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	BARLOW, RONALD S. The Vanishing American Outhouse: A History of Country Plumbing El Cajon, CA, Windmill Publishing Company. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0933846029) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 136 pp. illus. (some col.); 31 cm. Tight, clean copy. Small corner crease/back cover. Very Good. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 014246 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	COLT, GEORGE HOWE The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home New York, Scribner. 2004, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 074324964X) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii, 327 pp.; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "In this intimate and poignant history of a sprawling century-old summer house on Cape Cod, George Howe Colt reveals not just one family's fascinating story but a vanishing way of life. Faced with the sale of the treasured house where he had spent forty-two summers, Colt returned for one last August with his wife and young children.The Big House, the author's loving tribute to his one-of-a-kind family home, interweaves glimpses of that elegiac final visit with memories of earlier summers spent at the house and of the equally idiosyncratic people who lived there over the course of five generations. Built by Colt's great-grandfather one hundred years ago on a deserted Cape Cod peninsula, the house is a local landmark (neighboring children know it as the Ghost House): a four-story, eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, sloped roofs, and dormers. The emotional home of the Colt family, the Big House has watched over five weddings, four divorces, and three deaths, along with countless anniversaries, birthday parties, nervous breakdowns, and love affairs. Beaten by wind and rain, insulated by seaweed, it is both romantic and run-down, a symbol of the faded glory of the Boston Brahmin aristocracy. With a mixture of amusement and affection, Colt traces the rise and fall of this tragicomic social class while memorably capturing the essence of summer's ephemeral pleasures: sailing, tennis, fishing, rainy-day reading. Time seems to stand still in a summer house, and for the Colts the Big House always seemed an unchanging place in a changing world. But summer draws to a close, and the family must eventually say good-bye. Elegant and evocative, The Big House is both magical and sad, a gift to anyone who holds cherished memories of summer. / George Howe Colt is a former staff writer at Life magazine whose articles have been published in The New York Times, Civilization, and Mother Jones, among other publications. The author of The Enigma of Suicide, a critically acclaimed work of nonfiction, he lives with his family in rural western Massachusetts." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 353] Book number: 035108 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	FRAMPTON, KENNETH, AND LARKIN, DAVID (JOINT EDITORS); FRAMPTON, KENNETH (TEXT BY) American Masterworks: The Twentieth-Century House New York, Rizzoli. 1995. (ISBN: 0847818942) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Cloth, gilt, 300 pp. illus. (chiefly col.), bib. notes; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at crown. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Very Good/Very Good. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 028544 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	GORDON, ALASTAIR (CURATED BY) Weekend Utopia: The Modern Beach House on Eastern Long Island, 1960-1973 East Hampton, NY, Guild Hall Museum. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0933793510) Wraps , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue, 20 pp. illus. bib. notes; 28 cm. Exhibition held June 26-August 3, 1999. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Fine. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3972] Book number: 029217 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	JACOBS, HERBERT AUSTIN We Chose the Country Madison, WI, Roger H. Hunt. 1981, Second Edition. Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 306 pp. [13] pp. of plates, illus.; 21 cm. First published, 1948. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Gift inscription from a family member of the author/flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. The author commissioned homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. "An impractical guide to farm life.". Very Good. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 036945 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	KIRKER, HAROLD California's Architectural Frontier: Style and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century Santa Barbara and Salt Lake City, Peregrine Smith. 1973, Third Edition. (ISBN: 087905011X) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, xxii, 224 pp. illus. biblio. index; 21 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author, with a personalized inscription. Age toning. Very Good. SIGNED. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 038255 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	LITTLE, JANE BRAXTON (TEXT BY), AND POSNER, SALLY (DRAWINGS BY) Plumas Sketches Canyondam, CA, Wolf Creek Press. 1983, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 096118860X) Soft Cover , Oblong. 112 pp. illus. index; 21 x 25 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the illustrator, with a personalized inscription. Age toning. Historic buildings in Plumas County, California; vernacular architecture. Very Good. SIGNED. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 043904 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	MORGAN, JAMES If These Walls Had Ears: The Biography of a House New York, Warner Books. 1996, First edition thus. Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, xxiv, 275 pp. illus.; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Printing." Please note: SOFTCOVER. 1890 craftsman bungalow in Little Rock, AR. Fine. USD 13.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 \| £UK 8 \| JP¥ 1147] Book number: 039781 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	POMADA, ELIZABETH, AND LARSEN, MICHAEL Daughters of Painted Ladies: America's Resplendent Victorians New York, E. P. Dutton. 1987, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0525483373) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: Keister, Douglas (Photographs by). Collectible, 144 pp. illus. (some col.), biblio.; 29 cm. SIGNED by Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen on the half-title page, otherwise as new. