London E & FN Spon 2000

viii + 232pp with many b/w and colour images throughout. 4to in paper boards with colour dw. Vg. With contributions by industrial archaeologists, architects, and experts in regenration and community planning.

Borough Of Accrington 1950

186pp illustrated with maps, plans and diagrams and b/w photographs. Small 4to. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Plan for post war reconstruction. Very good and interesting text by Allen and Mattocks.

London Phaidon 2003

480pp with c 400 photographic plates. Small folio. 285 x 387mm. Black cloth, red titles. Only major monograph of humanitarian and photojournalist James Nachtwey, 5 times winner of the Robert Capa Medal for Photography and part of Magnum. Compassionate photographs taken from 1990-99, inspired by an overwhelming belief in the human possibility of change. Images feature Romania, Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Chechnya, Kosovo etc.

The Drawing Centre, 1989.

336pp, 36 col. illus. b/w photographs, plans and drawings. This is the first single-volume catalogue of all Jones' 93 surviving architectural drawings. Each drawing is accompanied by full technical descriptions and commentary. Wraps.

New York Harry Abrams 1997

247pp, Illustrated with 236 illustrations, 40 in colour. Lettered cloth, good with dust wrapper, this with tear c 50mm on upper part of the wrapper. Large 4to. 360x230mm Very good, published to accompany an exhibition. The book includes, essays on furniture-making & wood-carving; pottery; metalsmithing; jewellery; textiles; books; photography; colour-relief printmaking and includes an essay on the Boston cultural scene and conflicts relating to aesthetics and production. On contrasting paper, is a section on makers.

New York Whitney Library of Design 1963

252pp illustrated with 100s of b/w plates and a few in colour. Large 4to. Cloth Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. International survey of hotel designs. Each chapter is accompanied by a photo portfolio of a particular hotel or motel design. a book for designers of hotels. Super period piece for the 1950s and 1960s.

London Thames and Hudso. 1982

192pp with 155 illustrations, 40 in colour. 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Ownership signature of Michael Harvey on front end paper dated 1983.

London RIBA 1929

34pp. 8vo Paper wrapper,slight rubbing + small tear to the base of the spine otherwise good. Catalogue for the exhibition held at R.I.B.A Galleries, Conduit Street 1929. The aim of the exhibition was to prove that commercial architecture could be good architecture and there are lists of major new commercial developments in the catalogue. 351 items including cinemas, garages, offices etc drawn from world wide locations.

London William Clowes & Sons 1884

160 + xIpp illustrated with fold out plan of the exhibition site and a second one showing the position of electric lighting. Many period ads. Wrapps worn and dusty and colour plan damaged on fold. Wrappers in poor condition. Useful content. Intended as a celebration – to show-off to the rest of the world – the great technological strides made by the Victorians in improving disease control, especially through better sanitation and water purification, for the improvement of the health of the nation, the Exhibition was held in South Kensington, on a site between the Royal Albert Hall and the newly-opened Natural History Museum. Four million people visited the Exhibition between 8 May and 30 October 1884.

New York The Museum of Modern Art 1987 (1984)

Third printing. 216pp, 156 plates (21 in colour) with 35 reference illustrations (7 in colour). Originally printed to accompany an exhibition of the same name at MoMA in 1984. Square 4to. Paper wraps. Very good. The first comprehensive retrospective of Penn's work to be printed. From the collection of Jonathan and Maggie Silver (without attribution)

London Lund Humphries 1973

Edited by Alan Bowness with an introductory essay by T.G. Rosenthal. Unpaginated c.334pp. 35pp introduction followed by 193 illustrative reproductions, 123 laid in, in colour. Quarto. Beige cloth covered boards with white lettering on spine. Dustwrapper. Ivon Hitchens was born in 1893. He spent many years living and painting in West Sussex, where the English countryside acted as inspiration for much of his work. This comprehensive monograph follows Hitchens artistic development from the 1920s to 1973, when Hitchens was celebrating his eightieth year, with the added benefit of information given by the artist himself to the authors. Dustwrapper chipped and torn in three places else a very good copy.

London Jonathan Clark Fine Art 2009

Unpaginated. Foreword by Simon Hucker suceeded by 23 colour plates of works from the exhibition followed by biography, bibliography etc. Decorated paper wraps. Perfect Bound. Very good copy in cellophane wrapper.

Kinsale Gandon Editions 1999

288pp illustrated. Very good with dust wrapper. Biography of James Gandon who shaped Dublin's architecture with his monumental buildings which still define the cityscape today.

New Haven and London Yale University Press 1985

362pp. illustrated throughout in b/w photographs and a few colour illustrations. 4to. Cloth boards with gilt title lettering on spine. Very good copy in original dust wrapper.

London Yale University Press 2012

400pp, 150 colour and 170 b/w plates. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. James Wyatt (1746-1813) is widely recognised as the most celebrated and prolific English architect of the 18th century. This text interweaves information about his projects and life. The book reviews the complex connections formed by his web of wealthy patrons and his influence on both his contemporaries and successors and includes details of Ashridge and other sites where both he and Capability Brown were involved. Fabulous illustrations throughout as well as useful appendices on projects and even the books in his library.

London Lund Humphries 1975

160pp. Well illustrated throughout in black and white and block colours. First Edition. Square Quarto. Black cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Very good copy in original dust wrapper. Slight foxing to front end papers and title pages else a very good, clean copy. A thorough review of Tschichold's influential career. Designed by Herbert Spence and Christine Charlton. Hard to find this edition in this condition.

New Jersey Rutgers University Press 2006

The first major biography of the woman who changed the way we view and live in cities. wrote for Architectural Forum and Fortune before writing her most famous book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; and the activist who helped lead a successful protest against Robert Moses' proposed expressway through the heart of Greenwich Village.

London Printed by Bemrose & Sons Ltd 1910 Fourth edition.

xiv, 203, [1]pp, original wrappers. Decorated paper wrappers. Fold out floor plan showing layout of the exhibition is between pages ii and iii. Hand written title on spine else a good copy of this publication.

Paris Charles Moreau 1937

4pp text and 48 photographic plates which are heliotypes. Loose leaf portfolio with ribbon ties. Portfolio a little worn and dusty but good and the photographs inside are fabulous. Designers given. Introduction by Jacques Gréber,: Works illustrated include projects by Guyon, Despres, Prou, Subes, Tournon, Barsacq, Lardat, Fissore Laprade et BazinDuiliu, Gyorgyi, Jasson, Moser Barot amongst others Focuses on modernist private and public gardens.

London The Prince of Wales Insitute of Architecture 1997

60pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Small Square 4to. Wrappers. Very good copy. Campbell 1878-1947 is little known. Worked in England and Germany and this is the first book about his life and work.