Balbus A Picture Book Of Building
Oliver Hill & Hans Tisdall
Published by London: Pleiades Books, 1944., 1944
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Hardcover
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1944. 48 pages. No dust jacket. Red pictorial boards with a cloth spine. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Seller Inventory # 1720173668CAB
Bibliographic Details
Title: Balbus A Picture Book Of Building
Publisher: London: Pleiades Books, 1944.
Publication Date: 1944
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
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Balbus : A Picture Book of Building
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Pleiades Books, Ltd., London, 1944
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Hardcover
Seller: Springhead Books, Rochester, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Well-illustrated colourful children's book on the theme of architecture. Contents: The snail -- Tents, wigwams and huts -- Caravans and barges -- Babylonian, Assyrian and Persian -- Ancient Egyptian -- Ancient Greek -- Ancient Roman -- Romanesque and Byzantine -- Norman -- Gothic -- The castles -- The great wall of China -- Angkor Vat -- Old Mexican building -- The Russian churches -- Arabian cities -- The Renaissance -- Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren -- Baroque -- Queen Anne and Georgian -- Shipbuilding -- Victorian -- Skyscrapers -- Modern Scandinavian. First edition, first impression. Grey cloth back, illustrated boards, slight shelf wear to cover, dusty edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. Seller Inventory # 017199
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Balbus : a picture book of building.
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London: Pleiades Books, 1944., 1944
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
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First edition (hardback). 4to (26cm by 21cm), 48pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original grey cloth spine, colour-printed boards. There is some rubbing of the binding, some bumping to the corners of the boards, some foxing of the preliminary pages and a gift inscription; overall, this book is in good condition. Seller Inventory # 75286
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Balbus, a picture book of building
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Pleiades Books LTD, 1944
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Seller: Librairie Laumiere, Paris, France
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in4, cartonne, dos toile, 1944, 48p, etat correct, couverture salie aux contours un peu frottes, coins un peu abimes, dos legerement insole avec longue cassure sans manque sur sa jointure avec la premiere de couverture, interieur un peu jauni mais propre, coin haut de certaines pages un peu corne, texte en anglais, illustrations en couleurs, Pleiades Books LTD. Seller Inventory # 82874
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Balbus : a picture book of building.
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Pleiades Books., 1944
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to (26cm by 21cm), 48pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original grey cloth spine, colour-printed boards. Covers a little rubbed and marked. Seller Inventory # 037425
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Balbus: A Picture Book of Building
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London: Pleiades Books Ltd., 1944, 1944
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Seller: Trevian Books, Piermont, NY, U.S.A.
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Hill, that rarest of birds, an English Modernist architect, teamed up with Tisdall to "write and devize" for children this introduction to the history of world architecture. From the snail ".who carries his house on his back and that solves his problem," through earliest civilizations, classic eras, English styles up to the Victorian, to skyscrapers and finally the modern Scandinavian. First edition. 25 cm; 49 pp.; illustrated from drawings by Tisdall. Wear to tips of covers; slight soiling and rubbed spot to front cover; contents clean and bright. A good copy in cloth-backed laminated boards. Seller Inventory # 014703
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BALBUS A PICTURE BOOK OF BUILDING
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London: Pleiades Books, 1944., 1944
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Hardcover
Seller: Buckle's Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardback with pictorial boards and grey cloth to spine. Light rubbing to boards otherwise no damage, internally clean. Very good condition. Seller Inventory # T15D40020
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Balbus; A picture book of building
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Pleiades 1944, 1944
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Peter J. Hadley Bookseller ABA ILAB, Ludlow, United Kingdom
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VG bright tight copy in publishers decorated boards. 1st edition of attractive and scarce colour picture book, early example of Autolithography. ISBN B000XDYHUS. Seller Inventory # PJH52202
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BALBUS, A PICTURE BOOK OF BUILDING
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: BOOKPRESS LTD., Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A.
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HILL, Oliver, and Hans Tisdall. BALBUS, A PICTURE BOOK OF BUILDING. London: Pleiades Books, 1944. 4to. Cloth spine, pictorial boards. (i), 49 pages. First edition. Printed during World War II, this handsome color illustrated book has become classic example of early autolithography. Some rubbing at the edges but a go copy of a very scarce book. Seller Inventory # 29838
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Balbus A Picture Book of Building
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Pleiades Books Ltd, London, 1944
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Oliver Hill; Hans Tisdall (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this scarce children's non fiction book about building with colour illustrations. First edition of Balbus A Picture Book of Building by Oliver Hill and Hans Tisdall in the original publisher's quarter cloth binding and paper covered boards.A scarce work with only twelve copies held in libraries.A beautifully illustrated children's non-fiction book published during the Second World War.With twenty three bright full pages of colour illustrations depicting different buildings throughout history and around the world. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding and paper covered boards. Externally, smart. there is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. There are a few light marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with the odd spot. Very Good. book. Seller Inventory # 849W3
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