BOOKS FOR SALE

  • YORKE, Malcolm.
    Today I worked well - the picture fell off the brush. The artistry of Leslie Cole Told for the first time by Malcolm Yorke with a note on the interesting life of Brenda Cole

    Wakefield The Fleece Press 2010

    200pp + colophon; 132 plates, the majority full-page in colour; Square 4to. 230 x280mm Cloth backed boards with paste down label on the spine. in the style of Simon Lawrence's previous studies of Ardizzone & Ravilious. Best known for his wartime work, Cole's watercolour technique was much influenced by Ravilious, his tutor (with Bawden) at the RCA. Fine.

    Stock ID: 23525
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  • HMSO Ministry of Town and Country Planning
    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.

    Stock ID: 14593
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  • Tracing Eisenman by [EISENMAN, Peter]
    [EISENMAN, Peter]
    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.

    Stock ID: 22614
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  • [YALE]
    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.

    Stock ID: 22386
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  • YARDLEY
    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

    Stock ID: 22617
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  • Tradition & Modernity in Plasterwork by WEAVER, Lawrence
    WEAVER, Lawrence
    Tradition & Modernity in Plasterwork

    London G. Jackson & Sons Ltd. 1928

    b/w frontis, 63pp, 48 b/w photographic illustrations, Contrasting white and blue boards with lettered titles and gilt roundel of George Jackson (1766-1840) on front board. 4to. Weaver's concise account of the work of George Jackson & Sons which began with plaster work for Robert Adam and was to continue evolving new techniques and skills into the late 20th Century. Very good copy.

    Stock ID: 23643
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  • SCOTT MORTON, Robert.
    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.

    Stock ID: 23228
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  • SUTTON, Emily.
    Transfer Treasures: Watercolours

    Wakefield The Fleece Press 2014

    Fleece Press published these together in a very long accordion-fold book measuring 275mm square and extending to a gigantic 8 metres long. They are hard-bound in a design using the water colours, and held in a slipcase with a label. The artist has drawn a title page specially for the book, and has signed each of the 250 copies on the colophon. The images are of the transferware pottery – plates, mugs and jugs – found on her dresser. Loosely inserted in this copy is the original prospectus for the book with colour paste down illustrations.

    Stock ID: 23528
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  • Transformation by [URBAN SPLASH] BLOXHAM Tim, FALKINGHAM,Jonathan and JOHNSON, Nick
    [URBAN SPLASH] BLOXHAM Tim, FALKINGHAM,Jonathan and JOHNSON, Nick
    Transformation

    London RIBA Publications 2011

    166pp illustrated with colour plates. Large square 4to. Grey boards, white lettered spine, embossed titles on boards. Very good indeed. Review of the projects of the firm since it got going in 1993. Useful for the first projects of this firm which focuses on reuse and reinvention of buildings.

    Stock ID: 23646
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  • TILDEN, Philip.
    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.

    Stock ID: 21947
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  • Twentieth-Century Houses by DUNLOP Beth, HECTOR Denis (introduction by)
    DUNLOP Beth, HECTOR Denis (introduction by)
    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).

    Stock ID: 16091
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  • [SCARFE, Norman]
    Two autographed letters signed on postcards and two photographs with annotations

    2004

    ALS to Gavin Stamp dated 29 May 2004 and 22 June 2004 1. Written on the back of a postcard featuring Leeds, St Johns the Evangelist with PS note mentioning it was to be totally refurbished from 17th July. Text concerns recollections, the architect J H Parker in the initial lines but moves on to Normandy churches recalled from when Scarfe was there in the war. Recounts the murder of 20 Canadian POWS at the HW of Kurt Meyer in WWII and his subsequent death in prison after the Nuremberg Trials. 2. Second Card, written from 3 Burkitt Road, Woodbridge when he sent Gavin Stamp the two photographs which are of Calvados. These were sent to thank him…

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    2004

    ALS to Gavin Stamp dated 29 May 2004 and 22 June 2004 1. Written on the back of a postcard featuring Leeds, St Johns the Evangelist with PS note mentioning it was to be totally refurbished from 17th July. Text concerns recollections, the architect J H Parker in the initial lines but moves on to Normandy churches recalled from when Scarfe was there in the war. Recounts the murder of 20 Canadian POWS at the HW of Kurt Meyer in WWII and his subsequent death in prison after the Nuremberg Trials. 2. Second Card, written from 3 Burkitt Road, Woodbridge when he sent Gavin Stamp the two photographs which are of Calvados. These were sent to thank him for sending a copy of the JSAH article on High Victorian Gothic.

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    Stock ID: 22261
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  • Two Men: Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison at Cambridge by CRUTCHLEY, Brooke
    CRUTCHLEY, Brooke
    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.

