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Black Dog & Leventhal, New York, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. Introductory G2:G70interview with Philip Johnson, noted American architect. Essays on buildings and profiles of nearly 100 skyscrapers around the world. List of the 100 tallest skyscrapers in the world. Large format book, unusual dimensions; will ship media mail. 1ST EDITION, LATER PRINTING

Black Dog & Leventhal, New York, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. ntroductory interview with Frank O Gehry, noted American architect. Essays on bridges and nearly 50 profiles of bridges around the world. Impressive text and pictures. List of the 100 longest bridges in the world. Large format book, 1ST EDITION, LATER PRINTING

Oxford University, NY, 1981. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "An appraisal which goes back to the basic texts, to the great monuments of art and architecture, to the men - Boccaccio, Petrarch and the others - and their achievements: the essence of which historical movements are made. Also recent Italian scholarship." [Pub. Info] Over 225 illustrations. 1ST EDITION

Viking, NY, 1971. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 288 pages; illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits. 1ST US EDITION

Little, Brown, Boston, 1986. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "This illustrated guide to the English country style of home decoration features a history of English country taste, an illustrated survey of country houses, manors, cottages, and town houses." [Pub. Info] English country house interiors; numerous color photographs. Large format; will ship via Media Mail. 1ST EDITION.

Bloomsbury Press, NY, Berlin, London, Sydney, 2012. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Master historian Peter Clarke…finds a fresh perspective on one of the most written-about figures in history. When Churchill received the Nobel Prize in 1953, it was not for his role as a world leader, but for literature… Churchill was a gifted and successful writer long before he… Read more about this item

Wayne State University Press, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Moses Jacob Ezekiel was the first American-borm Jewish artist to achieve international recognition. A child of the South, born in Richmond, Virginia, and a graduate of the Virginia Military Academy, he served in the Confederacy in the Civil War, and became an intimate friend of General Robert E. Lee and… Read more about this item

Harper & Row Publishers, NY, 1979. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "In the early chapters, Hugh Thomas considers the origins of life and man as hunter. Later chapters deal with the impact of climate on early history and the coming of agriculture. In the central portion he discusses the intellectual transformation known as the Renaissance, technological advances, and the growth of… Read more about this item

National Georgraphic Society, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "We British are a strange lot; we don't have a noun to describe ourselves in the singular. Someone from the United States can say that he or she is an American, whether from Honolula or Hackensack. But in these islands no one calls himself a Briton or a Britisher. We say… Read more about this item

Knopf, NY, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations." [Pub, Info] "Simon Schama is a professor of art history and history at Columbia University, and is the author of… Read more about this item

Oxford Univeristy Press, 1992. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. A book that doesn't give all the rules and strategies for winning but, a book that gives us the why and how of games. Starting from 1371 when card games first arrived in Europe from Egypt, this history of card games evolves. Detailed information on the design and production of… Read more about this item

The Folio Society, London, UK, Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Essays by J. H. Plumb, Sir Lewis Namier, and Geoffrey Holmes among others. An excellent resource on England at a time of great colonial expansion and the creation of its formidable place in world politics. Slipcase is also in As New condition. This is a 1st thus edition.

[Dura Europos] was founded in 303BC... [at the intersection of trade routes on the Euphates. [It] was abandoned in he 3rd century AD... The Parthian Temple, the painted Christian Chapel, and the standing Jewish Synagogue with its four walls covered with paintings from the Old Testament [were] vital sources for the understanding of pagan religions, Judaism in the early… Read more about this item

Butterworth's, London, UK, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Published first by British father and son (both architects and architectural historians) this book has been, and is, the standard reference for concise/accurate descriptions of architecture throughout the ages. "...it is believed that a work in which architecture is treated as a result and record of civilization, will prove attractive to that increasing public… Read more about this item