Rare and Unusual Books

Author: "Daily Mail". SMITH Trevor (ed)
Published: London, Associated Newspapers
New designs for houses and bungalows including those exhibited at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, 1955. 96pp, many illustrations (plans, drawings, interesting adverts). Pictorial wraps. 26x20. VG.
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Author: ALDRIDGE Henry R.
Published: London, National Housing and Town Planning Council, 1923.
A Guide to National Housing Policy and Administration. 526pp, incl. 20 b&w plates and many text figs. Inscribed by the author to Raymond Unwin. Publisher's cloth. 28x22. Discreetly ex lib (bookplate and tiny stamp only), cloth faintly discoloured, a...
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Author: ALDRIDGE Henry R.
Published: London, National Housing and Town Planning Council, 1923.
A Guide to National Housing Policy and Administration. 526pp, incl. 20 b&w plates and many text figs. Inscribed by the author to Raymond Unwin. Publisher's cloth. 28x22. Spine faded, cover faded in places, prelims browned, foredge spotted, binding...
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Author: ALLAN Charles E., assisted by ALLAN Francis J.
Published: London, Butterworth, Shaw, 3rd ed, 1911.
lxiv, 372pp. Gilt lettered cloth. 22x14. Top of spine slightly pulled, else vg.
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Author: ALLEN Gordon
Published: London, B.T. Batsford, 1919, 6th edition revised.
A Manual of Economic Building. xii, 144pp, 107 figs (many being on hors-texte plates). Cloth with attractive pictorial design, 23x16. Good copy, in the scarce dust wrapper (minor edge wear to this).
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Author: AUCTIONEERS AND ESTATE AGENTS INSTITUTE
Published: London, 1917.
60pp. Pamphlet. 21x14. Ministry Library copy. Good for fragile item.
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Author: AUCTIONEERS’ AND ESTATE AGENTS’ INSTITUTE
Published: London, published by the Institute 1918.
80pp. Wraps 21x14. Ministry lib stamp on wrapper and title, otherwise good for fragile item.
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Author: Australia. KENDIG Hal
Published: Sydney, George Allen & Unwin, 1979.
Post-War Land Use and Housing in the Australian Inner City xiv, 192pp incl maps, figs, bibliog. Cloth, 24x16. Vg.
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Author: BARNES Harry
Published: London, P S King, 1931.
xv, 398pp. Cloth. 22x15. Vg.
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Author: BARNES Major Harry
Published: London, Ernest Benn, 1924.
A Proposal for a National Municipal Building Service. With an examination of The New Housing Bill introduced in Parliament on June 3, 1924, by the Right Hon. John Wheatley MP...... 46pp. Pamphlet. 23x14. Ministry lib copy, good for fragile item.
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Author: BOWLEY Marion
Published: London, Oxford Press 1944.
32pp. Pamphlet. 18x12. Good.
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Author: BOWMAKER Edward
Published: London, Methuen (“Social Questions of To-Day” series), 1895.
xii, 14 plates (plans and elevations of model schemes), 186pp, 40pp publisher's adverts. Cloth. 18x13. Spine faded, circa 1cm missing top of spine and corners bumped. Internally end papers trifle...
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Author: BOWMAKER Edward
Published: London, Methuen (“Social Questions of To-Day” series), 1895.
xii, 14 plates (plans and elevations of model schemes), 186pp, 40pp publisher's adverts. Cloth. 18x13. New end papers and spine, two local government stamps and one other stamp, vg thus.
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Author: BRADSHAW Lewis
Published: Kettering, author published, 1908.
A solution of the housing, the servant, and the drink problems, by a rational, an evolutionary, and a scientific method of housing reform. Fold-out frontis (view of a central block), 79pp, incl 5 plans (4 being fold-outs). Foreword by Philip Snowden. Inscribed by the author on blank front end paper. Pictorial wraps. 22x14. Tiny chip...
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Author: BRIGHT Tom
Published: London, Batsford, 1910.
A practical handbook for the use of surveyors, agents, landowners, and others interested in the development, management, equipment administration, or realization of building estates. xviii, 345pp, inc 26 b&w line illustrations, + 14pp book adverts. Cloth 20x14. Foxing to end papers, but a nice bright copy.
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Author: Canberra. CANNON Christine
Published: Canberra, Australian National University, Urban tresearch Program Working Paper No. 66, 1999.
Housing and the National Capital Development Commission. iv, 53pp incl plans, drawings, plus 4pp university working papers. Pamphlet, 21x14. Vg.
