BOOKS FOR SALE

  • [WILFREDO LAM] FOUCHET, Max-Pol
    Wilfredo Lam

    Madrid, Poligrafa 1983

    284pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. . 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper.

    Stock ID: 22263
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  • Willem M Dudok by (NETHERLANDS -DUDOK) BOOT J J G (introduction by)
    (NETHERLANDS -DUDOK) BOOT J J G (introduction by)
    Willem M Dudok

    (1954) Published with the aid of the Pincs Bernhard Fund, by G can Saane, "lectura architectonica" Amsterdam 1957

    2nd impression. 168pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Quarto. Turquoise cloth with gilt blocked lettering on front board and spine. Slightly dusty dust wrapper. Signed by previous owner on the front end paper in neat hand. Material collected for the book by R M H Magnée. Modern typographic layout. Includes reviews of all the major projects with photo illustrations and line ills. Includes the famous Nassau School at Hilveresum, housing schemes, town hall etc and this garden city project alongside other projects undertaken in the Netherlands. Produced for the 70th birthday of Dudok.

    Stock ID: 13648
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  • [BLAKE, William] DORRBECKER, D. W. [ Introduction and edited by]
    William Blake's Illuminated Books

    The William Blake Trust and Tate Gallery, 1998

    The complete six volume set. 303 + 209 + 287 + 368 + 286 + 231pp, bibliographies, colour plates, etc. Stiff card wrappers. A very good set with only the most minor wear. Volume : 1) Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion. 2) Songs of Innocence and of Experience. 3) The Early Illuminated Books. All religions are One. There is No Natural Religion. The Book of Thel. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Visions of the Daughters of Albion. 4) The Continental Prophecies. America: a Prophecy. Europe: a Prophecy. The Song of Los. 5) Milton a Poem and the Final Illuminated Works: The Ghost of Abel. On Homers Poetry (and)…

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    The William Blake Trust and Tate Gallery, 1998

    The complete six volume set. 303 + 209 + 287 + 368 + 286 + 231pp, bibliographies, colour plates, etc. Stiff card wrappers. A very good set with only the most minor wear. Volume : 1) Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion. 2) Songs of Innocence and of Experience. 3) The Early Illuminated Books. All religions are One. There is No Natural Religion. The Book of Thel. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Visions of the Daughters of Albion. 4) The Continental Prophecies. America: a Prophecy. Europe: a Prophecy. The Song of Los. 5) Milton a Poem and the Final Illuminated Works: The Ghost of Abel. On Homers Poetry (and) On Virgil. Laocoön. 6)The Urizen Books. The First Book of Urizen. The Book of Ahania. The Book of Los. Slipcase very good. The collected edition. From the library of Jonathan Silver.

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    Stock ID: 22537
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  • (BURGES William) CROOK J Mordaunt
    William Burges and the High Victorian Dream

    London John Murray, 1981

    454 pages illustrated with b/w plates. Slightly shop soiled but very Good in Fine dust wrapper. First edition of this comprehensive reference book on William Burges.

    Stock ID: 22702
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  • William Richard Lethaby by (LETHABY) RUBENS Geoffrey
    (LETHABY) RUBENS Geoffrey
    William Richard Lethaby

    The Architectural Press 1986

    320pp illus. with b/w plates and line ills. Major assessment of Lethaby's multi faceted carer as an architect, conservationist and educationalist. Square 4to. Very good in dust wrapper.

    Stock ID: 22039
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  • William Roberts Some Early Abstract & Cubist Work 1913-1920 by [ROBERTS]
    [ROBERTS]
    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: 21996
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  • DARWIN Robin CBE
    Windows for Coventry

    Colchester The Royal College of Art June 1956

    10pp 2 full page colour photographs 12 b/w photographs. Collated by different authors such as Basil Spence, A.R.A on the Function of the windows, Lawrence Lee, A.R.C.A , and Geoff Clarke, A.R.C.A on their Iconography, and An Appreciation by Basil Taylor. Covers a bit worn from general use and slight crease vertically through the pamphlet, else good. Loose piece of paper slipped in with summaries of six of the 10 great windows created for the nave of the new cathedral and a plan of their intended location. A note from an unknown Charles to John regarding the leaflet (and publication?). From the collection of George G. Pace.

