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.

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.

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.

York, Insitute of Advanced Architectural Studies Ousebridge, York nd. late 20th c

16pp pamphlet in stiff card wraps. Good. Catatlogue for an exhibition held by the Institute of Advanced Architectural studies. Compiled by Linstrum with a brief biography. Ex libris Gavin Stamp with an early version of his bookplate.

Hawkhurst, Kent Geering & Colyer

8 pp with 3 black and white photographs. Cream wrappers, paste down b/w photographs of the exterior of this lovely arts and crafts style house. Sale Prospectus for Darwell Hill designed by Leslie Macdonald [Max] Gill for Harold Heal (1876-1949), 1926. Built as a country house retreat in 120 acre site with gardens and woodland. Describes the small country house and its estate and illustrates three internal rooms predictably beautifully furnished. He was the second son of Ambrose Heal.

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.

Printed by T.N.Tholal at the Federal Trade Press, New Delhi [1935] 1953

90pp + period ads and fold out black and white map of Delhi at the end of the book. Decorated stiff card wrappers. From the collection of Gavin Stamp with his bookplate. Paper a little browned else very good. Text in English. Good images of New Delhi, the Old Fort etc. Loosely inserted colour post card [blank] of New Delhi. Gavin Stamp went to India in the early 1970s following in the footsteps to some extent of Robert Byron. Nice association copy of a great period guide focusing on the architecture and archaeology of the city.

Darmstadt Alexander Koch 1912

Folio. Gilt lettering on upper board with a photo illustration of the building as a paste down. Cream boards, slightly browned else very good. 80pp + c [8]pp. The building is one of only a few German opera houses to survive the bombing of World War II. Between 1982 and 1984, extensive work restored the venue. It has had several name changes, in 1919 to Landestheater, and later the Württembergische Staatstheater. The book describes the two auditoriums that were built – the large and small ones. Lovely item.

London Constable Company, 1980

247pp 20 b/w plates,68 line drawings. 4to. Decorated wrappers. A detailed study of the works of the key English architects of the turn of the century including Newton, Lutyens, Voysey and Baker.

New Haven and London, Yale University Press 1999

430pp with 100s of illustrations in b/w and colour. Large 4to. Cloth in d/w and protective archival plastic wrapper, 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.

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.

London, Duckworth 1985

421pp illus with b/w plates and line ills throughout. Wrappers version. Very good 4to. Photographs by Jean & Nicholas Breach, Drawings by Charlotte Halliday, Foreword by Nicholas Taylor. Loosely inserted review. The essential reference text for those interested in the turn of the century. Covers the architects working in garden cities, theatres, churches etc and reviews in its pates the work of those who were in the limelight as well as others largely forgotten.

London and New York, Academy Editions/ St Martin's Press (1979) 1986

112pp with over 200 illustrations, 41 in colour, plus 7 gatefolds. Cloth, very good in similar d/w. Some subtle foxing on the endpapers, else very good. This volume is devoted to the country houses, both built and projected, which were designed by Lutyens throughout his career. An introductory essay by Peter Inskip is followed by sections on 21 individual houses, illustrated with contemporary b/w photographs from Country Life, and more recent colour photography by A. Goulancourt, as well as plans and elevations. Also includes a complete list of buildings and projects.