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Tale of Two Parthenons, a : Building through Time

By: Wesley Paine, Mary Hegarty, Bobby Lawrence, Gary Pace, Susan Shockley

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Metro Board of Parks and Recreation: 1996

Seller ID: 21741

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

46 pages; 8vo (8") 21 cm; Large oblong softcover booklet, 46 glossy pages, main text in 2 columns, bibliography, 54 photos and illustrations, many in full color. ; Published to accompany exhibit glorifying ancient Parthenon of Greece and its twin, the modern monumental Parthenon, built as centerpiece of Tennessee Centennial & International Exposition, 1897, now art museum. ; No defects. Scarce.
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Native Architecture : African Cultural Series

By: Wilson, E. Barbara, and Mary E. Dodge; Illustrated by Janet M. Seibert

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Detroit Children's Museum: 1970

Seller ID: 16820

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

44 pages; 4to (12") 31 cm; Oversized softcover portfolio with information sheet, small b/w map of Africa with key to plates, and twenty 8.5 x 11-inch b/w plates showing native dwellings, villages, floorplans of settlements, etc. Unbound, as issued. ; Plates are paired in twos, with each pair showing at least one native dwelling with ample text. Places and illustrations include: Mali and a Dogon house. Nigeria and a Hausa dwelling. Cameroon and a Bafut square house. Sudan and a Korongo homestead. Rhodesia and a Mashona village. Swaziland and a Swazi indlu. More. ; Published jointly by Detro...
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Lazienki Warszawskie : Lazienki Park, Warsaw

By: Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Wydawnictwo Arkady: 1957

Seller ID: 22004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket

288 pages; 4to (10.75") 28 cm; POLISH text throughout. Tall hardcover, pale gray cloth, 288 glossy pages, index, endnotes, 318 b/w photos and illustrations including interiors, exteriors, details, floorplans, elevations, small maps, etc; 8 full-page color plates; rear fold-out map of Plan Parku Lazienkowskiego, in two colors, showing locations of 18 structures in and near the park. ; History and architecture of Lazienki Park, Warsaw, including Ujazdow Castle, Dom Turecki, Ermitaz, Amfiteatr, Stara Pomaranczarnia, Belweder and more. Many historical illustrations dating from 1700s-1800s. ; B...
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When Democracy Builds

By: Wright, Frank Lloyd; Illustrated by Roy E. Petersen

Price: $26.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: 1945

Seller ID: 16435

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

140 pages; 4to (10.5") 27 cm; Ex-Library; Hardcover, brown cloth, black spine lettering, 140 pages, 11 b/w photos. ; This is a book of essays by Frank Lloyd Wright on his own philosophy regarding art, aesthetics, culture, democracy, and of course, how architecture serves them all. ; This is the famous revised edition, 1945, which Wright undertook to revise after he found himself agreeing with the very harsh criticism of the original edition (see page ix) ; Lacks jacket. Upper tips bumped. Endpapers, copyright page, pg 19, pg 65 show the usual library marks. Interior otherwise clean. Bindin...
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Masterpieces of Jewish Art, Volume 5 : Wooden Synagogues (Russian and English Edition)

By: Yargina, Z.

Price: $92.00

Publisher: Imidzh / Image: 1993

Seller ID: 19311

ISBN: 5860440219

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

367 pages; 8vo (8") 21 cm; Hardcover. Covers in Russian, jacket in English. Parallel text in RUSSIAN and ENGLISH. 367 glossy pages. Endnotes. Small map of places with wooden synagogues. 282 photos, most historical b/w, a few in color. ; Series edited by Alexander S. Kantsedikas. Photos by S. Tartakovsky and V. Kravchuk. Translated by L. Lezhneva. ; Architecture, ornamentation, accoutrements, carvings, etc, of wooden synagogues in Poland, Lithuana, Ukraine. ; No visible defects. Appears unused. Quite scarce. ; Masterpieces of Jewish Art Series; Vol. 5
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Category: Architecture

Tale of Two Parthenons, a : Building through Time

Native Architecture : African Cultural Series

Lazienki Warszawskie : Lazienki Park, Warsaw

When Democracy Builds

Masterpieces of Jewish Art, Volume 5 : Wooden Synagogues (Russian and English Edition)