Its wealth of ancient architecture has made the American Southwest a place where time stands still. Pueblos, kivas, mission churches: architect Trent Sanford has captured the grace and beauty of dozens of sites, many of them largely untouched by time and easily accessible by the public. Encompassing the architecture of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, these pages cover the time of prehistoric Indians on through the coming of Spanish explorers and into the twentieth century. First published in 1950, the book ...
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Its wealth of ancient architecture has made the American Southwest a place where time stands still. Pueblos, kivas, mission churches: architect Trent Sanford has captured the grace and beauty of dozens of sites, many of them largely untouched by time and easily accessible by the public. Encompassing the architecture of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, these pages cover the time of prehistoric Indians on through the coming of Spanish explorers and into the twentieth century. First published in 1950, the book includes more than one hundred photographs and maps, as well as descriptive lists of missions and pueblos in the region. For history buffs and tourists alike, here is a warm-hearted introduction to the many people whose enduring traditions-and architecture-have shaped the southwestern landscape over hundreds of years. Here, too, is a simple, easy-to-use guide to one of the world's top travel destinations.
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Fine. NEW but for remainder mark. Excellent value. Ships in 24 hours and carefully wrapped. BNCTucsonbooks ships daily. Proceeds from the sales of books support an endowed scholarship to Brandeis University, Waltham Mass.
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Sanford, Trent Elwood. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE SOUTHWEST. Tuscon, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, c1997. First printing. 312pp. b/w photos, illus, appendices, index. 8vo. As new trade softcover.
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Very Good in good jacket. First edition, 1950. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 312 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Good price-clipped dust jacket, soiling and age-toning to the outer pages and the page-edges, some soiling to the book's covers, rubbing and bumping to the edges of the book's covers, soiling and discoloration to the dust jacket, dust jacket with edgewear including creasing, tearing, and loss, lacking a 1"x1" portion of the dust jacket's spine-head. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