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Author: CENTRAL HOUSING ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Published: London, HMSO, 1948.
Report of the sub-committee on the means of improving the appearance of local authority housing estates. 27pp. Pamphlet, 24x15. Cover a little dusty else good copy.
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Author: CHAPMAN Stanley D. (ed)
Published: Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1971.
A Symposium 307pp, 14 plans, 22 text illustrations. Cloth. 22x15. Ex lib (publisher's cloth, good), dust wrapper.
ISBN: 0715352334

Author: CORNES James
Published: London, B. T. Batsford, 1905.
Illustrated by examples of municipal and other schemes of block dwellings, tenement houses, model cottages and villages. Also plans and descriptions of the Cheap Cottage Exhibition. xviii, 196pp, many high-quality photos, plans, architects views etc, also list of architects and municipal bodies. Library binding, 31x25. Ex library, evidence of removed labels. not too bad, half...
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Author: COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH ON HOUSING CONSTRUCTION (publ)
Published: London, P.S. King, 1934.
The First Report of the Council for Research on Housing Construction. 139pp, 20 figs (some colour) + 23 photos. Gilt lettered cloth. 29x22. Very good copy.
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Author: Coventry. SHELTER (publ)
Published: London, nd c1974.
The New Slums. A report prepared by Wood End, Willenhall, Hillfields and other corporation tenants in Coventry.... 44pp, many illustrations. Card covers. 30x21. Owner's signature else vg.
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Author: CRANFIELD Sydney White & POTTER Henry Ingle
Published: London, B.T. Batsford 1904, 2nd ed revised and enlarged.
Comprising 52 typical and improved plans arranged in groups, with elevations, etc. Also introductory and descriptive text, general notes on planning, tables giving sizes of rooms, cubic contents,... Frontis perspective view, vi, 34pp + 25 fine single-sided plates (showing plans, worked-up elevations). With appendix of model bye-laws. Top edge gilt. Gilt lettered cloth. 38x28. Folio. Top and...
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Author: Daily Mail. ASSOCIATED NEWSPAPERS LTD
Published: London, nd1919?
Midlands Industrial Area. Reproductions of the best plans entered in the Daily Mail’s £2,000 Architects’ Competition, 1919. xxxvi (fascinating period ads for ‘ideal homes’), 54pp, mainly details of entries, with plans, elevations, artist’s views etc.. Pictorial boards, linen spine. 24x31. Cover clipped at top corner...
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Author: Daily Mail. ASSOCIATED NEWSPAPERS LTD
Published: London, nd1919?
Northern Industrial Area. Reproductions of the best plans entered in the Daily Mail’s £2,000 Architects’ Competition, 1919. xxxiv (mainly fascinating ‘ideal home’ period adverts), 54pp, mainly details of entries, with plans, elevations, artist’s views etc. Pictorial boards, linen spine. 24x31. Covers little browned,...
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Author: Daily Mail. ASSOCIATED NEWSPAPERS LTD (publ)
Published: London, 1920.
xvi (mostly adverts), 69pp, xvii-xlii (adverts), many plans, elevations, line illustrations. Pictorial boards, linen spine. 31x25. Browning to boards, else good.
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Author: DAUNTON M.J.
Published: Leicester, University Press, 1984.
Local Authority Housing in English Cities, 1919-1939. 223pp incl illustrations. Cloth, 24x16. Fine, dust wrapper.
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Author: DES REICHSHEIMSTATTENAMTES DER DEUTSCHEN ARBEITSFRONT
Published: Berlin, Verlag der Deutschen Arbeitsfront, 1941.
Heft7:2 Die Gestaltung des Bauernhofes [cover title] 45pp inc many photos, plans, ground plans. Wraps, 31x23. Spine little rubbed top and bottom else vg.
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Author: Devon. MILLER Brian S.
Published: Exeter, Devon County Council, 1926
Details of Grants and Loans available for the Reconditioning of Rural Cottages. 8pp, 5 illustrations. Pamphlet. 24x15. Has been folded. About good for fragile item.
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Author: DEWSNUP Ernest Ritson
Published: Manchester, Manchester UP (Economic Series No VII), 1907.
Its Statistics, Legislation and Policy. vii, 321pp, incl. 32 tables (one on fold-out) + 8pp book adverts. bibliog. Gilt lettered publisher’s cloth. 23x16 Ex library copy with stamps on fly and reverse of fold-out tables, inside front...
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Author: DEWSNUP Ernest Ritson
Published: Manchester, Manchester UP (Economic Series No VII), 1907.
