London Lund Humphries 1972

96pp. bw illustrations. Square 4to. Cloth spine with board covers, decorated shiny wrappers. Very good indeed. Preserved in simple cloth covered slipcase. Detailed studies of buildings designed by London architect Trevor Dannatt with many photographs and line drawings.

New York Museum of Modern Art 1944

128pp, 206 plates. 4to. Very good in sl. chipped dust wrapper which illustrates Heckendorf House. Published to accompany an exhibition reflecting developments since 1932, when the Museum held its first exhibition of modern architecture. Forty seven buildings are selected and described. Lovely item.

‎ Northumbria Press; First Edition 2009

192pp illustrated. Long 4to. Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. A portrait in complexity of life in Ralph Erskine's Byker Wall and its setting following the initial honeymoon period.

London John Murray 1929

xii + 299pp illus with frontis +13 b/w plates and one fold out map. Studies of old town mostly in Franch, many off the beaten track, recorded by Blomfield in his travels. With signature on front end paper of F W Troup dated 1932. Troup 1859-1941 was an Arts and Crafts man throughout his life with a particular interest in leadwork and was an excellent craftsman himself. He was Master of the Art Workers Guild in 1923 and Hon Sec of the SPAB in 1940.

Lund Humphries 1979 1979

160pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Preface by Sir James Richards. Square 4to. Wraps. Good copy of this scarce assessment of Voysey's career. Top and base of spine a little chipped and front inside hinge cracked along the bottom 3-4cm. Very good otherwise

London Lockwood & Co. 1873

Series number 182. xii + 300pp + 16pp + 32pp. With numerous b/w illustrations. Brown blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering. Re-bound with a new cloth spine and paper label to make this a good copy. Water stains throughout although not to the detriment of the text.

London printed for private circulation. 1900

4 + 98pp including 51 woodcuts. Tall 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles on upper board within ruled lines. Pasted down onto front paste down is Hugh Pagan's catalogue entry for this item Catalogue 41 October 2001. Front end paper has ownership bookplate of Josceline Grove and notes on his purchase of this copy. Slightly rubbed at head and base of spine. A few spattered spots on upper board else internally very good. Details 254 numbers following a short [3]pp note on the Sculpture Gallery at Woburn built originally as a conservatory by Henry Holland.

London Printed at The Chiswick Press

xvi + 223pp. Frontispiece of William Blentinck, 1st Early of Portland, plus numerous plates (some with original tissue guards) illustrating the works addressed. Number 86 of 250 copies produced. Top edge gilt. Quarter binding. Original publishers morocco on spine with more recent cloth covered boards. f.e.p. has laid in bookplate of Josceline Grove and neat note in pen "Cat: Bought February 1896. H.J.F." Front paste down has plate from Wigan Free Public Library pasted-down. Blind stamps from the library intermittently throughout. Marginal foxing, to end papers and to book block. Very good internally.

Stocksfield Oriel Press Ltd. 1983

xviii + 306pp. B/w photographic illustrations. Bibliography. Good. Spine slightly sunned. D/w stuck onto book with sticky-back-plastic

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 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.

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.

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.

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.