Search Results: Photography / Subjects & Themes / Architectural from LEFT COAST BOOKS

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: Monacelli Press, 2004. Cloth, 1 volume (unpaged), chiefly illustrations; 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Over the course of a long career, photographer Lynn Davis has devoted herself to subjects as varied as the icebergs of Disko Bay, Greenland; the colossal statues of China; and the abandoned artifacts of the space age. Her exquisite, subtly toned images capture large scale and small, form and detail, composition and component. American Monument unites - for the first time - more than ninety photographs taken in the United States, a body of work that speaks of America as a country of grandeur, civilization, and science and as a land of endless expanses and the open road." "Included are iconic national symbols - notably the memorials to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln on the Mall in Washington, D.C. - and… Read More

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2013. Cloth, 111 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition In focus: architecture, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from October 15, 2013 to March 2, 2014. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "From the invention of photography in 1839, architecture was second only to portraiture as the most favored subject for the camera. Arranged chronologically, this volume spans the history of the medium and features seventy-five works selected from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Wiley-Interscience, 1976. Cloth, x, 164 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour), facsimiles; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Hamburg: Seltmann + Sohne, 2009. Cushioned boards, 279 pages, all colour illustrations; 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Corners lightly bumped. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. German "new objectivity" style much in evidence.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to.

New York: MetroBooks, 1996. Cloth, 120 pages, colour illustrations; 32 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Berlin: Nicolai: Berlinische Galerie, Photographische Sammlung, 1998. 141 pages, colour illustrations; 30 cm.Text in German, English and French. SEHR GUT+. SIGNED by Michael Haddenhorst and Hellmutt Karasek. A near-fine copy, age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Berlin: Bilder einer Stadt = Berlin: Pictures of a City.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Northhampton, MA: Smith College Museum of Art, 1985. 17 pages, colour illustrations; 23 cm. Exhibition held April 4 to June 16, 1985. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Wraps lightly soiled.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987. Cloth, 192 pages, colour illustrations, map; 27 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First U.S. Edition. Fine DJ. Richly illustrated with colour plates (architecture, scenery). "By looking at England's cathedral towns, Regency spas and industrial cities, and at their market squares, docks, council chambers and assembly rooms, the author traces the development of English towns through the centuries." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The garden counties (Berkshire, Surrey, Sussex, Kent); The West country (Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire); The heart of England (Gloucestershire, Hereford and Worcester, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire); Lakeland and the peaks (Cumbria, Derbyshire, Yorkshire); Castles and dales (Durham, Humberside, Northumberland, Yorkshire); In the Eastern realms (Cambridgeshire, Essex, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk).. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Illus. by Morrison, Robin (Photographs by). 4to.

Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1973. 114 pages, chiefly illustrations; 27 cm. An Aperture Monograph, Vol. 18, No. 1. Published to accompany a major exhibition of British photographers prior to 1915 to be presented by the Alfred Stieglitz Center of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1975. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Worn wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 4to.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1979. 109 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Madrid and Barcelona: Kliczkowski Publishers; LOFT Publications, 2001. Pictorial boards, 213 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour), maps, plans; 25 x 27 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates of the Guggenheim museums in New York, Venice, Bilbao, and Berlin. Focus on the architecture. Photographs, Eugeni Pons.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oblong.

Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011. 72 pages, chiefly illustrations; 17 cm. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. "The American architectural photographer Julius Shulman (1910-2009) is one of the few image makers to have documented, as well as witnessed, nearly an entire century of Los Angeles history. His captivating photographs serve as a visual record of the dramatic evolution of this exciting and diverse metropolis. Shulman's best-known images consist of mid-century views of Modernist domestic interiors, notably the iconic Case Study House #22 of 1960, in which two well-dressed women sit inside the floor-to-ceiling window walls of a Pierre Koenig-designed house that seems to float like a spaceship over the light-spangled urban sprawl beyond. Not as well known but equally powerful are Shulman's images of Union Station and downtown's vintage office buildings, the dynamic Wilshire Boulevard corridor, the region's eclectic coffee shops and movie theaters,… Read More

London and Cologne: Ellipsis; Konemann, 1999. 79 pages, colour illustrations, map; 32 cm. Architecture in Context Series. Text in English, French and German. Translated into German by Andreas Klatt; translated into French by Armelle Tardiveau. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Collie, Keith (Photographs by). Folio. Collectible.

New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1988. Cloth, c. 250 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 32 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio. Collectible.

Boston, Toronto, London: Little, Brown and Company, 1992. Cloth, xiii, 222 pages, colour illustrations, colour map; 26 x 28 cm. With additional photographs by Alison Shaw . [et al.]. Near fine. Gently browsed, clean copy. Age toning. First Edition, First Printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Carly Simon and James Taylor have written songs about it while others have written books about it. As much a state of mind as a place, Martha's Vineyard holds an allure both for its residents and the tourists who visit the island every year. This book looks at the houses and gardens of the island." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Oblong. Collectible.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1978. 80 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top right corner bumped. Age toning. Another copy available. Victorian architecture in San Francisco.. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Baer, Morley (Photographs by). 4to.

Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1997. 144 pages, illustrations, maps; 29 cm. Exhibition held at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, January 29 to May 31, 1998; University of New Mexico Art Museum, October 13 to December 13, 1998; St. Louis Art Museum, February 23 to May 23, 1999. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "This is the catalog for an exhibition of ninety nineteenth-century photographs drawn primarily from the world-class collection of Michael G. Wilson. Included are the starkly beautiful photographs of Sergeant James McDonald's surveys of Palestine and Jerusalem; recently discovered photographs by Ernest Benecke; and the rare photographs by Maxime Du Camp taken in 1850 as he traveled with Flaubert. With the invention of photography and the increasing popularity of travel in the mid-nineteenth century, the Holy Land became one of the most photographed places on earth. Interest in Jerusalem and Palestine was… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1985. Cloth, 312 pages, illustrations; 30 cm. With an introduction by John Julius Norwich and an anthology drawn from architectural writers and travellers from Vitruvius to Sacheverell Sitwell. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Rochester, NY: International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, 1986. 84 pages, illustrations; 22 x 28 cm. Exhibition held at the Museum, Rochester, N.Y., November 8, 1986 to January 4, 1987, and others. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong. Collectible.