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Victorian architecture in America. Organized regionally. Profusely illustrated, well captioned. Fine. SIGNED. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 031394 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	SCOATES, CHRISTOPHER (CURATED BY); KRONENBERG, ROBERT, AND SCOATES, CHRISTOPHER, AND URBACH, HENRY, AND BETSKY, AARON (TEXTS BY) LOT-EK: Mobile Dwelling Unit Santa Barbara, CA, and New York, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; Distributed Art Publishers. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 189102468X) Hard Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 160 pp. illus. (some col.) ; 22 cm. AS NEW. "Since 1955, when they were first standardized, shipping containers have had a radical effect on our physical reality. Seven million of these steel containers are now moving around the world, and their measurements have defined the design of ships, railroad cars, trucks, and cargo airplanes, as well as the landscape of ports, airports, and trucking yards. And that doesn't even begin to touch on the wider and much more invisible system of distribution, of just-in-time-inventory, of information networks in which the container moves. LOT/EK, the New York-based studio with a reputation for creating architecture and environments using industrial objects, here takes on the standard shipping container as medium. The Mobile DwellingUnit (MDU) is 'a shipping container transformed into a dwelling that nevertheless retains the attributes of a shipping container, i.e. it remains shippable.' It is a 'discreet mobile element' that can be moved around the globe, to anywhere with that can receive standard shipping containers. It's full-service interior includes push-out elements with space for sleeping, storage, eating, bathing, and cooking; these elements can be pushed smoothly back into the container when the occupant moves and needs to ship his or her living space along. Consider the MDU a trailer home for travelling between global villages. LOT/EK: Mobile Dwelling Unit, the book, will not only document the MDU concept but will provide greater understanding of the work's cultural and social context with essays by leading architectural critics, theorists, historians, and practitioners. An interview with the designers by Chris Scoates will illuminate LOT/EK's process in the creation and development of the MDU as well as their unique approach to architecture. Henry Urbach will place the MDU project in the context of LOT/EK's larger body of work. Professor Robert Kronenberg, a leading expert on portable architecture, will consider the project within the history of the genre. Aaron Betsky, a leading design critic and Director of NAi, will explore the meaning of the MDU within a larger contemporary cultural and social context of mobility and habitation. A visual essay by Andrew Blauvelt and LOT/EK will explore the territories of the MDU's inspiration and related themes of nomadic travel and industrial systems of transportation." - Publisher. Fine. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 030153 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.

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	BARLOW, RONALD S. The Vanishing American Outhouse: A History of Country Plumbing El Cajon, CA, Windmill Publishing Company. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0933846029) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 136 pp. illus. (some col.); 31 cm. Tight, clean copy. Small corner crease/back cover. Very Good. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 014246 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	COLT, GEORGE HOWE The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home New York, Scribner. 2004, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 074324964X) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii, 327 pp.; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "In this intimate and poignant history of a sprawling century-old summer house on Cape Cod, George Howe Colt reveals not just one family's fascinating story but a vanishing way of life. Faced with the sale of the treasured house where he had spent forty-two summers, Colt returned for one last August with his wife and young children.The Big House, the author's loving tribute to his one-of-a-kind family home, interweaves glimpses of that elegiac final visit with memories of earlier summers spent at the house and of the equally idiosyncratic people who lived there over the course of five generations. Built by Colt's great-grandfather one hundred years ago on a deserted Cape Cod peninsula, the house is a local landmark (neighboring children know it as the Ghost House): a four-story, eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, sloped roofs, and dormers. The emotional home of the Colt family, the Big House has watched over five weddings, four divorces, and three deaths, along with countless anniversaries, birthday parties, nervous breakdowns, and love affairs. Beaten by wind and rain, insulated by seaweed, it is both romantic and run-down, a symbol of the faded glory of the Boston Brahmin aristocracy. With a mixture of amusement and affection, Colt traces the rise and fall of this tragicomic social class while memorably capturing the essence of summer's ephemeral pleasures: sailing, tennis, fishing, rainy-day reading. Time seems to stand still in a summer house, and for the Colts the Big House always seemed an unchanging place in a changing world. But summer draws to a close, and the family must eventually say good-bye. Elegant and evocative, The Big House is both magical and sad, a gift to anyone who holds cherished memories of summer. / George Howe Colt is a former staff writer at Life magazine whose articles have been published in The New York Times, Civilization, and Mother Jones, among other publications. The author of The Enigma of Suicide, a critically acclaimed work of nonfiction, he lives with his family in rural western Massachusetts." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 353] Book number: 035108 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	FRAMPTON, KENNETH, AND LARKIN, DAVID (JOINT EDITORS); FRAMPTON, KENNETH (TEXT BY) American Masterworks: The Twentieth-Century House New York, Rizzoli. 1995. (ISBN: 0847818942) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Cloth, gilt, 300 pp. illus. (chiefly col.), bib. notes; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at crown. