Phoenix Coventry by Basil Spence (30 results)

Unknown binding. Condition: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Stated first. NOT an ex library book. 141 pages including the index. Dust jacket has minimal wear on edges, no chips or tears, price is not clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. unmarked, light shelfwear-NICE Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Mild wear to boards, x-lib with usual labels and stamps, text block clear and binding good. WR.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Gift inscription on early page. Newspaper article about the cathedral glued to front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Tight square book in sunned dust jacket with chipping to top edge ; unmarked but for booksale stamp to rear endpaper.; 141 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A tan to the pages. Photographs (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. xviii, 141pp, index, ills. Owner name else vg in aged whole dj. The architect tells the story of the new Cathedral Size: 4to.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. Tight clean unmarked book in mustard cloth; dj with slight chipping and short tear to top of spine; 141 pp illustrated. (see also, Out of the Ashes by Spence, also available).

Condition: Good. 1964. Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear, slight foxing on cover and endpapers, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. B & W and Color Photos; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 141 pages; 1962 Harper & Row. HC/DJ.First American edition, from the British plates. Snugly bound in full black cloth, lettered in gilt with metallic green and red to spine. In the original color pictorial dust jacket with $6.95 price intact to unclipped front flap. Prior owner's small ink name stamp to the bottom edge of the page block. Jacket lightly shelf rubbed with tiny nicks at extremities. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white and color photographs on glossy stock. VG++ / VG+.…

Hardcover. 2nd impression. xvii, 141 p.: 45 pl. (11 color), facsimile of building licence in text; 23.5 cm. [First printed earlier in October 1962] Contents -- A joyful and glorious resurrection as a symbol of reconciliation and hope, R. T. Howard, former provost of Coventry -- In a single, fearful night [14th November 1940]--and the vow was made: `The Cathedral will rise again, more splended than before', Gilbert Moore and John Miles -- `This magnificent new Cathedral', Cuthbert K. N. Bardsley, bishop of Coventry, `the first Bishop in all history to have seen both the beginning and the completion of his Cathedral during his episcopate' -- A challenge to a thousand years, R. Furneaux Jordan -- The nave windows, an appreciation, Basil Taylor -- The new Cathedral and the community, H. C. N. Williams, provost of Coventry, in an interview with F. A. D. Kelsey -- A Cathedral in the modern world, H. C. N. Williams, in an interview with Robert Payne -- The Consecration of the new Cathedral, 25th May 1962. VG orig. celadon cloth, gilt phoenix on front cover, edgeworn dj. photos: Henk Snoek & author (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Contents -- A joyful and glorious resurrection as a symbol of reconciliation and hope, R T Howard, former provost of Coventry -- In a single, fearful night [14th November 1940]--and the vow was made: `The Cathedral will rise again, more splended than before', Gilbert Moore and John Miles -- `This magnificent new Cathedral', Cuthbert K N Bardsley, bishop of Coventry, `the first Bishop in all history to have seen both the beginning and the completion of his Cathedral during his episcopate' -- A challenge to a thousand years, R Furneaux Jordan -- The nave windows, an appreciation, Basil Taylor -- The new Cathedral and the community, H C N Williams, provost of Coventry, in an interview with F A D Kelsey -- A Cathedral in the modern world, H C N Williams, in an interview with Robert Payne -- The Consecration of the new Cathedral, 25th May 1962 141 pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good +. First Edition. Large 8vo. xvii (i), 141 (1) pp, illus. Reprinted, October 1962. Price clipped. Light wear and partial age-toning dj. Light dust line top text block with faintly bumped bottom front fore-edge tips, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 7" x 9.25". Illustrated light-olive green cloth with black title plate and gilt lettering to spine, and decorative end papers. Illustrated dj in acetate protector. Size: Large 8vo. Book. …

Condition: Good. 1964. Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear, slight foxing on cover and endpapers, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 141 pages. dj worn. Price clipped.

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Description.

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Description.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hbk small 4to, 139pp illustr b+w photos and facsimile documents, dj lightly shelfworn with a small closed tear at rear upper corner and toning to extremities, now in protective sleeve, otherwise a very good clean tight unmarked copy.

Condition: good to very good condition. some colour illust (illustrator).

Cloth. Dust Jacket Included. Reprint. Cloth. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is very good ex library stamps, Dustwrapper is chipped and rubbed in cracked Glued protection, pp 141, 4 appendix, index 11 cloured and 35 monochrome illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint, Pages clean and bright, Binding firm, Light wear to edges, Dust jacket unclipped. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

[1962], 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good in good dust jacket. 141pp. Photographs, illustrations, appendices, index, decorated endpapers. The dust jacket ie soiled and edgeworn., previous owner's name. Locale: ; ; Coventry; Coventry. (Architecture, Cathedrals, Cathedrals, Coventry Cathedral).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. The signed, limited edition (1/500, #210) with glossed jacket and slipcase. Previous owners inscription. In near fine condition. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. The signed, limited edition (1/500, #210) with glossed jacket and slipcase. Previous owners inscription. In near fine condition. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Ex library rebound hardback, no DJ; usual stamps/markings. Special limited of 500 number 343 published in 1962 by Geoffrey Bles Ltd., London & signed by the Author. A good, very clean copy. 45 illustrations of which 11 are colour all intact & free from markings. The fly's eye vaulting of the canopy originally shown on the endpapers not present due to rebinding. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-1C*. …

Leather. Condition: Fine. First edition. The first edition of this interesting architectural work. Held in a Sangorski & Sutcliffe morocco signed binding. This book is written about the re-building of Coventry Cathedral after its bombing during 1940. The first edition, second impression. The title Phoenix At Coventry refers to the building rising from the ashes, which has been built next to the remains of the old building. The old building was kept in ruins as a garden of remembrance, with the new Cathedral built alongside. The author of this work, Basil Spence was the architect for the new Cathedral and this work discusses the different stages for the rebuild. He was later knighted for his work on the Cathedral. With a foreword by the fifth Bishop of Coventry. Illustrated throughout, with forty five plates consisting of colour and monochrome plates of the interiors, exteriors, plans and the site. In a half morocco signed binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Binder's stamp to verso of front endpaper. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear, spine is slightly faded. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and very clean. Fine. None (illustrator). book.…