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Ashbee, C R. Where the Great City Stands - a study in the new civics. Essex House Press & B T Batsford, 1917.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover shows heavy wear and tear, edgewaer and rubbing, tape on the spine. Pages are lightly tanned and mostly clean.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Ashbee C R. Where The Great City Stands. The Essex House Press, 1917.

Price: US$163.72 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback rebound by library. Clean text, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom

ASHBEE C.R. [Charles Robert] 1863-1942. Where the Great City Stands A Study in the New Civics. The Essex House Press; and B.T. Batsford, Ltd, 37 Cheyne Walk, London SW and 94 High Holborn, London WC, 1917.

Price: US$194.93 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: In quarter grey cloth over blue printed boards, corners bumped & worn, black ink text. Spine, soiled, black ink titles, edges bumped. Internally, half title, [4], (v-xii), 164 pp, [1], [1], [adverts, [1] printers device, 121 illustrations, erratum tipped in, book label to fpd (Frank Mullings), top edge faded gilt, remainder uncut. (287*224 mm). Ashbee, architect, designer, and social reformer. see ODNB.

Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom

(ESSEX HOUSE PRESS). ASHBEE, C. R.. WHERE THE GREAT CITY STANDS. A STUDY IN THE NEW CIVICS. Essex House Press and B. T. Batsford, Ltd, London, 1917.

Price: US$312.00 + shipping

Description: 292 x 222 mm. (11 1/2 x 8 3/4"). xii, 164, [4] pp. Publisher's printed blue paper boards backed with linen, smooth spine with black lettering, edges untrimmed. With 121 illustrations, many of them full-page photographic plates. With erratum slip inserted following title page. Front pastedown with ink signature of "H. Nightingale / 1936." Crawford, "C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist" (2005), pp. 169-70. ◆Spine a bit soiled and a little frayed at ends, corners bumped, isolated faint foxing, but an excellent copy, clean and fresh internally in a solid binding. Ashbee's proposal for incorporating arts and crafts into urban life follows the closing of his Guild of Handicraft, which had flourished in London but foundered after the move to the country. Taking inspiration from urban planning pioneer Patrick Geddes and drawing on ideas gleaned from his travels in America, Ashbee describes, in Crawford's words, "a sense of the city as a progressive social force, expressing the aspirations of the democracy towards a finer life." The illustrations depict Pre-Raphaelite art, handicrafts and the workshops in which they were produced, and numerous photographs of architecture in Britain and America, ranging from restored Tudor guildhalls to Frank Lloyd Wright structures.

Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.

Ashbee, C. R. [ Essex House Press ]. Where the Great City Stands: A Study in the New Civics. The Essex House Press 1917, London, 1917.

Price: US$617.28 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First Edition, uncommon in jacket. xii, 165, [2] pp. Illustrated blue boards under a cream cloth spine in illustrated jacket. Slight wear around jacket edges with minor loss to top edge of front panel and tail of spine. Boards clean and bright, internally clean with one or two minor splits to the inner binding. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographic plates, intext illustrations and diagrams. An attempt to examine urban planning in terms of the arts etc. in the midst of the destruction of the First World War. A really interesting, complex and attractive book in incredible condition, uncommonly in its jacket. 4to.

Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom