Baldock W C (11 results)

Softcover, reasonable state.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good condition, folio, some wear to front cover and spine reinforced with library tape, internally clean and bright, copiously illustrated, 79 pages. [QP].

First Edition. Poor copy in stiff card wrappers. Front cover loose but present. Spine band worn with cover missing. Some damage to title page. Text remains in fine condition; clear without blemish. Date is suggested. Physical description: 79 pages: chiefly ill. ; 31 cm. Subjects: Furniture Styles.Furniture Great Britain History 17th century. Furniture Great Britain History 18th century. 1 Kg.…

hardback, large 8vo, xvi,338pp, 102 plates plus illustrations set in the text, edges browned, slight foxing, text clean and binding sound, no inscriptions, green cloth gilt, torn with some loss at top of spine, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

First Edition. Poor copy in stiff card wrappers. Front cover loose but present. Spine band worn with cover missing. Some damage to title page. Text remains in fine condition; clear without blemish. Date is suggested. Physical description: 79 pages: chiefly ill. ; 31 cm. Subjects: Furniture Styles.Furniture Great Britain History 17th century. Furniture Great Britain History 18th century. 1 Kg.…

79pp, over 50 plates, some ads. 31x25, brown wraps Splitting along spine, binding sound, old and discreet auction house label on front, fair copy of fragile item. Nice guide to history of furniture styles, well illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1904. 1st Edition. 338 pages, 40pp. ads. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Binding coming apart at the cover seams but still together. Spine covering cloth. Frontis w/tissue guard, 102 B&W plates, and many in-text illustrations by W.C. Baldock. Textblock and illustrations unmarked, clean and bright. W.C. Baldock (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. xvi, 338 p.p., [40 p.p. ads]. 102 unnumbered B&W plates, incl. frontis. w/ tissue guard, plus in-text B&W illustrations. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Sunning to spine, bumping and rubbing to spine ends, joints, edges, and corners, small damp stain to front board, stain to fore edge of rear board. Foxing to edges of text block and some interior pages, but text is largely clean and unmarked. A few pencil annotations to fly. A study of furniture designs from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Baldock, W.C. (illustrator).…

Paper. Condition: Average. Binding ok but a bit disshevelled. 77pp. illustrated. 30 x 24 cms. Book.

Condition: Good. 4to. 79 pp. Soft Cover. Good. Brown paper wraps. Wrinkling and wear on covers, front and verso. One inch rip at tail of spine. Pages fine. B&W illustrations throughout. Provenance: Ex-libris. Originally from the Oliver Collection of the Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Library. Library book plate, and other library markings present on spine and inside front cover.…

Oblong folio. 15.5 x 11 in. 151, [1] pp. With maps, colour maps, diagrams, 5 colour mylar overlays, civil highway engineering elevation drawings, tables, charts. Original tan softcovers, plastic-comb binding as issued (wear, bumping, creasing to text block, some soiling & tidemark to back cover, edgewear, front cover retained and affixed w/ paper tape repair), still a good reference copy, from the library of A. Rodney Eckerson (1930-2024), former purchasing agent for the Port of Portland. First edition of this groundbreaking highway engineering, urban planning, and "blight" redevelopment plan released the year before funding began flowing to underwrite 90% of the eventual 42,500 mile interstate freeway "Expressway" system. Oregon leaders had contracted with New York urban planner Robert Moses" in 1943 to develop a public works program and highway building plan for the state, which included a series of core recommendations reflected in this later 1955 Traffic Engineering Technical Report prepared by Baldock & Williams, who pitched in the report that Portland be carved up by a series of freeways, and cleared of blighted urban neighborhoods. The Banfield Freeway which later became I-84 through East Portland was completed first in 1958, and largely was built over the remnants of a vast shanty town in Sullivan Gulch, but the construction of I-5 through North Portland began in earnest in 1962, directly demolishing 300 homes, and bisecting the African-American Lower Albina neighborhood, which at the time was the heart of the city's only majority black neighborhood. The original colour mylar overlays depict the projected growth of the city, and the increasing demand for roads as the interurban and electric railway system was either decommissioned, or condemned, and automobiles were the focus of transport into and around the city. Also included here is the proposed route for the Mount Hood Freeway, which was to run through East Portland all the way to Mt. Hood, and by 1969 had received the necessary funding, but by then considerable residential backlash had built, primarily due to the fact that the proposed Stadium Freeway I-405 ended up bisecting and leveling the former neighborhoods North & West of downtown Portland, near Goose Hollow, increasing removal of houses in North Portland along the I-5 construction was particularly bitter, and the introduction of the early plans for I-205 set off a revolt in Lake Oswego that would have as planned divided the community separating the schools from their community. Eventually after the election of Mayor Neil Goldschmidt, the Mount Hood Freeway project would finally be canceled, and the Federal money poured into mass transit projects. Although 11 copies are located in Worldcat, privately owned copies for sale in the trade are quite scarce; See: Val Ballestrem, "In the Shadow of a Concrete Forest:" Transportation Politics in Portland, Oregon, and the Revolt Against the Mount Hood Freeway, 1955-1976 (2009); Cortright, How a Freeway Destroyed a Neighborhood, and May Again (2019); Raymond Mohl, The Interstates and the Cities: Highways, Housing, and the Freeway Revolt (2002). …