The Town Hall Liverpool
City of Liverpool Public Relations Office no date
4to stapled booklet 12pp plus covers, in blue transparent acetate wrappers VG++ 85 gms
(Order reference 6493).

Adams, Joan & Thomas, Becky: Floating School and Frozen Inkwell - the one-room schools of British Columbia
Harbour Publishing 2nd prtg 1991
4to pb 152pp VG++ 475 gms
(Order reference 13185).

Anderson, William: Castles of Europe
Elek 1970
F/VG 2kgs+
(Order reference 562).

Anderson, William: Castles of Europe
Omega Books 1st thus 1984
edges rbbd o/w VG/VG- 1855 gms
(Order reference 50).

Ashley, Laura: Decorating with Textiles and Trimmings
BCA 1995
large 4to, glazed pictorial boards in a similar d/w F/F 845 gms
(Order reference 8856). £5.00

Becher, Bernd & Hilla: Framework Houses of the Siegen Industrial Region
Schirmer/Mosel 1st 1977
square format 4to, v v min bmps to bds, v v sl dulling to bd edges, rems of a self adh plate to fr pd, yellowing + sl wr to d/w o/w VG++/VG++ 1500 gms
(Order reference 5784).

Forrest, H E: The Old Houses of Stratford-upon-Avon
Methuen 1st 1925
This is no. 231 of 250 numbered copies and is signed by H E Forrest.
8 tipped in coloured plates + 37 other illustrations.

This is a limited numbered edition and SIGNED by the author. 4to, quarter-bound in reddish brown buckram and brown paper-covered boards. Black-printed cream title labels are laid on the spine and front board.

It has 180 pages, a colour frontispiece tipped in (with tissue guard) and 7 further tipped-in plates by W.W. Quatremain, 23 black and white plates and 10 text illustrations.

Lovely crisp clean colour illustrations. Numbered 231/250, signed by the author on the title page verso. Contains lists of bailiffs, mayors, etc. of Stratford.

There is slight wear to the bottom front corner of the boards plus slight dulling and spotting to the prelims, slight marking and browning to title labels, otherwise the book is in VG++ condition.870 gms
(Order reference 5647).

Of Dr. Hoar's earlier book, An Introduction to English Architecture, 'The Times' said, 'Dr. Hoar writes as effortlessly as he draws'.

Knowles, Loraine: St. George's Hall, Liverpool
National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside 2nd edn 1995
4to stapled sftbk 33pp VG++ 155 gms
(Order reference 13754).

St. George's Hall, Liverpool is one of the finest neo¬classical civic buildings in Europe: a symbol of 19th century Liverpool's success and prosperity. It was built between 1841 and 1854 to the design of a young architect, Harvey Lonsdale Elmes, who had to combine concert hall and law court facilities in one building. This booklet outlines the building's fascinating history and construction, which includes the first attempt at air~conditioning a public building in the country, and describes the main features of its superb architecture and decoration. It is illustrated by 29 colour and 12 black and white plates.
Cover: John Goodchild's Fantasy of St. George's Hall under construc¬tion, 1854. Watercolour.

‘Before there was a Vegas and long before there was “reality television” there was Times Square. For a century it has been the blazing crossroads of the world; the sometimes magical, sometimes tawdry but always spectacular epicentre of American commercial culture.

Times Square Style is a visual compendium of the energy and dazzle and glamour that made the Great White Way the most famous (and most notorious) place in America’s most famous (and notorious) city. From Ziegfeld’s Follies and George White’s Scandals to titanic signs with screaming type – Drink Pepsi! Smoke Camels! Good to the Last Drop! – to burlesques with dancing girls in short, short skirts, this book brings to colourful life a trove of arcane, lost and otherwise forgotten promotions, signs, flyers, programmes, posters, records, napkins, advertisements, billboards and other works of ephemera large and small.

Times Square Style was published on the centennial anniversary of this defining American place and allows us to look back with nostalgic fondness on all of its irrational exhuberance.’

That says it all, really. The book is packed with images illustrating the history, life and vibrancy of New York’s Times Square – a place with a style of its own.