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Very Good/Very Good. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 028544 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	GORDON, ALASTAIR (CURATED BY) Weekend Utopia: The Modern Beach House on Eastern Long Island, 1960-1973 East Hampton, NY, Guild Hall Museum. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0933793510) Wraps , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue, 20 pp. illus. bib. notes; 28 cm. Exhibition held June 26-August 3, 1999. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Fine. USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3972] Book number: 029217 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	JACOBS, HERBERT AUSTIN We Chose the Country Madison, WI, Roger H. Hunt. 1981, Second Edition. Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 306 pp. [13] pp. of plates, illus.; 21 cm. First published, 1948. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Gift inscription from a family member of the author/flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. The author commissioned homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. "An impractical guide to farm life.". Very Good. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 036945 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	KIRKER, HAROLD California's Architectural Frontier: Style and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century Santa Barbara and Salt Lake City, Peregrine Smith. 1973, Third Edition. (ISBN: 087905011X) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, xxii, 224 pp. illus. biblio. index; 21 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author, with a personalized inscription. Age toning. Very Good. SIGNED. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 038255 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	LITTLE, JANE BRAXTON (TEXT BY), AND POSNER, SALLY (DRAWINGS BY) Plumas Sketches Canyondam, CA, Wolf Creek Press. 1983, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 096118860X) Soft Cover , Oblong. 112 pp. illus. index; 21 x 25 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the illustrator, with a personalized inscription. Age toning. Historic buildings in Plumas County, California; vernacular architecture. Very Good. SIGNED. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 043904 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	MORGAN, JAMES If These Walls Had Ears: The Biography of a House New York, Warner Books. 1996, First edition thus. Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, xxiv, 275 pp. illus.; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Printing." Please note: SOFTCOVER. 1890 craftsman bungalow in Little Rock, AR. Fine. USD 13.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 \| £UK 8 \| JP¥ 1147] Book number: 039781 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	POMADA, ELIZABETH, AND LARSEN, MICHAEL Daughters of Painted Ladies: America's Resplendent Victorians New York, E. P. Dutton. 1987, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0525483373) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: Keister, Douglas (Photographs by). Collectible, 144 pp. illus. (some col.), biblio.; 29 cm. SIGNED by Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen on the half-title page, otherwise as new. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Victorian architecture in America. Organized regionally. Profusely illustrated, well captioned. Fine. SIGNED. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 031394 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	SCOATES, CHRISTOPHER (CURATED BY); KRONENBERG, ROBERT, AND SCOATES, CHRISTOPHER, AND URBACH, HENRY, AND BETSKY, AARON (TEXTS BY) LOT-EK: Mobile Dwelling Unit Santa Barbara, CA, and New York, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; Distributed Art Publishers. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 189102468X) Hard Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 160 pp. illus. (some col.) ; 22 cm. AS NEW. "Since 1955, when they were first standardized, shipping containers have had a radical effect on our physical reality. Seven million of these steel containers are now moving around the world, and their measurements have defined the design of ships, railroad cars, trucks, and cargo airplanes, as well as the landscape of ports, airports, and trucking yards. And that doesn't even begin to touch on the wider and much more invisible system of distribution, of just-in-time-inventory, of information networks in which the container moves. LOT/EK, the New York-based studio with a reputation for creating architecture and environments using industrial objects, here takes on the standard shipping container as medium. The Mobile DwellingUnit (MDU) is 'a shipping container transformed into a dwelling that nevertheless retains the attributes of a shipping container, i.e. it remains shippable.' It is a 'discreet mobile element' that can be moved around the globe, to anywhere with that can receive standard shipping containers. It's full-service interior includes push-out elements with space for sleeping, storage, eating, bathing, and cooking; these elements can be pushed smoothly back into the container when the occupant moves and needs to ship his or her living space along. Consider the MDU a trailer home for travelling between global villages. LOT/EK: Mobile Dwelling Unit, the book, will not only document the MDU concept but will provide greater understanding of the work's cultural and social context with essays by leading architectural critics, theorists, historians, and practitioners. An interview with the designers by Chris Scoates will illuminate LOT/EK's process in the creation and development of the MDU as well as their unique approach to architecture. Henry Urbach will place the MDU project in the context of LOT/EK's larger body of work. Professor Robert Kronenberg, a leading expert on portable architecture, will consider the project within the history of the genre. Aaron Betsky, a leading design critic and Director of NAi, will explore the meaning of the MDU within a larger contemporary cultural and social context of mobility and habitation. A visual essay by Andrew Blauvelt and LOT/EK will explore the territories of the MDU's inspiration and related themes of nomadic travel and industrial systems of transportation." - Publisher. Fine. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3530] Book number: 030153 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.