colour and B&W photos in text. Some light bumping to lower front corner and creasing to same corner of half-title. Faint sticker ghost to foot of rear cover. Else fine.

New York: Harper and Row, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Blue cloth, 248pp. Illustrated. Fine in a fine, clipped d/w. A lovely biography on the turbulent personal life and creative world of Rockwell Kent, American Architect, Painter, Writer, Social Activist and Adventurer.

New York: The Monacelli Press, 2004. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 9" x 10" Full tan cloth. [74] ff. B&W photos (mostly printed to recto, though not exclusively). Ninety-six photos total. Spine slightly tilted. Some light bumping to edges of dust jacket, else fine.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1997. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 268 pp. B&W photos in text. Fine. A lucid and provocative analysis of many of the key issues that have engaged architectural discourse over the past two decades -- from deconstructivist theory to recent concerns with the notions of event and program. Included are seminal essays that incited broad attention when they first appeared in magazines and journals.

New York: Bonanza Books. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo (imperial). N.d., [ca. 1976?] Quarter cream cloth, russet paper boards. Irregular pagination, 32 pp., [92]. Numerous B&W illustrations. A few spots of foxing to endpapers, sticker ghost to ffep. Dust jacket is sunned, bumped and chipped to extremities, creased to foot of front flap. Reproduces in exact facsimile plates from the following manufacturers' catalogs: Marshall, Lefferts & Brother, 1854; Buffalo Eagle Iron Works, 1859; Morris, Tasker & Co., 1860; Philadelphia Architectural Iron Co., 1872; Keystone Mantel & Slate Works, 1872; George O. Stevens, 1879. 0.

Scranton: International Textbook Company, 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. International Library of Technology #448. Quarter red cloth, green cloth boards. A.E.R. Marbled endpapers. Various pagination. x, 78, 1 leaf, 57, 39, 130, vi, 90 pp. With 103 illustrations, including plates and four fold-out diagrams. Spine sunned, extremities rubbed, small stains to front board. Front hinge cracked. Contents include: Reading architect's blueprints, Specification Writing, and Specification Writing Memoranda.

London: J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd, 1888. Hardcover. Good. Folio (small). vi, 384 p.p., [1 plate], 32 p.p. Half bound, black morocco spine and black pebbled cloth boards. Dentelle detailing to spine and corners, and gilt titling to spine. Shelf number inked to spine. Joints cracking and worn. Chip to spine tail at front board. Scuff to rear board. Sunning to boards. Wear to edges and corners. Text block is sound. Marbled endpapers. Ten B&W plates w/ tissue guards, incl. frontis, and B&W illustrations throughout. Collation and names of the plates does not match list of illustrations. Several plates named are missing, and two not listed are included. Illustrated title. Tanning to edges. Small tear to foot of contents page, text not affected. Library stamps of Hamilton Public Library to all edges and title page, and bookplate of the HPL Reference Collection to the pastedown. Presentation plate of The Heirs of J.S. and Hortense Gordon to the Hamilton Public Library, Februayr 1963, to pastedown. Including… Read More

Koln: Konemann, 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and foot of front board. B&W pictorial endpapers. 425 p.p. Lavish colour photographs and reproductions of artwork in-text throughout. Light bumps to spine head and tail edge of rear board, small spot to head of front board. Dust jacket lightly bumped at edges, a few scuffs, small perforation to rear joint. Two small stains to tail edge of text block. Art historian and Art Nouveau scholar Dr. Gabriele Fahr-Becker explores the style in its impact on architecture, interior design, furniture, gold and silversmiths' work, art, ceramics and glass, graphics and painting.

Hertfoerdshire, England: Omega Books, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. 232 p.p. B&W photos/illustrations throughout with 7 full pages of colour photos taken by the author. Some creasing and small tears to dust jacket. Original brown cloth with gilt title on spine. Wear to spine caps and edges. Damp stain to index pages. Otherwise a clean, bright copy with beautiful illustrations and photos.

London: Quartet Books, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full tan cloth. Illustrated endpapers. 620 pp., [32] pp. B&W photo plates. Some light staining and soiling to rear cover of dust jacket and some light rubbing to front fore edge, else fine.

New York: James Pott & Co, 1901. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo [133.35mm x 203.2mm]. Two Volumes. Decorative red cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong [1867-1944], her initials stamped in gilt at foot of front covers. T.e.g. Vol. I: [6] 478 p.p. With [15] plates of illustrations, incl. frontis; Vol II:[2] 498 p.p. With [10] plates of illustrations, incl. frontis. Tissue guards. Bookplate of James Scarlet [1848--1920] to front pastedown in both vols. A prominent lawyer from Pennsylvania and Princeton graduate, who once famously represented the state in the Capitol Graft case. Light rubbing to edges, extremities. Rear corner at foot of volume two slightly bruised. Some fraying at spine ends. Trimming to pages and rough cut edges. Some sporadic smudges, else a very good copy offering a history of the construction and building of the Bastille, one of France's famous prisons as well as a discussion on prisoners, including the Man in the Iron Mask.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Cottage Press, 1984. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good. 8vo (imperial). SIGNED with inscription dated 1986 to title page. Soft cover. 240 pp. Colour and B&W photos in text. Spine tilted and creased. Covers stained and sunned. Facsimiles of news articles about John Shepard laid in.

New York: The Monacelli Press, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo (imperial). Full grey paper boards. 334 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. Fine.

Istanbul: Aksit Kultur Turizm Sanat Ajans Tic, 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12" x 11.5" Full blue cloth. Colour pictorial endpapers. Blue ribbon marker. 347 pp. Magnificently illustrated in colour. Bump to lower corner of text block. Sticker to foot of spine of dust jacket, else fine. In custom paper and cloth backed slipcase.

New York: The Dial Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Orig. red cloth, xiii, 234pp. Illustrated with line drawings. Some markings on cloth, spine bumped at head and foot o/w very good in a soiled and chipped d/w with loss to jacket spine but still good. "Build A Home tells you how, in dollars and sense how you can actually build a home worth $5,000.

Memphis, TN: General Books, 2010. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 218 pp. Spine sunned, else fine.

Toronto: Hounslow Press, 1996. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Paperback, 120pp. Illustrated. Fine. The heraldry and history of Canada's parliament buildings.

New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Full black paper boards. 312 p. Fully illustrated in colour. Lightly rubbed to extremities. Dust jacket is lightly bumped to edges, some spots of delamination to corners. Near fine overall.

Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Orig. green cloth. 61 pp, CX B&W plates, [122] pp. B&W photos. Light sunning to top and tail edges of boards. Dust jacket lightly bumped to edges with offset panels to front cover. A reprint of the Country-Houses volume from the three volume Lutyens Memorial set 'The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens.'.