Search Results: Authors starting with S from Springhead Books

London: The Architectural Press, 1961. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Modern architecture magazine, this issue includes office building at Holburn by Trehearne and Norman, Preston and Partners, Amancio Guedes, US Embassy by Eero Saarinen (extensive survey including interiors), Chamber of Commerce Building by John H. Madin in Birmingham, index to July-December 1960, plus many fascinating trade advertisements. Slight shelf wear to cover and edges (cover has strangely been protected by an extra unattached cover), previous owner's name in pencil on front cover of additional cover. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Collection of case studies by acclaimed neurologist Oliver Sacks on the subject of 'sleeping sickness' and its treatment with the drug L-Dopa. Later made into a film starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. This is the revised and expanded edition which includes new material and an account of Awakenings on screen and stage. xxxix, 408 p. : illus. ; 22 cm. Black cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to jacket edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

xii, 233 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. First UK edition, first printing. Black cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to edges, spine faded, previous owner's signature on front free endpaper, slight roll to spine. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

This essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment provides a convenient single source for all the key texts in the recent literature on architecture and technology. The book contains over fifty carefully selected essays, manifestoes, reflections and theories by architects and architectural writers from 1900 to 2004. xvi, 466 pages, ill. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

This easily accessible volume, which grew out of a series of lectures presented at the Smithsonian Institution in 1991, aims to provide a coherent introduction to Byzantine culture with a focus on the interconnected realms of art and religion. Contents: Constantinople and the Empire of New Rome / Joseph Alchermes -- "...That Man Might Become God" : Central Themes in Byzantine Theology / Eric D. Perl -- The Responding Icon / Anna Kartsonis -- The Holy Space : Architecture and the Liturgy / Robert Ousterhout -- The Cycle of Images in the Church / Henry Maguire -- Art in the Service of the Liturgy : Byzantine Silver Plate / Susan A. Boyd -- Illuminating the Liturgy : Illustrated Service Books in Byzantium / Nancy Patterson SÌŒevcÌŒenko -- Byzantine Pilgrims' Art / Gary Vikan. 280 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, previous owner's name and date on front free endpaper, spine faded, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched… Read More

Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2001. Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. Well-illustrated monograph with texts by Yehuda E. Safran ; edited by Luiz Trigueiros and Paulo Martins Barata ; updated photos by Rui Morais de Sousa and Thorsten Hu?mpel. Parallel text in English and Spanish. 214 p. : ill. (chiefly in col.), plans ; 29 cm. Dust jacket over, printed card wrapper, slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Musical biography of the group that brought us 'I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony ...' 186 pages, ill. ; 23 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Autobiography of Japanese fighter pilot. 189 pages. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

London: MacDonald & Co. in association with the Council of Industrial Design, 1967. Soft cover. Very Good. Well-illustrated survey of mid-century design relating to storage. 64 pages, illustrations. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1963. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. First monograph to introduce the work of this fascinating German artist. xiv, 80 colour plates. First edition, first printing. Grey cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to jacket edges, some edge tears repaired with tape, pencil inscription and signature on front free endpaper, no other inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Why did collectors seek out posters and collect ephemera during the late-nineteenth and the twentieth centuries? How have such materials been integrated into institutional collections today? What inspired collectors to build significant holdings of works from cultures other than their own? And what are the issues facing curators and collectors of digital ephemera today? These are among the questions tackled in this volume-the first to examine the practices of collecting prints, posters, and ephemera during the modern and contemporary periods. xiv, 283 pages, 8 leaves of plates) : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm. Illustrated boards, slight shelf wear to edges, board edges a little bumped. no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Contents: Intimate relationships -- Professional relationships -- Feminism, fashion, and physical culture -- Orphism and the quest for harmonious unity -- Women in the art of Le Corbusier --The cult of woman and the religious architecture of Le Corbusier -- Sexual harmony and the urbanism of Le Corbusier. xiii, 174 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, bump to head of spine, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Contents: A Lithuanian childhood -- Dreamer in Minot Street -- A Harvard aesthete -- Literary debut -- Cities of a dream -- Seedtime of art -- Beyond the Alps -- Disciple of Morelli -- The Smiths of Friday's Hill -- The path to Monte Oliveto -- Master and errant pupil -- Trial of the scholar-aesthete -- Talent in harness -- New vistas at home and abroad -- Secrets of the artistic personality -- Heretic at the New Gallery -- The tactile imagination -- Only the greatest in the world -- The critical gauntlet -- The wizard of quick wits -- A duel with Vernon Lee -- A tangled web -- A man of affairs -- Room for Berenson -- A union of minds and feelings -- A Victorian husband -- The study and criticism of Italian art -- The wars of the Burlington -- Mission to the new world -- A new beginning. xvi, 477 pages, [10] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. First edition, first printing. Red and beige cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding.… Read More

508 pages, ill. Second (integrated) edition, 1985 printing. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, couple of reading creases to spine. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

London: Fountain Press, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Annual collection of selected photography includes work by Patrick Lichfield, Francis Giacobetti, Petr Sikula, Bill Owens, and many others. Also includes essay by Ian Jeffrey 'The Limits of Photography'. Unpaginated, illustrations (some colour). First edition, first printing. Text in English, German, Spanish and French. Black leatherette boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Shelf wear and a couple of small closed tears to jacket edges and head of spine, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

London: Fountain Press, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Annual collection of selected photography includes a portfolio by work by Snowdon, and work by Chris Steele-Perkins, Denis Thorpe, John Richardson, J.S. Lewinski, and many others plus an essay by R.H. Mason. unpaginated, illustrations (some colour). First edition, first printing. Green boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Shelf wear to jacket edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

London: The Architectural Press, 1981. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Modern architecture magazine, this issue a special on recent architecture in the German Federal Republic, Deanna Petherbridge on Michael Sandle, Dieter Rams for Vitsoe, plus many fascinating trade advertisements. Slight shelf wear to cover edges. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Well-illustrated survey of the history and design of bathrooms, including saunas. Text in Swedish. 85 pages, ill. (some colour). Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Well-illustrated survey of art and architecture during the time of Constantin Brîncoveanu (1688-1714). This copy with the signature and ownership stamp of Sherban G. Cantacuzino, and also has his pencil annotations. 36 p., [64] leaves of plates : ill ; 27 cm. First edition, first printing. White boards, unclipped dust jacket. Shelf wear to edges and laminate starting to flake in places, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Harrison, AR: Atlan Formularies, 1976. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Compendium of the second 12 issues of the survivalist bible. 155-354 pages. Oversize format 37 x 27.5 cm. First edition 1976. Shelf wear, light staining and creasing to cover edges, text block tanned, couple of small tears to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.