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Country Walks First, Second and Third Series
London Transport 1936, 1937
3 vols. Vol 1, Xii +124pp frontispiece + 10 b/w plates. 8vo brown wrapper with yellow dw. Dw a little worn else vg. Vol 2. Xii + 124pp, frontispiece +10 b/w plates. 8vo dark green wrappers with lighter green dw. Minor creases to the wrapper else vg indeed. Vol 3. Xii + 124pp frontispiece + 10 b/w plates. 8vo wrapper with dw. Dw a little worn at the edges, scattered foxing, split to the hinge else good. Ex libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate in vol 1 and 2.
Stock ID: 19951More details Price: £150.00 -
Czech Functionalism
1918-1938
London Architectural Association 1988
175pp b/w plates + line ills with captions. Sm square 4to., illustrated wrappers, perfect binding, a very good copy. Loosely inserted private view card for the exhibition that this volume accompanies and a news cutting of an article written by Gavin Stamp on the same exhibition. There is also a printed email correspondence between Gavin Stamp and Vladimir Slapeta, an a.l.s. from Vladamir (Slapeta?) to Gavin Stamp and a photograph of a Czech Avia B-534 biplane. Ex libris Gavin stamp, with his bookplate and pencil signature on half title.
Stock ID: 20188More details Price: £45.00 -
Das Bauhaus. Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, 1919-1933
Stuttgart, Bramsche. Gebrüder Rasch & Co. 1962
556pp with colour paste down frontis, + 100s of b/w illustrations including full page b/w photographs. Large 4to. Very good copy with good dust wrapper although this is a little frayed at the head and base of the spine. Text in German. First edition of this massive text on the Bauhaus not translated into English until 1969. The best edition for high quality images of Bauhaus architecture, fabrics, objects etc.
Stock ID: 14470More details Price: £80.00 -
DD Bulletin no.4
New, Open Telephone Boxes for The Copenhagen Telephone Co.,
Copenhagen Danish Design Council, Andersens Boulevard 18 DK-1553 1981
61pp, colour + b/w ills + single page of colour plates which are designs in vinyll proposed as instructions for use. Sq 8vo illustrated wrappers. Danish Design Council competition for new open telephone boxes. Shows the four prize winning proposals, designers named with background information on historical designs.
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DDR/DESIGN DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES EISENMAN/ROBERTSON
Stock ID: 20943More details Price: £160.00
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Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain
London, Country Life Limited 1927
xxxviii + 271pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Introduction by Arthur T Bolton. Small folio. Red cloth, gilt titles. Very good copy with slightly dusty dust wrapper. Superb Country Life photographs showing plasterwork in situ mainly in the UK.
Stock ID: 20468More details Price: £180.00 -
Deutsche Baukunst der Gegenwart
Bauten der Gemeinschaft
Königstein im Taunus & Leipzig Karl Robert Langewiesche 1928
110pp, b/w plates with captions, text in German. Small 4to perfect bound decorated card wraps with illustrated dw. Very good indeed. From the Die Blauen Bücher Series, study of early c20 (mainly 1920s) public buildings in Germany such as schools, churches, theatres etc. Brilliant photographic plates, architects named. Ex libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate. Small pencil inscription on the bookplate, 'Hannover, 1972'
Stock ID: 20159More details Price: £65.00 -
Dream Houses: The Edwardian Ideal.
Stock ID: 19861More details Price: £60.00
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Education Automation:
Freeing the scholar to return to his studies [1962]
London Jonathan Cape 1973
First English edition. 85pp. Very good with dust wrapper. Small chip from dust wrapper on upper front edge. From the collection of Gerald Dix with his signature. Reviewed by Architectural Design at the time of publication, the reviewer said "a book that no architect, planner, economist or geographer can afford not to read."
Stock ID: 19752More details Price: £30.00 -
Edwin Lutyens: Profilo di un architteto
Torino Umberto Allemandi & Co 2008
70pp illustrated with b/w photographs. Like new. There are two loosely inserted printed letters signed by Michela Rosso on the publishing history of the book and apologising for set backs and delays. Ex libris bookplate of GS on inner wrapper. Text in Italian. The first in the series of monographs of architects.
