Swarthmore, PA, by the Author [1944] 1947

128pp with b/w photographs and diagrams throughout. 4to. Gilt lettered cloth, vg, with light shelf wear at corners and head of spine. Shelf mark on spine and library stamp on rear end paper from Morton Sundour Co. Inc. New York. Lacks front end paper. All patterns are classed according to type and illustrated. 3rd printing, signed by the author on fep. The book indicates the expansion of the UK market into the American one.

London Robert Sandelson, Five Cork St, W1S 3NY 2004

77(+2)pp. Many colour illustrations. 8vo black illustrated wrappers + slipcase with gilt title, minor bump to the head and base of the spine, else very good indeed. Profusely illustrated exhibition catalogue, published on the occasion of the 2004 exhibition of Erté's fashion and stage designs spanning the inter-war period held at Robert Sandelson. Loosely inserted prices list. Fold out, depicting Erté's illustrated alphabet made up of human forms (this work was started in 1932 and not fully completed until 1967). Foreword by Stella McCartney, outlines how Erté has influenced her work, thus giving a contemporary angle to this type of Art Deco illustration.

London, The Hasslewood Books, Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1930

69 + [5]pp Half title, 14 stencil-coloured plates by Thomas Lowinsky. Slim folio. Original cloth-backed patterned paper boards, One of 150 copies of Batchelor Kelmscott Paper. This copy numbered 85 Book ticket of Pamela and Raymond Lister on front paste down. Very good copy.

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1975. 1975

Unpaginated. Finely created images, illustrated in b&w. First Paperback Edition. Square 4to The follow-up to Bill Owens' much sought-after cult classic, "Suburbia". Documents groups such as the Freemasons, Odd Fellows, Jaycees, John Birch Society, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Rotary Club, Lions Club, Foresters, Job's Daughters, Toastmasters, De Molay, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, League of Women Voters, American Bowling Congress, Parents Without Partners, the Avon Bottle Club, and many more and focuses on North California. Signed with strident hand on half title.

New York Whitney Library of Design 1963

252pp illustrated with 100s of b/w plates and a few in colour. Large 4to. Cloth Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. International survey of hotel designs. Each chapter is accompanied by a photo portfolio of a particular hotel or motel design. a book for designers of hotels. Super period piece for the 1950s and 1960s.

Independent Curators INC 1991

72pp b/w illustrations, colour image reproduced from the Shift which is a fold out. 4to holographic wrapper, slightly rubbed in places else a good copy. Catalogue to accompany the travelling exhibition of artists' responses to the AIDS crisis Includes a dialogue between Robert Atkins and Thomas W. Sokolowski on the art world's role in invoking the American psyche of the time + a pop-out timeline of the AIDS crisis.

México, D.F. Artes Gráficas Panorama 1979

189pp which are mainly illustrations + portrait, plans ; 25 cm. Lettered boards in good custom designed slipcase. Text in Spanish and English. Edited by Xavier Girón; translated by Monica Marelli Bego-Ghina and Luis Ramirez Miranda. One of 2000 copies. Fascinating insights into the early wrk of Macotela showing his often Brutalist and elsewhere modernist tendencies.

Philadelphia, J. B Lippincott Company 1930

viii, 39, [1] pages including plans frontispiece, plates 27 cm. 4to. Open weave yellow cloth with black lettering. Rear inner hinge a little shaky else very good with good but slightly worn dust wrapper. Hard to find in the dust wrapper which contributes to the art deco style of this book. Dedicated to Oscar Kauffman and other photographers and contributors also noted. USA edition. Published in parallel with The Architecture of Pleasure 1 - Modern Theatres and Cinemas by Batsford in the UK.

London, B. T. Batsford 1925

ix + 221pp illus. with b/w photographs. Effectively the first. A part reissue of Old West Surrey which Jekyll wrote in 1904 and into which additional material including illustrations was added. Cloth with gilt lettering. Very bright copy although end papers a little browned. Jekyll had takent an interest in disappearing country crafts, which led to her collecting old household implements and recording their use. Her book Old West Surrey includes her photographs of illustrations and the old crafts and cottages she had seen in her travels around Surrey. This latter addition reproduces some of these alongside new material. 29 editions of this version were printed upto 1975. With boookplate of Colin Amery on front paste down.

London Longmans, Green and Co 1926

Reissue. of the first edition of 1900. xv + 301pp with 53 illustrations from photographs by the author. 8vo. Decorated lettering in gilt on spine andupper board. Head and base of spine a little worn, corners and edges rubbed. Spine a little faded else good. Initially written after the favourable reception of Jekyll's first book, Wood and Garden. From the collection of Colin Amery with his bookplate

Country Life 1913

5th edition. 177pp, colour frontis with tissue guard + many b/w photographic plates. Cloth sl. rubbed. White lettered titles on upper board, and gilt lettered spine. Previous owners name scribbled out on front end paper.

Country Life 1954

175pp illus. with c50 plates incl. major schemes by Tilden such as his scheme at Port Lympe begun by Herbert Baker, un-built work for Selfridge, Chartwell, Saltwell Castle and other projects. Good copy. Only major account of his work. Signature of Colin Amery on front paste down with a note "Colin Amery Uppingham; while staying at Deene June 2006"

London Phaidon [1995] 2000

256 pages illustrated. Square 4to. Wrappers with silvered over wrappers simulating the aluminium work which Grimshaw was known for in his early career. Colin Amery's own copy. Nicholas Grimshaw is ranked alongside Sir Norman Foster and Sir Richard Rogers as a leading figure of the high-tech movement in British architecture. This book reviews the early work of the Grimshaw. Superb documentary photographs supported by Amery's text. Volume 2 of a series on the work of the firm which extends to four volumes.

London Laurence King 2002

225pp illustrated with 128 b/w plates. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Many full page plates support this comprehensive study of all aspects of Saarinen's practice. Sections on 'Creating', 'Dwelling', 'Building' amongst others. Attractive study.

London Art & Technics 1951

84pp Decorated boards, cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine. Small 4to. Very bright copy. Text + section of wood engravings. Images include historical and contemporary examples. Artists and their dates noted. Include Gordon Craig, Ethelbert White, Edward Wadsworth, Eric Ravilious, and his contemporaries. Many full page examples with striking effect. Book printed at The Shenval Press. No dust wrapper.

London The Architectural Press 1961 Fifth impression 1968

315pp illustrated with line ills by the author and b/w plates. Small 4to. Vg with dust jacket designed by the author. Spine of dust wrapper slightly faded and worn else very good copy. Class mark from a private library on spine of dust wrapper. Based largely on Cullen's work which first appeared in Architectural Review. From the library of Colin Amery. His name in pencil on paste down.