Roche Owen (9 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine-. Julie Sorbie Roche and Jan Owen (illustrator). 2nd Edition/2nd Printing. The authors, lifelong devotees of animal behavior, explain in easy-to-understand language, just how a puppy's body and mind develop and what you can do to help him develop in the right way. Heed their advice and you're on your way to a well-adjusted puppy. New, revised 2nd edition. 126 pages. Photos and illustrations. Tiny stain on upper back edge at corner. Nice, clean copy.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Log 19 tracks the reemergence of social considerations in architectural discourse, questioning what role architecture can and should play in society. The parametric is alternatively valorized and disavowed; Ron Arad s new museum is ransacked while Office KGDVS is coaxed from its silence; Georges Teyssot unravels J. Mayer H.'s sinuous Metropol Parasol project in Seville; Allan Weiss meditates on the garden at Ryoan-ji; Eric Owen Moss pays homage to Raimund Abraham; Tom Weaver reads poetry and the tedious prose of Leon Krier's Poundbury; Wes Jones reconsiders architecture as a game; Thomas de Monchaux writes on ''Rising Currents'' and the unexceptional reconstruction of Downtown Manhattan; plus observations on orphic Modernism in the forests of Asuncion, the flatness of Herzog & de Meuron's sets for ''Attila,'' a portfolio from the Hague, and more.

Condition: New.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good. Log 19 brims with informed debate and argument on the state of architecture today. Like the models for the invited international design competition for the Dance and Music Center in The Hague, these articles, when taken together, can be understood as a cross-section of how one makes architecture now. Is it as form? Function? Material? Cost? Context? Politics? What are the limits of representation in architecture? Log 19 takes parametrics to task, considers the consequences of climate change and environmental catastrophe, while examining the physical edges and conceptual boundaries of architecture. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Text is in French and English. Spine is cocked and is sunned/faded; "B-1980" written at bottom of title page; volume has light wear; title page, its blank verso, a few other pages, and the back cover have a touch of minor soil and/or foxing. 327 p., illustrated. Oversize [otob: 18r].

Condition: very good, fair. First Edition. 185, some soiling to fore-edge, DJ scuffed and edges worn: small tears, small pieces missing. "John Forth Amory" is the pseudonym of Owen I. A. Roche, a journalist, editor, author, poet, expert on Latin American affairs, and counter espionage expert with the British Ministry of Information during World War II.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good. Log 19 brims with informed debate and argument on the state of architecture today. Like the models for the invited international design competition for the Dance and Music Center in The Hague, these articles, when taken together, can be understood as a cross-section of how one makes architecture now. Is it as form? Function? Material? Cost? Context? Politics? What are the limits of representation in architecture? Log 19 takes parametrics to task, considers the consequences of climate change and environmental catastrophe, while examining the physical edges and conceptual boundaries of architecture. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Lowell, Orson (cover); Justis, Lyle; Billmyer, James; Sykes, C.H.; Skidmore, T.D.; Wood, Lawson; Williams, C.D.; Gustavson, L.R. (illustrator). First Edition. 54 pages. Features: Nice Hockey illustration on cover; Colour Texaco ad inside front cover; Oakland 8 / Pontiac 6 full-page ad; Classy color full-page ad for Maxwell House Coffee; Mr. Tuggy Drives his Buggy (short story); Kansas Kid (short story); Against the Grain - Ire at Grain Traders - article; No Questions Asked (short story); The Polecat's Pal - the story of a dog who fell from grace but was redeemed in a most curious fashion; Fairweather Quinn - Captain Thomas P. Quinn of Seattle pilots vessels in and out of Puget Sound - article with photo; The Road Back (short story); A Lady of Resource (short story); Power and Glory - Boies Penrose - articles with photo; Sensational full-page color photo ad for Life Saver candies; Smoke in the Bank (short story); Oldsmobile ad; Captain of Industry - Barry Wood is Captain of the Harvard football team; Wonderful two-color centerfold ad for Willys cars; Nice full-page two-color ad for Coke 'behind the scenes' in Hollywood; Studebaker Truck ad; Wonderful color full-page ad for Chesterfield cigarettes; Nostalgic Nice color Camel cigarette ad on back cover shows couple in front of fireplace; General Electric Sun Lamp ad inside back cover. Average external wear and soiling. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.

Condition: Good. Autograph collection assembled by John Wilkinson of England. 52 pieces.Collection of cards, album pages and clipped magazine photographs signed by prominent tennis champions, including: Rod Laver (signed card and colour magazine photograph), Andres Gimeno (signed colour magazine portrait), Evonne Goolagong-Cawley (signed black and white magazine photograph), Tony Roche (signed album page, Arthur Ashe (signed newspaper photograph), Neale Fraser (signed card), Roy Emerson (signed card), Lew Hoad (signed card), John Newcombe (signed album page "to John, thank you for your kind letter. Wishing you good luck"), Maria Bueno (signed card), Ann Jones (signed card), Virginia Wafe (signed card), Darlene Hard (signed album page "Best wishes to you and your family" and black and white magazine photograph), Pancho Gonzalez (signed card), Nicola Pietrangeli (signed card), Bill Bowrey (signed card), Nancy Richey (signed and "Dear John, Thanks so much for your letter"), Lesley Bowrey (signed card), Kerry Melville (signed card), Francoise Durr (signed card "All my best wishes"), Ken Fletcher (signed card "To John, Best Wishes"), Frew McMillan (signed card "All the very best john"), Bob Hewitt (signed card), Dennis Ralston (signed card and colour magazine photograph), Pierre Barthes (signed photograph), Tom Okker (signed card), Rosemary Casals (signed card and black and white magazine photograph), Judy Tegart (signed card "To John, with very best wishes"), Julie Heldman (signed card), Helga Nissen (signed album page), Winnie Shaw (signed album page and clipped newspaper photograph), Annette Du Plooy (clipped signature and newspaper photograph), Tom Gorman (signed album page), Clark Graebner (signed card, dated 1968), Marty Riessen (signed card "To John, thank you for your kind letter. Best wishes and good luck in the future"), Cliff Drysdale (signed card "To John, very best wishes"), Zejlko Franulovic (signed colour magazine photograph), Charlie Pasarell (signed card), Mark Cox (signed card and colour magazine photograph), Roger Taylor (signed glossy black and white photograph), Martin Mulligan (signed album page), Jan Leschly (signed card, Copenhagen 13 July 1967), Owen Davidson (signed card), Bobby Wilson (signed colour magazine picture) and Butch Buchholz (signed card "To John, wish you the very best of luck", 1969).