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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library, rebound in brown hardcovers, with card pocket remnant on newer rear endpaper, library name abraded from half title page (with photo of Wright on reverse) ; corner of pp65/66 missing. Pages toned but otherwise unmarked. Architecture/A6; Ex-Library; 115 pages
Seller: The Second Reader Bookshop, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Tan and color illus. paper boards, 115 pp., BW illus. Contains the texts of six classic lectures given by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright: Machinery, Materials and Men ; Style in Industry ; The Passing of the Cornice ; The Cardboard House ; The Tyranny of the Skyscraper ; and The City. With an introduction by E. Baldwin Smith. F+ (A rebinding candidate, for sure; outer spine material is missing; covers are otherwise tanned and have slight edgewear; first few pages have separated; bookplates and marks of former owners on first flyleaves; pages are tanning lightly at edges; text and illus. are clear.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto. 8.5 x 10.75 in. 114 pp. Very good in original illustrated boards that have slight toning and rubbing, a firm binding, and clean pages free of foxing. This text contains six lectures and accompanying illustrations that Wright delivered at Princeton in 1930 on themes of Machinery, Materials and Men; Style in Industry; The Passing of the Cornice; The Cardboard House; The Tyranny of the Skyscraper; and The City.
Seller: Bagatelle Books, IOBA, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 115 pp. Frontispiece portrait; illustrated with numerous architectural drawings. 4to, original boards printed in colors. First edition. Boards somewhat tanned; a little bowed, and lightly rubbed at edges. Tight and sound; contents fine. Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Spine ends and cover corners worn; rear hinge torn. Binding fair; text clean and tight.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards. Very nice copy.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Thgin large 4to color pictorial paper-covered boards. Frontispiece portrait and six full-page b/w plates. Contents include: 1. Machinery, Materials and Men: 2. Style in Industry: 3. The Passing of the Cornice: 4. The Cardboard House: 5. The Tyranny of the Skyscraper: and 6. The City. Small former owner's stamp on front free endpaper. Covers with a few small red spots. Spine joints rubbed and covers lightly sunned. Contents clean and fresh. A very good copy.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A notably crisp, bright copy of the 1931 1st edition. Clean and easily Near Fine in its decorative boards, with just a touch of mild darkening at the spine crown and the slightest hint of abrading at the ront panel. Internally clean as could be, with no writing or markings of any kind. Quarto, part of Princeton's formidable "Monographs in Art and Archaeology" series. Also includes a printed custom-made white-linen slipcase.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1ST EDITION. From the series "Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology", containing 6 lectures from 1930: 1. Machinery, Materials and Men 2. Style in Industry 3. The Passing of the Cornice 4. The Cardboard House 5. The Tyranny of the Skyscraper 6. The City Vibrant printed paper boards, some bowing. Chipping to extremities, with splitting of paper at joints, more pronounced at front. Small, faint damp stains towards fore edge of front board, with light pen marks; mild soiling to rear board. Some rippling to end papers. Creasing to top corner of limited number of leaves. Binding sound. Content clean and bright.
Seller: Weinberg Modern Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$495.93 + shipping
Description: First ed. Original decorated glazed paper over boards (after a design by Wright), 4to, 114pp. Portrait. Typographic end sheets by Wright. First edition. Sweeney 250. VG.
Seller: adr. van den bemt, Groningen, NL, Netherlands
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Very good plus. Illustrated Boards. No dust jacket as published. Sight dent on the top of the cover. Light wear on the corners and the top and bottom of the spine. Ex-Library from the lending library of the Friday Morning Club in Los Angeles. Bookplate of the Friday Morning Club on the front paste-down by W.O. Paxton. Card pocket on the back paste-down and due date slip on the back free end-paper. No other library markings. Illustrated.115 pages. Chapters include: Machinery, Materials and Man; Style in Industry. The Passing of the Cornice, The Cardboard House, The Tyranny of the Skyscraper. (drawer)
Seller: C. Trowbridge, OZARK, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: In Princeton's Monographs in Art and archaeology, published for the Department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University. A Fine copy in publisher's decorated paper covered boards (incorporating a freize design by FLW), without jacket as issued. Very slight lightening of spine. 115pp. Wright's career had entered a fallow period beginning with the Depression in the early Thirties, but he would soon go on to design many of his most famous works (Fallingwater and Johnson Wax in 1936). Wright was never more specific, or partisan, about his approach to building design. Scarce in this condition. Q05140
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto. Original decorated glazed paper over boards (after a design by Wright). Portrait. Typographic endsheets (again after a design by Wright). Boards slightly splayed and somewhat darkened and rubbed at edges, neat private bookplate on pastedown, but a near very good copy of this fragile book. First edition, issued as one of the Princeton Monographs on Art and Archaeology. This copy is inscribed by Wright on the verso of the portrait: "To Rudolph - Frank Lloyd Wright." The text consists of the six lectures Wright delivered in 1930, attended by a preface by E. Baldwin Smith. SWEENEY 250.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1366.56 + shipping
Description: Princeton University Press. 1931. 27 x 21,5 cm Frontispiz-Portrait + (12), 114, (2) pp and 6 halftone plates. Original decorated boards (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright). In his Kahn Lectures Wright gave a summary of the ideas behind his prairie houses, setting out in a nine-point programme the principles of the unbroken transition from interior to exterior, the open plan and hat he called 'the destruction of the box'. (Kruft) Published without dj as issued. A very fine copy of this fragile book ! Sprache: Englisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***
Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, Austria