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	APPELBAUM, STANLEY The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record New York, Dover Publications. 1980. (ISBN: 048623990X) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 116 pp. [2] leaves of plates, illus. biblio. index; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's ink stamp/flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. "Colossal spectacle preserved in 128 rare, vintage photographs with concise, fact-filled text: 200 buildings - 79 of foreign governments, 38 of U.S. states; the original ferris wheel, first midway, Edison’s kinetoscope, much more. 128 black-and-white photographs." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 022341 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	HEIMSATH, CLOVIS Behavioral Architecture: Toward an Accountable Design Process New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company; Architectural Record. 1977. (ISBN: 0070278903) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth, x, 203 pp. illus. bib. index; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Bookplate residue/paste-down endpaper (inside front cover), otherwise fine. Dust jacket, nicked once/top edge, front cover, protected in a mylar book cover. Very Good/Very Good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 007222 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	LARSON, ERIK The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America New York, Crown Publishers. 2003, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0609608444) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, xi, 447 pp. illus. maps, biblio. index; 25 cm. AS NEW. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. Runaway bestseller. "Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his - World's Fair Hotel - just west of the fairgrounds - a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake. The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before. Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both. / Erik Larson lives in Seattle with his wife, three daughters, a Chinese fighting fish, a dwarf hamster, and a golden retriever named Molly." - Publisher. Fine/Fine. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 023789 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	MCCULLOUGH, DAVID G. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge New York, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. 1982, 29th printing. (ISBN: 067145711X) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 636 pp. illus. biblio. index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "This monumental book is the enthralling story of one of the greatest events in our nation's history, during the Age of Optimism -- a period when Americans were convinced in their hearts that all things were possible. In the years around 1870, when the project was first undertaken, the concept of building an unprecedented bridge to span the East River between the great cities of Manhattan and Brooklyn required a vision and determination comparable to that which went into the building of the great cathedrals. Throughout the fourteen years of its construction, the odds against the successful completion of the bridge seemed staggering. Bodies were crushed and broken, lives lost, political empires fell, and surges of public emotion constantly threatened the project. But this is not merely the saga of an engineering miracle; it is a sweeping narrative of the social climate of the time and of the heroes and rascals who had a hand in either constructing or exploiting the surpassing enterprise. / David McCullough has been widely acclaimed as a 'master of the art of narrative history,' 'a matchless writer.' He is twice winner of the National Book Award, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In December 2006 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nations's highest civilian award." - Publisher. Fine. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 027837 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	PETROSKI, HENRY Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America New York, Vintage Books; Random House. 1996, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0679760210) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xi, 479 pp. illus. biblio. index; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. With 131 illustrations in text. "Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America's great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who built the St. Louis, the George Washington, and the Golden Gate bridges, drawing not only on their mastery of numbers but on their gifts for persuasion and self-promotion. It is an account of triumphs and ignominious disasters (including the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which literally twisted itself apart in a high wind). And throughout this grandly engaging book, Petroski lets us see how bridges became the 'symbols and souls' of our civilization, as well as testaments to their builders' vision, ingenuity, and perseverance. / Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. The author of eleven previous books, he lives in Durham, North Carolina." - Publisher. Fine. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 023905 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	PETROSKI, HENRY The Evolution of Useful Things New York, Vintage Books. 1994, 2nd printing. (ISBN: 0679740392) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xi, 288 pp. illus. biblio. index; 21 cm. Near fine. Droplet stain/foreedge, otherwise as new. Another copy available. "Petroski tells fascinating stories about the arduous processes that resulted in paper clips, Post-its, Phillips-head screwdrivers, Scotch tape, and fast-food "clamshell" containers. / Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. The author of eleven previous books, he lives in Durham, North Carolina. Henry Petroski's The Book on the Bookshelf, Engineers of Dreams, The Evolution of Useful Things, Paperboy, Remaking the World, Small Things Considered, and To Engineer Is Human are available in Vintage paperback." