1930Best.-Nr. ARCHITEC000946Rudolf Mosse Berlin. 1930. Erste bis f�nfte Auflage. Quarto. 252 pages. Profusely illustrated. Wrappers there was also a hardbound issue. German text.Text block slightly bumped at bottom corner. Head and tail of spine scuffed. Very good. Rudolf Mosse, Berlin. hardcover
1887Best.-Nr. ARCHITEC000982The Architectural Association London. 1887-1888. First edition. The first two volumes i.e. numbers 1-18 of this in-house journal in the de luxe binding of full vellum with elaborate gilt decoration to the front board. Numerous articles on architectural subjects by various contributors as well as miscellaneous items of more general interest to the members. Illustrations.Fine. Very scarce. The Architectural Association, London. hardcover
1948Best.-Nr. ARCHITEC000969The Architectural Press London. 1948. First U.K. edition. Translated by Clive Entwistle and Gordon Holt. Octavo. 156 pages. Illustrated from Le Corbusier's drawings.On the front free endpaper is the ownership inscription of the eminent architect and historian Dennis Sharp. Near fine in very good slightly rubbed and nicked price-clipped dustwrapper. The Architectural Press, London. unknown
1935Best.-Nr. ARCHITEC001002Johnan Shoin Tokyo. c 1935. First edition. Preface by Elie Faure. Square quarto. 29 pages of text followed by 104 pages of illustrations. Spiral-bound cloth-covered card with large title-label. Raymond was a Czech American architect who was one of the founders of modern architecture in Japan.Covers dusty and slightly marked. Very good. Johnan Shoin, Tokyo. hardcover
1961Best.-Nr. ARCHITEC001005The Clarendon Press Oxford. 1961. First edition. Small quarto. pp xxii 344. Illustrated with photographs and numerous diagrams showing details and construction methods.Fine in very good dustwrapper faded at the spine and with several nicks. The Clarendon Press, Oxford. unknown
Best.-Nr. 42966345like new. unknown
1925Best.-Nr. ARCHITEC016467Jonathan Cape London. 1925. First edition. Octavo. 275 pages the last sixteen devoted to photographs. Illustrations. Buckram-backed batik-style boards title label to spine. Clough Williams-Ellis is perhaps best-known for the Italianate village he created at Portmeirion. His wife Amabel was a cousin of Lytton Strachey and an early member of the Bloomsbury Group.Free endpapers partially tanned. Fine in the very scarce attractivelt designed dustwrapper which is very good slightly chipped darkened at the spine and edges. Jonathan Cape, London. hardcover
2014Best.-Nr. 094900London: Phaidon 2014. Paperback. pp. 303. 4to. Colour photographs and illustrations. Light shelfwear scuff to copyright page; very good in very good lightly rubbed dustjacket with publisher's sticker to front. Phaidon paperback
1926Best.-Nr. ARCHITEC014900Ernst Pollak Berlin. 1926. First edition. Quarto. 80 pages. Nine colour plates and 100 other illustrations. Cloth-backed boards. Includes texts by Frank Lloyd Wright himself.Covers slightly dusty. Signs of damp to bottom edges of rear cover and tail of spine. Very good. Ernst Pollak, Berlin. hardcover
2007Best.-Nr. 021408Lazarides Gallery 2007. Hardcover. Near Fine/No DJ as Issued. Minimal wear almost new. Illustrated boards 17 x 252 cm. glossy BW plates. "Published in an edition of 500 to accompany the exhibition IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU'D BE HOME BY NOW Lazarides Gallery London June/July 2007. Lazarides Gallery hardcover
1931Best.-Nr. ARCHITEC014281Deutscher Kunstverlag Berlin. 1931. First edition. Narrow royal octavo. Unpaginated. 118 of Berlin's latest buildings are shown in photographs drawings groundplans etc. Ten pages of adverts at rear. Loosely inserted is the folding map of pinpointing the locations of the buildings. Card wrappers the photograph on the front being printed in silver.Staples rusted. One page of adverts is creased and torn at the fore-edge. Some light spotting to prelims. Spine scuffed at head and tail. Very good. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin. unknown
1992Best.-Nr. 14216Promoción Moda Gipuzkoa 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. Interior text and full-page BW plates in fine condition; grey cloth boards have minor wear and light sun fade to spine a few stains on bottom edges. Text in Spanish. 219 pages. Missing dust jacket. Beau livre 323 x 33 cm. Promoción Moda, Gipuzkoa hardcover
Best.-Nr. DADAX0128032847New unknown
1984Best.-Nr. ARCHITEC011660Faber and Faber London. 1984. First edition. Quarto. 300 pages. Numerous illustrations.Fine in very near fine dustwrapper. Faber and Faber, London. unknown
1931Best.-Nr. ARCHITEC010892Vincent Freal Paris. 1931. First edition. Quarto. 8-page gathering of text by Girard and Table des Planches with sixty loose plates mostly comprising black and white photographic views of the art deco architecture on display at the Exposition's sites at Li�ge and Anvers. Held in folder of cloth-backed boards with art deco design printed in red and black cloth ribbon ties.Small patch of abrasion to bottom corner of front board otherwise fine. Very scarce. Vincent Freal, Paris. hardcover
