Chilton Company, Philidelphia & New York 1962

302pp+ b/w ill, boards, good. In frayed and chipped dust wrapper. Includes discussion about Cubism, Futurism, Dada & Surrealism. Gregory Gale's copy with pencil note "gift from Bob Sluteky 6 March 1970".

London The Housing Centre 1942

117pp illustrated with 19 plans and diagrams including some fold out plans and diagrams for actual schemes. Soft wrappers. Good copy.

J Y Knight & Co 1851

3rd edition revised and enlarged. An oddity with dedication written in ink in October 1837 to William Cubitt [ father of Joseph] at Kirkstall Forge. Title page, [3]pp introduction, 267pp illustrated with tables etc + [2]pp advert for the company at Kirkstall Forge. Joseph Cubitt's stamp at Great George Street, Westminster, identifies him as a Civil Engineer

New York, The Museum of Modern Art in association with the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in The Fine Arts, Chicago, [1966] 1968

2nd edition. 144pp with 350 b/w illustrations. 200 x 150mm. Wraps version. Good copy but some pen underlining. Introduction by Vincent Scully. This first book in the series 'The Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture' is concerned with the theoretical background of modern architecture. Ownership name of Alan Mossman, New York 1970

Kegan Paul International 1986

256 pages, illustrated. 4to. Very good with dust wrapper. Provides insights into this key Iraqi architect and designer's ideas.

Wills, Albion Road, West Bromwich undated c1952

20pp illustrated with b/w plates showing interiors and exteriors of schools + plans and diagrams the latter on green pages. Long 4to. Very good copy Hinchcliffe had founded Hills in 1932 as a patent glazing company. It then rapidly expanded and had divisions making steel window frames, roof lights and light steel structural. Loosely inserted letter to E D Haigh, RIBA Kendal accompanying the brochure and discussing their design approaches. Air view of Hemel Hempstead Primary School by C H Aslin on title page. Describes the Presweld system of construction. Lots of examples of school buildings created from the modular and prefabricated system the firm developed.

London Oxford University Press for the British Academy 1979

246 + plates in colour and b/w. 4to. Original black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Very good with very good dust wrapper, slightly chipped at head of spine. Signature of H G Wayment [ who published on the glass of Fairford Church] on front end paper and inscription from him on title page concerning Peter Newton and providing anecdotal information on how it came to be volume I in the Corpus Vitrearum series. A catalogue of important medieval stained glass housed within buildings in the county of Oxford.

London Country Life 1919

First edition 141pp frontispiece + 28 b/w plates, line illustrations in text. Cloth backed boards. Corners + head and base of spine bumped. Some slight foxing throughout the text pages. Loosely inserted magazine article about concrete house construction. Impressive study of vernacular building methods using mud, adobe, etc. Hard to find. A very clear study of these vernacular building methods.

London RIBA 1918

119pp illustrated with b/w line ills including plans, elevations and artist's impressions of cottages. New front end paper. Lettered boards, cloth spine. 4to. Very good copy. Project to design houses to house the working classes under the auspices of Housing the Working Classes in England and Wales. Results organised by regions within the UK. Architects given for each scheme illustrated.

Durham County Council Press 1951

320pp illustrated with b/w photographs, plans, including some fold outs and diagrams. Red cloth as issued. Signature of Jonathan Wager on front end paper. Good copy. The plan initiated the concept of "Category D" villages that basically identified settlements Durham County Council would no longer invest in. A concept that led depressingly to the decline of much of West Durham as the designation stigmatised the old mining areas of the County.

Barcelona Editorial GG [1999] 2004

144pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Silvered decorated boards, Very good copy. Craig Ellwood was one of the architects who during the 50s took part (alongside Charles Eames, Pierre Koenig and Rafael Soriano, among others) in the celebrated Case Study Houses programme organized by the "Arts and Architecture" magazine with the aim of promoting modern architecture and experimentation with new industrial materials in domestic architecture. This book is a useful account of some of his projects and is beautifully illustrated.

Ripley G. C. Brittain and Sons Ltd. - effectively privately printed. n.d. c1970

VIII + 84pp. + 16 pp. separate b/w photographs (32) + 2 sep. pp. b/w fig. + 4 single-sided sep. b/w maps (inc. one fold-out) + 2pp. addendum. Quarto. in chipped and worn dust wrapper. Bunker's thorough examination, completed with many ills., is detailed and useful. Signed by the author on front paste down dedicated to Mr and Mrs Cathels. Their book ticket also on front paste down.

Greenock Black Pennell Press 1988

51pp Near fine with original glassine wrapper. 8vo. Text first published in 1877

Oldenburg Gerhard Stalling Verlag 1926

172pp illustrated with c300 b/w plates of the exterior of theatres providing a good photographic record of Germanic theatre design. 4to. Red lettered open weave cloth. Good copy. With bookplate on front paste down of Edwin A Dawes. Locations of each theatre noted. Edwin Alfred Dawes was a British biochemist and magician from Yorkshire. [died 2023].

London Thames & Hudson 1999

276pp. With 313 Illustrations, 257 in duotone, 56 in colour. Publisher's black cloth, silver lettered to the spine and with the publisher's matching logo to the upper board. Very slight water mark on upper edge of verso of dust jacket else a very good copy of this comprehensive biographical catalogue of Bailey's life and work between 1957 and 1969.

Barcelona Editorial Gustavo Gilii SA 1992

96pp illustrated withb/w photographic plates. Text in Spanish and English. Square 4to. Wrappers. Very good. The text, with the exception of the introduction is by David Chipperfield.