"This elegantly designed book pays well-deserved homage to the life and work of B.C. Binning, a man who helped steer Vancouver's artistic community more boldly towards the mainstream and an international future." - dust jacket. 179 pages. Chronology, footnotes, selected bibliography and index. Generously illustrated in colour and black and white. Printed upon glossy stock. Large handwritten gift greetings upon front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. Short opening to front fold of dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound ... View More...
Unpaginated. "The story of Ontario's Barge Boards, also called Verge Boards and by the unversed, Gingerbread. A treasury of a fascinating aspect in our rich architectural heritage. Combines the best of scholarship, photography and delightful popular appeal to provide one of the most original books ever produced on a subject that is truly one of Canada's indigenous art forms." - from dust jacket and title page. Book clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Modest wear to illustrated dust jacket. An indispensable work for those interested in Ontario's rural architectural heritage. View More...
14 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Feature: Photo-illustrated excerpts from two-page article on Theater-Building for American Cities by Dankmar Adler which appeared in The Engineering Magazine in 1894; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. View More...
xiv, 366 pages. Subject index. Title index. "Will be of interest and use not only to architectural and urban historians and to historic preservationsists, as well as those concerned with various aspects of the local history of New York City." - from page xiv. Usual library markings. Moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound copy. View More...
Pages 211-256 plus xviii pages of nostalgic ads. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "Down North" To Great Bear Lake - Voyaging by Air to Canada's New Northern Mining Centre; London's New Architecture; Castles of the New World - profusely illustrated article on Canada's grain elevators, from small to huge. Nice colour Quebec tourism ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. View More...
This fascinating color illustration groups 78 of the old world's tallest structures ranging from the Porcelain Tower in Nankin, China to the second pyramid at Gheezeh. The highest structure included is the Washington Monument at 555 feet. Red tint indicates brick, pink indicates granite, purple indicates bronze, etc. Outer dimensions: 10.75" x 14.5". Light wear and soiling. Small chips from lower left corner. Provides a vivid contrast to today's much taller structures. View More...
102 pages. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Front free endpaper neatly removed. Somewhat above-average external wear and soiling. Binding intact. A sound copy. View More...
157 pages. "... a book for those involved in the planning of housing for the elderly and disabled... Functions as botha a practical guidebook and as an educational textbook. Covers all transfers and hygiene activities which take place throughout the day." - from back board. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. View More...
447 pages. Abundantly illustrated with photos and line drawings. Text in Chinese characters. Pencil underlining and markings throughout. Moderate wear to book and just jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Sound copy. View More...
An unbound portfolio of 34 classic American cottage sketches and floor plans. Of use to people who desire the timeless appeal of traditional architecture in a residence of moderate proportions. Above-average wear and prior owner's name to cover. Contents clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice set. View More...
A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: European Earthenware - In the R. Thornton Wilson Collection; Aesop's Fables on Philadelphia Furniture; For the Casual Collector - American Woodenware; Lost Plantations; William Henry Brown of Charleston; Invitation to the Antiques Forum; English Silver in a Texas Collection; Heraldry and the American Collector; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white phot... View More...
A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Porcelain in the Wilson Collection; Moravian Cabinetmakers of a Piedmont Craft Center; Living with Antiques - Time Stone Farm in Marlboro, MA; Building Preservation Notes - Community Cooperation in Burlington, New Jersey; English and Irish Glass - In the Corning Glass Center; Portrait Index at Yale; For the Casual Collector - Duncan Phyfe; The London Antiques Fair; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Pr... View More...
48 pages. Features: Reaping on the Margins; - a century of community gardening in America; Push Over, Paradigm; Light Winds Aloft; Seeing Ourselves Through The Bars - A Historical Tour of American Zoos; 'Bright Yard' Maps from Cheju Island; Symbols and Monuments - Images of the Skyscraper in American Art; Banff and The Canadian National Park Idea; Chicano Park - Personalizing an Institutional Landscape. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. View More...
222 pages. Features: 8,200 sf geothermally-heated log mountain retreat; The 'Do it With Logs' design contest; Canadian - Japanese connections - log building school; High altitude builders; Energy - how does the log stack up; The 1984 hand-hewn log home company directory; Schools, teachers and associations; Dealer directory; and much more. Few library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. View More...
Beardslee was a designer and manufacturer of gas fixtures, electroliers, and combination fixtures with manufactory and salesrooms at 216, 218 and 220 South Jefferson Street, Chicago. This massive catalogue of electric light fixtures is printed upon glossy stock and includes 284 fifteen by twelve inch black and white photographic plates, numbered 222 through 506, each proudly displaying an average of three models for a total of over eight-hundred different offerings, complete with pricing, dimensions and other details. Plates 499-506 present photos and detailed drawings of a diverse assortmen... View More...
112 pages. Most text in English plus some in French. Features: Between Cheerleaders and Skeptics; Diagrams and Determinants - New Technologies and Design research in Architecture; Between the Measurablility of Bytes and Beats; Architectural Photogenicity and the Aesthetics of Time; Anatomie Comparee et Anatomie Philosophiqaue - L'Unite du Monde Selon Viollet-le-Duc; Fields and Theatre Churches - The Non-traditional Space of Evangelism; Transitional Practices - Marosi + Troy Architectes; Marosi + Troy Architectes in Conversation; Memoirs of a Man I Never Met. Light wear. A quality copy. View More...
A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Cover illustration of ascent of James Sadler in a balloon (1811); Hatchment in Needlework (frontispiece illustration); Vanished Kaskaskia; Winged Victory; Trial Balloons; Antiques in Domestic Settings - An Early Colonial Home in Massachusetts; Catalyntje's Clasp; John and William Linnell - Cabinetmakers; The Neglected Portable Writing Desk; The Eighteenth-Century Glass of Britain, Part III; About Collecting in the Middle West; and more. Many pages of ... View More...
Features: Cover photo of Toronto designer Sharon Mimran who is featured in an article about her heritage home reno; Design hound Arren Williams creates a hip, comfortable pad; Christopher Tweel's re-creation of a Toronto Edwardian; Two to-the-studs basement renos; How to Use Drapery; Finessing dinner staples into completely different recipes. 144 pages. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. View More...
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