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Berlin und die Berliner
Berlin Rembrandt-Verlag 1958
96pp illustrated with b/w plates. Square 4to. 235 x 225mm. Photographs by McBride and Millar. Text in English and German. Collection of black and white images of Berlin seen through the eyes of two Americans. A near fine copy, dust jacket has some light wear.
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Bernard Leach Hamada & their circle from the Wingield Digby Collection
Oxford Phaidon Christies 1990
192pp illustrated with colour and bw plates. 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper.
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Binding Stamps:
A small selection of binding stamps designed by Talwin Morris
Foulis Press Archive Press Glasgow School of Art 1973
First edition no 36 of 50 copies designed by Gordon Huntly from material by James Murray 14pp printed on 14 leaves french folded. MOunted fontis of gold thistle design blocked onto cream buchram. Fine in original wrappers with Morris design in back and green. Loosely inserted letter from John Tomlinson and Christmas card blank from the Foulis Press
Stock ID: 22910More details Price: £125.00 -
Bonnington Hotel
Southampton Row WC1: London Weekly Diary of Social Events
London Geo Aug. Mate & Son Printers and Publishers, Fleet Street 1934
62pp including period ads and maps +[4]pp period ads in colour for motor cars by the Austin Car Company. Paste down advert in colour for Frames Tours ticket agency. 16mo. Cream lettered wrappers. Stapled. Good copy. Events listing publication which served to promote them and the Hotel who distributed it and the printing firm who published it. From Robin de Beaumont's collection with his tiny monograph label on inside of front paste down.
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Book of the firm's history and its construction projects. Undated
nd c1938
Unpaginated. c12pp Introduction briefly outlining the development of the firm followed by c60pp illustrations of projects + c12pp period ads for building products and specialist firms. Long 4to. Green cloth covered boards with art deco style gilt lettering on upper board. At the time of production, the firm was based in Stockwell, London with specialist woodworking department in Margate. Inter – war projects illustrated include various Odeon cinemas, mansion blocks including Nell Gwynn House, Chelsea, the Bexhill Pavilion, Margate Lido, various suburban housing schemes, offices and shops, schools and colleges. Work centred on London and the south east. The Architects noted for most of the projects that are illustrated.
Stock ID: 22578More details Price: £145.00 -
Brasilia - three items
A pamphlet for the ICA Exhibition at Dover Street; Book entitled Brasilia; and Booklet also entitled Brasilia
Stock ID: 22718More details Price: £65.00
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Brentham: a history of the pioneer garden suburb 1901-2001
Brentham Heritage Society 2000
264pp illustrated with b/w and colour plates from contemporary and modern photographs. Decorated end papers show original architectural drawings of the houses. Long 4to. Very good with dust wrapper. Study of this Ealing suburb. Built on co-partnership principles it was an inspiration to Hampstead. Scholarly study of a lesser known garden suburb much of which survives today.
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British Pavilion Venice Biennale 1964. Roger Hilton, Gwyther Irwin, Joe Tilson, Bernard Meadows
London The British Council 1964
28pp. With 78 b/w and colour images. Stapled wraps. Upper and verso of cover shows some damage near the top of the spine (possibly from a sticker or similar paste-down?) Otherwise, very good and internally very clean.
Stock ID: 22806More details Price: £60.00 -
Building in England Down to 1540 A Documentary History
Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1952
xvi+630pp,21 b/w plates and one text illustration. Sl. rubbing to cloth, esp at head and foot of spine and corners, and front hinge cracked, else good. First edition. From the library of Alec Clifton-Taylor, with his signature in pencil to fep. A few underlinings and annotations in pencil. Loosely inserted newspaper clippings and a receipt for the book from B.T. Batsford for £1 10s. Salzman's classic study of medieval architecture, focusing on building practices, architects and masons. Includes extensive appendices on contemporary documentation and building and employment contracts.
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Building Stones
Their Properties Decay and Preservation
London Ernest Benn Limited 1926
269pp + 8p A concise study, covers geology of building stones, decay, preservation etc. "With the author's compliments" penned at top of title page in neat handwriting.
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Buildings and Interiors 1951/72
London Lund Humphries 1972
96pp. bw illustrations. Square 4to. Cloth spine with board covers, decorated shiny wrappers. Very good indeed. Preserved in simple cloth covered slipcase. Detailed studies of buildings designed by London architect Trevor Dannatt with many photographs and line drawings.
Stock ID: 22253More details Price: £35.00 -
Built in the USA 1932-1944
New York Museum of Modern Art 1944
128pp, 206 plates. 4to. Very good in sl. chipped dust wrapper which illustrates Heckendorf House. Published to accompany an exhibition reflecting developments since 1932, when the Museum held its first exhibition of modern architecture. Forty seven buildings are selected and described. Lovely item.
Stock ID: 9573More details Price: £38.00 -
Burley on the Hill Rutland
with a short account of its owners and Extracts from their correspondence, and catalogue of the contents of the house
Stock ID: 22813More details Price: £565.00
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Burning to speak The Life And Art Of Henri Gaudier Brzeska.
Oxford Phaidon 1978
141pp.will illustrated. Cloth. 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper.
Stock ID: 22264More details Price: £55.00 -
Byker Revisited
Northumbria Press; First Edition 2009
192pp illustrated. Long 4to. Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. A portrait in complexity of life in Ralph Erskine's Byker Wall and its setting following the initial honeymoon period.
Stock ID: 22096More details Price: £32.00 -
C.F.A. Voysey: an architect of individuality
Lund Humphries 1979 1979
160pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Preface by Sir James Richards. Square 4to. Wraps. Good copy of this scarce assessment of Voysey's career. Top and base of spine a little chipped and front inside hinge cracked along the bottom 3-4cm. Very good otherwise
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Call of the Land
London George Allen & Unwin 1936
136 + (8)pp. Signature of previous owner Lilian Loseby on front end paper. Good with sl. Browned dust wrapper and book block edge slightly foxed. Ist edition. Recollection of working as a land girl and then later experiences of farms and farming in Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, and Cheshire.
Stock ID: 22828More details Price: £65.00 -
Caprogrossi Exhibition 30 May-22 June 1957]
London ICA, Dover Street 1957
Introduction by Roland Penrose. Unpaginated 8pp including stiff card wrappers. 20 numbers listed. Printed on yellow paper internally, wrap around black and white illustrated wrappers by Caprogrossi. Exhibition in coloration with Carlo Cardazzo, Galleria del Naviglio, Milan and Galleria del Cavallino, Venice.
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Carnaby Street
Stock ID: 22604More details Price: £260.00
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Carpentry and Joinery
Elementary Principles of Carpentry Chiefly Composed from the Standard Work of Thomas Tredgold, C.E.With Additions, Alterations, and Corrections from the Works of the Most Recent Authorities and a Treatise on Joinery Containing a Detailed Account of the Various Operations of the Joiner
London Lockwood & Co. 1873
Series number 182. xii + 300pp + 16pp + 32pp. With numerous b/w illustrations. Brown blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering. Re-bound with a new cloth spine and paper label to make this a good copy. Water stains throughout although not to the detriment of the text.
Stock ID: 22477More details Price: £15.00