Its Statistics, Legislation and Policy. vii, 321pp, incl. 32 tables (one on fold-out) + 8pp book adverts. bibliog. Gilt lettered cloth. 23x16 VG. Small scratch mark on front cover.
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Author: ENGLAND Kathleen M (compiler)
Published: London, Chatto & Windus, 1931.
A Citizen's Guide to the Problem Frontis, 115pp + 17 interesting b&w photo illustrations, bibliog. Foreword by John Galsworthy. Pictorial boards. 18x13. Ex ministry library, minor wear else good.
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Author: FABIAN SOCIETY
Published: London, 4th ed, revised and enlarged, 1906.
A summary of the powers of Local Authorities under the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890 to 1903, and the use which has been and can be made of them 20pp. Pamphlet. 21x14 Good.
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Author: FREEMAN Albert C.
Published: London, St Bride's, nd. c1900
Frontis, 72pp, incl many plans, some coloured + 8pp interesting adverts. Publisher’s cloth, buckram spine. 30x23. Ex lib, spine slightly rubbed at extremities, generally a good copy.
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Author: FREMANTLE Lieut.-Colonel F.E.
Published: London, Philip Allen, 1927.
xiv, incl. foreword. by Neville Chamberlain, 193pp. Brief bibliography. Cloth. 20x13. Very good. 4pp publisher’s flier for the book loosely inserted.
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Author: FREMANTLE Sir Francis
Published: London, Burrup, Mathieson, nd, c1933.
43pp. Pamphlet. 21x14. Min lib copy, fair for fragile item.
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Author: Frome. LEECH Roger
Published: London, RCHM, 1981.
vii, 44pp, incl illustrations. Printed wraps. 28x21. Good copy.
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Author: GALE Stanley
Published: London, Batsford, 1949.
A Practical Guide to their Planning, Design and Development for the use of Town Planners, Architects, Surveyors, Engineers, Municipal Officials, Buildings and others interested in the technical and... xii, 275pp + colour fold-out plan at front & 17 fold-out plans, some also in colour, inc 168 b&w photos, plans etc. Cloth. 25x18. Ex Glenrothes Development Corporation copy, good.
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Author: GESSNER Albert
Published: Munich, F Bruckmann, 1909.
Ein Betrag Zur Stadtekultur der Gegenwart iii, 149pp, mostly photos, plans, drawings. Lovely patterned cloth, 29x22. Corners very slightly bumped and top and bottom of spine little rubbed else vg. Owner's signature on front end paper.
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Author: Glasgow. GIBB Andrew
Published: Glasgow, University Press. 1982.
32pp, 2 plans. Pamphlet. 21x15. VG.
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Author: HENDERSON Arthur, and MADDOCK Leslie
Published: London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1935.
xix, 604pp. Cloth. 22x15. Ex Min Lib. Spine faded else good.
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Author: Ireland. FRASER Murray
Published: Liverpool, Liverpool U.P., 1996.
State Housing and British Policy in Ireland, 1883-1922. xv, 412pp, 55 illustrations, 5 diagrams, 6 tables. Wraps. 25x17. Fine.
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Author: JAMES C H & YERBURY F R
Published: London, Crosby Lockwood & Son, 1924.
xi, 32pp text + 140 photo illustrations & plans, 6 fold-out plans, 60pp specifications, bills of quantities, 24pp trade adverts. Cloth. 32x26. Vg.
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Author: KAMENKA H
Published: London, Crosby Lockwood, 1947.
Frontis, 144pp + 54 b&w photo illustrations, inc 23 plans, bibliog. Cloth. 25x19. A nice bright copy.
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Author: KNIGHT & CO (publ)
Published: London, 1890, 3rd edition.
of the Local Government Board, with respect to I. Cleansing of Privies, etc. II. Nuisances. III. Common Lodging-Houses. IV. New Streets & Buildings. V. Slaughter Houses 242pp, 40 very interesting diagrams. Cloth, gilt lettered leather spine. 25x16. Recased, new end papers. VG.
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Author: Leeds - Quarry Hill. MITCHELL Peter
Published: Otley, Smith Settle, 1990.
132pp, a great many illustrations (colour & b&w photos, hors-texte blueprint plans). Laminated wraps. 23x21. Vg, dust wrapper, this with small closed tear bottom of spine.
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Author: Liverpool. RATHBONE Eleanor F
Published: Liverpool, Liverpool Housing Comm, c1930.
12pp. Pamphlet. 25x12 Ministry lib copy, small tears on cover. Fair for fragile item.
