Search Results: Authors starting with K from modern-ISM

Brno, 1947. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The complete volume II (all 10 issues) printed in Czech and bound with the annual index in the front and the 10 front covers and foreign language (including English, French and Russian) summaries in the back. This post World War II avante garde revival is a complete review of the Czech arts scene including poetry, photograhy, film, theater, dance, painting, sculpture, musical composition, architecture, urban planning, etc. Covers a two year period, 1947-48. Highlights include work by and articles on: Picasso, Jorn, Klee, Karl Teige, Max Bill, Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, Chagall, Picabia, Robinson Jeffers, Kenneth Patchen, Langston Hughes, Bertrolt Brecht, Le Corbusier, Prochazka, Apollinaire, Walker Evans, Weegee, Cartier-Bresson, El Lissitzky, Pasternak, Rilke, Henry Moore, Michaux, Leger, Calder, Frank Lloyd Wright, Czeslaw Milosz, Sudek, Capek, a fold-out drawing by Matisse, an entire issue devoted to… Read More

San Diego, CA: San Diego Historical Society, 1993. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A crisp, clean Fine copy with a trace of rubbing. 140 pp., profusely illustrated, appendices, bibliography and index. Includes many photos by noted architectural photographer Marvin Rand.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ORIGINAL 1904 issue, not a reprint. 309 pp. Red boards, black lettering. Lippincott Educational Series Buchner Vol. IV. Kant was a German philosopher who is considered the central figure of modern philosophy. Bumped corners, worn back cover, silverfish marks on spine, damp stain lower fore edges. Very scarce.

Santa Monica, CA: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1987. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Large 4to. Julius Shulman [Photographs]. NF/NF Book has slight shelf wear, edge stain top rear board, DJ in mylar protective wraps, usn toneed 223 pp., beautifully illustrated with Julius Shulman photographs, bibliography, and credits.

Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, 2004. First Edition . Soft cover. As New. 9 x 10. 325 pp. Illustrated wraps with flaps. Catalogue published in conjunction with exhibit of same name at LACMA, traveling to Delaware and Cleveland 2004-2006. Profusely illustrated in color. Great reference, gift condition.

Los Angeles: Southern California Chapter, American Institute of Architects, 1967. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine -. 4to. A crisp, clean copy with some sun-toning to wraps. [32] pp., 50 b&w photos, maps, plot plans, drawings. Report commissioned by the City of Los Angeles Planning Department.

Boston: Bulfinch Pres, 1994. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. A crisp, clean Fine copy in like dust jacket protected in mylar. 146 pp., foreword by Charis Wilson, intro by Theodore E. SAtebbins, essay by Karen Quinn, map of Weston's travels, checcklist, chronology and selected bibliography. In this collection of photographs, California and the West Coast of America are shown in all their seasons and scenery, from arid deserts and dramatic mountain ranges, to vineyards and fruit farms in full bloom. Many of the photographs in this book are being published for the first time.

New York: Reinhold, 1951. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A crisp, clean Very Good copy in a Very Good mylar-protected pricee-clipped dust jacket. Signed on the title-page by noted photographer Julius Shulman whos work is prominent throughout. Previpus owner's mailing label and emboss stamp on ffep. Features work by Charles and Ray Eames, Marcel Breuer, HenryHill, Albert Frey, Hugh Stubbins, Rodney Walker, Raphael Soriano, Richard Neutra, Gregory Ain, Louis Kahn, A. Quincy Jones, William Wurster John Funk and many others.

New York: Little Brown, 1969. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A crisp, clean copy in like DJ with a trace of spine end wear. x,171p., frontis portrait, 64 illustrations, glossary, index, blue cloth. The biography of one of the "Chicago School" of architects. Sullivan was a leader in the development of an American style of architecture leading to the building of skyscrapers. One of his pupils was Frank Lloyd Wright.

