Praha: Obelisk, 1970., 1970.. Good. - Quarto [10-3/4 inches high by 9 inches wide], off-white cloth decorated with red & blue bars in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped with some very light foxing. The bottom edges of the covers and the head & tail of the spine are slightly darkened. The extremities of the dust jacket are darkened & chipped with 2 pieces out of its bottom edge. 259 & [1] pages. Profusely illustrated in black & white with photographic illustrations & architectural drawings. The text pages & blanks are darkened. Good in a fair dust wrapper. <p>The text, including the title, is printed in Czech, Russian, German, English, French and Italian

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Bookseller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 35328
Title: M0DERN ARCHITECTURE.
Author: Dostal, Oldrich; Pechar, Josef; Prochazka, Vitezslav
Book Condition: Used - Good
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Praha: Obelisk, 1970.
Date Published: 1970.
Keywords: ARCHITECTURE; CZECHOSLOVAK ARCHITECTURE; MODERN ARCHITECTURE; OLDRICH DOSTAL; JOSEF PECHAR; VITEZSLAV PROCHAZKA; ILLUSTRATIONS; MULTI-LANGUAGE TEXT.
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Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.

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About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.

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Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
Tail: The heel of the spine.
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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...