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Author: LOANE M
Published: London, Edward Arnold 1909, 2nd imp.
vi, 308pp. Cloth, 19x13. Good copy.
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Author: LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD
Published: London, unpublished. Items have late 19th century dates to c1902.
An important bound ledger. 31x29. Good.
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Author: London - Bermondsey. BROCKWAY Fenner
Published: London, George Allen & Unwin, for the Bermondsey Independent Labour Party, (1949), 1951 2nd impression.
The Life of Alfred Slater Frontis portrait of Salter, xi, 246pp +11 b&w photos on plates.. Pictorial end papers by Arthur Wragg. Cloth, 22x15 Ex lib, with hand lettering on spine, else good.
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Author: London - LCC. BEATTIE Susan
Published: London, GLC: Architectural Press, 1980.
LCC Housing Architects & their Work 1893-1914 127pp, copious illustrations & figs, bibliog. Laminated wraps. 29x21. VG.
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Author: London - LCC/ GLC. GREATER LONDON COUNCIL DEPT. OF ARCHITECTURE & CIVIC DESIGN
Published: London, 1975.
A Visual History of LCC:GLC Housing 1888-1974. 2pp, 27 slides on plastic sheets with pockets. Booklet with same title, 24pp, describing the images, in rear pocket. Boards. 19x21. Good.
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Author: LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL
Published: London, LCC, 1931.
Frontis, vi, 118pp, 63 b&w illustrations (photos & plans, some on fold-outs), some tables. Cloth. 25x15. Vg.
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Author: LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL1
Published: London, LCC, 1928.
With particular reference to Post-War Housing Schemes. Frontis photo, 193pp+ many good quality b&w photos, maps, fold-out plans. Map in front. End papers tanned else very nice copy indeed. Two bumps on spine with small tear in cloth, not too bad, still...
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Author: LYALL Sutherland
Published: London, Robert Hale, 1988.
From Cottage Ornée to Stockbroker Tudor: 200 Years of the Cult of the Vernacular. 174pp, 88 b&w illustrations (photos & plans), bibliog. Cloth. 24x20. Fine in dust wrapper.
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Author: MARGIS Hildegard & MAHLER Dr Karl (eds)
Published: Stuttgart/Berlin, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1932.
156pp incl numerous plans. Cloth, 25x19. Cloth a little discoloured round edges, faint foxing to prelims, but a nice copy.
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Author: MINISTRY OF HEALTH
Published: HMSO
(i) Housing England. The Local Authorities (Assisted Housing Schemes) Amended Regulations. 10pp. 1932.(ii) Local Authorities (Assisted Housing Schemes) Amended Regulations. 10pp. 1932.(iii)... Uniform pamphlets. 24x15. Good for fragile items.
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Author: MINISTRY OF HEALTH
Published: London, HMSO, 1927.
on the design, construction and repair of dwellings. 42pp incl 32 photos, plans. Foreword by Neville Chamberlain. Wraps, 25x19. Minor wear to covers, good.
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Author: MINISTRY OF HEALTH
Published: London HMSO, 1936.
Tables of Comparison showing1. The mode in which earlier enactments are dealt with by the Act2. The sections of the Act and corresponding provisions in earlier Acts. 28pp, xii, 172pp. Cloth, 24x15. Owner’s signature, vg
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Author: MINISTRY OF HEALTH
Published: London, HMSO, 1920.
Health in connnection with State-Aided Housing Schemes iv, inc 1pp preface + 45 plates of plans & elevations. 4to pamphlet. 28x22. Original cover missing. Smudges on back and front, else good for fragile item.
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Author: MINISTRY OF HOUSING & LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Published: London, HMSO, 1952, 1959 reprint.
iv, 70pp, inc 26 b&w figs. Wraps. 24x18. SpSpine faded, note attached to title page with pin, back cover grubby but contents in good condition.
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Author: MINISTRY OF HOUSING & LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Published: London, HMSO, 1958.
Fp, vi, 154pp, inc 112 b/w photos, plans, etc. Wraps. 25x18. Spine a trifle rubbed, else good. Lewis Keeble's copy with his signature.
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Author: MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVT
Published: London, HMSO, 1954.
Improvements and Conversions. viii, 67pp, 88 b&w figs (photos, plans). Foreword by Duncan Sandys Publisher's wraps. 25x19. Fine copy, as new.
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Author: MUESMANN Prof. Adolf (Hgb)
Published: Stuttgart, Julius Hoffmann, 1932.
