COMPETITIVE DESIGNS FOR CONCRETE HOUSES of MODERATE COST

By: N/A

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Associatociation of American Portland Cement Manufactures: 1907

Seller ID: 010111-X

Condition: Very Good

1st. Edition only 1907 , Green cloth portfolio with ribbon ties faded gilt letters on cover. Green paper softcover book inside with black & white illustrations of 24 prize winning designs with lay out plans renderings and elevations for each of the homes with 55 pages. A report of the jury of awards by architects E.V. Seeler and S.E. Thompson . Some very nice looking houses and duplexs priced from $2,000.00 up to $4,500.00 . With a take off material list ( short list ) and prices for work for each house design. Condition : Very Good , hardcover has aging , ware at the corners and staches on th... View more info

OFFICAL PICTURES OF A CENTURY OF PROGRESS EXPOSITION

By: N/A

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., The Reuben H. Donnelley Corp.: 1933

Seller ID: 113011-Z

Condition: Fine

1st.Edition , 1st.Printing 1933, Illustrated soft cover wraps, unpaginated with many black & white photo illustrations of the site at the Chicago Worlds Fair 1933. Condition : Fine. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall View more info

CREATIVE FIGURE PHOTOGRAPHY

By: Abbott ,A. & Cobert A.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Chilton Co.: 1960

Seller ID: 99725-C

Condition: Very Fine

New York , 1960 ,Softcover with pictorial wraps. 112 page book.Illustrated with black & white photos. This book is from the Mordern Camera Guide Series and is a great how to book in nude photography. Condition Very Fine . Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View more info

Living with Energy

By: Alves , Ronald / Milligan , Charles / Nader , Ralph

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1978

Seller ID: 070404-M

ISBN: 0670435848

Condition: As New

1st. ed. 1978 , Hardcover with the dust jacket, 128 page book. Illustrated with black and white photos , of alternative energy systems. Condition : As New. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info

The Little House

By: Armstrong , Leslie

Price: $55.00

Publisher: New York, Collier Books: 1979

Seller ID: 063004-R

ISBN: 0020000804

Condition: Very Good

1st.ed. 1979 , Soft cover with an illustrated wrap, 164 page book. Illustrated with black and white drawings . A scarce little book with the title " THE LITTLE HOUSE : An architecture's step-by-step plan by Leslie Armstrong, A.I.A., for those who want a house now but have scraped together only enough money to buy a bit of land next to a brook , by a lake , on top of a mountain , somewhere that spells peace . then what? " Condition ; Very Good ,with aging and edge ware and crner ware . see the book cover at our web site at : GibbsBooks. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View more info

New York's Pennsylvania Stations

By: Ballon, Hilary

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Scranton, PA, U.S.A., W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated: 2002

Seller ID: 091512-P

ISBN: 0393730786

Condition: Fine

1st. Edition, 1st. Printing 2002 , Hardcover in the dust jacket, 256 page book with black & white and color illustrations. Condition : Fine ,with a light bump at the bottom front corner board, DJ is Fine with a small nick at the same corner. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall View more info

WHY METALS FAIL

By: Barer , R.D. / Peters , B.F.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Gorden and Breach: 1970

Seller ID: 120103-R

ISBN: 0677026307

Condition: Very Good

1st.ed. 1970 2nd. printing 1971, hardcover with the dust jacket, 345 page book. Illustrated with black and white photos and drawings . A scarce book on metallurgy ,not only is this book an excellent guide to the subject but it collates a great deal of information which is widely scattered and difficult to trace. Condition: Very good plus / Very good , See this book cover at our secure book site at : GibbsBooks. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info

Historic : SAVANNAH

By: Bell , M.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Morris 0:

Seller ID: 99121-N

Condition: Very Fine

Georgia, 1995 5th. printing. Soft cover with photo ill.wraps. 80 pages 8"x11'.Illustrated in color photos. condition , Very Fine. View more info

THE ENGINEERING DRAWINDS OF BENJAMIN HENRY LATROBE

By: Benjamin Henry Latrobe , Eidited By Darwin H. Stapleton

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: 1980

Seller ID: 061511-I

Condition: New

1st.Edition 1980, Hardcover in the dust jacket ,256 page book. Through he is more often remembered for his architectural achievements,Benjamin Henry Latrobe was among the foremost engineers of the early 19th. century America, and designed the innovative Philadelphia Waterworks and the Washington Navy Yard steam engine. This large and beautifully illustrated monograph provides a detailed treatment of Latrobe's engineering projectsas well as a major collection of early technical drawings, revealing the range of materials, power sources, and devices employed by a founder of the engineerin profess... View more info

THE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS OF BENJAMIN HENRY LATROBE : Volume 2: Books I and II

By: Benjamin Henry Latrobe , Eidited By Jeffrey A. Cohen & Charles E. Brownell

Price: $195.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 061511-H

Condition: New

1st. Edition ,1994 , Hardcover in the dust jacket , two volume set with a total of 750 pages.This two volume set is a comprehensive catalogue of the architectural drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, a key figure in the birth of the architectural profession in the united States. All Latrobe's architectural projects are considered in detail - including the U.S. Capitol, the Bank of Pennsylvania, the Baltimore Cathedral, the Virginia State Penitentiary, the Stephen Decatur house and each project is illusted with his surviving drawins , including some reproduced in color. The volume also analyze L... View more info

Industry , Architecture and Engineering : American Ingenuity from 1750 - 1950

By: Bergeron , Louis

Price: $19.49

Publisher: New York, Abrams: 2000

Seller ID: 031504-U

ISBN: 0810934736

Condition: New

1st. ed. 2000 ,Hardcover with the dust jacket, 287 page book. Illustrated with many photos. The only comprehensive illustrated study of American industrial , architecture and engineering from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid- nineteenth century . Condition: New in plastic wrap , may have a mark at the bottom page edge . Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall View more info