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 265] Book number: 009380 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	PETROSKI, HENRY Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering New York, Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book. 1997, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0375400419) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, xiii, 239 pp. illus. biblio. index; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "This collection of informative and pleasurable essays by Henry Petroski elucidates the role of engineers in shaping our environment in countless ways, big and small. In Remaking the World Petroski gravitates this time, perhaps, toward the big: the English Channel tunnel, the Panama Canal, Hoover Dam, the QE2, and the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, now the tallest buildings in the world. He profiles Charles Steinmetz, the genius of the General Electric Company; Henry Martyn Robert, a military engineer who created Robert's Rules of Order; and James Nasmyth, the Scotsman whose machine tools helped shape nineteenth-century ocean and rail transportation. Petroski sifts through the fossils of technology for cautionary tales and remarkable twists of fortune, and reminds us that failure is often a necessary step on the path to new discoveries. He explains soil mechanics by way of a game of 'rock, scissors, paper,' and clarifies fundamental principles of engineering through the spokes of a Ferris wheel. Most of all, Henry Petroski continues to celebrate the men and women whose scrawls on the backs of envelopes have immeasurably improved our world. / Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History at Duke University, where he also serves as chairman of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The author of seven previous books, he has received grants from the National Science Foundation and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Humanities Center." - Publisher. Fine/Fine. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 037722 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	PETROSKI, HENRY Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering New York, Vintage Books: Random House. 1999. (ISBN: 0375700242) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First printing. Tight, clean copy. "This collection of informative and pleasurable essays by Henry Petroski elucidates the role of engineers in shaping our environment in countless ways, big and small. In Remaking the World Petroski gravitates this time, perhaps, toward the big: the English Channel tunnel, the Panama Canal, Hoover Dam, the QE2, and the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, now the tallest buildings in the world. He profiles Charles Steinmetz, the genius of the General Electric Company; Henry Martyn Robert, a military engineer who created Robert's Rules of Order; and James Nasmyth, the Scotsman whose machine tools helped shape nineteenth-century ocean and rail transportation. Petroski sifts through the fossils of technology for cautionary tales and remarkable twists of fortune, and reminds us that failure is often a necessary step on the path to new discoveries. He explains soil mechanics by way of a game of 'rock, scissors, paper,' and clarifies fundamental principles of engineering through the spokes of a Ferris wheel. Most of all, Henry Petroski continues to celebrate the men and women whose scrawls on the backs of envelopes have immeasurably improved our world. / Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History at Duke University, where he also serves as chairman of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The author of seven previous books, he has received grants from the National Science Foundation and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Humanities Center." - Publisher. Fine. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 008072 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.

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	APPELBAUM, STANLEY The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record New York, Dover Publications. 1980. (ISBN: 048623990X) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 116 pp. [2] leaves of plates, illus. biblio. index; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's ink stamp/flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. "Colossal spectacle preserved in 128 rare, vintage photographs with concise, fact-filled text: 200 buildings - 79 of foreign governments, 38 of U.S. states; the original ferris wheel, first midway, Edison’s kinetoscope, much more. 128 black-and-white photographs." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 022341 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	HEIMSATH, CLOVIS Behavioral Architecture: Toward an Accountable Design Process New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company; Architectural Record. 1977. (ISBN: 0070278903) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth, x, 203 pp. illus. bib. index; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Bookplate residue/paste-down endpaper (inside front cover), otherwise fine. Dust jacket, nicked once/top edge, front cover, protected in a mylar book cover. Very Good/Very Good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 007222 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	LARSON, ERIK The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America New York, Crown Publishers. 2003, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0609608444) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, xi, 447 pp. illus. maps, biblio. index; 25 cm. AS NEW. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. Runaway bestseller. "Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his - World's Fair Hotel - just west of the fairgrounds - a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake. The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before. Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both. / Erik Larson lives in Seattle with his wife, three daughters, a Chinese fighting fish, a dwarf hamster, and a golden retriever named Molly." - Publisher. Fine/Fine. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 023789 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	MCCULLOUGH, DAVID G. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge New York, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. 1982, 29th printing. (ISBN: 067145711X) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 636 pp. illus. biblio. index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "This monumental book is the enthralling story of one of the greatest events in our nation's history, during the Age of Optimism -- a period when Americans were convinced in their hearts that all things were possible. In the years around 1870, when the project was first undertaken, the concept of building an unprecedented bridge to span the East River between the great cities of Manhattan and Brooklyn required a vision and determination comparable to that which went into the building of the great cathedrals. Throughout the fourteen years of its construction, the odds against the successful completion of the bridge seemed staggering. Bodies were crushed and broken, lives lost, political empires fell, and surges of public emotion constantly threatened the project. But this is not merely the saga of an engineering miracle; it is a sweeping narrative of the social climate of the time and of the heroes and rascals who had a hand in either constructing or exploiting the surpassing enterprise. / David McCullough has been widely acclaimed as a 'master of the art of narrative history,' 'a matchless writer.' He is twice winner of the National Book Award, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In December 2006 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nations's highest civilian award." - Publisher. Fine. