Search Results: Titles starting with O from modern-ISM

Knopf, 1986. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. A crisp clean Very Good copy with spine fading. 225 pp., profusely illustrated, end notes, index. Traces the history of the chain restaurant industry, looks at how their architecture has changed since the 1920s, and describes current trends in restaurant design

Santa Monica: Heftler Const. Co./Wallace Properties, Inc./Centex Const. Co. Maynard Lyndon, A. Quincy Jones, Frederick E. Emmons, Associated Architects, 1961. First Edition . Spiral-Bound Wraps. Very Good +. 12" x 16" Oblong. 34 pp. Presentation book of the Ocean Park Redevelopment Project. Includes tabbed sections including Site 1A Residential; Slab towers, general description, elevations, plans; Slab towers, individual apartments; Point towers, general description, elevations, plans; Piont towers, individual apartments; Residential distribution analysis; Site 1B Commercial; Commercial distribution analysis and Redevelopers and management information. Very scarce. Slight silverfish damage, mainly to back cover, does not affect interior pages. Slight edge creasing and wear.

New York: Rizzol, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine -. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A crisp, clean copy. Includes work by Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Rineke Dijskstra, Joel Meyerowitz, William Wegman, Minor White, Anthony Fridkin and many others.

San Francisco: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company, 1915. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Fine. Unpaginated, approx. 60 pp. Creme colored wraps with purple and rust inset cover with gold lettering. Titled "The Exposition". Black and white photography with color centerfold of the Palace of Fine Arts. Yapped edges have the typical creases and closed tears otherwise fine condition.

Chicago: The Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation, 1933. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 63 pp. with b/w photography by Kaufmann & Fabry Co. includes lay in folded original order form. Great memorabilia piece from A Century of Progress. Tear on upper front cover from sticker. Small bump to back pages at lower spine.

Carmel, 1995. First Edition . Soft Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine. A crisp, clean Fine copy. 55 pp., illustrations and index.

Arcadia Publishing, 2006. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. A crisp Fine copy. 128 pp., illustrations, bibliography.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bulfinch Pres, 1996. First Edition . Glossy Pictorial Hardcover. As New. 4to. As New in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Sequim, WA: Ross Hamilton Photography, 2001. Hardcover. As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 123 pp. As New/FIne+ Limited edition of 200. Includes black linen covered case. Breathtaking color photography includes The Coast, Forest and Mountains. May require extra postage, due to size/weight.

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1940. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Sir Joshua Reynolds. One of 500 copies, uncut and unopened.. The true story of his voyage there in 1774 with Captain Cook; of how he was feted by Fanny Burney, approved by Samuel Johnson, entertained by Mrs. Thrale & Lord Sandwich and painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. VG+ to Near Fine (some wear to bottom edges of boards). 114 pp., linen backing and tapa rice paper covered boards.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2013. First Edition . Photographic Boards. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. A crisp, clean Very Good copy in lightly rubbed boards with a tiny bump to the upper rear forecorner. 230 pp., appendices, endnotes and index, brief author bio. During the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks as the main building material. The construction system has been described by Wright and others as uniquely molded, woven like a textile fabric, and perceived as ground breaking, truly modern, unprecedented. Many have attempted to uphold these claims while some thought the house-designs borrowed from old exotic buildings. For the first time this book brings together Wright's declarations, the support of upholders and inferences in order to determine their accuracy and correctness, or the possibility of feigned or fictional stories. It examines technical developments of concrete blocks by… Read More

The MIT Press, 1989. First Paperback Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A crisp Very Good copy with a small mild crease to the back cover. 455 pp., notes, bibliography and index.

Boston Book and Art Shop, 1955. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards, Slipcase. Near Fine. Near Fine (some fingerprints on fore edges) in a Very Good slipcase.

Oxford University Press, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A crisp, tight Very Good copy with damp staining to top foreedges in a clean Very Good dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. DJ exhibits light chipping and edge wear.308 pp.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First U.S. Printing . Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 136 pp. 77 photographs by Yukio Futagawa. b/w and color photography. DJ has two small closed tears (one taped from inside), upper edge frayed. Book has small stain on ffep, else good.

Los Angeles: Out West Magazine Co., 1903. First Edition . Soft cover. Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bullying the Quaker Indians, illustrated, Chas. F. Lummis; The Right Hand of the Continent, Illustrated, C.F.L.; The Rattlesnake and its Poison, illustrated, by W. H. Backus; Under Canvas-Tent City on the beach at Coronado; Long Beach, the City by the Sea (with photographs) and much more. Richly illustrated and loaded with fabulous Southern California period ads. Original printed wrappers with yapped edges. Various tears to edges of front and back covers, but all pages intact and general wear. This is an ORIGINAL, not a reproduction copy.

Los Angeles: Out West Magazine Co., 1902. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good -. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Discovery of our Pacific Coast, illustrated by R.A. Thompson, Citris Fruits- 250 yrs ago by Charles Lummis, Early Western History- Diary of Father Junipero Serra from Loreto to San Diego, 1769 and much more. Richly illustrated and loaded with fabulous Southern California period ads. Original printed wrappers with yapped edges. Slight tears to edges of front and back covers, slight silverfish damage to edges and general wear. This is an ORIGINAL, not a reproduction copy.

Los Angeles: Out West Magazine Co., 1902. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Right Hand of the Continent, illustrated, Chas. F. Lummis; Child Birds in Our Garden, illustrated by Elizabeth Grinnell; Two days at Mesa Grande, Illustrated, C.F.L. and much more. Richly illustrated and loaded with fabulous Southern California period ads. Original printed wrappers with yapped edges. Tears to edges of front and back covers, spine missing, but all pages intact and general wear. This is an ORIGINAL, not a reproduction copy.

Los Angeles: Out West Magazine Co., 1903. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Thus Far - and Much Further - CA Missions; The Exiles of Cupa - Removal of Mission Indians from Warner Ranch; Bullying the Quaker Indians; The Man that built Oregon - Irving Scott; The Nation's Hand in the Desert; CA Summer Resorts and much more. Richly illustrated and loaded with fabulous Southern California period ads. Original printed wrappers with yapped edges. General wear with a few small nicks and tears, as expected.. This is an ORIGINAL, not a reproduction copy.

Los Angeles: Out West Magazine Co., 1904. First Edition . Photographic Wraps. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine (bottom of spine missing). Original printed wrappers with yapped edges. Pages are uncut, unopened and unread. Articles include: Camping in the Redwoods, A Day With the Mono Indians, Navajo Blankets, and much more. Loaded with fabulous Southern California period ads. This is an ORIGINAL, not a reproduction copy.