The International Style: Architecture since 1922
by Hitchcock, Jr, Henry-Russell & Philip Johnson
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton, 1932. First Edition . Library Buckram. Very Good +. 4to. An internally crisp, clean, lightly used, Very Good + Michigan Sate University ex-library copy in buckram binding which has a trace of rubbing and soiling. Front pastedown and front free end paper have the usual library markings. No markings to edges. This book and the 1932 companion exhibition and catalogue "Modern Architecture, International Exhibition" published by the Museum of Modern Art in New York were seminal in introducing the "International Style" and modern architecture to the USA. 240 pp., profusely illustrated with photographs and plans, preface by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., director of the Museum of Modern Art, indices of architects and countries represented.
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- Seller
- modern-ISM (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 010488
- Title
- The International Style: Architecture since 1922
- Author
- Hitchcock, Jr, Henry-Russell & Philip Johnson
- Format/Binding
- Library Buckram
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright
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