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 027837 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	PETROSKI, HENRY Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America New York, Vintage Books; Random House. 1996, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0679760210) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xi, 479 pp. illus. biblio. index; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. With 131 illustrations in text. "Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America's great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who built the St. Louis, the George Washington, and the Golden Gate bridges, drawing not only on their mastery of numbers but on their gifts for persuasion and self-promotion. It is an account of triumphs and ignominious disasters (including the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which literally twisted itself apart in a high wind). And throughout this grandly engaging book, Petroski lets us see how bridges became the 'symbols and souls' of our civilization, as well as testaments to their builders' vision, ingenuity, and perseverance. / Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. The author of eleven previous books, he lives in Durham, North Carolina." - Publisher. Fine. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 023905 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	PETROSKI, HENRY The Evolution of Useful Things New York, Vintage Books. 1994, 2nd printing. (ISBN: 0679740392) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xi, 288 pp. illus. biblio. index; 21 cm. Near fine. Droplet stain/foreedge, otherwise as new. Another copy available. "Petroski tells fascinating stories about the arduous processes that resulted in paper clips, Post-its, Phillips-head screwdrivers, Scotch tape, and fast-food "clamshell" containers. / Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. The author of eleven previous books, he lives in Durham, North Carolina. Henry Petroski's The Book on the Bookshelf, Engineers of Dreams, The Evolution of Useful Things, Paperboy, Remaking the World, Small Things Considered, and To Engineer Is Human are available in Vintage paperback." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 265] Book number: 009380 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	PETROSKI, HENRY Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering New York, Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book. 1997, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0375400419) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, xiii, 239 pp. illus. biblio. index; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "This collection of informative and pleasurable essays by Henry Petroski elucidates the role of engineers in shaping our environment in countless ways, big and small. In Remaking the World Petroski gravitates this time, perhaps, toward the big: the English Channel tunnel, the Panama Canal, Hoover Dam, the QE2, and the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, now the tallest buildings in the world. He profiles Charles Steinmetz, the genius of the General Electric Company; Henry Martyn Robert, a military engineer who created Robert's Rules of Order; and James Nasmyth, the Scotsman whose machine tools helped shape nineteenth-century ocean and rail transportation. Petroski sifts through the fossils of technology for cautionary tales and remarkable twists of fortune, and reminds us that failure is often a necessary step on the path to new discoveries. He explains soil mechanics by way of a game of 'rock, scissors, paper,' and clarifies fundamental principles of engineering through the spokes of a Ferris wheel. Most of all, Henry Petroski continues to celebrate the men and women whose scrawls on the backs of envelopes have immeasurably improved our world. / Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History at Duke University, where he also serves as chairman of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The author of seven previous books, he has received grants from the National Science Foundation and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Humanities Center." - Publisher. Fine/Fine. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 037722 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	PETROSKI, HENRY Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering New York, Vintage Books: Random House. 1999. (ISBN: 0375700242) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First printing. Tight, clean copy. "This collection of informative and pleasurable essays by Henry Petroski elucidates the role of engineers in shaping our environment in countless ways, big and small. In Remaking the World Petroski gravitates this time, perhaps, toward the big: the English Channel tunnel, the Panama Canal, Hoover Dam, the QE2, and the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, now the tallest buildings in the world. He profiles Charles Steinmetz, the genius of the General Electric Company; Henry Martyn Robert, a military engineer who created Robert's Rules of Order; and James Nasmyth, the Scotsman whose machine tools helped shape nineteenth-century ocean and rail transportation. Petroski sifts through the fossils of technology for cautionary tales and remarkable twists of fortune, and reminds us that failure is often a necessary step on the path to new discoveries. He explains soil mechanics by way of a game of 'rock, scissors, paper,' and clarifies fundamental principles of engineering through the spokes of a Ferris wheel. Most of all, Henry Petroski continues to celebrate the men and women whose scrawls on the backs of envelopes have immeasurably improved our world. / Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History at Duke University, where he also serves as chairman of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The author of seven previous books, he has received grants from the National Science Foundation and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Humanities Center." - Publisher. Fine. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 008072 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.