Vorbereitung, Durchführung und Ertragsberechnung der neuen Vorstädtischen Kleinsiedlungen und Kleinbauernstellen. 144pp, incl 90 figs (plans, elevations, views, maps etc). Essays by various experts. Wraps. 29x23. Base of spine professionally repaired, good.
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Author: NATIONAL LAND & HOME LEAGUE
Published: London, for the League, 1912.
4pp. Pamphlet. 22x14. Vg.
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Author: Nazi Housing. ERDMANNSDORFFER Karl (ed)
Published: München, Callwey, 4th ed, 1943.
Die Baugestaltung. 130pp incl photos, elevations etc plus 18pp plates on building methods. Boards. 30x21. Inner hinges strengthened, a nice bright copy.
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Author: Netherlands. CENTRAL DIRECTORATE OF RECONSTRUCTION AND HOUSING
Published: The Hague, 1952.
Nederland Les Pays-Bas Die Niederlande The Netherlands Los Paises Bajos c84pp incl photos, plans. Wraps with map of Netherlands as a cut-out, 16x23. Vg.
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Author: Netherlands. OUWEHAND Andre and DAALEN Gelske van
Published: Delft, University Press, 2002.
A model for social housing. 109pp incl illustations. Wraps, 24x17. Vg.
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Author: NETTLEFOLD J S
Published: Letchworth, Garden City Press, 1908.
xi, frontis, 200pp + many b&w photos, fold-out maps, plans etc + 28pp adverts. Cloth. 22x15. Corners trifle bumped, else good.
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Author: NETTLEFOLD J S
Published: Letchworth, Garden City Press, 1908.
xi, frontis, 200pp + many b&w photos, fold-out maps, plans etc + 28pp adverts. Cloth. 22x15. Contemporary owner's name and date on title, occasional foxing, not affecting plates, generally better...
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Author: NETTLEFOLD J S
Published: Letchworth, Garden City Press, (1908), 2nd, popular ed, 1910.
xxviii of interesting adverts by Co-Partnership housing groups - at Hampstead, Ealing etc, xivpp prelims, 198pp + many b&w photos, fold-out maps, plans etc. Cloth with attractive paste-down artist...
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Author: Newcastle. BENWELL C.D.P. & NEWCASTLE HOUSING DEPT.
Published: Newcastle, 1977.
Whatever Happened to the Homes for the Heroes? 16pp, photo illustrations. 4to pamphlet, card covers. 30x21. Some highlighting to text, else good.
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Author: Northamptonshire. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE CC
Published: For NCC, 1936.
125pp. Stiff wraps. 25x19 Ministry lib copy. Good.
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Author: NUTTGENS Patrick
Published: London, BBC Books, 1989.
Housing the People 1840-1990. 160pp, many b&w illustrations, bibliography. Cloth, dust wrapper, 24x16. Ex Centre for Housing Research library, vg.
ISBN: 0563207140

Author: NUTTGENS Patrick
Published: London, BBC Books, 1989.
Housing the People 1840-1990. 160pp, many b&w illustrations, bibliography. Cloth. 24x16. Fine, dust wrapper.
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Author: OETZMANN & CO
Published: London, nd, c1910.
Designs and plans of cottages estimated to cost to build from £200 to £2,000. 72pp, including plans, artist impressions, suggested furnishings with illustrations and prices. Attractive stapled card cover, professionally repaired. 21x14. Covers dusty and last few pages a...
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Author: Peabody. HANAFORD Phebe A
Published: Boston, D Lothrop & Co, 1882.
Containing a record of those princely acts of benevolence which entitle him to the esteem and gratitude of all friends of education and the destitute, both in America, the land of his birth, and in... Frontis portrait, 308pp, 5 b&w illustrations, incl view of Peabody flats. Cloth. 19x13. Old historical society label, else good.
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Author: Peabody. HANAFORD Phebe A
Published: Boston, B B Russell, 1870.
containing a record of those princely acts of benevolence which entitle him to the esteem and gratitude of all friends of education and the destitute, both in America, the land of his birth, and in... Frontis portrait, 308pp + 4 b&w illustrations, incl striking view of Peabody London flats. Gilt patterend green cloth. 19x13. Small tear mark on cloth, else bright copy..
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Author: PENN Colin
Published: London, Batsford, 1954.
Frontis, 184pp incl. 118 illustrations (photos & figs), 2 tables. Cloth. 25x19. 3 digit number written in crayon on front end paper else good copy.
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Author: PINK Louis H and SMITH Alfred E
Published: NY, John Day, 1928.
