Search Results: Architecture from Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

Lombardo: Mediocredito, (1983). Lavishly produced folio, ochre cloth, 223pp., text in Italian, profusely illustrated after photographs by Stefano Bisconcini. With two slim companion volumes in wrappers, one an index, the other an English text. Please note that this material comprises volume three only of this three volume set. Book is fine, with a slight wear >?at head of dust jacket. Companion volumes are also fine. Comes with a lightly used, torn slipcase. [Oversize*].

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, [1895]. First edition. Large octavo., tan cloth decorated in dark brown and gold, pp xi, 346, + [1] advertisement, illustrated. The book includes foreign examples in domestic architecture, a collection of American house plans, materials and details for the artistic house-builder, and advice to the architect. Architect Louis H. Sullivan furnished several of the decorative designs incorporated as tail-pieces in this book. Rear hinge has been effectively repaired with Japanese paper, previous owner's name [dated Xmas 1895], and unsightly rubberstamps on endpaper, page edges darkened, with some foxing to top page edge, spine is quite browned with either foxing or a reaction from the publisher's adhesive, covers show light soil, else a very good copy. Hitchcock 505. May require extra postage due to weight..

Montreal: Tundra (in association with) Collins, 1973. First Canadian paperback printing. Trade paperback format, 244; illustrated. Ink name inside cover, creased along spine from reading, covers rubbed, crease to corner of rear cover..

Providence: REDE, Research and Design Institute, 1974 Circa 8 1/2" x 11", spiral bound, various paginations totalling circa 150 pages; illustrated. Environmental design for the University of Rhode Island. Previous owner's name neatly in marker on front cover, creasing to rear cover, else very good. .

New York: Rizzoli, [1994]. Wrappers issue. Fine in publisher's shrink wrap. Hefty book, may require extra post to distant locals..

New York: The New York Public Library, 1965. First edition. 36 cm x 26 cm, brown cloth with pictorial label on upper board, unpaginated; illustrated. Small tidy repair to cloth at fore-edge of rear board, gilt titling on covers a bit worn, else very good. No dust jacket..

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., (1958). First edition. 25.5 x 19.2 cm, black cloth, pp. xiv, 266; illustrated. Bump to one corner of covers, else fine in a very good dust jacket with several ugly tape-stains to edges. Scarce..

London: William Heinemann, (1957). First edition. Octavo, navy blue cloth, pp. xvi, 136; 150 illustrations. The author was a published authority on fortifications and castles, and this is a pioneering study on strongholds in India. Sites are described from the Himalayas to Madura in the south. Some darkening to jacket at spine and rear panel, slight edge wear, else very good or better. Uncommon..

New York: Vantage Press, (1974). First edition. Octavo, dark green cloth, pp. 422; illustrated. A typed inscription signed by Weiser to talk show host Merv Griffin is pasted to the front free endpaper. Very good in a somewhat creased and spine-sunned dust jacket. Comes with a mylar dust jacket protector..

(London): Academy Editions/Ernst & Sohn, (1994). First English edition, paper issue. Quarto, card covers with french flaps, pp. (144), illustrated. Near fine softcover..

Don Mills: Nelson Foster & Scott, (1979). First edition. Quarto, red boards, pp. [xiii], 82; numerous illustrations. A collection of photographic images. Grease pencil smudge the size of a quarter in the lower right corner of the front free endpaper, else very good, in a dust jacket with a 1" closed tear to the front panel..

Milano: Casa Editrice D'Arte Bestetti & Tumminelli, 1915. 35 cm x 26 cm, dark green cloth with gilt stamped black leather labels on spine and front cover, pp. xxii, 192; illustrated. Slight foxing to edges, else very good in the rare original printed dust jacket with some small edge tears and chips..

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, (1991). Quarto, card covers. Still in the publisher's shrink wrap..