Liverpool City Council 1914 1914

iii + 105pp with additional full page b/w plates from photographs. Also with plans (including folded frontispiece which is a birds eye view of the Bevington Area ) and diagrams. Jubilee Year report documenting progress made in dealing with deplorable housing conditions. Decorated wrappers, dusty and worn at edges. Internally sound. Very useful statistical information on housing projects built under the 1864 Liverpool Sanitary Amendment Act.

Gland, Switzerland IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. 1986

295pp. . Contains many black and white images and drawings. 8vo. Wrapper and contents in very good condition. Essentially a study of methods of protection and administration of legislation for the natural environment.

London Souvenir Magazines Ltd. nd. (c. 1930)

viii + 183pp. with b/w illus, photos, and period adverts. 8vo in cushioned imitation morocco with gilt script title on front. Only very slight rubbing to front joint, all together a very good and bright copy. A lovely and illuminating almanac from the turn of the century, filled with rich cultural material such as practical instructions for papering a house, appropriate diets for children of all ages, and adverts selling houses (£395!). From a housing perspective the best part of this is the hundreds of adverts for speculative housing estate houses in the Wilmslow, Heaton Chapel, Hazel Grove etc areas of Manchester. Rather like similar Metroland publications produced in parallel in the south east.

London Lund Humphries and Co Ltd 1938

117pp, spiral bound, stiff boards with map of Britain on the upper board. 4to. Good copy. Slight wear to head of spiral binding. Signature of previous owner on title page.

London, Academy Editions. 1981

160 pp, b&w and col. ill. throughout. Nr fine long 8vo. in vg. wrappers. From the library of Charles Knevitt. Bilingual text in English and Spanish. Monograph on the Argentinian architect known for his post-modern designs, with a particular emphasis on his work in city planning. The majority of plans represented here are concerned with his vision for Córdoba, where he has held the position of Secretary of Public Works at the City Council.

London, Lund Humphries 1957

xx + 226pp with 11 b/w plates. Cloth. Very Good. Inscribed copy. A fascinating biography of this pioneer of sociology and civic experiment.

London, Lund Humphries for the RIBA 1943

80 pp. inc. b&w ills. throughout. Good clean copy. In wraps, Good copy. War-time production, as evidenced by two types of paper used. Published in February 1943 to accompany the 'Rebuilding Britain' Exhibition at the National Gallery, London. An accessible text that aims to involve ordinary members of the public in the reconstruction efforts of the nation at this time. Appendices include a synopsis of the work of the RIBA reconstruction committee, information on building practices and legislation of the time, as well as a bibliography for the common reader on architecture, design and town planning. An excellent example of a publication aiming to promote the history and principles of town and regional planning to the widest general audience.

London Royal Institute of British Architects 1939

79pp lxi advertisements. B/W plates. Small 4to. Illustrated paper wrappers Some shelf-wear otherwise good. Exhibition Handbook number 9. A well illustrated overview of early road planning from an architectural point of view.

London Allen Lane The Penguin Press 1967

First Edition. [5] half title page, i-xxix, 474 [6]pp + 7 tables. Original end papers. Paste down with label of previous owner, reads "Winston Barnett, Architect." Original cloth spine and contrasting blue paper boards with silver gilt design of outlined group of figures. Spine with similar silver gilt lettered title and author's name. Original paper dust jacket. Vg, with some fading to the dust jacket. This book is a study made by the author who lived for two years as a participant observer in the newly built town of Levittown in New Jersey in order to examine how new suburban communities come into being and what effect leaving the city has on the occupants.