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WHO'S WHO IN TORONTO: A CELEBRATION OF THIS CITY.

By: N/A

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, CHMH Association: 1984

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28475

ISBN: 0969169701

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

598 pp + index and abbreviations, fold-out family tree (not filled in) at rear, 11 1/4" H. Blue imitation leather boards with gold lettering/border on spine, gold lettering/border/illustration on front board - no dust jacket (as issued). B&w photographs. Contents: Introduction; Media; Business; Government; Professionals (Architects / Engineers / Legal Profession / Medical); Sports; Academia; Community; Artists; Name Index (Alphabetical); Abbreviations; Family Tree Chart; Community Homes for the Mentally Handicapped. Minor edge wear.
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THE POST-OFFICE ANNUAL DIRECTORY FOR 1836-37: CONTAINING AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE MERCHANTS, TRADERS, MANUFACTURERS, AND PRINCIPAL INHABITANTS: AND A SECOND LIST OF THE NAMES OF MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS, IN GLASGOW AND SUBURBS.

By: N/A

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: Glasgow, John Graham (For the Letter-Carriers of the Post-Office): 1836

Seller ID: 29484

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good-

xv, 341, 118 pp, 7 1/8" H. Brown leather spine and corners, marbled paper-covered boards, black leather title label on spine with gilt lettering, additional gilt date and decoration, blindstamped design. Small label at top of front pastedown: "J. Carss & Co., Bookbinders, 31, Argyle Street, Glasgow." Title page continues: "Classed and Arranged Under Each Distinct Head of Trade or Profession: With a Street Directory: and An Appendix Containing many Useful Lists. Ninth Publication." The first section (xv pp) consists of a Calendar (July, 1836 to December, 1837); Stamp D...
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SPECTORGROUP. (SPECTOR GROUP.)

By: (Spector, Michael Harris.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Rockport Publishers, Rockport, Massachusetts, (1995), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 12712

192 pp, square small 4to (10 1/4" x 10 1/4"), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photos, drawings, plans, elevations. "For nearly thirty years, the Spector Group has been creating architecture that has redefined the suburban landscape. Anticipating corporate America's move to greener environments, the Spector Group's early architecture set the precedent for today's innovative work spaces. The following pages represent the design and planning of 400 corporate campuses and headquarters buildings, mixed-use facilities, institutional spaces, hosp...
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ICE PALACES.

By: Anderes, Fred & Agranoff, Ann.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: 1983

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28683

ISBN: 0771598572

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

132 pp, oblong (9 1/8" H x 10 3/4" D). Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w photographs, repro-ductions, architectural drawings. "The magical buildings illustrated in this pioneer study of a virtually unknown architectural phenomenon were truly built of ice, and they were said to shimmer with color and fire reminiscent of sapphire, topaz, and opal. In style they recalled medieval castles, Gothic cathed-rals, Russian palaces, and Art Deco fantasies. Many were huge, reaching as high as a 14 -story building and extending as long as a football field, but, of course, there's no...
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DZURLORD. A CROSSROADS ADVENTURE IN THE WORLD OF STEVEN BRUST'S JHEREG.

By: Architects Adventure. (Based on the world of Jhereg by Steven Brust.)

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: TOR, (New York, 1987), Ist printing.:

Seller ID: 10817

Unpaginated, paperback. Introduction by Steven Brust. "What you are holding is both a game and an adventure. Have you ever read a book and then told yourself you would have been able to think more clearly or seen a way out of the hero's dilemma? In a Crossroads adventure you have the opportunity to do just that. You make the key decisions. By means of a few easily followed steps you are able to see the results of your choices..." A self-directed adventure story based on Steven Brust's Jhereg. Interior - Pages browning lightly, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership ...
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C. BAILLAIRGE, ARCT., ING.: DESSINS ARCHITECTURAUX. (CHARLES-PHILIPPE-FERDINAND BAILLAIRGE, ARCHITECTE, INGENIEUR.)

By: Beaudin, Francois; Noel, Ginette; Demers, Jean-Maurice.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Ministere des Affaires culturelles, Quebec, 1979.:

Seller ID: 19577

24 pp, oblong (8" x 10") soft cover (stapled in wraps). Illustrated in sepiatone and colour with drawings (plans, elevations, architectural details). FRENCH TEXT ONLY. A look at the work of 19th century Quebec architect and engineer, Charles-Phil ippe-Ferdinand Baillairge. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, light wrinkling on spine, light rubbing. Very Good-
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GLIMPSES OF HALIFAX.

By: Blakeley, Phyllis R. With a new Preface by C. Bruce Fergusson.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Belleville, Ontario, Mika: 1973

Edition: Facsimile Edition.

Seller ID: 28452

ISBN: 0919302645

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

213 pp + Index, 10" H. Facsimile reprint of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia edition,1949. Canadiana Reprint Series No. 53. Medium blue cloth with gold lettering on spine/front board. B&w photographs. Contents: Halifax in 1867; The Army and Navy in Halifax; Business; Visits of Royalty; Public Buildings; Public Utilities; Sports and Other Amusements; The Playgrounds of Halifax; Holidays; Halifax in 1900; Index. Crease at bottom corner of Preface page and Title page, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, light wear at top/bottom of spine and at corners
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FASTEST IN THE WORLD: THE SAGA OF CANADA'S REVOLUTIONARY HYDROFOILS.

