Search Results: Architecture/Design from Conover Books

St. Paul, Minnesota: The Webb Publishing Company, 1921. Minor edge and corner wear, former owners inscription on the first page, light foxing, cut near the upper corner of the back cover, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, overall a very nice collectible used copy! 149 unmarked pages profusely illustrated with black and white drawings, photographs and charts!. Yellow Cloth. Very Good-/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Brown boards with gilt lettering on the front board and spine. 169 informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "We nowadays take it all too easily for granted that we know everything better and are more advanced than our forebears. As far as building with wood is concerned, and presumably in other domains also, this only holds true to a very modest extent. A brief review of the historical development of timber construction shows this quite clearly...............". First Edition. Brown Boards. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.

United Kingdom: Jowett & Sowry Ltd. , 1935. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; spine is creased; 1" splits in the head and tail of the spine; shelf worn; writing in pencil on the front of the wrapper; some margin-writing in pencil throughout the book; overall a nice collectible used copy! Very very rare and hard-to-find title! Gray wrapper with black lettering. Text is in German, French, and English. Over 50 informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations and plates! Extremely scarce and out-of-print FIRST EDITION! "This area has been selected for inspection because it comprises within a small compass so many points of interest. Situated in an industrial district, it contains (a) specimens of the oldest type of back-to-back houses erected in long rows (b) the same erected in courts, and (c) immediately adjacent, specimens of the 'intermediate' type of back-to-back house (which are outside the six years Slum Clearnace… Read More

Tokyo, Japan: Books Nippan, 1993. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; spine is lightly creased; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice collectible used copy! Very very rare and hard-to-find title! Text is in English and Japanese. Full-color pictorial wrapper with black lettering. Extremely scarce and out-of-print First Edition! 160 informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white and full-color photographs and illustrations! "There can have been no other age like the present one, in which there is so much concern for the quality of the environment at all levels and at all scales. After all, the accumulative effect of each and every activity of human-kind, however trivial, is having an effect on everything from the ecology of the smallest of creatures, right up to causing changes in the environment on a global scale........." ----------- from the Editor's Note.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good. 4to… Read More

U.S.A.: Benjamin Blom, 1968. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; small split in the head of the spine; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; no dj; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Red cloth with black illustration on the front and rear boards and gilt lettering on the spine and front board.. 40 historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "It is difficult to avoid praifing too little or too much. The boundlefs pannegyricks which have been lavifhed upon the Chinefe learning, policy, and arts, fhew with what power novelty attracts regard, and how naturally efteem fwells into admiration. I am far from defiring to be numbered among the exaggerators of Chinefe excellence. I confider them as great, or wife, only in comparifon with the nations that furround them.........." ----- from the Preface.. Reprint (1757). Red Cloth. Good-/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.… Read More

New York: Sheridan House, 1972. Edge and corner wear; no dj; scuffed and scratched; corners are bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Blue cloth with yellow lettering on the spine. 310 historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "Anyone can build a log cabin. No special skill, such as axmanship, is needed. Logs can easily be squared into position by saw alone. Log construction has been called costly. Yet one of the cabins described in these pages was built by one man in three days for less than two dollars. Windows can be installed with lumjberjack finesse for the price of the glass alone................" ----- from Chapter One (Log Cabins, Unlimited). . Reprint (1952). Blue Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Vena Angier . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

U.S.A.: Breakout Productions, 1996. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; spine is lightly creased; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Full-color pictorial wrapper with black lettering. 216 educational and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "Why spend tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars on the construction of your house, when you can learn How To Build Your Own Log Home For Less Than $15,000! Author Robert L. Williams and his family did just that, after a tornado destroyed their North Carolina home. Even though they were unfamiliar with chain-saw construction techniques, the Williams family built a new 4,300-square-foot log home themselves, saving nearly half a million dollars in the process ----- and you can, too!...........". First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Universe Books, 1975. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, no dj, corners are bumped and rubbed, some shelf wear, ex-library with the usual library markings, overall a nice used first edition! Brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 224 informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white figures, tables, and illustrations! "The autonomous house is defined as a huse operating independently of any inputs except those of its immediate environment. The house is not linked to utility lines for gas, water, electricity or drainage, but instead uses the energy of the sun, wind and rain to service itself and process its own wastes. Together with its surrounding site it resembles a land-based space station which is designed to provide an environment suitable for life but is not connected with the existing life-support structures of the Earth. The autonomous house uses the life-giving properties of the Earth, but in so doing, it… Read More

Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1970. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used first edition (stated)! Red cloth with gilt on brown lettering on the spine. 375 informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "This work is offered as an introduction to the study of architectural design. The design of architecture seen as a 'phenomenon'. That is as the product of particular men at particular times and places; employing the knowledge, materials and technologies of their day." ----- from the Introduction.. First Edition. Red Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Self-published, 1925. Edge and corner wear, some scuffing and scratches, corners are bumped and rubbed, gilt lettering on the spine is faded, shelf worn, front hinge is cracked, some light foxing, head and tail of the spine are beginning to fray, overall a clean well-preserved used first edition! Extremely rare and hard-to-find! Black cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine. 233 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations and a 38 pages in the rear of the book containing correct answers to examination questions! Very very scarce and out-of-print title! Leon Rene Pescheret studied interior design at the Art Institute of Chicago. Among his design projects was the Memorial Union building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "What do we understand by the term 'Interior Decoration'? Must we regard it as meaning a 'profession,' or an indulgence in an art that only the rich can… Read More

Denver Colorado: Crowther / Solar Group, 1977. Front of the wrapper is detached, lightly scuffed and scratched, some shelf wear, ex-library with the usual library markings, overall a nice readable used first edition (second printing)! Silver and yellow wrapper with yellow and black lettering. 232 informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "Interesting, imaginative and eminently readable ---- these are all adjectives which appropriately describe this unique survey of architecture and its relation to the natural environment. Architects are gifted with the ability to illustrate their literary efforts with strikingly effective graphics and handsome lettering. Sun / Earth shows this talent to excellent advantage. Of primary significance, however, is the amount of information which is conveyed, generally in non-technical language, to the reader who is interested in the many ways in which natural forces may be used to produce comfortable living conditions in… Read More

India: Prakash Publishers, 1969. Edge and corner wear to the dj, scuffed and scratched, spine is discolored, small tears at the base and top of the spin, chipping at the upper rear corner, corners are bumped and rubbed, overall a very clean used first edition! Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! Extremely rare and collectibe! Very very scarce and out-of-print! 136 very clean, unmarked and uncreased pages of historical text nicely enhanced by 125 black and white plates. "India has a rich past. Temples are standing monuments to prove beyond doubt the existence of a culture----rich and lively. Rajasthan, the land of the Rajas, had much to contribute to the richness of the soil, for it was here that devastation and construction moved almost side by side. History was written and re-written, made and re-made." . First Edition. Bugundy Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used first edition! White cloth with red lettering on the spine. 292 informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "Philip Johnson is an essayist, an anti-philosophe. After days of reading all that he has written, and after seeing much of it compacted into one volume, one has a sense of having been inundated with an erudition rather than confronted with a body of theory. His writings are a monument, perhaps more so than his buildings, to an education and culture that are no longer with us." ---- from the Introduction.. First Edition. White Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.