Frontis, xiv, 208pp inc plans plus 51 plates on 23 pages. Cloth, 24x17. Some pencil marks on two pages, else vg in partial dust wrapper.
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Author: Poor Law Report. R. FELLOWS (publishers)
Published: London, 1834.
for Inquiring into the Administration and Practical Operation of the Poor Laws. Published by Authority. viii, 362pp; ii, 128pp supplements and index. Original publisher’s boards, linen spine. 22x14. Covers spotted, contents good.
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Author: Prefabrication. CASSON Hugh
Published: Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1946.
An account of the housing achievement in the U.S.A. 1940-1945 48pp, copious b&w photos & plans. Wraps. 17x22. Vg.
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Author: PUBLIC WORKS, ROADS & TRANSPORT CONGRESS
Published: London, The Congress Organising Committee, 1931.
A Selection from the Exhibition of Photographs of Rural Housing Schemes and of Houses Reconditioned under the Housing and Rural Workers Act 1926. 169pp, with many photographic illustrations. Foreword by Neville Chamberlain. Card. 24x18. Blank front end paper a bit creased, neat name on cover, a nice bright copy.
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Author: PUGH Kate
Published: London, SAVE Britain’s Heritage, 1983.
67pp, a great many photos, plans, 11 case studies. Intro by Marcus Binney. Pictorial card covers. VG.
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Author: RAVETZ Alison
Published: London, Routledge (“Planning History and the Environment” series), 2001.
The History of a Social Experiment vii, 262pp, some b&w illustrations, bibliog. Silver lettered cloth, 24x16. Fine.
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Author: ROBERTSON Manning
Published: NY, McDevitt-Wilson's, (London 1924), nd ?1924.
A Sequence of essays addressed to the Public Frontis, 176pp + 26 b&w photo illustrations. Intro. by H R Selley. Cloth, paste-on label on spine. 22x14. Cloth professionally repaired, new blank front end-papers, to make a fair copy.
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Author: ROBERTSON Sir John
Published: London, Faber & Gwyer, 1925.
what the modern dwelling needs to be. 192pp, incl 16 text illustrations. Cloth. 17x11. Min lib copy. Good.
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Author: ROBINSON Edwin & KEEBLE Lewis
Published: London, The Estates Gazette, 1952.
Colour frontis, xvi, 354pp, 57 illustrations, incl hors-texte plates (one in colour), bibliography. Cloth. 24x17. Local authority departmental stamps, good copy, in pictorial dust wrapper (this...
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Author: ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS
Published: London, 1918.
awarded Premiums in the Competitions conducted by the Royal Institute of British Architects with the concurrence of the Local Government Board 119pp, incl 98 pp designs with plans, elevations, finished impressions etc. Boards, linen spine. 28x22. Cover creased, fair copy only.
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Author: ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS
Published: London, 1918.
awarded Premiums in the Competitions conducted by the Royal Institute of British Architects with the concurrence of the Local Government Board 119pp, incl 98 pp designs with plans, elevations, finished impressions etc. Loosely inserted plan for a block of 6 cottages by J B Menuham in the Unwin tradition. Boards, linen spine. 28x22....
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Author: Salvation Army. BOOTH General
Published: London, Salvation Army, 1890.
Folding coloured frontis, 285pp, xxxi+ 6pp book adverts. Cloth. 23x15. Unusually nice crisp copy.
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Author: SAVAGE William G
Published: London, T Fisher Unwin, 1915.
Frontis, x, pp11-297+ 32 very interesting photo plates. Gilt lettered cloth. 23x16. Ex RTPI Lib copy. Good. Bequeathed to the Library by E.G. Culpin, with his signature on front end paper.
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Author: SCHMITT Karl Wilhelm
Published: London, Architectural Press, 1966. (German ed, same year)
212pp, many b&w plates and text figs. Cloth, 26x23. Owner's name on front end paper, vg in dust wrapper.
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Author: SCHNELL Eric and HAAKE Ulrich
Published: Lüneburg, Metta Kinau 1946.
111pp incl 11 illustrations and tables. Wraps, 21x15. Bottom corner creased and spine edges a little rubbed, pages browned but still a good tight copy.
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Author: Scotland. RODGER Richard (ed)
Published: Leicester, Leicester UP, 1989.
xii, 253pp, incl text photos, plans etc. Cloth. 24x16 Discreet Departmental stamp, else good, dw.
