Wendingen: Special Number of the English Edition: Volume IV, No, 11 with color lithograph covers by El Lissitsky; Introduction by H.P. Berlage
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
Amsterdam: De Hooge Brug, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards. Good. El Lissitsky. 38 pages. 33 x 33 cm. A notable review of the early works of Frank Lloyd Wright. As Berlage notes the Wright "after Sullivan, his master, has entirely freed himself from European architecture." Bound as a blockbook, LE COULTRE 4-11d; LISSITSKY-KUPPERS 70; PURVIS 3-6. RUSSIAN AVANT GARDE BOOK P.196. String tied covers, one margin repaired, covers stains, and a few narrow margin staining. ... Read More
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Frank Lloyd Wright From and address to the people of Marin County, July 1957
by Wright, Frank Lloyd (Ephemera)
Np: Np, 1960. First printing. Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. 28 pages. 20 x 27 cm. Printed in red and black, color and black and white illustrations and plans, plus a color drawing of the Marin County Amphitheater.
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Wendingen: The Life-Work Of The American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
Santpoort: C.A. Mees, 1925. First combined edition. Hardcover. Modern red cloth. Fine. 163 pages. 34 x 33 cm. Seven issues in one, edited and typographically arranged by H. TH. Wijdeveld, printed by Joh. Enschede. Profusely illustrated: photographic plates and plans. Wijdeveld's glowing tribute in his Introduction belies the stagnation in Wright's commissions; he built almost nothing in the late 1920's and early 1930's, and many assumed his career was virtually ended. Interior contents clean and fresh, a very... Read More
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The Work Of The American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright The Wendingen Edition
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
New York: Bramhall, 1965. Hardcover. Orig. white basket weave cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 164 pages. 33 x 31 cm. 200 illustrations. Introduction by H.Th. Wijdeveld, essay by Lewis Mumford, two essays by Louis Sullivan and a memoir by Mrs. Wright. This edition is printed on both sides of each sheet and with only slightly smaller margins than previous editions -- in all other respects identical.
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Taliesin Drawings Recent Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright Selected From His Drawings; Comments By Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc, 1952. First edition. Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Very good. 63 pages. 22 x 27.5 cm. Fifty seven drawings. Problems of Contemporary Art No. 6. Chips to front cover at fore-edge. SWEENEY 864.
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A Testament
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
New York: Horizon, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Orig.beige cloth. Very good. 256 pages. 210 illustrations. KARPEL B1360. "Wright's last book. In two parts: Book I, autobiographical, and Book 2, the new architecture. Includes a section on the Mile-High Illinois, a proposed cantilevered sky-city, 528 stories high.
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Marin County Civic Center
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
Marin County: Marin County Civic Center, 1957. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff wraps. 28 pages. 20 x 27 cm. Printed in red and black with black and white and color plates. Wright's dedication and introduction to the founding of the center and detailed analysis of all the components of the Civic Center. Plans and commentary on the construction.
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Ausgefuhrte Bauten
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1911. Orig. light brown wrappers, black cloth backstrip. Very good. 141 pages. 30 x 21.5 cm. Illustrated throughout from photographs; 193 half tones. Laid-in are two color plates of "Unity Temple" and a black and white photograph of Avery Coonley House, Riverside, Illinois This, the small format edition often referred to as the "Little Wasmuth," published after the Wasmuth editions of 1910 and 1911. The photographs here in were originally intended to accompany the Wasmuth... Read More
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The Buildings Plans And Designs Frank Lloyd Wright
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
New York: Horizon, 1963. Hardcover. Orig. cloth and board portfolio. Very good. Elephant folio, 30 pages in text, 100 mounted plates printed on heavy card stock. Foreword by William Wesley Peters. Limited edition copy 445E of 2600. 32 page booklet enclosed. Plates bright, clean and fresh. KARPEL B1332." A near but not exact facsimile of the Wasmuth `Ausgefuhrte Bauten,' published in Berlin in 1910. H. Allen Brooks, the distinguished Wright scholar calls the Wasmuth original the `most influential... Read More
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The Decorative Designs Of Frank Lloyd Wright; Text by David A. Hanks
by Wright, Frank Lloyd (Ephemera)
Washington DC: Renwick Gallery of The Collection of Fine Arts, 1979. First printing. Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Fine. 60 pages. 26 x 21.5 cm. 69 entries many covering his interior furnishings. Host of black and white illustrations. Exhbitions from December 16, 1977 through February 25, 1979 at three separate locations.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly, Summer 1995, Vol. 6 No.3
by Wright, Frank Lloyd (Ephemera)
Taliesin West: Scottsdale, 1995. First printing. Wraps. Orig. illustrated, stapled stiff wrappers. Fine. 24 pages. 28 x 21.5 cm. Illustrated with photographs.
