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Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2012. 5th Printing . Photographic Wraps. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. A crisp, clean Near Fine copy with some light creasing to the bottom forecorner edges of the back matter. Still a collectible copy. 223 pp., index. Laid in is an article "Frank Lloyd Wight and Feminism: Mamah Borthwick's Letters to Ellen Key" by Alice T. Friedman. Through letters, memoirs, contemporary documents, and a stunning assemblage of photographs - many of which have never before been published - author Ron McCrea tells the fascinating story of the building of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, which would be the architect's principal residence for the rest of his life. Photos taken by Wright's associates show rare views of Taliesin under construction and illustrate Wright's own recollections of the first summer there and the craftsmen who worked on the site. The book also brings to life Wrights "kindred spirit," "she for whom Taliesin had… Read More

Pasadena Heritage Oral History Project, 2003. First Edition . Leatherette. As New. As New copy in original leatherette boards. Color frontispiece photo of Donald Hensman taken in July 2002, 172 pp., appendices, historical photos. Laid in is a copy of an April 15, 1951 Los Angeles Times ad for Harry Brittain tract homes referenced on p. 30.

Knopf, 1998. 4th Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A crisp, clean Fine copy in Fine dust jacket protected by a mylar cover. 350 pp., chronology and index. Throughout we are witness to Rivera's immense passions--his countless lovers, his stormy relationship with Frida Kahlo, his political bravado, his massive strength and maniacal work ethic--which fueled his highest artistic achievements and made for an extraordinarily complex life. Marnham conveys to us the impact of this galvanic force that was Rivera's creative drive and personality, and shows why he was perhaps the greatest muralist since the Renaissance.

Acanthus Press, 1995. Reprint from 1931 . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Used - Like New, Acanthus Press (1995). A facsimile reprint of the 1931 Whittlesey House original. The new 25-page introduction contains a list of works designed between the wars. Mylar-protected dust jacket is bright, crisp and clean. Full black cloth exterior with title on spine in gold.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: George Braziller, 1984. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The story of R's involvement in introducing non-objective art to America through her correspondence with noted Bauhuas figures and Frank Lloyd Wright and Solomon Guggenheim, etc. Near Fine/Near Fine. Small wrinkle to top of spine of book and DJ, else Fine/Fine.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1933. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A crisp Very Good copy of the original first edition in a Very Good mylar-protected dust jacket with sun-darkening to spine. 290pp. Mabel Dodge Luhan remembers her childhood and young adulthood, mostly in Buffalo, NY, in one of the racier autobiographies of the time.

Tucson, AZ: Center for Creative Photography, 1982. First Edition . Original Wraps. Very Good. A solid Very Good copy in original wraps. 100 pp., statement by director James L. Enyeart, introductory essay by Richard Lorenz, "The Intellecctual Circle of Johan Hagemeyer" by John P Schaeffer, "Johan Hagemeyer: The Metagama Photographs" by Terence R. Pitts, portfolio of portraits.aid in are research notes and a copy of a Hagemeyer letter to Weston on his philosophy of womanizing from the Center for Creative Photography.

Park Forest, Illinois: Prairie School Press, 1966. First Thus . Cloth-Backed Boards. Very Good/Very Good. A crisp Very Good copy (small scuff on front pastedown) in a Very Good price-clipped, mylar-protected dust jacket. 291 pp., index with a new introduction by noted arcitectural historian Reyner Banham.

Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1995. First Edition . Photographic Boards. Fine/Fine. A crisp Fine copy in a Fine mylar-protected dust jacket. 284 pp., illustrations, notes, index.

Carmel, CA: Carmel Pub Co, 2000. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fiine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A crisp, clean copy with remainder mark to bottom edges. "Laughing Eyes" is a collection of letters, family photographs and memorabilia between legendary photographer Edward Weston and his son Cole that provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of the first family of twentieth-century photography - the Westons. Here is a personal account of an artist maturing into his role as one of the great photographers of the century and of a boy growing up through the era of the Great Depression and World War II.

New York: Lippincott, 1933. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. A crisp Near Fine copy of the original first edition in a Very Good mylar-protected dust jacket. 301 pp., illustrations, index.

