: NEW for $12

Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture: NEW for $10

Asymptote - Flux: NEW for $5

My former employment iwould have a Phaidon representative come to our office once a month or so with 3 or 4 cardboard boxes of Phaidon books. We would select the ones we wanted, then go in a bidding war with the Phaidon representative to see how cheap we could get the books. I was amazed that I would purchase a $100 retail price book for $10 and he claimed he was still making a profit off of it.

your 10X10 link says new for $47.25 , where do you get $12?

i haven't scored any book deals yet. but i did get $2,000 for a 500 word essay once. that's my best deal yet...

Nice one, Amoroso! I've always coveted that book, too.

My best was Lebbeus Wood's The New City for $10.

Shanghai, China.

Phaidon prints many of their books in Chinaland so the rep was bringing books directly off the printing presses.

scored sverre fehn's monograph in almost perfect condition for $15.00 at a used book store in alexandria.

2 years ago, i picked up zumthor's a+u, fehn's thoughts on construction, the 1st (of 3 - wtf?) monographs on James Cutler and pamphlets 1-10 (holl et al) for $10 from a parent selling his daughter's arch books.

SMLXL (first edition, no less) for $5 and some change, shipped from half.com

Flux I got for - $2
House Of Cards - $25 - Mint
Education Of An Architect [Hard Cover] - $20
Appliance House - $70
Mask Of Medusa - $20
7 Houses - $20
Unfolding [folio] - $40; worth anywhere from $90 - $1000 [signed]
I also picked up a book on Soleri written by Don Wall for $20

h&dm el croquis (90s projects) for $6. almost fainted.

i got s,m,l,xl for 6 bucks at a library sale and later found out it was a first edition

Adjaye - Houses for $9.00
Adjaye - Making Public Buildings for $10.00

Moshe Safde - Life After The Automobile for $13.00

i picked up ben nicholson's 'appliance house' for 9 bucks at a used bookstore in cambridge. beautiful images.

picked up the entire iaus pamphlet/exhibition catalog series (1-16) for free from a former professor.

also grabbed the definitive eames book (the neuhart one) for $10 at a used bookstore as well. brand new condition....

I ordered a used copy of Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction from Abebooks.com for $7 and the, i guess clueless?, bookseller sent me a first edition MoMA published copy, because apparently its worth upwards of $250.

sevensixfive, where the heck did you get your paws on that beauty (Lebbeus Woods's Book) for that cheap?? I've been looking for that book for ages, without any luck (let alone a discount).

not architecture, but i found a copy of appalachian portraits by
shelby lee adams for $15 or so...it's apparently worth $295 at least
now...

i use the website isbndb.com to check out prices every now and again.

Squirrelly - it was a tiny small town used bookstore, one of the best types of places to go digging, judging by this thread. It was originally marked at $15 but I asked the guy if he offered an architecture student's discount and he knocked it down to $10, which was good b/c I was pretty broke at the time.

I had been trying to find a Karel Martens book for a year. Finally found it at a small bookseller in Australia for $50, who shipped it stateside.

It's now worth over $1000.

http://www.amazon.com/Karel-Martens-printed-matter-drukwerk/dp/0907259200/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-7438577-9880905?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188930923&sr=8-1

I like the cover of that book, Liberty Bell.