An Autobiography

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/good. First edition, first printing of An Autobiography by Frank Lloyd Wright, in the scarce dust jacket, designed by the author.. Square octavo, iv, 371pp. Black cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, top edge dyed red, light rubbing to corners, faint offsetting to endpapers. Free of marks or notations, possibly unread. Complete with 65 illustration, photographs and plates designed by the author. In the publisher's scarce but soiled dust jacket, price-clipped, with dampstained edges and a small loss to top left corner. (Sweeney 303) No impact from dust jacket dampstain to cloth or text block. This first edition of An Autobiography by Frank Lloyd Wright, published in 1932, is considered his best writing. It was released to widespread acclaim and reissued in 1933 with a limp cloth cover and dust jacket. Wright also published The Disappearing City in 1932, published by William Farquhar Payson (Sweeney, 328).