John Gaw Meem, southwestern architect (School of American Research Advanced Sem) by Bainbridge Bunting ISBN 13: 9780826306715

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University of New Mexico Press, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Book is clean with a square, tight binding and bright, white pages. Dust jacket has minor wear on the edges that is difficult to see in the scans. John Gaw Meem is unquestionably the most important architect ever to have worked in New Mexico. In the sixty-year span of his career he designed or redesigned public buildings and private dwellings, banks, schools, libraries, ranch houses, hospitals, museums, numerous churches, the Santa Fe Plaza, and the University of New Mexico. When we think of a "typical" New Mexico building style, we are really thinking of Meem's characteristic modifications of Pueblo and Spanish Colonial architecture. Paul Horgan describes Meem in his foreword as having given "a comprehensive image to civilized life in the Rocky Mountain Southwest." The book you see in the images is the actual book we have for sale. Why pay more? When you buy this book from us, you are helping to support a small brick… Read More

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983. 75/125. Hardcover. Large Octavo, x, xiv, xvi, 177 pages. In Very Good condition. Quarter bound ivory spine bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Brown boards show very light wear including light sunning to the head edge and faint foxing to the rear. Text block has very mild wear to the edges. Frontispiece. Illustrated. This is number 75 of 125 signed, limited, and numbered copies. Signed by Faith B. Meem and Nancy Meem Wirth. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Section. 1376308. FP New Rockville Stock.