Calvert Vaux: Architect & Planner
New York: Ink, 1994. Introduction by George B. Tatum. More than 200 illustrations. xiii + 271 pages, folio, red cloth, d.w. New York: Ink, 1994. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. More
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La Citta E Il Sacro
Milan: Scheiwiller, 1994. More than 200 illustrations. xvi + 494pp., thick 4to, d.w.; some edge wear to dust wrapper. Milano: Libri Scheiwiller, 1994. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
Ernest Flagg: Beaux-Arts Architect and Urban Reformer
New York: The Architectural History Foundation, 1986. Illustrated. xiii + 405pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: The Architectural History Foundation with The MIT Press, (1986). A near fine copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper (light scuffing and corner wear; dampstained at head, visible from inside only). More
The Paris of Henri IV; Architecture and Urbanism
New York: Architectural History Foundation, 1991. Illus. 4to, red cloth, d.w. New York: Architectural History Foundation, (1991). Near Fine Presentation copy. More
The Greatest Grid; The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011
New York: Museum of the City of New York, 2012. Many color and b/w Illus., including color maps, one of which is folding. Oblong 4to, 1/2 blue cloth. New York: Museum of the City of New York, (2012). Near Fine. More
The Fractured Metropolis; Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Region
New York: Icon Editions, 1995. 152 Illus. 8vo, 1/2 black cloth, d.w. (New York): Icon Editions, (1995). Near Fine. More
City Fathers: Town Planning in Britain from Roman Times to 1900.
New York: Praeger, 1969. Many black & white illustrations. 216pp. Square 4to, cloth, dust wrapper; d.w. has tears and edge-wear. New York: Praeger, (1969). Very good. More
Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation: 1870-1930
New York: Russell Sage, 1994. Illustrated. xiv + 400 pages, 8vo, cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper lightly rubbed. New York Russell Sage Foundation, (1994). A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. More
New Towns of the Middle Ages: Town Plantation in England, Wales, and Gascony
New York: Freder, 1967. Illustrated in black and white with many maps, some fold out. 67 pages, very thick 8vo, navy blue cloth (foot of spine is quite crumpled but pages uneffected). New York: Freder, 1967. A very good copy. More
The Story of Tunnels
New York: Whittlesey House, 1937. Frontispiece. 245 pages. 8vo, gray cloth. New York: Whittlesey House, (1937). A very good(-) copy--faint dampstaining to lower front cloth and outer page edges, light white mark across spine, some sunning and wear to spine ends; lacking dust wrapper. More
The Metropolis: Its People, Politics and Economic Life.
New York: Harper, 1965. xvi + 643pp., thick 8vo, cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper lightly rubbed. New York: Harper & Row, (1965). A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
A Manual on the Origin and Development of Washington
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939. Many Illus. xi, 365pp. 4to, blue cloth, spine ends and edges of corners rubbed, otherwise very good. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939. First Edition Presentation copy. 75th Congress, 3d Session. Senate Document No. 178. More
City Governments and Urban Problems: A New Introduction to Urban Politics
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1977. xiii + 448 pages, 8vo, pictorial boards. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, (1977). Several pages with paperclip impressions & name on front free endpaper, stall a very good copy. More
Interwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nation
New York: Norton, 1993. Each chapter by a different author. 367 pages, 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: W. W. Norton & Compay, (1993). First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. More
Slums and Community Development: Experiments in Self-Help.
New York: Free, 1966. Illustrated end-papers. xvi + 334pp, 8vo, cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper lightly worn, dust soiled. New York: The Free Press, (1966). A very good copy in a very good (-) dust wrapper. More
Problems Created by Premature Subdivision of Urban Lands in Selected Metropolitan Districts
Albany: Division of State Planning, 1938. Illustrated with a handful of b/w maps and charts. 346 pages. 8vo, red cloth, gilt lettering. Albany: Division of State Planning, 1938. A very good copy--unlettered spine sunned and with light soiling to cloth. A Report to the State Planning Council of New York. More
Housing & Urbanism
Bombay: Urban Design Research Institute, 1999. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Tall slim 8vo, stiff pictorial wrappers. (Bombay): Urban Design Research Institute, (1999). Scarce. First Edition. Fine. More
London After Dark
London: Phaidon, 1993. Illustrated throughout in b/w. 128pp. Square 4to, black boards, d.w. (London: Phaidon, 1993). First edition. Slight bump on top edge, otherwise a fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. More
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998. Illustrated. 484 pages, 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w.; dust wrapper a little wrinkled along top edgeS. New York: Metropolitan Books, (1998). First edition. A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
Paris D'hier et d'Aujourd'hui. Heliogravures D'apres Divers Docoments. 1822 - 1965.
Paris: L'immobiliere Constructions de Paris, 1965. 12 pages of text and illustrated with 23 single-sided plates, each protected with tissue. Loose pages, as issued, in white printed wrappers and protected in a felt chemise with vellum spine. Paris: L'immobiliere Constructions de Paris, 1965. A near fine copy. Limited first edition - one of 500 copies on Arches paper. Designs by architects Poyet, Stoskopf, Leboucher, Lopez, Pottier, Sitoleux, L'Huillier, Bilet, Tournant, Le Corbusier, and others. More
The Victorian City: Images and Realities
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. 2 volumes. 434 illustrations, 20 maps. 957pp. (continuous pagination), thick 8vo, cloth, d.w.; remainder marks bottom edge. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1973). A fine set in very good dust wrappers. More
Old New York for young New Yorkers.
New York: Dutton, 1937. Illustrated in black and white. xvi, 311 pages. 8vo, orange cloth. New York: Dutton, (1937). Cloth is discolored, slightly worn and stained with some neat repairs at ends, still internally clean and tight. A very good(-) copy. History of New York City. More
Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture
Austin: University of Texas, 2014. Illustrated in black and white with several plates in color. x, 438 pages. 8vo, black cloth, printed d.w. (very minor scratches at rear). Austin: University of Texas Press, (2014). First Edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. More
Metropolitan America: Urban Life and Urban Policy in the United States 1940-1980
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1986. Illustrated. xii + 274 pages, 8vo, brown cloth, d.w. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, (1986). A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. More
Planning the Eternal City: Roman Politics and Planning Since World War II.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973. Pull-out map, charts, 346pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New Haven: Yale UP, 1973. A near fine copy. More