London J M Dent and Sons Limited 1962

125pp + illus with head and tale pieces and full page monotone line illustrations by David Gentleman. Candy stripped boards with overprinted glassine dust wrapper. Very good copy. Kendall worked for Vogue and here provides a comprehensive guide to home making with style colour and atmosphere. Includes detailed chapters on curtains and covers.

Historic England , RIBA Publishing Twentieth Century Architects Series. 2017.

218pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Stiff card wrappers. Very good. Signed on title page by Geraint, dedicated to Peter [ Hirschmann].

London Thames and Hudson 2002

256pp illustrated. Very good with dust wrapper. Themed around western attempts to invent the perfect city, cradle of the ideal society. Coves architecture and town planning but also art, literature, philosophy and politics, this book takes us through the imaginary environments of a wide variety of fascinating and often controversial movements and figures, including Plato, Filtrete, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas More, Thomas Jefferson, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Robert Owen, William Morris, Ebenezer Howard, Bruno Taut, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright et. al. Useful and well illustrated introductory text.

London Transport 1937

72pp illustrated with b/w plates. Small 8 vo. Wrappers. Vg in slightly dusty dust wrapper. A scarce guide to London, which takes its reader on a tour of places connected with famous British figures. nearly 600 people are indexed, there are illustrations from photographs and paintings.

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 Chapman and Hall 1915

Rare first edition of Voysey's book which records the principles that was the basis of his work. Rare. The essence of this book is best described in Voysey's own words: "I have written these chapters in the earnest hope of encouraging my fellowmen to believe and feel the creative spirit within each an every one , which while stimulating though leads on to mutual sympathy and true union..." Ex Manchester Public Library copy in green library binding. Embossed stamp on title page and a few other pages. Class mark on green rexene binding. Rebinding project?

The Drawing Centre, 1989.

336pp, 36 col. illus. b/w photographs, plans and drawings. This is the first single-volume catalogue of all Jones' 93 surviving architectural drawings. Each drawing is accompanied by full technical descriptions and commentary. Wraps.

London RIBA 1929

34pp. 8vo Paper wrapper,slight rubbing + small tear to the base of the spine otherwise good. Catalogue for the exhibition held at R.I.B.A Galleries, Conduit Street 1929. The aim of the exhibition was to prove that commercial architecture could be good architecture and there are lists of major new commercial developments in the catalogue. 351 items including cinemas, garages, offices etc drawn from world wide locations.

New Haven and London Yale University Press 1985

362pp. illustrated throughout in b/w photographs and a few colour illustrations. 4to. Cloth boards with gilt title lettering on spine. Very good copy in original dust wrapper and archival, plastic cover.

Donnington, Shaun Tyas 2003

viii + 176pp illus with 109 b/w plates and 20 colour image. 4to. As new with dust wrapper. Published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of this architect's birth. Work of James Marjoribanks MacLaren (1853-1890). Pioneer in the design of Scottish Roughcast vernacular . This study covers his work in Stirling, London, Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and at Fortinghall in Perthshire where he was involved in the construction of a range of houses, village buildings and a hotel. The book sets his work in the context of his contemporaries including Mackintosh, Voyset, Prior and Lethaby. Fascinating study of an architect about whom few records survive.

Cambridge University Press [1996]

1997 reprint xviii, 350pp + 19pp colour plates. Illustrated throughout with 300 b/w images. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Study of this architect and landscape designer whose work has been largely overlooked until this study. He was a nomadic figure having left France at the time of the French Revolution living in many parts of Europe and America. Fabulous record of his wonderful drawings showing his proposed layouts for many parks and gardens as well as his domestic and public building projects.

Paris, Editions Vincent Freal & Co (1925) 1959 Collection de "L'Esprit Nouveau" 1959

218pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. throughout. Decorated wraps. Overprinted glassine wrap present but slightly torn. Vg indeed. Revised edition of one of the original L'Esprit Nouveau, promoting the works n ideas of Le Corbusier and his contemporaries.

London Lund Humphries 1963

72pp illustrated with 68 b/w photographs by Bernhard Moosbrugger. Suare 4to. Very good in dust wrapper. La Tourette was built for the Dominican order. It was his last religious building scheme

London Crosby Lockwood and Son 1880

2nd edition ix + 252pp illustrated with bw line illustrations in the text + 32pp catalogue of publications by Crosby Lockwood bound in at the end. Decorated end papers with further details on the Weale's series of publications. Blind stamped cloth with gilt title on upper board and paper label which is very worn. Internally a very good copy.