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Author: SCRATCHLEY Arthur
Published: London, Charles & Edwin Layton, 1869 (4th ed).
and Local Enterprise Encouragement Companies. 131,8,24,40,36pp Gilt lettered publisher’s cloth. 22x14. Ex lib.
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Author: Seidler. FORSTER Wolfgang
Published: München, Prestel, 2002.
Social Housing-Innovative Architecture. Wohnpark Neue Donau, Wien. Neue Donau Housing Estate, Vienna 96pp inc photos, plans etc, bibliog, biography, chronology of the project and list of building firms involved. German and English text. Cloth, 31x24. Fine in dust wrapper.
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Author: Sheffield. ANGINOTTI Sylvia (ed)
Published: Sheffield, Longley & Southey Local History group, c1987.
Longley and Southey Estates. 60 Years of Community Life. 59pp, illustrations. Card covers. 30x21. VG.
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Author: SIMON E D
Published: London, Longmans, Green, 1929.
Frontis, xii, 146pp+ 2 plates and incl 18 tables. Cloth. 22x15. Good copy. Inscribed by the author.
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Author: SIMON E D
Published: London, Longmans, Green, 1929.
Frontis, xii, 146pp + 2 plates and incl 18 tables. Cloth. 22x15. Piece cut from (blank) front end paper, otherwise a very nice bright copy.
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Author: SIMON Sheena D
Published: London, JM Dent 'Design for Britian' series, 1943.
31pp. Pamphlet, 21x14. Three filing holes, reasonable copy.
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Author: SIMON Sir E D
Published: London, Longmans, Green, 1933.
viii, 205pp. Publisher’s cloth. 23x15. Ministry lib copy, cloth slightly browned, otherwise good, in frayed, incomplete dust wrapper.
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Author: SIMPSON M A & LLOYD T H (eds)
Published: Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1977.
217pp + 16 b/w plates and incl 12 figs. Cloth. 22x14. Anthony Sutcliffe’s signature and blind stamp on fep. Vg, dust wrapper.
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Author: SIMPSON M A & LLOYD T H (eds)
Published: Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1977.
217pp + 16 b&w plates and incl 12 figs. Cloth. 22x14. Vg, dust wrapper.
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Author: SMITH George
Published: Glasgow, Blackie, 1834.
Suited for the Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, for which the Premium was voted by the Highland Society of Scotland. Illustrated by working plans of single and combined cottages of different... Pictorial title page, 38pp +11 fold-out plates (plans, rendered elevations) (+ ivpp publisher's ads). Publisher’s cloth, paste-down label. 14x23. Good copy.
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Author: SMITH Wallace
Published: London, National Planning and Housing Council, 1934.
7pp. Large format pamphlet. 30x20. Small tears in margin.
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Author: SOCIETY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE LABOURING CLASSES
Published: London, 1848 new series.
for Disseminating Information on Allotments of Land, the Dwellings of the Poor, Loan Finds, Deferred Annuities, Benefit Societies, and Other Means of Improving the Conditions of the Labouring... 208pp. Cloth, 26x17. Earl of Buckinghamshire's bookplate, cover sunned at top, bottom of spine little pulled, good copy.
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Author: Stockbridge. ROGER TYME & PARTNERS
Published: London, HMSO, 1988.
31pp incl photos, plans. A4 pamphlet. Fine.
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Author: SUTCLIFFE Anthony (ed)
Published: London, Croom Helm, 1974.
x, 249pp,incl 12 plates, also tables and figs. Publisher's gilt lettered cloth. 22x14. Owner stamp and small label at front. A nice copy, in good dust wrapper.
ISBN: 0856640360

Author: Sweden. HOLM Per
Published: Stockholm, The Swedish Institute, (1957), 2nd ed, c1960.
96pp, many photos, plans, diagrams etc Pictorial wraps. 20x14. Good copy.
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Author: SWENARTON Mark
Published: London, Heinemann, 1981.
The Politics and Architecture of Early State Housing in Britain. viii, 216pp,with 36 illustrations, 5 tables. Publisher’s cloth. 22x14. Vg in very good dust wrapper.
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Author: Switzerland. EBERLÉ H (Bearbeitet)
Published: Zürich, Neuland, 1927.
122pp (+ adverts), incl many illustrations (plans, elevations, architect’s views). Nice patterned wraps, 23x16. Vg indeed.
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Author: Switzerland. RUF Walter
Published: Zürich, Neuland-Verlag, nd, c1948.
Frontis, 127pp incl bibliog plus 8pp plates. Wraps, 22x15. Pages lightly browned else vg, dust wrapper.
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Author: THOMPSON W
Published: London, National Housing Reform Council, 1903.
