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Pittsburgh: ACTION-Housing, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); original brown printed wrappers; [2],77,[1]pp.; illus. Fine. "A Pioneering Demonstration in Rehabilitating Aging but Structurally Sound Housing" (from upper cover). More
Pittsburgh: ACTION-Housing, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); original brown printed wrappers; [2],77,[1]pp.; illus. Fine. "A Pioneering Demonstration in Rehabilitating Aging but Structurally Sound Housing" (from upper cover). More
Elizabeth, NJ: Art Photo Greeting Co, N.d. [1930s]. Views include: The Elizabeth Carteret Hotel; Elizabeth Avenue (showing the original Harmonia Bank Building); Alexander Hamilton Jr. High School; East Jersey Street (looking west); The Hotel Winfield Scott; Hersh Tower (Art Deco masterpiece, built 1931); St. Elizabeth's Hospital; Post Office; City Hall;..... More
London: C.W. Daniel Company, [1930]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original tan cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, dark brown topstain; 86,[2](ads)pp. Contemporary ownership inscription on half title, minor foxing to preliminaries and textblock fore-edge, else Near Fine. Brief study of the cities of Great Britain in the early years of the economic..... More
New Castle, Indiana: Community Printing, Inc., [1972]. Edition not stated. Quarto (27.5cm); light green photo-illustrated paper wrappers; 176pp. Spine sunned; general handling wear, soiling and mild foxing throughout; else sound with clean interiors, Very Good. This book documents the history of Henry County, Indiana, from its founding in 1822 to 1972..... More
New York: Aperture Foundation, 2008. First Edition. Oblong octavo (15.5 x 20.5cm); color pictorial paper-covered boards; [108pp], w/ photo plates and fold-outs. Light scratches and surface wear to boards; price sticker on rear; interiors clean and sound. Near Fine. Photographer Jonas Bendiksen spent two years documenting individual lives, families, and homes..... More
London: Conservative Political Centre, 1954. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (22cm). Pictorial stiff card wrappers; 55pp. Light rubbing to covers, else clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good. Post-War study of British city planning from a Conservative viewpoint, emphasizing slum clearance, containing sprawl, and preserving agricultural properties. More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1912. First American Edition. Classic work on the sociology of rural villages and the changes wrought by advancing technology. Sturt (1863-1927) was a wheelwright by trade, and wrote from a rather unusual perspective - a sensitive, self-educated tradesman, documenting and eulogizing the passing of..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, [1990]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in teal pictorial dust jacket; xiv,253pp.; illus. Just About Fine. More
New York: Privately Published, 1922. First Edition. Quarto (31cm); dark blue publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt; [74pp]. Spine well sunned; material fraying/loss at crown and heel, leading corners; mild surface wear and soiling to boards; interiors foxed intermittently, with some yellowing to margins; first signature slightly pulled; short tear on..... More
[New York]: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1945]. Octavo (21.25cm.); original cloth in black pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [14],186pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout. Jacket extremities rubbed and chipped, small half-inch blemish to upper panel. About Fine in Good or better jacket. Examination of the creation of cities by the architect and urban..... More
New York: Institute of Public Administration, Columbia University, 1938. Reprint. "Authorized Reprint of the Official Report." Octavo (22.5cm.); original maroon buckram, spine lettered in gilt; xxi,[1],346pp.; illus. and maps throughout. Upper cover extremities faintly dampstained, some bubbling to cloth of rear cover. Still, Very Good and sound. Signed and inscribed..... More
London: "Daily News" 1900. Revised Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's drab printed wrappers; vii,[8]-175pp. Wrappers rather fragile with a few shallow chips and closed tears along extremities, textblock significantly toned and brittle due to poor paper stock. Still, a Near Very Good copy overall. Collected articles first published in the Daily..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1930. Second Printing. Octavo. Maroon cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 302pp. Spine gilt age-dulled; text clean, tight and unmarked. An attractive, VG copy. More
[New York]: Twentieth Century Fund, 1962. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's pale green staplebound wrappers; [2],37pp. Slightly ex-UCSD Library with presentation bookplate inside upper cover, small contemporary ownership address label to upper cover, a hint of wrinkling and wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. More
[Cambridge: Harvard Today Publications, 1969]. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm.); original teal printed staplebound card wrappers; 35pp.; illus. Fine. Second of a series published by the Office of the President "on behalf of the interest of all alumni..." More
New York: Scribner's, 1917. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; 370pp. Tight, Near Fine copy, gilt slightly dulled on spine; text clean, tight and unmarked. More
[Hummelstown, PA]: American Yearbook Company, [1962]. First Edition. Quarto (31cm.); coated paper boards in red, silver, and blue; [166pp]. A yearbook commemorating the 200th anniversary of Hummelstown, PA's founding; contains town history and photographs, plus information on municipal organizations, churches, schools, and businesses (with contemporary ads). Endpapers are slightly yellowed..... More
[Hummelstown, PA]: American Yearbook Company, [1962]. First Edition. Quarto (31cm.); coated paper boards in red, silver, and blue; [166pp]. A yearbook commemorating the 200th anniversary of Hummelstown, PA's founding; contains town history and photographs, plus information on municipal organizations, churches, schools, and businesses (with contemporary ads). Endpapers are slightly yellowed..... More
Budapest: Helikon, 1996. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (29cm); burgundy paper-covered boards, no dustwrapper; 172pp. Some surface wear, mild scratches, dings to boards; interior clean and tight; Near Fine. A chronicle, in text and b/w photo-illustrations, of Austria-Hungary's newly formed capital city Budapest at the turn of the 20th century, and..... More
Yakima, WA: The Yakima Herald-Republic, 2010. First Edition. Slim quarto (27cm); b/w pictorial paper wrappers; 82pp. Wrappers show minor handling wear and toning, with rubbing and creasing about the spine. Interiors clean and tight; a Very Good+ copy. Published as a supplement of The Yakima Herald-Republic, this magazine (released April 25..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1963. First Edition. Octavo (23.25cm.); original cloth in white photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket, green topstain; x,[6],219pp.; illus. Fine. Metropolitan Politics Series no. 1. More
Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, 1970. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's white and green card wrappers; viii,85pp.; two leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, color maps in text. Light shelf wear, faint ownership signature to upper cover, else Very Good to Near Fine..... More
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976. First Edition. Quarto (26cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers printed in brown; viii,110pp.; tables throughout. Near Fine. Prepared for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research. More
Pittsburgh: Apollo Iron and Steel Company, n.d. but ca. 1894. First Edition. Prospectus for the as-yet unbuilt model town of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, situated on the Kiskimentas River forty miles outside Pittsburgh. In part inspired by Pullman, Chicago, and Andrew Carnegie's development of Munhall for the Homestead ironworks, steelmaster George Gibson..... More
London: The Economic Research Council, (1967). First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (22cm); printed card wrappers; 20pp. Mild external wear; wrappers slightly soiled; internally clean, tight and unmarked. A sound, VG copy. Critique of British housing policy, calling for an increase in private homebuilding and a de-emphasis on rent controls and..... More