art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Sort and filter the results:
London, Volume 5: East Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300107012, Yale University Press, April 2005
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
The buildings of East London reflect a chequered history of economic change, social need, urban renewal, and conservation. Along the Thames relics of a powerful industrial and maritime past at Wapping, Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs remain among the...
HB:
£60,00
QTY:
Lancashire: Manchester and the South East Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300105834, Yale University Press, November 2004
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
A comprehensive guide to the buildings of South-East Lancashire. The heart is the great industrial city of Manchester, with its proud municipal buildings and pioneering mills and transport structures, offset by some of Britain's most innovative new a...
HB:
£60,00
QTY:
Livable Modernism Interior Decorating and Design During the Great Depression
ISBN: HB: 9780300104752, Yale University Press, September 2004
176 pp., 26.5x21.4 cm, 58 colour images, 55 black&white illus.
During the years of the Great Depression in America, modernist designers developed products and lifestyle concepts intended for middle-class, not elite, consumers. In this remarkable book, Kristina Wilson coins the term "livable modernism" to describ...
HB:
£27,00
QTY:
Liverpool City Guides
ISBN: PB: 9780300102581, Yale University Press, May 2004
320 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 30 illus.
From the eighteenth to the early twentieth century Liverpool was one of the most prosperous towns in Britain, and one of the greatest ports in the world; for many of its citizens it was also a place of extreme poverty. Economic success is reflected i...
PB:
£16,99
QTY:
London, Volume 6: Westminster Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300095951, Yale University Press, May 2003
944 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, glossary, indexes, 100 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This guide opens up the treasures of London's most alluring quarter. At its core are Westminster Abbey, Parliament, and the palatial Government buildings of Whitehall, together with the great band of Royal Parks stretching westward toward Kensington....
HB:
£60,00
QTY:
Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944
ISBN: HB: 9780300044942, Yale University Press, September 2002
808 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For five horrifying years in Vilna, the Vilna ghetto, and concentration camps in Estonia, Herman Kruk recorded his own experiences as well as the life and death of the Jewish community of the city symbolically called "The Jerusalem of Lithuania". Thi...
HB:
£70,00
QTY:
Lichens of North America
ISBN: HB: 9780300082494, Yale University Press, November 2001
828 pp., 28.5x25 cm, glossary, 927 colour plates, 821 black&white illus.
Lichens are a unique form of plant life, the product of a symbiotic association between an alga and a fungus. The beauty and importance of lichens have long been overlooked, despite their abundance and diversity in most parts of North America and els...
HB:
£100,00
QTY:
Leonardo on Painting Anthology of Writings by Leonardo Da Vinci with a Selection of Documents Relating to His Career as an Artist
ISBN: PB: 9780300090956, Yale University Press, October 2001
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, chiefly illus.
Leonardo's writings on painting – among the most remarkable from any era – were never edited by Leonardo himself into a single coherent book. In this anthology the authors have edited material not only from his so-called Treatise on Painting but also...
PB:
£15,99
QTY:
London Town Garden, 1700-1840
ISBN: HB: 9780300085389, Yale University Press, March 2001
298 pp., 28.5x23 cm, 200 black&white illus., 60 colour illus.
Much has been written about London's terraced houses with their simple dignity, their economical use of space and their sense of comfort and human scale. Yet the small gardens that lie before or behind the houses in this great city have until now bee...
HB:
£40,00
QTY:
Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds
ISBN: HB: 9780300087338, Yale University Press, December 2000
318 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 illus.
A collection of letters by Sir Joshua Reynolds. It is the first edition to be published since 1929, and since that date the number of known letters has almost doubled. This volume contains 308 letters by the artist to friends, family and patrons, all...
HB:
£30,00
QTY: