Clarence Stein (80 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With very good dust jacket. Very Good hardcover with light shelfwear - NICE! Oversized.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Oversized.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Stapled. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The September 1935 issue of the American Magazine. It contains The Trial of Mark Adams, a mystery novel by Philip Wylie, Not Cloudy All Day, a story by Pulitzer Prize winner MacKinlay Kantor, Footsteps at Night (Dead Man Manor), part 4 of 6 of a novel by Valentine Williams (George Valentine Williams), part 6 of 6 of Opera Hat, a novel by Clarence Budington Kelland, Your Golf Will Find You Out, an article by Hall of Fame golfer Tommy Armour, My Husband Flirts With Speed, an article by Lady Campbell the wife of land speed record holder Malcolm Campbell, What Do Animals Think of You, an article by poet Archibald Rutledge, Headhunter - an Interesting People feature of anthropologist Dr Margaret Mead, and others. Light wear with some rubbing to the top edge and right corner of the front cover. Light damp stain with occasional loss & bleed to the top edge or corner of the pages - doesn't affect any text. No cutouts or missing pages. A good to very good copy. Ray Prohaska (cover), Paul Hesse (The Trial of Mark Adams), Mead Schaeffer (Not Cloudy All Day), Matt Clark (Footsteps at Night), George Rowe (Opera Hat), Ralph Stein (Your Golf Will Find You Out), Edward Giogi (My Husband Flirts With Speed) and others (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Modest shelfwear to jacket, clean pages and sound binding.

paperback. Condition: Good. minor wear and creasing.

First edition As new and bright slate blue boards in close to fine pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Elegant text and nicely illustrated with vintage photographs. Gift quality.

Paperback. Condition: Clean & Unmarked. Light extremity rubbing. Otherwise, a very clean and straight copy. Clean text and an uncreased spine. 263 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. B&W Photographs & Plans; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 760 pages; [SIGNED] 1998 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Stout larger format HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by the editor, Parsons, on the laf-title page to esteemed fellow urban studies scholar, David Schuyler. Feels and appears generally unread. Perhaps a hint of sunning to jacket spine. NF/NF; Signed by Editor. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. A nice, clean copy. ; B&W Illustrations; 10.3 X 7.2 X 2.4 inches; 760 pages.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the March 1926 issue (Vol. XII No. 7) of "The Standard: Published to Promote Ethical Thinking & to Encourage Better Ways of Living" edited by Felix Adler and published by The American Ethical Union out of New York City. A stapled magazine measuring 6-3/4" by 10" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Small, round, faint clear-embossed stamp of the Colorado College Library to front cover; previously, but lightly, folded. Containing articles and Ethical Movement news, the articles are: The New Rule of Ethical Living by Felix Adler; Nobody's Business by Clarence S. Stein; A New Attitude Towards Trade Unionism by W. M. Leiserson; Some Beneficent Uses of Suffering by Alfred W. Martin; Industry and the Bankers by Algernon D. Black; The Divided Allegiance of the Modernists by Percival Chubb (a book review of "The Religion of Yesterday and Tomorrow" by Kirsopp Lake). Clarence S. Stein (1882-1975) was an American urban planner, architect, and major proponent of the "garden city movement" in the United States. Percival Ashley Chubb (1860-1959) was a founding member of the Fabian Society in 1884, associate leader of the Society for Ethical Culture from 1897-1910, and President of the American Ethical Union from 1934-39.…

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Former Library book. (United States, City Planning, Garden Cities) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: good dust-jacket with some wear along top and bottom edges and tear at bottom of spine, very good large heavy light blue gray cloth, spine slightly concave from opening. STEIN, CLARENCE S. The writings of Clarence S. Stein: architect of the planned community. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xxxvi, 717pp., . As the visionary behind the planned community in Radburn, New Jersey, Clarence Stein was heralded as one of the most progressive and controversial American architects and planners of the twentieth century. His ideas influenced well-known developments in Greenbelt and Columbia, Maryland; Reston, Virginia; and Woodlands, Texas. His collaboration with Benton MacKaye in the Regional Planning Association of America led to the building of the Appalachian Trail, America's prototypical greenway., In The Writings of Clarence S. Stein: Architect of the Planned Community, Kermit Carlyle Parsons presents a wide-ranging selection of more than 500 annotated letters, papers, and other writings that shed light upon the personal struggles and professional achievements of this major force for change in community planning and regional design. Parsons supplements these documents with a succinct biographical introduction to Stein's life and career, 137 illustrations (including photographs, plans of Stein's work, and personal sketches), a complete list of his many projects, a bibliography of Stein's own articles and books as well as articles about him, and biographical sketches of the people mentioned in the documents. - CONTENTS: Early education in New York and Paris, 1903-1911 -- Home again: architect and civic reformer, 1911-1919 -- regional planning, community architecture, and collaboration, 1920-1929 -- Years of success and stress, 1930-1935 -- time of troubles, 1936-1939 -- the war and postwar planning, 1940-1949 -- Fulfillment and recognition, 1950-1959 -- Satisfaction, 1960-1968 -- Appendices: chronology; architectural, planning, and housing projects; biographical sketches. 9780801857560 ISBN 0801857562.…

Paperback. Condition: UsedGood. Softcover; with an introduction by Lewis Mumford; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; reference number taped to spine; fourth paperback pri nting; fading and shelf wear to exterior; otherwise in good condition with clean text, firm binding.

hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The Architecture and the Gardens of the San Diego Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Aesthetic Features of the Panama California International Exposition. Winslow, Carleton Monroe; Stein, Clarence S; Taylor, Harold A. Paul Elder and Co. 1916. 154p. hardcover no dust jacket, boards bumped/scuffed/fraying, binding loose, text clean/unmarked, NOT xlib 23.00.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition (no additional printings listed). Hardcover, 8 ½ x 10 3/8 inches, index, 263 pp, glossy coated paper, illustrated with black and white drawings and photographs. Very good in fair dustjacket. Dustjacket scuffed, light tan drop marks, rubbed along edges, foxed, most notably on reverse side, 1 inch tear and corresponding crease on lower edge of rear panel, several lesser tears and chips, price present. Book itself has a 7 inch felt pen line on front endpaper, with a 1 ½ x 1 ½ x 2 inch light tan stain below it, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked; probably never really read. Architecture; urban planning; suburban sprawl; housing; 0 pages. …

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Large green hardcover without DJ, in VG condition: light handling, slight exterior wear, owner's name and address neatly rubber-stamped inside the front cover, otherwise unmarked. 263 pages. [1.6 lbs]. Book.