Search Results: Titles starting with W from modern-ISM

Capra Press, 1987. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Fine/Very Good. A crisp, clean Fine copy in a Very Good un-clipped dust jacket with some foxing on the interior.

Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.: Hennessey & Ingalls, Incorporated, 1998. Reprint . Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fiine. Large 4to. 143 pp., profusely illustrated, essay notes, list of buildings by Neff, exhibition acknowledgments, list of works in the exhibition, selected bibliography, and photo credits. Originally published in conjunction with an exhitition at the Huntington Library in Pasadena in 1989. This is the 1998 Hennessey + Ingalls reprint. Minor crease near top edge of front cover. Insides clean and tight.

San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1989. First Edition . Wraps. Near Fiine. Large 4to. A crisp, clean copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION (not the Hennessey & Ingalls reprint). No ISBN Number. Dust Jacket is Near Fine (spine slightly darkened and a trace of soiling). 143 pp., 97 figures, list of works, exhibition checklist, and bibliography. Contributions by Robert A. M. Stern, David Gebhard and others.

New York: Reinhold Publishing Co., 1954. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A crisp, clean copy with owner's stamp on fore edges, front free end paper and rear pastedown. Herbert Bayer designed DJ has some edge wear, some chips missing from spine crown, a small piece missing from bottom of front cover and some neatly done tape reinforcement to the spine and the top part of the front fore edge. 249 pages; b/w photo portrait frontispiece (by Hans Namuth), 317 finely-printed b/w illustrations (photos, plans, drawings); biographical outline; list of works 1906-1953; bibliography; index. Reference: Sharp - p. 54; Freitag 4885; Karpel B1229. An attractive, collectible copy.

Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2003. First Edition . Cloth. As New/As New. Oblong 4to. A crisp, clean As New copy in an As New dust jacket. 168 pp. with 70 works, 209 individual illustrations in color, diptych postcard announcing the accompanying limited edition laid in, essays in German and English, notes, list of exhibitions, bibliography. International shipping will be extra, due to size/weight.

Mendocino: Mendocino Historical Research, 1995. 2nd Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 35 pp., profusely illustrated, location map. Scarce. A crisp, clean copy with slight weat.

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.

Mosaic Pr, 1990. First Edition . Glossy Pictorial Boards. Fine/Near Fine. A crisp Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with a small closed tear at top of spine. 96 pp., illustrated with Marvin Rand photos, foreword by Tom Bradley.

London, 2002. First American Edition . Hardcover. As New. 8vo Oblong. 160 pp. As New in As New DJ with mylar protective cover.

Miyanoshita, Japan: Fujiya Hotel, Ltd., 1950. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 591 pp. 889 black and white illustrations. Combined edition: three volumes in one. Second Printing. Decorated limp cloth with shibui (raised cord) binding. Foxing to soft cover and DJ. DJ has closed tears, cracking near fold and a few chips, but preserved in a protective mylar cover.

University of Chicago Press, 1991. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Near Fine/Fine. 293+ pp., illustrations, chronology, notes, bibliography and index. A crisp Near Fine copy with some silver fish damage to board edges, else Fine, in a Fine dust jacket.

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/As New. Square 4to. Introduction by Ellen Lupton, essay by Alston W. Purvis, 272 pp., profusely illustrated in color and b&w, with all the 116 covers of this extraordinary avant-garde Dutch arts journal published over its 14 year run represented by full-color plates. Under the direction of architect Theodorus Wijdeveld, Wendingen sought out the newest ides and most creative practitioners in all of the visual arts, including architecture, graphics, sculpture, ceramics, glass and teatrical design. Includes extensive notes, a list of all the cover designers and an index. In its fourteen year history, Wendingen featured the work of such diverse artists and architects as Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann, Michel de Klerk, El Lissitzky, Erich Mendelsohn, and Eileen Gray. From 1925-26, it published a series of seven issues of unparalleled beauty devoted to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. As New except for one small fox mark on top edge. Read More

Simply Read Books, 2007. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. A crisp, clean Fine copy with wrap-around. Celebrates and demonstrates contemporary architecture design on the West Coast through featuring the distinct styles of Battersby/Howat Gulf Island residence on Mayne Island, British Columbia, the Eggleston/Farkas 2001 Mathieson House in Seattle and John Yeon's 1939 Jorgensen House in Portland.

Menlo Park, CA: Lane Publishing Co., 1958. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Near Fiine/Very Good. A crisp, clean Near Fine copy in a Very Good myylar-protected dust jacket with pieces missing at spine ends and top fore corner with small tape repairs at top of front cover.176 pp. Ephemera laid in include a copy of LA Times Cliff May obituary, a six-page 1968 UCLA Extension Cliff May Celebration, a two-page Cliff May Celebration visual feast, and a two-page "On-Site Study Tour of Cliff May Ranch Houses.

Center for American Places, 2003. First Edition . Glossy Photographic Boards. Fine/Fine. A crisp Fine copy in a Fine mylat-protected dust jacket. 104 pp., plates.

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.

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, NY: Bulfinch Press, 1994. 2nd Printing . Cloth. Near Fine/Fiine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A crisp, clean copy. VG+ to Near Fine (crease on ffep, foredges slightly soiled from shop handling) in a Fine mylar-protected DJ (tiny wrinkles at spine ends). 139 pp., 70 full-page plates and 75 smaller plates, 118 item exhibition checklist, bibliography. Seventy full-size plates and seventy-five smaller illustrations, all reproduced in tritone plus tinted varnish, convey the subtlety and power of the extraordinary figurative work of Edward Weston (1886-1958). This is the first major publication focusing solely upon his portraiture and nudes, offering new insights into the breadth and quality of Weston's considerable achievement. The book was published on the occasion of a major traveling exhibition of Weston's portraits and nudes organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. All the prints are drawn from the collection of William H. Lane, who acquired them from the heirs of… Read More

Automobile Club of Southern California. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 34 pp., richly illustrated with articles: Cover woodblock by Paul Landacre. Features include "Saga of the Twenty-Mule Team" by Ed Stiles, "In Life the Firmest Friend" with dog etchings by Walter E. Bohl, "Yesterday's Animals of the San Joaquin" and Westways "Trip of the Month" Among the Joshua Trees. Slight silverfish damage at fore edge of front cover.

The Automobile Club of Southern California, 1936. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 42 pp. richly illustrated with articles. Cover painting by Viola French. Great section of vintage ads by the Barker Bros. Issue includes: "Christmas is Just One Day"; "Children of the Ancients in Pacific Mexico" by Phil Townsend Hanna; "No Tickee: No Washee!"; "The Desert Eden that Vanished"; "Mojave's Petrified Forest" and more. General overall wear. Slight silverfish damage to fore edge and bottom of front cover.