Phoenix at Coventry by Basil Spence (29 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book is in good condition, jacket is in poor condition with many tears and chips. Please see photos.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Gut. 160 Seiten Das Buch ist ordentlich erhalten und kann altersbedingte Gebrauchsspuren aufweisen. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 180.

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.

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.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Yellow cloth covered boards with gilt phoenix emblem to front. DJ in fair condition - 3 cm tear to top edge of front cover and to head of spine, edges discoloured and dampstained, head and tail of spine scuffed. Top plastic layer has partially become detached along the length of the spine to front cover, leaving a blackened strip where the underlying paper has become exposed. Light dust soiling to top edge of pages and hard cover. Hard cover in very good condition. Light white smudge to spine, else fine. Contents clean and unmarked. Price clipped. Weight: 0.82 kg - Overseas orders may require additional postage.

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.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Hardcover edition. (Coventry Cathedral) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

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).

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.

Condition: good to very good condition. some colour illust (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: 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*.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. With many photographs of the progress from drawing board to final success. The first cathedral in Coventry was built at the time of the Norman Conquest, the second was destroyed by German bombing in 1940 and this, the third, was Sir Basil Spence's conception, with the inspired help of many famous artists of the period, starting in 1955.This is Sir Basil Spence's fascinating history of the design and building.Many excellent photographs from start to finish.

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. photos: Henk Snoek & author (illustrator). 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.

Spence, Basil. PHOENIX AT COVENTRY. THE BUILDING OF A CATHEDRAL. [London], Geoffrey Bles, [1962]. Cloth. Dust jacket. Price clipped, dust jacket sunned and worn, otherwise very good.

[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: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

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.

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

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

Leather. Condition: Fine. None (illustrator). 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. book.

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