Cambridge University Press, 1996. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Very Good/Very Good. A crisp, clean Very Good copy with a Denison Library sticker on front pastedown in a Very Good dust jacket with creases to the front flap, but now in a mylar cover. Endnotes, extensive bibliography and index. A nice, collectible copy. Lewis Mumford and American Modernism examines the career and writings of America's leading critic of architecture and urbanism. The author of numerous books on the history of architecture, Mumford focused on the roles that technology and urbanism have played in modern civilization. Indeed, his writings have proved to be prescient, forming the basis for architecture and urban planning at a time of transition and redefinition at the end of the twentieth century.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1993. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Includes an exhaustive discography of this legend's recorded work.DJ in a protective mylar cover. First edition.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1936. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A crisp Very Good copy of the second printing with bookplate on ffep, in a Very Good, unclipped, mylar-protected dust jacket with pieces missing from spine ends. An attractive, highly collectible copy. 542 pp., index.

Dover Publications, 1992. Dover Reprint . Soft cover. Fine. This remarkable autobiography began with a newspaper interview the artist gave journalist Gladys March in 1944. From then until the artist's death in 1957, she spent several months each year with Rivera, eventually filling 2,000 pages with his recollections and interpretations of his art and life. Written in the first person, this book is a richly revealing document of the painter who revolutionized modern mural painting, was a principal figure in launching the "Mexican Renaissance," and is ranked among the most influential artists of the twentieth century. A crisp, clean Fine copy. As the colorful narrative unfolds, Diego Rivera seems always to be in the midst of political, artistic, and romantic turmoil. As the reviewer for The New Republic observed, "Rivera reveals a keen appreciation of this prowess in art, sex, and politics, and the record seems to be complete on the series of spectacular rows he got into over all three.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2013. First Edition . Photographic Boards. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. A crisp, clean Very Good copy in lightly rubbed boards with a tiny bump to the upper rear forecorner. 230 pp., appendices, endnotes and index, brief author bio. During the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks as the main building material. The construction system has been described by Wright and others as uniquely molded, woven like a textile fabric, and perceived as ground breaking, truly modern, unprecedented. Many have attempted to uphold these claims while some thought the house-designs borrowed from old exotic buildings. For the first time this book brings together Wright's declarations, the support of upholders and inferences in order to determine their accuracy and correctness, or the possibility of feigned or fictional stories. It examines technical developments of concrete blocks by… Read More

Oxford University Press, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A crisp, tight Very Good copy with damp staining to top foreedges in a clean Very Good dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. DJ exhibits light chipping and edge wear.308 pp.

Oxford University Press, 1982. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. A crip, clean Fine copy in Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket protected by a mylar cover. Inscribed by the author on the title page. 356 pp., profusely illustrated, appendices, building list, endnotes and index. Richard Neutra's work, his life experience, and his search for modern architecture coincided neatly with the lifespan of the modern movement. He experienced the buoyant struggles of the movement's early years, the heady triumph of its mid-century ascendancy, and the critique it faced in the 1960s and 1970s. His reputation enjoyed a resurgence that was hard to predict when Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture was first published over twenty years ago. In his seminal critical biography of this modernist master, Thomas S. Hines explores the efforts of Neutra and his modernist contemporaries to find the forms that would be most expressive of the twentieth century. In researching this classic of… Read More

London: Bodley Head, 1952. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. A crisp Very Good copy in a Near Fine mylar-protected, unclipped dust jacket. 533 pp., illustrations, notes, index.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. Fine crisp, clean copy in like dust jacket. protected by mylar cover. 379 pp., plates, endnotes, bibliography and index. Edward Weston (1886-1958) was one of the most celebrated photographers of the twentieth century. Jean Charlot (1898-1979), a classically trained French artist best known for his murals, woodcuts, and paintings celebrating Mexican culture, played a key role as a participant and chronicler of the Mexican Renaissance. This book, based on letters that Weston and Charlot exchanged from the early 1920s until Weston's death in 1958, documents a friendship that says as much about art-about photography and fresco, practice, criticism, and history-as it does about the intersection of a number of fascinating characters, the ups and downs of the correspondents' daily lives, the pursuit of their dreams and aspirations, and the support and encouragement they gave each other.