2014 published by David Valinksy for Shaun Tyas Press

256pp illustrated. Limited to 500 signed by the author. Wrappers with overprinted dust wrapper. 4to. This book comprises extracts from Prior's own writings with commentary by David Valinsky and beautiful photographs. A very attractive bit of book design.

London Lund Humphries 2005

xviii + 341pp. Numerous b/w ills throughout the text. D/w over red cloth boards. D/w a little bumped at the corners. A very good copy of this distinctive study of the life and architectural career of Colin St John Wilson, architect, teacher, theorist.

Edinburgh Design and Industries Association (Edinburgh Branch) 1917

23pp. Pamphlet containing a D.I.A Address by Frank Pick. Paper wrappers with paste down label. Very good ephemeral item. First pamphlet to be published by the DIA Edinburgh Branch. Pick was working for London Transport at the time towards unifying its brand. The key principles to make good design are explored in this pamphlet. Scarce.

London Conaghi & Co Limited 1971

71pp, b/w plates. Sugar paper wrappers printed with black titles. Small 4to. Signed in back pen by Eduardo Paolozzi on the front end paper.

Sold by the booksellers in the neighbouring towns; and Baldwin Chadock and Joy, London 1818

[xvi including subscribers list] + 17 + 140pp; [2] ads. Frontis of Woburn Church + 1 plate of the house. 195 x175mm. Half calf, marbled boards, recent red spine label. Original boards. Raised bands Very good. Bookplate of previous owner on second end paper. Small stain on half title and title page where coat of arms has been hand painted in blue with a neat hand. Useful on the history of the area and family. Includes a useful description of the modern abbey, its contents, [ in brief ] and grounds.

HMSO Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in England 1981

xcviii + 282pp with text ills throughout and b/w photographs. Very good copy with very good dust wrapper. Descriptions of more than 300 buildings erected before 1850 illustrated with photographs and line ills. 4to. Cloth, vg, in very good d/w.

London SPAB August 1921

36pp illustrated with b/w photographic plates and line ills. The illustrations show the interiors and exteriors of the buildings before and after rennovation. There is a table at the end of the book providing detailed costings for the various elements. Photographs by C C Winmill, Architect ad C S Cousins, Photographer Bury St Edmunds. Pamphlet. Original wrappers bound into relatively modern binding with cloth spine, black lettered and boards to make a very good copy.

London 1897

24pp illustrated with 4 chromolithographed plates. 4to. Original wraps preserved within recent gilt lettered cloth binding to make a very good copy. Print edition of a paper read before the British Archaeological Association 1st March 1882. Pages a little worn at edges else very good.

Cambridge, Lutterworth Press, 1987

207pp, 181 b/w photographs and drawings. Sm. 4to, Very good copy with dw. Foreword by Mark Girouard. Including a comprehensive catalogue listing of all the known data for 356 of Salvin's works. The book incorporates previously unpublished material, including letters, diaries, building accounts and reproductions of Salvin's architectural drawings.

London Academy Editions 1995

143 pages consisting of an introduction by Stephen Martin, nine essays by Knox scholars including illustrations, 63 pages of plates, the majority in colour and a bibliography and index. Wrappers. The book establishes Knox's central role in the evolution of British and Modern design, sheds light on the influences that shaped his career and succeeds in clearing away the mystery and uncertainty that surrounds this major British designer and his personal affairs. Very good copy. This copy has a note in the front from Peter Hirschman indicating it was purchased on an Isle of Man trip.

New York & Tokyo The Architectural Forum & Antonin Raymond , printed in Japan 1938

116pp illustrated with line illustrations and b/w plates. Second printing. Hardcover burlap covered boards are spiral bound. Japanese paper end papers and title. Bright copy. Slightly bumped on Both authors' autographs are printed in facsimile on the title page, above rows of Japanese characters. The self-published Architectural details provides advice for the designer using Raymond's work and philosophy as a model. In interior plans and elevations, sectional drawings, and examples of dramatic self-supporting staircases, concrete proves an optimal material in both aesthetics and durability. Raymond's talent for incorporating traditional Japanese elements.

1951 -1957?

Pen and ink and watercolour. Image size 580mm wide x 340mm high. Mounted in modern mount. Mount 740mm x 510mm. Very good. Mid Century Modern colours and subject. Similar to Lansbury Estate [ Frederick Gibberd ] and other similar period social housing maisonette projects of the 1950s and 60s. Unidentified.

London Country Life Ltd 1944

224pp illus with b/w plates throughout. Sm 4to. Blue cloth. VG in d/w - this repaired around edges with tape. Internally very good. Important review of the work of Sir Herbert Baker, tracking his career and friendship with Cecil Rhodes, his move to New Delhi, Kenya and back to the UK where he became active with the War Graves Commission work and Country House architecture alike.

Cambridge Mass Harvard (1968) 1985

reprint. 278pp illus. with b/w plates. 4to. Good. Previous owner's name on front end paper.

London BBC/Cambridge University Press 1938

27pp. Octavo, Decorated wrappers. Small split to base of spine c1cm. else very good. An intriguing address, outlining the parallels between architecture and society. Goodhart-Rendell was president of the RIBA when he made this address.

London Royal College of Art, 1954

Unpaginated. Illustrated. Oblong 12mo. 180x240mm. Original card covers. These slightly dusty. Contains Illustrated essays on 'Three Young Contemporaries' by John Minton, Len Deighton 'Impressions of New York', Bernard Myers on tattoos, Herbert Spencer on 'Recent Developments in Typography', colour lithographs by Tony Puig, colour lithographs of Under Milk Wood by Roy Morgan, two colour lithographs by Anthony Whishaw. Includes many period ads.