Search Results: Titles starting with B from Trevian Books

Venezia: Alfieri, 1976 First edition. 2 volumes: 8vo; pp. 1-201, 202-386; illustrated. Owner's stamp to half-title; else a very good set in original wrappers. Documenting exhibitions in the Visual Arts and Architecture section, including the Avant-garde in Spain 1936-1976; the Werkbund; architecture in Fascist Italy; Sottsass, Man Ray, etc. Text in English..

VICE VERSA VERLAG. 2004, 2004. Photo essay on Barcelona's architecture from the Mid-century. Text in English, German, Spanish. First edition. 8vo.Light wear to corners of covers; else a very good copy in stiff wrappers. Paperback..

Blurb, 2016. monograph on the Bell Tower lighting project. First edition. 20 cm; 62 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in wrappers..

Philadelphia: Benjamin Franklin Hotel, 1926 1926 brochure of the the Trumbauer-designed hotel built in Philadelphia in 1926. With folding map to rear wrapper. 8vo; 22 pp.; illustrated from drawings, including perspective drawing of the hotel as frontispiece, sketches of interiors, etc. A very good copy in original embossed wrappers.. Ephemera.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955, 1955. First American edition. Light soiling to cover edges, else a good copy or better in a soiled, chipped and torn dust jacket..

N.p: Ballet Society, 2018 Photographs of Balanchine with pupils taken by Lasalle. Originally published in 2016 to accompany a ltd ed. portfolio of photographs by Lasalle. Third printing. 25 cm; 36 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Small dimple to front wrapper; else a very good copy or better in wrappers..

Chicago: Builders Advertising Agency, Inc.,(1962) First edition. Oblong 8vo; 8 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A very good copy in original pictorial wrappers. A trade catalog for the justly forgotten firm of Morton S. Balaban ["Bal"] and Harold Brown ["Bro"]. Balbro designed and built potential tear-downs in Glenview, IL, Nine examples illustrated; some interiors. the nadir of American residential architecture.

London: Pleiades Books Ltd., 1944 Hill, that rarest of birds, an English Modernist architect, teamed up with Tisdall to "write and devize" for children this introduction to the history of world architecture. From the snail "...who carries his house on his back and that solves his problem," through earliest civilizations, classic eras, English styles up to the Victorian, to skyscrapers and finally the modern Scandinavian. First edition. 25 cm; 49 pp.; illustrated from drawings by Tisdall. Wear to tips of covers; slight soiling and rubbed spot to front cover; contents clean and bright. A good copy in cloth-backed laminated boards..

New York: Rizzoli, 1988 Monograph of the work of the Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi, With a detailed analysis of his designs from 1955-1988, marked by their harmony with the environment and social geography of the country, and his urbanization which builds on the links between community and nature. Doshi worked for Corbusier in France, returning with him to India to work at Chandigarh before establishing his own practice. First edition. 21 cm; 192 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy in red debossed boards, in a dust jacket with rubbing to the spine..

Short Hills: Baltusrol Golf Club, (1995), 1995. First edition. 4to; 166 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Owner's name, else a very good copy or better in a fine dust jacket. A new history of the first 100 years of this New Jersey club..

New York: Weatherhill, (1970), 1970. Later printing. 4to; 215 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings, many in color. A fine copy in original gilt-stamped green cloth, in a vey good dust jacket. Largely a handsome photo essay on the varied functions of bamboo, including its use in the garden, with a chapter on the plant's lore and versatality, and a useful chapter on cultivation..

Lugano: Banco Gottardo, 1988 Botta contributes a brief essay, "A Bank and its City," in this promotional booklet which is filled mostly with photographs of interiors, though a few do show the striking Bottavian monumentality of the project. Text in English, French, German, and Italian. 21 cm; 20 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Owner’s name; else a very good copy in wrappers. .

New York: MMA, 1989 First edition. 4to; 14 pp. A very good copy in original pictorial wrappers. Catalog for an exhibition of books presented by italian Banks to the Thomas J. Watson Library..

Los Angeles: Banks-Huntley, n.d. [c. 1930] Promotional brochure for the deco-style building on South Spring Street in Los Angeles designed by John and Donald Parkinson and built in 1930. With illustrations of lobby, typical office, entrance, floor plan, map of neighborhood. 20.5 cm; 8 pp.; illustrated from photographs and map. Some rubbing to front cover; else a very good copy in pictorial textured wrappers..

Barcelona: MACBA, 2007 Catalog for the 2007 exhibition at MACBA of Laguillo's photographs documenting the reconstruction of the city of Barcelona from 1978-1997. With essays by de Sola-Morales and others. Text in Spanish and English. First edition. 24 cm; illustrated from photographs. A fine copy in wrappers, in a fine dust jacket..

New York: Harper & Row, (1980), 1980. First edition. Author's first book. A fine copy in a fine but price-clipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Smiley: "For _______--- Without suppositions, but with affection, Jane Smiley 8-16-82".

Berkeley: UC Press, 1965 Measurements, drawings, close examination, excavation, and photographs of the large barn at Great Coxwell, to establish its construction during the first decades of the 13th century, and a proposed reconstruction of the ruins of the barn at Beaulieu-St. Leonard’s in Hampshire. First edition. 36 cm; 74 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A very good copy or better in gilt-stamped gray cloth, in a worn dust jacket..

New York: Rizzoli, 2004 The chateau and gardens at Vauxle Vicomte, begun 1653, were the first great landscape designed by Le Notre and mark the beginning of the baroque tradition in garden design. First American edition. 26 cm; 191 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1960, 1960. First edition. 8vo, 216 pp.; 82 illustrations from photographs and plans; bibliography. A very good copy or better in original gilt-stamped green cloth in a good dust jacket with light wear to bottom of spine. A well-developed and expert survey of the art and architecture of Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries, by the English architectural historian and diarist..

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1960, 1960. First edition. 8vo, 216 pp.; 82 illustrations from photographs and plans; bibliography. A good copy or better in original gilt-stamped green cloth lacking the dust jacket. A well-developed and expert survey of the art and architecture of Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries, by the English architectural historian and diarist..