Arts & Architecture

First edition, signed and numbered 1,305 of 1,500 by the artist on the half-title; oblong 4to (290 x 375 mm); colour and monochrome illustrations; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine lettered in white, gilt edges, original printed box, a couple of spots to box, otherwise a fine copy.

4 vol. in 2, large 8vo, 28 folding hand-coloured engraved fashion plates, 21 folding chromolithographed pattern plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout, uniformly bound in contemporary half morocco, some minor edge-wear.

First miniature edition, 32mo (11 x 7.5 cm); inscribed on the half-title, 'To Chris with love from David. XXX', illustrated with 39 etchings in black and white; bound in blue leatherette with silver gilt lettering, slight staining to covers, a fine copy.

First edition. Folio, ( 37 x 28 cm), half-title, [4pp] text; 114 full-page black and white photographic illustrations; bound in decorated cloth after Miro, no dust-jacket as issued; a fine copy.

First trade edition, first printing; presentation copy inscribed by Brassai. 8vo. 53 photographic illustrations. Publisher's cream wrappers printed in black and red. With the photographic dust jacket. A superb copy in the very slightly tanned dust jacket.

First edition, inscribed by the author on half-title; 4to (245 x 170 mm.); numerous full & half-page colour plates, reproduced drawings on colour paper, illustrations and black & white photographs, slight toning to paper but clean; publisher's moire cloth gilt, light wear to corners, pictorial dust-jacket, darkening, more so to spine, spine-ends chipped, a few spots and a small loss to upper edge of rear panel but overall a very good example.

First edition, signed by the author; 4to; ortrait frontispiece, full page illustrations, numerous illustrations within the text; publisher's pictorial yellow cloth lettered and blocked in red, pictorial dust-jacket, price clipped, torn on the hinges, lacking appproximately 15 mm at tail, two small ares of loss to the head, top front cover torn with some loss, old tape repairs to the verso.

First edition; 4to; illustrations, text in German, captions in German and Russian, book design by Paul Urban; publisher's cloth over pictorial paper boards, dust-jacket, only a gragment, lacking all but the upper cover, slight rubbing and soiling to the boards, internally very good; preserved in a later, custom-made solander box.

First edition, second issue dust-jacket; 4to; photographic illustrations; publisher's cloth, heavily spotted, second issue dust jacket, made plainer after the original, with its offline lettering, was not to the photograph's taste, nicked and torn at edges with small losses.