The International Style: Architecture Since 1922.
by Hitchcock, Henry-Russell and Philip Johnson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: W.W. Norton, 1932. First edition of this seminal work in architecture. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations of work by Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, J. J. P. Oud, Mies van der Rohe, Raymond M. Hood, Howe & Lescaze, and Richard J. Neutra. Presentation copy, inscribed by Philip Johnson on the front free endpaper, "For Jim with thanks for his help Philip Johnson." Light rubbing, near fine in the very rare dust jacket with light chipping. This is the first jacketed copy that we have encountered. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Initially produced as the catalog to accompany a controversial and groundbreaking 1932 Museum of Modern Art show of the then new architecture emerging in Europe and America, The International Style quickly became the definitive statement of the principles underlying the work of such giants as Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and other pioneers. It might be said that Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson discovered as well as defined "the International Style," and over the decades their book has served as a frame for growth in the architectural profession.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1384
- Title
- The International Style: Architecture Since 1922.
- Author
- Hitchcock, Henry-Russell and Philip Johnson
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- architecture, international style, International Style Since 1922 First Edition, philip johnson, Philip Johnson First Edition Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art and Architecture;
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Raptis Rare Books
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Palm Beach, Florida
About Raptis Rare Books
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- Jacket
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- Chipping
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- Clamshell Box
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- Rubbing
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Morocco
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- Fine
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