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Architectural Forum. Whole Issue devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright. Time, 1938.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: cover -good -spiral bound soft cover housed in hard covers 68, number 1
Seller: Joan's Bookshop, Palm City, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Folio, just under 12 inches tall, 108 page Frank Lloyd Wright section with its own wrappers printed on beige mat stock in orange and black, within the otherwise 74 page issue, black and white photographic illustrations, publishers stiff wrappers, spiral bound (ownership signature to front cover, worn, with creases, chips and loss to edges of wrappers, wear to pages as well, toning to insert, else holding together, good).
Seller: Joe Maynard, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
. The Architectural Forum January 1938. Frank Lloyd Wright. Time Inc., 1938.
Price: US$66.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An issue devoted to FLW. Cover design by FLW. Uninscribed. Wire spiral binding. Top 5cm of binding is loose. Two edge tears with no loss.
Seller: Vortex Books, Teddington, MIDDX, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4to 11" - 13" tall; Spiral bound, covers are soiled, book is nice and tight with some edge wear at the corners.
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 73pp. Illustrated. Lots of wear to the book. Owner's stamps, etc. Newspaper article on Wright is tipped in inside front cover. Additional articles are laid in. SOLD AS IS WITH ALL FAULTS Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Allen's Bookshop, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Wright, Frank Lloyd. A New House on Bear Run Pennsylvania. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: photos, illustrations, (16)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Cover rubbed around all four edges, especially along fold. Contents sound. 3000 copies printed.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, being protected now further in stiff Mylar plastic, over the moderately worn and soiled and a bit chipped illustrated wraps. First Edition, published in New York in 1938. All foldouts are present, the issue being designed and contributed to by Frank Lloyd Wright himself. Photos by Hedrich-Blessing, and complete with fold-outs, bibliography, inded. The issue is devoted to Taliesen III, Unity Temple, Fallingwater, Johnson Wax, and many more houses and installations. Includes 73 additional pp. of publisher's advertisements. Measures 9" X 12".Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A special issue of Architectural Forum 1938, volume 68 Number 1. Spiral bound volume. Good condition. Lightly age soiled, the spiral binding has pulled away by two or three rings of the metal spiral on the bottom spiral. The first special issue of this periodical, written and designed by Wright, illustrating some of his best known work. Fold out pages all complete. Numerous photographs, sketches, advertisements. 108 pages plus 73 pages of architectural advertising, plus 1.
Seller: Martin Kaukas Books, Manchester, VT, U.S.A.
Frank Lloyd Wright. The Architectural Forum, January 1938. The Architectural Forum, 1938.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spiral-bound. Frank Lloyd Wright issue. No ads variant. Variant cover. Binding is tight. Covers are tanned with mild edge wear and some light staining. Pages mild edge wear. Occasional staining throughout, not affecting legibility. Text and images are otherwise clean.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Over-sized hardbound (folio). This is the magazine recased in hardcovers. The original covers of the magazine included in the rebind. Bound in burgundy buckram. No wear to the binding. No distortion of the book from reading or improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. All the fold-out plans fold-out. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. No sun fading. No dust jacket as issued. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Book Stall of Rockford, Inc., Rockford, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A bright, handsome copy of the 1938 catalogue of the exhibition at MoMA, New York. Clean and VG+ to Near Fine in its stapled, pictorial wrsppers, with just a touch of light wear along the spine. Crisp black-and-white photos, limited to 3,000 copies.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A very nice copy! Limited printing of 3000 copies. (Sweeney No. 430.) Stapled wraps; pictorial paper covers showing "Fallingwater," the masterpiece of Frank Lloyd Wright's career. Unobtrusive owner's signature at the bottom edge of the front free endpaper. Ships from NC. All books are sealed in plastic, packaged securely with protective cardboard, and shipped promptly with tracking information.
