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Moskva 1982. 32x24. 248 pp. 112 reproductions (79 full-page and 26 double-page) including 60 in colour; and 14 photos. Publisher's silver-lettered cloth, dust jacket, a fine copy. The most comprehensive monograph on the Russian painter and theatre designer Konstantin Feodorovich Yuon (1875-1958) who was associated with the Mir Iskusstva and a co-founder in 1922 of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (Assotsiatsiya Khudozhnikov Revolyutsionnoi Rossii).

Strassburg 1904. 23x16. XII+182 pp. + 7 heliogravure plates with 9 photographs. Neat, contemporary half brown calf. From the library of Johnny Roosval, the prominent Swedish art historian. Roosval's library stamp and his signature on front endpaper and on reverse of half-title leaf.

Letchworth, Garden City Press, 1908. 21x14. XII+204 pp. + 23 photo plates + 11 plates (8 folding) with plans and diagrams (some coloured) + 28 pp. with relevant advertisements and two pages text: ' "Pioneers" - A Description of Garden City Press Limited, By a Visitor'. Initial letter of each chapter illuminated with architectural motifs; a few drawings in the text. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, a very fine copy. A comprehensive volume of studies on the means to improve housing conditions written by a protagonist of the Garden City Movement, who acted as Chairman of the Birmingham Corporation Housing Committee and of the Harborne Tenants' Ltd. Includes "English Examples of Town Planning" providing the plans for New Earswick, the Hampstead and Fallings Park garden suburbs, Harborne (Birmingham) etc. and illustrates "before and after" examples for both urban and garden city schemes.

Berlin 1926. 31x24. IV+180 pp. 105 photos (92 full-page) and ca 70 plans, sections, etc. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, a fine copy. A survey of modern theatre and cinema buildings designed by Oskar Kauffman, Hans Poelzig, Walter Gropius, Emil Fahrenkamp, Henry van de Velde, August & Gustave Perret, Max Littmann, Fritz Wilms, and others.

Tokyo / Rutland, Vermont: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha & Tuttle, 1963. 35x26. 188 pp. 88 tipped-in colour plates. Publisher's attractively designed cloth-backed boards, very fine in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Gift inscription by Swedish Nobel Prize laureate Harry Martinson: 'Till Kerstin Hedeby från Harry Martinson med tack för underbart samarbete med Tre knivar från Wei'. Revised and adapted from an English translation by George Salto.

(London) 1937. 29x22. 200 pp. Ca 250 photos and 200 plans, elevations, sections, perspectives, etc. Publisher's printed cloth, a fine copy of the first edition. An anthology of modern residential buildings and flats designed by Yorke & Marcel Breuer, Maxwell Fry, Le Corbusier, Jose Luis Sert, Beaudoin & Lods, Walter Gropius, Hans Scharoun, Adolf Rading, Fred Forbat, Victor Bourgeois, Brinkmann & Van der Vlugt, Ludwig Kozma, Honzik & Havlicek, Sven Markelius, Lingeri & Terragni, Richard Neutra, and others.

Magdeburg 1838. 19x14. 48 pp. Neat later cloth binding.

Kiev 1948. 30x22. 84 pp. 112 photos and measured line drawings. Publisher's printed, decorated cloth. Some minor loss from lettering on cover and spine A survey of metal gates, balconies, fences, banisters, lamp-posts and other metal elements and ornaments of buildings in Kiev, mainly 19th-century and some early 20th-century examples. Bilingual text in Ukrainian and Russian.

(Paris 1962). 20x13. 2 leaves (blank and title leaf) + 14 leaves with pp. 456-467 + 3 leaves with 6 full-page reproductions and photos. Printed wrappers. On first, blank page an original drawing signed "Lambertini. Dessin en collaboration, Jean et Gianni" and an inscription "Pour Åsa, Olivier, Ariane, Etc".

Oxford, Phaidon / Christie's, 1984. 28x22. 320 pp. More than 1000 photos including 200 in colour. Publisher's boards, dust jacket, a fine copy.

Tokyo, Imperial Household Museum, 1932. 25x18. IV+194 pp. + frontispiece + 80 pp. with ca 125 photos including 47 full-page. Publisher's silver-lettered cloth. A fine copy signed in ink by the author on title page, and kept in the original cardboard slipcase

Paris: Vincent, Fréal & Cie, 1962. 27x22. 152 pp. text + two portrait plates (numbered Pl. I and II) + 156 pp. (numbered Pl. III-CLVIII) with ca 280 photos and reproductions of drawings and plans, including 40 full-page. Publisher's silver-lettered cloth, very fine in mylar-protected dust jacket. (Les grands architectes).

Paris, Hartmann, 1952. 28x22. 358 pp. including 288 pages with photos. Very fine in contemporary cloth with gilt-lettered title label on spine, printed wrappers bound in.

Rungsted Kyst, Anders Nyborg, 1988. 29x22. 64 s. 35 helsides reproduktioner av 19 tuschteckningar och 16 färgakvareller. Tryckta utvikbara omslag med färgillustration. Tryckt på fint papper i 1200 numrerade exemplar, detta ex. HC, signerad AHS i blyerts.

Copenhagen, Eilers, 1999. 31x25. 392; + 393-632 pp. Ca 420 photos, reproductions of architectural drawings, etc. (355 in colour including 74 full-page). Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, in the original decorated slipcase with cloth top and bottom.

Stockholm, Gebers, 1915. 25x17. VIII+280 s. + utvikbar karta + 16 s. annonser. 295 numrerade illustrationer (men summan av foton, ritningar och planer är betydligt högre eftersom åtskilliga av illustrationerna är kombinationer av sådana). . Ett mycket bra exemplar i tryckta omslag men med smärre åldersspår; stämpel "Avskriven" på titelsidan, och en liten bläckkod på dess baksida. En oöverträffad redogörelse för de många egnahemsföreningar och egnahemsföretag som växte fram i Sverige efter att en statlig egnahemslånefond upprättats 1904, och en omfattande dokumentation av bostadshus och områden skapade inom ramen för egnahemstanken. Foton och ritningar av enfamiljshus, parhus och radhus i egnahemskolonier och trädgårdsförstäder över hela landet, med detaljerat register över orter och företag, och en bibliografi. Bland de identifierade arkitekterna till avbildade hus märks John Åkerlund, Lars Israel Wahlman, Isak Gustaf Clason, Victor Bodin, Erik Hahr, och arkitektfirman (Sigurd) Lewerentz & (Torsten) Stubelius.