Peregrine Smith, Inc., 1979. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Green boards with brown cloth spine and black lettering. New Introduction by Dimitri Shipounoff. Never read, a few light fox marks on fore edge.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. A crisp, clean Near Fine copy with foxing to the top board edges only. In a Very Good mylar-protected dust jacket. Owner's name and stamp on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is clean and bright with some age toning to the spine and some wear along the top edge, front and back. A very attractive copy. xxvii + 401 pp., illustrations featuring the work of A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons (Joseph Eichler's X-100 House), Levittown, Frederick J. Kiesler, R. Buckminster Fuller, Frank Lloyd Wright, Carl Koch, Charles Eames (Case Study House no. 8), Wallace Neff, Eliot Noyes, John Johansen, Eduardo Catalano, George Nelson, Arne Jacobsen, John Lindsay, and others, index.

Tuscon, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Fine in deep pink silk boards with embossed white and black lettering on cover and spine. No dust jacket as issued because it comes in an Fine stunning black silk folding slipcase embossed with Japanese characters on the cover and white plastic pins which slide through loops attached to the spine to keep the slipcase tightly closed. A simply first-rate production of some of the finest photographic work you are ever likely to see. 108 pp., 96 tri-tone plates. Text in Japanese and English. A classic to be. No int'l shipping due to size.

New York: Rogers and Manson, 1934. First Edition . Original Spiral Bound Wraps. Very Good. A Very Good copy lightly foxed on the front cover near the spiral-bound spine. Sixteen page feature article on Richard Neutra's VDL Research House with numerous photos and drawings.

New York: Avon, 1958. Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. First Avon paperback edition. Has the red banner across the bottom stating "Now a Great M-G-M Picture". VG (owner's name inside front cover,edges age-darkened, damp stain along top edges, white out spot on front cover, crease at back bottom corner). Preface by Heny Miller.

Koln, Germany: Taschen, 2001. First Paperback Edition . Soft cover. As New. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A crisp, clean, unread copy. 237 pp., profusely illustrated, chapter headings include: The European Modernists (1919-1933); Defining the International Style (1931-1932); Early Internationalists (1933-1945); Corporate Internationalism (1929-1960); Later Modernists (1945-1960); and Global Manifestations (1936-1966). Also includes exhaustive notes, biographies, bibliography, index and credits. A crisp, unread copy.

Singapore: Concept Media. First Edition . Original Wraps. Fine. 4to. 81 pp., profusely illustrated, articles on Construction Technologies (including Louis Kahn's Capital Complex, Dhaka), Ahmedabad, Iran. Mimar is a quarterly international architecture magazine exploring environments in developing countries. Any three $35.

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: Harper & Brothers, 1918. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Very Good/Very Good. A crisp, clean copy with light wear in a clean, very attractive and extremely scarce dust jacket with light chipping and tape repair at the spine crown. Extremely scarce Very Good dust jackey in protective mylar cover. 621 pp., richly illustrated, glossary and index. The book, A History of Architecture, 1918, was a landmark in that it included Baroque architecture as a period worth studying, one of the first in the English-speaking world. Includes a photo and discussion of Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple (not in Sweeney or Langmead).

London: Macmillan, 1891. Full-Leather. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A beautifully leather bound book w/ gilt trim around outer board edges, gilt lettering and decoration on spine which has five raided edges and deep red title block.Beautiful marbled end papers and edges. 242 pp. Light edge, corner and hinge wear, else fine. Additional book from era also available.

San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1960. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. A crisp, Very Good copy with some light shelf edge wear and some fraying to the cloth at the spine crown. Very Good mylar-protected scarce pictorial dust jacket has some rubbing and edge wear. 224 pp., list of 64 b&w plates, end notes, biographical sources for more than 100 California architects who practiced in the nineteenth century, and index. Rendering of the 1885 Carson House in Eureka designed by Samuel and Joseph Newsom on the front cover. 9 x 6 inches. Designed, composed, and printed by Grant Dahlstrom, The Castle Press. Text: 9, 11, and 12pt. Eldorado, Linotype. Display: 8, 10 and 14 pt. ATF Craw Clarendon. Paper: Suede Book, 70lb. Illustrations: offset lithographs, made and printed by Grant Dahlstrom/The Castle Press. Binding designed by Grant Dahlstrom and executed by The Bookbinders Company.