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Wiesbaden, Westdeutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1910. 24x19. 112 pp. + 5 plates (2 folding). 50 elevations, 51 plans, sections, perspectives and photos. Publisher's pictorial boards, minor wear to extremities. "3. Auflage". A survey, with commentary by Wienkoop, of English house designs by Fairfax Blomfield Wade (London) and Lawson & Reynolds (Bornemouth). The designs were acquired by the Emperor Wilhelm II on his visit to England, and first published in the magazine Landhaus und Villa "zur Anregung für den deutschen Eigenhausbau". Arthur Wienkoop, who was a prolific architect of villas and workers' homes, also took the opportunity to include some designs of his own in the book.

New York, Wittenborn Schultz, 1947. 25x19. II+246 pp. + 4 leaves with seven full-page reproductions including six in colour. 155 photos and drawings in the text. Black wrappers printed in grey, red and blue; slightly rubbed dust jacket with minor chipping; tiny unobtrusive corner scuffing. Jacket and typography by Herbert Bayer. First edition. (Problems of Contemporary Art, 3).

Stockholm 2009. 22x21. 144 s. 73 foton och reproduktioner, 58 i färg varav 23 helsides. Förlagspappband med skyddsomslag, i fint skick.

Paris, Éditions SMI, 1974. 26x21. 118 pp. Ca 94 photos, 29 full- or double-page, 11 in colour including eight full-page. Publisher's pictorial boards. (l'Art se Raconte).

Paris, Jules Rouam, 1886. 28x18. XII+320 pp. + 6 plates (two portraits of Bourdon; one chromolithographed reproduction of a portrait of Queen Christina of Sweden; three engraved reproductions after Bourdon) + folding genealogical table. A nice copy in contemporary half red-brown calf, spine slightly faded and minor rubbing at extremities. Some (erasable) underlinings with red crayon pencil in the chapter "Bourdon et Christine de Suède" (pp. 91-144). Life and work of the French painter and engraver Sébastien Bourdon (1616-1671). Bourdon was appointed first court painter by Queen Christina during his stay in Sweden 1652-53, and painted her portrait as well as those of her successor for the throne, Karl X Gustav, and the illegitimate son of King Gustav II Adolf, Gustaf Gustafsson af Vasaborg.

Istanbul, Ada Press, (1987). 31x23. 176 pp. 176 photos, all but a few in colour, including 44 full-page and four double-page. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, very fine.

London, Phaidon, 1996. 29x25. 272 pp. + four foldouts. Ca 120 photos, the majority full- or double-page, including 70 in colour. Publisher's blind-lettered cloth, in dust jacket with minimal edge wear. Charles Koroly's name on front free endpaper.

New York & London 1967. 28x21. 212 pp. Ca 445 reproductions and photos, 66 full-page, 24 in colour including 10 full-page. Publisher's printed blue cloth with red lettering on front cover and spine, dust jacket. A documentation of graphic and typographical design, posters, architecture, paintings and murals, with commentaries by Bayer."The material for this book as been assembled by Herbert Bayer with the hope that it will have meaning for the younger generation" (from jacket flap).

Milano & Roma 1990. 30x24. VIII+288 pp. Ca 290 reproductions including more than 200 in colour. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. A study and catalogue of works by Faustino Bocchi, Enrico Albricci and other Italian 17th-18th century artists renowned for their more or less bizarre paintings and drawings of dwarfs.

(Rihimäki), The Finnish Glass Museum, 1986-90. 30x21. 112; 92 pp. Ca 230 photos, 10 in colour. Pictorial wrappers. Exhibition publications with photos of modern glass designed by Timo Sarpaneva, Tapio Wirkkala, Kaj Franck, Heikko Kallio, Oiva Toikka, Helena Tynell, Markku Salo, Kerttu Nurminen, Saara Hopea, Jorma Vennola, Björn Weckström, Torun Bülow-Hübe, and others.

Wien, Gerlach & Wiedling, 1912. 29x21. 258 pp. + 15 plates (nine folding) with 16 plans and drawings, three diagrams, and nine photos including four coloured. 144 photos and drawings in the text. Publisher's pictorial cloth.

New York & London 2007. 28x21. 304 pp. + CD-disc in a pocket. Ca 470 colour photos. Publisher's boards, dust jacket. Comprehensive survey of Scandinavian postwar/contemporary furniture with indices of designers, model names and manufacturers. The CD contains jpg files of all the illustrations in the book.

Stockholm, Swedish National Art Museums, 1988-94. 28x21. 104; + 392 pp. Altogether ca 585 reproductions (50 full-page including 32 full-page). Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Extensively annotated Catalogue Raisonné of French paintings in the Swedish National Art Museum collections, comprising 1: Seventeenth Century, 2: Eighteenth Century.

New York 1971. 28x21. 128 pp. Ca 61 photos and reproductions including 29 full-page. Pictorial wrappers, backstrip worn and wrappers slightly worn with minor loss at bottom corner of rear wrapper. During a five-year association with Andy Warhol, the underground journalist and co-founder of the New York Village Voice audiotaped conversations about Warhol with some of his associates and friends, including Nico, Paul Morrissey, Marisol, Taylor Mead, Ultra Violet, Brigid Polk, Fred Hughes, David Bourdon, Viva, Lou Reed, Sam Green, Mario Amaya, Leo Castelli, and Henry Geldzahler. Photographs "by Shunk-Kender except where indicated" (Harry Shunk & Janos Kender).

Bielefeld & Leipzig 1914. 25x17. VIII+164 pp. + one plate. 188 reproductions, 88 coloured including 14 full-page. Neat later half cloth, original gilt-lettered front cover bound in; foxing to the bound-in cover, otherwise fine. Second, revised and extended edition. (Kulturgeschichtliche Monographien, 13). A survey and study of modern advertising art with reproductions of posters, advertisements, etc. designed by Beardsley, Penfield, Steinlen, Mucha, Toulouse-Lautrec, Eugène Grasset, Jules Cheret, Lucian Bernhard, Henry van de Velde, Koloman Moser, Gustav Klimt, Julius Klinger, Emil Orlik, Bruno Paul, Walter Leistikow, Victor Andrén, Carl Westman, and others.

Genève 1962. 24x18. 384 pp text + one photo plate; + 400 pp. with 500 reproductions + 32 pp. with lists of reproductions and colophon + 21 card leaves, each with one tipped-in colour plate. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jackets with minor chipping/repairs.

New York, Abrams, 1968. 29x25. 360 pp. 466 reproductions (mostly in duotone) of drawings etc. and 65 colour reproductions including 14 tipped-in colour plates. Publisher's pictorial cloth designed by Picasso, with printed transparent jacket. Very light scuffing.

New York 1921. 30x22. XXII+334; + XX+308 pp. + 2 frontispieces. 867 photos. Publisher's cloth. A fine, insignificantly worn set. Second, revised and enlarged edition of this basic reference work first published in 1913.