native genius anonymous architecture de sibyl moholy nagy (25 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.82.

paperback. Etat : Good. Cover is tanned. Ex owner markings on prelim pages.

Etat : Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Etat : very_good. This books is in Very good condition. There may be a few flaws like shelf wear and some light wear.

Soft cover. Etat : Acceptable. No Jacket. Ex-library copy with typical library features. Call number label on the spine. Glue stain on the half title where the card pocket was. Usual array or rubber stamps. Than said, light wear to the covers. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. No odor. No water damage. Some light soiling No sun fading. Ex-lbrary status makes this a reading/research/reference copy.

Etat : Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Ex-library hardcover no dj (orange library boards) in very nice condition with the usual library markings and attachments. Except for library markings, interior clean and unmarked. Tight binding.

paperback. Etat : Very Good. Trade paperback. Square Tight Binding. Clean interior, from the personal library of world-renowned Architectural Historian and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation leader, Edward Chappell, with his signature.Chappell made Williamsburg, Virginia his home since 1980 when he was hired to rebuild and direct the Architectural Research Department at Colonial Williamsburg. He retired in 2016, by then holder of an endowed chair, the Shirley and Richard Roberts Director of Architectural and Archaeological Research. His education and early work experience were preparation for this career appointment and for a wide variety of special projects in Virginia, Annapolis, Charleston, Jamaica, Bermuda, Antigua, and elsewhere. Taken together, they earned his reputation as a leading preservationist and historian of early Atlantic-world architecture. Mild edge wear to wraps. A superior edition.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 223 Pp. Brown Cloth, Gilt, Black Boards. First Printing, 1957. Light Usage, Spine Gilt Clear But Weak. Dust Jacket Bio Of The Author Clipped And Tipped Onto Front Endpaper. Ownership Signature Of Robert P. Meyerhof, Aia.

paperback. Etat : Very Good. Modest shelfwear and toning to cover, clean pages and sound binding.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. VG paperback. No markings on pages. No ownership or remainder marks. Price sticker residue on front cover. Ships fast with tracking.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Small quarto. Pp. 223. With 105 photographs and 26 drawings of buildings ranging from Apulia to Ireland to Haiti to Xochimilco to Wounded Knee. "Vernacular architecture." Faded half inch at top of spine, else fine in two-color cloth boards. Dust jacket shows fading, a small area of light foxing to back, and wear to spine ends.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Illustrated with 126 black and white photos and drawings of natural architecture of the Americas. Age toning to cover and endpapers, previous owner's stamp on front pastedown. Original price $7.50 intact.

First edition (not stated but per matching dates upon title and copyright pages). 223 pages. Hardcover: H 26.25cm x L 20.75cm. Dust jacket color faded, soiled, and foxed; shallow chipping and tears at edges; front flap's bottom corner creased with blue ink ineffectively obscuring publisher's printed price; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Brown cloth spine slightly frayed at head and with small stain at heel; black boards. Toning and foxing to text block edges and endpapers; ink ownership inscription at front pastedown's top left and hidden underneath dj's front flap; interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Else a very good copy in a good+ dust jacket. With 127 plates (105 b/w photographs plus frontispiece and 21 drawings), Author's Notes, and Credits. Text comprised of five parts titled as "Native Genius in Anonymous Architecture;" "Site and Climate;" "Form and Function;" "Materials and Skills;" and " A Sense of Quality.".

Etat : good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. 223 pages ; illustrations ; 27 cm. First US edition, first impression. Brown cloth back with black boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Some chips to edges particularly head of spine, tanning to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Etat : new.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning, Owner message to end paper. DJ with some edge wear, a few tears and creasing.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Quarto, 223 pages, illustrated throughout. Printed cloth and illustrated dust wrappers. Very fine. - First edition. "The discovery and recording of the "vernacular" architecture of the Americas was a unique adventure. There were no guide books. Sibyl Moholy-Nagy's search involved some 15,000 miles of travel between the St. Lawrence River and the Antilles by every conceivable means of transportation. Here in this handsome volume, illustrated with 105photographs and 21 drawings, are some of the amazing examples of architecture?from 1600 on?to be found in the Americas. Everybody concerned with today's problems of shelter will be fascinated by the masterly solutions of these natural architects who settled away from the big cities in search of a happier, freer, more humane existence." (front flap text).

Hardcover. Etat : Very GOOD. Etat de la jaquette : NONE. 223 pages hardcover missing dust jacket. 10 1/4" x 8 1/2." 3/4 Black paper-covered boards with 1/4 red-orange stamped title cloth and gilt title on spine. Corners are pointed. A few illustrations but most are black & white photographs.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth-backed paper over boards; pictorial dust jacket; 4to; pp. 223, illustrated in b/w throughout. Spine tips and corners very gently rubbed, otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket a little sunned along spine; rubbed on rear panel.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket, 8vo, 10 1/4" x 8 1/2." Black paper-covered boards backed with sienna cloth in red-orange, black, and white paper dust jacket. Gilt lettering to book spine. White lettering to black dust jacket spine. Covers have slightly bumped tips and light shelf wear to bottom edge, else clean and intact, binding tight. Dust jacket has slightly bumped tips, moderate rubbing to back, and slight chipping to head and tail of spine, else clean and intact. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed mylar sleeve, not price-clipped. Pages age-toned, else clean and intact. Replete with black-and-white illustrations; 126 printed photographs and drawings. 221 pp., including illustrations. A study of the early architecture in the Americas by Indigenous Peoples and settlers and their contributions to modern architecture. Authored by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy (1903-1971), a German-American art historian and wife of the renowned Hungarian Bauhaus artist, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946). Heavy and oversized items may require additional shipping.

Boards. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. An impressive Presentation copy: INSCRIBED BY SIBLY MOHOLY-NAGY TO LINCOLN SCHUSTER (1897-1970), CO-FOUNDER OF SIMON AND SCHUSTER, on the front free endpaper. ALSO INCLUDES A WARM, LAID-IN 2-PG ALS FROM SIBYL MOHOLY-NAGY TO LINCOLN SCHUSTER AND A LAID-IN GLOSSY VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH (5 1/2" X 8 1/2") OF HER AS WELL. A solid copy of the 1957 1st edition to boot. Tight and VG (light soiling and rubbing to the panels) in a crisp, price-clipped, VG dustjacket, with over an inch of loss at and around the spine crown, and light chipping at the upper and lower-tips and the foot of the spine as well. Quarto, "with 126 photographs and drawings.

MOHOLY-NAGY, Sibyl. NATIVE GENIUS IN ANONYMOUS ARCHITECTURE. New York: Horizon Press, 1957. 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 223 pages. First edition. Moholy-Nagy takes a look at the anonymous architecture of indigenous peoples how they adapted their architecture to the world around them. With 126 photographs and drawings. Dust jacket worn, some browning to edges, else ver good.