London RIBA Publishing 2011

Twentieth Century Architects Series. Foreword by Alan Powers. Colour and black and white images throughout. Soft cover. Paper wraps. Very good. Ink mark from printer/end of paper roll on upper and verso of inside cover, else looks unread.

London Routledge & Kegan Paul 1980

480pp. Good copy. Dust Wrapper. Very good

School Prints 1946

no 12 First Series. Gerald Cooper attended the RCA and worked s a sculptor, painter and teacher. He became principal of Wimbledon School of Art and is known for his meticulous drawings of flowers.

London Guild Publishing 1987

224pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Square 4to. Vg in wrappers. Useful and very well illustrated overview on all the elements of the suurban houses and its details including fittings and fixtures. More than 300 photographs with 100 in colour. List of sockists for elements at the back.

London Jonathan Cape 1933

260pp illus with cxvpp b/w plates and further text ills. 4to. Gilt lettered and green cloth. Some pages uncut. Foreword by Viscount Lee of Fareham. Corners sl. rubbed else very good copy. Bookpate of Josceline Grove on front paste down and a description of the book pasted-down onto f.e.p. Detailed account of the house and garden and its purchase and in 1914.

Keith, Scotland G. & G. Kynoch Ltd. Fine Cloth Makers 1927

Unpaginated. [15pp] 150 x 20mm. 4-colour litho ills. Ribbon tied: ribbon has perished. Wraps. Very good. A lovely item promoting the new spring-summer fashion trends from Fine Cloth Makers, G. & G. Kynoch Ltd. whose "cloth's reflecting the latest London ideas and containing many new and original novelties, are on view at Kynoch's London Showrooms [on Saville Row]."

Oxford Oxbow Books 2006

309 pp, extensive black and white illustrations, maps, photographs, and drawings. 4to. Cloth with paste down label on upper board. Very good. A scholarly although accessible study in excellent condition of the group of 60 churches in Lincolnshire built in the 11th century nearly all of which have distinctive west towers that are the subject of this book.

London Strand Magazine 1947

The Fourth Part of the Survey of London. Single sheet folded in half. Chromolithograph. w265mm x 196mm. Very good. Some discolouring of paper due to age and slight tears at top and base of centre fold. Fold is off centre. Right hand edge of the Prospect image is slightly bumped. Verso includes historic map whilst central image is a prospect view with annotations around the image edge

London Cassell & Co. Ltd (1972, New York) 1974

192 pp. b/w photographs, architectural drawings, maps and plans throughout. Long 4to. White cloth boards with black lettering, in decorated glassine dust wrapper. Good copy although slight discolouration at cloth edges and glassine wrapper has tears at spine and partly missing against back board. Photographic record of the design and manufacture of the Sydney Opera House glass walls, carried out by the author during their construction. The design won the Engineering Excellence Award of 1972 by the Association of Consulting Engineers of Australia. With detailed captions and brief descriptive chapters. From the library of Winston Barnett Architects, with ownership ticket inside front cover.

London B T Batsford 1914

172pp with 63 plates, frontis and a two further images in colour. Large 4to. Original gilt decorated cloth. Sl. rubbed at head of the spine else a good copy. Review of tapestries from the 14th century through the end of the 18th.. Also describes the crafts and craftsmen behind the production of many of the wall hangings in Britain, and comments on the economic development of the trade.

London Thames and Hudson 1988

533pp b/w + colour illustrations. 4to. Black cloth boards with red embossed title on the spine + embossed publisher's logo on the upper board. Illustrated dust wrapper, slightly rubbed in places else a very good copy. An extensive analysis of Tatlin's work with over 500 colour and b/w illustrations. Foreword by K. M. Simonov, a speech that opened Tatlin's exhibition in Moscow 1977.

Published for the author 1837

Engraved frontispiece, xiii + (3) + 234 + (2)pp, (12) engraved plates, 1 chromolitho plate, also woodcut text ills. Modern morocco backed cloth, 4to. Very good copy. The book commences with an overview of temples and churches from the earliest times. Bardwell advocates the Italianate as his preferred style for Protestant church architecture. Bardwell 's career as an architect was much taken up with improvement of buildings and planning in London.

Edinburgh HMSO: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland 1990

92pp illustrated with 110 b/w plates and line illustrations. Square 4to. Perfect bound. Wrappers. Focuses on modern mass housing of Glasgow and written in the year when the city was European City of Culture. Reviews late Victorian Tenements, 1950s Council schemes and huge multi storey buildings. Many images taken from Strathclyde Regional Archive and collection of the National Monuments Record Scotland.

London Undated c1929

Metal spiral bound. Stiff card wrappers which when opened out show a panorama of the New Lambeth Bridge and its relationship to Thames House. 240 x340mm Promotional booklet produced at the time of initial construction a description of the buildings which could be used to promote it office accommodation. 40 sepia photographs with captions. Shows parts of the building furnished and unfurnished. Effectively the whole building was two blocks linked by a bridge structure. At the time of publication, the offices of Pearson and Dorman Long Limited and the International Nickel Company of Canada Limited were in occupation. Their suites are illustrated. Thames House served as the ICI Headquarters till 1994. Part has been occupied by MI5.

New York The Architectural Book Publishing Company, 1922

298pp, with 1203 figs (high-quality photos, line illustrations, plans, maps etc.,), bibliography. Gilt lettered cloth. 410x310mm. Folio. Fine in very good dust wrapper. First edition. The American Vitruvius refers extensively to European design, taking many examples from Hegemann's earlier book on the Berlin 1910 exhibition. Hegemann spent his career between Germany and the USA. Initially working in the USA immediately after World War I, he advised on the planning of Boston. He returned to Germany but ultimately fled on the rise to power of Hitler. Beautifully illustrated book .

Princeton and Oxford Princeton University Press 2001

185pp. 31 color plates, 55 black-and-white illustrations. Decorated boards with cloth spine and gilt titling, in dust wrapper. Book and d/w both fine. A comprehensive study of the Hudson River School in the nineteenth century.

London Simon & Schutster Ltd 1989

xix + 807pp with 2 gatherings of black and white photographs, largely taken by Warhol himself. Black cloth boards with silver titling on spine and original dustwrapper. Very good, with slight sun mark along top edge of boards. Spans the period from 1976 to Warhol's early death in 1987. Warhol, who had phoned his long-time friend and collaborator, Hackett, every morning since '76, to recount the events of the previous 24 hours left Hackett with over twenty thousand resulting manuscripts of which this book is a selection. An illuminating social document and inside view into the art world and social happenings of the period.