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    Colchester The Royal College of Art June 1956

    10pp 2 full page colour photographs 12 b/w photographs. Collated by different authors such as Basil Spence, A.R.A on the Function of the windows, Lawrence Lee, A.R.C.A , and Geoff Clarke, A.R.C.A on their Iconography, and An Appreciation by Basil Taylor. Covers a bit worn from general use and slight crease vertically through the pamphlet, else good. Loose piece of paper slipped in with summaries of six of the 10 great windows created for the nave of the new cathedral and a plan of their intended location. A note from an unknown Charles to John regarding the leaflet (and publication?). From the collection of George G. Pace.

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    Stock ID: 22722
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  • (LUBETKIN & TECTON ET AL) CEMENT MARKETING COMPANY LTD
    Working-Class Residential Flats in Reinforced Concrete: Report on a competition for designs of blocks of working-c;ass residential flats in reinforced concrete organized by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd.

    London The British Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd nd 1935

    63pp illustrated wit b/w plates, line ills etc. 4to. Decorated wrappers. Wrappers worn and scuffed along spine. Previous owner's signature on half title. The winning design is described and illustrated and was designed by Messrs B. Lubetkin & Tecton with Ove Arup. Other project also are described and illustrated including work by A P Lloyd, E W Collins and George Smith, (second place). Fascinating publication. Hard to find.

    Stock ID: 23193
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  • Worlds and Windows by Signed copy GILBERT & GEORGE
    Signed copy GILBERT & GEORGE
    Worlds and Windows

    London & New York Anthony D'Offray and Robert Miller 1990

    6-page introductory essay by Rosenblum + 130 full page colour reproductions of works in the Worlds and Windows series. Original publishers' blue cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. 310mm x 231mm. Not issued with a dust wrapper. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Inscribed in red ink "With love from Gilbert and George" on free end paper. From the collection of Johnathan and Maggie Silver.

    Stock ID: 22531
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  • FRENCH, Thomas
    York Minster, The Great East Window (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain) (Vol 2)

    Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995

    161pp + 20pp of colour plates at back. c120 b/w photographic plates in text. 4to, original decorated dustjacket, fine. A detailed catalogue of the stained and painted glass in the Great East Window of York Minster. All photography is beautifully clear and both the black and white and colour images are stunning in their clarity and quality.

    Stock ID: 22559
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  • GOODRICH, Lloyd
    Young America 1965: Thirty American Artists Under Thirty-Five

    New York Published for the Whitney Museum of Art by Frederick A. Praeger [1965]

    Unpaginated and 50 black and white illustrations. Small 4to Off-white cloth, Slightly browned dust wrapper with titles and listing artists featured.

    Stock ID: 22646
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  • (ARCHITECTURAL PRESS)
    Your inheritance - uncomic strip

    Architectural Press nd c1941

    Unpaginated c80pp. Small 8vo. Decorated wrappers. Detached and a little faded. Also advertises a competition (1940) run by the Housing Centre for ideas on improving the state of the environment in Britain. Attractive item from the authors of the Architectural Review although none are named directly. The subject of the uncomic strip is a piece of land.

    Stock ID: 22603
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  • [ZODIAC] ALFIERI Bruno [ editor ]
    Zodiac 4. International Magazine of Contemporary Architecture/ Revista internazionale d'architettura contemporanea. Sarrinen Brutalism BBPR Rainer Scarpa Focus

    Milano Edizioni di Comunità c1957 n.d.

    208pp, Illustrated occasional journal. The fourth one. Soft cover; Illustrated. Blue wrappers with wrap around bund with title. A little chipped. Text in English, Italian, French & German; Striking advertisements for contemporary design firms, magazines and products. Very good protected by rather worn and torn cardboard slipcase. Main theme is Men and the ideas of Modern Ornament and Brutalism with contributions on the latter from Maxwell Fry, Alison and Peter Smithson amongst others.

    Stock ID: 22136
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  • OLIVETTI Adriano (introduction)
    Zodiac 5 International Magazine of Contemporary Architecture

    Milano C Olivetti and Co 1959

    214pp illus with b/w photographs + period adverts. Perfect bound. Laminated yellow wrappers with example of fantastic architecture. 4to. 27x21cms . Key articles by Le Corbusier on Frank Lloyd Wright with fold out concertina illustrations. Denmark (contributions by Bruno Alfieri, Enzo Fratelli, Keld Helmer-Petersen and others ) and Fantastic Architecture by Ulrich Conrads and Hans Sperlich. Spine split Small tear in front wrap hinge else good copy. Texts in English, Italian, French.

    Stock ID: 22134
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