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München 1912. 21x18. XII+130 pp. + 8 plates (including three paintings by Kandinsky and works by Cézanne, Raphael, and Dürer) + 3 leaves ('Tabellen' with colour theory diagrams). Ten original woodcuts by Kandinsky in the text. Full light brown leather binding. Foxing to half-title leaf and very light foxing to last leaf. Third edition (published the same year as the first and second) of Kandinsky's famous discussion of the spiritual foundations of art and the nature of artistic creation.

London ... The Studio, 1907-11. 29x21. Each volume contains X+38 pp. text + 128 pp. with full-page photos + 8 colour plates. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth, top edges gilt. A complete set of this classic documentation comprising (1) Southern & Western Counties; (2) Midland & Eastern Counties; (3) Northern Counties.

Sanktpeterburg 1906. 28x19. 126 pp. + 6 plates (one coloured plate and five photogravures). 13 reproductions in the text. Neat later half cloth. Some old Russian library stamps, and numbers in ink on title page. Swedish, gilt-lettered title on spine reading Den ryska furstefamiljen avbildad i 1000-talets miniatyrer (The Russian Princely Family depicted in 11th-century miniatures).

Salzburg & Wien 1989. 28x23. 256 pp. Almost 400 photos, drawings and plans. Publisher's printed cloth, dust jacket. The standard monograph on the Austrian-German modernist architect (1889-1955) including annotated Catalogue of the Works and selected Bibliography.

Paris, Societé de Propagation des Livres d'Art, 1990. 31x23. II+X+120 pp. + 30 photo plates. Fine cloth-backed marbled boards, printed wrappers bound in. No. 408 of an edition limited to 650 copies. Former owner's bookplate on first, blank leaf, and an ink inscription on half-title page.

Berlin 1912. 40x30. 4 pp. + 60 plates comprising 48 plates with measured drawings and 12 plates with 41 photographs. Loose as issued in a cloth-backed portfolio with tie-strings and printed front label. Details of old Berlin buildings, mainly staircases with their banisters and balustrades, meticulously measured and illustrated.

Berlin, Felix Stössinger Verlag, 1933. 24x16. 104 s. + löst ilagt blad med förlagets bokannonser. Tryckta originalomslag över kartongpärmar, med en teckning av William Wauer (Nell Waldens porträtt). Lätt stukning av ett yttre hörn och ett litet stötmärke på främre omslaget. Första upplagan, tryckt i 500 numrerade ex. varav detta är nr 455. Dedikation från författaren daterad Berlin Sept. 1933. Prästdottern Nell (Nelly) Roslund från Landskrona gifte sig med Herwart Walden 1912 och blev en drivande kraft i den avantgardistiska Der Sturm-rörelsen. Vid sidan av sitt konstnärsskap publicerade hon dikter under pseudonymen Maria Enid i tidskriften Der Sturm. Hon fortsatte sitt författarskap efter att hon 1924 gift om sig med läkaren Hans Heimann (som skulle komma att dö i ett förintelseläger 1937).

Paris, Éditions Neuf, 1952. 27x21. 84 pp. 63 reproductions of photographs (46 full-page) and 8 of drawings. Publisher's cloth with photo plate on front cover. An exquisite collection of photographs and drawings by Brassaï with his own notes as well as his autobiographical Souvenirs de mon enfance, text by Henry Miller (L'Oeil de Paris), and a poem by René Bertel. The fifth publication in the Collection Neuf series edited by Robert Delpire and Pierre Facheaux.

Frankfurt am Main 1922-28. 24x17. XXIV+ 338; + XII+360 + II + 361-408; + XII+396 + II + 397-432; + XXVI+740 + II + 741-824 s. text och reproduktioner av stämplar (samt 320 foton i avsnittet Byzanz) + sammanlagt 120 s. med foton (paginerade 1-51, 51a, 52-55, 55a, 56-95, blank, 96-117). Förlagets skinnryggsband (1-3) respektive klotband (4). Första bandets rygg missfärgad, några pärmar med aningen nötta hörn, liten fuktfläck i slutet av fjärde bandet. Silversmeden Erik Flemings exemplar med hans namnteckningar på försättsbladen. Tredje, omarbetade (definitiva) upplagan av detta standardverk om guld- och silversmeder och deras stämplar från medeltiden till 1800-talet i Tyskland (Band 1-3) och andra europeiska länder samt Bysans (Band 4).

