Search Results: Architecture / History from LEFT COAST BOOKS

London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2000. 468 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profiles 100 international architects. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; Preface; Critics' biographies; 100 architects; 10 essays; 100 references; 10 readings; Architects' biographies; Index; Photographic credits. . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1991. 272 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. One hundred contemporary architects. Architectural drawings.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1991. 272 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Edges lightly soiled. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. Another copy available. One hundred contemporary architects. Architectural drawings.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

Mulgrave, VIC: Images Publishing, 2006. 2 volumes (579 pages), illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour); 24 cm. Issued in a slipcase. Firm binding, clean text. From the library of notable California architect Barry Berkus, with his ink stamp on the title page, otherwise unmarked. Slipcase in fine condition. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and New York: Prentice-Hall; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1990. Cloth, 439 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with an open tear/front cover, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated with 487 illustrations, including 63 in full colour. CONTENTS: Italy in the 17th century; France in the 17th century; Spain in the 17th century; Flemish painting in the 17th century; Dutch painting in the 17th century; Northern European architecture in the 17th and 18th centuries; France in the 18th century; Italy in the 18th century; English painting in the 18th century; Germany and Austria in the 17th and 18th centuries.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to.

New York: Whitney Library of Design for the Architectural League of New York and the American Federation of Arts, 1977. 301 pages, illustrations; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Gift inscription/inside front cover, otherwise unmarked. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 4to.

New York: Whitney Library of Design for the Architectural League of New York and the American Federation of Arts, 1993. x, 214 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. Stated First Printing.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003. 36 pages, illustrations; 32 x 32 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. Folio. Serial.

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003. 32 pages, illustrations; 32 x 32 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Inaugural issue.. Collectible. 1st. Paperback. Fine. Folio. Serial.

Cologne and New York: Taschen, 2000. 559 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Text in English, German, and French. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. xi, 307 pages, illustrations, maps; 23 cm. Alan Karchmer, photo editor and principal photographer. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Profusely illustrated.. 3rd. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Guidebook.

New York: Metro Books, 2016. Pictorial boards, 224 pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Featuring more than 100 locations, from ghost towns to amusement parks, roads to railways, hotels to hospitals. From war to chemical disasters, from grand follies to changing fashions, the story behind each striking image is explained." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction; Industrial places; Public buildings; Ghost towns & cities; Military & scientific buildings; Recreational & retail buildings; Transportrait.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1960. Cloth, 305 pages, plates (some colour); 27 cm. Translated from the French. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, edges & endpapers lightly soiled. Stated First Printing. Dust jacket, worn at extremities, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Birth of baroque; Roma triumphans; Bernini and Borromini; Reception of baroque; France between Baroque and Classicism; Bernini visits Paris; Classicism and French Baroque; England; Central Europe; Imperial Baroque; Baroque in Poland and Russia; Colonial Baroque.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to.

Washington D.C. and New Haven, CT: National Gallery of Art; Yale University Press, 1993. Cloth, 303 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 7. November 1993 to 6 February 1994. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "During the 18th-century deposits of gold, silver, diamonds and emeralds were discovered in Brazil, enabling the Court of Portugal to commission art on a lavish scale. This book is devoted to this period of Portuguese art and history, including paintings, sculpture, furniture and textiles." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Portugal in the 18th Century , Kenneth Maxwell; the Portugese commercial empire - an overview, John Russell-Wood; John V and Papal Rome, A. Ayres de Carvalho; artistic relations between Italy and Portugal in the age of John V, Angela Delaforce; John V and Italian sculpture,… Read More

Florence: Casa Editrice Bonechi, 1986. 127 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. English Edition. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Guidebook.

Barcelona: Editorial Escudo de Oro, S.A., 1989. 93 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Richly illustrated with colour plates (art, architecture, scenery).. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Guidebook.

Washington D.C.: American Institute of Architects Press, 1990. 342 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine rolled at the crown, light edgewear to tail edge/boards. Dust jacket with light edgewear. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Includes articles by numerous writers. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Selection of articles from Architecture, the monthly magazine of the American Institute of Architects.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Rizzoli, 1995. Cloth, 300 pages, illustrations, plans (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at crown. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: The modern American house; From the Brown decades to the fragmented metropolis, 1869-1929; Survival through design: the triumph of the modern American house, 1929-1945; Blueprint for modern living: the American house and the Pax Americana, 1945-1965; Complexity and contradiction: the late-modern house, 1965-1994.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston; Praeger, 1969. 275 pages, illustrations, maps, plans; 22 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate edgewear to tail edge/back cover. Age toning.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Preservation Press, 1997. Cloth, 254 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "This beautifully-photographed book offers the complete history of American theaters, highlighting the 40 best theaters in America-from small town halls, to elaborate urban performance houses. It tells the story of why 19th-century theaters remain such a significant force in America's cities and towns, and in our national cultural identity." - Publisher. CONTENTS: THE AMERICAN PERFORMANCE HALL THROUGH HISTORY; Early American Theater Buildings; Backstage in the 1800s; Survival and Revival in the Twentieth Century; Theater Genres. A REVUE OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN THEATERS; Eastern Town Hall Opera Houses; Theatrical Venues in the Midwest; Western Boomtown Opera… Read More