Search Results: Titles starting with B from modern-ISM

London: Phaidon, 1993. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Square 4to. A crisp, clean, unread copy.

London: Phaidon, 1993. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Square 4to. A crisp, clean, unread copy.

London: Phaidon, 1993. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Square 4to. A crisp, clean, unread copy.

Chicago Historical Society, 1982. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A crisp, clean Very Good copy with a few pages loose. Chicago Historical Society, 1982, 71 pp.; illustrations. The catalogue for the dual exhibition of the architects Barry Byrne and John Lloyd Wright.

Zurich: Adolf Pfau, 1949. Soft cover. Very Good. 76 pp. Very Good. Text in German. Features projects by Marcel Breuer, Hugh Stubbins, Jr., Raphael Soriano, AIA, Dorothy Noyes, Max Bill amd more. Tape on spine edge, general wear. Scarce.

Berlin: Parey, 1980. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Fine/Fine. A crisp, clean Fine copy in a Fine mylar-proyected dust jacket, all in a Near Fine slipcase. Inscribed on the title page by Neutra's photographer of choice, noted architectural photographer Julius Shulman, whose work is prominent throughout. 146 pp., profusely illustrated Text in German with later yyranslaton into English by Dion Neutra laid in.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Personal Opinions and recollections of 48 former Bauhaus members and their contemporaries who intimately knew and loved the Bauhaus. A must for Bauhaus scholars, collectors and aficianados. A Fine copy. Chipping to spine ends of Near Fine mylar-protected dust jacket w/one small piece missing from top and a bookstore sticker to rear panel, else fine.

Fromm Intl, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A crisp Fine copy in a Fine mylar-protected dust jacket. 371 pp., notes, bibliography and index.

Hatje Cantz, 2010. First American Edition . Soft cover. As New. A crisp As New copy.

Koln, West Germany: Galerie Gmurzynska, 1975. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good -. Square 8vo. 48 pp. Ex Library with all markings, general wear. Interior pages very clean. Text in German b/w with some color exhibit catalogue. Karl Peter Rohl was a painter, graphic artist and designer of the Bauhaus era. Exhibition ran from 31 January until the end of March 1975. Perhaps a timely exhibit as he died the end of 1975.

Kupferberg, 1974. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Very Good/Very Good. A clen Very Good copy with light soiling and foing to edges, in a Very Good lightly soiled mylar-proteted dust jacket. 221 pp., illustrations, text in German.

Frankfurt: Verlag Der Frankfurter, 1953. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Very Good copy of this special issue dedicated to the work of Bruce Goff.

Leipzig: Langewiesche, 1928. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A bright, unrubbed, unfaded, virtually pristine Fine copy in Fine dust jacket. 110 pp., over 100 full-page b&w architectural photos of designs by Max Taut, Wilhelm Wagner, Karl Krahl, Fridrich Fischer, Edmund Meurin, Udolf Rading, Max Littmann, Oskar Kaufmann, Henry van de Velde, Josef Ulrich, Peter Behrens, Otto Bartning, Walter Gropius (3 photos of the Bauhaus, Dessau by Lucia Moholy), Joseph Maria Olbrich, Wilhelm Kreis, Fritz Schumacher, Heinrich Tessenow, and many others. A great monograph of modern German architecture in the 1920's. Text in German.

Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2012. First Edition . Flexibind. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. A crisp, clean Fine copy. 144 pp., foreword by Elsa Longhauser, essays by Jenni Sorkin, Garth Clark and Kathleen Pyne, diary excerpts, chronology and exhibition checklist. Laid in is an exhibition announcement brochure for the subject exhibition catalog. A stage actress with the Parisian Comédie-Française; a Dadaist and New York bohemian who edited The Blind Man with Marcel Duchamp; a devoted follower of spiritual guru Jiddu Krishnamurti at Ojai; and a model for the character Rose in Titanic: throughout her many incarnations, Beatrice Wood (18931998) continued to produce important work right up until her death at the age of 105. After her New York years as the Mama of Dada, Wood moved to Los Angeles, where she took up ceramics and was soon receiving international attention for her eccentric figural sculptures, vessels and goblets, glazed with her signature iridescent hues. Beatrice… Read More

Santa Barbara: University Art Museum, 2008. Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Double fold-out black/white/red brochure which accompanied museum exhibition. b/w and color illustrations. Front cover is Case Study Apartments #2 illustration (1964 unrealized). A tiny scratch and bump on rear, else new.

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 4to. A crisp, unread copy with a remainder dot on bottom edges. 128 pp., profusely illustrated, notes, appendix, and index. b/w photography, illustrations. The author was a noted educator and practicing architect whose career spanned a Beaux Arts education at Harvard from 1900 through the Bauhaus revolution. Thus he was ideally placed to comment on the changes to the architectural profession during the twentieth century. He worked for McKim, Mead & White and knew Buckminster Fuller, Gropius, Pei, Saarinen, Stubbins,van der Rohe and Wright. DJ has small chips and minor shelf wear. Book has small remainder mark on bottom, else very clean.

Zurich: Orell Fussli, 1929. First Edition . Pictorial Boards. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good copy of the scarce original 1929 first edition with some light edge wear and darkening to the edges. 20 pp. of text, 86 photos of work by such noted architects as Richard Neutra (Jardinette Apartments), Le Corbusier, A.-G. Perret, Hans Scharoun, Gerritt Rietveldt, Marcel Breuer, Ernst May, Walter Gropius, J J. P. Oud, Andre Lurcat, and others. Text in German.

Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2008. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. A crisp, clean Fine copy. 64 pp., profusely illustrated, exhibition checklist.

Abbeville Press, 2006. First Paperback Edition, Second Printing . Soft cover. Fine. A crisp Fine copy. 247 pp., illustrations, notes, selected bibliography and index.

Santa Monica, CA: Hennessey & Ingalls, Incorporated, 1996. Reprint . Photographic Wraps. Very Good +. Square 8vo. A clean, tight attractive copy. VG+ (crease on back cover). 255 pp., profusely illustrated, chronological list of executed works and projects, bibliography, index.