    Stock ID: 6703
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  • Signed by the artist [HIM] SHAW, George Bernard.
    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.

    Stock ID: 21100
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  • Tynecastle: Canvas, Vellum, Textures, Compo, Wood Mouldings, Adaptable & Fibrous Plaster by (THE TYNECASTLE COMPANY)
    (THE TYNECASTLE COMPANY)
    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

    Stock ID: 22126
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  • TYPE BEHAVIOUR by MONOTYPE:
    MONOTYPE:
    TYPE BEHAVIOUR

    London The Monotype Corporation Limited nd

    An envelope containing four editions of the Type-Specimen Pamphlet "Twenty-One Classic Type Faces" published by The Monotype Corporation Limited London to aid the comparison of type behaviour. No date c 1959. Edition A [Letterpress on Antiques Papers], Edition B [Letterpress on Coated Paper] C [Augmented reprint by Photo-Offset] and Edition D [Ditto, by Rotary Photogravure]. Each version of the pamphlet has 8pp printed in red and black. Brown envelope with card title page, this slightly dusty. This initially was attached to the flap of the envelope but the glue has perished. Lovely item. Great for showing the impact in terms of type behaviour dependent on the selection of the paper type and print…

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    London The Monotype Corporation Limited nd

    An envelope containing four editions of the Type-Specimen Pamphlet "Twenty-One Classic Type Faces" published by The Monotype Corporation Limited London to aid the comparison of type behaviour. No date c 1959. Edition A [Letterpress on Antiques Papers], Edition B [Letterpress on Coated Paper] C [Augmented reprint by Photo-Offset] and Edition D [Ditto, by Rotary Photogravure]. Each version of the pamphlet has 8pp printed in red and black. Brown envelope with card title page, this slightly dusty. This initially was attached to the flap of the envelope but the glue has perished. Lovely item. Great for showing the impact in terms of type behaviour dependent on the selection of the paper type and print method.

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    Stock ID: 22900
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  • Une maison - un palais: by LE CORBUSIER
    LE CORBUSIER
    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.''

    Stock ID: 23223
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  • [DECK GAMES]
    UNION CASTLE LINE: Souvenir Book 1. Postcard Souvenir no 1

    London Nd Donald Currie & Co Managers, 1910

    Unpaginated 6pp prelims, 30 sepia postcards in a small rexine covered binding designed to allow cards to be removed by tearing perforations. The cards show the ship's activities which passengers could participate in along with images of places visited on route between Southampton and the Cape, South Africa. Memorandum pages between the images are used for printed explanations of deck games in some cases. Shaky at binding else good copy of a scarce souvenir publication. Paste downs have adverts for hotels on them. Possibly lacks rear end paper. Dedication of free end paper "To Ma & Pa this book is the best I have seen illustrating the voyage to the Cape"…

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    London Nd Donald Currie & Co Managers, 1910

    Unpaginated 6pp prelims, 30 sepia postcards in a small rexine covered binding designed to allow cards to be removed by tearing perforations. The cards show the ship's activities which passengers could participate in along with images of places visited on route between Southampton and the Cape, South Africa. Memorandum pages between the images are used for printed explanations of deck games in some cases. Shaky at binding else good copy of a scarce souvenir publication. Paste downs have adverts for hotels on them. Possibly lacks rear end paper. Dedication of free end paper "To Ma & Pa this book is the best I have seen illustrating the voyage to the Cape" dated 9 September 1910 and initialled A G. Another postcard album appears to have been published in parallel but this stands alone. The Union Castle Line was formed from the merger of the Union Line and Castle Shipping Lines in 1903 and operated until 1977. It also incorporated the Royal Mail Service.

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    Stock ID: 22638
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  • Unit One: Spirit of the 30s by (UNIT ONE) RICHARDS Sir James (introduction)
    (UNIT ONE) RICHARDS Sir James (introduction)
    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: 9310
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  • Unit One: The Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture by READ, Herbert (ed.)
    READ, Herbert (ed.)
    Unit One: The Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture

    London, Cassell 1934

    124pp, 67 plates b/w photographs. 4to. Yellow cloth with brown lettering in dw which is preserved in good order in a glassine wrapper. Signature of former owner on front end paper. Iconic book which covers work by: Sculptors: Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth; Painters: John Armstrong, John Bigge, Edward Burra, Tristram Hillier, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Edward Wadsworth; Architects: Wells Coates, Colin Lucas. Unit One was a British grouping of Modernist artists founded by Paul Nash. Despite its brief period of activity, the group is regarded as influential in establishing the pre-eminence of London as a centre of modernist and abstract art and architecture in the mid-1930s.

    Stock ID: 22073
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