London Architectural Association 1984

16pp introductory text, 30 boxed plates. Decorated box. 320x320mm.. Dedication copy from the autor with hand drawn sketch. "For Yolanda e Gerald during a beautiful dinner in A.A. London 2/5/84" Introduction by Franco Purini, essays by Vittorio Gregotti, Pierluigi Nicolin and Micha Bandini. The plates comprise drawings with the quality of etchings in which Purini explores the concept of the eternal city. Presumed to be Yolanda Adams and Gerald Levert

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.

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.

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 It draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as architect, propagandist and romantic artist as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages, the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 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

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.

Kosmos Amsterdam 1937

155pp with 225 illustrations in b/w from the Society of Netherland Architects B.N.A. Introduction in Dutch, French, German and English. Captions to illustrations also in these languages. A visual survey of contemporary architecture in Holland organsied by location. Architects always noted. 4to. Open weave and lettered cloth. Vg.

London RIBA 1989

20pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Square 4to. Laminated wrappers which are decorated with colour images. Review of Ron Herron's career, practice and projects.

Office at the Cemetery Dallas and Irwin Avenuews E E Pittsburgh 1905 (third edition)

This cemetery was incorporated in 1878. 71pp illustrated with b/w full page photographic plates providing a superb record of the cemetery at this date. Gilt decorated cloth. Sl. weak at hinges else very good. . Large fold out plan of the cemetery and showing all the plots at the back. Includes notes on the principles of laying out cemetery grounds. Lovely illustrations of major monuments. Small stamp on fep saying With compliments of the Secretary D S Robinson. Useful record of a one of the major US cemeteries of the 1870s and 1880s.

London George Newnes Limited 1906

xvi + 247pp + (3)pp illustrated with 17 colour and many b/w plates. Some spotting on end papers and prelims. Decorated end papers. Gilt lettered green cloth. A very good copy of this the first edition of Ballie Scott's study of house design. Large pictorial bookplate of Rosa Kraft on paste down.

London Lund Humphries 1981

128pp. Illustrated. Wrappers. Good copy 1st paperback edition of elusive title published in parallel with hardback edition. The practice was established in 1959 by four young architects who worked together at the architect's department of the London and they were the designers behind the Roehampton Estate, London amongst other projects. Key Brutalist architects.

London The Architectural Association 1994

Works Series no VI 55pp illustrated. Square 4to. 230x230 Perfect bound. Fine Text in sepia overprinting pages of grainy illustrations. Smithson recalls in a ollage of fiction and images drawn from memories of hot, dusty travels in India. Written in the style of a travel diary. It restates the concerns of its companion volume, Climate Register, observing patterns and ways of inhabitation, and the relationship between climate and the making of buildings.

Prague, Techo 2005

192pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Spiral bound, laminated wrappers. 280x250mm. Text in English and Czech. The book presents a selection of 39 executed projects and designs documenting the work of the Czech-British architect Eva Jiricna. More than 250 photographs and drawings offer an overview of her diverse work, especially shops, apartments, and offices, as well as a hotel, library, orangery, bus station and clubs. Designed, edited, and produced by Dennis Crompton with Annie Bridges and Zuzanna Lipinska.

London E & FN Spon 2000

viii + 232pp with many b/w and colour images throughout. 4to in paper boards with colour dw. Vg. With contributions by industrial archaeologists, architects, and experts in regenration and community planning.