Search Results: Titles starting with B from Books Northwest

153pp, burgundy cloth w/orange end papers, photo on dust jacket of Freud's couch. Signed on ffep by photographer Edmund Engelman, who photographed Freud's home and consulting offices in fifty-four images a few days before the family fled Vienna in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution. Beautiful photos of a fascinating house and setting for the man that invented psychoanalysis and the idea of the subconscious.

272pp, dj is sunned on spine and left edge of front cover with slight chipping at spine top, clear mylar covering. Revised edition of the 1966 classic book on bathroom design. Photos and illustrations. Novel approach includes chapters such as Social and Psychological Aspects of Elimination, Design Criteria For Urination. Informative and amusing. Book is in unread condition.

266pp, hardcover w/no dj. Bookplate of previous owner on inside front cover (see photos), faint traces of erased pencil inscription on ffep. Bookstamp of bookseller Paul Elder & Co. applied on lower left corner of inside back cover. Illustrations: Frontispiece image of Walt Whitman, ten additional images/photographs of buildings and paintings. Printed on thick paper stock. Mumford (1895-1990) was an American historian, sociologist and literary critic. His sixth book, a beautiful copy of this scarce first edition.