2005Best.-Nr. 13754Pellow Engineering Services 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. POS inside front cover some corner wear otherwise fine. 4.5x6 inches Pocket size B2. Profusely illustrated 280 pages. 6th edition April 2005 Pellow Engineering Services paperback
1982Best.-Nr. ARCHITEC008359Cambridge University Press. 1982. First edition. Small quarto. 280 pages. Illustrated.Near fine in very near fine dustwrapper. Cambridge University Press. unknown
1944Best.-Nr. ARCHITEC008360Folkwang-Verlag Hagen. 1919. i.e. Tokyo 1944. Reissue of the 1919 edition. Folio. Black cloth wrappers with Japanese lettering in silver. Japanese title-page and 37 card leaves comprising 29 mounted monochrome sheets and eight colour lithographs all facsimile reproductions of the 1919 edition. The translation into Japanese is in a booklet at the rear. It is sometimes stated that this is in fact a reissue of the original Folkwang sheets which had somehow been transported to Japan but it has been established that there is some variation in dimensions and therefore these are in fact lithographic reproductions of a very high quality. Utopian visions of fantasy crystalline constructions. In the mid-thirties Taut in exile from Nazi Germany spent a few years in Takasaki where he wrote extensively on Japanese architecture and culture. He compared the historical simplicity of Japanese architecture with the modernist style. Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper printed in Japanese with a tear to the front flap. Scarce especially in such brilliant condition.Offered with: the other four volumes of the Collected Works of Bruno Taut published simultaneously with the above but in a different format octavo: very good set in card slipcases. Illustrated; texts in Japanese. Folkwang-Verlag, Hagen. 1919. i.e. Tokyo, hardcover
1955Best.-Nr. ARCHITEC010481H.M. Stationery Office for the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. 1955. Second edition. Narrow quarto. 46 pages. Photographs floor plans and diagrams some folding. Stapled wrappers.Ownership signature Gerrard on front cover. Covers slightly creased. Staples rusting. Very good. Scarce. H.M. Stationery Office for the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. unknown
2002Best.-Nr. 9437Cincinnati OH: Hanser Gardner Publications 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Separation gap at head bumped corners 2347pp 4.75 x 7.25" textbook is almost new. Later printing. Thumb indexed. No jacket as issued. ISBN 156990345x Hanser Gardner Publications hardcover
1943Best.-Nr. ARCHITEC006995Nicholson & Watson/The Commodore Press London. 1943. First edition. Adapted into English and edited by Nicholas De Gren. Introduction by D. Talbot Rice. Quarto. 103 pages. Photographs and plans. Copy number 4 of 200 copies signed by Princess Romanovsky-Pavlovsky who contributes a Foreword bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in half red morocco raised bands lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers.Leather a little scuffed at the edges. Very good indeed. Nicholson & Watson/The Commodore Press, London. hardcover
1747Best.-Nr. ARCHITEC005944Giambatista Albrizzi Venezia. 1747. Second Venice edition. Small octavo. pp 44 213 30. Engraved frontispiece and twelve engraved plates. Period quarter vellum parchment boards leather title label.Some foxing to endpapers. Title label chipped. Very good indeed. Giambatista Albrizzi, Venezia. hardcover
1937Best.-Nr. 018643Éditions Auguste Picard 1937. Soft cover. Good. Rare collectible. Just beginning to fox on page edges hard to see at first glance and the interior is crisp and immaculate some of the pages are still uncut. The covers have been mostly well preserved by book cover though exposed areas spine top and bottom margins are sunned. Only major defect is the binding still square and strong sewn but with several stress crease lines in the spine; Préface de J. J. Marquet de Vasselot in-4 XII 135 pp. LXXIX de planches. Éditions Auguste Picard paperback
2003Best.-Nr. 017820Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 2003. Soft cover. Very Good. Minimal wear. Oblong gatefold 21 x 15 cm. catalog of 96 graduate theses from 2001-02 at the school of design. Each project gets two pages on the right an abstract in Catalon Spanish and English; on the left drawings schematics and color photos. These students leave the ivory tower to engage city services restaurants boutiques hotels manufacturers etc with their projects and their work goes a long way in explaining why visiting Barcelona is such a visual tour de force. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona paperback
1927Best.-Nr. ARCHITEC002011John Rodker London. 1927. Second U.K. edition ''Second to Fourth Thousand''. Translated from the 13th French edition with an Introduction by Frederick Etchells. Quarto. pp xx 289. Numerous illustrations. One of the key works on modernist architecture. Very good indeed in very good slightly creased and nicked dustwrapper. The dustwrapper is particularly scarce. John Rodker, London. unknown