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Underground Design:
London The Architectural Association Folio X 1986
32pp. 19 separate cards as issued, 18 b/w and one colour which is signed by the artist. Original white wire-stitched card wrappers, titles to front cover black. Introductory essay by Peter Cook, conversations between Eduardo Paolozzi and Alvin Boyarsky, and script by Eduardo Paolozzi. 320x320mm Black box with white overprinted illustration. Box a little faded. Internally very good. This item was produced to coincide with an exhibition of Paolozzi's Tottenham Court Road underground station mural project held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Stock ID: 21524More details Price: £550.00 -
Vandalism
London The Architectural Press 1973
327pp illustrated with b/w plates. Good with good dust wrapper. Stamp of Furze & Hawden Architects Norwich on front paste down. "Vandalism, a collection of trenchant essays edited by Colin Ward, covers the subject in depth, outlining the problem, analyzing its social causes, and offering concrete solutions."
Stock ID: 21257More details Price: £45.00 -
Venice
London Gerald Duckworth & Co 1965
69pp illustrated by John Piper including the dust wrapper and end papers. Small 4to. Good copy in slightly worn dust wrapper. Inscription on front end paper in pen.
Stock ID: 21067More details Price: £60.00 -
Village Clubs and Halls
Country Life 1920
xii + 112 + (2)pp illustrated with b/w plates. Cloth backed boards. A little rubbed on spine else good copy. Previous owner's bookplate on paste down. Includes a list of architects whose designs were included in the book such as Brierley, Morley Horder, Ernest Newton and many others. Fascinating design ideas and the philosophy of the village community in the inter-war period is demonstrated in this text.
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Villages of Vision
London The Architectural Press Ltd 1975
152pp illustrated with b/w plates. Large 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. Hard to find and comprehensive study of model settlements in the UK, particularly Estate Villages. It throws light upon the ideas of philanthropy which surrounded their construction and many important aspects of rural social history. Useful gazetteer at the end. Ownership signature of the late "Stewart Evans" on front end paper.
Stock ID: 21258More details Price: £65.00 -
"Virgin Cork" Design for Decorations
Stock ID: 21941More details Price: £140.00 -
Vladivostok A Trilogy
New York Rizzoli International Publications, 1989
272pp illustrated. Decorated wrappers. Small stain on upper wrapper else a very good copy Text in English and Russian. Loosely inserted is an invitation to a memorial to him to be held at The Cooper Union Foundation Building and an associated printed letter sent out to Alumni.
Stock ID: 21688More details Price: £300.00 -
W.D. Caröe: his architectural archievement
Manchester Unniversity Press 1990
258pp, illus with b/w frontis of the architect + b/w plates and line ills. Very good in dust wrapper that has been splattered with black ink. Assesses the career of this Edwardian architect, who worked for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, private clients and was a key figure in the development of the building conservation movement at the time.
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W Hablik Designer, Utopian Architect, Expressionist Architect 1881 -1934
London The Architectural Association 1980
48pp illus with b/w line ills. Small square 4to. Decorated wrappers. Essay + list of exhibits.
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Wall and Water Gardens
Country Life 1913
5th edition. 177pp, colour frontis with tissue guard + many b/w photographic plates. Cloth sl. rubbed. White lettered titles on upper board, and gilt lettered spine. Previous owners name scribbled out on front end paper.
Stock ID: 21185More details Price: £45.00 -
Warhol in China:
Hatje Cantz Verlag; Bilingual edition 2013
312pp illustrated with b/w plates. Boards, red spine. Very good copy. Photographs from a trip Warhol made in 1982 to Beijing, via Hong Kong. He recorded his impressions in brief journal entries while at the same time taking photographs. He first visited Hong Kong and recorded the colonial and commercial city and then went on to Communist China at a moment when it was on the verge of an enormous transition and these images capture the city just before massive redevelopment and commercialism.
Stock ID: 21986More details Price: £40.00 -
Welwyn, Hertfordshire
Stock ID: 21425More details Price: £170.00 -
Where the Great City Stands: a study in the new civics
London The Essex House Press 1917
xii + 165 + (3)pp + 80 plates. 4to. Decorative boards, cloth spine. Good copy but blank front end paper removed. 4to A plea by Ashbee to incorporate the ideals of the Arts and Crafts Movement into city planning and urban life. Ownership inscription on half title of William Porter. FRSA.
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William Burges and the High Victorian Dream
London John Murray, 1981
454pages illustrated with b/w plates. Fine in Fine dust wrapper. First edition of this comprehensive reference book on William Burges. Scarce.
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William Morris: The Marxist Dreamer two volume set
Hassocks, Sussex Harvester and New Jersey, Humanities Press 1977
800pp. Used - Very Good in slightly worn dust wrappers with illustration of Kelmscott on each. In cardboard slipcase as issued. Translated by Frank Gubb with a preface by Robin Page Arnot
Stock ID: 21269More details Price: £65.00 -
William Morris to Whistler
Papers and Addresses on Arts & Crafts and the Common Weal
London G Bell and Sons 1911
Red and black decorated title page, portrait of William Morris, from a photo by Emery Walker amid the prelims, and 54 b/w illustrations, including some drawings by Walter Crane. Blue cloth with white titles and decorations. Bright copy. Very slightly worn at leading edge. 278pp + [2] leaves of advertising for the publisher. Loosely inserted contemporary note on blue paper "All good wishes for Christmas & the New Year From Watson" Series of essays on Morris, contemporary crafts and design matters. Nice item.
Stock ID: 21992More details Price: £125.00 -
William Roberts Some Early Abstract & Cubist Work 1913-1920
London A Canale Production 1957
16pp text + 12 pages of b/w plates. One of 400 copies, unnumbered. 4to. Yellow lettered boards. Very good copy. Some striking Vorticist images are included in this lovely publication.
Stock ID: 21996More details Price: £48.00 -
William Stukeley: An Eighteenth Century Antiquary
London Thames and Hudson [1950] 1985
Revised and enlarged. With 44 illustrations. Armourial bookplate on front paste down.
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Willliam Roberts ARA
Retropspective Exhibition.
London Arts Council 1965
Colour frontispiece (Trafalgar Square, 1952) 30pp, 23 b/w plates. Large 8vo yellow card wrappers, minor creases at the edges, else very good indeed. Cover design by Roberts. Profusely illustrated catalogue for the exhibition held at Tate Gallery - Nov 20th - Dec 19th, 1965, Laing Art Gallery - Jan 1st - 22nd, 1966, Whitworth Art Gallery - Jan 29th - Feb 19, 1966.
Stock ID: 21994More details Price: £20.00 -
Working-class Housing in the 19th century Britain
London Lund Humphries for the Architectural Association 1971
AA paper Number 7. 105pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Boards. Very good indeed with dust wrapper. This slightly worn. Ex library Prince of Wales Architecture School with paper bookplate and class mark on spine. From the collection of Colin Amery. Very useful study of perceptions of working class housing in the 19th century as a social problem and the steps by which it became a matter of social concern. The paper looks how a range of solutions grew out of the perception of the problems - model housing schemes, model settlements, public housing etc.
Stock ID: 21285More details Price: £50.00