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Rotterdam, Museum Boymans - van Beuningen, 1990. 24x22. 208 pp. 160 photos and designs. Pictorial wrappers. A monograph on Oud as a furniture and interior designer.

London 1932. 22x15. XVI+220 pp. including 40 pages with 75 photos. 31 plans and drawings in the text. Publisher's cloth, spine rubbed, very light foxing to endpapers. Neat gift inscription by a British architect. First edition. Includes photos of works by Easton & Robertson, Erich Mendelsohn, Mies van der Rohe, Fritz Höger, Josef Frank, H.P. Berlage, Willem Dudok, Brinkman & Van der Vlugt, Le Corbusier, Roux-Spitz, Mallet-Stevens, Ragnar Östberg, Gunnar Asplund, Carl Bergsten, and others.

New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2010. 23x15. 344 pp. Printed wrappers, as new. Also includes a number of 'Dialogues' by some of Robert Gutman's colleagues and students, a selected bibliography of publications by Gutman, and index of subjects and persons, and

Paris, Yocar Feder / Logos-Designs, 1989. 25x23. 148 pp. Colour photos of more than 550 woven labels. Bilingual text in French and English. Publisher's printed boards with die-cut opening onto a four-colour woven title-label mounted on front endpaper; a very fine copy in transparent plastic jacket.

Berlin 1958. 27x19. 572 pp. including 160 pages with 215 reproductions (105 full-page) + 4 colour plates. Publisher's pictorial cloth.

Tokyo / New York / London, Kodansha, 2001. 26x19. 208 pp. Ca 135 colour photos including more than 50 full-page. Printed covers, dust jacket, as new.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2008. 20x24. 248 pp. Ca 230 photos (130 in colour) and more than 125 drawings and plans (45 in colour). Publisher's pictorial boards. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at MOMA, including essays by Rasmus Wærn (Scandinavia: Prefabrication as a model of society) and Ken Todashi Oshima (Postulating the potential of prefabs: The case of Japan).

Rio de Janeiro 1980. 27x20. 164 pp. Ca 75 reproductions (16 in colour) and 50 photos. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, lightly worn dust jacket. Binding very slightly weakened, with minor external stains. A monograph on the Brazilian painter José Rodrigues de Miranda (1907-1985) with text and captions provided in Portuguese, French and English.

Stockholm 1951. 30x22. 64 s. 27 reproduktioner varav fem i färg. Nr 108 av 300 numrerade exemplar bundna i blått helt skinnband med helt guldsnitt.

London, Zwemmer, 1985. 24x18. XIV+270 pp. + 40 pp. with 42 reproductions of architectural drawings and photos. Pictorial wrappers. Tiny corner scuffing, backstrip slightly sunned, otherwise fine. (Studies in Architecture edited by Anthony Blunt and Rudolf Wittkower, VI). A study constructed around the 'Essai sur l'Architecture' published in 1753 by Marc-Antoine Laugier, the Jesuit priest and architectural theorist. Following a brief biography of Laugier, Herrmann presents an analysis of his taste and the theoretical foundation of his ideas, with two chapters on the reception of the 'Essai sur l'Architecture' in France and abroad.

Ravensburg 1950. 20x14. 176 pp. + 2 colour plates. 131 illustrations, mainly photos. Publisher's printed cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. A comprehensive guide to the painting of stage decorations. A pioneer of modern poster and theatrical stage design in the 1920s and 30s, Pirchan was appointed Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1936, where he managed the Master School of stage design, and worked as a set designer for the Burgtheater and the State Opera.

Köln 1993. 23x17. II+528 pp. Ca 125 reproductions and photos. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jacket. Thirty-three studies by scholars from various countries on the life, work and impact of the Russian Constructivist artist and architect. All text bilingual in German and Russian.

New York 1974. 28x22. X+166 pp. 82 full-page colour photos introduced by text by Martin Luther King Jr and juxtaposed with quotations from Malcolm X, Jesse Owens, James A. Michener, Robert F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Jimmy Carter, and others. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, near fine dust jacket. "The Darker Brother is a book about people, not about race. It is a book that says quietly what many have screamed - that the word 'human' is not a color and that brotherhood has no walls, no boundaries, except those we build." (from jacket flap).

Tokyo ... Kodansha, 1981. 36x26. 40 pp. 53 colour photos and one map. Publisher's cloth. (Famous ceramics of Japan, 5). Historical survey of the Kakiemon porcelain produced in the Arita Sarayama district in the the area of Kyushu from the 17th century, including a map of the kilns. English text.

Oslo 1960. 24x17. 56 s. Ca 80 foton (20 helsides) och 16 mönsterdiagram. Förlagets tryckta klotryggsband med illustration. Fint ex. med diskret namnteckning på främre försättsblad.

Stockholm, Schwedisches Institut, 1958. 21x16. 80 pp. + loosely inserted 4-page appendix with list of firms, retailers and designers. 66 (mainly full-page) photos including 12 in colour. Pictorial wrappers. A survey of modern glass, ceramic and metal ware, textiles, furniture, etc. by leading Swedish designers including Edward Hald, Sven Palmqvist, Vicke Lindstrand, Monica Bratt, Wilhelm Kåge, Edgar Böckman, Berndt Friberg, Carl Harry Stålhane, Stig Lindberg, Wiven Nilsson, Sigurd Persson, Viola Gråsten, Astrid Sampe, Josef Frank, Bruno Mathsson, Nisse Strinning, etc.

New York 1970. 28x25. VI+318 pp. 255 reproductions including 57 in colour. Publisher's pictorial cloth, dust jacket. Gift inscription on front endpaper, otherwise a pristine copy kept in original cardboard slipcase.

London 1983. 28x22. 96 pp. Ca 240 reproductions and photos including 46 in colour. Pictorial wrappers, as new. (AD Profile 47). Studies on Chernikhov; Melnikov; the "First Exhibition of Modern Architecture" held in Moscow 1927; a guide to 140 buildings from 1900-1930 in Moscow; etc.

Paris, Marval, 2003. 28x24. 240 pp. Ca 250 black and white and duotone photographs including 65 full-page. Pictorial wrappers, a perfect copy, still in shrinkwrap with printed label 'Certain images peuvent heurter la sensibilité des plus jeunes'.

Roma 1998. 24x22. 280 pp. More than 500 photos, plans, drawings and sketches (125 in colour) plus ca 75 small-size photos and designs in Chronology of Projects 1956-97. Publisher's pictorial boards.

Tokyo 1975. 36x25. 48 pp. including 32 pages with full- and double-page photos (4 in colour) and 6 pages with plans and designs. Pictorial wrappers. (Global Architecture, 36). Sweeney 1965.

Mainz & Berlin 1984. 27x20. 176 pp. 125 photos, drawings and plans. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Includes complete list of works and projects 1906-1963, biographical chronology, select bibliography, index.