New York Oxford University Press 1984

256pp illustrated with b/w plates, line ills and plans. Square 4to. Very good copy with very good dust wrapper. Twelve contributions by Christopher Alexander, Edward Cullinan, Giancarlo De Carlo, Ralph Erskine, Eldred Evans and David Shalev, Norman Foster, Denys Lasdun, Leslie Martin, Alison and Peter Smithson, James Stirling, Jorn Utzon and Aldo Van Eyck.

Cambridge Mass MIT Press

506pp. Wrappers. Very good copy. Dalibor Vesely proposes an alternative to the narrow vision of contemporary architecture as a discipline that can be treated as an instrument or commodity. In doing so, he offers an account of the ontological and cultural foundations of modern architecture. Loosely inserted newspaper article about Vesely.

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.

New York Museum of Modern Art, distributed by Doubleday & Company. 1958

126pp illustrated with b/w plates and one colour images on cardboard with cut outs. Articles by Jean Hans Arp, Richard Huelsenbeck, Robert Melville, Carola Giedion-Wilcker. 4to. Very good but with slightly worn dust wrapper.

Letchworth, Herts The Country Gentleman's Association Ltd., 1914

144pp period ads b/w plates. Small long 8vo. Red boards with b/w pastedown of bungalow and black titles on upper board. Some slight shelf-wear otherwise good. Includes chapters on the Garden City movement, interiors, thatched houses and cottages, farm buildings and garden design in relation to buildings. Illustrations are in black and drawn mainly from buildings at Letchworth, Hampstead Garden Suburb, rural Sussex. Buckinghamshire etc. Each has a descriptive caption and in some cases locations exactly given. Section of period ads at the end of the book.

Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park 2000

pp[76]. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. 230 xx 300mm. Original publisher's illustrated red stiff overprinted card covers, lettered cream on spine. Signed on title page by De Vries in pencil and dated 2000. Internationally praised Dutch artist Auke de Vries is known for his small, linear sculptures and drawings.

London Fanfrolico Press nd 1930

Unpaginated. Forty-two poems .Translated by Jack Lindsay and decorations by Edward Bawden. 235 x 155mm Blue cloth blind stamped patchwork pattern to boards. T.E.G. Printed on Charles I paper by the Fanfrolico Press. Limited edition no 71 of 400. Spine sunned else very good copy. Illustrations in black and white.

London London Sampson Low, Searle & Rivington Ltd 1882

v +115pp illustrated with frontis + initial letters representing some aspect of the houses described. Small 8vo. Decorated paper covered boards. Internally book. These are dusty and a little worn. The book describes 12 artists' houses including, Sassoon, Leighton, Hazeltine, William Burgess, Morrison, Alma Tadema and The British Embassy in Rome and Villa Campana. Attractive book which is sought after because of the artist houses represented.

London The New English Library 1983

126pp illustrated with b/w photographs by McCullin with portrait frontis of McCullin By Terence Donovan. Very good with very good dust wrapper.

Oxford The University Press 1923

100pp. Paper cover boards, cloth spine with paper label. All edges untrimmed. Some gatherings uncut. Very good indeed. A few illustrations support the text. Scarce.

Boston Shambhala 1979

viii + 120pp illustrated with b/w plates. Square 4to. Decorated wrappers with colour photographs. A little rubbed along spine and tips of corners else good copy. From the collection of Winston Barnett with his ownership ticket on inner wrapper. Filled with quotes, drawings, photographs and the inspiration for his many visionary projects it reveals Kahn as a master of creative thinking as well as design. This is the first edition of this book. It was reprinted in 2008 with a revised introduction.

London Architectural Association Box 4 2004

[14] pamphlet with introductory text and large colour images + 18 large colour plates. Large square 4to in presentation box with decorated colour title on front. Box is a little dusty with small nick on lower edge else very good copy. The 18 plates are each composed of nine Polaroid images that can be assembled in any arrangement to form a composite work, called Nine Times. The images on these plates were the most controversial of Holmes' work at the time of publication, in both form and content: unlikely combinations of fragments of contemporary living -- urban waste, trucks, flowers, animals and images culled from the TV screen.

Manchester J Heywood 1857

80pp 12mo. Blue decorated paper wrappers Very good. Wrappers a little dusty. Written in Lancashire dialect, one of a series of books written to explore Manchester and Lancashire people and places including Yetton Park, The Mechanic's Institute and other places. This particular volume explore the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. Humorous account but insightful on how ordinary people responded to the exhibition. Uncommon.

London Gowans and Gray 1911

149pp, coloured frontispiece and 17 colour plates each with captioned tissue guards. 4to 255 x 195 mm, Olive green gilt decorated binding with paste down image by King on upper board. Top edge gilt. Free end papers browned. Some brown spotting to deckle edges of the book else a very bright copy of this book. Gowans and Gray had commissioned her to do 18 water colours of the bridges of Paris before she left England for Paris in 1911 and this book is the result. Reference, Colin White, The Enchanted World of Jessie M. King. 1991.

Hastings Borough Council 1930

51pp illustrated. 11 illustrations including photographs and diagrams + fFold out colour plan in rear pocket which opens to 305x250mm. 4to. Cloth spine, boards with title on upper board. Very good copy. This was a grandiose plan for the town, which if it had been implemented would have made Hastings a very different town. The plan included a scheme for a new civic centre straddling Bohemia Road, incorporating a Museum and a Museum and Art Gallery, an ambitious sea front scheme with bathing pool and marina.

Harmondsworth Penguin Books 1939

Penguin 1st Printing . Printed Wrappers. Penguin original,1939, No S19 with touch of wear at corners. Spine and page edges are a little browned. No dust wrapper. Good copy.

London The Flexible Glass Co Works, 294 High Road Kilburn nd Late 19th century?

140x220mm single sided broadsheet printed on yellow paper, with sample of woven glass product preserved in archival bag. The new material, was introduced for the manufacture of neckties, scarves, book marks and for trimming hats and dresses etc - Billed as "A New Discovery" The sample of glass fibres is very good. The broadsheet/advert page for it is slightly worn at edges and a little dusty. In 1893, Edward Drummond Libbey exhibited a dress at the World's Colombian Exposition incorporating glass fibres with the diameter and texture of silk fibres.