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Theme & Improvisation: Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde 1912 - 1950
Boston, Toronto, London Bulfinch Press, Little Brown and Company 1992
236pp. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered black at the spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Produced alongside a touring exhibition Organised by the Dayton Art Institute, curated by co-author Marianne Lorenz. A very good copy. From the collection of Jonathan and Maggie Silver (although un-attributed)
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Third Generation. The Changing Meaning of Architecture
London Pall Mall Press 1972
176pp. b/w ills throughout. Red cloth boards with white titles. Missing dust wrapper, a section of which is slipped into the book. Ex Library copy from the Department of the Environment Library. Covers a little grubby else good.
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Thomas Hope and the Neoclassical Revival
John Murray 1968
316pp illus. with b/w plates. Vg in slightly worn dust wrapper. Important study of the life and work of Thomas Hope who prescribed classicism in design but who Watkin reveals as a romantic at heart.
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Three Generations in a Textile Family Firm
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Three Painters: Basil Rákóczi, Kenneth Hall, Patrick Scott, with a Preface by Herbert Read. Introduction by Herbrand Ingouville-Williams
Stock ID: 22268More details Price: £325.00
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Town and Country Planning (Development Plans) Regulations 1948
Circular No.59. Statement on the preparation of development plans with an appendix containing notiations for the prescribed maps.
London, His Majesty's Stationary Office 1948
12pp with 3 loose folded pages (252 x 432mm) and 3 loose pages (140 x 210mm) offering notations to maps slotted into place at back of pamphlet. 8vo. Very Good.
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Tracing Eisenman
London Thames and Hudson 2006
400pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates and line ills. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Comprehensive on Eisenman's buildings and projects from House I (New Jersey) to the large sclae later works including the Memorial to Murdered Jews in Berlin 2015. The book includes contributed essays and critques by contemporary architects and writers.
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Trade Catalogue of Locks and Hardware no 2E
London The Yale & Towne Co. 1908
Frontis of Premises, 168pp illustrated catalogue products of the firm comprising locks, keys and door furniture and including an introductory note and glossary of terms used in locksmithing. Cloth backed boards. Spine lettering rubbed. Upper board repeats title but is a bit worn. Preceding the main body of the catalogue is a 10pp comparative list of old and new numbers, alterations, and additions +discount sheet sent to Mr W T Whincup, 31 Claremont Terrace, York.
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Trade catalogues and price lists 1952-1953
8 items: comprising export price lists with texts in English French and Spanish, April 1952, Price list for April 1952 revised price list April 1952, [ Campbell Horsfall written in pencil on upper wrapper], Retail price list April 1952. Whole Sale Price list September 1952, Export price list March 1953 and Gift Cases list from Ist June 1953 and leaflet "Prestige and Profit for You" a gatefold leaflet illustrate in colour, + typed letter concerning the end of rationing of beauty soaps. Mostly 4pp each. Decorated upper wrapper design. All from Yardley House, 33 Old Bond Street London
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Traditional Farm Architecture in Scotland
Edinburgh The Ramsey Head Press 1976
96pp, 130 b/w photographs also taken by the author. Small 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. Concentrates on the eastern seaboard and South West Scotland. Very attractive and useful source for vernacular stone building in Scotland. From the collection of Althony Curtis Wolffe [architect] with his signature on the front end paper. Wolffe practised mainly in South West Scotland.
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True Remembrances: the memoirs of an architect
London Country Life 1954
175pp illus. with c50 plates incl. major schemes by Tilden such as his scheme at Port Lympe begun by Herbert Baker, un-built work for Selfridge, Chartwell, Saltwell Castle and other projects. Only major account of his work. Good copy with slightly worn dust wrapper.
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Twentieth-Century Houses (Architecture 3s) Frank Lloyd Wright: Fallingwater. Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea. Charles and Ray Eames: Eames House.
London Phaidon Press 1999
no pagination, colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Square 4to. Boards. All three were originally published in the 'Architecture in Detail' Series: McCarter, 'Robert, Frank Lloyd Wright: Fallingwater' (1994). Weston, Richard, 'Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea' (1992). Steele, James, 'Charles and Ray Eames: Eames House' (1994). Each house presented in this volume with photographs and detailed floorplans represents a high point in the œvre of their designers. Both Fallingwater and Villa Mairea were finished before the Second World War and display a luxurious approach to Modernism in contrast to Eames House (1994).
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Two autographed letters signed on postcards
and two photographs with annotations
Stock ID: 22261More details Price: £80.00
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Two Men: Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison at Cambridge
Cambridge, University Private Press 1968
vi + 48pp + 7 mounted sample sheets of work by Morison and Lewis. 12 b/w illustrations and 2 colour plates. Boards, covered with decorative paper design by Reynolds Stone. Fine, in sl chipped slipcase. Printed for his friends by the University Printer, Christmas 1968.
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Two Plays for Puritans
"The Devil's Disciple" and "Caesar and Cleopatra,"
New York Limited Editions Club 1966
Number 1169 signed by George Him on the colophon. xxxiv, 215, (3) pages. Decorated cloth, gilt and black lettered spine. In original slip case. Very good but slip case a little worn. Illustrations by George Him, who by this time had split from his partnership with the artist Jan Hewitt which ended in 1955 when Hewitt left to pursue a painting career.
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Tynecastle: Canvas, Vellum, Textures, Compo, Wood Mouldings, Adaptable & Fibrous Plaster Manufactured by The Tynecastle Company, Incorporated in Scott Morton & Tynecastle Company Ltd., Edinburgh & London. With: Second Supplement of Fibrous Plaster, Skived Canvas and Skived Vellum Ornaments.
Edinburgh London The Tynecastle Company n.d. [1923]
152 + [48]pp, b/w photographs throughout. Folio. Original red cloth with black lettering. Slightly frayed at the head and foot of spine. Binding a little shaky with short split along outer hinge. Trade catalogue from the 1920s for the Tynecastle Company, who specialised in wall coverings, mouldings, friezes and ornaments. Illustrated throughout with samples of individual products and examples of them in situ. The company was set up in 1885 by John and James Templeton to meet the demand for their leather-like canvas product, and ran in tandem with the original Scott Morton & Co. until they were incorporated in 1920. Ownership of George Wilson Studio Leeds 1926
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TYPE BEHAVIOUR
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Une maison - un palais: A la Recherche d'une Unité Architecturale
Paris Cres et Cie, 1928
228 pages : illustrations. Red cloth with gilt titles. Very good copy. French text. Part of the Collection de '' l'esprit nouveau.''
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UNION CASTLE LINE: Souvenir Book 1. Postcard Souvenir no 1
Stock ID: 22638More details Price: £120.00
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Unit One: Spirit of the 30s May - June 1984
London The Mayor Gallery 1984
Catalogue to accompany an exhibition to celebrate the half centenary of the first UNIT ONE exhibition held at the Mayor Gallery in Cork Street April 1934. 4to. Typographical cover based on a design by E McKnight Kauffer advertising Unit One in 1933. 98pp illus with b/w plates. Featuring the work of the original participants including Wells Coates, Colin Lucas, Edward Wadsworth, Ben Nicholson, Nash, Burra, Moore and Hepworth etc. Uncommon.
Stock ID: 9310More details Price: £30.00