The Book Company: New Products - Regional

German Village Stories Behind the Bricks

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 22:33:14 +0000

German Village’s iconic homes, bustling businesses and other beloved sites harbor fascinating stories. Did you know that German Village’s Recreation Park, now gone, is thought to have had the first baseball concession stand? Or that the four-story Schwartz Castle was the site of two murders? Or th..

Price: $21.99

Philadelphia: (Historic Exteriors and Interiors)

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 21:03:52 +0000

Philadelphia: Historic Exteriors and Interiors is a celebration of the city's architectural legacy. Vintage postcards document both the interiors and exteriors of some of Philadelphia's oldest and most well-known structures, including grandiose department stores, elegant restaurants, and the origi..

Price: $19.99

New York City Skyscrapers

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 13:29:51 +0000

New York City Skyscrapers celebrates the numerous awe-inspiring buildings that have made New York the skyscraper capital of the world. This book traces the history of New York's tallest structures from the late 19th century, when church spires ruled the skyline, through the 20th century, when a su..

Price: $21.99

Williamsport's Millionaires' Row

Sun, 31 Jul 2016 07:50:29 +0000

Williamsport was once known as the lumber capital of the world, claiming to have more millionaires per capita living there than anywhere else in the world. Made fashionable by visionary Victorian-era entrepreneur Peter Herdic and his talented personal architect Eber Culver, Williamsport’s West Fou..

Price: $21.99

Pocket Guide to Chicago Architecture

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 23:01:45 +0000

Updated and expanded to chart Chicago’s evolving urban landscape, the third edition of this popular handbook is the perfect companion for self-guided walking tours, as well as an excellent source of information for those wishing to explore the internationally acclaimed architecture of Chicago. Ove..

Price: $19.95

New York Neon

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 21:24:00 +0000

Treating New York City as an open-air museum, Thomas E. Rinaldi captures the brilliant glow of surviving early- and mid-twentieth-century neon signs, those iconic elements of the cityscape now in danger of disappearing. This visual tour features two hundred signs, identified by location, with info..

Price: $26.95

Animals in Stone (Architectural Sculpture in New York City)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:20:06 +0000

Companion to Faces in Stone, this is a gift-sized and attractively priced book for architecture buffs. It features more than one hundred imaginative sculptural details, from the domestic to the fantastic, with a brief introduction and contextual photos to show the building on which each ornament a..

Price: $24.95

Havana Revisited (An Architectural Heritage)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:19:23 +0000

Interpreting the present in light of the past, eleven renowned architects, historians, scholars, preservationists, and urban planners in Cuba and the United States provide a rigorous examination of Havana old and new that provokes exploration of the ways we look at all cities. These authoritative ..

Price: $49.95

Four Florida Moderns (The Architecture of Alberto Alfonso, René González, Chad Oppenheim, and Guy Peterson)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:05:08 +0000

Alberto Alfonso, René González, Chad Oppenheim, and Guy Peterson—The Florida Four—are making a mark for themselves in contemporary architectural circles, infusing modernist traditions with their own flair. Practitioners of modernism in Florida—or, more accurately, tropical modernism—they are produ..

Price: $50.00

Robert Moses and the Modern City (The Transformation of New York)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:45:22 +0000

“We are rebuilding New York, not dispersing and abandoning it”: Robert Moses saw himself on a rescue mission to save the city from obsolescence, decentralization, and decline. His vast building program aimed to modernize urban infrastructure, expand the public realm with extensive recreational fac..

Price: $50.00