Hull A. Brown and Sons Ltd 1945

92pp text, 13 folded maps in colour, full page visionary sketches of the future city and 48 b/w plates documenting the city buildings and townscape. Large 4to. Vg copy in slightly worn dust wrapper. Hull was one of the most bomb-damaged cities in the North of England during WW2. Superb publication of the scheme to reconstruct the city and improve the Region. This copy supplied with its original posting box, this worn and split on the corners.

London Longmans 1961

x +371pp illustrated with frontispiece. Very good with slightly chipped dust wrapper.

New York Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1963

224pp. with many black and white photographic illustrations. Long 4to. Open weave cloth. Black spine lettering. An analysis of urban forms and functions by this notable post-modern landscape designer. Signed by Lawrence Halprin on half title in a bold hand.

Port Sunlight Printed by Lever Brothers Ltd., no date

24pp. Paper wrappers. Very good. Considers the nature of co-partnership or profit sharing. June 1912 The Hon. H.A. Stanhope residing. Lecture stating the principles of co-partnership by Lever who was a commitment advocate of this approach to business at Port Sunlight. Ownership stamp of D Burpee on upper wrapper.

London, His Majesty's Stationary Office 1947

[TANSLEY REPORT] v + 139pp. 8vo. Pamphlet. Previous owner's name, date and location in ink on front cover. Pocket on back cover missing items and reverse cover stained with rust marks from staples. Good copy otherwise of this important report.

London University of London 1932

xx, + 144pp. Frontispiece, 6 folding maps, 44 plates, 3 text plans. Large 4to. Cloth. In unclipped and fine dust wrapper.

London Sociological Publications Ltd, Edinburgh Patrick Geddes and Colleagues Bombay, The Modern Publishing Company 1923

6th edition. 198pp Paper decorated wrappers. Very good although small tear at base of the spine. Printed at the Huxley Press, Madras.

London, published by the organisation 1946

234pp. Stiff card wraps. Small 4to. Very good copy. Congress held 7-12 October 1946. Focus was on post war reconstruction. Papers were read relating to Exeter, London, Rotterdam,Liege, Warsaw and France in general. Contributors included Patrick Abercrombie, Thomas Sharp, Sir George Pepler,Catherine Bauer, Baston Bardet, Uno Ahren,H G van Beusekom, Netherlands and many others. The findings represent a great gathering of minds in the immediate post-war period where post war reconstruction and planning issues were discussed. A major group of papers were given over to the approaches to implementation.

HMSO 1951

43pp, illustrated with bw photographs and detailed miniature floor plans. Paper wrappers. Very good. Reports on student housing, hostels, housing for the elderly and disabled, and the housing needs of district nurses.

London Knight and Co. 1889

115pp + diagrams of work house layouts etc. Also c 12pp period ads printed on contrasting grey paper and including yellow end paper with adverts. Cloth with gilt titles. Very slightly rubbed at head and base of spine and corners else very good copy. Royal 8vo. Fascinating on the design of the buildings written at a time where approaches to the poor and under privileged were being addressed by the new class of professional architects in association with those in local government who were involved in the planning and regulation of housing and cities.

Letchworth First Garden City Ltd., nd c1930

88pp, illustrated with b/w plates and with a large fold out plan at the end. Decorated wrappers in colour illustrating Letchworth on upper wrapper and advertising land for sale on verso. Illustrated wrappers by Fardon. Very good. Illustrations include elevations and plans of houses constructed as well as the major buildings of Letchworth including the shopping centre, Spirella factory, museum and St Christopher's School. Hard to find in this condition and reveals the effort made in the interwar period to promote Letchworth as a garden city.

Letchworth Office of the First Garden City Ltd. [1937] no date

24pp, 13 sepia illustrations, 10 of which are tipped in. Long 4to. Ribbon tied. Paper wrappers illustrated with woodcut of Letchworth in colour. Wrappers slightly worn. Some annotations in pen, possibly corrections to the text made by the Estate Office. Hard to find. Interwar promotion for Lethworth.

London Hambledon & London 2004

440 pp. 29 plates, 30 text illustrations, 15 maps, 4 tables. 8vo. Good, although small tear in dust jacket. For several hundred years Norwich ranked as England's second city. This multi-authored, extended book is the first for many years and includes the richness of the city's history and archaeology.

Newcastle City and Council of Newcastle Upon Tyne 24th March 1961

46pp. B/w photographs, maps, diagrams and line drawings throughout. 4to Cloth-backed laminate boards. Very slight wear at spine edges else very good. Detailed report of redevelopment proposals for the Newcastle Central Area, supported by fold-out maps and diagrams. Brief introduction and background to history and character of the area. Written by then-City Planning Officer.

Edinburgh William Hodge & Co Ltd for the Scottish Women's Group on Public Welfare 1944

45pp. Wrappers slightly worn else good.

Architectural Press 1939

138pp illus. with b/w ills and plates. Small 4to. Red lettered cloth, sl. sunned and worn at top of spine and some foxing sporadically found throughout and on book block. A good copy otherwise, of this key text on air raid attacks and methods for countering these. Based on the investigation of structural protection against air raid attack in the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury. Bookplate on front paste down: "The Final Examination, Qualifying for Candidature as Associate. RIBA. The Ashpitel Prize, 1938 awarded to George Gaze Pace."

London, Faber and Faber Ltd 1945

54pp. Wrappers. 8vo. Edited with an introduction and comments by R. L. Reiss. Drawn from work related to Rowntrees' studies first published in Poverty and Town Life and other publications, which Reiss suggests were not well enough circulated because of the outbreak of World War II. Hard to find.

Nelson Nelson Pocket edition no date c1912-13

2nd edition. Good with slightly worn dust wrapper. xx + 496pp. Includes tables in the text. 16mo. Decorated end papers. Nelson shilling library series thus making accessible the findings of the original study.

London Published by the author 1925

57pp, 14 plates and diagrams and a fold out plan. Large 4to. Wrappers. A little worn on spine else good copy. Aimed at improving housing conditions and facilities for the large mining population of Consett. Hard to find. Useful inter-war planning approach for the area revealled.