Seller: Armadillo Books, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A dedicated issue of Architectural Forum. Spiral bound. 102 pp. Numerous photographs, sketches, advertisements, including foldout page printed in black and red, with other foldouts, complete. A special issue of this periodical, designed and written by Wright, illustrating some of his best known work. Very light wear. THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM HAS THE HONOR TO PRESENT FOR JANUARY 1938 AN ISSUE DEVOTED TO THE NEW AND UNPUBLISHED WORK OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. TO HAVE WORKED IN CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH MR. WRIGHT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS ISSUE, WHICH WAS DESIGNED AND WRITTEN BY HIM, HAS BEEN A STIMULATING EXPERIENCE WHICH IN SOME MEASURE THE EDITORS BELIEVE WILL CARRY OVER TO EVERY ARCHITECTURAL FORUM READER WHO DEVOTES TO THESE PAGES THE STUDY THEY MERIT. ACKNOWLEDGMENT MUST ALSO BE MADE TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE TALIESIN FELLOWSHIP FOR THEIR UNTIRING AND DEVOTED ASSISTANCE. AND TO THE PHOTOGRAPHERS, KENNETH HEDRICH (TALIESIN, KAUFMANN HOUSE, WILLEY HOUSE), ROY PETERSEN (JOHNSON BUILDING, JACOBS HOUSE, HILLSIDE), ROGER STURTEVANT (HANNA HOUSE), WHO CAPTURED IN TWO DIMENSIONS THE SPIRIT OF MR. WRIGHT'S ARCHITECTURE. -- THE EDITORS
Seller: Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Wright, Frank Lloyd. The Architectural Forum for January, 1938. Time, Inc, New York, 1938.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: Folio, 2 parts in 1; pp. 108, [33]-73, [1]; numerous plans and illustrations throughout (6 folding); the second part is largely advertisements, book reviews and obituaries; original pictorial wrappers; good and sound. Contained in a custom-made hand-painted cardboard slipcase replicating the design on the front wrapper, likely done by William Davies, a St. Paul architect who was an occasional collaborator with Frank Lloyd Wright.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Spiral bound cardboard covers. Corners lightly rolled, minor wear, very good to near fine.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$208.64 + shipping
Description: 74 SS. Werbeannoncen, 1 Bl., 108 SS., zahlr. fotogr. Abb., Pläne Gut erhaltenes Exemplar, Erste Sondernummer dieser Zeitschrift, in der die bekanntesten Bauten Frank Lloyd Wrights einschließlich Falling Waters vorgestellt werden, mit einem typographischen Gedicht verso gefaltetem Titel, das der Architekt 1896 komponiert hatte, Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000 Orig.-Kart., Spiralbindung, typographischer Deckeltitel, 4°
Seller: Antiquariat Werner Steinbeiß, München, Germany
Price: US$249.75 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [pp. 19]. b/w illus. wrs (edges of wrs lightly rubbed). Exhibition Catalogue limited to 3,000 copies.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Frank Lloyd Wright. The Architectual Forum. Time Inc., New York, 1938.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [New York]: Time Inc./Architectural Forum LXVIII:1, January ., 1938. Large quarto. Spiral bound stiff decorated wrappers (after a design by Wright). Profusely illustrated, including folding plates, photographs, drawings and folding title-page. Some wear, else a good plus copy. The first of the special issues devoted to Wright and his works, featuring as well Wright's own layout and distinctive typography. A high spot of American mass market periodical design and a lavish showcase/retrospective of Wright's work from 1904 to date
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$307.47 + shipping
Description: 30:22,5 cm. 108 S. u. 73 Rekl.-S. mit unzähl. Abb.und einigen Falttafeln. Spiralheftung. Einband,Titelseite und Text für diese Ausgabe sind von F. L. Wright gestaltet. Sehr selten. Diese Sondernummer über das Schaffen von Wright beschreibt u.a. die Bauten ?The Cheney House?, ?Taliesin?, ?The Garden Wall?, Chapel Memorial ?To The Pioneer? Enthält außerdem die gefaltete und zweifarbig gestaltete Seite mit dem Gedicht ?work song? von F.L. Wright. Exemplar nicht mehr ganz frisch. Rechte untere Kante des Vorderdeckels mit diagonaler Fehlstelle, ebenso am linken oberen Rand. Rücken infolge der Spiralheftung tw. abgesplittert. Titelblatt mit Namensstempel, 1 Blatt mit Einriss. VERSAND ERFOLGT NUR MIT SENDUNGSNACHWEIS. SHIPMENT ONLY WITH TRACKING NUMBER!
Seller: M + R Fricke, Berlin, B, Germany
Price: US$373.36 + shipping
Description: 4°. 73 + 1 + 108 S. Orig. Spiralbindung. In engl. Sprache. Ab S. 32 ist der Sonderteil zu Frank L. Wright eingebunden, mit der gefalteten Seite, welches das Gedicht "Work Song" wiedergibt. - T. m. Läsuren, kl. Fehlstelle a. oberer Spirale (wie üblich), leichte Gbrsp. - Title with small tears, small loss at the upper end of binding (as usual), small signs of use. A good copy. Sprache: englisch.
