Peter Mike Stevenson (7 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1975. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($6.95); light bumping to head and tail; light toning to spine and peripheral edges. Blue cloth boards and spine with black lettering on the spine; boat design in black on front board. 64 pp 8vo. Why Wait to Get Started in Underwater Research. The authors in this book provide detailed plans, photographs, and helpful assistance to build the wooden boat, Amphora. The Amphora is modeled after a centuries=old, all-purpose Greek boat. A clean very presentable copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The Number Line Indicates A First Edition/First Printing. The Jacket Has Light Surface Rubbing With A Hint Of Wrinkling At The Top Edge. Details How Crops Can Be Grown Anywhere By Raising Them In Wooden Planter Boxes. Includes Directions For Building The Boxes And A Simple "Barn" Of Boards And Plastic For Creating A Compost Pile.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Book is in very good condition. 199pp with colour and b/w photographs.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; xix, 127 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm ISBN 9780252015533, 0252015533 OCLC 17676686 LCCN 88004825 LC KF5692 .C67 1989 Dewey 346.73045 and 347.30645 ; grey cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents : Aesthetics in the Museum and in the Courthouse -- East side, west side all around the town (and nation) -- The case for coherence -- Aesthetics at any price opr no aesthetics at all -- The case for legal aesthetics -- Aesthetics and the Legal System -- The swinging pendulum -- A blessed union? -- A return to first principles -- Legal Aesthetics and legal institutions -- Icons and Aliens -- A format for aesthetics controversies -- The aesthetics impulse: Beauty as a nonstarter -- Aesthetics and Process Values -- Legal language and lay language -- Process and end-state values: Pathways to accommodation -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index ; Discusses issues surrounding the daily war being fought in cities across the country--developmental change and business growth versus historic preservation. Can there be a meeting of the minds beween those who strive to preserve our environment and historical landmarks and those who continue to try to meet the needs of a changing society? publisher's promotional materials laid in, associated with a Kiwanis Club presentation to Memphis area Law alumni ; SIGNED letter to attorney Richard W. Foster from the author with comments upon the city of Memphis, laid-in with envelope ; John Costinis was dean of the Vanderbilt Law School who previously taught in the urban design, historic preservation and property fields on the law faculties of New York University and Illinois. A frequent contributor of essays on design and land use topics to legal and lay publications, Costonis was also the author of Space Adrift, Landmark Preservation and the Marketplace, a seminal study of the use of incentive zoning to finance the preservation of endangered urban landmarks. ; Allan Jacobs was was a professor of environmental design, University of California at Berkeley and the former director of planning, Department of City Planning, San Francisco ; includes discussions about the Zucchini on Park Avenue, East Side buildings on Manhattan's West Side, Billboards along a scenic Arizona highway, Sodium vapor lamps in downtown Bronxville, An international style tower atop the Beaux Arts Grand Central Terminal, a Con Ed pumping station on Storm King Mountain, the Transamerica Building in San Francisco, McDonald's Speedee Service Drive-in, Goodyear Airdock, Isaac I Rice Mansion, Upper East Side Historic District, ; inlcudes numerous New Yorker cartoons and black and white photographs ; FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardbound. Condition: Ex Library(usually 4). How to build your own downhill coaster. With d/j. Ex Library copy but in near fine condition. Illustrated by: .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Photos; illus., 9.25 x 7.75", green cloth, 63pp, bottom of spine a little bumped, minor extremity wear, minor finger soiling and small brown spot at the gutter of ffep else a nice, clean copy in a lightly edge-worn dustjacket. SCARCE in the trade (NOT library) edition.