By: Boileau, John.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Halifax, Formac: 2004

Seller ID: 22591

ISBN: 088780621X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

96 pp, large 8vo (9 1/8" H). B&w and colour photographs. "In the search for the perfect flying machine, hydrofoils were born. In 1919, Alexander Graham Bell and his young collaborator, Casey Baldwin, broke a world speed record when their hydrofoil prototype, HD4, skimmed across Lake Bras d'Or at 61.5 knots. This book is a complete re-examination of the Canadian research into hydrofoil vessels in the twentieth century. It describes how Baldwin and his colleagues, generously supported by Mabel Bell and under the guidance of the great inventor, built and tested numerous prototypes until ...
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A BATSFORD CENTURY: THE RECORD OF A HUNDRED YEARS OF PUBLISHING AND BOOKSELLING, 1843-1943.

By: Bolitho, Hector, Editor. Harry Batsford, Charles Fry, Hector Bolitho.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford: 1944

Edition: Second Impression with Corrections.

Seller ID: 30341

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

148 pp, 9 1/4" H, medium blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board, top edge gilt. B&w plates, reproductions, drawings, 2 colour plates (including frontispiece). A history of the family business begun by Bradley Thomas Batsford in 1843 up to the time of the Second World War, looking at the management, staff, premises, publications and authors. Batsford's main focus has always been architecture, from the huge folios of its early days to the accessible series that have introduced the British people (and others) to the beauties of the churches, country houses, cottages, etc. o...
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THE CANADIAN HOME: FROM CAVE TO ELECTRONIC COCOON.

By: Denhez, Marc.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Durndurn Press: 1997

Edition: 2nd Printing

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 4812

ISBN: 1550022024

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

256 pp, 11 1/4" H. Inscribed by the author on half title page: "In appreciation / Marc Denhez / 1998". B&w photographs, plans, drawings, reproductions. "(This book) is about fashion, politics, social mores, innovation, imagination, and technology. Prehistoric Inuit homes with windows of stretched seal guts, the log cabin, the bungalow, the R-2000 house, habitations in space - Denhez examines the ways and wherefores of them all." Dust jacket has minor edgewear/rubbing, light wrinkling.
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THE CANADIAN HOME: FROM CAVE TO ELECTRONIC COCOON.

By: Denhez, Marc.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Durndurn Press: 1994

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 29491

ISBN: 1550022024

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

256 pp, 11 1/4" H. Inscribed by the author on half title page: "With Best Wishes / Marc Denhez". B&w photographs, plans, drawings, reproductions. "(This book) is about fashion, politics, social mores, innovation, imagination, and technology. Prehistoric Inuit homes with windows of stretched seal guts, the log cabin, the bungalow, the R-2000 house, habitations in space - Denhez examines the ways and wherefores of them all." Slight bump at bottom of spine, tiny scuff on bottom edge of both boards. Dust jacket has very light edge wrinkling, minor rubbing.
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MONO CLIFFS PROVINCIAL PARK MASTER PLAN.

By: Dodds, Brian and Tomlinson, David.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Aurora, Ontario, Brian Dodds / David Tomlinson Landscape Architects for Ministry of Natural Resources, Ontario: 1974

Seller ID: 28598

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

46 pp, 10 3/4" H. 7 monotone drawings by Dorothy Clark McClure, 8 maps (6 fold-out). Letter approving the Master Plan from Leo Bernier, Minister of Natural Resources, attached to rear of title page. Name of Deputy Minister on title page blacked out and replaced with stamped name. Contents: Letter to Minister; Introduction; Regional Context; Local Context; Park Site; Cultural History; Development Potential; Development Plan; Activities; Maintenance; Services; Development Costs; Operational Expenditure and Revenue; Acknowledgements; Public Meetings; Reference. Interior - clean and tight...
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THE ENGLISH CATHEDRALS

By: Felton, Herbert and Harvey, John.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford: 1950

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30374

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

99 pp + b&w photographic plates, 9" H, red cloth with gilt lettering/banding on spine, top edge red. 175 b&w photographs, plus floor plans and drawings, colour frontispiece. Contents: Writer's Preface; Photographer's Foreword; Acknowledgment; Introduction; The English Cathedral; Norman Cathedrals; Early English Cathedrals; Decorated Cathedrals; Perpendicular Cathedrals; The Renaissance and Conclusion; Historical and Descriptive Notes on Each Cathedral; The Descent of Architectural Features; Bibliographical Note; Index. Very light browning to fore-edge and bottom of text block slight bump...
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THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN. VOLUME 7. VICTORIAN BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: THE LATER VICTORIAN AGE.)