Seller: Antiquariat Weinek, Salzburg, Austria
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Scarce, true first edition of Beebe's classic work, presentation copy from photographer Beebe to historian and fellow photographer Grant Manson (1904-1997) best known for his 1958 book and photographs of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. Inscribed on the on the ffe. "To Grant Manson/ 'there isn't a train I/ wouldn't take, no matter/ where it's going' / Lucius Beebe/ 1939" Original brown cloth stamped in black and gilt, a tad dusty, in original dustjcaket that is moderately worn about the edges and missing short pieces spine ends. A presentable copy and rare with Beebe's charming inscription executed shortly after publication.
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Quarto. [20]pp. Illustrated throughout reproducing black-and-white photographs and architectural drawings. Stapled stiff pictorial wrappers. Publication date in small, neat ink holograph on front cover, spine is moderately rubbed, scattered foxing, a very good copy with covers bright and crisp, and publisher's yellow printed wrap-around band present. *Sweeney* 430: printed in an edition of 3000 copies at the Spiral Press. Prints a 37-line statement by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Raymond, Antonin; Raymond, Noemi P.. Architectural Details :; 1938. A. Raymond, Tokyo, 1938.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: Large brown burlap oblong quarto, metal spiral binding, 4 preliminary leaves, 116 b&w plates (including diagrams) on 59 leaves, 1 leaf 30 x 23 cm. Ex-library book, with minimal markings (a single stamp) || Signed by author. || Architecture; Japan. || An assemblage of drawings and photographs showing Czech architect Antonin Raymond's residential work in Japan completed in the 1920s and 1930s. Trained at Czech Technical University, Raymond immigrated to the United States in 1910 and worked with Cass Gilbert on the Woolworth Building (completed 1913) and Frank Lloyd Wright, eventually traveling with Wright to Tokyo for that city's Imperial Hotel (completed 1921). The self-published Architectural details provides advice for the designer using Raymond's work and philosophy as a model. In interior plans and elevations, sectional drawings, and examples of dramatic self-supporting staircases, concrete proves an optimal material in both aesthetics and durability. Raymond's talent for incorporating traditional Japanese elements {shoji, tatami (grass mats), and hinoki (Japanese cypress) is illuminated in pages of black-and-white photographs, showcasing the realization of his design concepts. 1938. Extremely mild wear to spine head and foot, hardly bumped corners, black-ink ownership name and design to front free endpaper, few to several faint brown marks to title page and forward page, subtle rubbing wear to edges, faint stamp to endpaper, else Very good(-) to very good(+).
Seller: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4to. Burlap boards, spiral binding. [vi], [blank]116pp, [blank]. with measured drawings facing numerous halftone photographs. Printed in Japan. Raymond worked with Frank Lloyd Wright and was the Consul of Czechoslovakia to Japan from 1926 to 1939, in which year the Czech embassy was closed down after the occupation of the country by Nazi Germany.0 halftone photographs with measured drawings opposite of Antonin Raymond's designs for furniture reflecting modernist tendencies. The scarce and most desirable first edition, printed in Japan, with mounted end papers, copyright page and initial text pages on Japanese rice paper.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Iconic issue featuring great color cover photo of renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Also includes a marvelous photo-illustrated article about Wright entitled "Usonian Architect" which runs from page 29 to 32. Much additional great content but Mr. Wright is the star of this issue. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. SWEENEY 454.
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, Canada
Price: US$966.34 + shipping
Description: Cover, and typographical design by Ladislav Sutnar. First edition. Printed in only 1,500 copies. In publisher's photographic wrappers. 55, [9] p., and 32 plates. A scarce Czech reference book on modern garden design, with Sutnar's cover design, featuring Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. Otokar Fierlinger (1888-1941) was a Czech architect, landscape designer, and urban planner. While completing an internship in the US in the early 1920s he got acquainted with the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, and upon his return to Czechoslovakia as an author of several books on the topic began promoting the English and American Landscape Schools. Zahrada a obydlí is one of such works, illustrated with numerous photographs of garden designs throughout the centuries. The front cover is illustrated with a photo of Frank Lloyd Wright's stunning building, the Fallingwater. The entire book was designed by Ladislav Sutnar (1897-1976), the Czech-American avant-garde graphic designer, a pioneer of information design, and information architecture . Pages unstapled as customary for Czech books of the era. Wrappers slightly sunned at the top, and worn at the spine. Otherwise in fine condition. In publisher's photographic wrappers First edition. Printed in only 1,500 copies.
