Big books for the coffee table

20th Century World Architecture
The Phaidon Atlas
Editors of Phaidon
Phaidon Press, $200
An overview of 750 of the world’s architectural icons and regional masterpieces. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Dec. 4, 2012 1:21 PM PT

Hollywood Unseen
Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation
Robert Dance
Antique Collectors Club Dist, $75
Jimmy Stewart playing with his dogs, Ingrid Bergman fishing and Burt Lancaster playing tennis are just a few of the hundreds in this collection of candid shots from Hollywood’s Golden Age. (John Kobal Foundation / ACC Distribution)