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Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdamsche Grafische School, 1943. Hardcover without dust jacket, 424 pages including many black-and-white illustrations throughout (and a few in colour);---text in Dutch;---tipped in at the title page is a three-paragraph sheet "aan de abonnes van het Elementair Algrafisch Vakboek", dated "October 1945"; very sadly, I am unable to read this early post-war message; laid in is a… Read more

Zaltbommel, Netherlands: Europese Bibliotheek , 1966. Square hardcover without dust jacket, 111 pages including many black-and-white illustrations throughout, plus additional on unnumbered glossy pager pages;---text in Dutch;---cream-coloured cloth covers foxed, foxing and/or dust speckling to top edge, but very gently used, only tiny traces of shelf wear, previous owner's professionally designed (by owner, Dutch-Canadian silhouette… Read more

New York: HarperPerennial, 1998. Oversized trade paperback, second printing, xii + 222 pages including a section of full colour illustrations; tiny traces of shelf wear, otherwise in very clean and unmarked unused/unread condition. See also our listing for Patricia Brennan's extremely scarce Facing the… Read more

New York: Watson-Guptill, 1986. Oversized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 208 pages including "180 [black-and-white] illustrations" [building plans and photographs]; very gently read, if at all, not a trace of shelf or reading wear, very clean and unmarked throughout. [this copy priced low, priced to go… Read more

London: King Penguin, 1947. Hardcover in somewhat faded floral-patterned cloth covers, without dust jacket, 36 pages including drawings, plus 72 pages of black-and-white photographs; very gently used, very clean and unmarked, pages fresh and white.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++.

London: Collins, 1946. Hardcover without dust jacket, 48 pages including illustrations in black-and-white, plus plates in full colour; shelf wear to spine and all cover edges and corners, otherwise gently used, very `clean and unmarked throughout. See also our other Britain in Pictures… Read more

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office for Victoria & Albert Museum, 1949. Oversized paperback, 14 pages of text plus 65 black-and-white plates; spine creased and possibly fragile due to age, other tiny traces of shelf and reading wear, but very clean and unmarked. … Read more

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Royal Ontario Museum and University of Toronto, 1966. Stapled softcover pamphlet, 16 pages, black-and-white illustrations; very gently used, very clean and unmarked. See also our listing for Steven's Early Ontario Furniture, and for R. R. H.… Read more

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Royal Ontario Museum and University of Toronto, 1965. Stapled softcover pamphlet, 16 pages, black-and-white illustrations; very gently used, very clean and unmarked. See also our listing for Steven's Early Ontario Furniture, and for R. R. H.… Read more

New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1960. Mass market paperback, 175 pages; very light creasing and rubbing to exterior, otherwise in very clean and unmarked unread condition.. First Edition Paperback Original. Soft Cover. Very Good ++.

New York: Caxton House, 1947. Oversized hardcover without dust jacket, xviii + 406 pages including 305 black-and-white photographs and about 200 drawings; covers lightly worn and bumped at edges, corners and spine ends, but intact and complete, tight in binding, gently used, ink signature on half title… Read more

New York: A. T. De La Mare Company, 1931. Small hardcover without dust jacket, 146 pages including plan drawings and black-and-white photographs throughout; elegant little book in blue textured cloth covers with bright and clear gilt lettering to front cover and spine (somewhat faded on spine), … Read more

New York: Harrison House, 1984. Oversized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 240 pages, "With more than 225 illustrations, 147 in full color"; very clean and unmarked, very gently read, if at all, just missing that crisp fresh newness (covers are a magnificent bright yellow with silver gilt spine lettering); DJ now in new… Read more

London, United Kingdom: Country Life Books, 1950. Oversized paperback magazine format, 260 pages illustrated throughout in black-and-white and full colour including fabulous contemporary advertisements; gently used, not abused, tight in binding, but shelf wear to cover edges and spine ends, short tear to front cover bottom edge, light traces of dust speckling and/or… Read more

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA: Writer's Digest Books, 1990. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 246 pages; book appears in very clean and unmarked unread condition, but there are pale notations in ink on two pages. See also our listing for Ellen Roberts' The Children's Picture Book: How to Write It, How to Sell… Read more

Koln [Cologne], Germany: Taschen, 2012. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, 320 pages, extensively illustrated in full colour and black-and-white; very clean and unmarked unread condition, essentially as new. [this copy priced low, priced to go as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H may be requested] . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1932. Oversized hardcover without dust jacket, ix + 233 pages; covers have light edge wear, rubbing along fore edge of front cover has turned the black to a pale brownish colour, but tight in binding, very clean and unmarked throughout (no ownership signatures or bookstore stamps, none of the… Read more

New York: Dover Trade paperback, later printing, xxiv + 611 + xxxvii (Index) pages including "Over 320---" black-and-white illustrations; light rubbing to edges, one very light spine crease, but probably from store browser as book otherwise appears unread, very gently used, very clean and unmarked. … Read more

New York: Rizzoli International, 1987. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, 160 pages including "With 284 illustrations, in two colours"; very clean and unmarked unread condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London, United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999. Trade paperback, 122 pages; exterior creased and worn, faded old (coffee?) stain to bottom corner margins of first 16/17 pages, but all pages otherwise clean and unmarked. See also our listings for Justine Glass' very scarce Witchcraft: … Read more