Houston Deco: Modernistic Architecture of the Texas Coast, 2008, Hard Cover, Near Fine signed

Parsons, Jim & David Bush. Albany, Texas, Bright Sky Press, 2008.

English, Signed Edition, Near Fine, Hard Cover, 4to, 8 ¼” x 8 ¼,” 128 pp.

ISBN: 9781933979069

Red cloth over boards, gilt stamped title to spine, orange endpapers, in publisher’s tan dust jacket, full-color image of art to front, yellow and brown text to front, red and brown text to spine, red and black text to back and inside flaps. Clean, tightly bound throughout, and in like-new condition. In a Near Fine publisher’s dust jacket now protected in a Mylar sleeve. Very minor edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise excellent. 128 pp. Signed by both authors at the title page. Replete with full-color images throughout. Text by Jim Parsons and David Bush with foreword by Madeleine McDermott Hamm. A photographical collection of Art Deco architecture in Houston, allowing readers to step into the past. From the dust jacket: “Jim Parsons and David Bush have documented historic buildings across the city for the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance. This book is an outgrowth of “Endangered Deco,” a project to increase awareness of historic modernistic buildings that are threatened by demolition or neglect.”