London Impact Books 1991

As new, Fine in dw. 297pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Companion volume to Double Harness, Robin Tanner's acclaimed autobiography. This collection of letters covers, etching, natural history, countryside and gardening and disarmament.

Toyko Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1936

First English edition. 36 pages, with plans, sketches and 25 photographic illustrations. 260x190mm. The wrappers were made of Fusama paper, used for covering walls these comprise brown patterned paper covered boards with dark brown gilt lettered title label on upper board. Spine worn and has been conserved where chipped but still there are a few areas of small losses, bump to corners - overall good. Last text page clipped but text unaffected. The text is a record of a lecture given by Taut on Japanese Architecture given in 1935 at the Peers Club.

Tokyo A.D.A Edita 1980

40 pages with an additional 6 pages of diagrams. Oversized in stiff laminated wrappers. Very good copy. Text is printed in both English and Japanese. Superb documentary images on the architecture of the Byker Wall development with details on construction and townscape planning.

Dom Publishers 2015

160pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. On the work of this key Russian architect who made her career in the high tech world of Cosmonautics. .

London, Technical Journals Ltd 1913

104pp illustrated throughout with plans, elevations and b/w plates. Viii pages of period ads at end. Cloth backed boards, a little worn, with chips and bumps to corners. Spine exhibits a 5cm split. Internally good. Introduction by T Milwood Wilson. Draws widely on examples at Gidea Park, Hampstead Garden Suburb and Esher Park as well as individual locations around the UK. With a list of architects represented.

Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1993

Oblong small quarto, 290 x 210 mm. 186 pages, 179 illustrations. Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. George Repton (1786-1858) served as assistant to John Nash. Forth son of Humphry Repton. As well as working with Nash. He also assisted his father. For instance, he assisted his father and brother in the plans for the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.

Sofia, Bulgaria Sofia Press 1981

72pp illustrated with stunning b/w and colour photographs and line ills. Large square 4to. 360x360mm. Good with silvered dust wrapper. Signed dedication copy to Michael Manser from Stoilov. With bookplate on front end paper of Michael and Jose Manser. Dust wrapper dusty else good copy. Text in English. Stoilov famously designed the brutalist Buzludzha Memorial House which is now abandoned, perched on a Balkan mountain, following the end of the political regime that built it. This and other memorials alongside commercial and domestic buildings are featured in this book.

New York International Typeface Corporation 1991

Very good copy in black cloth slip case with red title. 4to. Limited First Edition. Rust coloured paper wrappers. One of only 400 copies printed of this work on Giambattista Bodoni - the 18th century Italian typographer, type-designer, compositor, printer, and publisher in Parma. Illustrated. Very good copy. Small scuff on cloth slipcase.

Newhaven Yale 2009

First edition. 601pp illustrated. Fine in dw. God's Architect is the first full modern biography of this extraordinary figure. It draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as architect, propagandist and romantic artist as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years and his sudden death at 40. It is the debut of a remarkable historian and biographer.This book has received excellent reviews as both an architectural and cultural biography.

Dornach Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag 1935

52pp illustrated with b/w plates + [3]pp catalogue of Rudolph Steiner's publications. Silver decorated wrappers. With bookplate of Gavin Stamp on front paste down. Good copy. The focus on this short publication is a description and explanation of the Department of the Performing Arts at the Goetheanum.

Medéns Förlags AB, Stockholm 1935

70 + (1) pp+ 46 photographic b/w plates documenting the building. Paper wrappers 290x215mm. Wrappers a bit worn and browned. Internally very good. Signed dedication copy for Nils Eriksson to Robert Matthews, who was chief architect of the Festival Hall. Dated 1947.

London Faber and Faber 1964

95pp text, 137 colour illustrations, 56 pages of full colour plates, with detail reproductions of specific paintings, some pull outs to give a sense of scale. Appendix by Xavier de Salas Large 4to. Very good in slightly worn dust wrapper and in original slip case as issued. Hard to find.

Milan Edizioni di Comunità 1968

295pp, numerous b/w illustrations. Wrappers decorated with Union Jack Flag. Minor wear at head and base of spine. Very good copy. Cardboard slip case present but frayed at edges. A series of articles both in Italian (with English translation) and English on British architecture and architects. With contributions by Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Michael Gold, Franceso Tentori, James Stirling, Joseph Rykwert, Lina Marsoni, Maria Biasia, John Taylor, Bianca Raboni, Giorgio Gaetani and Alberto Ferrari. Very useful period assessment of the 1960s.

London Thames and Hudson. 1980

21 pp, 35 drawings. Small folio. This edition was limited to 1000 copies of which this is no 296. The book was first published in Germany in 1979. Very good with red slipcase as issued. From the collection of Jonathan and Maggie Silver. Slip case a little scuffed on the corners. Glassine dust wrapper fine.

London Griffith and Farron nd c1882

96pp illustrated with 5 plates. 16mo. End papers advertisements including for Jones and Willis, Church Furniture Manufacturers, and John Taylor of Loughborough Bells. Inner hinges a little cracked else good

The Harlow Development Corporation, 1951

Illustrated with colour b/w plates and fold out map showing the old settlements which were to be embraced by the new town. Card covers, printed title on upper wrapper. Good copy. The original Harlow New Town was built after World War II along with places such as Basildon, Stevenage and Hemel Hempstead a result of the New Towns Act of 1946, with the master plan for Harlow drawn up in 1947 by Sir Frederick Gibberd. A particular approach to the development of Harlow New Town was to respect the existing landscape and so this publication is useful if assessing the area's traditional architecture and landscape to be incorporated into the New Town area.

Washington National Gallery of Art, distributed by Bullfinch 1996

Published in conjunction with the 1997 exhibition of Calahan's photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Very good with good dust wrapper, this slightly creased at head of spine. Hard to find in this edition

London Thames & Hudson 1992

431pp illustrated. The first UK edition (first printing), issued the same year as the US edition. 4to. Black cloth lettered in blind and the spine and upper board.Very good dust wrapper. Black slipcase. Lavishly illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and plans, many of the in colour. A fine copy of this catalogue raisonné of the noted Australian architect.