New York Abrams/The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1993

The Gilman Paper Company Collection. 408pp, 275 illustrations with 196 plates and 79 duotones. Most images printed single or double page with one gatefold. 4to. Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. Includes historical and critical essays with end section of notes on the individual photographs.

New York Letter Press American Lithographic Co. 1903

Unpaginated. [ 62pp] Paper wraps. Gold embossed title on upper cover. Landscape octavo. H19.8cm x W23.3cm First 8 pages, text, highlighting points of special interest for visitors, alongside available facilities at the hotel. Remainder of book, black and white photographs taken by George C. Boldt documenting the bedrooms, public and service areas of the hotel. A fascinating and illuminating item. Wraps a bit age worn and foxed, and all edges chipped. Internally, some foxing throughout and the latter pages are torn at the bottom right corner, approx, 2-4cm. Images and text not affected by these age appropriate flaws however. Very scarce.

Edinburgh & London William Blackwood 1893

136pp with some text ills as line drawings, 24pp catalogue of books on rural affairs. Green gilt lettered cloth with rabbit in gilt on upper board. Very good. On how to set up a warren for commercial ends, the book represents a revival in estate management of breeding rabbits for commercial purposes. Fascinating period item for those interested in the history of estate management and landscape design of large parkland landscapes as well as those closely interested in the rabbit.

Stuttgart : Institut für Leichte Flächentragwerke 1978

64 p. ill. Long 4to. 210 x 280mm. Decorated wrappers. Text in English. Useful study of his tensile structures around the world. Nicely produced.

London, The Architectural Press 1980

xi + (1) + 244pp illustrated with 138 b/w plates. Previous owner's bookplates on front paste down. Very good with very good dust wrapper. Hard to find monograph on Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-1878), the Gothic Revival specialist who was the dominant figure in English architecture in the middle years of the nineteenth century. An appendix lists 879 of his architectural commissions. From the library of David Gerald Francis Hinge whose bookplate is on the front paste down.

Chapel Hill The University of Carolina Press 1944

Frontis portrait of Patrick Geddes, xv + 504pp, b/w illustrations and figures including fold out plan. Large 8vo. Boards. Foreword by Lewis Mumford. A thorough and insightful biography and study of Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) life as well as his innovative ideas and action which have shaped town planning and urban sociology ever since. Hard to find.

Berlin Verlag Ernst Wasmuth 1926

177pp illustrated with 100s of b/w plates and some plans. Text in German. Key book for early theatre and cinema designs. Designers represented include Hans Poelzig, Oskar Kaufmann, Henry van de Velder, Max Littmann, Walter Gropius, A and H Perret. Large 4to. Gilt decorated red open weave cloth with gilt titles. Good copy but with some tiny paint spatters on cloth. Ownership name of Keith Murray faintly written on front end paper.

Boston, Toronto, London Bulfinch Press, Little Brown and Company 1992

236pp. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered black at the spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Produced alongside a touring exhibition Organised by the Dayton Art Institute, curated by co-author Marianne Lorenz. A very good copy. From the collection of Jonathan and Maggie Silver (although un-attributed)

London Pall Mall Press 1972

176pp. b/w ills throughout. Red cloth boards with white titles. Missing dust wrapper, a section of which is slipped into the book. Ex Library copy from the Department of the Environment Library. Covers a little grubby else good.

London Thames and Hudson 2006

400pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates and line ills. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Comprehensive on Eisenman's buildings and projects from House I (New Jersey) to the large sclae later works including the Memorial to Murdered Jews in Berlin 2015. The book includes contributed essays and critques by contemporary architects and writers.

London The Yale & Towne Co. 1908

Frontis of Premises, 168pp illustrated catalogue products of the firm comprising locks, keys and door furniture and including an introductory note and glossary of terms used in locksmithing. Cloth backed boards. Spine lettering rubbed. Upper board repeats title but is a bit worn. Preceding the main body of the catalogue is a 10pp comparative list of old and new numbers, alterations, and additions +discount sheet sent to Mr W T Whincup, 31 Claremont Terrace, York.

8 items: comprising export price lists with texts in English French and Spanish, April 1952, Price list for April 1952 revised price list April 1952, [ Campbell Horsfall written in pencil on upper wrapper], Retail price list April 1952. Whole Sale Price list September 1952, Export price list March 1953 and Gift Cases list from Ist June 1953 and leaflet "Prestige and Profit for You" a gatefold leaflet illustrate in colour, + typed letter concerning the end of rationing of beauty soaps. Mostly 4pp each. Decorated upper wrapper design. All from Yardley House, 33 Old Bond Street London

London 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. Only major account of his work. Good copy with slightly worn dust wrapper.

London Phaidon Press 1999

no pagination, colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Square 4to. Boards. All three were originally published in the 'Architecture in Detail' Series: McCarter, 'Robert, Frank Lloyd Wright: Fallingwater' (1994). Weston, Richard, 'Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea' (1992). Steele, James, 'Charles and Ray Eames: Eames House' (1994). Each house presented in this volume with photographs and detailed floorplans represents a high point in the œvre of their designers. Both Fallingwater and Villa Mairea were finished before the Second World War and display a luxurious approach to Modernism in contrast to Eames House (1994).

Cambridge, University Private Press 1968

vi + 48pp + 7 mounted sample sheets of work by Morison and Lewis. 12 b/w illustrations and 2 colour plates. Boards, covered with decorative paper design by Reynolds Stone. Fine, in sl chipped slipcase. Printed for his friends by the University Printer, Christmas 1968.