Planning.- Saarinen (Eliel) Munksnäs-Haga och Stor-Helsingfors: Stadsplannstudier och Förslag, folding colour plans, plates and illustrations, ink inscription on front free endpaper, original printed wrappers with circular colour illustration mounted on upper wrapper, a little rubbed and spine broken but still a very good copy, Helsinki, 1915; Search for Form: A Fundamental Approach to Art, 1948; The City: Its Growth, Its Decay, Its Future, second printing, 1945, all but the last first editions, the last two both signed and inscribed by the author to Sir Patrick Abercrombie on front free endpaper, plates, original cloth, very slightly soiled or browned, New York, 4to & 8vo (3)

⁂ The first is Saarinen's ambitious plan for a satellite town to Helsinki, much-praised but only built in small parts due to rising costs. Saarinen emigrated to America in 1923 and his son Eero became a distinguished architect in the International Style.

Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie (1879-1957), architect and town-planner, known particularly for the Post-War replanning of London. He created both the County of London Plan (1943) and the Greater London Plan (1944) which were influential in the development of new towns. He also helped to found the Council for the Preservation of Rural England (CPRE) in 1926.