London, The Architectural Press 1939

(5) 168, xxxii pp. Black and white diagrams and tables. bound in open weave lettered cloth, slightly discoloured at edges, with imprinted navy titles. Very good indeed. Fascinating book of government recommendations for civil defence shelter etc.

London The Architectural Press 1971

156pp illustrated with b/w plates and line illustrations. Foreword by Ian Nairn. Large 4to. Yellow, gold-lettered cloth with good but slightly dusty dust wrapper. The book proposes a utopian idea for a city to be built on disused quarry land in North Nuneaton believing it would put a halt to suburban sprawl in England. De Wolfe, pseudonym for Hubert de Cronin Hastings failed to get the project off the ground but was a tireless campaigner, through Architectural Review and other publications for a humane approach to design. Lovely copy.

Cambridge MIT Press nd c.1983

186pp with 120 b/w illus. 4to in cloth with decorated endpapers and dw. Vg in dust wrapper. Ink dedication from Colin Rowe on fep 'To a Fan (electric)'. Critical reappraisal of contemporary urban theories and the role of the architect planner in design. Impressive study.

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.

London Francis Lincoln 2008

224pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. This is first full length study of this controversial modernist practice. Includes a fascinating overview of the historical background and then focuses on detailed studies of individual houses, social housing schemes, shops and cafés all beautifully illustrated.

Chapman & Hall 1948

96pp illus. with b/w line ills. Some pages sl. creased, text unaffected. Good icopy. This study describes Cotswold building stone and surveys the craft of the mason. Ownership bookplates and signature of W Reynolds

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.

Mardaga 1995

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

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.

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.

New Haven and London, Yale University Press 1999

430pp with 100s of illustrations in b/w and colour. Large 4to. Cloth in d/w, very good indeed. Collection of essays by various scholars on one of the great figures of 19th C architecture and design. Exploring his multifaceted career as an architect, furniture designer, theatrical designer and writer. Published as a catalogue to accompany an exhibition held in 1999.

Yorkshire EP Publishing Limited, 1978

Facsimile reprint of the original 1736 edition. Limited to 350 copies. xi, [28], 627, cx, [33] pp, 115 plates many of which are folding, including maps. Folio. Cloth. Very good in very good dust wrapper. Edges of book block a little browned. Huge and brilliant reference on the early history of the city of York.

National Plans Service Inc 1944

32pp colour images and plans throughout. A brochure illustrating various mid century houses from which potential buyers could select their house styles. Lovely period item. Very good copy. Decorated wrappers. Stapled.

New Haven and London Yale University Press 2009

400pp with 150 b/w and 150 colour illus. Large 4to. Fine in similar dw. Girouard addresses the evolution of the house plan, the excitement of English patrons and craftsmen as they learned the classic Five Orders and studied the buildings of Ancient Rome, the wealth of architectural drawings that survive from the period, the inroads of foreign craftsmen who brought new fashions in ornament, and the strength of the native tradition that was integrated with the "antique" style.

London & Berkley Scolar Press 1983

49pp + [92] of 125 numbered b/w plates. 8vo in wraps. Front wrap and feps creased at lower right corner; internally vg. The first full study of this distinctive modern movement architect associated with the Empire Exhibition, Olympia etc..

London Geoffrey Bles 1928

188pp. Frontispiece + unpaginated b/w plates at rear. Publishers blue boards with cloth spine and printed label. Paper label a little worn. Epilogue by Patrick Abercrombie. The book is an outcry at the urbanization of the countryside and disintegration of village life and form as a consequence. Loosely inserted printed extracts from Architectural Review folded.