London Architectural Association 1988

175pp b/w plates + line ills with captions. Sm square 4to., illustrated wrappers, perfect binding, a very good copy. Loosely inserted private view card for the exhibition that this volume accompanies and a news cutting of an article written by Gavin Stamp on the same exhibition. There is also a printed email correspondence between Gavin Stamp and Vladimir Slapeta, an a.l.s. from Vladamir (Slapeta?) to Gavin Stamp and a photograph of a Czech Avia B-534 biplane. Ex libris Gavin stamp, with his bookplate and pencil signature on half title.

Edinburgh Mainstream Publishing 1990

191pp colour + b/w ills. 4to cloth with illustrated wrappers. Ex libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate on the font pastedown.

London Studio Vista 1971

208pp colour + b/w ills. Small 4to purple cloth with illustrated dw. Wrapper a little chipped at the top edge else a very good copy. Ex libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate on the front paste down.

Dublin, Four Courts Press 2012

266pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Very good with dust wrapper. Specialist contributors write on early modern decoration and there is a discussion on practice and techniques.

London, Faber and Faber 1972

129pp. Over 123 bw illustrations and colour map at rear of book. 4to. Green cloth binding with gilt title on spine, paper dust wrapper, very good indeed. Really well illustrated Shell Guide to Derbyshire, wonderful photographs.

London H. Fisher, R. Fisher and P. Jackson 1832

2 volumes in one. 106pp and 48pp text respectively, each with vignette title page, maps of both Devon and Cornwall as frontispiece, plus a further 69 leaves of plates each of which have two steel-engraved views. Full calf, gilt lettered and decorated spine. Very good copy. Bookplate of Henry Potts on front paste down

York William Sessions 2007

The New Earswick Bulletin had to be temporarily suspended in 2007, and in conjunction with Richard York, it's former editor, Elisabeth Alley set about compiling this collection of essays. The result is a unique document reflecting life in a busy village over a period of nine years, and in a very real sense Discovering New Earswick.

London Hamish Hamilton 1984

137pp. Good with good dust wrapper. Signed in purple crayon on front end paper by Eduardo Paolozzi. Loosely inserted letter from Penny Thomson [ Avonbridge Film Production Company Ltd.] to Robin Spencer. Single sided typed letter on headed paper, signed in pen by Penny. Text reads "Eduardo insisted on lendin me his copy of Theroux's Dr Slaughter during the Festival and the was that I would pass it on to you once I was finished with it....". The letter contineus to discuss other matters relating to Russell Harty's Arts Reciew Programme.

Ipso Facto (Utrecht, NL), 2013

96 pages, Hardcover, 235 mm x 320 mm (9.25 x 12.6 inches) + 'Giveaway Edition', 8 pages, 320 mm x 470 mm (12.6 x 18.5 inches)42 photographs. Laminated boards. Fine. Banning has photographed 42 homeless men and women in Atlanta, Ga.;Columbia, S.C.; and in the Mississippi Delta. Banning places his subjects in a studio settingwithout their stereotypical belongings Introduction by Jonathan Swift. + Artist's statement.

London Merrell 2017

Foreword by John Harris. 192 pages 200 illustrations. 4to. Red boards with illustrated dust wrapper. Stunning publication which illustrates Ed Kluz's paintings with commentaries by the authors on the houses featured and lost country houses in general.

Reprinted fro Nature Vol 201 no 4926 1964

Pamphlet 18pp. Wrappers. Staples slightly rusty. Loosely inserted autographed letter, signed from Misha Black to W G Holt, Wolverhapton, on RCA headed paper and dated 1970. Misha Black notes in the letter that the pamphlet gives the "gist of the argument" of what should form an industrial design education.

London Archibald Constable. 1904

Upaginated. Ninety-three drawings with a preface by Laurence Binyon. 4to. Open weave cloth, red spine label, marbled boards. Good copy

London G. F. Cruchley Map Seller 1836

Linen backed, folded and with original slip case with paper spine label entitled "Environs of London." Paste down label from upper board of slipcase is missing. A little worn on the folds else very good. 675 x 670mm when opened. Beautiful engraved and hand coloured map of London and the surroundings. Circular map with attractive decorations on corners. Hard to find. Howgego, James L., and Ida Darlington. Printed Maps of London circa 1553-1850. 1978

The Author, No date. c1820

8 original etchings dated in the plate as 1820. Small 4to. Flimsy green morocco binding, gilt lettering on upper board. Sewn. Bookplate of the Library of the Yorkshire Architectural Society on the front paste down. From the collection of George Pace. [Pencil note to this effect]. Worn along spine edge and all edges rubbed. Stitching largely lost. Uncommon. Uncoloured etchings from original drawings by Fowler of figures in the glass together with one of the Tomb of Barwick of Selby. Loosey inserted is a postcard which is a real photograph of the east window form the inside of the Abbey. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 5 (1877–78): 331–49.

Salisbury Michael Russell Publishing 1980

240pp illustrated with b/w and colour plates. 4to. Very good with worn and slightly chipped dust wrapper. Inscribed and signed by Eduardo Paolozzi to Robin Spencer, "For Robin from EP Dec 1980" Eighteen illustrated essays which first appeared in Apollo Magazine

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1973

xiv + 211pp with b/w illustrations throughout. Cloth vg in d/w. Charts the growth of socially conscious housing provision, from the political reforms of the 1830s and 40s to the development of local authority housing and garden cities in the 20th Century.

London, Hodder and Stoughton 1907

130 + viipp illus with c19 colour plates including colour fold out of Heathcote, Yorkshire and many b/w plates. vii pp period ads . 4to. Decorated and lettered open weave flimsy cloth. Text pages internally have scattered foxing particularly affecting the prelims. Repaired at spine which had become detached from book block. Contributors include C R Ashbee, Ballie Scott, Edwin Lutyens, G L Sutcliffe and others. Superb frontis of a London mansion block by Frank T Verity who wrote the text with Edwin T Hall and Gerald C Horsley. Colour ills include mansion blocks in London and superb double page spread of Heathcote Hall, Ilkley.

London published by the Company from Mortimer Street. nd c1930

22pp with 17 b/w photographs of fireplaces. Wraps, vg, with colour paste down label showing fireplace. Illustrations include views of workshops and Showroom. Correspondence loosely inserted addressed to H M Gimson RIBA from the director together with three loosely inserted leaflets for Portculis Gas Fires which all have 1934 dates in pencil on them. Humphrey Gimson was the nephew of Ernest Gimson.