Posted in Art and Photography (Friday, September 5, 2008)
Written by Perry Mcintosh. By Commonwealth Editions.
The regular list price is $14.95.
Sells new for $11.96.
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No comments about Boston's Emerald Necklace (NE Landmarks).
Posted in Art and Photography (Friday, September 5, 2008)
Written by Emily Brown. By Timber Press, Incorporated.
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No comments about Landscaping with Perennials.
Posted in Art and Photography (Friday, September 5, 2008)
Written by Gary A. Randorf. By The Johns Hopkins University Press.
The regular list price is $25.95.
Sells new for $15.07.
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1 comments about The Adirondacks: Wild Island of Hope (Creating the North American Landscape).
- Gary Randolf has done a remarkable job of splicing natural history, Americans and psychical beauty into one great book. Traveling through time and seasons, the reader feels the words and witnesses the beauty of the Adirondack mountains. It's not just full of incredible landscape shots (both subtle and grand) but is matched with a moving narrative that warns us this island paradise will always be in danger.
Time for the world to take heed, especially in a period of history when our government seems to feel that acid rain is so irreversible here, that we can actually lower emissions standards? That the damage is already done? It's not too late, and Mr. Randorf reminds us with every page.
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Posted in Art and Photography (Friday, September 5, 2008)
Written by Peter Joel Harrison. By Wiley.
The regular list price is $85.00.
Sells new for $64.60.
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3 comments about Gazebos and Trellises: Authentic Details for Design and Restoration (Historic Landscape Detail).
- Both of the books recently purchased are not worth the price. Gazebos and Trellises was sadly missing detail found in far cheaper books published by Dover Books. Sadly, I will probably not trust Amazon again in always representing good value.
- "Gazebos and Trellises : Authentic Details for Design and Restoration (Historic Landscape Detail S.) (Hardcover)" is a series of 200 rather small plates of historic structures that garden designers, preservationists and landscape architects may find of marginal use. The author's renderings mainly derived from field and library research of East Coast structures are unemotional, 1-point perspective, flat representations that I find undemonstrative and difficult on the eye.
In the back of the book are three pages listing plants and Vines from: Colonial Times and Republic 1700-1820 - Later Times 1820-1875 - to -Modern. Included in the list is Gloire de Dijon, 1853, - Gardenia, 1899 - and Souvenir de la Malmaison, 1893; among my personal favorites.
The author's rendering style is so dispassionate that his plates of Mount Vernon, Montpelier, and Monticello seem foreign to me.
There is an inadequacy of books on garden trellis and gazebos in general; and a paucity of anything of this genre. Nonetheless, I remain unenthusiastic about the content and cost of this book.
- Peter Joel Harrison provides a valuable service to architects, designers, preservationists, landscapers and homeowners by researching, recording and presenting the details of historic homes and gardens. His books, full of accurate drawings of historic fences, gates, gazebos, trellises, pavement and garden walls, are tools for anyone who's restoring an 18th or 19th century home or landscape and inspiration for anyone who hopes to infuse some of yesterday's charm into a new building. This book presents fascinating garden buildings in all of the styles of America's architectural heritage. If you're looking for a gazebo or pool house to match your period home, this is the book to start with.
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Posted in Art and Photography (Friday, September 5, 2008)
Written by Ali Akbar Husain. By Oxford University Press, USA.
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No comments about Scent in the Islamic Garden: A Study of Deccani Urdu Literary Sources.
Posted in Art and Photography (Friday, September 5, 2008)
Written by E. Wilkinson and Henderson. By Chronicle Books.
The regular list price is $19.95.
Sells new for $15.49.
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No comments about Decorating Eden.
Posted in Art and Photography (Friday, September 5, 2008)
Written by Paul D. Sachs and Richard T. Luff. By Wiley.
The regular list price is $80.00.
Sells new for $61.81.
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No comments about Ecological Golf Course Management.
Posted in Art and Photography (Friday, September 5, 2008)
Written by David Leatherbarrow. By University of Pennsylvania Press.
The regular list price is $59.95.
Sells new for $50.96.
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No comments about Topographical Stories: Studies in Landscape and Architecture (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture).
Posted in Art and Photography (Friday, September 5, 2008)
Written by Chora and Raoul Bunschoten. By 010 Uitgeverij.
Sells new for $108.01.
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No comments about Urban Flotsam.
Posted in Art and Photography (Friday, September 5, 2008)
Written by Marianne Heron. By Gill & Macmillan.
The regular list price is $15.95.
Sells new for $108.58.
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No comments about Hidden Gardens of Ireland.
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