First Edition. 86 pages, eight two tone lithographs by John Piper depicting British suburban housing of the period in a lovely muted and gloomy fashion. With the excellent and unclipped dust-Jacket front of which also has an illustration by Piper. Short nick to top edge of the front panel of jacket and also couple of tiny nicks to ends of the backstrip. Without old inscriptions or other interior markings. Light foxing to pastedowns and endpapers. A near fine example of a lovely book, illuminated by Piper's evocative illustrations.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Castles on the Ground
Publisher: The Architectural Press, London
Publication Date: 1946
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Book Type: Book

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Antiquarian and second-hand bookstore in the heart of fashionable Chelsea, in London, an area famed for its links to bohemian London and the beau monde scene of the 1960s and 70s.

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Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB)
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