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Scarsdale, N.Y.: Morgan & Morgan, 1951. Hardcover. Good-/None. 1951 Orange cloth boards with white titling on the spine, moderately rubbed at extremities. Front hinge is shaky, but binding holds. Former owner's bookplate and penned name/address over adhesive stain on front pastedown. Interior is otherwised unmarked. Lacking dustjacket. Oblong quarto, 10.5 x 8 ins. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: The first book to be published in the U.S. on Richard Neutra's work. See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in B&W photography, many full-bleed. 'In building a house the first step is always to find a site--a piece of ground to which the house will forever after be happily, or perhaps unhappily, wed. In this pioneering little book, a sensitive architect prescribes the conditions of bliss in this all-important marriage between the house and the land, between the… Read More

Book is in Very Good condition, with minimal edgewear to cover, one small darker spot at bottom edge corner of front cover board. Prior owner name written on front endpaper. Some discoloration/tanning of page extremities. Page 33 has light smudge coming down from top edge. Pages otherwise unmarked and secure.
Dust jacket is in Good- condition, with some edgewear, creasing, and bit of tearing/chipping to corners/spine ends. Some sun tanning to spine. Some foxing noticeable on rear of jacket. Now in Brodart dust jacket protector.

Scarsdale, New York: Morgan & Morgan, 1951. First Edition. Very good or a little better; presentation copy; inscribed by Neutra.

Morgan & Morgan, 1951-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Slender oblong format hardcover in very good jacket shows bookplate to front paste down, otherwise tight and unmarked. Illustrated. 1951 Morgan and Morgan. Please email for photos.

Scarsdale, New York: Morgan & Morgan, 1951. First Edition. Very good or a little better; presentation copy; inscribed by Neutra.