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Frank Lloyd Wright An Autobiography
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated brick cloth. Very good. Wright, Frank Lloyd. 561 pages. 22 x 22 cm. Illustrations within the text, and a series of family photographs after the text. KARPEL B1338. "First edition of a classic in the literature of American architecture. The second edition (1943) is incorrectly designated `first edition' on the verso of the title page. "FREITAG 10397 [listing later edition]. SWEENEY 585 & 303. Front cover... Read More
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Frank Lloyd Wright; Maitres de l'Architecture Contemporaine, no 1
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
Paris: Editions Cahiers D'Art, 1928. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. tan printed wrappers lettered in red. Very good. Unpaginated, approx. 60 pages. 28 x 24 cm. Introduction by Henry Russell Hitchcock, text in French presenting 44 full-page photographs of Wright's work between 1902-1923. Interior bright and clean, front cover slightly toned at margins. A few chips to backstrip.
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Frank Lloyd Wright/Steelcase; Text by David Allen Hanks
by Wright, Frank Lloyd (Ephemera)
Np: Steelcase, 1981. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Very good. 6 pages. 20 x 19 cm. Promotional piece for desk designs by FLW re S.C. Johnson Building. Color illustrations plus three page fodlout of black and white sketches of Steelcase designs with explanation of the desk design. Slight toning and small stain front cover.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly, Summer 1994, Vol.5 No.1
by Wright, Frank Lloyd (Ephemera)
Taliesin West: Scottsdale, 1994. First printing. Wraps. Orig. illustrated, stapled stiff wrappers. Fine. 24 pages. 28 x 21.5 cm. Illustrated with photographs. Chapter on Exhibitions At Home And Abroad.
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The Folger Library; Two Decades of Growth: An Informal Account
by Wright, Louis B.
Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1968. First edition. Near fine in fine dust wrapper. Orig. maroon cloth, front cover escutcheon of Shakespeare Library in gilt,. 300 pages. Index. Front cover upper corner bumped.
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Our House
by Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd
New York: Horizon Press, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Very good in chipped dust wrapper. 308 pages. Refers to both Taliesin and Taliesen West.
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The Roots of Life
by Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd
New York: Horizon Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Very good in chipped dust wrapper. Wright, Frank Lloyd. 256 pages. Mrs. Wright explores the manner in which one achieves growth through inner freedom. A few pages with text underlining and margin notes.
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CHAP BOOK: Unite or Fall
by London. J. Wright
London: J. Wright, 1798. First edition. Wraps. Orig. printed buff wrappers, front cover a bit toned. Very good. 23 pages. 9 x 5.5 cm. Patriotic tract to urge support for the Crown against the French during the current hostilities, and much admonition regarding France's attempts to have America make common cause with the Republic against England.
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Grotesque Architecture, Or Rural Amusement; Consisting Of Plans, Elevation, And Sections for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, chinese, gothic and natural grottos, cascades, baths, mosques, moresque pavilions, grotesque and rustic seats, green houses, & c. Many of which may be executed with flints, irregular stones, rude branches, and roots of trees. The whole containing twenty-eight new designs, with scales to each. To which is added an explanation, with the method of executing them. ... A new edition
by Wrighte, William
London: I. and J. Taylor, 1790. New Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary leather backed marbled boards. Very good. 14 pages in text. 24 x 14.5 cm. Leaf after text, advert by publisher for Books on Architecture. ARCHER 358.5. "The plans reveal Wrighte's Concern for Palladian principle of proportion and symmetry. Typical examples are composed of squares, circles, and other regular figures; the hut in Plate 1 is square in plan, 10 feet 9 inches on a side, and the plan... Read More
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Some Early French Guiana Tracts
by Wroth, Lawrence C.
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1926. Reprint. Paperback. Orig. blue/gray printed wrappers. Fine.. 20 pages. American Antiquarian Society. Proceedings. April, 1925.
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The First Press in Providence A Study in Social Development
by Wroth, Lawrence C.
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1942. Reprint. Paperback. Orig. blue/gray printed wrappers. Fine. 35 pages. American Antiquarian Society. Proceedings. October, 1941.
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Paul Wunderlich Lithographies 1959-1973 by Fritz J. Raddatz (Text)
by Wunderlich, Paul (Illustrator)
Fribourg & Paris: Office Du Livre & Editions Vilo, 1974. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth fine in fine matching slipcase. 158 pages. 36 x 30 cm. Limited edition, copy 43 of 1060. With 3 original lithographs: Mona Lisa, Torso. and Petit manteau, and 50 full page color plates. Bibliography. Text in French. Almost as new copy.
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NIEDERLANDISCHES KUNSTLER-LEXICON; Auf Grund Archivalischer Forschungen Bearbeitet
by Wurzbach, Alfred Von
Amsterdam: B.M. Israel, 1974. Reprint. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Very good. 2 vols. 24 x 16 cm. Two vols. in three, originally published 1906-1911. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER E135. " Standard dictionary of Dutch and Flemish artists." Rubbing to extremities, Vol.II. Text in German.
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Textile Printing With Dyes Of The Society Of Chemical Industry In Basle Switzerland And With Those Of The Dow Chemical Midland. Mich
by Wuth, B. (Editor)
New York: Howes Publishing, 1928. First edition. Boards. Orig. thick navy boards chipped at corners. Very good. 163 pages. 27 x 18.5 cm. Photographs. Index. A Technical Treatise with Tables and Charts Covering Basic, Mordant, Insoluble AZO, Cibacet, Direct, Acid and Vat Dyes.
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