München 1913. 32x24. X+252 pp. + one plate + portrait frontispiece. 250 photos, drawings and plans. Publisher's gilt-lettered cloth-backed boards. The first major book on Behrens, a substantial documentation of early works in architecture and industrial design.

London 19040. 25x17. 140 pp. + 90 plates with 117 reproductions. Publisher's printed linen cloth. Scarce first edition. (Studies of the Warburg Institute, 13).

Stockholm 1943. 29x22. 404 s. 567 illustrationer, övervägande fotografier i ljustryck varav ca 60 helsides. Förlagets halvskinnband med övre guldsnitt. Nr 146 av bibliofilupplagan tryckt i 150 exemplar för namngivna ägare.

London, Groombridge and Sons, (1846-48). 21x14. II+278+96 pp. + 12 coloured plates with guard-leaves + coloured frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with debossed and gilt decorations, edges gilt. Some uneven fading of the green cloth, otherwise a very nice copy.

Istanbul, International Conference of Oriental Carpets, 2007. 31x23. 336; + 174+II pp. + errata slip. Ca 340 colour photos including 320 full-page. Bilingual text in captions in Turkish and English. Publisher's printed boards with dust jackets; kept in a pictorial slipcase. The books in excellent condition; one edge of the slipcase cracking.

Zürich: Girsberger / London: Thames and Hudson, 1955-66. 23x28. 232; + 240; + 256 pp. Photos, drawings and plans throughout. Trilingual text. Publisher's printed linen cloth. The complete documentation of Neutra's works 1923-1966, all trilingual in English, French and German. Volume 1 in fourth edition.

(Paris) 1989. 24x16. 152 pp. Ca 80 photos and reproductions, 29 full-page including 8 in colour. Pictorial wrappers, as new. A study of the table porcelain services ordered by King Louis Philippe for the Fontainebleau Palaces, and produced between 1835 and 1848. The study describes the history, project designs, realisation, composition, decoration, designation and price of the Fontainebleau service, including tables of orders, deliveries and final composition, and a complete list of painters for each piece, as well as an outline of the Sévres production during that period. English summary.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. 29x22. XL+416 pp. 286 photos, drawings and plans (31 in colour) and 6 maps. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. The comprehensively illustrated scholarly standard work on the origins and development of National Romanticism movements in German and Scandinavian architecture and interior design in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Berlin 1931. 25x13. 106 pp. + loosely inserted folding map. Ca 135 photos and perspective drawings, and 35 plans. Original cloth-backed covers, pictorial silver-coloured front cover. A nice copy despite minor signs of use including some incipient cracking of the spine/cover cloth joint. Attractively designed guide to modern buildings in Berlin, several designed by Bruno or Max Taut, others by Mendelsohn, Gropius, Behrens, Mies, Korn, Neutra, Poelzig, Scharoun, etc.

London, The Mandrake Press, (1929). 36x27. 94 pp. + 26 colour plates. Publisher's half leather with gilt cover designs, top edge gilt, otherwise untrimmed. Extremities lightly rubbed, small ink stain on reverse of one plate. Privately printed for subscribers only on Arches mouldmade paper, in 510 numbered copies of which this is no. 425. A documentation of fifteen oil and eleven water colour paintings by the English novelist, poet, playwright, literary critic and painter, with his own 23-page introduction. When the paintings were exhibited at the Warren Gallery in London in June 1929, they were condemned by Paul Konody in the Observer as an outrage upon decency, the critic for the Daily Express declared that the subjects of some of them will compel most spectators to recoil with horror, and according to The Daily Telegraph, paintings of so gross and obscene a character had never been seen in London before. Thirteen of those with the most overtly erotic motifs were confiscated by the police; they were later returned to the artist on the stipulation that they never be exhibited publicly.

Stuttgart 2006. 30x29. 384 pp. Ca 760 colour reproductions (including 88 full- or double-page) and 165 photos, 140 in colour. Publisher's pictorial boards, dust jacket. On front free endpaper a large black marker pen drawing signed by James Rizzi. Substantial documentation of the work of the Brooklyn Pop Artist James Rizzi (1950-2011). English text, consisting of brief questions by O'Brien and extensive replies by the Rizzi.

Tokyo, Edita, 1986. 30x30. XVI+320 pp. 465 reproductions of drawings and plans and photos, 72 in colour. Pictorial wrappers. (Frank Lloyd Wright, vol. 6). Bilingual in English and Japanese.