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Village Housing in the Tropics
with special reference to West Africa
Stock ID: 22193More details Price: £125.00
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Villages of Vision
London The Architectural Press Ltd 1975
152pp illustrated with b/w plates. Large 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. Hard to find and comprehensive study of model settlements in the UK, particularly Estate Villages. It throws light upon the ideas of philanthropy which surrounded their construction and many important aspects of rural social history. Useful gazetteer at the end. Ownership signature of the late "Stewart Evans" on front end paper.
Stock ID: 21258More details Price: £65.00 -
Vladivostok
A Trilogy
New York Rizzoli International Publications, 1989
272pp illustrated. Decorated wrappers. Small stain on upper wrapper else a very good copy Text in English and Russian. Loosely inserted is an invitation to a memorial to him to be held at The Cooper Union Foundation Building and an associated printed letter sent out to Alumni.
Stock ID: 21688More details Price: £300.00 -
Volpone or the Fox
Oxford The Limited Edition Club 1952
Pages uncut. Designed by Francis Meynell. Illustrated by René Ben Sussan with the plates hand-coloured through stencils by Maurice Beaufume in France. Of a total of 1500 copies,signed by the artist on the colophon page, this copy is not numbered. Largely unopened. Very good protected by plain rust coloured dust wrapper.
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Vorbildliche Glasmalereien aus dem späten Mittelalter und der Renaissancezeit
Stock ID: 16156More details Price: £495.00
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Walking in Circles
London Thames and Hudson 1991
To accompany an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. Long 4to. 263pp Illustrated throughout in black and white and colour. Very good with dust wrapper. Signed by Richard Long on half title. An Interview with Richard Long by Richard Cork. From the collection of Jonathan Silver.
Stock ID: 22535More details Price: £100.00 -
Warhol in China:
Hatje Cantz Verlag; Bilingual edition 2013
312pp illustrated with b/w plates. Boards, red spine. Very good copy. Photographs from a trip Warhol made in 1982 to Beijing, via Hong Kong. He recorded his impressions in brief journal entries while at the same time taking photographs. He first visited Hong Kong and recorded the colonial and commercial city and then went on to Communist China at a moment when it was on the verge of an enormous transition and these images capture the city just before massive redevelopment and commercialism.
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Warwick: Its preservation and redevelopment:
A plan for the Borough of Warwick
London The Architectural Press 1949
152pp illustrated with fold-out maps and plans and including b&w plates, text illustrations etc. The end papers are maps. 4to. In slightly chipped dust wrapper designed by Herbert Spencer. From the collection of Gerald Dix with his signature. Produced at the same time as the plan for Leamington Spa. It was produced in book form rather than a plan. It includes a substantial historical section, survey of conditions and proposals for the future of the town. The approach to townscape preservation is typical of the period and as an historical document is insightful on approach to historic towns when significance and layout were less well understood than they are today.
Stock ID: 20895More details Price: £30.00 -
Welwyn, Hertfordshire
Stock ID: 21425More details Price: £170.00
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Weston's Westons: Portraits and Nudes
Boston, New York, Toronto, London Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in association with Bullfinch Press / Little, Brown and Company 1989
139pp. 145 tritone photographs (70 full size and 75 smaller illustrations). Square quarto. Grey cloth boards with silver embossed titles. Original wrappers. Very good. Pubilshed on the occasion of a major travelling exhibition of Weston's portraits and nudes. These were drawn from the collection of William H. Lane. Contributions from Alan Shestack (preface) and Carl Sahn (production note).
Stock ID: 22542More details Price: £60.00 -
When We Build Again
A study based on research into conditions of living and working in Birmingham.
London, George Allen & Unwin, 1941
xii + 138pp. With 10 plans and maps in colour, 42 photographic illustrations, tables and ground plans in text. 4to. Green cloth. Good copy with slightly worn dust wrapper which is chipped at the head of the spine.. From the collection of Gerald Dix with his signature on the front end paper. Looks at Birmingham as a microcosm of issues relating to design of cities and including overcrowding in the city centre, lack of open spaces, inappropriate housing, the urgent need for new traffic systems.
Stock ID: 20893More details Price: £35.00 -
Where the Great City Stands: a study in the new civics
London The Essex House Press 1917
xii + 165 + (3)pp + 80 plates. 4to. Decorative boards, cloth spine. Good copy but blank front end paper removed. 4to A plea by Ashbee to incorporate the ideals of the Arts and Crafts Movement into city planning and urban life. Ownership inscription on half title of William Porter. FRSA.
Stock ID: 21551More details Price: £265.00 -
Wilfredo Lam
Madrid, Poligrafa 1983
284pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. . 4to. Very good with very good dust wrapper.
Stock ID: 22263More details Price: £30.00 -
William Blake's Illuminated Books
Stock ID: 22537More details Price: £250.00
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William Burges and the High Victorian Dream
London John Murray, 1981
454 pages illustrated with b/w plates. Slightly shop soiled but very Good in Fine dust wrapper. First edition of this comprehensive reference book on William Burges.
Stock ID: 22702More details Price: £75.00 -
William Burges and the High Victorian Dream
London John Murray, 1981
454 pages illustrated with b/w plates. Fine in Fine dust wrapper. First edition of this comprehensive reference book on William Burges. Scarce.
Stock ID: 22450More details Price: £85.00 -
William Kent: Landscape Designers : an assessment and catalogue of his designs
London Zwemmer 1987
Architects in Perspective Series: Series Editor Peter Willis. 176pp illus with b/w line ills. Long 4to. Fine in dw. Comes with custom made cardboard box for protection. First book devoted soley to the garden designs of William Kent. Includes a catalogue Raisonné (115 items) of rleated landscape design drawings.
Stock ID: 22422More details Price: £35.00 -
William Richard Lethaby
The Architectural Press 1986
320pp illus. with b/w plates and line ills. Major assessment of Lethaby's multi faceted carer as an architect, conservationist and educationalist. Square 4to. Very good in dust wrapper.
Stock ID: 22039More details Price: £60.00 -
William Roberts Some Early Abstract & Cubist Work 1913-1920
London A Canale Production 1957
16pp text + 12 pages of b/w plates. One of 400 copies, unnumbered. 4to. Yellow lettered boards. Very good copy. Some striking Vorticist images are included in this lovely publication.
Stock ID: 21996More details Price: £48.00 -
Willliam Roberts ARA
Retropspective Exhibition.
London Arts Council 1965
Colour frontispiece (Trafalgar Square, 1952) 30pp, 23 b/w plates. Large 8vo yellow card wrappers, minor creases at the edges, else very good indeed. Cover design by Roberts. Profusely illustrated catalogue for the exhibition held at Tate Gallery - Nov 20th - Dec 19th, 1965, Laing Art Gallery - Jan 1st - 22nd, 1966, Whitworth Art Gallery - Jan 29th - Feb 19, 1966.
Stock ID: 21994More details Price: £20.00