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A Matter of Taste.: Willis Polk's writings on architecture in The Wave. Edited with an introduction by Richard W. Longstreth.

Polk, Willis.

San Francisco: The Book Club o The Book Club of California, 1979. Cloth, fine. One of 450 copies, designed and printed by Adrian Wilson with assistance from Peter Koch. ... more info

Price: $100.00

A Testament.

Wright, Frank Lloyd.

New York: Horizon Press. White linen in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Front hinge cracked; dust jacket worn, with small tears on front and back corners and top spine. First edition. ... more info

Price: $20.00

Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, architect and master of many arts. Edited by Charles Harris Whitaker;

Alexander, Hartley Burr ;Cram, Ralph Adams; Hale, George Ellery; Walker, Charles Howard ;Lawrie, Lee .

New York City: Press of the American Institute of Architects, inc., 1925. Folio, original cloth, slightly marked but an excellent copy. ... more info

Price: $400.00

Landmarks of Texas Architecture.

Speck, Lawrence W.

Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, (1986). Boards, fine in dust jacket. ... more info

Price: $20.00

Learning from Las Vegas.

Venturi, Robert; Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour.

The MIT Press, 1972. Small folio, green cloth with inset label. Fine copy, dust jacket lacks small chips on the spine costing two letters first "L" and "M", and with some little edge wear. Errata sheet present. ... more info

Price: $3,000.00

Louis Sullivan. The Public Papers. Edited by Robert Twombly.

Sullivan, Louis.

Chicago/London: University of Cloth. Fine in dust jacket. First edition. ... more info

Price: $15.00

Many Masks. A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Gill, Brendan.

New York: Putnam, 1987.. Cloth backed boards. Fine, in dust jacket. First edition. ... more info

Price: $15.00

Roots of Contemporary American Architecture.

Mumford, Lewis (ed).

New York: Dover (1972).. Wrappers. Thirty-seven essays collected by Mumford. Photo illustrated. Very good. First Dover edition, reprinting the 1959 text, with a new prefatory note, new illustrations, and updated Biographical Sketches. ... more info

Price: $9.00

Select New York. Albertype Illustrations.

[New York].

Brooklyn: The Albertype Co, <1898>. White cloth, gilt, fine copy in worn slipcase. Contains 75 well-photographed views of New York. ... more info

Price: $250.00

The timeless way of building.

Alexander ,Christopher.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. xv, 552 p. Red cloth, fine in dust jacket. Jacket with "19.50" price. ... more info

Price: $100.00

Typed letter signed, to Maria Piscator. Cambridge, Mass., 24 December 1959.

Gropius, Walter.

"I send you enclosed six photos and a text photostat regarding The Total Theater which I designed in 1929 for Piscator. In the photos you find the various positions of the stage....The basic idea was to bring audience and performer into a close relation. THe whole arrangement has been patented. I still hope that one day such a theater will be built....Of these photos nothing is left any more, therefore, they are precious to me; and I must ask you to return them...." The recipient was the wife of Erwin Piscator, the pioneering avant-garde theatrical producer and director. The drawings... more info

Price: $3,450.00