Urban Planning from Lorne Bair Rare Books

[New York]: Twentieth Century Fund, 1962. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's pale green staplebound wrappers; [2],37pp. Slightly ex-UCSD Library with presentation bookplate inside upper cover, small contemporary ownership address label to upper cover, a hint of wrinkling and wear from handling, else Very Good and sound.

Location not stated: Privately published, 1850. Later edition. Two thick octavos (23cm); brown pictorial cloth, stamped in blind and gilt; xvi+vii, 609+591pp, 22+11 plates. Backstrip torn on Vol. 2, partially detached; both volumes have material loss at spine crown and heel; boards show moderate rubbing, chipping and wear, especially to extremities. Textblocks foxed, with offsetting to text; ex libris… Read more about this item

Yakima, WA: The Yakima Herald-Republic, 2010. First Edition. Slim quarto (27cm); b/w pictorial paper wrappers; 82pp. Wrappers show minor handling wear and toning, with rubbing and creasing about the spine. Interiors clean and tight; a Very Good+ copy. Published as a supplement of The Yakima Herald-Republic, this magazine (released April 25, 2010) commemorated the 125th anniversary of the… Read more about this item

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 in the slums of Nairobi (Kibera), Mumbai… Read more about this item

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995. First Edition. Quarto (29cm); black cloth boards stamped in blind and foil, in pictorial dustwrapper; xvii, 235pp. Dustwrapper shows moderate shelving wear, some scuffs and scratches, rolling extremities; heel and crown of spine bumped with small tears. Textblock slightly soiled on fore edge, else clean and sound. Near Fine in Very Good+… Read more about this item

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 council housing.

London: Conservative Political Centre, 1954. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (22cm). Pictorial stiff card wrappers; 55pp. Light rubbing to covers, else clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good. Post-War study of British city planning from a Conservative viewpoint, emphasizing slum clearance, containing sprawl, and preserving agricultural properties.

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 fore edge of title and foreword pages. Overall Very… Read more about this item

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 its development into a world city ("világváros")… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Southern Book Company, 1952. Second Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); dark red publisher's cloth boards, with gilt lettering on spine, no dust jacket; 189pp. Text block lightly worn on edges; mild yellowing at gutters but otherwise clean and sound; Near Fine. Front pastedown has ownership stamp. Boards have light surface wear and soiling; front board margins are slightly sunned; pushing… Read more about this item

[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 at extremities but depict a b/w aerial photograph of… Read more about this item

New York: Aperture Foundation, 2009. First Edition. Oblong quarto (27.5cm x 31.5cm). Pictorial paper boards (hardcover) with titling on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 300pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slight soiling to bottom textblock corner, else appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight shelf wear to bottom corner tip, else clean and sound. Photographer Joel Meyerowitz captures the hidden pockets of… Read more about this item

Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, 1970. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's white and green card wrappers; viii,85pp.; two leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, color maps in text. Light shelf wear, faint ownership signature to upper cover, else Very Good to Near Fine.

Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue-grey staplebound wrappers; 9pp. Near Fine. Brookings Research Institute Report no. 52.

London: Daily News, 1900. Revised Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's drab printed wrappers; vii,[8]-175pp. Wrappers rather fragile with a few shallow chips and closed tears along extremities, textblock significantly toned and brittle due to poor paper stock. Still, a Near Very Good copy overall. Collected articles first published in the Daily News, here "Revised with Copious Additions and with special… Read more about this item

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.

Berkeley: University of California Press, [1990]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in teal pictorial dust jacket; xiv,253pp.; illus. Just About Fine.

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.

New York: Icon Editions, Harper & Row, [1972]. First American Edition. Quarto (25.25cm.); original cloth in black and white pictorial dust jacket; 176pp.; illus. throughout, text in double columns. Very minor shelf-wear, old price sticker to upper jacket panel, else Near Fine.

Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1937. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original tan printed card wrappers; 90pp.; 2 leaves of folding table plates. Wrapper extremities a bit rubbed and toned, a few shallow losses and short closed tears, else Very Good and sound. Legislative Document (1937), no. 41.