Seller: Földvári Books, Budapest, Hungary
n/a. FOCUS. 4 Vols. [ALL ISSUES PUBLISHED]. Percy Lund Humphries & Co Ltd, London, 1938.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 61 (v), 96 (ix), 112 (i, xii), 101 (xvii, i)pp. Original celluloid spiral-bound wraps with graphic typography in black and brown, blue, red and green. Published by students at London's Architectural Association in 1938 and 1939 in conjunction with Percy Lund Humphries. Complete as issued. Dispite its short run the magazine played an influential role in the development of architectural modernism in the UK. Number I Summer 1938 Printed and Published for FOCUS by Percy Lund Humphries. Cover design by Oliver Cox. Contributions by Le Corbusier: "If I had to teach you architectur." With two full page architectural drawings. Facsimile signature of "Le Corbusier" at end of essay. A "Town Plan" for Faringdon, Berkshire by "A group of A.A. students" with two color double page map, and architectural drawing of Service Road and Terrace Housing on verso. A contribution on the entrance hall reconstruction of the Winchester Hospital with two b/w phoos and archtiectural plan. The Timber House by architect Max Lock also with b/w photos and architectural plan. The Association of Architects' Surveyors and Technical Assistants is reviewd by Justin Blanco-White, Two book reviews and five pages with illustrated advertisements at rear. Minor blemishes, underling and one marginal mark in first book review. Short note inked to bottom of last ad. Light smudgin of rubbing of wraps. Number 2 Winter 1938 Contains an editorial expressing surprise over the unexpected wide reception to the first issue, within fourteen days of publication, with the press"pulling their legs" for including thoughts relating to the fact that 'the publishers' were born in the war in the first issue. This issue reviews Czech architecture with b/w photographs, the Gropius and Breuer House at Lincoln, Massachusetts,also with photographs and architectural plan, a Moholy-Nagy contribution on the education at the Bauhaus, a timer house with b/w photographs and plan, a detailed contribution on working with plastics, other illustrated projets, a review of two publications on Le Corbusier by Tim Bennett, and various other book reviews. Two pages of detailed credits for five architectural projects and closing with nine pages of related advertisements, designed and illustrated in adequat manner. Spiral with break at top third, minimal loss, covers rubbed with minor wear along edges. Number 3 Spring 1939 With contributions by Alvar Aalto on the Sunila pulp mill and its housing settlement at the south coast of Finland, illustrated with b/w photographs, a topographical map and architectural plans. On page four the editors feature a reproduction of a postcard of the Stuttgart Weissenhof settlement with superimposed comic figures of "savages" by "pious Nazis." The caption underneath the postcard details the achitects involved in the project. Bruno Taut's death is remembered in a short feature among other editorial notes. Siegfried Giedion's letter to the editors of FOCUS on "The Dangers and Advatanges of Luxury", from Harvard University on January 31, 1930, is printed with two architectural drawings and a photograph of a Frank Lloyd Wright project. A contribution on architecture and the painter features works by Ben Nicholson, one of the in color. Most contributions are illustrated with photographs and drawings. Includes book reviews. Pages 87 to 96 feature a Report of Students' Sub-Committe on the School System, printed to yellow paper, followed by commentary and twelve pages of illustrated advertisements. Publisher's gray subscription page beforeadvertisements. Spiral binding intact with wraps lightly rubbed. Number 4. Summer 1939 Commemorating the work of Howard Cleminson (1918-1939) with architectural drawings and plans at front, this issue contains illustrated contribution on the Bauhaus, 1919-1928, by Robert Townsend, Siegfried Giedion and Arthur Korn, and an illustrated contribution on Frank Lloyd Wright by E. J. Carter and Naum Gabo. Includes a photo-illustrated essay on a "Model Community Centre, Social Services Exhibit, British Pavillion at the New York World's Fair, 1939." Most contributions are illustrated, including the Planning Project of "Port of Bristol Development by the architects, R. D. Hammett, J. R. Penoyre and J. M. Wheeler. With sizable editorial on the first year of publishing FOCUS, book reviews and an extensive section on architectural education. Seventeen pages of illustrated advertisements at rear. Spiral binding intact with minor blemishes and covers lightly rubbed with minor wear along edges. Previous owner's name, and "N.Y.'43" inked to title page, and small dealer sticker of Wittenborn Art Books on inside back cover. Small red printer's stamp at rear. Lund Humphries, starting out as an offshoot of a Yorkshire printing firm known for typographic innovations in the late 19th century and became one of the formost English art publisher of the 20thcentury. Colaborations with Man Ray in 1934, Man Ray exhibited at the Lund Humphries gallery for the first and only time in England, Jan Tschichold in 1935 and Rudolf Koch in 1936. Tschichold designed the Humphries' "Penrose Annual" in 1938. In 1939 the lectures of visiting architect Frank Lloyd Wright were published verbatim.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.