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Micahel Graves
Academy Editions Architectural Monographs no 5 1979
112pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Decorated coloured wraps. Very good indeed. Includes a useful range of his projetcs and built schemes. Critical essay by Alan Colquhoun
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Miss Helewell's Estate: Plans & Details of the house for you
Bradford Published by the firm nd c1930
Promotional booklet for Miss Helewell's Estate, Triangle Odsal, Bradford. 8pp including plan of the layout of the estate which was for a series of semi detached houses. Green decorated wrappers. Fascinating period piece with plans of the houses. One of the few such publications I have seen where the developer was a woman.
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Mixed Moments
London Olympus/Bailey 1976
142pp illustrated. 4to. 305 x 220mm; Very good in dust wrapper, this has some edgewear and a small chip on verso of dust wrapper. Signed in pencil on front end paper with David Bailey's signature. From the collection of Jonathan Silver without ownership signature.
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Mobel aus Kunststoff
Exhibition Catalogue October 1990- March 1992
1990
42 pp, illustrated with colour plates. Text in German. Spiral bound, glassine wrapper with white titles. Good copy. Text in German, English and French.
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Modern Architecture:
Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930
Princton University Press, Published by Published for the Department of Art and Archaeology 1931
First edition. Original decorated glazed paper over boards (after a design by Wright), 4to, 114pp, (2) pp and 6 halftone plates. Portrait. Typographic end sheets by Wright. First edition. Sweeney 250. The lectures covered 1. Machinery, Materials and Men: 2. Style in Industry: 3. The Passing of the Cornice: 4. The Cardboard House: 5. The Tyranny of the Skyscraper: and 6. The City. Ex library copy preserving original boards although these edge worn and rather chipped. Former owner's stamp and class marks on front free end paper. Key text for understanding Frank Lloyd Wright's approach to modernism - effectively a polemical text on the subject.
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Modern Memorial Brasses 1880-2001
Donnington Shaun Tyas 2008
302pp illustrated. 8vo. Fine in dust wrapper. From the collection of Gavin Stamp with his book ticket on front paste down. The only book on modern memorial brasses. It covers the history of the trade is set within the context of the ecclesiological developments of the period and the general decline in the use of memorials for commemoration within church building during the twentieth-century. Additionally, there is a checklist of the most significant late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century brasses.
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Modern Practical Masonry
A Comprehensive Treatise on the Practice of the Various Branches of the Craft: General, Monumental, Marble and Granite: For the use of Craftsmen, Students, Teachers, Builders, & Architects.
Stock ID: 22288More details Price: £80.00
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Modern Theatres and Cinemas
London B.T. Batsford (The Architecture of Pleasure; 1) 1930
viii + 39 +[1]pp, 116 b/w photographs, 12 plans. 4to. Beige open-weave cloth with green lettering. Lettering lightly faded on spine else very good. Photographic plates clean and bright. Important book on cinema and theatre design with numerous interior and exterior shots and several plans. Covers Modern Pleasure, The Modern Theatre, The Social Function of the Cinema, The Cinema Considered as a Building, Façades, Foyers and Auditoriums, Plans and Sections. Loosely inserted 4pp fold out list of recent Batsford publications on architecture.
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Modern Typography: An essay in critical history
London Hyphen 1992
206pp Wrappers with fold in flaps. Sm 4to. Good copy. Essays which cover the history of Western typography, from the time (c.1700 in France and England) when it can be said to have become 'modern'. The essays each focus on different cultures in different times, to trace the developments and shifts in modern typography. First edition
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Moderne Danske Hjem/Modern Danish Homes
Kobenhaven Host & Sons Forlag 1953
140pp illustrated with b/w plates showing room settings and furniture designs. FLimsy wrappers. Slightly worn else good
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Moderne Danske Hjem / Modern Danish Homes
Københaen Høst & Søn Forlag 1953
141pp + [2]pp. Review of modern home furnishings. Grainy b/w plates with texts in English and Danish. Decorated wrappers, A little worn at edges else good copy.
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Monel Metal Sink Units:
Catalogue of Standard Models + 4 related pamphlets promoting the installation of the sinks.
Stock ID: 21196More details Price: £65.00
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Monumental Effigies of Great Britain :
selected from our cathedrals and churches for the purpose of bringing together and preserving correct representations of the best historical illustrations extant, from the Norman conquest to the reign of Henry the Eighth / by C. A. Stothard ; with historical descriptions and notes by Alfred John Kempe, F.S.A. A new edition, with large additions by John Hewitt, esq
Stock ID: 22645More details Price: £375.00
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Moot Points
Friendly disputes upon Art & Industry between Walter Crane and Lewis Day
London B. T. Batsford 1903
94pp with line illustrations in the text. Decorated wrappers, water marked else good copy. A discourse on whether hand made objects should be made by the craftsman who designed them or produced more widely by assistants or through industrial production. A key issue amongst craft workers men and women alike.
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Moulds for Cast Stone and Concrete Products
With Design for Garden Ornaments by T. Raffles Davison
London Concrete Publications Limited 1957
96pp with numerous black and white diagrams and illustrations by T. Raffles Davison. Long Octavo. 25cm x 18.2cm. Blue Paper Wrappers. Fine. With only slight damage to top 1.5cm of spine. First Edition printed 1930. This is the 4th reprint. An informative and practical publication presenting detailed working drawings of a wide range of common shapes produced in cast stone and concrete.
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Mr. Loudon's England.
Oriel Press, 1970.
224pp, 99 b/w ills. 8vo. Good copy in slightly worn dw. 'The Life and Works of John Claudius Loudon' plus his influence on architecture and furniture design.'
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Mummy's Bedtime Story Book
London, Cecil Palmer nd [1929]
56pp illustrated with eleven full-page illustrations and others on text pages Recent paper covered boards with original pictorial printed paper covered boards pasted onto them and the spine to make a good copy. Original yellow, blue & white pictorial endpapers. Red pencil name of owner in the past largely erased but has left a very faint mark on half title page.
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Neue Deutsche Baukunst
Berlin, Volk und Reich Verlag 1940
First edition. 105pp illustrated with b/w plates throughout. 4to Paper backed boards . A little rubbed on spine else good. The book surveys major architectural schemes of Nazi Germany. Useful introduction on the history of buildings conceived in the 1930s with superb photographs of the neo-classical and monumental Berlin, Munich schemes etc. Hard to find. Text in German. Bookplate of Walter und Susanne Garreis.
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New Ideal Estate at Formby - Promotional Brochure
London Ideal Building Corporation/New Ideal Homesteads Ltd undated c1960
8pp brochure for a new estate called Victoria Park located between Freshfield and Formy on the Southport to Lliverpool Railway line. Promoting a new commuter suburban estate of Metroland type with cottage homes.
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Newhills: Annals of a Parish
Aberdeen: Henry Munro Ltd, 1934.
68pp illustrated with b/w plates andcolour fold out map at end of book showing area surroudning Newhills Small 4to. Deckle edged paper. Gilt lettered blue cloth. Fine copy. Useful for images of the buildings of this Parish.
Stock ID: 1523More details Price: £35.00