Pittsburgh: ACTION-Housing, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); original brown printed wrappers; [2],77,[1]pp.; illus. Fine. "A Pioneering Demonstration in Rehabilitating Aging but Structurally Sound Housing" (from upper cover). More

London: C.W. Daniel Company, [1930]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original tan cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, dark brown topstain; 86,[2](ads)pp. Contemporary ownership inscription on half title, minor foxing to preliminaries and textblock fore-edge, else Near Fine. Brief study of the cities of Great Britain in the early years of the economic..... More

New York: Aperture Foundation, 2008. First Edition. Oblong octavo (15.5 x 20.5cm); color pictorial paper-covered boards; [108pp], w/ photo plates and fold-outs. Light scratches and surface wear to boards; price sticker on rear; interiors clean and sound. Near Fine. Photographer Jonas Bendiksen spent two years documenting individual lives, families, and homes..... More

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1912. First American Edition. Classic work on the sociology of rural villages and the changes wrought by advancing technology. Sturt (1863-1927) was a wheelwright by trade, and wrote from a rather unusual perspective - a sensitive, self-educated tradesman, documenting and eulogizing the passing of..... More

New York: Privately Published, 1922. First Edition. Quarto (31cm); dark blue publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt; [74pp]. Spine well sunned; material fraying/loss at crown and heel, leading corners; mild surface wear and soiling to boards; interiors foxed intermittently, with some yellowing to margins; first signature slightly pulled; short tear on..... More

New York: Institute of Public Administration, Columbia University, 1938. Reprint. "Authorized Reprint of the Official Report." Octavo (22.5cm.); original maroon buckram, spine lettered in gilt; xxi,[1],346pp.; illus. and maps throughout. Upper cover extremities faintly dampstained, some bubbling to cloth of rear cover. Still, Very Good and sound. Signed and inscribed..... More

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1930. Second Printing. Octavo. Maroon cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 302pp. Spine gilt age-dulled; text clean, tight and unmarked. An attractive, VG copy. More

[Cambridge: Harvard Today Publications, 1969]. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm.); original teal printed staplebound card wrappers; 35pp.; illus. Fine. Second of a series published by the Office of the President "on behalf of the interest of all alumni..." More

[Hummelstown, PA]: American Yearbook Company, [1962]. First Edition. Quarto (31cm.); coated paper boards in red, silver, and blue; [166pp]. A yearbook commemorating the 200th anniversary of Hummelstown, PA's founding; contains town history and photographs, plus information on municipal organizations, churches, schools, and businesses (with contemporary ads). Endpapers are slightly yellowed..... More

Budapest: Helikon, 1996. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (29cm); burgundy paper-covered boards, no dustwrapper; 172pp. Some surface wear, mild scratches, dings to boards; interior clean and tight; Near Fine. A chronicle, in text and b/w photo-illustrations, of Austria-Hungary's newly formed capital city Budapest at the turn of the 20th century, and..... More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1963. First Edition. Octavo (23.25cm.); original cloth in white photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket, green topstain; x,[6],219pp.; illus. Fine. Metropolitan Politics Series no. 1. More

Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976. First Edition. Quarto (26cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers printed in brown; viii,110pp.; tables throughout. Near Fine. Prepared for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research. More

London: The Economic Research Council, (1967). First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (22cm); printed card wrappers; 20pp. Mild external wear; wrappers slightly soiled; internally clean, tight and unmarked. A sound, VG copy. Critique of British housing policy, calling for an increase in private homebuilding and a de-emphasis on rent controls and..... More