Stock ID: 19841More details Price: £15.00 -
Eero Saarinen An Architecture of Multiplicity
London Laurence King 2002
225pp illustrated with 128 b/w plates. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Many full page plates support this comprehensive study of all aspects of Saarinen's practice. Sections on 'Creating', 'Dwelling', 'Building' amongst others. Attractive study.
Stock ID: 19137More details Price: £45.00 -
El Lissitzky 1890-1941
Oxford Museum of Modern Art 1977
42pp illus with b/w and monotone illustrations. Wraps. Very good indeed. Includes statements on art and design by Lissitzky. Nice item. Edition limited to 1000.
Stock ID: 8410More details Price: £15.00 -
English Country Houses
Five volumes comprising Caroline 1625-1685, Baroque 1685-1715, Early Georgian 1715-60, Mid Georgian 1760-1800 and Late Georgian 1800-1840
Stock ID: 19721More details Price: £480.00
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English Decorative Plasterwork of the Renaissance
London, B.T. Batsford (1926)1933
Revised edition. xiii + 258pp illustrated with 200 b/w plates, engravings and diagrams. Original gilt decorated cloth, lightly worn and faded on spine and at corners, generally bright. Ex Hull College with their ancient stamp on front end paper and withdrawn stamp on verso of the half title. Important and well illustrated survey of plasterwork in England, organised by period and location.
Stock ID: 20805More details Price: £60.00 -
English Homes Period IV Volume II The Work of Sir John Vanburgh and his School 1699-1736
London Country Life Limited 1928
Folio. Quarter blue cloth. . Unusual to find this item in a dust wrapper. Dust wrapper a bit chipped at head and base of the spine. Superb record of the work of Vanburgh with large format photographs in black and white and line ills.
Stock ID: 20958More details Price: £325.00 -
English Homes Period VI Late Georgian 1760-1820
London Country Life 1927
xi + 396pp. Marbled end papers, a.e.g. Folio. This copy is very good internally but the spine is slightly sunned and there is a crease near the bottom of the spine. The final volume in the series which is the hardest of all to find. The degree to which the spine is sunned is uniform with the early Georgian volume.
Stock ID: 20957More details Price: £375.00 -
English Vernacular Houses
HMSO Royal Commission on Historical Monuments ]1975] 2nd ed 1979
xxii, 246pp. Illustrated with more than 200 line drawings and 250 photographs. A descriptive and analytical list of over 500 buildings. Stiff wrappers. An excellent copy of an important reference work. From the collection of Charles Anelay with his signature.
Stock ID: 21094More details Price: £45.00 -
Enrique Macotela 1970-1979 20 Diseños de Prefabricacion y Arquitectura
México, D.F. Artes Gráficas Panorama 1979
189pp which are mainly illustrations + portrait, plans ; 25 cm. Lettered boards in good custom designed slipcase. Text in Spanish and English. Edited by Xavier Girón; translated by Monica Marelli Bego-Ghina and Luis Ramirez Miranda. One of 2000 copies. Fascinating insights into the early wrk of Macotela showing his often Brutalist and elsewhere modernist tendencies.
Stock ID: 21189More details Price: £110.00 -
Essay on India
London, Routledge 1931
viii, 175pp Open weave cloth. Worn at spine. First edition, scarce. First published in 1931, Robert Byron's Essay on India evaluates the state of colonial rule in India and analyses the contemporary problems facing the country. Based upon Byron's travelling experiences within India in 1929 as a correspondent for the Daily Express. Bookplate on fep of Sir George R Clerk. With the bookplate of Gavin Stamp on which is written "From A Cluff 1977".
Stock ID: 20085More details Price: £220.00 -
F W Troup 1859-1941
London The Building Centre Trust 1985
116 + (2)pp text + 57 b/w plates. Bound into a cloth case with new end papers. Original wrappers preserved. Very good. Essentially unread. Useful book on this little known and modest Scottish architect contemporary with Lethaby and Schultz.
Stock ID: 20924More details Price: £30.00