Search Results: Architecture from modern-ISM

Princeton University Press, 1949. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover first edition. A crisp, clean copy in a dust jacket with edge wear and tape repairs and small piece missing from spine crown. Scarce DJ in protective mylar cover. 219 pp., with essays by by Walter Gropius, Richard Neutra, Sigfried Giedion, Frank Lloyd Wright, Konrad Wachsmann, William W. Wurster, Talbot Hamlin, Henry S.Churchill and others.

NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1945. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very informative treatise on the status of modern architecture in the USA between 1932-44. A crisp, clean, somewhat age-toned Very Good copy in a Fair dust jacket missing the spine and a large piece at the top of the back cover, all now protected by a mylar cover. Includes work by Gregory Ain, Walter Gropius, Richard Neutra, Marcel Breuer, Louis Kahn, Mies Van Der Rohe, George Howe, VG/Fair Harwell Hamilton Harris, Philip Johnson, William Lescaze, Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero and Eliel Saarinen, Rapheal Soriano, Skidmore and Owings and many more. Includes a biographical index of all the contributors and a chronological listing of all of the Architectural Exhibitions and Publications of the MOMA to date. A great reference work for the modern architecture movement.

San Francisco: Francis W. Brown, Home Book Publishers, 1948. First Edition . Spiral-Bound Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Very Good copy with light wear. 88 pp., plus 4 pp. business reply cards, profusely illustrated with housing ads and projects by Richard Neutra, Fred Langhorst, A. Quincy Jones (his own Office-Residence), Griswold Raetze, Edward Huntsman Trout, Roy Cornell, Patricia Shellhorn and many others.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1931. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A crisp, clean Very Good copy. 76 pp., profusely illustrated with period art, architecture and ads.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1936. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good bound copy of all 12 issues including ads and covers. Bound in library buckram with soiled and rubbed covers.

San Francisco: Francis W. Brown, Home Book Publishers, 1947. First Edition . Spiral-Bound Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Very Good copy with light wear. 122 pp., plus 4 pp. business reply cards, profusely illustrated with housing ads and projects by Richard Neutra, R. M. Schindler, Harold Bissnr, & Harold Zook (with Julius Shulman cover photo), Whitney Smith, Richard Lind, Fred Langhorst, Mario Corbett (his own house in Sausalito), Douglas Baylis, A. Quincy Jones, Frederick Monhoff, and many others.

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.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1935. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good bound copy of all 12 issues including ads and covers. Bound in library buckram with soiled and rubbed covers.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1938. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good bound copy of all 12 issues including ads and covers. Bound in library buckram with soiled and rubbed covers.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1931. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A crisp, clean Very Good copy. 68 pp., profusely illustrated with period art, architecture and ads.

San Francisco: Francis W. Brown, Home Book Publishers, 1953. First Edition . Spiral-Bound Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Very Good copy with light wear. 108 pp., profusely illustrated with housing ads and projects by Richard Neutra, Eugene Kinn Choy, Mario Corbett, Fred Confer, Roger Lee, Harold Zook and many others.

San Francisco: Francis W. Brown, Home Book Publishers, 1938. First Edition . Spiral-Bound Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Esseentially a Very Good copy with two small pieces missing from top of front cover and other light edge wear. 116 pp., profusely illustrated with period ads and projects by R. M.Schindler, Richard Neutra, Mario Corbett, Kenneth Wing, Milton J. Black, Mark Daniels, Michael Goodman, Hugh Comstock, Allen Siple, Fred Confer, Lillian Rice, Kenneth Gordon and others.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1931. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A crisp, clean Very Good copy. 28 pp., profusely illustrated with period art, architecture and ads.

San Francisco: T. W. Anderson, Home Publications, Inc., 1955. First Edition . Spiral-Bound Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Very Good copy with light wear. 104 pp., profusely illustrated with housing ads and projects by Richard Neutra, Dion Neytra, Fred Confer, Albert Frey, Douglas Baylis, Eckbo, Royston & Williams, Greta Grossman, John Carl Warnecke, Bolton White, Lawrence Halprin and many others.

San Francisco: Francis W. Brown, 1936. First Edition . Original Wraps. Very Good. A Very Good copy with cover separating from the spine and some chipping and edge wear, clean internally. 55 pp., profusely illustrated with period housing ads and projects by William Wurster (Richmond Beach Cottage), Carmel builder Hugh Comstock, Mario Corbett, and many others.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good bound copy of all 12 issues including ads and covers. Bound in library buckram with soiled and rubbed covers.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1939. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good bound copy of all 12 issues including ads and covers. Bound in library buckram with soiled and rubbed covers.

San Francisco: Francis W. Brown, Home Book Publishers, 1945. First Edition . Spiral-Bound Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Very Good copy exhibiting light general wear. 106 pp., profusely illustrated with period housing ads and featuring multiple projects by Richard Neutra (Nesbitt cover house and others), Frederrick Monhoff, John Byers, Clark & Frey, R. M.Schindler, Ward & Bolles with Garrett Eckbo, Fred Langhorst, Mario Corbett, William Wurster, Hugh Comstock, Franklin & Kump, Whitney Smith, Hervey Parke Clark, and many others.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1931. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. A crisp, clean Good copy witth some cover separation from top of spine. 36 pp., profusely illustrated with period art, architecture and ads. Includes a Brett Weston frontispiece portrait of father Edward Weston.

Schiffer Pub Ltd, 2006. First Edition . Photographic Boards. Fine/Fine. A crisp Fine copy in a Fine mylar-protected dust jacket. 160 pp/. illustrations.