Harlem Lost and Found an Architectural and Social History 1765 1915 (11 results)

Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Very Good+/Very Good. Color, B&W Photographs (illustrator). New York, NY: Monacelli Press. Very Good+/Very Good. 2002. . Hardcover w/DJ. 4to., 280pp., dust jacket light shelf wear on edges and corners, very minor chipping at corners, otherwise very good; cover very light shelf wear at edges and corners, otherwise very good; pages clean and unmarked. .

280 S., mit Gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2100 4°. Orig.-Leinen mit Orig.-Umschlag.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 2002. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. DJ in brodart. Shipped in a sturdy box with free tracking. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Large quarto. Color and B&W illustrations. Condition: small (1" inch) tear to top edge of DJ at front hinge fold; else fine in near fine DJ. 280 pages.

30.0 x 24.5cms 280pp b/w & colour illusts very good+ hardback & dustwrapper The chapters are: the origins of Harlem; the row house in Halem; at home in Harlem; apartments; houses of worshiip; culture commerce & industry in Harlem; the evolution of a community.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,2100grams, ISBN:1580930700.

Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.

Hardcover. Blue boards with gilt and embossed lettering; color photo-illustrated DJ with cream-colored lettering; 280 pp.; richly illustrated. "Adam's book not only brings a fresh perspective to Harlem's evolution but provides a wealth of fascinating historical detail, about both important buildings and also the architects, developers, and patrons who helped create this exceptional slice of urbanism."-- Preface, pg. 11. VG+ (Boards are extremely lightly edgeworn; interior is clean; binding is solid.) VG (DJ has light edgewear, scuffing and smudging.).

Mit zahlr. auch farb. Abb. Condition: Sehr gut. 280 S. Umschlag leicht eingerissen, sonst gutes Exemplar. - Like the 1920s Harlem described by Lincoln Kirstein as possessing "in its shadows the only authentic elegance in America," Harlem at the turn of the twenty-first century is again a dynamic neighborhood. Long identified with African-American style and culture, it is also a pillar of New York's social and architectural history. In this beautifully illustrated study, historian Michael Henry Adams presents an evocative portrait of the various and divergent Harlems of yesteryear, from the Native American settlements discovered by the Dutch in the seventeenth century to the vibrant community of present-day preservationists. Adams discusses distinct building styles and periods that parallel the growth of New York City and, in fact, the United States. In the late 1600s, Dutch farmhouses coexisted with Native American longhouses in colonial Nieuw Haarlem. By the mid-eighteenth century and later, mansions and country villas arose on large tracts of land. Particularly notable for presaging national enthusiasm for a revival of classicism are the neo-Palladian Morris-Jumel Mansion, the oldest residential structure in Manhattan (today restored and listed on the National Historic Register), and the Grange of founding father Alexander Hamilton. The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the growth of both thoughtfully planned row houses, such as the West 138th and 139th Street residences today known as Strivers' Row, and handsome apartment buildings. In addition to the legacy of residential architecture, the author examines a number of other building types-schools, industrial facilities, stores, churches. Harlem's spectrum of designers ranges from the well known - McKim, Mead & White, responsible for part of Strivers' Row; George B. Post & Sons, architects of the monumental Shepard Hall at the City College of the City University of New York-to practitioners who, though today mostly forgotten, designed much of the urban fabric of Harlem and New York City. Indeed, whether great or anonymous, Adams never forgets the people who designed, built, and utilized Harlem's historic structures: hard-working Dutch farm families; patriots George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson; wealthy Victorian homeowners such as James Anthony Bailey of Barnum & Bailey fame; Madam C. J. Walker, an African-American millionaire who hired New York's first certified black architect, Vertner Woodson Tandy, to design her capacious house, now lost; and contemporary preservationist-residents. All have contributed to an extraordinarily rich streetscape that today preserves the best of Harlem's past. ISBN 9781580930703 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 2550.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 240 pages. 11.75x10.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.