By: Ford, Boris, ed. Asa Briggs, John Summerson, Jacques Carre, John Holloway, George Rowell, John Nelson Tarn, Peter Fuller, Andor Gomme, Gillian Naylor, William Price, Michael Kennedy, Roly Bain, Norman Vance.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press for The Folio Society: 1995

Seller ID: 29883

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

347 pp, 10" H. Bound in full dark blue cloth with title and shield in gold on spine. B&w illustrations and colour plates. Contents: General Introduction; The Later Victorian Age (The reign in review / Tendencies and trends); Architecture; The Public Park; Literature; The Drama of Wilde and Pinero; New Homes for Barons and Artisans; Fine Arts; The City of Glasgow; Design, Craft and Industry; The Eisteddfod; Music; Clowns and Augustes; Further Reading and Artists' Biographies; Index. Book is Fine.
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THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN. VOLUME 8. EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: THE EDWARDIAN AGE AND THE INTER-WAR YEARS.)

By: Ford, Boris, ed. Wilfrid Mellers, Rupert Hildyard, Jacques Berthoud, Simon Pepper, Michael Kennedy, Richard Cork, John Beer, John Summerson, Neil Sinyard, Gillian Naylor, Frank Whitehead.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press for The Folio Society: 1995

Seller ID: 29884

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

348 pp, 10" H. Bound in full dark blue cloth with title and shield in gold on spine. B&w illustrations and colour plates. Contents: General Introduction; The Edwardian Age and the Inter-War Years; Literature and Drama; The Garden City; Music; The Visual Arts; The 'Civilization' of Bloomsbury; Architecture; Grierson and the Documentary Film; Design and Industry; John Laing's Sunnyfields Estate, Mill Hill; Further Reading and Artists' Biographies; Index. Book is Fine.
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NIGEL COATES: BODY BUILDINGS AND CITY SCAPES. (CUTTING EDGE SERIES.)

By: Glancey, Jonathan. (Nigel Coates.)

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Watson-Guptill, New York, (1999).:

Seller ID: 11103

64 pp, square 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0823012115 Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photos and drawings. "...examines the philosophy and design thinking of one of today's most innovative architect-designers; includes a detailed examination of Coates's key projects and inspirations; presents 150 color photographs, sketches, and drawings, some of them published here for the first time; provides a chronology of career and milestones; features designs for buildings, furniture, and exhibitions, including work for the Millennium Dome 'Body'." Fine/Fine
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A HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE IN AND AROUND LONDON. ARRANGED TO ILLUSTRATE THE COURSE OF ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND UNTIL THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY WITH A LIST OF PRINCIPAL TWENTIETH-CENTURY BUILDINGS.

By: Godfrey, Walter H.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Phoenix House: 1962

Edition: Revised Edition

Seller ID: 17344

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

264 pp, 8vo (8 9/16" H). Over 150 b&w illustrations (drawings and photographs) showing buildings, floor plans, architectural details. "(Studies the architecture of London and) beyond to Kent, Surrey, Hertfordshire, and elsewhere up to a limit of forty miles to introduce and describe the fine houses, churches, abbeys, palaces, and other buildings deserving of public interest in some of the home counties. It could justly be claimed that no major building of architectural merit from Norman to our own time is overlooked, and some of the greater glories of London's stone are the subject of...
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HANNS PUCHSPAUM, DOMBAUMEISTER VON ST. STEPHAN.

By: Grimschitz, Bruno.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Kunstverlag Wolfrum, Wein, 1947.:

Seller ID: 19579

54 pp text + plate section at rear, 8 1/4" H, hard cover in dust jacket. 64 b&w plates (photographs and reproductions), showing interior and exterior views, plans, drawings, architectural details. B&w floor plans in text section. GERMAN TEXT ONLY . A look at the Cathedral of St. Stephan in Vienna. Browning to endpapers, tiny foxing marks to top edge of book, very light foxing on spine/hinges, minor soiling and rubbing. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling, light rubbing/soi l i n g o n r e ar panel, two tiny edge tears. Good+/Good+
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HENRY YEVELE, c 1320 to 1400: THE LIFE OF AN ENGLISH ARCHITECT.

By: Harvey, John H.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford: 1946

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 30325

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

86 pp, 9" H. B&w photographs, reproductions, drawings, floor plans, colour frontispiece. "Henry Yevele's life ranged roughly from 1320 to 1400, a period during which the architectural experiments of the previous century gradually became crystallised in the enduring national style which, for want of a better term, the textbooks call 'Perpendicular'. At the time of his apprenticeship, the new fashion had been devised, but not mastered, and many patrons of art must have been reluctant to find money for costly experiements, so long as the final effect was in doubt. Only the appearance of...
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CONSERVATION OF BUILDINGS.

By: Harvey, John.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press,: 1972

Seller ID: 25951

ISBN: 0802019374

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

240 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H). B&w photographs. "Mr. Harvey (a professional architect who has been trained and has specialized in conservation) is no theorist and takes the view that contemporary human needs are important and that buildings or groups of buildings must be conserved to accommodate some part of their original function, and must also be regarded in the context of their surroundings. He divides his book into three sections: What to Save and How to Save It (The Town, The Village, The Church and Churchyard), Craftsmanship and Materials, and Continuing Conservation (The Past...
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Keyword: Architects