Mardaga 1995

310pp illustrated with a series of sketches by Prouvé. Text in French. 4to. Wrappers. Spine creased.

US MIT Press 1986

285 pp. Over 400 b/w ills, incl. line drawings, historical maps, diagrams, engravings and photographs. Cloth boards in illustrated dust wrapper, slight scuff marks at edges. Very good. Large 4to. Eloquent, superbly illustrated study of the origins of the modern city, and the social, psychological, and formal transformations influencing architects in the design of public spaces in cities. Focusses on the French 'hotel' as a development from an Italian prototype, and 'sophisticated instrument of urbanism', in its internal and external organisation of buildings and gardens.

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.

Newton Abbott David and Charles 1979

128pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Small 4to. Very good with similarly good dust wrapper. Investigates the way in which cubism, usually associated mainly with painting and sculpture, influenced modern movement in architecture.

York, Insitute of Advanced Architectural Studies Ousebridge, York nd. late 20th c

16pp pamphlet in stiff card wraps. Good. Catatlogue for an exhibition held by the Institute of Advanced Architectural studies. Compiled by Linstrum with a brief biography. Ex libris Gavin Stamp with an early version of his bookplate.

Published by Previous Parrot Press, Church Hanborough, Witney, 1992

Fine. Edwin Smith (illustrator). 37 pages ( 6 page introduction with remainder taken up with cuts by Edwin Smith, near fine condition in decorated paper covered boards. Number 160 of an edition of 178 copies signed by Olive Cook. Signed by Author(s). No dust wrapper as issued. Lovely copy. Pages uncut. Loosely inserted prospectus for Anne Cathcart's Book of the Month.

London: Octopus Books, 1980

176pp illustrated with b/w and colour plates. 4to. Very good with dust wrapper. Useful overview of these art movements.

Hawkhurst, Kent Geering & Colyer

8 pp with 3 black and white photographs. Cream wrappers, paste down b/w photographs of the exterior of this lovely arts and crafts style house. Sale Prospectus for Darwell Hill designed by Leslie Macdonald [Max] Gill for Harold Heal (1876-1949), 1926. Built as a country house retreat in 120 acre site with gardens and woodland. Describes the small country house and its estate and illustrates three internal rooms predictably beautifully furnished. He was the second son of Ambrose Heal.

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].

Stuttgart, Julius Hoffmann 1926

76pp with 3 tissue-guarded colour plates and many b/w plates of both the interiors and exteriors of the single project "Haus Andreae am Starnberger See". 4to. Orange cloth with decorated gilt label, very slightly rubbed at edges else vg indeed. High quality photogravure plates and colour drawings. List of decorators and contractors included.

London Dulwich Picture Gallery 1986

48pp. 32 Black and white, and colour images accompanying an introduction by Giles Waterfield - director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, and an essay by John Sheeran. Quarto. Decorated card wraps. Fine.

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.

Sheffield, Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust 1998

114 pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Small square 4to. Decorated wrappers with photograph of Mellor. The illustrated catalogue for three retrospective exhibitions of the work and career of this major designer. Signed by David Mellor.

New York, Bulfinch Press, 2005

1st Edition. 120pp illustrated. Long 4to. Cranberry cloth hardcover with the dust jacket, Illustrated with 65 tritone photographs by Sally Mann: This is a collection of Sally Mann's landscape photographs, chosen by the artist herself, of America's Deep South. Sally Mann came to the attention of the public in 1992, with a series of intimate portraits of her children and her reputation is in the ascendancy. Dust wrapper is very slightly shelf worn at the top edge.

Printed by T.N.Tholal at the Federal Trade Press, New Delhi [1935] 1953

90pp + period ads and fold out black and white map of Delhi at the end of the book. Decorated stiff card wrappers. From the collection of Gavin Stamp with his bookplate. Paper a little browned else very good. Text in English. Good images of New Delhi, the Old Fort etc. Loosely inserted colour post card [blank] of New Delhi. Gavin Stamp went to India in the early 1970s following in the footsteps to some extent of Robert Byron. Nice association copy of a great period guide focusing on the architecture and archaeology of the city.

London George Allen and Unwin Ltd 1968

328pp illustrated with b/w plates. Very good. No dust wrapper. Boards protected by glassine wrappers. End papers have plans of Kingcombe garden.

London, Theodore Brun , Editions de Luxe Limited

Limited edition - no 20 of 35 numbered. 291pp, approx 1,100 illustrations. 4to.. Compiled by the Society of Industrial Artists as a comprehensive review of the commercial and industrial design produced in Britain.

London Andre Deutsch Ltd. 1971

283pp including wide range of illustrations (some colour) 4to. Blue boards. Unclipped dust jacket, this very slightly worn at edges else very good. Interesting end paper with front end paper partially printed on tracing paper and part forming red end paper. Covers contemporary poster, graphics, wallpaper, jewellery, textile, TV and film graphics etc. All designers featured were members of the SIAD.

Ortshostat Edition 2015

64pp illustrated. 4to. Striking red cloth. Fine.