A practical manual for the use of officers, members, and committees of Local Authorities, Ministers of Religion, Members of Parliament, and all social or municipal reformers interested in the... xvi, 270pp + many b&w photos, plans, maps etc + 101pp Appendix on legislation, mortality rates, cheap building at Liverpool. Gilt lettered cloth. 21x14. Spine and covers sun marked, not too bad,...
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Author: TOWNROE B S
Published: London, Methuen, 1924.
How to Meet the Problem. Frontis, xii, 178pp + 11 b&w plates & incl. bibliog. Cloth. 19x13. Ministry lib. copy. Good.
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Author: Vienna Flats. BRAMHAS Erich
Published: Basel, Birkhäuser, 1987.
Vom Karl Marx-Hof zum Hundertwasserhaus. 185pp, a great many plans, elevations, photos etc. Stiff pictorial wraps. 24x20. Fine copy.
ISBN: 3764317973

Author: Wales. LOWE Jeremy
Published: Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, (1977) 1989 with postscript.
64pp, many illustrations, plans, maps, Laminated card covers. 15x23. Fine.
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Author: WASHBOURNE, HENRY (publ)
Published: London, 1831, 3rd ed.
and Lodgers; with a comprehensive summary of the Law of Distress..... x, 98pp. Publisher's wraps, 14x9. Covers dusty and spotted, pages ii and iii taped else good tight binding.
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Author: WEAVER Lawrence
Published: London, Country Life, (1913), 2nd ed revd & enlarged 1919.
Frontis, xiv, 266pp inc 302 b&w photos, plans, etc. Cloth. 22x14. VG.
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Author: WEAVER Lawrence
Published: London, Country Life, 1913.
Costing from £150 to £600. Frontis, xii, 231pp, 291 illustrations (photos, plans etc). Cloth, top edge gilt, 23x14. Faint cloth rubbing, still and good copy.
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Author: WEAVER Sir Lawrence
Published: London, Country Life, (1913 'Country Life' Book of Cottages), revd 3rd ed 1926 (new title).
Frontis, xii, 402pp inc 483 b&w photos, plans, etc. list of architects. Cloth. 23x15. Slight foxing on half-title, else good.
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Author: WEAVER Sir Lawrence
Published: London, Country Life, (1913 'Country Life' Book of Cottages), revd 3rd ed 1926 (new title).
Frontis, xii, 402pp inc 483 b&w photos, plans, etc. list of architects. Cloth. 23x15. Nice copy.
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Author: WEAVER Sir Lawrence
Published: London, Country Life, (1913 'Country Life' Book of Cottages), revd 3rd ed 1926 (new title).
Frontis, xii, 402pp inc 483 b&w photos, plans, etc. list of architects. Cloth. 23x15. Head of spine split, wear to cloth, contents good.
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Author: WEAVER1 Lawrence
Published: London, Country Life, 1913.
Frontis, xii, 231pp 291 illutsrations (photos, plans etc). Cloth. 23x14. Nice bright copy.
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Author: West Yorkshire. CAFFYN Lucy
Published: London, HMSO (West Yorkshire MCC & RCHME), 1986.
xviii, 160pp inc 175 b&w plates, bibliog. Wraps. 28x22 Vg.
ISBN: 0113000022

Author: WESTDEUTSCHEN ARBEITER (publ)
Published: M.Gladbach, 1910.
Was man vom Bauen, Wohnen, Mieten und vom Garten wissen muss. 67pp. Pamphlet with attractive cover design, 20x13. Vg copy.
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Author: WINNICK Louis with the assistance of SHILLING Ned
Published: NY, Wiley & Sons, 1957.
The Demand for Shelter Space. xiv, 143pp. Cloth, 24x16. Vg in chipped dust wrapper.
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Author: WOLF Paul
Published: Berlin, Wasmuth, 1926.
286pp, incl hundreds plans, photos, maps. Cloth, 32x25. Vg copy.
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Author: WOOD Edith Elmer
Published: (Washington DC, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, 1936), McGraw Publishing, 1969.
xi, 126pp,+ 11 b&w photo plates. Cloth, 22x14. Book has been damp at some point and is crockled on bottom edge. Text and illustrations not affected.
ISBN: 74100472

Author: WOOD Edith Elmer
Published: Washington DC, Federal Works Agency, US Housing Authority, nd, c1939.
Frontis, xi, 161pp + 12 b&w photos, inc many tables, maps etc. Wraps. 23x15. Remains of label on cover, o/w good.
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