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FLUR F (Bauinspektor) & KAHM PH (Architekt) (Intro) Wie Jede Familie im Eigenhause Billiger als zur Miete Wohnen Kann.Wie beschafft Man sich Baukapital und Hypothek. Praktische Winke für Baulustige der Hausgarten. 156pp, 160 plans, elevations, sketches etc. Also interesting period adverts. Wraps, with paste-down image. 22x15. Covers professionally repaired. A fair copy of a fragile item Wiesbaden, Heimkulturverlag/ Westdeuteche Verlag, nd c1912 (91-100. Tausend). Extremely interesting hand book for those wishing to build family houses. Stylistically the designs are like British Arts & Crafts housing of the period, with similar careful attention to detailing, fixtures & fittings, heating, garden features etc. Includes designs by Gebhardt & Eberhard, Schultze-Naumburg etc.. Scarce. [Ref:22350]	£65
"Across Architecture". VANNAS Dimitri (ed) Across Architecture. Issues 1&2 (all published?) Vol 1: 78pp, many illustrations. Vol 2: 54pp incl illustrations. Card covers. 30x21. VG. London, Architectural Assoc. School of Architecture, nd c1983. Well produced journal, published by dissatisfied students in the School. [Ref:29108]	£40
"Excursions". Seaside. LINDLEY Kenneth Seaside Architecture 160pp+ 4 col plates & incl a great many ills, lists of piers and cliff railways. Cloth, 25x23. Vg, dust wrapper, this with small piece missing at top. London, Hugh Evelyn ("Excursions into Architecture" series), 1973. Good source for seaside design features. Pioneering survey of this interesting subject. [Ref:25281]	£35
"Excursions". Canals. HARRIS Robert Canals and Their Architecture 223pp, many illustrations, bibliog, list of routes etc. Cloth, 25x23. Vg, dust wrapper. London, Godfrey Cave ("Excursions into Architecture"), (1969), 1980. Describes in detail the building of canals, the canal craft and canalside buildings. [Ref:29195]	£25
"Plan". ARCHITECTURAL STUDENT'S ASSOCIATION (publ) Plan nos 1-9 c34pp per volume plus adverts. Spiral-bound wraps, 20x17. Overall good set. London/Birmingham, 1948-51. Packed with fascinating articles: CIAM, MARS, the Marseilles Block, The Modulor etc. All with delightful modernist covers. [Ref:29034]	£100
"Plan". ARCHITECTURAL STUDENT'S ASSOCIATION (publ) Plan.1943-vols 2,3,4. 1944-vols 2, 3. 1945-vol 1. 22-34pp per volume. Thin card covers, 22x16. Staples rusty but all copies except the first, which has a detached cover, still bound together. London/Birmingham, 1948-51. Very interesting wartime journals with texts on all kinds of out-of-the-way subjects: Reconstructing Stalingrad, Ethiopian churches, the New London Plan etc. 1994 no 2 has the MARS block on cover. Nice items, very period. [Ref:29035]	£40
'Athenian Stuart'. WATKIN David Athenian Stuart. Pioneer of the Greek Revival 70pp+ 80 b/w plates. Bibliography. Wraps. 23x16. Vg. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1982. First monograph on James 'Athenian' Stuart (1713-88) considered the father of Grecian style buildings [Ref:28799]	£10
ABERCROMBIE Patrick (ed) The Book of the Modern House: A Panoramic Survey of Contemporary Domestic Design. Colour frontis, xlii, 378pp+ 5 colour plates and incl 244 b/w illustrations and figs. Cloth. 28x20. Nice bright copy, still in its pictorial dust wrapper. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. Excellent and revealing 1930s survey, including contributions by Williams-Ellis, Jellicoe, Hill, Gloag etc. An unusually good copy. [Ref:29040]	£140
Ackermann. COLVIN H. M. (notes) Ackermann's Oxford.A Selection of Plates. Nice copy, in good dust wrapper. Harmondsworth, Penguin ("King Penguin"), 1954 [Ref:28035]	£10
ADAM Robert Classical Architecture.A Complete Handbook vi, 319pp, including a great many illustrations, bibliography Cloth, 29x22. Vg copy, in vg dusty wrapper. London, Viking, 1990. Scholarly handbook by this modern classicist, with nice drawings. [Ref:28276]	£30