Munich ; New York : Prestel, 2012

386pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. White lettered cloth with title in black. Open weave cloth. Very good in slightly sun faded slipcase. number of essays published for the first time, this collection of writings by the inspirational structural engineer Ove Arup provides valuable insight into the firm and its philosophy. Bookplate of Michael and José Manser on front end paper.

New York Abrams for Whitney Museum of Art 2003

104pp illustrated with colour illustrations. Very good with very good dust wrapper which is very slightly sunned on spine. Hejduk's last works explored themes of falls from grace, itinerancy, passage & transformation, & - above all - architecture as sanctuary.

Berlin and Stuttgart, Verlag Deutsche Bauten H. Frank 1933

148pp illustrated with b/w plates. Red paper wrappers with black lettered titles. Slightly worn at spine. On half title Matthew written in neat hand [ Sir Robert Matthew 1906-1975] Reviews the work of Bonatz and his associates. Text in German.

Medéns Förlags AB, Stockholm 1935

70 + (1) pp+ 46 photographic b/w plates documenting the building. Paper wrappers 290x215mm. Wrappers a bit worn and browned. Internally very good. Signed dedication copy for Nils Eriksson to Robert Matthews, who was chief architect of the Festival Hall. Dated 1947.

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.

Stamford Reinhold Publishing March 1972

no 3. 162pp illustrated with line ills and colour and b/w photographs and including period ads. Colour wrappers: Diptych by Michael Graves representing his work on right and that of Eisenman's on left. Features a key article by Eisenman and Graves entitled "On Reading Architecture." Other articles consider the water front at Rochester USA by Frank Schlesinger, an addition to a school in St PAul by Benjamin Thompson + book reviews and editorial.

New Haven and London Yale University Press 2009

400pp with 150 b/w and 150 colour illus. Large 4to. Fine in similar dw. Girouard addresses the evolution of the house plan, the excitement of English patrons and craftsmen as they learned the classic Five Orders and studied the buildings of Ancient Rome, the wealth of architectural drawings that survive from the period, the inroads of foreign craftsmen who brought new fashions in ornament, and the strength of the native tradition that was integrated with the "antique" style.

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 Architectural Association Box 1 1985

32pp text-booklet ('sketchbook'), + collection of material comprising piece of silk screened fabric, tin & copper-plate, 'chessboard' & two circuit boards. 320x320mm in presentation purple box with decorative gilt title on front. Vg. With introductory essays by: Dawn Ades, Nigel Coates, J. Christopher Joner, John Thackara. Collection of material for Daniel Weil's 'Light Box' installation. Mechanism of opening box slightly damaged because of poor assembly when made. Hard to find. The box explores the 1980s works of the 1980s. Best known for his deconstructed radio in a clear bag which challenged the idea of audio equipment always being in a black box.

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.

London Thames and Hudson 1988

533pp b/w + colour illustrations. 4to. Black cloth boards with red embossed title on the spine + embossed publisher's logo on the upper board. Illustrated dust wrapper, slightly rubbed in places else a very good copy. An extensive analysis of Tatlin's work with over 500 colour and b/w illustrations. Foreword by K. M. Simonov, a speech that opened Tatlin's exhibition in Moscow 1977.

London The Architectural Association Mega IV 1987

144pp, illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Small folio. White wrappers with wrap around dust wrapper which is slightly scuffed. Produced to accompany an exhibition at the Architectural Association. Yerbury witnessed the rise of the modern movement and recorded it thus. One of the only publications documenting his life and work in this key period.

London Constable Company, 1980

247pp 20 b/w plates,68 line drawings. 4to. Decorated wrappers. A detailed study of the works of the key English architects of the turn of the century including Newton, Lutyens, Voysey and Baker.

London Routledge 1947

217pp, small line illustrations throughout by Le Corbusier. 8vo. Cloth. some discolouring to the boards + spine else a good copy. First English edition of the French original published in 1936. Le Corbusier examines the architecture and people of New York. He loves the latter but deems the architecture haphazard. He imagines an improved New York.

London Architectural Association Text 6 1987

80pp, illustrated. Stiff illustrated grey covers with black lettering, binders tape covered perfect binding. Overprinted glassine wrappers with titles in Russian and English. Glassine does not quite match up with titles on the card covers. Produced to coincide with an exhibition of original drawings by young soviet architects held from 10 November to 10 December 1988 at London's Architectural Association.

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.

London Undated c1929

Metal spiral bound. Stiff card wrappers which when opened out show a panorama of the New Lambeth Bridge and its relationship to Thames House. 240 x340mm Promotional booklet produced at the time of initial construction a description of the buildings which could be used to promote it office accommodation. 40 sepia photographs with captions. Shows parts of the building furnished and unfurnished. Effectively the whole building was two blocks linked by a bridge structure. At the time of publication, the offices of Pearson and Dorman Long Limited and the International Nickel Company of Canada Limited were in occupation. Their suites are illustrated. Thames House served as the ICI Headquarters till 1994. Part has been occupied by MI5.

Philadelphia, J. B Lippincott Company 1930

viii, 39, [1] pages including plans frontispiece, plates 27 cm. 4to. Open weave yellow cloth with black lettering. Rear inner hinge a little shaky else very good with good but slightly worn dust wrapper. Hard to find in the dust wrapper which contributes to the art deco style of this book. Dedicated to Oscar Kauffman and other photographers and contributors also noted. USA edition. Published in parallel with The Architecture of Pleasure 1 - Modern Theatres and Cinemas by Batsford in the UK.