The Thirties Society 1979

51pp reprographed report, spiral bound. 4to. Very good. Loosely inserted 8pp report on the same subject from the "Independent" Magazine Ist July 1992. Detailed report on the state of traditional Lidos with a short account of their history. Includes details of several, including Brockwell Park, which was then mothballed and now restored. Fascinating report.

London, Crosby Lockwood and Co "Scott's Farm Engineering Text-Books" 1897 (1894)

Weale's Scientific & Technical Series, Number 241. vi + 123pp illustrated with b/w illustrations and diagrams + 16pp catalogue at end of Weale's publications + 48pp Crosby Lockwood & Son's Catalogue Cloth Covered Boards with Black embossed lettering and design. Blue endpapers listing Weale's publications on architectural and building subjects Mark on reverse board c. 1cm in diameter, else a very good copy.

Wetherby Oblong Creative Ltd 2005

312pp illustrated with b/w plates. 4to. Very good copy in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. The only book on this key classicist architect who worked out of Bridlington, East Yorkshire. Reviews all his major country house projects and splendid churches. The book was printed in a very short print run and is thus very uncommon.

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

Chicago Kelmscott Gallery 1981

Exhibition catalogue, 64pp illustrated with b/w plates. Loosely inserted price list for the individual plates from the Wasmuth portfolio for sale at the time. This was a comprehensive selling exhibition.

New York: Horizon Press. 1959

Limited Edition 2000 copies. 255pp illustrated with 200 sketches and drawings, 75 in colour. Long 4to. Original embossed cloth, slightly scuffed and also there is some wear at head and base of spine. Preserved in glassine wrapper. Decorated end papers. Long 4to. From the library of James Baker FAIA. Published for the Bear Run Foundation and Edgar Kaufmann Charitable Foundation. Owner's gift Inscription from his mother. Published the year Frank Lloyd Wright died.

London The Architectural Association Mega IV 1987

144pp, illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Small folio. White wrappers with wrap around dust wrapper which is slightly scuffed. Produced to accompany an exhibition at the Architectural Association. Yerbury witnessed the rise of the modern movement and recorded it thus. One of the only publications documenting his life and work in this key period.

London Ecclesiological Society Transactions Volume 1 Part 5 1947

pagination runs pp 249-293. Stiff card lettered wraps with stamp on front of George G Pace. A R I B A Chartered Architect. (York). Works included Hall and Library, Red Lion Square, London, for the Ethical Society considered his best work.

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.

London and New York The Garden Office and 1882

Second edition. 152pp illustrated with 6 b/w plates [ six with tissue guards]. With embossed paper covered boards. TItles and spine lettering emboseed with decorative urn motif also on upper board. Very good copy. Boards possibly have been cleaned? Robinson advocates cremation over burial, at a time when cremation was essentially illegal. Robinson was latter to put into practice what he advocated and was instrumental in the founding of Golder's Green Crematorium and designed the gardens there, which replaced the traditional Victorian mourning graveyard with open lawn, flower beds, and woodland gardens.

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.

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.

Spire Books in association with the Georgian Group 2002

224pp illustrated with b/w plates. Colour laminated wrappers. Fine

Spire Books 2012

342pp illustrated. Very good with dust wrapper

Cambridge University Press, 1996;2000;2006.

xiv,435; xv,724; xv,727pp, 4to. Volume 1 and 2 are bound in laminated boards with house illustrations on each, Volume 3 is cloth with dust wrapper. All very good indeed. All illustrated with b/w photographs and some plans and line ills. Very useful gazetteer of major survivals from the period. The books assess the development of houses between the 11th and 16th centuries - from Norman to Tudor times. The archive of Anthony Emery, which comprises material that is the background to these comprehensive books, is held by Historic England at Swindon.

London Country Life 1914

i-xii, 260pp incl. 234 b/w illustrations. Folio Publisher's white buckram spine, boards with imitation wood finish. A key study of this master woodcarver as a designer and sculptor, exhaustively illustrated from the archives of Country Life. Rather worn edges.

Stockholm: Ab Tidskriften Byggmastaren 1950

241pp illustrated with photogravure plates, plans and elevations. 4to. Decorated paper covered boards, cloth spine with gilt lettered black spine label. Very good indeed. Hard to find. With photographs and plans of Asplund's major works, all in his native Sweden.