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New York 1962. 29x22. 320 pp. including 272 pages with 303 reproductions. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth. Sweeney 1489. Fully illustrated catalogue of drawings and sketches dating from 1895-1958, selected by Wright from the Taliesin files, with introduction by Giuseppe Samona and A. Hyatt Major.

Stockholm, Ljus & London, Faber and Faber, (ca 1949). 28x22. 440 pp. (including study, ca 315 reproductions and photos including nearly 200 full-page, and catalogue raisonné of the reproduced works) + 12 leaves, each with one tipped-in colour plate. Publisher's blue cloth, top edge gilt; the spine is lightly faded (but its gilt-lettered red leather labels are not).

London ... 1982. 28x22. 200 pp. + addendum slip. Ca 140 photos (44 full-page including 8 in colour) and drawings of gardens, garden furniture, etc. Publisher's linen cloth, a very good copy. First edition.

Stuttgart & Berlin 1920. 23x16. XII+408 pp. Neat cloth, printed front wrapper bound in. Zweite Auflage.

Riga 2001. 28x22. 112 pp. 57 colour photos (22 full-page) plus ca 60 photos of stamps. Publisher's pictorial boards. Trilingual text in Latvian, German and English.

New York, The Institute for Contemporary Art / P.S. Museum & Milano, Fabbri, 1988. 31x25. 228 pp. Ca 140 photos, more than 100 full- or double-page including 50 in colour. Pictorial wrappers.

Oxford & New York, Oxford University Press, 1986. 25x19. XVI+640 pp. + 12 leaves with 33 colour photos. Ca 240 photos, reproductions and plans in the text. Publisher's cloth. An historical dictionary of garden architecture with entries on individual gardens, countries, etc. as well as biographies of garden architects.

Barcelona 2008. 22x27. 320 pp. Ca 160 colour photos (90 full-page) and more than 175 plans, drawings and sketches. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jacket.

Berlin, Bauhaus-Archiv, 1984. 25x21. 412 pp. 416 reproductions and photos, ca 160 full-page including 56 in colour. Publisher's pictorial boards, small chipping in upper left corner of front board. Fully illustrated catalogue of a Kandinsky exhibition held at the Bauhaus-Archiv Museum für Gestaltung, with studies by Clark V. Poling, Peter Hahn, Magdalena Droste, and Charles W. Haxthausen.

Wroclaw ..., Ossolinskich Wydawnictwo, 1974. 28x21. 66 pp. text + 132 pp. with 235 photos + 6 leaves with 11 colour photos + errata slip. 21 drawings in the text. Publisher's pictorial cloth, slightly worn dust jacket.

Zürich 1975. 26x25. 216 pp. 255 photos, drawings and plans. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Well-illustrated survey and study of Swiss domestic architecture 1850-1920.

New York 2008. 24x17. 396 pp. 642 reproductions and photos, nearly 400 in colour including 47 full-page. Publisher's printed boards, dust jacket, virtually as new.

Stuttgart 1990. 27x23. 224 pp. 86 full-page colour reproductions and 14 portrait photos. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket.

London, George Bell & Sons, 1908. 19x13. XVI+288 pp. Drawings, designs and photos throughout the text. Publisher's blue cloth with white lettering and design by Crane, top edge gilt; spine lettering faded. Two owners' names on front endpaper, one dated 1911, and Eva Billow's (Swedish author and illustrator of children's books) dated 1959. A classic work on ornament and design, first published in 1900, by one of the leading British Arts and Crafts illustrators and book artists.

Borlänge, Dalarnas Tidnings- och Boktryckeri, 1915. 18x12. 16 s. Fint ex. i tryckta omslag med prydlig samtida namnteckning i bläck. Textilkonstnären Anna Wettergren Behm tillhörde pionjärerna i kretsen kring Lilli Zickerman och verkade kring sekelskiftet som Föreningen för Svensk Hemslöjds första mönsterriterska. 1915 övertog hon och hennes familj gården Sjögränd vid Rådasjön i Värmland, där hon förverkligade sina idéer om bostad och trädgård.

New York: Reinhold, for the American Craftsmen's Council, 1960. 28x22. 152 pp. 95 photos. Publisher's cloth, fine in dust jacket with minor corner wear. Second printing (first published in 1959). Wildenhain received her art training at the Bauhaus, Weimar. After 1940 she taught at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland and set up her own study at Pond Farm, Guerneville in California.

Paris 1925. 17x11. 288 pp. 515 photos. Publisher's green cloth with gilt cover lettering and decorations, a nice copy with lightly sunned spine. (Bibliothèque du Tourisme). A guide book to modern French decorative art (and architecture), obviously occasioned by the Art Deco Exhibition held in Paris in 1925, with photos of buildings, interior design, furniture, ceramic and glass ware, etc. designed by Le Corbusier, André Lurçat, Mallet-Stevens, Roux-Spitz, Perret, Sauvage, Chareau, Sue & Mare, Ruhlmann, Majorelle, Dufrène, Sognot, Edgar Brandt, Djo-Bourgeois, René Herbst, Raymond Subes, Marinot, Lalique, Eileen Gray, and several others.

Fort Worth & Florence 1986. 29x22. 248 pp. 160 reproductions (52 in colour including 44 full-page). Publisher's printed cloth, dust jacket. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Kimbell Art Museum, with catalogue of works by Crespi as well as Giuseppe Gambarini, Giambattista Piazetta, Petro Longhi, Giacomo Ceruti, and Gaetano Gandolfi. Includes essays by Mira Pajes Merriman and Giovanna Perini.

New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1991. 27x24. XII+220 pp. Ca 250 reproductions of drawings and plans and photos, 48 full-page, 87 in colour including 24 full-page. Pictorial wrappers. Published to coincide with an exhibition held at The Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts ... 1999. 31x20. 204 pp. 242 reproductions and photos, 60 in colour. Publisher's boards, dust jacket.

Stockholm 1928. 21x14. 240 s. Ca 110 ritningar, planer och foton, flera helsides. Förlagets halvskinnband.

Stockholm (1980). 27x27. 80 s. 50 foton varav 25 (18 helsides) av möbler från 40-talet till 1976. Tryckt förlagspappband. Tryckt i 2000 ex. varav detta är nr 378, med dedikation från Eva Ekselius. Historik öve J O Carlsons möbelfabrik som startade sin verksamhet 1930.

Basel 2004. 30x22. 272 s. Ca 230 foton varav 180 i färg. Tryckt förlagspappband med illustrationer. Omfattande, illustrerad dokumentation av sidenband i dräktmodet under 1800- och 1900-talen. Ingrid Loschek, 'Das Band in der Mode: an Kleid und Hose'; Margret Ribbert, 'Das Band in der Mode: and Kopf und Hat'; Irmgard Peter, 'Motive im Wandel: das Seidenband im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert'; Wiebke Koch-Merten, 'Das Band in der Mode von Morgen'; Barbara Weidel m.fl.: 'Basler Bandweberei', och andra studier.